Well here we are with another winterfest and same rewards from 4 years ago even down to the worthless unicorn seals. Would of thought they would of been changed out seeing how unicorn seals are "worthless" . But that would require them to work on it. Also the fish you turn in for the Dread,Shar and WoD items is great if you are a lower lev toon but not so great for those of us that have those areas down many years ago. Why not have some of the newer areas items in there? Oh that also would require someone capable in changing something.
Every event is always the same thing, same rewards year after year . Would be nice if they would put a little effort into them instead of just turning them on, you know maybe modernize them some .
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Agree on the special "fish" i'm not fishing on toons that i already have the campaings done, doing it in an alt, is really useless if you already has that campaing (you could make keys but wont worth the farming)
also weird to get unicirne seals (at least is still possible to trade them for new one in PE)
These events tend to be geared more towards newer players to keep them interested with free stuff while long-term players get to live through the "been there, done that" scenario.
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So with the event running for 20 days you really need to get that parcel every day right?
> Well there are rewards worth millions available if you get really lucky.
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> Really? I keep looking and can't work out what is worth anything? What coudl you get that is worth millions please - genuine question
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> Forgehammer of Gond, it becomes one of the possible rewards after opening 20 parcels.
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> Thanks for this - I guessed it was after box 20.
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> So with the event running for 20 days you really need to get that parcel every day right?
Without buying extra parcels it’s best to group up with friends first and open the free gifts obtained by using the gift of smiril in groups. After you’ve opened 20 which is indicated on an unopened parcel, then you want to open the parcels you obtain each day. The free ones from gift parties only give you btc items.
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Bags drop from other players' Gifts Of Simril, and provide bound loot. Parcels are from the Zen store (with 1/day free) and provide unbound loot. But that means that, without spending Zen, each character gets AT MOST 21 unbound drops, whereas someone who works hard at doing gift parties and trades stars and stuff can easily open 1000 or more bound-loot Bags.
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(I got 4 bound forgehammers last year. On alts that don't do professions. Sigh)
Xael De Armadeon: DC
Xane De Armadeon: CW
Zen De Armadeon: OP
Zohar De Armadeon: TR
Chrion De Armadeon: SW
Gosti Big Belly: GWF
Barney McRustbucket: GF
Lt. Thackeray: HR
Lucius De Armadeon: BD
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Yes, it happens in limited fashion now, but BtC is the one thing they have to put a stop-limit on it.
* Getting a demon sled during the fest seems an arduous task. The main problem here is the profession to change over fishing items is only LV1 and there are no higher LV task to help. Plus you can't share you flakes between alts. Frankly, just do a few daily AD runs and buy one from the AD store as they are not that expensive.
* Why does the "uncommon" sled with the bell look cooler then the epic one? On the same note as the black flakes, it would be nice to be able to pool my alts points to buy anything significant there. Its not like anything from that vendor are too powerful or unbalancing, not sure why its easy to get an epic sled but grinding to get anything from the other vendor.
* Why is getting the uncommon mimic more stars then the epic sled? Its not like its an overpowering companion.
* I liked upgrading my fishing rod, heck, its the first legendary item I have I like that you can fish and turn in items to help progress with boons. Would be cool if they incorporated some of the fishing mechs in Icewind Dale to make it more then just F key.
* Monsters on the Ice... or any of the icy terrain is a huge disadvantage for melee alts. I have a toon of each class and the ranged ones would mop up while the melee ones were slipping and sliding to get there. The DP had the easiest time with his at will shield slam abilities.
Overall, I enjoyed it. Thanks devs!
Just thinking about this thread, the tie in to other game content is that the underdark is being over run by demons. Maybe remove the Monsters on the Ice and replace it with going into the underdark to help rid the place of demons.
5-15 min. waiting before i can actually move my character around without being rubberbanded all over the place.
It gets a little bit better after logging on to the second, third and so on character, still with a few random lag spikes here or there, but it's somewhat playable...
They should really change the whole gifting to dropping the loot right into the players inventory, and add a "system message" to the party chat when a Gift of Simril was used, that should also take care of most scamming attempts with Sky Lanterns.
I want this class in NW.
I want this class in NW.