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castle ravenloft rewards, worth it?
thefiresidecat
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basically that.. are the rewards worth the time for this content?
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Prominence Shards, for leGWFmastercard race.
Obviously, Seals of the Crown are best used for armor.
Otherwise, most of the other rewards are not worth the effort.
Pokemon cards drop from the dungeon, but it's far easier to go trade with people or mail cards from alt chars.
You need to do the dungeon for Sunset shards, but if you can get a fully restored Sunset weapon set, you've proven you don't need it. Besides, Exalted Primal is better in every zone without monologuing vampires.
There are some random blue/purple gear of consideration that may drop from catsle monologue (ex: The Artifact's Surcoat/Executioner's Braces for AC DC setups), but they are easier to acquire from using Pokemon cards on hunts.
There are UESs, but UESs are better farmed by stomping deathbabby. Sure, the elevator is a bore, but it lacks much of the annoyance of catsle monologue when you have 9 other meatbags to carry you.
To be honest, I don't find rewards good there. I don't need the armor from CR on any of my toons, so not running it. Dong or Craddle are far more better in terms of AD generation since they are relatively easy to beat (espeically dong which I call "new etos") and provides lots of salvage plus UE chances.
I find CR very boring (but that's my opinion) and there's nothing tempting me to do it.
Thirst is quite expensive on PC right now (about 1mio) but never got this one from there.
In the early weeks of mod14, I had great success with dong because only well-geared experienced players could get in to REQ. No failed runs.
Now I see I see more people with fully refined vistani weapon sets (what?) and vistani gear and underoos. People with no or one legendary artifact. There were also a few times when my buffing DC did similar dps as some of the dps toons. Now I see way more fails at orcus, like can't even get orcus to 50% kind of flops. I've also seen a number of successful runs where one, or even two, toons were clearly carried.
A few times when there was a role bonus for dps, I took my mof cw in and see tank and/or heal looking new, or a bit "trashy" (i.e. +5 gravestrikers on low dps toons). These end up fails also. Yup, definitely harkens back to the days of eToS.
Hat is 1500 Crit and since mostly the existing hats don't have a +%damage buff, the massive amount of Crit can be nice
Chest Piece is 1500 Power which makes it ver attractive for Powershare builds
Feet are Recovery which are good for some builds
Armor Pen for the gloves but there are generally +%damage gloves for any DPS build so not a great option for most.
Also CR is 100% Bugfree so you never have to worry about disappearing SunSwords locking the boss room or having a boss randomly have triple health and teleport madly around, as in other buggy content.
Ereshkigal - 12k Tiefling SW
Aurora Ravensong - 11.6k Drow CW
Glad I discarded them lol.
Last night I did 10+ CoDG runs on my CW with only completing it once out of 10+ attempts. All runs had lower IL DCs, OPs, and other buff roles. The only run where the group was 17K+ was my first run and that group failed. The last run I had I finally got my weekly CoDG completed and most of the group was around 15-16K with the DCs all being under 15K.
CoDG is easy if everyone learns how not to fall off and bring a few mass life scrolls with them.
Except that I like to run CR from time to time. But for repetive farming I prefer Tong or Codg.
As for running it; I need quite a few runs for my DC and OP. Otherwise I probably stick to CoDG or T9 as the awards in CR are not as good as T9 or CoDG. My best award in CR has been the seals. Kinda sad really.
With T9 and CoDG I have gotten Coal Wards, Companion Tokens, UES, Harper Bards, etc...
Hopefully the next mod things improve for CR otherwise I may take an extended break as I am done improving my CW and close to being done with my DC. The only character I still need to work on is my OP and at this point not sure if it is worth it.
CR isn't hard until Strahd fight. And I would say it's not even the difficulty of the last fight (which is super chaotic by the way - epileptics run away) that pushes people away. It's just the many absurds that make people feel like "meh". Many of my runs we drain HP from him during the first "dps window" and yet we still have to wait for him to finish his quotes and all phases have to be finished. That's just boring. And not that the run is worth it or something.
First two bosses are ok though. I really like to take the book duty when on my templock. Feels so relaxing.
the dungeon is not a dungeon it's just a monologue that you are being forced to sit through and watch all those custscenes again and again and again and again until you want to drop dead
so the boredom factor takes away any fun from dungeon drop rates for UES in the dungeon is probably even lower than tong so it's not worth farming
other than that nothing else drops and if you have gotten sunset shards then you probably don't need them hahahahah because you aleready need to be end game viable to farm the shards XDDD so if u farmed them then pretty sure u don't need the set (yeah kinda silly devs didn't think of this one here)
oveerall let's hope we never see a dungeon like castle shetloft monologue ever again