test content
Logo
What is the Arc Client?
Install Arc
Mod 16 Dropped 5 Days Ago - What Is Left To Do Now?
vordayn
Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 1,283 Arc User
So Mod 16 dropped 5 days ago and I am scratching my head on what to do now:
- I completed the Undermountain campaign on two of my mains that I care to use nowadays
- Both have the gear from the Master Expeditions (IL gear: 950)
- I have maxed the Seals of the Mountain as there is nothing I need (IL gear: 940)
- I have maxed Seals of the Crown and have nothing to spend it on; gear for 300 RP is not worth it IMO
- Armor Penetration, Critical Strike, Awareness and Accuracy are capped (when they aren't scaled down)
- My enchantments are between level 11-14, and I have no desire to raise them anymore as I'm effectively capped in stats that matter
- I could grind for runic pieces, but I'd need 600 x 2 resonances, and the IL of the gear 965 is hardly an improvement
The dungeons I used to run for the end rewards (Ultimate Enchanting Stones) are now no longer able to completed that I know of:
1) Haven't attempted Cradle of the Death God, but have heard reports it is near impossible
2) Tomb of the Nine Gods is bugged with immortal Deviant Souls, and that is if you can get past Withers' perma stun phases
3) Castle Ravenloft has always been a PITA, but now sometimes you cannot block the sisters' Theft of Vitae
The Random Queues have useless rewards, if you can even finish some of them:
- Anything with Thoon Hulks is bugged as their charge attack is broken again
- Spellplague Caverns Kabal boss is apparently bugged
- Wraiths in Valindra's tower move too fast so you cannot out-run them in the red AoE boss phase (what a joke!)
- The only thing of 'value' which drops I guess is rough AD (the value of which was diluted since the new ZAX conversion cap), but what do I need to purchase? I don't need preservation wards or coalescent wards if upgrading my enchantments don't provide any discernible benefit
PvP, the last thing I really enjoyed, is dead:
- There has not been any class balancing in this aspect of the game in this Mod
- The PvP Leaderboard no longer exists, so I can't see if people are even playing it anymore
- In truth it has been slowly dying over the past 10 or so mods, I shouldn't be surprised ... I'm more sad about it than anything else
Stronghold Dragonflights, the only 'true' Alliance/Stronghold co-op:
- Give outdated rewards
- Currently the SH maps are lagged if more than 10 players are on the map it seems
- Before our Alliance could get through about 20 dragons in 10 minutes, now we are lucky if we down 2 in this time
Masterworks is collecting dust:
- Recipes have not been updated
- Nothing of value left to sell, despite having MW III in all professions
- No need to farm Guild Marks (that is if you could still donate to the coffer if they aren't maxed e.g. profession resources, surplus equipment are all maxed)
Foundry is gone, so any sort of creativity on behalf of the players is gone with it:
- I used to run these to see the other worlds and stories people created; just walking around some of the RP zones was enjoyable when I used to wait for queues to pop
- Now it is gone and we cannot even access archived quests
TL;DR PvP is dead, RQs are bugged and don't reward anything I need, I'm capped in the 'useful' stats, CR/TONG/CODG risk outweighs any reward for replayability due to bugs/difficulty etc
So besides running the Master Expeditions x3/day for a possible chance of Alabaster weapons (a main-hand has dropped twice on the one character, but nothing else) what is there left to do in this game?
- I completed the Undermountain campaign on two of my mains that I care to use nowadays
- Both have the gear from the Master Expeditions (IL gear: 950)
- I have maxed the Seals of the Mountain as there is nothing I need (IL gear: 940)
- I have maxed Seals of the Crown and have nothing to spend it on; gear for 300 RP is not worth it IMO
- Armor Penetration, Critical Strike, Awareness and Accuracy are capped (when they aren't scaled down)
- My enchantments are between level 11-14, and I have no desire to raise them anymore as I'm effectively capped in stats that matter
- I could grind for runic pieces, but I'd need 600 x 2 resonances, and the IL of the gear 965 is hardly an improvement
The dungeons I used to run for the end rewards (Ultimate Enchanting Stones) are now no longer able to completed that I know of:
1) Haven't attempted Cradle of the Death God, but have heard reports it is near impossible
2) Tomb of the Nine Gods is bugged with immortal Deviant Souls, and that is if you can get past Withers' perma stun phases
3) Castle Ravenloft has always been a PITA, but now sometimes you cannot block the sisters' Theft of Vitae
The Random Queues have useless rewards, if you can even finish some of them:
- Anything with Thoon Hulks is bugged as their charge attack is broken again
- Spellplague Caverns Kabal boss is apparently bugged
- Wraiths in Valindra's tower move too fast so you cannot out-run them in the red AoE boss phase (what a joke!)
- The only thing of 'value' which drops I guess is rough AD (the value of which was diluted since the new ZAX conversion cap), but what do I need to purchase? I don't need preservation wards or coalescent wards if upgrading my enchantments don't provide any discernible benefit
PvP, the last thing I really enjoyed, is dead:
- There has not been any class balancing in this aspect of the game in this Mod
- The PvP Leaderboard no longer exists, so I can't see if people are even playing it anymore
- In truth it has been slowly dying over the past 10 or so mods, I shouldn't be surprised ... I'm more sad about it than anything else
Stronghold Dragonflights, the only 'true' Alliance/Stronghold co-op:
- Give outdated rewards
- Currently the SH maps are lagged if more than 10 players are on the map it seems
- Before our Alliance could get through about 20 dragons in 10 minutes, now we are lucky if we down 2 in this time
Masterworks is collecting dust:
- Recipes have not been updated
- Nothing of value left to sell, despite having MW III in all professions
- No need to farm Guild Marks (that is if you could still donate to the coffer if they aren't maxed e.g. profession resources, surplus equipment are all maxed)
Foundry is gone, so any sort of creativity on behalf of the players is gone with it:
- I used to run these to see the other worlds and stories people created; just walking around some of the RP zones was enjoyable when I used to wait for queues to pop
- Now it is gone and we cannot even access archived quests
TL;DR PvP is dead, RQs are bugged and don't reward anything I need, I'm capped in the 'useful' stats, CR/TONG/CODG risk outweighs any reward for replayability due to bugs/difficulty etc
So besides running the Master Expeditions x3/day for a possible chance of Alabaster weapons (a main-hand has dropped twice on the one character, but nothing else) what is there left to do in this game?
Vordon CW ‡ Vordayn DC ‡ Axel Wolfric GWF ‡ Logain SW ‡ Gawyn GF ‡ Galad OP ‡ Aspen Darkfire HR ‡ Min TR
Post edited by vordayn on
29
Comments
I can think of the following:
With the update once a player hits 80 the game is just well not worth playing any more do to the horrible scaling
Working on getting a confirmation!Confirmed that it will drop on May 9th on PC (and will be a couple weeks post launch on Console as well)I feel you @vordayn
I've seen what a game looks like when a balance pass totally breaks it, and this isn't it. The one thing they do need to add to the game, however, is a canoe, or a raft mount, so that people that are actually trying to play the game can navigate through PE.
So far the only people that I know of actually running 70 content are either:
1. "It can't be that bad" types, that then go "meh this isn't worth it"
2. "I'm to stubborn to do the campaign and get better gear, and I just want to farm AD" types that then go "I can't do this"
On a side note the restored gear is a bad joke. The cost for that gear is WAY to high, for basically no reward. Also the loot tables need to be vastly improved for all the old 70 content, now that it is more difficult and takes longer to run.
Guild Leader: Mistaken Identity (formerly Midnight Express)
My Twitch Stream
See my Youtube Channel for guides and more
"Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events."
> Challenge Campaigns are a thought.
Except that 2 of the 6 Challenge Campaign tasks so far cannot be completed. This week's Sword Coast Adventures one sent me to Pirates Stronghold to rescue prisoners. I am 80, scaled down to 60. The mobs were EIGHTY ONE.
Last week's SKT 3 heroics and an epic couldn't be completed because we were all 80 and scaled down to 70 for the Heroic. The mobs there were also 80. I was literally doing single and double-digit damage.
They have really screwed up. MMOs are about advancing your character and becoming more powerful and they are now punishing players for having done so. If you leveled to 80, you have effectively boned yourself out of all game content except Undermountain. After years at 70 cap, 80 could be gotten in less than 2 days and 950 gear is stupid easy to accumulate.
There's no carrot at the end of the stick anymore, so why bother?
Join my guild Valindras Fear GH20 Marketplace 9 Stable 9 Barracs 9 Explorer Guild 9
* Accumulare IL 1010 gear(starting May 9th)
* Level up all enchants and runes to 15
* Level up all insignias to orange
* Obtain and level level 80 weapons
The problem is that as the game stands today, it is really very little reason to bother.
* Lets hope LoMM is no-trivial so gear matters
* Lets hope mod 17 brings 2-3 new level 80 dungeons and tons of other level 80 content. The focus of mod 17 MUST be to fill up with level 80 unscaled content.
Rollback BEFORE mod 16 and FIX the problems BEFORE releasing.
My barbarian has 15k item level and half the new 000k points than my paladin with 10k item level yet my paladin can wipe the floor with my barbarian. On top of that, my barabarian takes MORE damage using class special ability where before he'd take less ... go figure!
Most of my toons are in sea of moving ice and fishing is broken!
Can't get items to sell for gold for crafting as THAT is broken too! No item drops ... just stones.
Not even attempted to set up my other 5 toons until all this is fixed, AND I PAY VIP for a stuffed game!
I've gone back to STO - at least IT still works.
What's worse is the sloppiness. You see, I reported the issue with this when testing the Challenge Campaigns on March 9th. They did go and fix the first group of mobs, who had killed me earlier...but now you get killed by the second group instead. Fun, eh ? Seriously.... whoever is in charge of QC should start looking for a new job. I just went to Bryn Shander and completed this there. No issues.
but back on topic,
Iv'e tried to self time gate the new content so i don't plow through it, I follow the story until im asked to do something in my log book then i'm done there for the day.
▂▃▄▅▆▇█▓▒░ Drac ░▒▓█▇▆▅▄▃▂
There is supposed to be an image here, but the hamsters took it.
<div align="center">AKA Draconis of Luskan</div>
Take a backseat boy. Cause now I'm driving. ~ Give it up - Elizabeth Gilies ft. Ariana Grande
RIP Foundry: On that day, when the sky fell away, our world came to an end. ~Lifelight