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Obviously a bug. Please discard it without use. Thanks.
I'm not looking for forgiveness, and I'm way past asking permission. Earth just lost her best defender, so we're here to fight. And if you want to stand in our way, we'll fight you too.
I'm up to 132 Pinatas (admittedly 90 of those were from last year). No sash...
There are two routes to obtaining items in MMORPGs: Grinding out a currency of some kind or RNG loot drops.
The Neverwinter Halloween festival seems to combine the worst aspects of all of these. You have to grind the liar's charms and exchange for a bag. Then there's a CHANCE that this bag will contain ANOTHER bag (Pinata).
Then there's a further CHANCE that this final bag will contain something you need.
Valuable take home message: don't bother with these events in future. The time wasted could be better utilised doing things that are actually enjoyable.
The drop rate on the sash is like 1 in 10,000 , it is very rare, just wait until the end of the event and they put it in the event store. I heard everyone last year having a big hissy fit over this and this year will be no different. Take your time, you are in the same row boat with the rest of us. They purposely did this to make it last until November 7th. Otherwise everyone could get the broom right away and leave.
Strange this is such a nice event and again they didn't learn from last year. Like i have been reading in zone chat a lot of people can't get pinata's and then there is also a small chance to get the sash. Double minuspoints isn't it¿ Someone told me the biggest factor is how the code is programmed to use the RNG to pick from its lists. Now i wonder (i am not a IT person but) who was the person who programmed that machine called RNG¿ Logic thinking is, if it isn't programmed like it should be, the drop rate makes a huge different. So IT guys check the program and make people happy instead of discourage them. Thanks in advange
I'm on 133 pinatas now. So yes, that's almost 4 and a half hours of bashing them. Whoever thought idling in empty dungeons hitting items that don't fight back was fun should be fired.
Incidentally, the drop rate on Pinatas is pretty woeful. As I'd burned through all of the previous ones, I collected some more illusionist's bags last night - not many, as I've already lost the will to live. Anyway - I opened 35 bags. I think I obtained a further 2 pinatas from them.
After more than 100 pinatas we're all dreaming of that stupid broom. Seriously - farming is all cool - farming for nothing - not so much! So much disappointment you can read in PE - it's what is constantly talked about - how some got the sash on 2 pinatas and some of us are still empty-handed after 100. Boo!
I got a broomstick relatively easily a couple of years ago cant remember how but NOTHING like this rng grindfest of piñata bashing.
2 min cooldown on each piñata is PROBABLY up there with SCALING as one of the worst implemented ideas in an MMO ever.
Good work team - Neverwinter is certainly going to gain lots of new players with this kind of action-fest
Last year wasn't relatively easy. Out of 9 characters I managed one by the end. This year, due in part to last year's leftovers, I made 2.
I'm not looking for forgiveness, and I'm way past asking permission. Earth just lost her best defender, so we're here to fight. And if you want to stand in our way, we'll fight you too.
Last year i got the sash for three characters within the first week...one on the first day. This year's event was a dud like most of the events since the changes.
I noticed they made it harder to do the pinatas on multiple characters so i gave up trying to get it for a couple characters i want riding brooms. The 2min cooldown seems to be an account thing and we have to be in the game....if i broke a pinata on one character then switched to another...their pinatas had a 2min cooldown. If i stayed on that character for a while, the timer would drop on the next character i switched to.
So yeah...not very fun. It's like the game says...you're rogue just broke a pinanta so your wizard and warlock have to wait before they can break open theirs. I also broke a pinata before logging off and when i logged back in the next day there was still a 2min timer on all the characters with pinatas. Whatever...at least there's supposed to be the option to buy the sash at the end so i figured I'd get a broom for one of the 2 characters...the other one will have to wait til next year if i'm still playing.
It's gonna be interesting to see how winterfest turns out getting better fishing poles for a few characters....
I got one of the sashes in 59 piñatas. From my drop rates piñatas drop for me about 10 per 100 bags but rng plays its factor. I am on Xbox. I got another sash by opening 2 random piñatas I found in an inventory. So pure rng. I’m interested to see if they put the sash in the store and how much it is in tokens or whatever. I got what I wanted this year, but it was a grind.
I mean i am very sad for this event i worked for it so much to get witch sash and when event ended they put npc that sells it are you kidding me ? dev should be ashamed of this stupidity. if only i knew i would hoard tokens and get broom that is just sick and not funny to have this events like this .
> @"ecrana#2080" said: > (Quote) > I'm not sure what this thread is about. I saw Wonder Woman dancing and lost all frame of thought.
If you're going to destroy the thread at least use the right Wonder Woman. I get low drop rates, it is difficult to differentiate those from not dropping at all unless people confirm that it is possible.
I mean, unless you have the lead developer trapped in a magical rope that makes them tell the truth and inexplicably do not age between 1940 and 1975. Most of us do not have that option.
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There are two routes to obtaining items in MMORPGs: Grinding out a currency of some kind or RNG loot drops.
The Neverwinter Halloween festival seems to combine the worst aspects of all of these. You have to grind the liar's charms and exchange for a bag. Then there's a CHANCE that this bag will contain ANOTHER bag (Pinata).
Then there's a further CHANCE that this final bag will contain something you need.
Valuable take home message: don't bother with these events in future. The time wasted could be better utilised doing things that are actually enjoyable.
The sash should never have been a drop from the pinata. It should come directly from the Illusionist's bags.
Blood Magic (RELEASED) - NW-DUU2P7HCO
Children of the Fey (RELEASED) - NW-DKSSAPFPF
Buried Under Blacklake (WIP) - NW-DEDV2PAEP
The Redcap Rebels (WIP) - NW-DO23AFHFH
My Foundry playthrough channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/Ruskaga/featured
Incidentally, the drop rate on Pinatas is pretty woeful. As I'd burned through all of the previous ones, I collected some more illusionist's bags last night - not many, as I've already lost the will to live. Anyway - I opened 35 bags. I think I obtained a further 2 pinatas from them.
The whole event is terrible.
I got a broomstick relatively easily a couple of years ago cant remember how but NOTHING like this rng grindfest of piñata bashing.
2 min cooldown on each piñata is PROBABLY up there with SCALING as one of the worst implemented ideas in an MMO ever.
Good work team - Neverwinter is certainly going to gain lots of new players with this kind of action-fest
Seriously - farming is all cool - farming for nothing - not so much!
So much disappointment you can read in PE - it's what is constantly talked about - how some got the sash on 2 pinatas and some of us are still empty-handed after 100.
Boo!
I noticed they made it harder to do the pinatas on multiple characters so i gave up trying to get it for a couple characters i want riding brooms. The 2min cooldown seems to be an account thing and we have to be in the game....if i broke a pinata on one character then switched to another...their pinatas had a 2min cooldown. If i stayed on that character for a while, the timer would drop on the next character i switched to.
So yeah...not very fun. It's like the game says...you're rogue just broke a pinanta so your wizard and warlock have to wait before they can break open theirs.
I also broke a pinata before logging off and when i logged back in the next day there was still a 2min timer on all the characters with pinatas.
Whatever...at least there's supposed to be the option to buy the sash at the end so i figured I'd get a broom for one of the 2 characters...the other one will have to wait til next year if i'm still playing.
It's gonna be interesting to see how winterfest turns out getting better fishing poles for a few characters....
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> I'm not sure what this thread is about. I saw Wonder Woman dancing and lost all frame of thought.
If you're going to destroy the thread at least use the right Wonder Woman. I get low drop rates, it is difficult to differentiate those from not dropping at all unless people confirm that it is possible.
I mean, unless you have the lead developer trapped in a magical rope that makes them tell the truth and inexplicably do not age between 1940 and 1975. Most of us do not have that option.
[https://youtu.be/YVLJcBsD__E]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonder_Woman_(TV_series)
Thanks @valka#6506 for the trip down memory lane.