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grrowler
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I am surprised that there have been no forum posts about this upcoming limited time campaign Redeemed Citadel. I am not sure if it is something that everyone knew was coming, or if it was a surprise?
I was wondering if anyone knows what the requirements will be for participating in this campaign?
- do you have to have completed the Avernus campaign?
- do you have to be ML80
- is there a minimum item level?
I was wondering if anyone knows what the requirements will be for participating in this campaign?
- do you have to have completed the Avernus campaign?
- do you have to be ML80
- is there a minimum item level?
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Theis means, that yea, you should be L80 with, say, 23K+ to be comfortable.
I have not even started the avernus campaign. I was looking forward to trying to run this limited campaign to try to unlock aasimar.
Eventually they will sell this in the zen store, either in whole or part of a package, as they do the Gith. The Gith Booster Pack sells for $40, that includes the race unlock for people who didn't get it for free. If you don't desire to rush through Avernus, you can always save up your AD and exchange it for the zen needed to buy it. They will always offer a buyout option.
Nothing about this campaign as I read in the article strikes me as player-friendly.
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"Next week's PC update will feature a new type of content, a special limited time campaign- Avernus: The Redeemed Citadel."
Grind now or miss out.
"In this special campaign there will be no weekly hauls or campaign tasks, instead the entire server will work together to reach four major milestones and reforge the citadel. By completing newly available missions in the citadel or participating in other activities which advance the angels' cause; such as slaying devils and demons on the surface of Avernus, you will both advance the progress of the citadel's restoration and earn Zariel's favor, which can be redeemed for various rewards."
I am guessing the server milestones won't be too difficult. I mean, they wouldn't want a server full of people failing to achieve basic goals to advance their story.
Personal goals? Well, those could be quite different. Same with whatever is in the Zariel's favor store and earning that.
Grind now or miss out.
"The 100 players who earned the highest amount of favor while the milestone was active will earn a brand new item, a version of a new item that will be available in the zen market once the milestone is complete, but with an entirely unique, alternate visual."
Not ready for the campaign? Well, you can give us money to earn a knock-off shiny. Even if you are ready, unless you are really ready you are not at all likely to be one of the 100 so you will have to give us money for the not-so-shiny anyway.
But hey, get your grind on and maybe, just maybe you can be one of the few, the proud, the 100.
But unless you are either one of the folks that work on ultimate optimization or have followed one of those guides you will likely have your work cut out for you. But who needs sleep anyway? Get out there and GRIND!
Let's review how Zariel's favor is earned real quick...
"By completing newly available missions in the citadel or participating in other activities which advance the angels' cause; such as slaying devils and demons on the surface of Avernus, you will both advance the progress of the citadel's restoration and earn Zariel's favor, which can be redeemed for various rewards."
Oh, hey. Killing things. Great. Every paladin should be able to score really high then since they don't have a DPS spec. I mean, if some class can kill things twice as fast as another then they will earn around twice as many points, right?
Okay paladins, get your grind on. Sleep or special rewards? Where are your priorities?
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I main a paladin. After a couple of false starts, and I mean over an extended period of time, I m currently playing what I hope to be my final paladin.
I also planned on playing through every campaign in my own time, and was trying to finish them in something like an order, with the most recent ones being put on hold until I finish the earlier ones.
Now comes this "play now or miss out" event and I haven't even begun Undermountain.
I have barely scratched the surface of Barovia or Cloaked Ascendancy. I am only 30% done with Storm King's Thunder. And all of that is skipping over Elemental Evil which I delayed because it was a simple package to put off until later (foolishly, I suppose, with the idea that I could take my time and enjoy it).
My IL is nowhere near 23K yet.
And I am supposed to not only wrap up a campaign I wasn't even expecting to start until sometime next year, but do so very quickly so I can be ready to start this?
On what planet do the devs think "Screw the players that do not have a toon ready to play this" is a good stance to take?
How does this help bring in new players? "We have this great content happening for a limited time that you can not take part in because you weren't here sooner and/or didn't play the way we think you should play".
Is "Make all new content only for players that are at max level and whatever we decide the new high item level minimum is" going to be the standard now?
Ofcourse I favor Sleep.
I know I have Module 18 100% complete, just a few characters in need of the 4 boon points. But I didn't care for them just recycling the Stronghold Map busting it up into chunks. Too much red hue on everything, plot is thin, and full of holes. Mod 19 only went as far as getting the first memory fragment. Not enjoying the dull empty lifeless plot either. This is why, I took this time to play catch up on some old stuff. Anyone looking forward to doing the end game content, I really wish them the best of luck.
@arazith07 you assume, "...most of the progress is done via quests, just like the Masquerade of Liars event"? Ever since they introduced that event in 2018, I played witch team both years and lost. The issue is 3 teams, I chose the witch transmute, majority of the people come in late and go with the team that is ahead. Team Razorweed won in 2018 and team Werewolf in 2019. The biggest team wins the event. How is that a good thing? If that is how it works, I am even less interested now than ever.
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> I have 6 of my characters "completed" "Path of the Fallen" campaign with 100% advancement but only 2 actually did the the task "A Mole of Virtue". Do the remaining 4 not qualify ... because they have not reached the last area?
The Mole of Virtue could be an interesting companion 😉
Born of Black Wind: SW Level 80
So far, so good. My issue is with the other set of rewards, I had been under the impression that the Reforger's Blessing was basically just to allow people to "extend" their window of participation, as after all Great for casual players which might not otherwise be able to unlock everything, but I thought you could unlock the other rewards, including the Asimar race, just by playing.
This does, however, not seem to be the case. Now, personally I have no issue spending Zen on getting the Asimar - I would have done that anyhow if it had just been put on the market. What annoys me is that I thought I would not need to buy the Reforger's Blessings, as I thought they were just there to "extend" the window, but it now seems I am forced to buy them. I this could have been handled a bit better - like separating the "extension" from the additional rewards.
I just hate paying for stuff I don't need or want.
Not that it makes much difference having one or two when you need 28.000+
I was lucky enough to choose the right team both times (even then I made my decision on which team to join based on who I thought would be the most popular, not necessarily what I liked best), but it has always felt unfair to me that people that "worked" just as hard, if not harder, than people on the winning team got nothing for their troubles during that event*.
And this limited time event... Yeah, maybe I can stop doing what I want to do (catch up on old campaigns and generally play at my own pace) and try jumping into Avernus right now so as to maybe (and that is just a maybe) be ready for this when the time comes, but why should I have to?
Other than the obvious "to be able to run it", I mean?
Does it seem like good design to introduce content that is both intended for only the highest-level and best-geared players and that will run for only a limited time?
Limited time content should be playable by as many people in the game as possible for however long it lasts. I can understand a level limit, but that limit should be closer to 20 than 80.
Content designed for the end game should be there for everyone's end game, not just those players that happened to be ready when the content was released.
* Not to derail this thread, but I think they should just rotate three monsters in and out every year for the Halloween event, changing the roster over time and having plenty of different monsters to choose from.
Everyone that meets the contribution threshold for their chosen team gets that mask, or they just put the masks in the event store but a player can only buy the mask for the team they chose.
Year one: Monsters A, B, and C
Year two: Monsters D, E, and F
Year three: Monsters G, H, and I
Year four: Monsters J, K, and L
Year five: Monsters A, D, and G
Year six: Monsters J, B, and E
And on and on like that. They make a new monster along the way? Just slide them into the rotation. After a while people will have all of the masks that are being offered that year, but there should be other things in the event store worth pursuing.
This is a game. It is supposed to be fun for everyone. I doubt that people that come out on the losing sides of the Halloween event think it is as much fun as the people that are on the winning side.
You not only don't get the prize that you wanted for free, but you have to pay to get the consolation prize.
I liked Hell Pit for the first run, and about a week into the event, I knew I couldn't finish, so I took the AD reward box. Then the second time it showed up, they messed it up, made it much harder to play, and I couldn't even get my character through the first day. When I first started, I wasn't aware about the character lock, otherwise my barbarian would have entered and not my wizard. I gave up on that event altogether.
I totally agree with @erevel09 It would be really nice to know, for players participating in the event, prior to locking in a poor choice. I do read dialog, there was no warning or notice, stating once you start the Hell Pit this will lock your character to the event... forever.
I guess you will just have to wait for the guinea pigs to run through it first?
Thanks plasticbat, I didn't realise that. I have been to the hell pit quest giver before with other characters before accepting on my main and it seemed to give me the option to accept it (although I never did). So you can only use another character once the event comes up again? If so it might be an idea to cut your losses and swap toons next time it comes around.
If one chooses to 'cut the loss and swap toon', he may lose the chance to get the legendary mount. If he does not care, that is an option.
I don't want to work for lazy, claiming players.
I meet people like that in random queues.
Players who don't bring anything into the game, do less damage than companions,
but kick someone who standing in campfire to change loadout.