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Events seem to be ways to mine money from players.
Right now during the Halloween Liars event I have worked towards getting the broom mount, i want my item number up, tired of being a weak elf. I have everything I need but the Witches Sash. I have unlocked over 50 pinatas I bet, my dino babies (alphy compy) -which by the way are the cutest things I have seen on this site, love to open them, I throw the first few hits and they just go for it squeaking and laughing while I do something else.
but not a sign of the sash. Is the last chance vendor going to be Zen necessary or just massive amounts of ADs. since he supposedly will be selling them. I hope this is not going to be like the Harvesters Nightmare which turned out to be so well named. I put off a lot of things to be able to get the things in the store you can't normally purchase without Zen. And gee they closed early and without the store left behind for any time at all. And I think it is absolutely disgraceful they didn't reimburse people who worked for three weeks the items they wanted for the tokens they earned, that now sit in inventory with no way to spend them. But you did sell these items at the zen store right aftertwards, which is more than a little shall we say suspect to keep it polite. I lost a lot of respect for the game from that, and being dumped to 20 and no one in chat had the brains to say we did it to everyone, kept asking me to take a snapshot. Hope I find a witches sash before this is over or it is affordable. Either way you guys need to rethink your ethics, great game if it wasn't for that obvious hand out for money, like you did with the dragon born.
but not a sign of the sash. Is the last chance vendor going to be Zen necessary or just massive amounts of ADs. since he supposedly will be selling them. I hope this is not going to be like the Harvesters Nightmare which turned out to be so well named. I put off a lot of things to be able to get the things in the store you can't normally purchase without Zen. And gee they closed early and without the store left behind for any time at all. And I think it is absolutely disgraceful they didn't reimburse people who worked for three weeks the items they wanted for the tokens they earned, that now sit in inventory with no way to spend them. But you did sell these items at the zen store right aftertwards, which is more than a little shall we say suspect to keep it polite. I lost a lot of respect for the game from that, and being dumped to 20 and no one in chat had the brains to say we did it to everyone, kept asking me to take a snapshot. Hope I find a witches sash before this is over or it is affordable. Either way you guys need to rethink your ethics, great game if it wasn't for that obvious hand out for money, like you did with the dragon born.
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Even if it means introducing dozens of new issues to hide them.
Re item level, one of the fastest ways I've personally found to increase IL is to upgrade companions to mythic, most of your IL comes from companions, mounts, bolster, collars and insignia. Of course you should first try to get the best gear you can at the time (either buy from the Auction House -AH- or from seal vendors in the market - weathered wood gear is pretty good), if you've unlocked Undermountain by now you should head straight there and do your 3X ME's (Master Expeditions) each day as they have a chance of dropping good gear for you - and make sure you do it in a group who places at least one rune so you can take your etchings from the final chest to Zoky who lives under the stairs, he drops good gear too - and if you do the questline in Stardock they give you choice packs for decent IL companion gear also. After Undermountain the general consensus for the next place to head for better gear is Avernus, and from there to Sharandar. But def start with Undermountain if you haven't already, it should be your first port of call to get your gear IL up.
Try to have the highest enchantments you can afford slotted-in, 8 is minimum but 10 and higher is better, enchantments used to give the most IL but it's changed now and they aren't as important.
Guild boons also give IL and depend on the level of the guild and the boon structures as to how much they provide.
Something also to remember is that when you slot a companion or mount power in your loadout, those things also give IL and it depends on how high the IL of the companion or mount is as to how much IL the power which comes from it gives you. So with companions for instance, if you slot in a power which comes from a blue companion, it will generate a lower IL to your loadout than the same power slotted coming from a purple one and so on, even if you're not using that companion as an active summoned one. They all sit in the background giving you stats whether you're using them or not. My rule of thumb is if I have a companion drop and I don't have it already, I keep it, I never sell it, as I never know in the future if I'll need it and it's combination of stats and what slots those stats can be placed in. Some go in different slots from others and can be very handy. So keep everything unless you have it already. With mount insignia I would go for purple ones from the AH first and then upgrade from there and leave them as a lower priority than other things because collecting the resources to upgrade (mainly insignia powder) takes so long.
What I personally do is choose in advance what powers I want to use and find that companion or mount (usually on the AH but sometimes I have them already from drops) which gives you that power and then rank them up as high as possible before ranking-up any others, this is to make the IL from the powers you're using high as possible as soon as possible. All your companions you're using powers from should ultimately be ranked up to mythic, this is easier than it sounds, I found that anyway, they don't need anything other than companion upgrade tokens (or AD but usually tokens come out cheaper) to do that, no other currency, and you can buy companion upgrade tokens from the AH from other players. You get 100K refined AD per day so just grind content over and over to try and get your 100k raw AD per day, refine that each day and spend it on upgrade tokens from the AH. Once you get to 10 companions at mythic your bolster ceases to grow so you can stop focusing on them, and you only need to upgrade more to mythic if you find a new power you want to use or a new companion you want to summon as an active both cases in order to maintain your existing IL and not have it go down when you swap.
Last thing I will say is that sometimes PE zone chat is very helpful, sometimes it is a cesspool full of joker trolls, depends on the moment you find yourself in, best thing is to join a good guild and ask your guildmates questions.
1. Personal banks (for the character)
2. shared (account) bank. shared with your other characters in the same account
3. Guild bank. The bank shared by all members of the guild but the builder leader control the permission including not sharing with guild members. A character (usually a character created for the purpose of storage) can make his own "dummy" guild (need 4 other guildless players to help to create and they can leave afterward) for the purpose of using the guild bank for "personal" use.
Another type of 'free' (temp) storage is to mail yourself unbound or account bound items as attachment. There is a limit of how many of such mail you can do.
If you have VIP without paying posting fee, you can also use AH as temp storage for unbound items.
maybe its time for a new guild then ? or to learn how to talk to "anyone " by the appropriate keyboard / mouse commands / console commands etc
I mean you are complaining that every event is mining money from players ,.but in all fairness you have not actually done you due diligence either *shrugs"
maybe join a guild that can actually "help" you
Have fun!
They need to sell items that are substantial for progress in game to generate enough income. Cosmetic sales might be fine for games like GW2 and New World that generates a lot of income from selling the basic game and expansions, but Neverwinter need more.
Neverwinter is balancing on the edge of pay-to-win - and they must be careful to not sell too powerful items. A pay-to-win situation *would* scare off the customers.
As it is, items like bags, collars, insignia, wards, VIP are sort of mandatory purchases, and seems to make enough income for them at the moment. Note that even if you purchase an item off AH, in many cases it originally was purchased from the Zen store.
It is however very possible to play without spending real money. I have 3 characters past 50k, and I never paid any money to Cryptic. Just need some patience and a lot of daily queue grind
Other games have proven that players will spend money on these things, so why isn't Cryptic putting more effort into this area?
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
Member of Casual Dailies - XBox
Combining the workshop + the few things we can do as interior decoration in the guild hall, and here it is, you have basic housing...
Add different houses with different arrangements of 3 rooms (but same total living space), make it so each player can "visit" various doors in PE to see the various arrangements, and then allow the players to buy with AD/Zen the house they want (price 22.5M AD, or 30k Zen, for exemple). Then allow the players to pay this same amount of AD/Zen to buy one by one new rooms (let's say up to 4 more rooms, total 7 rooms in the house, total spent : 112,5M AD or 150k Zen).
As the Workshop, the house of one player can be at the same PE door as another player.
Put some placeholders like in the guildhall for the various things you can add in a room.
Then design furnitures, decorations, wallpapers, crafting tables (why not introduce cooking this way ?), storage chests, NPC servants (and various outfits for them, wardrobe ?), etc, and sell all of these goodies via the wonderous bazar, include some exclusives in craft (with AD cost like the reinforcements instead of gold) and sell the most beautiful/impressive as exclusives in the zen market.
Bonus : a player who owns a house can open (or close) his door according to what he sets up (open or not for guildmates, open or not for allymates, open or not for friendlist, open or not for players in the party/queue. Any chest in the house is always locked for everyone but the owner of the house). Or maybe can right clic someone->invite in my house.
Let's visit each others house ^^.
That should probably drain some of the ressources from AD whales, and some cash from the $$whales.
They could also think about renting houses. Create NPC landlords who ask for 500k AD to start renting a furnished house, then 1M AD every 30 days. If you fail to pay, landlord kick you out, and you won't be able to rent any house until you have payed your debt. (Obviously, for that to work correctly, there must be something specially interesting in having a house, can't think about anything though ^^' but cooking craft)
(mutli-edits : because ideas kept coming in)
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
Member of Casual Dailies - XBox
I have tons of other ideas about what can be included in the housing, but I guess it would be better on a dedicated thread rather than derailing this one :P
Up to two years ago, Cryptic could of, should've, would've... oops! That boat sailed. I am currently working with Amazon on a few projects, New World is pulling a lot of people away from other MMOs ( not just Neverwinter ) but I think they made a mistake with housing. In New World you buy up to 3 houses, they are not the same usage as those on Black Desert. In short, these are not doll houses by design. There are currently 4 tiers costing more per tier. It is my opinion the housing in Amazon's New World will not be attractive to the same kind of players.
Neverwinter still has time to bounce back, but not by photocopying what other MMOs are already doing. They need a new unique edge, they had that edge with their game editor. They need to come up with something completely different.
PSN Zen AD Exchange - Forecasting Spreadsheet
Really, player housing would be a real cash cow.