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My character started the day with 44%. I did an Epic HE and solo 3 minor HE in River district. Killed many and the progress is still 44%.
May be it is just a typo. It is a 0x instead of 2x event.
May be it is just a typo. It is a 0x instead of 2x event.
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If this is WAI, the event doesn't make any sense at all.
Sum total of progress gained? 4% ... Totally not worth the effort, but not completely broken (for me at least.)
I never really paid much attention to the rate at which I gained progress before the event (though it felt excruciatingly slow, as well,) so it's hard to say if this really is "2x".
It would help if the tracker displayed absolute values (i.e YYY/ZZZ) instead of hiding the progress behind a percentage. I turned in three quests, and the progress didn't move. But I have no idea if they didn't give any progress, or if the progress was so small that the tracker didn't move to the next percent...
The system is rather frustrating, since it's a black-box that sometimes spits out rewards that aren't exciting at all, and which come much less frequently than they used to. It feels a bit like "gambling" in the sense that sometimes the rewards are quite nice, but slot machines are really boring when you only get to pull that arm every 20 hours...
Having an event focused around getting those rewards faster doesn't make much sense to me either, when there isn't much drive to "do stuff" to get the rewards in the first place. If they're meant to be periodic "thank you"s for continuing to play the game, great, I can get along with that. But the design, coupled with this event are just confusing to me. Do you want us to "farm" the event or not?
(Edit for my fractions example. Apparently three "X"s get hamster'd)
I expected the movement of percentage is slow.
However, what I did not expect is: that character did not do anything for days. On that day, it started at 44% and I expected I did more than necessary (as I mentioned in the first post) to move the needle (such as 1%). It did not move at all. It stayed at 44%.
Eventually, it did move but the reward were not something I care so far. I played 2 characters and I stopped when they got their progress reward. One genie's gift and one scroll of life which is account bound and it cannot be stacked with another 2 stacks of account bound scroll of life.
So, I used 4 inventory slots to store:
one stack of 21 account bound scroll of life,
one stack of 34 account bound scroll of life,
one stack of 24 unbound scroll of life and
1 account bound scroll of life (from progress reward).
The 3 account bound scroll of life have the exact appearance and description but they don't stack together.
Things not stacking together means there is a difference to them behind the curtain.
Even with the improved rewards, they're still not the kind of thing I'd grind for, even at a 2x event. They are nice bonuses - thank you, devs, for that. But that's all I view them as; a bonus that pops up now and then.
If the single scrolls and useless Genie's gift were removed from the rewards pool, it could be worthwhile.
So far, unfortunately, these are the most frequent rewards, so it's a waste of time.
Admittedly, I didn't decide about that , but I have new characters and I still don't find Genie's Gifts too useful.
And so the progress of every old campaign is artificially slowed down or locked behind a crazy grind.
This could be useful for old players/accounts.
The new ones, won't benefit from them.
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This doesn't vary from zone to zone, so "4 Star" Frost Giant Berserker in Icewind Dale offers the same points as a 4 Star Demon or Devil in Avernus.
This makes the Stronghold a pretty good way to farm these points.
Frost Giants and Stormcallers are all 4 Star, and hang out very close together in my wimpy little L11 Stronghold, down near the lake.
It takes me about 30 minutes on my 50K Rogue to get 100% just running that little corner.
Some Heroic Encounter monsters DO give points, but others don't
"Lake Supply Woes" for example SHOULD provide a good 3 or 4% minimum due to the four add groups after the initial phase with the four groups and the crates.
It actually awards ZERO points.
Killing all the monsters in the T3 "Lake Crisis" likewise offers zero % progress, when it should do at least 3% if you do it solo.
The monsters in the four basic T1s such as Devils, Spiders, Drakes and Beasts, DO give about 2-3% per HE.
There seems to be no consistency on Daily Cap.
I tested two days ago and my Rogue managed a total of exactly 206% points before being capped. Others seem to have managed 250% in one day.
And there's all sorts of reasons to use Genie's Gifts beyond the basic "levelling alts."
My Guild needs resources. It's only R11.
Due to Genies Gifts and a Double Icewind Dale Currency event, I can farm over 10'000 Icewind Tales Treasure per day for the next few months if I want towards the 300'000+ I need for my next few structures.
This function obviously applies to Dread Ring and Dark Gifts.
I also often farm the Dread Ring Lairs for ES5s on double RP events, and using those Genie's gifts on double currency allows me to buy a HAMSTER load of Thayan Lair Keys without having to grind.
As others have noted, I don't have a base line to compare with, so I don't know how much faster I earned progress. Or, as the case might be, how much slower I earned progress.
I know HE in Icewind Dale work, but I have noticed that HE in other zones didn't seem to contribute. I didn't bother to remember where at the time, I will edit this if I notice this anywhere I play today.
The day after the event ended. It is no longer possible to win more than one reward per day
This is a simple way the devs fixed a faulty designed event
From now on, the event makes sense. But is it worth it? Judge for yourself. . .
The 14 rewards are as follows:
2x blue insignia
1x 10 tradebars
1x 5 tradebars
1x pres ward
1x 10 unbind tokens
3x mass scroll
3x scroll of life
1x 5k ad
1x Genie's Gifts
You could say super premium drop
Just 250 more events like this and I'll make myself my first mythical insignia. Provided, of course, that I have some legendary beforehand