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Patch Notes: NW.131.20211219a.15
nitocris83
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Patch Notes for tomorrow's maintenance are now available.
https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/neverwinter/news/detail/11507503
https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/neverwinter/news/detail/11507503
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The “Require Ward to Upgrade” option has been removed.“
Isn’t this a bad thing? How many people will lose refinement materials from fat fingers?
Took me weeks to gather enough materials to buy the thing & now I can't upgrade it.
- You cannot donate to the stronghold coffer surplus equipment any piece of gear that has an armor kit or jewel in it.
- You cannot override any piece of gear that has a reinforcement that’s been protected pre-slotting it. Which means > get the piece of gear again, brand new if you want a diff. reinforcement in it. If the reinforcement wasn’t protected then it’ll most likely work, but if it was, it’ll give an error “Cannot be reinforced or has an identical reinforcement” which makes stats balancing just harder, since these provide almost 1% on stats, if not so.
- What reinforcements can we slot on our pants/shirts remains a mystery with 0 comments on it, and nothing we can slot in them.
Internally they would have a branch for the mod release that they restarted as a potential release in mid december. Then they incremented the last number each time they pushed out changes internally. And then we just finally get the external one they deem is ready. This way they can just patch the other release without a bigger update.
There are a bunch of ways to do this sort of thing. I think they keep that in the version number so its easier for them to find the root in source control.
The mod 22 release was 2021.1219A.6 then we got .9 and now we got .15. So they have had 6 internal builds since .9.
At least that's my guess.
This means that: If a player had a modification at +400 prior to Dragonbone Vale launch, but rolled a +350 on the stat after the modifications were reset, the modification will be restored to +400.
Also, if a player had a modification at +325 prior to the launch, but rolled a +375 after, their +375 will be kept.
These rolls aren't even possible, you think they're able to fix the mess they made when they don't even know you can't roll below 500?
Combat enchantments and companion enchantments have an item level, but not a combined rating. This means that at mythic a combat enchantment lowers all stats by 5%. The companion enchantment lowers all stats by a further 1.5% for a grand total of 6.5% lost stats. While it can be argued that the benefits of them overshadow this, it leads to a counter-intuitive, unfriendly experience for the user, and also goes against one of the primary design pillars of the game: acquiring new tools to improve your character.
Improving your character by acquiring new gear is a major component of pretty much every MMORPG, and NWO is no exception. Acquiring a combat enchantment should be entirely an upgrade - in contrast to having an empty slot - and not a side-grade. Trade offs between different enchantments is fine and is good for the game. The existence of gear that provides a bonus in exchange for a detriment is fine too. Gear with the bonus "the ol' switcheroo" is a prime example of this, however, gear with this bonus explicitly states that it has a negative effect. The combat enchantments do not do this. It is merely a function of the game's systems which causes a significant drop in stats. A new player is quite unlikely to realize this, and even for long time players it is unclear whether it is better to use one or to leave that slot blank. The only way to tell is through testing with third party programs which record the damage dealt, or by creating large spreadsheets to calculate resistances gained from fortified nature vs the amount lost and how much more/less damage you will take on average.
In my opinion systemic issues like this should be a higher priority than specific bugs, as they are both easier to fix and affect more players (literally all players have a combat enchantment and companion enchantment slot).
Thank you to anyone who took the time to read this post.
This is a major issue, I have not tested to see whether only one component is consumed, but 3 wards should NOT be consumed. That has made wards have 1/3 the value that they had the previous mod.
First, I think it's worth mentioning that 5 gold is virtually nothing. You get more than that from participating in 4 heroic encounters by selling the rings. It might as well give you nothing. Second, it punishes players who do the extra work of taking multiple characters through the campaign.
Third, - and I think this is the most important issue - it discourages players from attempting to raise alts. The majority of players play DPS. This is reflected in the difficulty of finding tanks (and to a lesser degree healers) for group content. There are 2 possible explanations for this. First, players have tanks/healers that can do the content and are adamantly unwilling to play them. Second, players do not have tanks/healers that can do the content, and are unwilling to make/raise one to the point where it can do the content. I think the second is far more likely. The campaign rewards seem intended to provide one time boosts to a character; an infusion of resources that let you upgrade them, rather than be a repeatable method for generating currency. As it stands you can only get the reward for one character, which means that you MUST choose which character receives that infusion.
I have seen this discussion come up in game several times and would like to address claims that it could be abusable.
First: using it to farm resources.
Campaigns are only available to level 20 characters. The investment is simply not time efficient. You still have to do the work to get through the campaign. The completion rewards are mostly to give you a reward for the time you spent going through the campaign, which you did primarily to receive the boons and access to new content.
Second: it disproportionally rewards players with multiple characters, as they can move those resources all to one character.
Players can move those resources all to one character, but does that matter? If someone puts in 2 times, 4 times, or 60 times the amount of work that another player does they should receive a proportionally greater reward. There are only so many resources that a person can put into a character before that character has been upgraded as far as possible. For example, once all your mounts are at mythic on your main character, account bound mount upgrade tokens do nothing for that character. They will by default go to a different character.
Third: the vast infusion of astral diamonds will ruin the economy.
This is simply not true. If people have more characters they will have to upgrade more characters. They will have more AD to spend, but they will also be spending more, as the number of resources needed is increased by the number of characters.
Fourth: this isn't really about abusability, but rather precedent; the Echoes of Prophecy campaign had account unlocks, but the resource rewards were only claimable on one character, and nobody had a problem with that.
This is absolutely correct, but it is comparing apples to oranges. The Echoes of Prophecy campaign was account wide. Progress on all characters was pooled together, so it makes sense that the resource rewards should also be pooled together. Sharandar and Dragonbone Vale are not account wide. You have to farm 450/600 commendations to get the milestone that are filled with 100k AD/mount tokens on each character. Therefore it stands to reason that you should get the reward on each character. THAT would be following the precedent that Echoes of Prophecy set.
Recently there has been a trend in improving conditions for alts. First were account wide content unlocks. Then the introduction of account wide claimable companions and mounts. Now we have account wide enchantments. These all seem to exist to address the difficulty of having multiple characters who can perform different roles. Allowing characters to unlock these rewards seems like a step that could be taken to further address this issue.
Thank you to anyone who took the time to read through this. I appreciate you taking the time to consider my thoughts. Especially any devs who might read this.