test content
Logo
What is the Arc Client?
Install Arc
Options
Ideas for Competitive PvE...
arontimes
Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Hero Users, Neverwinter Guardian Users, Neverwinter Knight of the Feywild Users Posts: 0 Arc User
If I understand it correctly, Contests are basically competitive PvE events, kind of like a middle ground between cooperative PvE and competitive PvP. You get runestones and enchantments for participating in Contests, and they seem to fall into either Easter Egg Hunts or monster-slaying races, at least, those I've been in. As a player who likes to compete with fellow players but dislikes gear-based PvP, Contests allow me to test my skill against fellow players in a relatively friendly atmosphere.
So, let's brainstorm some ideas for contests in NWO...
1. Horse Race
Player's start at a specific location and race through a monster filled zone (most of them). To keep things fair, and to allow monsters to be a real obstacle, all mounts are reduced to tier 1 for the duration of the race. Said debuff only applies to racers, so as not to annoy those who are uninterested.
Also, it doesn't have to be a horse. You can ride a bear or a spider or whatever Cryptic makes available.
If you want to justify it through lore, maybe the racers are carrying vital supplies to the various checkpoints?
2. Marathon
A race on foot. Otherwise identical to #1.
3. Doctors without Borders
For leader classes. Run around and heal random players in a level appropriate zone. Most HP healed wins.
4. Skydiving
The player who takes the most falling damage from a single fall without dying wins. Getting to the peak in the first place should be the hard part.
I'm out of ideas. What about you?
So, let's brainstorm some ideas for contests in NWO...
1. Horse Race
Player's start at a specific location and race through a monster filled zone (most of them). To keep things fair, and to allow monsters to be a real obstacle, all mounts are reduced to tier 1 for the duration of the race. Said debuff only applies to racers, so as not to annoy those who are uninterested.
Also, it doesn't have to be a horse. You can ride a bear or a spider or whatever Cryptic makes available.
If you want to justify it through lore, maybe the racers are carrying vital supplies to the various checkpoints?
2. Marathon
A race on foot. Otherwise identical to #1.
3. Doctors without Borders
For leader classes. Run around and heal random players in a level appropriate zone. Most HP healed wins.
4. Skydiving
The player who takes the most falling damage from a single fall without dying wins. Getting to the peak in the first place should be the hard part.
I'm out of ideas. What about you?
Post edited by arontimes on
0
Comments
2. this would be fine, except GWF has a HUGE advantage with their leap + (if feated) huge amount of sprint time
3. sounds fun
4. also sounds fun
Everybody subscribes (u can enter 3 hours before the event starts, must enter the subscription with a 5 player team) ahead of time,
When the 3 hours are up everybody is teleported to the same random dungeon event, players cannot be resurected, team that gets the boss down first wins 2 additional chest's? (could be something else, but considering this should be a lvl 60 event the reward should be nice) second team 1, 3th team 1, could also be rewarded depending on how many people join the contest dungeon.
(per 100 teams 1 chest ore something like that?)
This would be a really nice way to entertain the community, and create a sort of "pvp" based pve system, with rankings and scoreboards etc? (and highest time ever to beat etc xD , bonus chest for beating record? xDD)
Just pulling things out of my head here but designed properly this could be a nice addition to the game.
the proper numeral designation for three of something is "third" or "3rd"
The doctors without borders idea amuses me quite a bit.
Again no offens to u, but a lot of people do there best with a language they are not to familiar with
The on foot marathon would be won by GWF all the time,
The doctors without borders (i agree amusing idee
One of the main problems in things like this is balance, and its a harsh b*tch lurking around every corner when u create new content in a game like this
A massive labyrinthine dungeon in which perhaps... 8 or 10 full separate parties enter. There are many mini bosses and twisting corridors on the way to the final chamber, in addition to the chance to encounter a rival party who will wipe you out to steal the loot from those mini bosses. The thing is, in the final chamber is some super boss that gives some super loot (multiple epics, fused weapon enchants? I don't know something good) But it's too tough for even one party to take on. it will require 2 maybe 3 parties. And the final teleport to enter the boss area will accept multiple parties and once inside they will form one party.
So the basic jist is... 8-10 teams enter... and they must whittle each other down... but not too far cause at least 2 teams need to cooperate in order to win.