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dracbow
Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Hero Users Posts: 4 Arc User
This looks really great I can't wait to see it in action. One question the way it reads is you will have to be in a guild to participate. My question is will you have to have 20 or more people in the same guild or can smaller groups of 2-5 people participate they just need to be guilded?
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I'm going to guess that the queue will pull in four groups of five players. The five players would be from the same guild but not necessarily all 20.
I could be way off but for discussion purposes this is a possibility.
- Drizzt Do'Urden
― R.A. Salvatore
Will we be able to queue as a 5 man group when we are all online at the weekends and will i be able to solo queue when no1 is online?
or this will be in a WoW raid format where you have to be in a full party to be able to do the new zone?
If i cant solo queue its going to suck, and i see many players around guildless so i guess that going to suck for them too..
If the module pack brings sufficient new content, it will be acceptable, but if it does not, that'll be all she wrote for me.
It could end up being like wintersgrasp in WoW. Once the PvP portion is over you can come in and do the dungeon/raid.
you have to be in a guild so you can get assigned to a fraction
the raid itself you can pug then
probably. but still: no faction without guild, no faction no entry.
also: hf being part of the <font color="orange">HAMSTER</font> faction that never wins (cause we all know 2 faction systems are always equal)
Let the blood be spilled!
You can queue up as a solo player. - I just want to play without goign through the hassle of making my own team
You can queue up as a team - up to 5 players. - We have 5 people, queue us up with other teams, we can carry XD.
You can queue up as a team allied with other teams - My team allies with xxheartthrobxx's, jimbob's and bignoobslayer2's parties
You can form parties up to 20 players - I know a lot of people and they are all ready to play.
BIG NONO's
If you can't get into the dungeon by yourself.
If you have to be in a 5 man party to queue.
If there is absolutely no way to pick ALL 20 members on your team.
Hopefully there is some sort of queueing place specifically for gauntylgrim where you can have people join your party- perhaps including password protection. Where you can wait with an x/20 showing and can see other memebrs who have joined. Can recruit people from Zone chat and message them the password, can queue up to play with any number of players in your party from 1-20. Perhaps you have 16 people from guild on- have them all join the party queue up and get 4 randoms.
The downside is that there might not be enough people queing for it after a few weeks. You need 40 players and if everyone is being pick - I.e. There could be 100 people queued up but in group #'s that never add up to 20.
EDIT*** Just saw the "must be in a guild to participate" Might mean that if you queue you will get in with people from your guild, and allied guilds 1st. Or could just mean that your guild chooses a faction- and then you will always be in that faction during gauntylgrim, but not necessarily with anyone from your guild ....
That statement is based on the belief that PvP in Neverwinter is based on skill right now, which is pretty far from the truth. Endgame PvE'ers can hit three buttons in succession as well and rack up kills as well as anyone. As much as people raged about diminishing returns, resilience, and PvP Class Rebalances, there was a serious reason why WoW had to do that if they wanted to keep PvP in the game as anything more than a novelty.
I won't lie though, it's hilarious to hop on my CW alt with a few friends and send a rogue to perma-challenge flags, while we simply rotate CC and explode the entire team in a matter of seconds.
As to Gaunt, I'm kind of a split mind. I like the idea of making it so that it's just 5-man queue's as that keeps the endgame valid for any players who wish it, keeping the game healthier overall as I'm sure there is no bigger draw than 'You and four friends can do anything in this game without needing thirty other people,' but I also understand the frustration of being forced into non-guild runs even if you have the numbers to do otherwise.
My plan is to run the foundries until Fury of the Feywild comes out in the summer. Cryptic might just throw us soloers a big juicy bone with that expansion. Hopefully, I won’t become obsessed with another MMO while I’m waiting.
Shush, you'll make him cry. Don't shatter his illusions. He's keen that we all know how much he paid to win, and now we need to applaud those wins as an act of unique genius.
Guild only is to tag a price on faction selection so people dont flip allegiance each run depending on who wins. You can still have a one man guild and queue solo and get grouped with other people from other guilds. If you dont queue together with your guildmate you will not get a guaranteed place with them is my bet.
Can't tell if prefers easy targets or just bad....