Im really looking foward to this as i feel skirmishes are an untapped source of content. I jist really hope my 4piece bonuses and enchantments are working by then . Sucks feeling under my potential due to an ongoing bug. Just hope i dont have bad luck like thetymora event, i mustve opened a few hundred boxes and never got a single crown.
Don't feel bad, I opened about 200 before I finally got a crown then 7 more after I got 1 lol
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Goddess Uniique, lvl 60 DC.
PinkSugar, lvl 60 CW.
Baby Cakes, lvl 60 GWF.
*******, lvl 60 TR.
Premium Juicebox, lvl 60 CW.
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this is proof devs in this game do listen to us. Kudos devs and please make them count towards achievements I out leveled straight to helm on the one char I wanted the headstrong badge on. also they add more level 60 stuff to do for the content locusts who probably missed all the skirmishes due to their speeding to 60.
I got a crown in under 20 boxes *you may hate me now*
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nick1sternMember, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Knight of the Feywild UsersPosts: 330Bounty Hunter
edited August 2013
This sounds cool looking forward to it this weekend and hopefully more frequently once it works as Intended.
ZGreat job Devs New content even before the release of the Feywild
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bioshrikeMember, NW M9 PlaytestPosts: 4,729Arc User
edited August 2013
Though there are problems with the system over there, I think they should simply have an always-active dungeon delve and skirmish event going on, kinda like the alerts over at Champions Online. Right now, I feel part of the issue is that people queue for all the different dungeons, and combined with the different servers, the population is spread too thin. If there was a smaller selection of dungeons available at one time, (but that rotated frequently), then people would be more focused.
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andrewoz92Member, Neverwinter Beta UsersPosts: 9Arc User
edited August 2013
What kind of companions are we looking at?
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I'm sorry, but this is part of how Cryptic mostly misses the mark for me. They take a great idea, something a lot of us have been asking for, and find some way of not doing it right or all the way. STO already has a whole system in place to allow players to get into TF's and events at almost any lvl by either having events spawn at the lvl of the players involved (mirror invasion) or by changing the players lvl (up or down) to match the event. Even poor, ignored CO has events and instances that match lvl or force you to be lvl 30 so anyone can play (though it doesn't always work out). While I'm grateful my lvl 30 character might now be able to go back and do some I missed and was never warned I would (had my main since beta) it sort of sucks that I have to wait til ya'll have a whim, set up a weekend for it, AND pick one I missed. I think your company over all would profit greatly from teams talking to each other and sharing UNIVERSAL FEATURES....not stories, not themes, not game play items, but features. Scaling events and TF's, always being able to log out to the character list (only mentioned cause CO still can't), and I'm sure many more, so far the only thing all 3 have in common is the Z-store <_<; and some sort of item that can be traded in for Zen.
I'm glad you're doing this and I look forward to doing the event, but I hope you'll be the first Cryptic team and do the right thing by your fans by pushing the idea to it's full extent. This short weekend event would be better handled if it was really more of an introduction to allowing us to PERMANENTLY replay skirmishes. In fact, you could have it BOTH ways.
Do the event and afterwards open all skirmishes in a scaling fashion (first one 5 to 60, second one 10 to 60, or whatever levels they all currently start at), then every once in a while you FEATURE one skirmish with the special Call to Arms rewards to bring attention to it. City of Heroes did a similar thing weekly where they added extra rewards onto two TF's each week, it helped promote more spread out interest in that sort of content instead of only the same TF's being the only ones run every day as they had for like 7 years. Please make this a regular feature, I see no reason to finally appease our pleas by giving us only HALF of what we asked for.
Since the first one is with the Many-Arrows Orcs, I would think the companion would be related. If we get an orc, probably a drudge or an ax-thrower. Other option is a wolf, since the Orc Beastmasters have them. Would probably be the easiest to do since they could just reskin the wolf companions that already exist and use the same powers.
An orc companion would make me so very happy. Mostly for nostalgia reasons, as one of my characters in this game is based on a PC I made with an orc partner.
I'm pretty happy with this new event. I've been getting a bit bored with the last skirmish, as much as I love beholders and any opportunity to fight them.
I would join the event but my character has hit a loading screen bug where they are stuck in the loading screen and will constantly get Timeout error whenever I try to log into the game server with that certain character.
No it is not my internet since I can still log into the game with another character.
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adinosiiMember, NW M9 PlaytestPosts: 4,294Arc User
edited August 2013
This sounds really interesting, but for me the main issue is whether those events will give me the ability to get the achievement points I missed - there were simply areas where I leveled up too fast with my first char to even have a chance to do them at all - I have not made that mistake with later characters, but for a semi-perfectionist, this is quite annoying.
Wish they would fix companion AI before making more companions. They'll just suicide/aggro run into groups of mobs and stand on red circles until they die just like the rest. Or I wish it could be another augment companion
Queen of Dragon Server
Goddess Uniique, lvl 60 DC.
PinkSugar, lvl 60 CW.
Baby Cakes, lvl 60 GWF.
*******, lvl 60 TR.
Premium Juicebox, lvl 60 CW.
Pink Exxxtacy, Ranger There is NO pvp in Neverwinter.
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candipMember, Neverwinter Beta UsersPosts: 0Arc User
edited August 2013
I don't know about anyone else but I am chompin' at the bit for this to begin!! Sounds very fun (love skirmishes) and I JUST can't wait~!!!
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peacockbladeMember, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Hero Users, Neverwinter Guardian Users, Neverwinter Knight of the Feywild UsersPosts: 0Arc User
edited August 2013
This sounds like it should be a fun event. I'm also hoping it will allow us to get the achievements missed. I'm also hoping I read their list of rewards correctly and we will be able to get a way to transmute items that aren't normally possible.
Does anyone know how many hours till this starts or will this be after the maintenance?
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piotrek81Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Hero UsersPosts: 0Arc User
edited August 2013
It will start in exact: 9Hrs from now.
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adinosiiMember, NW M9 PlaytestPosts: 4,294Arc User
edited August 2013
This event sounds fun - but I wonder how frequent they will be - there is a total of 12 Skirmishes in the game (Blacklake Terror!, Orc Assault!, Storming the Keep, Straight to Helm, Defend the Temple, Pit Fight, Garrundar the Vile, Storm Front, Gate Crashers, Defend the Village, Battle for the Bridge and Aberrant Assault) and if the events are, say twice per month on the average, it will take 6 months to go through the whole list.
Anyhow, the event sounds really promising, but it depends on a few things - first, will the rewards be worthwhile? I don't need any high-powered companions, but I would love to get a fun one - like the blue skeletal dog that dropped during the invasion event - I absolutely love that one. Other rewards...uhm...I'll wait and see.
The second issue for me is whether this modified skirmish will award the same achievement point as the original skirmish. Many people (including myself) skipped some skirmishes, simply due to leveling up too fast, and for a semi-perfectionist it is very irritating for the achievement points not to be obtainable.
I will probably be creating a new alt, who has not done the Orc Assault skirmish yet, and then send him/her through the event, just to determine if this is the case.
I honestly think they should completely replace the Skirmishes event - this would give people the opportunity to run whatever skirmish they want during the event instead of the (single) one their level qualifies for. As it is, I can't remember the last time I participated in the Skirmish event - I don't think I've ever done it more than once on a level 60. But with more options for the activity to participate in, I can see it being something I actually look forward to. Right now, the only events I look forward to are DD and GG.
If you take a look at your journal it DOES say that you will get the skirmish achievement (for the Tower District) if you do the original skirmish OR the Call to Arms event this weekend.
I love the fact that I will get the opportunity to get this achievement completed. (Hopefully ques won't kill us)
If the companion is based on a Tower enemy then i'm hoping for the Eye of Gruumsh (I think), the one that has that spell that knocks players prone. If a normal Gruumsh can flatten a level 60 character then a rank 30 one will be very entertaining!
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Don't feel bad, I opened about 200 before I finally got a crown then 7 more after I got 1 lol
PinkSugar, lvl 60 CW.
Baby Cakes, lvl 60 GWF.
*******, lvl 60 TR.
Premium Juicebox, lvl 60 CW.
Pink Exxxtacy, Ranger
There is NO pvp in Neverwinter.
I got a crown in under 20 boxes *you may hate me now*
ZGreat job Devs New content even before the release of the Feywild
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I'm glad you're doing this and I look forward to doing the event, but I hope you'll be the first Cryptic team and do the right thing by your fans by pushing the idea to it's full extent. This short weekend event would be better handled if it was really more of an introduction to allowing us to PERMANENTLY replay skirmishes. In fact, you could have it BOTH ways.
Do the event and afterwards open all skirmishes in a scaling fashion (first one 5 to 60, second one 10 to 60, or whatever levels they all currently start at), then every once in a while you FEATURE one skirmish with the special Call to Arms rewards to bring attention to it. City of Heroes did a similar thing weekly where they added extra rewards onto two TF's each week, it helped promote more spread out interest in that sort of content instead of only the same TF's being the only ones run every day as they had for like 7 years. Please make this a regular feature, I see no reason to finally appease our pleas by giving us only HALF of what we asked for.
An orc companion would make me so very happy. Mostly for nostalgia reasons, as one of my characters in this game is based on a PC I made with an orc partner.
I'm pretty happy with this new event. I've been getting a bit bored with the last skirmish, as much as I love beholders and any opportunity to fight them.
No it is not my internet since I can still log into the game with another character.
I would love a tame mimic companion
PinkSugar, lvl 60 CW.
Baby Cakes, lvl 60 GWF.
*******, lvl 60 TR.
Premium Juicebox, lvl 60 CW.
Pink Exxxtacy, Ranger
There is NO pvp in Neverwinter.
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Oh, and for my first character doing Tymora, i got the crown first box. Got it second box on my second character.
Thanks for the clarification because by the way of the wording seems like the event was only on Friday.
Why are you implementing this (unneeded) restriction?
Maybe because the rewards are seen as too good to provide this on a regular basis.
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Anyhow, the event sounds really promising, but it depends on a few things - first, will the rewards be worthwhile? I don't need any high-powered companions, but I would love to get a fun one - like the blue skeletal dog that dropped during the invasion event - I absolutely love that one. Other rewards...uhm...I'll wait and see.
The second issue for me is whether this modified skirmish will award the same achievement point as the original skirmish. Many people (including myself) skipped some skirmishes, simply due to leveling up too fast, and for a semi-perfectionist it is very irritating for the achievement points not to be obtainable.
I will probably be creating a new alt, who has not done the Orc Assault skirmish yet, and then send him/her through the event, just to determine if this is the case.
agreed!!!!!!!!
I love the fact that I will get the opportunity to get this achievement completed. (Hopefully ques won't kill us)