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merlin420id
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Do I really have to pay to access a new area in the new end game content so that I can get gear that is worse than the gear that I'm already wearing and that I can't sell?
Somebody please explain the benefit to me?
Somebody please explain the benefit to me?
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Yes you do and that is how PWE works with their games. Take it or leave it! But be grateful that they don't make you pay with real money and that is if you alreayd have the AD to spend. Otherwise, Zen store is that way.......
If you're already wearing gear decent enough to ignore the Epic Dungeon, you can freely ignore that expenditure and instead focus on unlocking Boons (which is time-gated and not exactly a heavy expenditure) instead for the gear score boost and proceed to care very little at all about running anything else there.
Boons are definately worth it, as passive defense or damage boosts, that by all indications works in any content (NOTE: I am not 100% sure if it does, if someone could confirm, I'd be keen on having that data).
[SIGPIC]Also, this poster rambles.[/SIGPIC]
Seriously, the first one alone is equal to a free 11th rank 9 Radiant or Azure Enchantment, And for just 5000 AD. It took a TON of arm twisting to get me to justify the horrible cost on that one. :rolleyes:
As far as the rest, it seems fairly straight forward. Greater rewards means greater costs. If you want to loot more then one solo chest a day, you can, but farming it will cost you. For me, as someone who has yet to really enjoy or take part in much 5 man content. The ability to earn and gather weapon and armor enchantments makes the entire thing well worth the price of admission, for that singular reason alone. Anything else offered is just cake.
You can fairly easily make 50.000+ per day. Invoke several times per day, get 3 professions (alchemy, leadership and one crafting profession) to 20, and run 7-8 AD-generating leadership tasks non-stop. Run 1-2 crafting tasks, typically to make exquisite gemmed shirts/pants (but note that you probably have to make 20-40 before you start showing profit).
Occasionally (during Profession windows) do a profession run through some suitable area, like Rothe Valley.
Quite frankly, the amount of AD and gold you have to pay to unlock the Feywild content is pretty trivial, compared to what you should be able to make once you have hit lvl 60 and geared up.
PvP ~ 45 to 60 min for 4 runs + 20 mins queue for 4k AD
Foundry ~ 60+ min for 4 foundries for 4K AD
Total time = 2h 30m to 3h for 13k AD with possible Neverember bonus daily.
Add in leadership at level 13+ and you can make another 4000+ AD a day from queuing tasks just two or three times a day.
Finally, invoking gives around 3k a day.
So for minimal effort you get around 20k AD each day when your leadership levels to 20 you can make around 19-20k just from leadership.
This doesn't even need you to buy a bunch of purple crafters and sink time into microing the other professions. All this is fairly reasonable stuff per day, and if you haven't got enough time you can always split the daily quests over two days.
Well on August 22 the Neverember Daily was PvP. Four matches of PvP would award 4K Astral Diamonds for the normal daily and 8K Astral Diamonds for the Neverember daily. Just doing a single daily (which counted for two) awarded 12K Astral Diamonds alone.
Then you have the Foundry Daily which awards 4K, Gauntlgrym awards 4-6K depending on whether or not you do PvP, Daily Skirmish gives 4K.
And of course once you reach level 12 or so in Leadership you can get at least a few thousand AD every six hours.
Now with the salvager if you do a dungeon you will get 3K minimum on each T1 drop and 6K minimum on each T2 drop and that includes seal items which are pretty cheap to purchase. You can, very easilly, with a bit of effort and a couple of hours time get 20K Astral Diamonds. You might have to do things that you wouldn't normally do or try but it's not that hard.
And I don't see any AD when I'm doing professions. I"m making boots and pelts and gaining xp pts. Not one AD there.
What is a T1 and T2 drop?
And I don't get AD every time I Invoke. Remember I dont' live here in NeverWinter.
You get AD from some leadership tasks - this is why leadership should be your main profession. if you don't find skirmishes fun, well...then I can't help you there. As for T1/T2 drops - uh, that's basically the high-end armour sets from the epic dungeons.
You don't have to kill anything to do GG PVE, just collect items. If you get aggro run away. If you die so what? There's no penalty apart from having to go back.
It's the leadership profession which gives AD. Professions take a long time and a big investment (you need to spend about 4 million AD to buy some assets. If you're finding 50k AD a challenge I'm guessing you don't have access to that) before you start to make any AD back.
Make sure you invoke every day and get the coffer every 7 days (if you can't log in every day I posted on how to automate a few days ago), even if you just get the green ward it's worth a few k AD.
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Make 50k a day? yes might make 50k rough diamonds, but u cant refine it, and with the epics from DD all beiong BoP and salvageable for rough astral diamonds its just stupid, over 2 days to get the 50k needed for malabog castle, Hope PWE ttake a hit to their pockets with this patch, less Ad being made, less people buying Zen from exchange, less people selling Zen on exchange, less people buying Zen from PWE,
Did you actually read what I said? Guess not....
In my case the big AD comes from profession runs (and selling several rank 5 enchants and runestones at the AH every day) and from crafting. The rough AD is just a bonus.
You can earn so much AD selling stuff on the AH.
Soon after I became 60, I somehow (cant remember now) got this free blue leatherworking tool.
Sold it on the AH for almost 300k AD.
Almost everything can be sold on the AH (except for the recent bind on pickup items).
If you are not profiting from making boots and pelts, then stop making them.
Level leadership to 20. Then, you can spend time on other professions, if you wish.
Roll some alts and train leadership.
Anyway, why would you need the key if you solo in Gauntlegrym?
You are aware of that MC is a group instance that can't be soloed?
^ Like a BOSS xD
Log in, invoke, refresh leadership tasks. Any other playtime you want to spend on the game, do whatever you want.
Yes, having alts helps with this.
Only if you can actually get purple items... Now you will probably only be getting blue unsalvageable HAMSTER when you kill a boss.
Oh yeah, now from treasure chests, you get all the rank3 crappy enchantments you need, not rank 4 anymore... nice for a T2 dungeon..
Replacing Leadership assets lost to bugged code isn't a 10 min job,professions is russian roulette at the moment...
No, you don't have to pay anything to go into Sharandar.
You can go, do the dailies quests and dungeons without paying anything. You'll eventually need AD to unlock various tiers of the Campaign, but there's no cost at all to go into the new content.
Not sure where you got that idea from.
I had a long diatribe, but it's really not worth it to get worked up over for a game I no longer participate in. Suffice to say that this is just another step down a road I predicted back in beta testing coming true.
"Young people....." - Erik Lehnsherr
2h 30min doing boring ****, especially VERY boring if doing it solo is effortless? i play to have fun, not to spend huge amounts of time for VERY minimal money gain...