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Feywild enjoyable content or a second job?
kateslittlebug
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While I understand Fey Wild is not required content to play, the boons that make your character more powerful and up your gear score (which is one of the criteria to find decent groups for dungeons) make it almost necessary to complete the first three boons. As someone who absolutely loved this game until I hit Fey Wild, it is very disappointing. This has become a chore to the point where I have almost stopped playing. I am a casual player with real life responsibilities. Fey Wild is so repetitive (and time consuming when trying to get through on more than one character) it feels like a second job. I would like to see something else to help players receive boons that is not so repetitive and boring, which makes the game very not fun.
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If you're really bored then you can do a couple of skirmishes, pvp, a dungeon... it's not a race. If you try to rush it you'll likely get bored before you get your last boon.
Now I just get the main quest “get three fey Cristal”, go the first area, and hunt for the easy redcaps in packs of four. It only takes five minutes per charter.
I enjoyed Feywild a good deal, and don't mind repeating stuff if there's an end to it, but they need to cut the required sparks in each of the final two boons by about 1/3 or 1/2, as by the time you get there you're pretty much done, at least I am. No worries, though - I look forward to the next module.
Its meant to be taken slow, the missions are reasonably quick. You can do them between other things. You do a little when you have time or motivation. Not as a primary goal. You get nearly as many sparks from one single weekly mission as you do from grinding the entire week. If you do simply that, and nothing else, the worst that happens is it takes twice as long. That seems a fair trade off for reducing your need for dailies to only once a week.
Yeah, I think the key to handling the final sparks is just to wander into one of the zones and kill some redcaps for a few minutes. My main beef is that when you have too many people just "sticking it out" that means it's running a little long.
I finished all of the boons. However, I wonder what the true end is. I still have a stack of 16 dark fey keys. I have not finished the Malabog Castle run. I am not sure it is even worth it.
Now I can see the light at the end of the tunnel because all I need is sparks. Now I just run the last solo dungeon every day. You can complete the daily spark quest in the solo dungeons and you get a shot at the companion so it seems like the best option for me. I should have all of the sparks I need sometime this week and I can't wait to be done with it.
The one thing I wished I realized sooner is that you have about three weeks where you really only need to collect sparks. If I would have realized that sooner I would have spaced out my daily quests a bit and only ran two or three characters each day (still get sparks for everyone, just rotate days with the other quests).
When you view it as "I have to have all boons immediately!" then maybe it can seem like work, but YOU are the one making it that way by having that mindset.
We are definitely dominating, and we are always about to win.
I do the weekly task (Arcane Reservoir) every week but the rest I do when I can be bothered. I grab the Key every day that I play simply to keep options open.
Usually I'll get the sparks I need in a single run of Celadaine. Got 4 boons on main, 2-3 on alts but not really in a hurry to get them as after the first couple the remaining boons seem a bit <font color="orange">HAMSTER</font>.
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I was hoping when I got there I would at least have a story path to follow to learn more about the elves but instead I get 3 very easy quests a day and the instanced dungeon areas that are torture to go through after 3 or more times in them.
The enemies are easier than enemies I fought in the Mount or Caves and the Elves have such a rich history I want to know more about them through the same style progression we experienced in other story zones.
It is the story of MMOs and that is to make work that gives the illusion that is both warranted and valuable. It is a well established time transfer system. Clock in wait in queue or run dungeon and get to the gambling table roll dice on chest. Or Clock in do quests get mostly useless currency and then buy an item. Clock in and do some other daily quests for AD. Or Clock in and sit at AH trying to figure out how to game it to gain virtual wealth. The only variance is Foundry Campaigns and they have crippled Content creators with their inability to plant nodes or give or specify rewards even though there is already a system in place when farming too many nodes and the current Cryptic made ones are very easy to do so with both chests and nodes.
I wish as someone posted in this thread I could not let the game dictate my experience but that is impossible when the game has set the parameters of the experience.
It's terrible. I can't stand any of the x-pack content. I have no desire to get the boons.
What really kills the expansion is that there's only 1 way to progress through it - doing the same missions over and over. When you're leveling toons, there are many methods to progress - PvP, Foundries, Dungeons, Skirmishes - but when you're grinding boons, the only thing that progresses the campaign is the same boring dailies over and over. If they would have thrown in a couple more group based dungeons, made Feywild foundries rewards count toward the campaign, a PvP area, and 1 more skirmish with rewards relevant to progression, this would have been a fun X-Pack with plenty to do. As it stands, it's so boring I can't bring myself to commit to it.
I have since realized that because of the time limits on obtaining sparks (without paying for them, which I won't do), there's effectively loads of time to collect the other stuff, particularly after the final realm is unlocked. While I'm not crazy about the repetitive nature of the quests, I find it very efficient to accept a bunch of quests for a few days in a row, but only go and do them in one big power round of a realm and turn them in all at once.
My actual Sharandar "daily" consists of collecting a key and three dark fey crystals, which takes 5-10 minutes depending how long it takes the crystals to drop. And I do quests and instance runs as I'm inclined. I pick up the reservoir when it's available and make sure I get it done at some point that week.
There's not a lot of point in trying to rush, because you will hit that spark wall eventually. And with a more relaxed pace, it doesn't feel like nearly as much of a grind.
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This is basically what I end up doing, though less out of number crunching and more because of RL and play schedule. I play the game with my out-of-town brother, and our schedules don't always line up. So by the time we are able to quest together, we usually have a few days worth of content to run.
The fact that it's a social activity (we're on skype, catching up on life, while playing) makes most of the tedium that might come along with it pretty much disappear.
So maybe find a few like-minded friends and make it a pleasure instead of a pain!
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We are definitely dominating, and we are always about to win.
I do pretty much the same, do the sparks. If I have a companion to level the 3 quests in each area can be done quickly and its very good xp..(wink wink nudge nudge...)
What companion??
http://neverwinter.gamepedia.com/Blink_Dog
Well guess that shows how the range hates me, have done that stupid Tower 20+ times and never gotten a dog:)
but when you`re done opening the other zones, just collect the needed quest rewards.
which aren`t that many for the boons.
only the sparks.
but that quest each day doesn`t take long, kill a few mobs. maybe like 2 groups and you re done and can go do other things.
reservoir doesn`t take long also, just inv someone else if possible.
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