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yokihiro
Member, Neverwinter Beta Users Posts: 510 Bounty Hunter
Overall I find Swordcoast Adventures not bad, has some strategic depth, you can mix your party and leverage their strength. Also good: You can reset your invoking timer once you aren't able to log into your client to invoke there. As a casual game not bad, I also like the different maps, they are random, also the encounters.
Only thing that bugs me is that you need epic companions for high-level adventures, blues and greens can't do the job. But that's how they make money if people then buy new companions, so it is ok.
Suggestions for improvements:
- Now that you can level your companions there you should also be able to send them on training from Gateway.
- I think a 5 companion group would be better: 1. You play with 5 people in NW also and 2. it is sometimes tricky to mix the right companions for the right tasks.
Only thing that bugs me is that you need epic companions for high-level adventures, blues and greens can't do the job. But that's how they make money if people then buy new companions, so it is ok.
Suggestions for improvements:
- Now that you can level your companions there you should also be able to send them on training from Gateway.
- I think a 5 companion group would be better: 1. You play with 5 people in NW also and 2. it is sometimes tricky to mix the right companions for the right tasks.
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But I need 4 epic, leveled companions to tackle the real deal... for what?
A blue companion I will need to upgrade.
No thanks Cryptic!
Yea, and the XP gain is very very slow... And I'd have to pay to upgrade my companion to make them useful in anything past T5
Seems like to get the blue Lightfoot Thief you need 4 Purples.
Rewards for dungeons other than T6 are not really worth the time or effort for anyone who is level 60 (and anyone who has pets leveled to beat T3-T6 will already be 60)
Yeah I liked the free dog for doing the tutorial but I dislike the whole need four epic quality pets to have any hope of getting the Lightfoot Thief ( and I'm assuming other different exclusive companions in future ) you guys need to make companion upgrading cheaper in game if you intend on the companion rewards being a permanent fixture in the SCA , especially if you want level 60 players to have an actual interest in it and not have it as a passing fad.
Stand your Ground NW-DNBHK74ML
Otherwise, I think after getting the pets, I have no other reason to play it...excluding the temporary winter dungeon.
- JailBreak (in development)
Not just 4 purples, four maxed out purples. And even then you can easily be hosed.
Would have been a good idea to have rewards in lower level dungeons that could be used in higher ones, like one-off use extra dice, or extra hit point potion. These wouldn't effect the real game so could be handed out without worry of unbalancing actual gameplay in NW. So many possibilities, such a disappointment.
I can't see me playing much (I have one purple, two blues, and a green) other than for special events like the Winter one. Otherwise no point to it.
also i have seen reagents and refinement stones drop in SCA. overall, definitely well done.
Throughout the dungeon the party (consisting of 4 of your companions chosen by you) must overcome challenges. This is basicly the dice rolling component where each die will come up as a certain symbol and you have to match a symbol on a die to the symbol on the challenge. When you've matched enough the event is conquered. However each roll you have to discard or use one die, so if you dont get a necessary result you must sacrifice one of those dies, slowly reducing your chance to succeed. Sometimes thats not a big deal, sometimes its a huge deal. This is where my first bit of criticism comes. If you look at Elder sign: Omens (a very similar board game on PC and phones) many of the characters have special abilities to adjust the outcome, making getting screwed by the dice far less of an issue. I think the system needs unique abilities like "Man at arms adds 1 to any shield dice roll" or "Wizard can convert 1 shield symbol to a magic symbol". This would add far more strategy to the game
Another point of criticism I have is how badly the starting companions suck. I actually collect companions so many of mine are leveled up and I have a huge selection of them. Still I only do it on one character because there just arent enough hours in the day to get all the companions on all my characters. Green companions like my pig and Skeleton warrior are vastly superior to the cleric, man at arms, dog, etc. My Psuedodragon is even better, hes arguably better then all of the starting companions combined. So once again it feels very pay to win to me. If you want us to spend AD to upgrade companions you need to lower the price to something reasonable. 300,000 for an upgrade to green is the same cost as a T2 piece of gear. Then theres the 500k and 750k upgrades to go all the way to 30. At that cost we could convert our AD to zen, buy a purple companion from the store, and still have AD left over
My third piece of criticism is the rewards are pretty bad when compared with the difficulty. I collect companions and Ive yet to complete the teir 4 dungeon. I couldnt get past the second encounter in the Teir 6 one. Rewards need to be scaled up significantly to make it feel like its worth doing SCA
I like the idea behind SCA but there are just a couple of issues that keep it from being on par with great board games like Elder sign or shadows over camelot
Come on Shields!!!
Come on Bright eyes!!!
Come on Spirit Spiral from Soul Reaver!!!
To comment on your OP. The cost of upgrading companions is unreasonable. I have been playing SCA and have come to notice that I will likely not be able to do the epic adventures with the companions I have on my ranger. With only one purple companion I will not have the ranks to complete it. It is sad, I love SCA and I am having fun with it but I am unwilling to spend hundreds of dollars exchanging zen to upgrade my critters. I will continue to play until I lose interest but the cost of upgrading really puts a damper in this new gateway game.
I haven't tried it much yet, but so far I'd agree. The companions are nice for collectors (which includes me) but outside of that, the rewards I've seen aren't worth the bother. But, while I really enjoy the Gateway for the profession tasks, browser mini-games aren't really my thing so I'm not totally objective. That said, they probably are nice little bits sometimes for new players/new characters.
Is it drop from the boss or from the other random encounter?
As for the loot from it. I find 3 green marks of power kind of worthy :P
WTB Class Reroll please
The Shepherd is nice, but beyond that I don't think I will bother with it.
So I did it a bit, but no more for me, I rather spend my time in game and when at work I rather work than play this stupid stuff
:cool:
As for the rewards. This mini game is more offline orriented thing. I mean, you can still play it and farm some RP while you can't reach the PC.
Still it'd be great if they added blue marks as rewards for tier 6 :P
WTB Class Reroll please
EDIT: Ok, so now I have a complaint. I have lost count of how many times I am in an encounter and have one hit left on them with three to five dye left only to fail. I know the law of averages aren't that bad.