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juicebox87
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Well I am surprised this hasn't happened yet especially with us now having five Boon tree's to grind out on every character. So the question is....how tired are you of grinding out boons over and over for new characters, and does that limit your ambitions in rolling new classes?
Very often I want to try new classes only to realize I will be forced to grind another 30-60 days worth of quests just to acquire the boons for these new characters. It is literally the reason why making new character and trying new things seems to be a drag in Neverwinter for me, and all my friends. How many times have you grind out your boons on multiple characters? Literally 30-60 Quests per day, per character is a daunting task that I don't believe gets any easier as time goes on, but what if it did.
What if for every character you complete boons on could help your other characters finish the boon quests quicker. What if all the materials needed to unlock boons, were Account bound, rather than character bound. This would not only give you more reason to continue to run the quests on all of your characters, even after completing them for a single character. This would not only speed up game play for those of us with 10 character slots, but would promote more balanced game play for those who aren't able to spend hundreds, upon hundred of dollars gearing a character to a 20,000 gear-score. It would allow people to balance time and focus the game play to help people tremendously. Not only that, it would promote the purchasing of character slots and Zen market items for new characters, such as shared bank slots. This is a win-win for all. (Boons only apply to level 60 characters)
Hopefully this thread will catch the attention of the programmers in a positive way, and help convey an opinion of the players that would benefit everyone on the server. Thank you for your time.
Very often I want to try new classes only to realize I will be forced to grind another 30-60 days worth of quests just to acquire the boons for these new characters. It is literally the reason why making new character and trying new things seems to be a drag in Neverwinter for me, and all my friends. How many times have you grind out your boons on multiple characters? Literally 30-60 Quests per day, per character is a daunting task that I don't believe gets any easier as time goes on, but what if it did.
What if for every character you complete boons on could help your other characters finish the boon quests quicker. What if all the materials needed to unlock boons, were Account bound, rather than character bound. This would not only give you more reason to continue to run the quests on all of your characters, even after completing them for a single character. This would not only speed up game play for those of us with 10 character slots, but would promote more balanced game play for those who aren't able to spend hundreds, upon hundred of dollars gearing a character to a 20,000 gear-score. It would allow people to balance time and focus the game play to help people tremendously. Not only that, it would promote the purchasing of character slots and Zen market items for new characters, such as shared bank slots. This is a win-win for all. (Boons only apply to level 60 characters)
Hopefully this thread will catch the attention of the programmers in a positive way, and help convey an opinion of the players that would benefit everyone on the server. Thank you for your time.
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Great idea!
I don't really care if it still takes the same number of days and costs the same AD.. Just bill me. hahaha. (I mean that the costs don't bother me, and I'm not in a rush to get them. But the daily tedium of doing the same thing over and over, just to watch another drop make a tiny ring of ripples in that big ol' bucket...)
Roland Mac Sheonin GF | Tarron Direheart SW |
I've gotten all classes through the campaigns and the DC was the most recent, I got them all done in just over a month (by using the monster drops from other toons for campaign mats).
Leveling is so fast in this game that the campaigns and boons pretty much ARE our leveling...
Who are you replying to? Because I mentioned 'bill me,' but I wasn't suggesting buying my way out of anything.. it costs AD to open this or that already... and that's all I was talking about.
I was suggesting that we just pretend I went to DR, yawned, killed everything, shrugged and got my pass punched. I mean it's not like anything in any of these campaign zones is fight worthy. Most of them die if you look in their general direction. Even the lairs are like attending a birthday party for a 5 year old nephew. Noisy, but not a whole lot of fun. XD
Roland Mac Sheonin GF | Tarron Direheart SW |
No Im referring to the guy saying Shand boons are the only hard part of boons. Its currently 1 mil to buy your way out of IWD and 3-4mil to buy your way out of DR. Then months of grinding out Shand, or month if you play NW daily like a few but small portion of the community actually do. That is per character.
I mean we should somehow be rewarded for creating more and more chars. It is only good for the producers business because we will probably be spending more money than if we had only one or two characters
Aaah, gotcha.. yeah, I tried out IWD and it was such a drag I just wrote those boons off.
Roland Mac Sheonin GF | Tarron Direheart SW |
My question would be how did you get those extra character slots if you're not willing to spend "hundreds of dollars"?
I spend plenty of in game AD with one character. I spent my time going through the dailies, and earning boons. Quite frankly I have yet to get bored of dailies.
As stated elsewhere, and many times by me I do not grind nor farm. Perhaps that's why to me its not some "boring job" to level up new boons, or help others do it.
What about those of us whom have already put in all the time for boons etc only now to find out "hey you wasted time since Joe Schmoe now can skip all that"? I think you may have some pissed people here whom spent time and AD on it.
I imagine the recoding of the whole boon system to be account bound rather than character bound would be a Dev nightmare. It's restructuring an already existing system in place that has to cover six pathways of boons (Sharandar, Dread Ring, Icewind, Gauntelgrym PvP, Domination PvP, and Icewind PvP).
Just think about that a minute.
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I have all the boons on 9 chars, and am working on 4 more currently, and a 5th once I get a SW.
So I am one of those people who might be annoyed that others didn't have to work so hard.. except that I couldn't care less if they had to work as hard as I. It's a game.
Char slots are among the cheapest item in the game. And it is a very good investment, because one char can help the other.. pretty easy to figure out, I'm sure it needs no explanation.
Also, they don't disallow more than one account, as long as you are not using it in an abusive way.
I have 33 fully geared/maxed characters in Champions Online. Alts is what I do (the only reason I mention that.) I have never felt the need to worry about someone else getting an easier ride or a bigger payout than I did. I just want to enjoy the escapism, which is all this is.
The game is supposed to be fun. It is supposed to be a break from the red-tape and b.s. politics of a real-world job, medical bills, lying politicians, and neighbors that live too damned close, no matter how far away the next one is. It shouldn't be a drag. XD
Roland Mac Sheonin GF | Tarron Direheart SW |
Switching something to account bound through re-coding cant be rocket science. as a matter of fact its been done overnight for alot of things. I probably have a collective 50 million worth of grind put into my characters. Did you think I just strolled in here and said, excuse me. But im lazy, please help. I spent 10$ to get 10 characters, My question is how long you have played this game with me having 3 Max geared/boon characters. I dont feel you understand how much of a grind it becomes.
Leadership and ZAX. Character slots are relatively cheap.
What I'd like to see now and is not that much of a jump is adding campaign chests to the post 60 awards.
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I have 50 for IWD and can't decide if i'm going to sell them or use them because IWD has the rep system that really makes it so that just doing the dailies there will get you what you need by the time you unlock access to them. Dread Ring seems to be teh only one that you can use relics to basically go from 0 to all boons in under 20 minutes (think it takes 5 minutes to unlock each boon after you buy them).
That almost sounds like a reasonable request, however PWE seems to be more interested in 5 or even 40:1 conversions for things like this but I would totally support any conversion as long as I could speed things up after the 1st or 2nd toon I had gotten to 60.
Personally I think leveling needs to take longer, there isn't that much compelling endgame material to warrant the feeling of "this game starts at 60". I disagree with the marketing of instant leveling items, even the most experienced players still need to learn how to play a new class they haven't played before and that is best done by leveling and playing through a game.
What I think needs to happen is after the first play through you need to have the option of skipping straight to protectors enclave and skipping that initial tutorial scenario that gets you to level 4.
I would very much like to see scripts and crescents become account bound, along with tarmalune bars that have accumalated on different toons for various reasons (if i could consolidate them all i'd could by a couple more wards lol).
Finally, some input about how to positively structure a new system.
Roland Mac Sheonin GF | Tarron Direheart SW |
check your inbox, i forwarded the thread to panderus and sent you his response
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