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I have wondered the thoughts from other players about bound items and what should or shouldn't be BoP or BoA. I know that the items from the festival should get rid of BoC, in fact, I think all BoC should be dropped from the game. Keep things either BoE or BoA. What are your thoughts?
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Not sure how things stand on what "should" be BtA and what should be BoE. I'd guess that we're leaning on the side of too much BoP and not enough BoE, but whatever. I'd rather just have BoP turned into BtA first.
1) Make all Zen and Promotional items Bind to Account.
2) All other items in the game should not bind, allowing them to be sold or traded.
Alas, #2 would only be prudent if they bring in item decay, meaning over the course of its use, non-Bound items would suffer durability loss and eventual destruction if not repaired. Make each repair loose some durability so eventually, the more an item is repaired, the less "shelf-life" it will have.
Then, introduce a Zen items that will Bind any item to your Account and another cheaper one that Binds it to your Character -- which will remove durability, making it permanent, yet bound so it is no longer part of the economy.
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I am just addressing the fact of BoP. I do agree with the fact that if you put in the effort then at least make the rewards BtA. Many of us, myself included, have many toons and not enough time to grind them all. To make BoP BtA would stop a lot of headaches.
As a slight aside, I'd also like to see a sell/trade limit on BoE items. Mostly to curb market manipulation.
Its the Campaign Progression and the Boons that keep me in a Module, NOT the obsessive Dragon Molesting that is going on these days.
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Item decay would be a death sentence if loot drops arnt also adjusted dramatically. RNG never smiles on everyone. There are many people who have struggled for months to win a Black Ice main hand, or a set of gloves. They very thought of taking that away from such people is the stuff that can cause riots. And how would you deal with items that need to be refined? Some rare artifact, that might even be a rare lockbox item that is no longer available. That someone has invested millions of AD into to refine. Only to make a temporary item that will eventually go away and expire?
People lost flower petals and darn near went berzerk. You take away their gear, those rare random hard to get drops and priceless artifacts and you will kill any reason for people to keep playing.
Super rare items are where the suggestion of a Zen item that binds items to you comes into play, removing durability.
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I'm all for a decaying of gear if they are not completely destroyed. They only lose their stats as the durability lowers until repaired. This will put all that gold I'm accumulating to good use.
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You're assuming there will be enough supply to justify disposable items. I disagree, I have zero interest in black ice items. One, for the general rarity of them. And two, because their use is a constant drain similar to item decay. And at least those items never get destroyed. So there is at least one player refusing to feed the market.
Right now there are people willing to grind hundreds of HEs in the hope for a rare drop. And feel lucky if they get one in those hundreds of attempts. I expect that number would drop to near nil if the drops were temporary. You simply wont have the people willing to trade their time for temporary items. And without the people feeding that market there will be nothing for anyone to buy.
Item decay can really only work, if the drops are plentiful or easy enough that the time invested isnt seen as a waste. As it currently stands the rare drops here are truly rare and the RNG is far more punishing then it needs to be. Adding decay, that removes items, on top of that would just be insulting.
What did the devs say in that recent interview about events?
Q: What’s most important to keep in mind when designing an event for Neverwinter?
A: The players. It wouldn’t be worth making an event they didn’t like.
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Well the players would be pretty gosh darn happy if you finally abolished BoP on many of the items that you can obtain freely by grinding.
Why shouldn't I be able to send my obtained gear to my other characters? I won it, the gear is mine and I should be able to send it around my account as much as I god **** please.
I've not delved into the economic side of any other MMo as much as I have in Neverwinter. Neverwinter represents the most exploited MMO I've ever played, probably as a result of ignorance more than anything else though. It's a real shame if this is common.
you sir, are pure chaotic evil o.o
Some have more some have less. Thing is if I was to categorize every exploit I've ever seen in the past 10 ish years it would be
90% Economic
9% Immunity to Bosses
1% Other
*the old mage grins wildly*
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I already ignore IWD, because of that. Not even trying for the boons. I'm also not interested in an MMO where I can't buy and sell on the AH. I'll go back to playing offline single-player or FPS games before I waste time in that sort of world.
Some things should be bound, only to make it so that there is a reason to play harder content. There should be a salvage option for ALL bound items, too. If I retire a pet, I should be able to sell or trade-in its 'contract.' To an NPC, at least.
I especially don't want to re-charge my stuff. The game is already more time consuming than balancing my real life books and managing my meat-world job.
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These are exactly my thoughts put into words.
And here i thought i was the only one who completly ignored IWD and all it contents after a week of doing them.
And i honestly doubt im ever going to do it again, not even for the boons.
Developers want you to have to do things as many times as possible, and to spend as much time in the game as possible. They value you taking your time away. If you have to run things 50 times, that's great, because that is more time they have to make more content to keep you more addicted.Making items BoA or unbound completely defeats this purpose - players get equipment easier, they do dungeons less, they get bored faster, they are less likely to spend money.
You also have to note that bound items decay - they leave with players who quit, they leave when characters are deleted, banned, etc. If they are never bound, or BoA, they will be less likely to actually leave the world. Endless supply of unbound items would crash teh economy. All items BoA would have a less effect, but still they WANT you to run things repeatedly - if you can outfit all characters potentially with each run, thats less time you are playing.
Could be interesting to see what happens, but we are litterally taling about taking money out of Cryptics pockets.
Possible compromise - sell a Zen item that removes the bind or binds the item to Acct instead of character...everyone wins.
Oh goodness no. Especially the part of introducing "zen items" just to get rid of the decay. I'm not a fan of item decay and I definitely think it wouldn't be good here. In my opinion item decay is just something to "nerf" (I see item decay as a nerf) something that is already fine just so something else can profit off of it. For example, hurt A so B or C can make $$ off it's pain. Instead of finding other means that doesn't interfere (if this makes any sense...). As for a kind of gameplay, time is precious and this item decay deducts precious time on top of time that is already wasted trying to get the item itself. Now if this was an issue to get more people buy zen stuff, then might as well introduce a high-demand zen item of some sort that doesn't feel like the players are forced to buy because their item will wither away.
Someone said of introducing a zen item that will either "un-bind" BoPs or turn BoP into BoAs which I think is a great example and idea.
CN, VT, MC and LoL (Lair of Lostmauth) should all drop high-end BOE equipment as a reward.
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