Well, the item description does says u can choose what u want.
Cool!
That first part there has never been displayed before.
Only the second.
Couldn't check it myself, for some reason every attempt to use the PTS on my part has ended in failure.
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Thanks guys for the feedback thus far. Please continue to keep this thread civil.
This is definitely something the company will guage players reactions about to please be respectful so that we can make sure PWE knows whether they should do events like this in the future or not.
Before it's asked, my view:
My initial reaction was of gratefulness until the initial hooray I won't have to grind IWD wore off. We as a community have continued to complain about the abysmally low drop rate which is by no means restricted to classes. I have an HR who has no better luck than any GF out there so stop thinking contrary...
My view is quite simply that the drop rate needs to be improved. It needed to be improved for a long time now. Allowing players to buy their way past the hopeless [feeling] grind is not what the players want(ed). If the grind was just bearable or avoidable by the way of a token system or time gate the community would be happy.
A temporary way to appease the frustrated masses is just not the correct solution.
Thank you. Beautifully spelled out. This is how I feel about it. I don't mind grinding for gear drops. There is a limit though. After that limit is exceeded, I stop enjoying the game and take a break away from Neverwinter. I also don't mind spending a reasonable amount of cash to speed some things up in game. What I don't like is feeling backed into a hopeless paywall. I'm not spending 1500 Zen for an optional item that I would LIKE to have and SHOULD be attainable through effort and time. My group of characters have been in IWD asap after launch and only 1 has the Arm slot. None of them have the Weapon. Thats just too low of a chance for the drop.
I would suggest that at a set number of Epic HE completions, if a character has not received BI Arm/BI Main Hand, they get it. This will still keep some of us active in IWD hoping for that 'early drop'. It also gives us a peak at the end of the grind. I'd gladly go back to IWD daily if I knew there was a chance in hell to get what I want.
Option 2 would be to simply fix the obviously dysfunctional RNG. Bracers shouldn't drop at the same rate as finding a Tenser Disk in a lockbox.
If some version of the above were implemented, I wouldn't view this as such a cash grab. There are ALWAYS going to be people that are willing and able to pay rather than wait. Money will still be made. Everyone wins. I think...
Again, this is something I largely agree with. Just pointing out the reality. The RNG is this game is particularly harsh and unforgiving. I play because I enjoy it, but I find some of the grinding (ToD tomes and BI gloves/mainhands) to be ridiculous to the extent that it makes it no longer fun.
I so totally concur with rabbinicus on this.
This is coming from a flabbergasted DC who grinds every day for at least 4 hrs for close to 3 mths and has yet to get the ever elusive BI Gauntlets.
just so were all clear this stuff will be outdated mod 6 (artefact armor....
also what time is it on!!>>!>! im buying a corupt and purified glove regardless #pre-buyersRemorse
This is very important to remember. They are changing this late and giving you an opportunity after or very soon to be obsolete. Keep that in mind. Please dont complain when 2 months later there is much better gear if you buy into this. Its almost like "we arent allowed to say to lose".
Should of just increased the chance to drop.
EDIT: Should of just increased the chance to drop and added this in addition.
This is very important to remember. They are changing this late and giving you an opportunity after or very soon to be obsolete. Keep that in mind. Please dont complain when 2 months later there is much better gear if you buy into this. Its almost like "we arent allowed to say to lose".
Should of just increased the chance to drop.
EDIT: Should of just increased the chance to drop and added this in addition.
yer when they first did the mod the rng was way better too... everyone who got in early got their gear and us late starters now need to buy it...
In a wierd way though... its like IWD campaign booster, cause mostly you want to advance through that campaign so you can craft those items... So its a cheap campaign shortcut; thats not soo bad.
But then again if its obsolete. I run myself in circles.
It took me 2 months, back in the beginning of mod 3, to get my black ice gloves. Now, 2 weeks of searching many hours a day, my poor cleric is still gloveless. FIX THAT ****, yo! It would make me very happy, I don't necessarily want to buy my gear with real money
If the grind was just bearable or avoidable by the way of a token system or time gate the community would be happy.
A temporary way to appease the frustrated masses is just not the correct solution.
I agree with all you say, but I want to point out:
We actually got the token system with M5. The possibility to circumvent the RNG (a dragon book drops in a dungeon for the 4th and 5th boon of ToD) is exactly what we, the players, asked for. If it does not drop immediately you still can, after much investment, get an item for certain. the price in time and AD is high, but you know there is a way to "buy" the item.
Nevertheless, people are demanding this and that to be changed to get their items easier/faster.
In the end a product manager or developer might get the impression it is useless, whatever they try, there are lots of people complaining.
I agree with all you say, but I want to point out:
We actually got the token system with M5. The possibility to circumvent the RNG (a dragon book drops in a dungeon for the 4th and 5th boon of ToD) is exactly what we, the players, asked for. If it does not drop immediately you still can, after much investment, get an item for certain. the price in time and AD is high, but you know there is a way to "buy" the item.
Nevertheless, people are demanding this and that to be changed to get their items easier/faster.
In the end a product manager or developer might get the impression it is useless, whatever they try, there are lots of people complaining.
A putative "product manager" would be missing the point in a heroic manner, were they to draw that conclusion. It's blindingly obvious that the problem isn't that you can buy the boon books- but how ludicrous the original drop rates are, and how slow the quests are to get the (horrible and far too numerous) currencies needed to buy them can be. That many days, spending that many hours for Timers On Dragons is just punitive. You can't just say "well, now you can buy them", if the price is so self-evidently ludicrous that it just puts a lot of people off even trying, as the costs so disproportionately outweigh the benefits.
A putative "product manager" would be missing the point in a heroic manner, were they to draw that conclusion. It's blindingly obvious that the problem isn't that you can buy the boon books- but how ludicrous the original drop rates are, and how slow the quests are to get the (horrible and far too numerous) currencies needed to buy them can be. That many days, spending that many hours for Timers On Dragons is just punitive. You can't just say "well, now you can buy them", if the price is so self-evidently ludicrous that it just puts a lot of people off even trying, as the costs so disproportionately outweigh the benefits.
It is not rocket surgery.
What drop rate or procedure would you prefer? Buy a book for 1000 Dragon Hoard Coins? Do you think this would really be good for the game or only for you?
Considering that the books can be bought on the AH for 1kk AD I guess one can leave the grinders to do the stuff and the buyers to buy the stuff the grinders made. It may not be cheap, but at least with this expansion we have the chance to buy the items, as well as to grind them. AND we have the chance to get lucky and get it dropped on our feet. Which is what has been asked by many on the forums. I hate the wait for dragons, which is terribly designed, but I guess that PWE sold lots of T2 mounts due to the long rides to the dragon.
At first I wanted to do all dragons with all my 8 toons each day, but as I made my SW on the 2x XP weekend I decided to let my 8 mains do the praying (all have SoT and LoL available and each one has a pair of keys) and forget about the 2 books (or 16 books for all of them) and further my SW and do only dailies there - Sharandar, DR, IWD, dragons. That is enough time, but much more enjoyable than two hours of waiting with all toons for a dragon to appear.
And I actually can do a few DDs next to it!
no thanks i'll spend 1 day of the week to grind it out per character that needs it until i get bored. Don't get it no matter it'll only be for pvp / just to complete. Oh and titles!
How much are those booster packs? I think I might get one so my CW can have the BI gloves for his purified set. I already have the corrupted set and only need the gloves to complete his purified set. Sounds like a great idea. Saving my zen
Also sounds really great for those who just couldn't get the things to drop no matter how many times they did the heroics.
How much are those booster packs? I think I might get one so my CW can have the BI gloves for his purified set. I already have the corrupted set and only need the gloves to complete his purified set. Sounds like a great idea. Saving my zen
Also sounds really great for those who just couldn't get the things to drop no matter how many times they did the heroics.
i would strongly suggets you not do this for your CW. Start solo'ing the epic enounter or everything but boss on Majors and advertise it. you'll get your gloves in due time.
The event was advertised on the preview calendar so it might not even happen , which I imagine would be very disappointing for people who really need the stuff , Guess I should have made that clear in the OP.
the event is on the player calendar and is starting in 32 minutes.
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I think its horrendous.
Just another move in a long string of ones divorcing me from the game. I will not pay anymore to this company. I am just awaiting another game to come along at this point.
Some of its still fun, but its become depressingly less and less of late.
Just another move in a long string of ones divorcing me from the game. I will not pay anymore to this company. I am just awaiting another game to come along at this point.
Yeah I really hope it is a one off type of thing , giving things bad drop rates then selling them in the cash shop really isn't a good direction to take the game , they should have increased the drop chance or made the items BoE before doing something like this.
the event is on the player calendar and is starting in 32 minutes.
Phew , I am stuck at work so I haven't had a chance to see if it was added to the live calendar yet , kind of surprised they haven't advertised it anywhere else yet apart from the calendar .
I'm tempted to be the first to get a hammerforge pack and see if you can actually pick the gauntlets or not...
then again I'm thinking knowing my luck you won't get to pick the specific piece of gear so I'm thinking I might wait to see someone else pay to test this lol
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Completely feel your pain, no gloves or mainhands on any of my characters after hundreds of attempts as well. I would imagine when they're added to the black ice merchant (please note: This is PURE SPECULATION on my part - albeit very hopeful speculation) in the hopefully very near future people are going to be even angrier. Then hopefully people will move past their anger.
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Took the plunge - it allows you to choose ANY of the purified or corrupted gear.
Edit: So yes, this includes gloves, main hands, jewelry, etc.
Bless your heart!
Got my gloves now too!
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It costs more than enough that it should probably just come naturally. Plus for those that don't care for pvp, I probably wouldn't bother. I suppose if you wanted gear right away at level 60, but meh.
How much is it?
I never buy things like Professions packs, as if I want a Leadership Hero or a Weapon Smithing Grindstone, I want a Leadership Hero or a Weaponsmithing Grindstone. I do not want "a chance" of winning an Assistant Leatherworker, a Tailor's Steel Needle and a pile of Residium.
I might pay for the specific things I want, but a "chance" of getting mostly rubbish is just a stupid waste of real money.
So, it looks like they did actually nerf the RNG purposefully with this specific long-term plan in mind? Are they trying to market it as doing a favour to their loyal customers who have just been unlucky?
It's difficult to believe that a successful company familiar with the reasonable and acceptable practices of Capitalism could think that this is good business practice and would generate customer satisfaction and loyalty.
What next? Drown 15 villages to build a hydro-electric plant and get the army to forcibly relocate the people across the other side of the country with no compensation?
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In a sadistic way I kind of hope it is because that shows things ought to be way different.
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Cool!
That first part there has never been displayed before.
Only the second.
Couldn't check it myself, for some reason every attempt to use the PTS on my part has ended in failure.
'Wen considered the nature of time and understood that the universe is, instant by instant, recreated anew. Therefore, he understood, there is in truth no past, only a memory of the past. Blink your eyes, and the world you see next did not exist when you closed them. Therefore, he said, the only appropriate state of the mind is surprise. The only appropriate state of the heart is joy. The sky you see now, you have never seen before. The perfect moment is now. Be glad of it.' Terry Pratchet The Thief Of Time
Thank you. Beautifully spelled out. This is how I feel about it. I don't mind grinding for gear drops. There is a limit though. After that limit is exceeded, I stop enjoying the game and take a break away from Neverwinter. I also don't mind spending a reasonable amount of cash to speed some things up in game. What I don't like is feeling backed into a hopeless paywall. I'm not spending 1500 Zen for an optional item that I would LIKE to have and SHOULD be attainable through effort and time. My group of characters have been in IWD asap after launch and only 1 has the Arm slot. None of them have the Weapon. Thats just too low of a chance for the drop.
I would suggest that at a set number of Epic HE completions, if a character has not received BI Arm/BI Main Hand, they get it. This will still keep some of us active in IWD hoping for that 'early drop'. It also gives us a peak at the end of the grind. I'd gladly go back to IWD daily if I knew there was a chance in hell to get what I want.
Option 2 would be to simply fix the obviously dysfunctional RNG. Bracers shouldn't drop at the same rate as finding a Tenser Disk in a lockbox.
If some version of the above were implemented, I wouldn't view this as such a cash grab. There are ALWAYS going to be people that are willing and able to pay rather than wait. Money will still be made. Everyone wins. I think...
I so totally concur with rabbinicus on this.
This is coming from a flabbergasted DC who grinds every day for at least 4 hrs for close to 3 mths and has yet to get the ever elusive BI Gauntlets.
just so were all clear this stuff will be outdated mod 6 (artefact armor....
also what time is it on!!>>!>! im buying a corupt and purified glove regardless #pre-buyersRemorse
This is very important to remember. They are changing this late and giving you an opportunity after or very soon to be obsolete. Keep that in mind. Please dont complain when 2 months later there is much better gear if you buy into this. Its almost like "we arent allowed to say to lose".
Should of just increased the chance to drop.
EDIT: Should of just increased the chance to drop and added this in addition.
Fox Stevenson - Sandblast
Oh Wonder - Without You
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
- Dylan Thomas
yer when they first did the mod the rng was way better too... everyone who got in early got their gear and us late starters now need to buy it...
in how many hours!?!?!? :P
But then again if its obsolete. I run myself in circles.
Fox Stevenson - Sandblast
Oh Wonder - Without You
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
- Dylan Thomas
We actually got the token system with M5. The possibility to circumvent the RNG (a dragon book drops in a dungeon for the 4th and 5th boon of ToD) is exactly what we, the players, asked for. If it does not drop immediately you still can, after much investment, get an item for certain. the price in time and AD is high, but you know there is a way to "buy" the item.
Nevertheless, people are demanding this and that to be changed to get their items easier/faster.
In the end a product manager or developer might get the impression it is useless, whatever they try, there are lots of people complaining.
A putative "product manager" would be missing the point in a heroic manner, were they to draw that conclusion. It's blindingly obvious that the problem isn't that you can buy the boon books- but how ludicrous the original drop rates are, and how slow the quests are to get the (horrible and far too numerous) currencies needed to buy them can be. That many days, spending that many hours for Timers On Dragons is just punitive. You can't just say "well, now you can buy them", if the price is so self-evidently ludicrous that it just puts a lot of people off even trying, as the costs so disproportionately outweigh the benefits.
It is not rocket surgery.
Considering that the books can be bought on the AH for 1kk AD I guess one can leave the grinders to do the stuff and the buyers to buy the stuff the grinders made. It may not be cheap, but at least with this expansion we have the chance to buy the items, as well as to grind them. AND we have the chance to get lucky and get it dropped on our feet. Which is what has been asked by many on the forums. I hate the wait for dragons, which is terribly designed, but I guess that PWE sold lots of T2 mounts due to the long rides to the dragon.
At first I wanted to do all dragons with all my 8 toons each day, but as I made my SW on the 2x XP weekend I decided to let my 8 mains do the praying (all have SoT and LoL available and each one has a pair of keys) and forget about the 2 books (or 16 books for all of them) and further my SW and do only dailies there - Sharandar, DR, IWD, dragons. That is enough time, but much more enjoyable than two hours of waiting with all toons for a dragon to appear.
And I actually can do a few DDs next to it!
In the end ToD might have cured me of my altitis!
Also sounds really great for those who just couldn't get the things to drop no matter how many times they did the heroics.
i would strongly suggets you not do this for your CW. Start solo'ing the epic enounter or everything but boss on Majors and advertise it. you'll get your gloves in due time.
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The event was advertised on the preview calendar so it might not even happen , which I imagine would be very disappointing for people who really need the stuff , Guess I should have made that clear in the OP.
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Just another move in a long string of ones divorcing me from the game. I will not pay anymore to this company. I am just awaiting another game to come along at this point.
Some of its still fun, but its become depressingly less and less of late.
Yeah I really hope it is a one off type of thing , giving things bad drop rates then selling them in the cash shop really isn't a good direction to take the game , they should have increased the drop chance or made the items BoE before doing something like this.
Phew , I am stuck at work so I haven't had a chance to see if it was added to the live calendar yet , kind of surprised they haven't advertised it anywhere else yet apart from the calendar .
then again I'm thinking knowing my luck you won't get to pick the specific piece of gear so I'm thinking I might wait to see someone else pay to test this lol
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Edit: So yes, this includes gloves, main hands, jewelry, etc.
Completely feel your pain, no gloves or mainhands on any of my characters after hundreds of attempts as well. I would imagine when they're added to the black ice merchant (please note: This is PURE SPECULATION on my part - albeit very hopeful speculation) in the hopefully very near future people are going to be even angrier. Then hopefully people will move past their anger.
Bless your heart!
Got my gloves now too!
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How much is it?
I never buy things like Professions packs, as if I want a Leadership Hero or a Weapon Smithing Grindstone, I want a Leadership Hero or a Weaponsmithing Grindstone. I do not want "a chance" of winning an Assistant Leatherworker, a Tailor's Steel Needle and a pile of Residium.
I might pay for the specific things I want, but a "chance" of getting mostly rubbish is just a stupid waste of real money.
So, it looks like they did actually nerf the RNG purposefully with this specific long-term plan in mind? Are they trying to market it as doing a favour to their loyal customers who have just been unlucky?
It's difficult to believe that a successful company familiar with the reasonable and acceptable practices of Capitalism could think that this is good business practice and would generate customer satisfaction and loyalty.
What next? Drown 15 villages to build a hydro-electric plant and get the army to forcibly relocate the people across the other side of the country with no compensation?
:mad: