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Patch Notes: NW.35.20141125a.4
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Sandesyl has acquired more goblin snot to properly style her hair again.
Content and Environment
Tiamat's Hoard more accurately adjusts to recent server population for contribution percentages required.
Items and Economy
Level 59 Rare neck items from dropping in Dragon Heroic encounters in Well of Dragons.
The Dragon Hoard Coin Pouch is now Uncommon quality to better reflect its contents.
Performance and Stability
Resolved a slow memory leak in the game client.
Sandesyl has acquired more goblin snot to properly style her hair again.
Content and Environment
Tiamat's Hoard more accurately adjusts to recent server population for contribution percentages required.
Items and Economy
Level 59 Rare neck items from dropping in Dragon Heroic encounters in Well of Dragons.
The Dragon Hoard Coin Pouch is now Uncommon quality to better reflect its contents.
Performance and Stability
Resolved a slow memory leak in the game client.
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being forced to enter with 24 random strangers, many of whom don't speak the same language and/or have different ideas how to go about the fight (I.E. zerging the heads one at a time vs. 5 per head) made it frustrating and near impossible to win without a staggering amount of luck. I'm at about 0-10 on Tiamat, myself.
This new queue setup I'm seeing talked about in the dev forum might fix it. My guild (and our sister guild) can put together 5 groups, queue in, all move to the same instance, and go in prepared with a strategy and coordination.
With this setup, if you can squash the bugs with the clerics and not getting rewarded - and the other ones, like a head not popping up and being untargetable or enemies being knocked off and not dying but still being able to target players - Tiamat will be enjoyable and fun. Which is great because I really need more Linu's Favor...
I think they left out a word, "prevented" or something, but the patch note does seem over-specific considering level 59 blue loot can drop anywhere else you can get level 60 loot, not just neck items but boots and weapons too.
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You just named the top 2 reasons for failed parties.
Go Cryptic!
PS - I quit.
To tell the truth I'm a bit concerned myself, from what I understood, the number of points needed to unlock the different ranks(%) will scale according to the number of players recently on the map... that being the case, considering that Heralds are right before tiamat and still fills up the instances, makes me wonder if the number of points required wont be even higher than it already is... Since, again, it'll consider the number of players in the filled to the brink instances during Herald hunt.
Does this mean that FPS lag in Tiamat's fight should be resolved?
I have no idea if this is why there are so few updates, but I did end up on the Windows blue screen of death this past week, as well as being kicked from Neverwinter a couple other times (and I played the hours of a "casual" player this past week), so if those crashes stop, I'll be much happier than if something annoying gets corrected a week sooner.
1. When you make changes to the game ,dragon's hoard enchantment icd change inside foundries, please post this on the patch notes.
2. Also players would like more reason to play challenging content. Right now botting is out of control. Make RP items, marks and other items of value only obtainable through content that are not botted (dungeons, higher tier skimishes). The addition to the rp items at the end of Tiamat was a move in the right direction.
3. Take in players feedback and see how it is played in game. Once a week have someone with the power to actually make changes and influence the game design play for 1-2 hours with the players. Make the additon of players random much you the random giveaways on the livestreams to allow this to be fair. PvP with them to allow them to show you the imbalance there, do dungeons for them to show the bugs or things that can be changed. Seeing results on the test sever with only perfect setups does not properly represent how things function in game.
And to all the players complaining about a short patch, the programming of they are doing may be taking longer than expected. People are complaining they are not rushing things out. Rushing is what causes bugs. These guys probably know more about what they are doing than you do. And if not, maybe you should apply for a job and show them how its done.
Well said, I really agree on everything, the last part made me laugh. Point #2 is extremely important.
Update 6: 10:16 AM PST - There are still issues with the network and server, and it is looking likely that we will be down for another hour or more. Still not ETA on fix unfortunately but we will keep everyone posted.
Here's a question that's actually related to the update: what exactly are the effects of this slow memory leak that will be fixed up with the patch? It's been a while since I heard or read the term, so I'm fuzzy on the details of how exactly it impacts the client-side...
people with decent computers who are playing for extended periods of time are have extremely bad FPS lag and or latency not directly related on their side. I.E. Blue screens of death, freezing and or disconnections from server with no apparent reason.
It means that over time the game client will use up more and more memory (depending on the type of leak it could be RAM oder video memory). As they specifically say that it was a slow one you would likely only see any big effects after hours as either the event which caused the leak was rare or the amount of memory leaked was only a few bytes.
The effects of a memory leak is usually a gradual increase of loading times as the PC has the shuffle around a ever declining pool of memory to make room for new things and an eventual crash when memory runs out completely.
Just wanted to get this off my chest.
As far as the patch goes, and again, refering to my friends, they said something that almost made me laugh, weren't it so serious... One of them said "the devs care more about Repainting the bosses, than about fixing things that don't give them money (Zen related stuff)."
Well, since you're caring about the snot of the "vampire" in the well of dragons, I'd say he's quite right...
Seriously, stuff like that doesn't really matter much...
In what PvP is concerned, I have a PvP TR, PvP HR, PvP GWF and I occasionally PvP with my PvE specced CW and SW, the only oneshot I ever got, was with my TR, and I am not that buffed (15k GS, roughly), so, that means a lot... I don't know what is it, that combined makes it possible, but oneshots shouldn't be possible. EVER. That's too much, I mean, I have around 3K Defense and 2500Deflect on my HR and still got oneshotted, while having 5 stacks of Boar Skin active, so... LOL to you all...
Memory leaks are always a problem. I, myself got disconnected a couple times this week, with one of those times not being able to log back in for a while, so, if it's gonna solve it, I'm really glad you did it.
As for the Hoard thingy, I knew it had to be a bug or a miscalculation of your part, since It would be needed SO MANY donations to even reach the 2 tier, let alone the last one, so... I really saw that one coming.
Now, one other thing I haven't seen being adressed here is: why the hell are DC's undestructible, now? and where the hell are their heals? lol DCs don't heal anymore, at least people don't spec them to heal, because it's not worth it, so they just put up those "invincibility shields" that makes you take 0 damage, and then put up that thingy that Refills your health bar once you reach half of it. Let me tell you now: That is LAZY! The laziest thing I've ever seen done to a class... So, would you pretty please with sugar on top rework that thing? I'm tired of doing 0 damage to a DC in PvP while I have 5K power and around 3K arpen, so... At least change it so it works differently on PvP, cuz they don't even dodge attacks anymore, they just stand there laughing at you. Thats no PvP. that's BS.
Guild mail has been asked to be fixed for so long, I don't think that would be such a difficult thing to do, or am I wrong? I mean, it was there before, so, how hard could it be...?
Also, I really liked what "ucanthandle" said on his 3rd point. If you really took the time to PLAY with the players, real PvP matches, real dungeons, skirmishes, etc, you'd see where the REAL problems are, and what should be addressed first. Instead of taking precious time redoing a character's hair.
I think this should be enough for my rants.
sorry about anything that could offend you.
Sincerely, a player that still believes this game can come back from the ashes.
But I guess this means it will be fully up soon.
at the very moment the login server gives timeout although the servers are on
I can get to character select, but none of my characters show - telling me to create a new one... Hopefully that will be resolved or I will be more than a little bit upset.
Same here. I guess I will just have to wait til Monday. Only have another hour of playtime before I have to be gone for the weekend. Bleh.
Yeah i am home sick today and now this.
My last post was not derogatory and yet it got deleted, if you guys are getting upset from the feedback people are giving you maybe you should look at what they are saying because those issues are what is making people leave the game. I had a guild with 80 people in it, i am surprised lately to see 5 on at any one time.
dude thats an everyone problem... it means they're not done...
I got that the first time I tried after patch. Now I don't get that far as it times out while trying to connect to the login server.