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asmose01
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I've recently unlocked the portal on my DC and I can't kill the mobs on my own this is a quest you can't get help with and its a real game killer when you guys buff the mobs for opening story line to Shar Dred IWD and the Portal for well of dragons so that unless your a tank with a ton of HP or sky high dps you can't pass them.
80k hp and the hunter kills me in two shots and the mob destroys me if she gets me locked down in a trap this is not fun nor is it funny!
My GWF just unlocked the quest to get his class artifact again all I do is die granted he has no weapon or gear enchants but something like that should not be needed!
Fix your content so that the solo content can be soloed or remove it from the game all together this is just stupid !!!!!:mad:
80k hp and the hunter kills me in two shots and the mob destroys me if she gets me locked down in a trap this is not fun nor is it funny!
My GWF just unlocked the quest to get his class artifact again all I do is die granted he has no weapon or gear enchants but something like that should not be needed!
Fix your content so that the solo content can be soloed or remove it from the game all together this is just stupid !!!!!:mad:
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You want everything on a silver platter?
****ing entitled scrubs.
Zero issue with my CW/TR/GF, they're backed by healers. Either cut down enemy health or the damage. The game shouldn't be both grindy and frustrating at the same time.
You do realize you need coal wards for weapon/armor enchants don't you? They don't grow on trees.
The content is tougher, but that is what most people wanted, as the prior content was a cake walk that took little skill.
Overall, please don't complain about content being too hard until you have worked your build and tactics through discussion with experts.
And have a great day!
myles08807 said, "Back in my day, we didn't have any of this fancy Mulhorand gear while we were leveling . . . we walked uphill both ways while dying once every five seconds while leveling, and we liked it fine!" . . . Now, get off my lawn, you kids!"
pointsman said, "I don't rue the game. In fact I don't feel any regret for the game at all."
looomis said, "I don't like people changing to alts and then bragging about their mains like schizophrenic role players."
That's exactly whats wrong with it, you shouldn't have to consult build experts just to enjoy the solo game content playing solo.
If you get caught by the archer's CC you shouldn't get a gimmie or a do over. This is end-ish game and you just kinda have to die if you mess up.
You don't need experts. Adjust your style and if that doesn't work help others and let them help you by teaming up.
Actually yes, you should. You shouldn't be able to just throw your character together with random mishmash of armor, and no thought to your powers or tactics and expect to faceroll the new content. You should be expected to need to strategize, optimize your stats, look for weaknesses in your character, or your own abilities. The game was ridiculously easy before, and while some of the group content and dungeons need to be tuned/balanced, the solo content is just fine.
Adapt and overcome.
No one said faceroll content
What gets me is that all these minmaxing ppl screaming for harder stuff, yet no body tells them to adapt their play styles, and run under geared and what not. But the minute casual non minmaxed ppl start asking or arguing its too hard for them to play as they played b4, they get told. Consult a build expert, adapt their play style. Well I will adjust my playstyle and that is to not have one.
I agree completely, and you will not find a one size fits all solution. There are as of now 4 end game campaign areas. Sharandar, Dread Ring, Well of Dragons, and Ice Wind Dale. There should be room to make them at varying levels of base difficulty so that everyone finds a couple of them fun.
Let me then clarify. Just as I agreed with your suggestion in another thread for an even harder end game campaign to challenge even the best players; I would also be in favor of the first campaign Sharandar per say to be a bit easier for the folks who just made 70 and have low gear and low enchants. Even they should be able to solo their dailys without as the lady above said "every fight being a challenge".
I think most players fall in the middle some where, but it's a game with thousands of players of all ages, experience and play styles. Thus I think each end of the spectrum should have an area they enjoy (make the top harder, make the bottom easier.)
IF you do them at lvl 70 as it should be
and WoD just gives few expensive boons that new players cant afford anyway and IWD includes HE's in progression that are too hard for new players(and HE's should be hard, its a 5+ content not solo like before)
and
the rewards do not reflect this
Urlord
With Mod6, I stopped that, and went and did all four new questing areas. Those were hard, even though I was constantly getting level-appropriate upgrades from the AH. Lots of deaths, lots of partying, lots of painful, not-fun grind against mobs that could one-shot me if I hit them from the wrong angle, or had a blip of lag. I finally got to level 70, had both artifact weapons, bought carefully chosen blue gear from the auction house to round out my gear, and then went back to Dread Ring. The first group of mobs that had a three-pip non-minion killed me in seconds. I kept trying for a bit for a while, but it was worse than the level-up areas. I logged out, and haven't logged back in since.
Will I play again? Maybe, but for now I'm just watching the forums to see how things shake out. Maybe I'll be gone for a few months or a year, and then check back in.
With no more in combat healing enchants the difficulty will be higher than it was before. The game is going to make us dodge and block effectively to survive now, and honestly I soloed the elemental quests in the new blue and green gear with lev 5 enchants, and it was challenging at points but not too bad (just redundant...192 vigilance quests is a bit mind numbing).
That should continue into Sharandar. The jump in difficulty between the air quests and Sharandar should be the same as it was going from one elemental area to the next.
While I'm happy enough with facing difficult challenges every now and then, I don't like to do this on a regular, daily, workday-after-job basis. I just don't want to have to get all hyped and adrenaline-high after a strenuous workday, when in principle I'm after some relaxation and "something completely different", especially not before going to sleep - with which all that adrenaline somewhat interferes...
And I think that I'm not the only one who feels tlike this.
I'm really OK with letting Dungeons and weeklies like e.g. Biggrins as they currently are (though, judging by the clamour regarding the DC AP effect, many people don't like and/or don't manage that, either...), that's stuff intended for people who are, and times when one is after a challenge, optional, at one's leisure. But dailies are meant to be playable as such, and as solo, and with a wlan and/or meh ISP ping, and within a reasonable time.
In the end I had a friend come and help me, but honestly how many people have the time to log on as a group or have a guild that is not small and fragmented by time zones in this game anymore? so that you can go as a group and smash your dailys, artifact quests and so forth!
they have removed all abbility to solo effectivly, I am agree that the game needed to be made more difficult but even mmo's through time were set so that you could have the option of doing dailys solo or as a group and this has become a game breaker for anyone who is not a P2P player or those of us that have played since beta or live! So when your flaming me for venting my frustration over solo content being none existent in a game based on being able to solo or group think what it would be like if you deleated all your toons epic craft tools ad gold and started from scratch and see if you still have the same opinion!
For those that did not flame and took the oportunity to say somthing inteligent I thank you!
I would prefer to be explicit in describing the precise degree to which I consider this issue critical, but alas gremlins keep causing causing that information to vanish into the ether. I guess forum bugs plague us all. Let's see if the bug misses this one: the ability to solo dailies is linked to the amount of enjoyment I derive from playing the game via a direct causal relationship. One way of categorizing it would be as a necessary but not sufficient condition.
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I agree that the difficulty can be challenging, but I changed my play style as well as replaced augment with battlefield healer. I have been farming the well and IWD. The only time i had trouble was with HE's and greater polar bears. Just completed Bigrin died 3 times before I figured out the rotation. There is no more tanking and a lot more dodging. Toon is a SS Thaum CW 2.6k GS. 62k HP. High gear score does help.
What I think most people wanted was a 3rd tier legendary level for skirmishes and dungeons. Instead the dev crew took a gamble and changed the whole game. And the gamble failed for them.
We now have a new lead developer though, who is going to start making changes in the game. So I would suggest giving him about 6 months to show that he has the game on the right path, the path that WE want. Otherwise jump ship.
Honestly I was going to be gone if I didnt see some changes for the SW in todays patch, but as with everything in this game lately, they manage to buy themselves just a little more time.
No more excuses. Make the game enjoyable for the playerbase, or we're gone. You cant make it any more plain the that. And I know you cannot please all the people all the time, but Neverwinter can do alot better then it is now. Nobody can deny that.
its easier for most of them to buy their way up than play the game
and for the 1 shot mobs,if I as a warrior cant 1 shot them they should not be able to 1 shot me
yep big mistake
they can change the name to titanic
Yeah, rewards are underwhelming and nothing useful drops, ever.
Again...I really want to see a feature when we can give + for the comment.
THIS !!!! mwhahahahah
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The mob got u locked down in a trap?
You think you are (or should be) able to play level 70 end-game areas without gear/enchantments?
Gear should not be needed to play end-game content? Whats about chars? Is a keyboard needed or a mouse? A brain?
You REALLY think just because YOU can not play solo ...OTHERS can´t do it too?
Maybe the cookie-times are over? Learn to play. Think first and DO NOT TROLL!
//Bellistor
I started on this game about 3 weeks before the patch.
I am a experienced MMO player, but having a family, I consider myself a casual player.
I reached lvl60, about 1 week before the patch, bought T2 set for too cheap from the HV, and had a strong feeling that this game was **** too easy, with 12k equipment lvl, no enchant above lvl 5, playing mostly solo, excepted some WD content, nothing was really opposing any challenge.
Note I didn't try any T1/T2 dungeon since Mod6.
Since mod6...
I would say first impression was that difficulty was unbalanced, some mobs could one shot kill you, like the sorceress in the 1st levelling zone.
Then in the 2nd zone, the caster mobs, one shot kill.
Zapped the 3rd zone completely, the 16 vigilance quests per area are IMHO too many, and boring, should be adujsted to 12, as you can easily level to 70 avoiding completely one of the levelling zones...
In the 4th one, everything was starting to be easier, excepted the Giants, most mobs and quests are affordable solo, the 3 people mini-dungeons are doable with 2-3 people, nothing in this area seems to have a ugly one shot power trigerring from time to time like in the 2 previous one.
Actually in Shar and Dred I am even able to solo the mini dungeons with 1600 i LVL.
Didn't go back into WD zone yet, anyway don't need it to progress on boons as of yet just need the menestrel quests.
So, my point, from a new player perspective, the game is now working as expected, it was too easy before, my opinion is that it is better balanced now than before mod 6.
But as I said, I didn't try the dungeons yet, from what I read they suffer, like the first 61-70 levelling area, of some mobs damage that need tuning, especially those with one shot powers that tend to make you throw the keyboard by the window when they are able to hit because of lag, the payoff is too big, or for the half second of lack of attention, game should keep being fun, too much challenge may ruin that for alot of people.
Have fun.
The main difference between the two camps is that one is calling for a more inclusive/viable game, while the other wants a more exclusive game (more likely to fail through lack of funding). If you want Neverwinter to continue it seems sensible to opt for a more inclusive game IMHO.
Also, some players like to play with multiple characters with differing builds, this means that they will probably never get any character maxed out on gear (which wasn't previously a problem). Why have differing builds in the game if there ends up being only one viable build, for those who want to play a variety of styles going the way of exclusivity is likely to see them go the way of a different MMO.
Players who max out their gear should remember that ultimately they are reliant on 'lesser' players continuing to play in order for Neverwinter to exist.