Okay, I just used the "old" artifacts from the EE-campaign to upgrade the new set normally. I don't know if this was due to the double-upgrade event running at the time, but I lost almost no upgrade points in the process. Meaning that my new artifacts were ready to be upgraded to blue after using the two old ones which…
No way for me atm. I got like 10-20%. But I'm grinding whenever I find the time. Since the fights are kind of fun for me and help to hone my skills, it's fine. It's a nice possibility to test new loadouts and gear. And don't forget the XP. It's not a lot but sums up in the end. So, yes, long winded but worth it. The gear…
I think, this whole ilvl thing is bogus. At most, it can only be a hint. You can artificially increase your ilvl almost without you getting any better. And you can get considerably better without increasing your ilvl. What is much more important imho is to complete as many campaigns as possible to get all the boons. And to…
I have never accepted blind invites, nor will I ever. How can I know what you are wanting to do? Probably it's the total opposite of what I'm going to do now. You want to invite me? *Tell* me your objective first. That's also the only way I can explain why I can't participate atm. Blind invites dont have the possibility.
True. The lack of communication is astounding for an mmo. Probably because the chat client is so crappy. But I don't agree on the mechanics. For many of the dungeons and skirmishes it's not enough simply to survive. Take the Throne of the Gods as a simple example. You have to know how to properly handle the big guys when…
Well, I'm always told to actively look for strategies myself. There are *some* on the net. And I've been told, there are useful Yuotube videos to watch. And don't take it that seriously. Every ilvl 3000 char queuing up doesn't hava an issue with lower chars. They *prefer* better. But thy wouldn't pug if they were…
Yeah, we assumed you mean the last levelling campaingn with the mind flayer end boss. You asked for it ;). And since I went through this process merely a few weeks ago, here it comes. I assume this is your first character you got so far? It's much easier later, when you have a main who can support secondary toons with…
I have experiences both: I killed the mobs, no elves there. Later I was informed by the system that the HE was successful. I take it someone else rescued the elves as soon as they came along. Also, on another occasion I rescued the elves who were simply sitting there. Apparently someone else got rid of the critters first.…
We were off line for almost the entire xmas season last year. Or was it the year before last? How about that! Sony did compensate, though. We got a few days free of PSN+.
Cause the game is so much fun, obviously. If it's not off line. And tbh, it's generally not *that* often. Well, might have been in the last week or so, but was not bad before that. Some additional observations to the outage I did: 1. Before the disconnetion I tried to switch to another instance (of Dread Ring) and all…
Agreed. Elemental Evil then Sharandar then Dread Ring. And don't hesitate to call for help when doing the bosses. In all these zones everybody is very helpful. Even if you can solo the boss dungeons, it's much easier and faster in a two man (or even bigger) group.
There is one thing though, you can do. Just do all the available deamonic HE in Dread Ring, Well of Dragons and Icewind Dale. You have to be careful not to run into the normal critters there. But if you are, you can run along other strong people and patricipate. That should be pretty easy most of the time, though it needs…
One other solution might be the new alliance chat. But at least in our alliance all I've seen up to now is people asking for ilvl 2.5 upwards. So a no go for fresh lvl 70 toons.
Yesterday I tried to get some guild buddies to do Kessel with me, but nobody had the time. So I ended up in the queue again and, surprisingly, both runs were a no brainer. But of course Kessel is arguably the easiest one cause it doesn't need any real tactics. And we were a few people well over 2k. Doesn't change the fact…
Somehow, what I wanted to say came out wrong. You are right of course. There are a lot of issues with the players and their characters. And that's probably true to a certain degree for me, too. Partly, because this game is surprisingly very complex, which I really appreciate. What I meant is, in addition to these issues,…
Thank you for the hints on Demo and Tiamat. But while you are of course right, the fact remains that there is a queueing system and I wonder why it's here. In my opinion the devs should either remove it for epics completely or (better) finally listen to the users and do something about it. I wonder how many players are…
In my opinion the queueing system is totally broken for epics. You might be lucky and get into a group with decent players or you aren't and things happen. What makes things worse is the incredible step-up difficulty wise. Where you can easily do the last levelling dungeon with the suggested lvl range using the queueing,…
I don't know.. While I would like to have one dragonborn toon, I didn't even buy the pack when it was heavily discounted during the bimonthly celebration. In my opinion it was still much too expensive for a virtual good you can loose faster than you think. That's nothing I want. On the other hand, I think it's very cool to…
Not a quest per se, though somehow necessary for the daily quest of Arcane Brotherhood in Icewind Dale. Get 200 (or was it 300) unprocessed black ice. Black ice nodes are very limited and often you have to eliminate some mobs around them. There is no way to prevent that someone can farm the node at least to a certain level…
There is one problem. Some of these quests do have shareable ressources, some don't. So I often don't know - or don't remember - which one is which. Thus it *might* be, that I snached a ressource from one of you earlier, until I realized the problem, having been stripped of my "rightful" prize more than once. Now I have…
Are you serious? The new patch is another 12 GB? Are they out of their minds? There were some issues when I was logged in yesterday, like spontaneous disconnections (which I don't usually have), so I guess it's not only "Sony messed up" and they had to patch their server software as well. In hindsight this patch is…
Of course, if you have three consoles then 24h x 3 means three days. That sucks. Since you cannot play on any of them until all have finished the download. Otherwise you would decrease your download speed even further. And sorry for my ignorance regarding all those people who are in a situation of paid or slow service. I…
While I can feel your pain, since I was in the same boat until I re-installed, what are we talking about? If you re-download the game (apparently it's possible, otherwise you wouldn't be able to play it in the first place, since it's download-only), even with a really slow connection, this shouldn't take longer than 24…
Deleted and reinstalled. It's 14.123 GB btw. Be sure not to use the internet in other ways. Playing another mmo for instance severely degraded the download speed in my case. Like ten times. I can log in and play now again. So yes, in my case the delete+redownload procedure worked.
It's funny to see how Startrek by the same company/publisher is still working, while Neverwinter is dead. But wait! Startrek is scheduled for maintenance tomorrow :o