Neverwinter Nights Online. (Cryptic Studios)

[Goumindong]

Prices on the AH are way too high. Hold on a bit and they'll come down. Shouldn't be too hard to get a bag then

[koro]

Zen prices are already falling pretty steadily. In less than a week, they've fallen from nearly 500 diamonds per Zen down to the 380s, and will probably drop further.

I imagine either the Founder diamonds are starting to dry up - thanks to money sinks like crafting, auction house fees, and "bugs" like being outbid on an item causing your diamonds to disappear - or people are hoarding them until the Founder program ends.

[Merusk]

Yeah, there's a reason I converted all my remaining zen to ADs early-on. I figured everyone would burn through them PDQ and then find prices would drop.   It should stabilize around 200-250 same as STO market.

Which means I'd double my cash. Whoopee.

[Goumindong]

I am not sure on this. But if you're meticulous about NOT deleting your mail you can probably just mail things to yourself in order to get some extra long term storage.

[Stormwaltz]

I am not sure on this. But if you're meticulous about NOT deleting your mail you can probably just mail things to yourself in order to get some extra long term storage.

I think I can confirm that. I still have stuff in my STO email that I sent to myself in fall of 2011.

[Sjofn]

Yeah, that's what I've mostly been using the mail for, although it seems buggy sometimes.

[koro]

I don't know why I keep doing professions on my Cleric and Rogue, but I am, and it keeps pissing me off. My Cleric's level 28, but her Mailsmithing is only level 7, despite managing it remotely via the Gateway for probably the better part of 12 hours a day. I have to get to Mailsmithing 12 (out of 20) before I can even start making gear that's my level. Not stuff that's actually worth using, mind you, since it's all pretty much junk; just stuff that's my level.

But first, I have to start converting my tier 1 Prospectors into Miners, which takes 4 Prospectors and turns them into a single Miner (oh, and 18 hours), which provides no actual benefit over the Prospector except they're suddenly required to make anything between level 7 and level 14, at which point I have to upgrade those Miners into a new dude to keep crafting shit I can't use.

It's a fucking stupid system and I don't even want to think about the gruesome arcane logistics involved in turning four guys into one other guy.

[Threash]

Leadership = free astral diamonds.  Why would anyone ever do anything else?

[Sjofn]

Yeah I'd stick to leadership if you hate the crafting (and it's fairly hateable). I'm mostly fucking around with mailcrafting for the pants and shirts but I am not far from going "eh, fuck it" and doing all leadership, all the time and just buying the damn pants and shirts.

[Phred]

Yeah I'd stick to leadership if you hate the crafting (and it's fairly hateable). I'm mostly fucking around with mailcrafting for the pants and shirts but I am not far from going "eh, fuck it" and doing all leadership, all the time and just buying the damn pants and shirts.

You can bet the shirts and pants will be available for less than they cost to make pretty soon anyway.
I'll take the free AD to buy them with.

[Malakili]

Yeah, I'm getting 600 AD every two hours right now just from leadership, seems to be the best value atm.

[Merusk]

I'm raising Mailsmithing and leatherworking exclusively for the "raise 3 professions to 20" unlock.

[Goumindong]

Hopefully green text not necessary

The top end stuff will be pretty valuable for a while i think. Making the really high end crafting gear (rank 3 result) is not particularly easy.

If you're having trouble raising the small things (I am at 7 for tailoring, 6 for leadership on 2 characters (pumping out astral diamonds on one as i raise tailoring on the other) you should mass produce the basic scrap collection and then make sure you have as many scraps as necessary to run the mass collection when you're not at the computer. Turn all of those into whatever and then make as much up the tree as possible. Higher level crafts actually give a lot of experience relative to the leadership rate(which is 40xp/hour/slot max iirc) even considering the low XP rate from the required initial processes.

[Ginaz]

Double astral diamond event this weekend.

"And to celebrate the passion and support you've shown us, we're going to celebrate this weekend with you by rewarding you with something extra – okay, a lot of extra. Starting this Friday, May 10, at 12 P.M. PDT (Pacific) (When is that in your time zone?), we're giving you DOUBLE the Astral Diamonds earned in game with every quest and activity that awards Astral Diamonds."

http://nw.perfectworld.com/news/?p=883571

[Fabricated]

This game is kinda weird. So I hit 19 before I finished the tower district (level 17ish tops) because I ran a bunch of skirmishes/foundry/cloak tower. I go into the next area (dagger whatever with the bandits) and get a popup warning me that I'll likely die more since the mobs outlevel me. The mobs are 22-ish on average.

...I cut through them like butter. The orcs in the tower district that are level 17 all take longer to kill than these bandits. Huh?

[Ironwood]

You're surprised ?  It's not really....polished. 

 

[Merusk]

Yeah, the Melee-Demons that are 3 levels below me can kick my ass at 35, but the Melee humans explode to my cleric might.   Wizard-demons are fucking rough, too.

There's definitely going to be some tweaks going 'round, but hey "it's beta!"   

[Draegan]

I just finished that demon area. I hated it.

[Lantyssa]

I tried to do Leatherworking.  It's Leadership now, all the time, and just the level 3 AD quest.  Nothing gives as good a return for the time spent if I am able to update it every couple of hours.  I'll worry about the other crafts once Leadership is maxed out and I have enough slots to make them go less painfully slow.

[Merusk]

If i didn't have a wealth of ADs and nothing worth spending them on as I leveled, I might be there with you.

As it is I've stopped socketing my gear with anything other than drops and sell the ranks below, because that's what level-cap farming is for.

[Lantyssa]

I figure why not?

That one job actually makes more gold, xp, ad, and skill than almost anything else in the low ranks over time.  Gold is meaningless but this makes it moreso, and it's easy enough to level as is.  Short of micro-managing gathering, the xp rate is the best, and it requires no resources.  All that's left are the astral diamonds, which are required to buy anything from the auction house, and can be converted to Zen.  Until I get high enough ranked jobs and the resources to run them, it's by far the best.

[Nija]

The level scaling in PVP is broken.

I say this because as soon as I hit level 10, I went to PVP for the next 3 or 4 levels. I was always the top of the charts, no matter how bad our team was. As a rogue you have a ton of survivability. Towards the end of the tier I got worse and worse. I'd finish the middle of the bottom in points . Like 6-8th place. Figured people were getting better and catching on to my health-potion-robbing ways. (It's like Q1, you want to time the item respawns and collect them all.) Wednesday night was especially bad - at level 19 out of 19 I wasn't even hitting people for over 1k again.

I rolled over to 20 last night and entered PVP again and I'm DEMOLISHING people. Crit stealth backstab things hit for like 3900 when everyone has like 7500 health. I went 21-1 the first game with 2.5x the points of the next highest guy. The next game I was 2.5x the points of the next guy despite our team losing and being having a mere 14/2/29 k/d/assist rating.

Nothing in my style has changed, my items are pretty normal, and I don't even have a mount for this next tier. Scaling is just out of whack.

I encourage everyone to stay in PVP at the very bottom of teach tier for at least 3 or 4 levels. That is, of course, if you like PVP. Plus you get blue socketed rewards for first place.

[koro]

So there's a double astral diamond weekend going on!

But what they don't tell you is that to get those double astral diamonds, you have to do double the work! Yay!

 

[Sjofn]

Could you ... elaborate?

[Lakov_Sanite]

I'm thinking he means they are just letting you do the daily quests...twice.

[Draegan]

Has anyone messed around with stacking lifesteal?

[Threash]

I've been in so little danger of dying so far that it hadn't occurred to me.  It might be fun in pvp.

[Draegan]

Yeah I never die as a GWF except when my group sucks in dungeons, but I was curious to know how OP (if at all) it may be.

[Stormwaltz]

I'm thinking he means they are just letting you do the daily quests...twice.

Not just. I got 1500 AD instead of 750 for daily invocation, and the "Protect A Caravan" mission reward is 400 instead of 200.

[Sjofn]

I did the PvP daily and got 2k diamonds (my other dailies are on cooldown), so uh. Yeah. Still need an elaboration!

[Merusk]

Has anyone messed around with stacking lifesteal?

Not as a cleric... it's all recovery all the time for me.   I'm still wearing pieces from my 20s because they have more recovery than drops I'd gotten more recently.  Spamming abilities w/ heal > lifestal.

[koro]

I did the PvP daily and got 2k diamonds (my other dailies are on cooldown), so uh. Yeah. Still need an elaboration!

I opened the daily list. On there was the daily dungeon (Mad Dragon) for 3000 diamonds, but also a daily foundry and a daily skirmish (Straight to Helm). The Foundry and Skirmish ones were to do two Foundry missions and two of that Skirmish, for 2000 diamonds.

But apparently if you had dailies saved up from yesterday, like the daily skirmish, that too would give double diamonds if you completed it today.

Also, regarding Lifesteal, you don't want it as a Cleric anyway, since it's subject to the "40% less self-healing" penalty.

[Merusk]

Well isn't that just stupid.

[Ard]

No, you just hit a level tier where the dailies switch to requiring two per day of all the non-dungeon ones.  I can't remember which point that happened to me though.

[koro]

Oh really. That must be level 30 then.

On that note, Straight to Helm is not only a shitty skirmish by default, but Cryptic's matchmaking is the absolute worst. I just got out of one with no less than 5 Clerics.

Five. Clerics. That is every single person  in the group as a Cleric.

How in the fuck  does this happen?