Neverwinter Nights Online. (Cryptic Studios)

[Ironwood]

Way too much elitist bullshit in this thread.

Also, cheap rationalisations for bad fucking development.

But it's free, so I don't care.

[Ingmar]

It borrows the setting (probably the least popular incarnation of the Forgotten Realms, all told) and the names of the powers and some other labeling. Mechanically there is no D&D there, the end. This isn't a good/bad thing, it's just true.

At least with the other stuff the labels are *similar* in function. Feats are things you spend, powers are things you slot and they sort of do similar things sometimes.

[Threash]

Ok so astral diamonds earned from the gateway are NOT ending up on my characters at all.

[Draegan]

Anyone play a cleric? I'm curious if they level quickly compared to a GWF. I'm beginning to think that getting into end game dungeon runs might be more difficult as some of my dungeon queues were like 1 hour this weekend.

So how fast to clerics level and what is a good leveling "guide" so-to-speak?

I have no idea how fast they level compared to a GWF, but I have basically no downtime and have been progressing at what feels like a fairly brisk clip. I'm only 38 (I think) though, so maybe I slam into a brick wall later, but I've had zero trouble with the outside mobs (hell, if they're the crappy filler mobs, I can one-shot them with one of my encounters). You have to be ready to be a kiting machine in dungeons and skirmishes, though.

In other news, I have given up on dungeons, because they are now terrible instead of fun, and skirmishes during SKIRMISH HOUR are a) more fun and b) give me ~diamonds~. So skirmishes and quests for me, I suppose. Once skirmishes cease to also be fun, I think that will be it for this game for me until they fix 'em.  

As for slotting passives, Christ. I am not a stupid woman, I swear, but I had no idea I had to slot those fucking things until reading it here. Silly me! Thinking passives were, like. Passives!

fake edit: and yeah, Ingmar, how dare you think an MMO that alleges it is based on D&D be based on D&D

Cool. My GWF is just fine (level 40) but I was wondering if it was faster/slower in turns of kill speed. Sometimes shit takes forever to die. HOWEVER now that I know I have to slot fucking passives, It might be better.

[Cheddar]

How do I wrangle an invite to the guild?

I made a trickster rogue on Mindflayer and got her to 20 yesterday. Her name is Merrilea. Do I have to be in-game?

Not sure. Look me up in game tonight ot ask in bat country chat.

[Hoax]

Way too much elitist bullshit in this thread.

Also, cheap rationalisations for bad fucking development.

But it's free, so I don't care.

Since SWTOR every single western title that comes out has a few people acting like Chedder/Bloodworth are in this thread shitting it up with their rampant fanboism "you can only fellate the game in the thread" mentality. I mean I can't even imagine how bad its going to be when Wildstar is playable and some people feel its a pretty boring WoW clone and try to voice that in a thread.

[Cheddar]

Way too much elitist bullshit in this thread.

Also, cheap rationalisations for bad fucking development.

But it's free, so I don't care.

Since SWTOR every single western title that comes out has a few people acting like Chedder/Bloodworth are in this thread shitting it up with their rampant fanboism "you can only fellate the game in the thread" mentality. I mean I can't even imagine how bad its going to be when Wildstar is playable and some people feel its a pretty boring WoW clone and try to voice that in a thread.

 

[Merusk]

Ok so astral diamonds earned from the gateway are NOT ending up on my characters at all.

Forums say they may be getting auto-refined.  Have you checked your totals?

http://techsupport.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=17631

[Signe]

Ah, fellate the game.  You are a cunning linguist. 

I'm sorry.  I had to.  I have impulse control issues.  :(

[Mrbloodworth]

Way too much elitist bullshit in this thread.

Also, cheap rationalisations for bad fucking development.

But it's free, so I don't care.

Since SWTOR every single western title that comes out has a few people acting like Chedder/Bloodworth are in this thread shitting it up with their rampant fanboism "you can only fellate the game in the thread" mentality. I mean I can't even imagine how bad its going to be when Wildstar is playable and some people feel its a pretty boring WoW clone and try to voice that in a thread.

I'm not even really playing this game but a few dungeon runs now and then with friends. The combat, world and all are great. The MMO underpinnings and bugs are turning me off. I have been commenting, because some of you are saying some stupid shit in here.

[Phred]

I put points into that one, but it's utterly, utterly shit.  Not only do you have to do two slow windups, you can't get out once you start.  In a game where RED CIRCLE ON THE FLOOR MOVE OR DIE, this is NOT a good thing.

Ya it's a shame as that move is definately more dps than the standard. Another annoying thing about it is it just stops autorepeating for me occasionally. The button is down but my guy just stands there idling. Actually that animation lock crap is starting to kill my enjoyment of the game. :(

[Sjofn]

Yeah the animation lock is probably the most annoying thing for me. If you're going to go with actiony don't-stand-in-fire versus EVERYTHING YOU FIGHT, that's fine with me, but showing me where to not stand doesn't help very much if I get locked in place for longer than I have time to get the fuck out of your death zones. Like it would be one thing if I stopped and started casting in a death zone because I am a derp, but quite another when I've started an animation, the death circle appears and then goes off before my animation (and most of the cleric ones aren't that long, really) finishes.

[Soln]

someone kind soul send me out a BC invite?   Character's name is "Pavo" (mindflayer).  Cheers.

[Xanthippe]

How do I wrangle an invite to the guild?

I made a trickster rogue on Mindflayer and got her to 20 yesterday. Her name is Merrilea. Do I have to be in-game?

Not sure. Look me up in game tonight ot ask in bat country chat.

I would love to do that. How do I join bat country chat? I made a channel earlier called /batcountry thinking I could join an existing one, but I was the only person in it.

[Stormwaltz]

Welp, I'm stuck.

I'm level 46, and I can't beat the final boss of the level 45 quest "Scoundrel's Retreat." She's a stun-resistant undead self-healer who spawns up to eight allies at a time - two minibosses, plus archers and melee who run as fast as I dodge. I was utterly beaten down three times - couldn't get her below 75% health despite burning a dozen potions - before giving up.

I guess I have to go rack for a couple of levels. The only saving grace here is the Foundry, otherwise this would be Defiance Part II ("Oh, you can't beat this crit path boss? Too bad, loser. No more content for you.")

Depressing.

[PalmTrees]

Npcs need to stfu. Same damn one or two phrases over and over. If I want to look over my powers, inventory, whatever I have to make sure I'm not standing near one or the repetition drives me nuts. Customization is pretty crappy. At level 23 so far every robe has had the same purple shirt with cutout graphic. Other than that it's been ok.

[koro]

Welp.

[Draegan]

So what companion did you guys use with your cleric?

[Phred]

Welp, I'm stuck.

I'm level 46, and I can't beat the final boss of the level 45 quest "Scoundrel's Retreat." She's a stun-resistant undead self-healer who spawns up to eight allies at a time - two minibosses, plus archers and melee who run as fast as I dodge. I was utterly beaten down three times - couldn't get her below 75% health despite burning a dozen potions - before giving up.

I guess I have to go rack for a couple of levels. The only saving grace here is the Foundry, otherwise this would be Defiance Part II ("Oh, you can't beat this crit path boss? Too bad, loser. No more content for you.")

Depressing.

I got stuck on that one too. You want to team up? Mindflayer? I'm PST btw.

[waffel]

Welp, I'm stuck.

I'm level 46, and I can't beat the final boss of the level 45 quest "Scoundrel's Retreat." She's a stun-resistant undead self-healer who spawns up to eight allies at a time - two minibosses, plus archers and melee who run as fast as I dodge. I was utterly beaten down three times - couldn't get her below 75% health despite burning a dozen potions - before giving up.

I guess I have to go rack for a couple of levels. The only saving grace here is the Foundry, otherwise this would be Defiance Part II ("Oh, you can't beat this crit path boss? Too bad, loser. No more content for you.")

Depressing.

It's depressing because there is one quest so far that you may need to find another person to group up for? Is this really what MMOs have come to? Where the prospect of needing to group up with at minimum one other person is depressing?

[Numtini]

So what companion did you guys use with your cleric?

I ended up going with the cleric and it makes a big difference when I'm soloing.

Now I just need to escort caravans 4500 more times and I can buy the cat!

[Signe]

There is a Bat Country channel.  You use the little gear thingy to bring up the configuration box, go to custom channels and type in Bat Country.  The bit that says "create" will change to "join".  There wasn't a Bat Country guild so we joined Lantyssa and her friends guild.  I think it's named "Celestial Legion".  It seems to be filled with F13 people.  To invite someone you need to know their char name and handle.  Stabbitha@noogsrm is me.  At some point I'll beg them to change my handle because it's annoying. 

Am I being redundant?  Because I have a monster headache and probably didn't read everything.

[Sjofn]

So what companion did you guys use with your cleric?

I mostly use the man-at-arms, but I also like the dog for skirmishes and dungeons. I'm also playing around with the sellsword, because I felt like it, and she's fine too. I haven't tried the cleric companion, though. I haven't gotten around to getting into the 40's yet though.

[Xanthippe]

There is a Bat Country channel.  You use the little gear thingy to bring up the configuration box, go to custom channels and type in Bat Country.  The bit that says "create" will change to "join".  There wasn't a Bat Country guild so we joined Lantyssa and her friends guild.  I think it's named "Celestial Legion".  It seems to be filled with F13 people.  To invite someone you need to know their char name and handle.  Stabbitha@noogsrm is me.  At some point I'll beg them to change my handle because it's annoying. 

Am I being redundant?  Because I have a monster headache and probably didn't read everything.

Thank you. No, you're not being redundant. Yay. I am on the channel as Merrilea.

[Stormwaltz]

It's depressing because there is one quest so far that you may need to find another person to group up for?

It's depressing when, if you don't or can't complete a crit path quest, there's no more content until level up to unlock a new zone. If I can't complete a quest in, say, LotRO, I can usually do a different quest in the same zone, or go to a different zone (they usually have 2-3 in the same level band), or do skirmishes, or do repeatable faction quests, or do seasonal festival stuff, or gather materials and craft (where the craft system isn't "push a button and wait a few hours").

If you look at my posts over the last ten years, you'll see a clear trend of disliking forced grouping with random strangers. With friends? Awesome. With random internet people who get abusive when you don't play the way they think you should? No thanks.

Phred: sadly, I started on Dragon before everyone went to Mindflayer. Thanks, though. :/

[Numtini]

It's depressing when, if you don't or can't complete a crit path quest, there's no more content until level up to unlock a new zone. If I can't complete a quest in, say, LotRO, I can usually do a different quest in the same zone, or go to a different zone (they usually have 2-3 in the same level band), or do skirmishes, or do repeatable faction quests, or do seasonal festival stuff, or gather materials and craft (where the craft system isn't "push a button and wait a few hours").

Try the Foundry quests.

[Ingmar]

Welp, I'm stuck.

I'm level 46, and I can't beat the final boss of the level 45 quest "Scoundrel's Retreat." She's a stun-resistant undead self-healer who spawns up to eight allies at a time - two minibosses, plus archers and melee who run as fast as I dodge. I was utterly beaten down three times - couldn't get her below 75% health despite burning a dozen potions - before giving up.

I guess I have to go rack for a couple of levels. The only saving grace here is the Foundry, otherwise this would be Defiance Part II ("Oh, you can't beat this crit path boss? Too bad, loser. No more content for you.")

Depressing.

It's depressing because there is one quest so far that you may need to find another person to group up for? Is this really what MMOs have come to? Where the prospect of needing to group up with at minimum one other person is depressing?

The game offers plenty of group content via skirmishes and dungeons. Blocking up critical path main storyline zone-to-zone stuff with a group quest is needless.

[Stormwaltz]

Try the Foundry quests.

Yeah, that's my plan tonight.

[Xanthippe]

My ID scrolls ran out at level 26. I was id'ing everything, and suddenly they all dried up. I see them on the auction house, but I cannot buy them.

[Rokal]

You can buy them with astral diamonds pretty cheap, there is a link for the AD store on the menu bar at the top of the screen. Best source of AD is the Leadership profession or daily quests for skirmishes/dungeons/etc.

You'll keep getting ID scrolls whenever you've leveled enough to open your leveling bonus chest again too.

[Stormwaltz]

Unless you're *really* pressed for cash - and you're probably not - there's no compelling reason to expend ID scrolls on items not of your class.

[Xanthippe]

Thanks.

I don't really know what any currency is good for. I already bought a mount for 5g, and don't know what else there is to spend money on. I don't really know what AD is for either. I seem to get decent drops and plenty of them to breeze through (just hit 28, I think).

[Ginaz]

Unless you're *really* pressed for cash - and you're probably not - there's no compelling reason to expend ID scrolls on items not of your class.

Unless you want to save the items for an alt, it's best to just sell it for gold unidentified.  The AH is flooded right now, esp. with low end gear.  Maybe sell blues, but that's it IMO.  The extra gold you get from identifying it is pointless since gold is an almost worthless currency.

[Ginaz]

Thanks.

I don't really know what any currency is good for. I already bought a mount for 5g, and don't know what else there is to spend money on. I don't really know what AD is for either. I seem to get decent drops and plenty of them to breeze through (just hit 28, I think).

IMO don't buy anything with AD until you hit 60.  You don't really need to since a shit load of gear will drop for you just from playing normally.

[Cheddar]

This patch is taking forever.  Notes said just fixed an exploit?