Neverwinter Nights Online. (Cryptic Studios)

[Reg]

Hah! I knew that if I stuck to my guns my lack of an avatar would become fashionable.

[Tannhauser]

Quite my dear chap, quite.

[Paelos]

Having no avatar may be fashionable, but it's certainly not as fancy.

[Xanthippe]

So now we're being separated into the fancy and the not?

[Cheddar]

So now we're being separated into the fancy and the not?

A remember another group doing this.  And they were called NAZI'S.

[apocrypha]

My avatar is slapping the NAZIS in teh face.

[Cheddar]

Good news - prices seem to be dropping in AH.  Bad news - I cant seem to sell shit.

Dupers; damned if you do, damned if you dont.

[Lantyssa]

I got two Jagged Dancing Blades for 40k.  Vu said that was probably because of the money duping making them cheap as hell.

I'd care, but 900k AD was a ridiculous price to buy them from the merchant, so I'm going to shrug and be happy with it.

[Threash]

Money duping makes things more expensive, not cheaper.

[palmer_eldritch]

Money duping makes things more expensive, not cheaper.

How come you and Cheddar have the same guy in your avatar and who is he?

There should be a rule that only one of you can have that guy (this isn't a democracy so I reckon Schild should decide who gets to use him).

[Threash]

Littlefinger from game of thrones, and i will gladly fight cheddar to the death for schilds amusement over it.

[Lantyssa]

Money duping makes things more expensive, not cheaper.

They may be trying to cover their tracks by buying expensive items shipping those around a few times, then selling them at a "loss".

Maybe the blades also drop from chests or something, but 40k for a blue companion is a frigging steal.  And I got two of them.

[shiznitz]

Littlefinger from game of thrones, and i will gladly fight cheddar to the death for schilds amusement over it.

Well, if it matters, yours wins.

[Cheddar]

Mine was first and I refuse to bend.

Plus it amuses me.

[UnSub]

Littlefinger from game of thrones, and i will gladly fight cheddar to the death for schilds amusement over it.

"To the death" doesn't mean what it used to mean, apparently.

[Falconeer]

Looks like Cheddar won after all.

[palmer_eldritch]

Now I feel kind of bad

[Threash]

It's ok, i was confusing myself.

[Soln]

They gotta find a way to page in people in the queue for drop outs.  Having people drop at end boss or near is painful.  You can't recover.  So everyone has to drop.  Happens in PUGs to me too often.

[Stormwaltz]

One hundred billion patch notes.

http://nw.perfectworld.com/news/?p=907501

I have not yet found anything addressing my pet peeve, smoothing the jaggedy mob difficulty post-30.

[Sophismata]

Rewards

    Fashion items now display properly in end-of-quest chests.
    The "Need" button is now disabled for items your class cannot use.
    The rewards from end-of-dungeon chests now properly display in the chest UI.

 

[Stormwaltz]

There are "fashion items" in quest chests?

I'm level 58 and I've never seen a cosmetic other than the ones in the ZEN store. Do they only appear in group dungeons or something?

[koro]

There are "fashion items" in quest chests?

I'm level 58 and I've never seen a cosmetic other than the ones in the ZEN store. Do they only appear in group dungeons or something?

The only fashion item that I'm aware of that comes from a quest chest is the very first one: the rags everyone gets.

[PalmTrees]

The planned Gauntlgrym raid zone sounds kinda terrible. 20 vs 20. First timed pve objectives with scoring. Winner gets buff for for 2nd stage, a pvp fight between the two teams. Winner gets access to a tier 2 dungeon, loser gets tier 1 dungeon. trailer link here in this news blurb: http://massively.joystiq.com/2013/06/06/neverwinter-officially-goes-live-on-june-20/#continued

20 anything means I'm not interested, add in pvp and I'm double not interested.

Game losing its fun at 60. Dungeons are easy as hell (but long) till the final boss fight and then you hit a brick wall, fail a few times and the group breaks up. The path notes mentioned lowering hp on some normal mode bosses, but epics are in dire need of tuning as well. Not to mention bugs like adds that keep spawning and coming after the group after one of the mini-bosses dies and you're two rooms away.

AD gain slow as hell with only the daily "do 4 foundry" and leadership as sources. Technically there's a dungeon, but... Dread Vault boss is one of the worst.

[koro]

The idea behind Gauntlgrym is kind of neat, but the fact that needing to win at PvP in order to not get sent to Baby's Loser Dungeon for Losers pretty much kills it.

The winning team should get a buff going into the dungeon itself, not get sole access.

[Ingmar]

That actually sounds kind of cool to me, kind of like a Darkness Falls thing. But still not going to get me to play this again.

[PalmTrees]

Some new information that lets me know I'll really never do Gauntlygrim.

http://nw.perfectworld.com/news/?p=897711

"How can you prepare your character for Gauntlgrym? Your character must be level 60. Only seasoned veterans will be able to withstand the true power of dwarves, fire archons, and other creatures in Gauntlgrym. And, players must be in a guild to participate. If you are a guild leader, you must align your guild with a faction and fight to defend its honor and legacy!"

Never bother with guilds, not anymore, the few I've tried have either had drama or evaporated.

[Stormwaltz]

If Cryptic expects players to be in a guild to play their content, they should make less difficult to found a guild in their games.

I had a group of regular STO players at my last job, but due to our schedules - even with us all in the same office - it took months to get everyone online at the same time to form a fleet. And I still constantly see "need help forming fleet" spam in zone chat.

It's a foolishly designed system; EQ1-era thinking. Locking off content behind that system is tone-deaf and boneheaded.

[Lantyssa]

Cryptic.

[Tannhauser]

Just when I was entering the first stages of Cryptic fanboyism.

[Stormwaltz]

Despite the very best cheese efforts of Neverwinter's worldbuilders, I managed to reach 60. Shadowfire Cavern is just one big pile of physics bugs.

I just had the final boss down to a sliver of health - literal seconds from death - when he knocked me into a physics gap in the map where I couldn't move or attack. He, however, could pound me to death. And he did. I wentback, successfully killed the fire elemental... and immediately afterward fell through a man-size hole left in the floor.

What. The. Fuck. They REALLY need to start tightening and polishing their work.

[Shatter]

I just had the final boss down to a sliver of health - literal seconds from death - when he knocked me into a physics gap in the map where I couldn't move or attack. He, however, could pound me to death. And he did. I wentback, successfully killed the fire elemental... and immediately afterward fell through a man-size hole left in the floor.

That sounds more interesting then anything I've played in a long time...

[Stormwaltz]

Just had a transient message in gigantic purple letters, "New Portals Opening in 15 Minutes!" I was in Protector's Enclave.

What's that about?

[koro]

The end-of-"beta" event. There's been portals opening and assaults on Protector's Enclave every 30 minutes, and will continue until Friday or Saturday.

And since the baby geniuses at Cryptic decided that the laggy, massively-populated Enclave was the best place to hold this event (as opposed to spinning off a unique NPC-less version of the Enclave with much less people), the Enclave becomes unplayable for 5 minutes every half hour.

Though I hear they halved the active population of the Enclave in response, which has helped.

[Stormwaltz]

I was in Enclave for one of these. It was the first time since <2004 I've seen an MMORPG turn into a slide show.