Neverwinter new pics - OH GAWD ITZ HEAVAN

[Bliblablubb]

I assume you also weren't using a 3rd party script to ease your gateway chores as well? Since you call yourself paranoid, i take it the PW was also unique, not used anywhere else and not just your login name plus a random number. That's a tricky one then, since your PW wasn't changed it's not a "email hacked, gimme new pw plox" issue. I have never heard of a single acc getting hacked though.
To be honest, I don't think craptic will help you there, since you would need to proof it is their fault. Unless a whole bunch of people are affected, the chances are slim. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news. The gateway is down though, so maaaaaaybe there really was a security issue.
Even if the auction house had a log it wouldn't help much. Since that's the usual way of reliving people of their potato load: buy a crappy item from a goldseller acc who will then pass them on for RL
shekelz, with the acc being disposed of afterwards.

How many potatos are we talking about anyway?

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

hardly more than 20 euros between diamonds and other stuff, but still it's two months worth of effort.
why should i keep playing if it's so easy to lose everything without being at fault and not being responsible at all?

 

[Norfleet]

You shouldn't. Craptic is a terrible company and their customer support is awful. Obviously, at only 20E, your losses are not particularly noteworthy. If you have any other assets, I recommend selling them to Eggy Friend. Get out while you still can!

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

well, it could be worse.
ncsoft lost 13 on 14 of my toons, don't even know why or how, it's not been a theft because my whole bank and the toon with the most of the riches were untouched, they just went poof, and they were adamant "you shared your password, it's only your fault".
1600+ hours, every character equipped with end-game armors and rare skins, every elite skill collected.
vanished.
like fuck i'm going to give them more money!

 

[Gerrard]

Some guy recorded our CN draco fight.

 

[Wild Slop]

Troubling stuff there Max, condolences.


Katz cleaning house as usual.


I put a pile of glory to good use and bought the pvp artifact (power) for RP towards the Lantern (as power). I already had a blue one stored back in bank and thought upon seeing the much higher RP from the blue that I should shoot for getting it to purple before scraping for RP. Feeling a bit of hurt after seeing that the mere conversion to purple from max level blue wasn't all too grand and oh my all those conversion costs...

Weeelll luck again found me, I got a critical success! FOoooooOOOom! shot up from (something like) Level 62 to Level 92. Doesn't hurt so bad anymore.

 

[Shannow]

So I've got some stuff now that I don't really know what to do with:
My starting artifact is ranked enough to be upgraded but I don't have all the required marks of union etc. Where do I get them? (Since the upgrade is kinda meh I don't want to spend astral on auctioning that stuff.)
I'm starting to stack up on (lesser) enchantments. And especially the terror enchantment for the weapon seems quite sweet for a start. I also have enough to upgrade. But only 1% chance of success... I guess I need to get some kind of ward to up the chances? If yes, which ward and where do I get it? I've got ~120000 astral now and I'm kinda saving up to buy zen for an additional char slot and later for a better mount/companion. So I'm not really willing to spend 100k on stuff (that has a chance of just going "poof" in an unsuccessful upgrade), and I'm unable to spend millions...

Max, any news from customer support? I don't see a huge issue with a rollback (if it is technically possible to rollback single accounts). And since the gateway has been down for days now, I'd suspect that might have security issues. So it's probably even craptic's fault...

 

[Vaarna_Aarne]

The best way to get Wards is to praise Allah. The 7/7 coins chest gives a chance at Preservation and Coalescent Wards (account bound), which is another reason to love extra alts.

 

[eklektyk]

its usefull to know that most of stuffies are cheaper in ah than if ud wanted to make them urself

and green marks drop from skill nodes and chests [so when u do dailies harvest them all and its pretty frequent drop too = plus on 30 minute happy proffesion harvesting events thers a chance for blue marks to drop from them also]

 

[Bliblablubb]

But only 1% chance of success... I guess I need to get some kind of ward to up the chances? If yes, which ward and where do I get it?

The 1% chance upgrades are ONLY doable with a coal ward, available extremly seldom from a 7/7 allah box. I also would NEVER waste one of those to create a lesser enchantment since it's lost in the process. You are better off buying the lessers on the AH. A Lesser Soulforged is mandatory for every char anyway. Instead of Terror for the weapon I would suggest a Plaguefire or Vorpal, but it's your choice.
The lesser wards that most of the times crawl out of those boxes are also great for the 90% upgrades, since they come plenty once you pray with an army. Wards are not lost if the upgrade succeeds, but a failed upgrade costs more time and effort than the lesser ward is even worth when buying from the AH.

For the marks you will probably have to buy the blue ones from the store (25k potatos I think), as ekl said the green ones come often from nodes or boxes.

So once again the answer to most of your questions is: build additional pylons to farm more minerals!

 

[Vaarna_Aarne]

The good news is that we can lend you Coalescent Wards that we don't need. Just provide everything ready for fusion, and those of us with extra Coal can do the fusion for you.

 

[Bliblablubb]

The irony with those coals is: first you desperately want one, so you get the good toys needed to play with the pros... but once you have them, you realize your potatosack is full enough to spare you all those troubles.
So you just buy the chants and keep on watching your amassed coals like Scrooge McDuck.

 

[Vaarna_Aarne]

Just one word of advice: Save Astrals, skip the Shards->Lesser fusion step. It's a waste of Coal. Ideally, one would go from Normal->Greater at minimum, but personally I think Lesser->Normal fusion is the bottomline for profitability.

Also, when it comes to enchants, you have a pretty short list of stuff you need:

1) Lesser Soulforged. No need to above that, Lesser is enough for what it does, and what it does is what you need.
2) Vorpal. The most versatile enchant, no questions asked. Best for healing (no, really) generally best choice for damage, unless...
3) Plaguefire. This is the alternative to Vorpal, increasing your own base and party base damage by notable degree. Also looks nice. The only thing to note is that PF is for AoE and multi-hit oriented classes, like GWF (also has massive Destroyer synergy), Warlock and Wizard.

The other enchants are more tricky, like what Rogues can (or at least could) do with Bilethorn, and what GWFs can do with Lightning. The above are really just the baseline "you can't fuck up with these" enchants. In armor tho, it's Lesser Soulforged all the way.

 

[Shannow]

Yeah well, I'm pretty much just trying to understand what they're about
And I mainly mentioned the terror because of all the stuff I already have, it's the nicest. Or would be, if I could put it together... Only heard about vorpal from the trade chat and stuff.
Haven't really found any good enhancements in the AC, only weird timed stuff that I wouldn't bother with. But perhaps I looked wrong.
I've also have lots of runestones, enchantments and some enhancements cluttering up my inventory/bank. Since I've refined everything to rank 5 that I actually use (mostly brutal), I currently don't need the crap until I get a new artifact or something...

Slop was so kind to send me the alchemy stuff.

Level your alchemy to 3 for each of your guys so you pass them around once I loan. Send me an email in game so I can hit reply.

The earliest Alchemy project that gets your '100% speed bonus unlock' slot is Lv 2 "Mass Simple Vite Extraction" (maybe the gather one as well?) and for that you need ether 2 purples or 4 blues workers.

But I just realized that I misread this. Which also answers the question I was about to ask.
Slop sent me one purple worker. And I was wondering why I only got to 55% speed bonus. I've only got one white worker.
@Wildslop can you send another purple/blues. Then I'll unlock it tomorrow. Otherwise I'll simply send your stuff back and ask again once I've got the blues. (Though I find alchemy a pain to level).

 

[eklektyk]

thankfully event ended before my finger broke ... opening dem boxes and sorting plus feeding that trash is tedious

on a plus side i got now inventory space to farm MOAR!!! JOY

 

[Vaarna_Aarne]

When you reach Icewind Dale, you get to unlock the Class Artifact. You're in good luck in this regard as well, since you've already got one of the mainstays (Great Weapon Fighter artifact has good stats), and your prayer-alt is a Cleric (THE artifact; good stats and allows you to periodically charge up your Daily gauge without doing anything, so you never have to run off half-cocked).

 

[Bliblablubb]

If he manages to play the Cleric long enough to get his artifact, I am going to buy him a blue mark of his chosing!

 

[Gerrard]

The cleric is pretty awesome right now.

 

[Shannow]

Cleric got deleted cause I was unwilling to crawl through the early "search the crown" stuff with him. My prayer alt is a rogue
(But atm I can't imagine pulling an alt up to my current position, much less to IWD... )

BTW, thx Slop.

 

[Bliblablubb]

The cleric is pretty awesome right now.

Still not an easy voyage to bring him to 60 + boons AND the beginning of IWD, unless you find a pug to do your heavy lifting.
Nevah forget Drakron's attempt!

 

[eklektyk]

Drakron2014FoLife

 

[Gerrard]

http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/neverwinter/news/detail/9007893

Your chance to get the Tenser's floating disk, Vaarna. You just need like 8 million for the beetle to trade for it.

 

[Vaarna_Aarne]

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

i've been given all my stuff back, up to the single mark.
but not my trust.

 

[Bliblablubb]

I would call that good news, since the expected reaction would have been: "LOL, keep you acc safer n00b! You get nuttin!"
Altough I recall someone having problems in STO and getting several thousands of Cybershekelz as an apology. Maybe customer service is better than their reputation...