Neverwinter new pics - OH GAWD ITZ HEAVAN

[Turisas]

Well, I played to level 9 yesterday, and so far the loot is generally above the standard vendor stuff, and drops pretty regularly. Health potions and Identification Scrolls are par course so far too (meaning surplus on potions in basic level of play, zero-sum on scrolls). Coins are handily auto-picked when you walk over them.

Cool beans, trying to google for this stuff is useless due to all the NWN results popping up. Are all the armors class-specific or is there some generic stuff available, too?

 

[Vaarna_Aarne]

Well, I played to level 9 yesterday, and so far the loot is generally above the standard vendor stuff, and drops pretty regularly. Health potions and Identification Scrolls are par course so far too (meaning surplus on potions in basic level of play, zero-sum on scrolls). Coins are handily auto-picked when you walk over them.

Cool beans, trying to google for this stuff is useless due to all the NWN results popping up. Are all the armors class-specific or is there some generic stuff available, too?

As far as I've been able to tell so far, all weapons and armor are class-specific to a degree. There's probably overlap with heavier armors. At the very least Wizards and Rogues have very distinct class-specific armor. Weapons appear to be purely class-specific.

EDIT: Incidentally, I just laughed my ass off when I checked the fashion wear they're selling. Pay2Manwhore lol.

 

[Vaarna_Aarne]

Just post your charname@username here, and people will pellet you with friend invites (due to how handy the notify system is), and I'll set you up with private chat access.

 

[Crispy]

If you can't figure out your charname@username right away, just right-click on your own portrait in the upper-left corner of the screen and Inspect yourself. That's how I finally figured out what the hell Vaarna was talking about.

 

[Crispy]

Another comment I'll make is that the difficulty isn't as low as I had initially thought. By signing up for the 2nd tier early beta pack I received some decent items including a very nice sword, which at level 15 is still better than anything else I've found so far, and I received a wolf companion as well. This made the tutorial and other starting areas ROFL-easy.

But now that I'm in the Tower district with all the orcs, I'm not able to stomp my way through anymore. Having to ration my health pots and watch my daily power usage, etc., is keeping me from falling asleep at the wheel at least.

I like it so far. I hope it lasts a while.

 

[Mangoose]

falling asleep at the wheel

I like it so far.

 

[Turisas]

Just post your charname@username here

Thur Isaz@sielunvihollinen (this is how it is in-game, though on the PW site the account name is Sielunvihollinen - go figure), gieb m0niex plz.

 

[Berekän]

Urist Cateater@glorifiedimp

 

[fizzelopeguss]

what server we on?

 

[Vaarna_Aarne]

Alright, friend and chat invites sent.

EDIT: Server is Dragon.

 

[fizzelopeguss]

I'm guessing you're a guardian vaarne.

Ed: Nice character models.

 

[Vaarna_Aarne]

Actually I'm a Tiefling Wizard.

 

[fizzelopeguss]

STILL I CAN'T LOGIN :X :X

launcher? i just left it running. The pictures showed up as red x's but i could still log in.

 

[Berekän]

What fizzelopeguss said, as long as you can see the prompt for your username and password, just press Enter until you're in.

 

[Gerrard]

Finally beta started and the launcher refuses to work

Sounds like typical PWE quality.

 

[Crispy]

Just as a side note there's almost no reason to actually group up for any of the content that I've seen so far, unless some of the beginning dungeons scale in difficulty per number of party members present. Even then it's more efficient just to solo them. So I'd advise everyone just to focus on leveling for now until we run into the harder content.

I can confirm that much of the Foundry stuff specifically recommends parties, and usually at level 25+, so we've got a ways to go. Vaarna, do you know anything about later official group content, raids, etc.? I haven't read anything about that.

 

[Vaarna_Aarne]

Seems NW launch leveled the Cryptic log-in servers.

Just as a side note there's almost no reason to actually group up for any of the content that I've seen so far, unless some of the beginning dungeons scale in difficulty per number of party members present. Even then it's more efficient just to solo them. So I'd advise everyone just to focus on leveling for now until we run into the harder content.

I can confirm that much of the Foundry stuff specifically recommends parties, and usually at level 25+, so we've got a ways to go. Vaarna, do you know anything about later official group content, raids, etc.? I haven't read anything about that.

No idea, but I'd guess they're similar to STFs in STO.

 

[Crispy]

Never played STO. What's an STF? Is that the equivalent of a raid in space?

 

[Vaarna_Aarne]

Basically yea. I'd predit the raids in NW are either privately set up with five players, or queued up with a PUG.

 

[Crispy]

I checked out the dungeon queue service last night and it looks okay. Didn't actually join one yet.

There's an orc skirmish that recommends level 15+ in the Tower district that I might try tonight. I suppose that could qualify for the first party instance a group could try together.

 

[Vaarna_Aarne]

I would guess, at this rate I'll be hitting level 15+ in no time...

ONCE I GET IN

 

[pocahaunted]

Bros, how would one proceed to get into such a prestigious guild? Can't recall my account name and logging out now would be way too dangerous. Could contact one of you, though.

 

[Vaarna_Aarne]

Well, send a friend invite to Ashur@vaarna_aarne.

 

[Crispy]

Vaarna, have you figured out how to craft anything yet? I've got a pretty good collection of resources, but I haven't found a/the NPC who would (presumably) grant the "quest" to start your first crafting goal.

 

[Vaarna_Aarne]

Haven't gotten to that point yet.

 

[Fart Master]

There's only one relevant question here. How Pay2Win is it?

 

[Turisas]

There's only one relevant question here. How Pay2Win is it?

Doesn't seem to be, you can buy manwhore clothes and things like that, but nothing that'd really affect gameplay.


Is every area lagging or is it just the Tower District? Getting pretty murderous now.

 

[Crispy]

That's a good question.

Just like in other Mythic titles, Zen is the whole key to "Pay2Win". Want a boost for your pet? Buy it with Zen. Want an XP boost? Buy it with Zen.

Seems to me that you're just spending your money for what you can find in the game, though. I will admit that I've spent some of the crystals (which can be "sold" for Zen) to accelerate the training of my pet, but we're only talking about reducing the waiting time by five or ten minutes. It's things like that -- convenience, pay out-of-pocket if you're impatient or you just can't resist "beating" other people to the punch.

This game is quite simple and frankly rather cheesy so there's no point in madly trying to get ahead in my mind. It'd be like tackling kindergarten students in a sack race just to get to the finish line first.