There are a couple of T2 sets - one of the hunter ones (master predator I think), Avatar of War for GWF off the top of my head - that will still set you back.I grabbed the stuff that was like 3-4k a piece. Most of them were severe undercuts at equal or even below salvage.. thanks? It's the T1 set with all the arpen and 20% off cooldown proc, so I put crit in the other slots. T2 stuff looks like it still hovers a bit above salvage and would actually cost some AD.
When you say epics are only 11k gs - what pushes it up to the magic 20k line that seems to be the universal minimum, high rank gems that will take months to afford? That's probably beyond the scope of me giving a shit about the game, but we'll see.
LOL... that's pretty well my philosophy on all MMO's.Free game, download it, play it, come here and bitch about it.
DDO change much over the past 2 years? I played pretty heavy when Chronoscope came out, got an epic SoS, etc.What Sinzar said. All I really do now is log on, do a group dungeon or two because I like the combat but hate the quest grind, then go and play StarCraft or DDO until the kids wake up.
As you suspected, the roll system is also going away with the dungeon changes, and we now get personal loot in dungeons in the expansion. I can only hope every MMO with a random groupfinder continues to make this change.Will new dungeon loot be salvageable? That will certainly put a wrinkle into NBG. (item you want to wear drops = roll need, accept your group kick? Seriously, with the salvage system, this shit should all be personal loot because NBG goes right the fuck out the window)
Yes, you can use old currency to buy new armor in some slots. I don't have a comprehensive list of what was updated to 70 and what wasn't.Also, I thought I read that the old module armor sets will be updated (new ones only, not existing ones?) but wouldn't that just mean people with tons of stored up currency could buy up full 70 epics right off the bat?
The bottleneck for dragon boons are the pages from the protectors quests. The quests in well can be skipped if you want.And yet another question: Does the Well of Dragons stuff speed up the boon/unlock phase of the campaign or is it just for loot or whatever? Because with six different tokens, who the fuck can tell? And that shit is hard.
I can't help but feel this game has alot of 'old money' floating around that continues to screw the economy. Exploits that ran rampant early on, allowing people to get massive amounts of AD. Also, they handed out millions in some packs and giveaways. I mean hell, the game started off crazy with people who paid for that first pack starting right off with 2 million AD; shit never really recovered from there. Sure, they tried to institute diamond sinks to siphon them off, but the end result was that shit like upgrading companions or enchantments past rank 7 or so is flat out unreachable by the normal player because of the massive costs. They fucked up making the diamond sinks into things that directly translated into player power, rather than cosmetic my-dick-is-bigger-than-yours shit.Neverwinter really is a game for the whales. Been pouring over ideas to break into the AD market and try to play the game at the higher level without opening a wallet, and I just can't find anything that wouldn't involve botting a shit ton of accounts. You can get by just running selected dailies and having a few toons to pump out Leadership on, but you'll never get rich.
Dungeons and Dragons OnlineDDO change much over the past 2 years? I played pretty heavy when Chronoscope came out, got an epic SoS, etc.
Yeah except no. Those ad sinks always existed, they weren't implemented to combat ad inflation. Actually they've reduce the ad costs twice now of those sinks because they are so unrealistic for a non whale player.I can't help but feel this game has alot of 'old money' floating around that continues to screw the economy. Exploits that ran rampant early on, allowing people to get massive amounts of AD. Also, they handed out millions in some packs and giveaways. I mean hell, the game started off crazy with people who paid for that first pack starting right off with 2 million AD; shit never really recovered from there. Sure, they tried to institute diamond sinks to siphon them off, but the end result was that shit like upgrading companions or enchantments past rank 7 or so is flat out unreachable by the normal player because of the massive costs. They fucked up making the diamond sinks into things that directly translated into player power, rather than cosmetic my-dick-is-bigger-than-yours shit.