Will anyone try out Neverwinter when it hits OB? Also feedback on how the p2w is implemented

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Russell wrote:

Iv played a few hours of it now. Im on the Dragon server. Theres a few problems iv had with it so far. The biggest being the horrible lag I get from being in nz. Not sure on the ping but I was playing the tank class and having to block literally 0.5-1 second before an attack landed on me to block it. In Tera online I didn't feel like I had any lag at all. So ill probably be Re Rolling to a class that doesn't require timing heh.

Another thing is the class locked items. Never liked that. Makes the world feel kinda flakey when you pick up a chain mail vest on your warrior but cant wear it because your arnt a cleric. It also means classes are locked down to very specific weapons which is a little suck. I only ever experienced this in past Asian mmos. Which I have tried quite a few of. Im already getting the feeling that its starting to go in this direction "That guy is a rogue. He does EXACTLY this". Though hopefully theres some good build stuff so I can do some moderate chances to break my character up from the others.

Environments look awesome. I loved the fact that citys actually have people in them doing stuff! Felt so alive. Also the character customisation was pretty awesome. Combats pretty cool but again I didnt have an amazing experience with it because of the ping. Ill be trying out more of it today. So far no micro transaction stuff has shoved itself in my face which is cool :3. "Hello young warrior. Do you feel you are levelling too slow?.Try out these double XP potions!".

It has me interested however so I will play more and see how it goes.

I think it definitely does take some practice to get use to ur character and master it, having the timing right on all your timer skills, I did notice one perk skill, atleas for the wizard, that made timmers slightly less longer, by up to 10% which is a huge + in dmg if they recharge faster... maybe there might be one to make you block faster laster on, who knows.....

It wasn't something like that though. My sheild would be up for like 0.2 seconds and still not block the attack. Yet when I held it down WAY before an attack I wouldn't get hit. Felt very lag related to me : P. Im having a much better time as a control wizard now anyway haha.

I am playing Guardian Warrior, the ping does play an important role when trying to block. But my latency is like 300 ms so i can handle it... It just needs some practice.
The game is fun and what i like the most is that it does not feel like a regular MMORPG. I just hit level 15 and unlocked the foundry, eventhough it is still under development, you can still create amazing quests.

This game came out of nowhere for me. I've watched people play and it looks pretty good. That's definite praise considering how much I hated STO when I tried it as F2P.

I recently returned to WOW so have no interest in playing NW any time soon. I doubt they'll make a profit on it though. It just seems too similar to other fantasy MMOs.

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FrodoFraggins wrote:

This game came out of nowhere for me. I've watched people play and it looks pretty good. That's definite praise considering how much I hated STO when I tried it as F2P.

I recently returned to WOW so have no interest in playing NW any time soon. I doubt they'll make a profit on it though. It just seems too similar to other fantasy MMOs.

Well when you stop watching people play it and start actually playing it, you will see it is similar yet way more fun! How someone could choose WoW before NW is just unbelievable.

Downloading it right now.

Honestly, I'm pretty much fed up with PoE, another lvl 70 character with ZERO upgrades dropped during the leveling process. Most of the game is still inaccessible to me (no crafting or trading as I don't have any currency, no chance to experiment with skills as I don't have 5L or 6L, still no multistrike, only crappy uniques, maps to hard etc)

So I can grind docks for hours without getting anything good or I can maybe have some fun with NW.

I don't think I saw any lag/rubberbanding people were complaining about. It's the crappy game engine that makes me feel confused about timing, cause it's non responsive. Might be worse for some classes than the others, the running animation won't stop when you have to react quickly to something no matter what.

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Russell wrote:

Another thing is the class locked items. Never liked that. Makes the world feel kinda flakey when you pick up a chain mail vest on your warrior but cant wear it because your arnt a cleric. It also means classes are locked down to very specific weapons which is a little suck. I only ever experienced this in past Asian mmos. Which I have tried quite a few of. Im already getting the feeling that its starting to go in this direction "That guy is a rogue. He does EXACTLY this". Though hopefully theres some good build stuff so I can do some moderate chances to break my character up from the others.

Yeah typical mmo itemization nowadays... its driving me insane. 'Balance' around class locked items, I bet locked endgame 'sets' or something eventually. Rogue shouldn't be able to use plate etc, yeah, but how the hell can amulet have class restrictions?!?! Making everyone exactly same in the end, looking for same items, TOR style 'progression' with fully predefined stuff in the end I would guess, no real gear choices or proper ability to customize. And why are rogues locked on using daggers? What happened to rapiers/shortswords etc.

Was Bioware asian? or SOE to an extent (tho not so bad)? It's just lazy developers with no creativity whatsoever.

One thing I'm kinda surprised is that even after a bit more gameplay I did not feel like I'm forced into moneygrab shop, it might change at late game (free companions limitations sound too severe for e.g.) but I expected more pay2win options. The fact astrals<>zen conversion is player controlled is a middle ground between rmah and eve plex system so it might not be THAT bad, assuming there are enough impatient people (and enough people as a whole so a few can't completely control the market).

But it's still early to judge, I doubt I'll spend a dime on it, guess I'll keep an eye how it turns out. With enough foundry content, might be worth checking in from time to time.

u are missing the point
PW has nicely developed design of money making machine
they connected a lot of games allowing player to interconnect and talk to friends in list in any their other game
STO is fine example of it
Champions online is failure due to locked "free classes" as f2p making it full p2w
etc
designer of game actually made quite an effort to make NW mmo,that's obviously noticeable.

At this moment of game,it doesn't appear to have any p2w elements or i just haven't encountered any.

And yes, game does have amazing feel of playing CO with just new look and powers,honestly i would take D&D rules any time of day ,but for the moment this does seem to have some fun.
Will see how it develops and what end game it actually offers.

This game is amazing, I played till 2am last night.

No lag here, btw. I'm in the U.S. so that could be why.

If you want a really fun class that does huge damage try the Trickster Rogue. They do insane dps and the combat is quite fun, like a PS3/360 action game.

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Vakirauta wrote:

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Russell wrote:

"Hello young warrior. Do you feel you are levelling too slow?.Try out these double XP potions!".

Hello damned exile. Are you running out of spaces to hold your needs? Do you need more stocking for recipes? Try them extra premium stashes!

Except that making 5 mule accounts won't make your main xp faster.