Who hasn't died in Neverwinter yet? I came close the other day but I have founders pack stuff and a zillion potions. I did die from wandering into a spawn of about 2 Orc camps when they popped onscreen but that's all so far. They need achievements for this!
On a totally separate note: I healed a PUG dungeon in SWTOR with a year old character that had no skill points assigned and I used two buttons: force bubble and some big heal. I don't even know the name. I just wanted to test the LFG Q and next thing I know I decided to stick it out.
Also the players stealthed around many of the mobs to get to the end.
First off:
Who designs a dungeon like that ?
and
What is the point of running a dungeon if you aren't going to actually get any XP or really RUN the dungeon?
I'm thinking I need to level cap before these games get hard but honestly does that teach people how to play these games as a team? Or do people not care about that aspect anymore?
I'm sure there are some things that can be hard like maybe if you take on a group quest solo or something. Maybe. Or do the designers of games that are getting older now just want you to zoom to end game so most are horribly over geared for the low level stuff?
Certainly seems to be the case in World of Warcraft at least.
I've gotten to the end of some of these games and seen players with just no clue about what they are doing in groups. I have always been an advocate against solo'ing to level cap. I always will be. Now that this is accepted practice some of these games are just intolerable as are their player populations.
And yes I know I can always find a hard core raiding guild etc etc but what about the journey to the end and learning as I get there. Why must every MMO be reduced to easy leveling and then just reroll or find some hard core guild?
Clueless players at level cap have been the norm since WoW 1.0 -- where ya been bro? =D
ReplyDeleteI don't so much mind "easy" since I don't play solo PvE for "challenge." I think, if nothing else, Neverwinter does a halfway decent job on "On the Job Training" for the Devoted Cleric at least, where the heals are small, often HoTs or in the case of Astral Seals only heal when your party attacks. Since we get companions, not to mention healing yourself while you attack, I would hope a little lightbulb would go off in someone's head and say "oh, maybe in a group I should light up all the mobs with Seals?" Derp. But I dunno, I don't have any alts yet to see how everyone else is handling their clerics.
Thats basically what I did. I found the tanks mob first hit it with a seal then went around the circle.
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