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Post by Winin on Mar 4, 2014 10:00:24 GMT -5
community.arcgames.com/en/news/neverwinter/detail/3034893Neverwinter is gearing up for it's 3rd expansion. This one looks like the town of Icewind Dale. If you're read the Drizzt novels by RA Salvatore, you'll recognize it as Drizzt's home for many books. This is the part that interests me: "...new features that will bring completely different ways to PvP. We’re very excited about how PvP will be expanding and transforming..."
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Post by Aberrant on Mar 4, 2014 10:08:38 GMT -5
Cool! I am intrigued.
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Post by Winin on Mar 4, 2014 10:13:43 GMT -5
Oooh! oooh! "For the first time ever, Neverwinter will feature a PvP Campaign, which will have daily quests focused on slaying other players, or navigating through dangerous PvP areas for resources."
I really loved the Guantlygrym pvp area (though half of it is team pve vs team pve where you race to complete the objectives in your instance and only part is actually killing other players). But it is a really long session to play through it all, and it only runs at certain times. Not a very family friendly.
I'm hoping this will be like the Dread Ring and New Sharandar campaigns with some, dare I hope, open world pvp? Pve quests in a pvp area would be swell.
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Post by Slurm on Mar 4, 2014 11:58:36 GMT -5
I love the feeling of the combat in PvP but they have to balance that shit. I'm hopeful this means they'll be taking a deeper look into that.
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Post by Winin on Mar 4, 2014 12:35:45 GMT -5
PvP hasn't changed much since it was first put in during beta. They had big plans, but we got what we got. Maybe everything else is stable enough they are finally focusing on it.
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Post by Winin on Mar 10, 2014 20:04:21 GMT -5
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Post by Zeli on Mar 11, 2014 6:44:49 GMT -5
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Post by Zeli on Mar 11, 2014 6:53:31 GMT -5
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Post by Zeli on Mar 11, 2014 6:58:01 GMT -5
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Post by Zeli on Mar 11, 2014 7:04:11 GMT -5
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Post by Zeli on Mar 11, 2014 7:07:19 GMT -5
Do you think they'll have a level bolster for this area or will it be strictly for level 60s?
I can't find that information, but I know they're still releasing bits so maybe that news isn't released yet.
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Post by Slurm on Mar 11, 2014 7:18:18 GMT -5
The way it's worded in regards to "once you hit 60" and the fact that there are repeatable PvE quests involved make me hopeful for lower level content or a bolster, as you brought up.
I think it's a ballsy move on their part to dump a huge PvP expansion on a game more played (presumably) for its PvE content. But maybe they have data to back up a desire for it. Or maybe the Foundry allows them the breathing room to focus on things other than PvE.
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Post by Zeli on Mar 11, 2014 7:25:15 GMT -5
I thought that was simply referencing additional advancement in any area of the game and didn't necessarily have anything to do with the Icewind Dale area specifically, kind of like the Itemization Changes bit.
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Post by Winin on Mar 11, 2014 12:09:29 GMT -5
I suspect it will be for level 60s, like the past expansions (new sharandar and dread ring). Also Guantlygrym is level 60 only (I think).
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Post by Zeli on Mar 11, 2014 12:36:13 GMT -5
Ah, bummer, but thanks for the info Winin. I guess it gives me a reason to keep leveling.
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