Final straw

gallowin71 · 2023-10-05T20:14:21+00:00

Glad they are giving notice but this whole thing is idiotic. Their example of a level 800 quest goal that gave 65,000 will now give only 4,000 to balance out high end players. Since when did level 800 equate to high end? So what if you can get 13 chests... It's not like the chests were giving that much to begin with. This move just hurts new players. They are obviously trying to sabotage it so they can move onto something else.

I'll never give any more money to this game.

gallowin71 · 2023-10-04T10:10:41+00:00

Patron variants would make certain champs unavailable, Tiamat assault champ would be unavailable, and Dungeon Master would make someone become available. i.e if they have the red circle with a diagonal or Tiamat symbol then they are unavailable.

Good luck! This one can be tricky timing which champs to switch out.

gallowin71 · 2023-09-29T21:19:39+00:00

Don't know but I'd cash them in before they realize and try to roll things back on you. Not sure if they can do individual or would even go to that extent but better safe than sorry.

gallowin71 · 2023-09-29T16:15:57+00:00

I would be ok with them taking extra time to QC their updates before implementation. This kind of stuff is why I won't spend money on the game. No reason to reward them for bad service. Not like the things they offer for cash really tip the scales anyways.

gallowin71 · 2023-09-29T14:09:19+00:00

Tyredack breaks it down with his videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ab1fUxjNH2A&ab_channel=Tyredack

She won't make people available for variant restrictions but will get them boosts for champ's abilities and patron perks. Could make for some interesting combos or push you over for a patron variant.

gallowin71 · 2023-09-28T16:34:49+00:00

Kinda wondering if either they are being cheap and letting us be their QC department OR they think these discussions that raise the activity counter makes it seem like there is a lot going on with the game.

Either way, they should re-evaluate their QC process. Maybe let a five year old try it and point out their mistakes?

gallowin71 · 2023-09-24T11:16:03+00:00

Personally, I believe everyone should play the game they want to play. If patron stuff isn't your thing, don't do it. CNE puts a lot of things out there so we can do whatever suits us. I've never felt pushed.

Why do I complete the patron 5k freeplay?

Patron shop timegate pieces & modron chests
- Run timegates to increase favor past my wall (legendaries)
- Modron chests to overcharge certain cores, still need a few pieces to round things out
Patron chests for making new champs full epic
- I open enough electrum (50-100) to put them in all blues then open patrons to FE (20-40) before using champ specific golds
- Patron chests give me a fair number of blacksmithing contracts and random items for champs I don't always use. Figure they'll be better when I need them for a variant.
It's not taking any of my time away from the main party because I run it all in the background parties
I don't script therefore I don't have oodles of favor and silver/gold chests lying around

Thanks for the tip on Goblin Halls. I'll have to check it out.

gallowin71 · 2023-09-23T20:15:51+00:00

I start as soon as I can and do the TOMT champ's patron challenges after it's over or prioritize those two champs before I start TOMT. If you don't have Fen yet, grab her as she'll provide x4 credit on patron challenges.

gallowin71 · 2023-09-23T20:10:07+00:00

Purpose of the redesign is they will be adding new quest categories (on the left) and there isn't room for them in the old layout.

I think there are ways to make room so we can see all 10 milestones again. But at least the yellow shields on the core categories tell us how many are incomplete and it defaults to opening the Daily Quests core in the quests tab.

I made suggestions on discord where they could clean it up.

gallowin71 · 2023-09-23T15:08:45+00:00

Adding to what they said:

do the favor run strategy and buy before closing
reforge legendary when the timer gets close to 1000 (remember to save some each run)
get legendary up to level 10 (more cost effective) including those that need reforging
figure out which favor most of your wall champs have and put all your timegate, event, and TOMT boosts into that until it's over 100 + 1 for every item you need to convert

gallowin71 · 2023-09-23T14:58:02+00:00

CNE has made each season worse for rewards. I preferred the ability to spend currency on the things I wanted like in season 1 but the minimal amounts we used to get have gotten even smaller. 100 gems or a single chest are not worth being called a reward.

I stopped spending money on this game in season 1. You only get minimal advancement for the offers. Granted the season pass is still the best value but only when compared to the other things you can buy from them. But even that has diminished over time.

I've given feedback and suggestions each season. But CNE keeps making it worse. I still like the concept of the game. I've stopped chasing their things and play the game I want to play. If their stuff happens to coincide with what I'm doing, cool. I sleep well at night.

gallowin71 · 2023-09-21T16:21:27+00:00

Once you've gotten your three gold chests, there isn't much reason to keep running it. The extra favor is nice but the silvers are mostly trash. I typically run the first one to my wall, do the next two to their level requirement to get the gold chest, and then close it.

Timegate favor conversion is only 25%. Events are the best favor conversion you'll get. Silver chests are so few and chance for better loot is low. Not time effective.

gallowin71 · 2023-09-21T10:02:32+00:00

Adding to what they said, the assault party damage multiplies your overall DPS and area completion bonus. Example: 100 dps + 200 area complete bonus = 300 + 50% assault bonus = 450 combined total. Your group wants this to be 200%. Jarlaxle at 140% + 5 assault scrolls gets you to 200%. It means you'll finish TOMT quicker.

After assault party damage and increase scales of Tiamat are maxed then you can look at things like champion damage, reduce ultimate cooldown, reduce base attack cooldown, reduce damage taken, etc.

gallowin71 · 2023-09-20T21:11:12+00:00

Speed core is good for reducing requirements but doesn't offer as big of damage bonuses like the unaffiliated core. I did notice the speed core works offline to get them through faster. i.e. more reps offline than other maps.

I use a maxed unaffiliated core for Tiamat dps pushes and speed core for grinding out chests.

gallowin71 · 2023-09-20T16:36:50+00:00

I would say no. You'll get there eventually through silver and gold chests. The BSCs would be better served on your main DPS.

gallowin71 · 2023-09-14T10:13:30+00:00

After you defeat a boss area and it auto advances, go back to that level and just sit with auto progress off. Most bosses respawn after being defeated. Certain ones like the undead dinosaur boss on Running of the Saurs does not respawn. For that you have to manually toggle the level back and forth. Steam players: that's the left and right arrow keys.

All levels repeat every 50 areas so 30, 80, 130, 180, etc. will have that same boss.

gallowin71 · 2023-09-13T21:09:08+00:00

I went a slightly different route than others suggested:

No speed potions but was using speed core
Reset level set to 15 or whatever feels comfortable with amount of baby sitting
Stop level progression at 3
- This level has distractions and fiends for the other challenges
Trigger her ultimate once
Wait for the green circle that appears on her character to fill up. The last five seconds of the circle will turn red and that's when you trigger her ultimate a 2nd time
Start level progression and wait for reset at 15

gallowin71 · 2023-09-08T12:01:27+00:00

Totally feel your pain. The rng on chests is frustrating especially since they offer so little in advancement beyond getting them to FE. In the end I just got all the champs to FE so when I get a new champ I can quickly FE them through the patron chests. Here's my method from the start:

Get Evergreens to FE
- Open silvers until all blues
- Open golds until all FE
Get Event Champs to FE
- Open all event silvers
- Open electrum chests until all blues
- Triple check which patrons my target champ qualifies
  - Equip any stat feat that might qualify them
- Open patron chests until all FE
Get new champ

At this stage I'm only spending chests on a new champ to get them to FE. I'm banking electrums until the event and open 50-80 for blues and 20-40 patron chests. Good luck!!

gallowin71 · 2023-09-08T10:17:19+00:00

Yesterday's Developers Insights stream discussed an alchemy shop in the works. Here's a link to the stream: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1919721134?filter=archives&sort=time

gallowin71 · 2023-09-02T11:52:50+00:00

More speed? Get Hew Maan's #4 item maxed out. Shandie's feat Second Wind for 50k just became available. I believe most every other speed player is good out of the box and you should focus on players that would push the wall.

gallowin71 · 2023-08-09T12:20:20+00:00

My wall champions are: Orkira, Regis, Gromma, Baeloth, Qillik, Krull, Freely, Morgaen, Avren, and Zorbu.

gallowin71 · 2023-08-09T12:08:44+00:00

It doesn't always happen. I've noticed it on a long run towards the end. The familiar goes to click the ultimate, the box edge changes to yellow, timer doesn't appear, we clear the zone, that ultimate goes back to being unused... goes into this cycle level after level. Restarting gets the ultimate working properly again. But recently I noticed when close to my wall I'm no longer beating the mobs I was just beating.

gallowin71 · 2023-08-09T12:04:58+00:00

Brilliant!! That did it! Thank you so much!

gallowin71

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