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as no reason to ever return with the revamp all content awards the one type of currency with increased awards as you hit the higher tiers the existing challenges were mostly placed on the first difficulty tier while two additional tiers are filled out using the hardest of the old challenges and a handful of new challenges based on leveling content that wasn t previously available as level 30 challenges there is also a once weekly award for clearing a tier one challenge five of the classic challenges sit in tier 1 while tier 2 is populated with the sixth classic challenge the two patch challenges and one new upgrade four more new challenges occupy the third tier i elected to run the meta wing for the weekly bonus because you can beat dr psycho to death relatively easily with a giant dumpster thing there are some problems with the progression for instance the zergable outdoor quests in south gotham all outdoor quests in dcuo are public quests award five marks each 20 per day enough for a t1 piece every other day which is far faster than what you can get doing challenges these dailies were always a bit out of progression order but it s more noticeable now that the currencies are fully interchangeable also unless i misunderstand the higher tier gear requires more currency than the cap allows non subscribers to carry unless you pay real money to make a one time withdrawal from escrow that aside the new system definitely flattens and accelerates the progress curve somewhat i picked up three pieces of t1 gear and one random ilvl 53 drop in one evening by cashing in all my old marks and doing one round of daily quests perhaps i will finally get enough gear to actually see most of the content i paid for aside players display the last item appearance you collected unless you specify otherwise my character logged on wearing this atrocity of an outfit you may or may not be able to see the batman logo boxer shorts posted by green armadillo at 10 57 pm 1 comments labels dcuo my characters pvd wednesday september 5 2012 what i m currently working on eq2 seven posts and eight days later the finale of my annual labor day wrap up with my latest progress in eq2 maybe next year i will need to do this under twitter rules or something a big troll merc a small level 91 5 fae dirge soe also continued their longtime tradition of double exp for the weekend and i picked up 3 aa currently 310 320 and about half of level 91 92 a few weeks ago i had mostly written off the possibility of getting to level capped characters in seven different mmo s simultaneously with the delay of lotro s expansion from this week and wow s expansion not slated to arrive until the end of the month i now have a legitimate shot of making the seventh ding happen still on the slate for the next couple of months are plans to switch factions possibly twice to check out some of the changes to the game s evil side and the other bard subclass sometime in november i run out of game time that was purchased through the strangely short sighted sale promotion stacking so the next expansion will almost certainly have a far greater price tag for both the expansion and the game time that seems required to take advantage of it time will tell where this game sits on my list when the dust settles posted by green armadillo at 8 47 pm 0 comments labels eq2 my characters pvd tuesday september 4 2012 what i m not currently working on rift and others more stuff from my labor day roundup this time featuring rift and other stuff that i m not playing now eq2 should have happened before this but i was working on the bonus exp weekend over there and i finished writing the below material first rift much as i like my level 50 cleric on paper i m thinking i may have chosen horribly in terms of class cleric melee is slow and plodding cleric casting is powerful but includes so much passive healing that the content feels trivial i actually enjoyed purifier healing but it seems you don t actually need that level of healing power and could have gone for something paired with justicar that does more damage instead ironically the game s relatively open soul system just leaves me wishing i could pick from all the souls instead of merely a quarter of them if there is indeed a new parallel leveling path in the expansion the best bet to hold my interest would be to re roll with a different calling the downside would be fifty levels just to get back into the the new expansion endgame content and there s limited evidence that i actually enjoy soloing in rift that much others ironically my next major new release may be borderlands 2 i don t ordinarily play first person shooters but i got a free copy for purchasing a new nvidia 660 ti graphics card i may or may not like the game but at no cost to me i think i d at least give it a try to see how it looks with the new hardware guild wars 2 is a question mark i like some of the things i ve been hearing but i wouldn t mind seeing how the game holds up as people get out of the newbie areas access to the game s beta was unusually structured in terms of how much of the content players could see and how often they d be allowed online so i don t think we have any information to judge the game s longevity yet if i had time this would be a tougher call but i don t have time ironically being an mmo tourist makes it easier to sit out a major launch because it isn t gw2 versus same old in one game it s gw2 versus same old in eight different games at least one of which i m not going to be done with at any given time amongst other mmo s in principle i can sign back onto vanguard but i don t know that the monthly fee was what was keeping me away from that game after trying it out last year anyway allods remains vaguely on the list of major non subscription mmo s i have yet to try finally the console roundup i m currently working on assassin s creed brotherhood other games on my radar if when i replace the console due to broken disc drive include infamous 2 uncharted 3 ff xiii 2 and possibly the two remaining assassin s creed games that will be out by then posted by green armadillo at 8 57 pm 3 comments labels business models guild wars pvd rift vanguard monday september 3 2012 what i m currently working on swtor i ve been writing the annual pvd labor day gaming round up since 2009 i usually have some non gaming activities for the holiday and at the time a matter of fact summary of what i was doing with little analysis attached seemed to be a good sort of filler in today s non subscription era the filler is looking like it will take over a week i may need to re evaluate in the mean time the rundown continues with swtor swtor ordinarily the looming free to play shift along with last month s inexplicably short live event would be enough to keep this game off the calendar until they finish re launching however there are some perks that could make a month of subscription time especially as the relaunch gets closer a worthwhile purchase like some other conversions there is going to be some bonus in cash store currency for staying subscribed despite the pending relaunch with an extra bonus for being subscribed when the conversion actually happens turbine approached this type of promotion for lotro by ruling that players had to remain subscribed continuously from the announcement to the relaunch in order to get any of the loyalty bonuses by contrast ea is apparently not going turn away any customer by telling them they missed a deadline bioware has also announced that species access will be grandfathered for existing characters this could actually add up to more than 15 depending on how many alts you plan to make of how many different species currently i own a level 50 trooper and a sith warrior in the mid teens i really want to like the sith warrior the storyline is excellent but i just haven t been enjoying the gameplay perhaps i ve been spoiled by the medium range combat on the vanguard trooper swtor combat encounters usually involve packs of several weaker enemies not all of which will be in melee range and my warrior often finds that he has struck down his foe and that vette is busy killing the next target while he stares ahead blankly at this point my plan is to shelve the sith warrior and roll up a chiss agent i have yet to play a healing specced character and this particular combination was just about at the top of my to do list anyway i guess i could even roll up all of the remaining classes sith inquisitor ranged force user jedi consular stealth melee i may hit the same concern with melee but if i m doing ranged force user i feel like it should be purple lightning smuggler though i might prefer to get the chiss legacy unlock first for this heal spec bounty hunter on the theory that it may be like the trooper which i liked and maybe jedi knight though that s the same class i dislike on the warrior i won t finish most of these before the relaunch but there s no harm in getting started posted by green armadillo at 9 15 am 1 comments labels business models pvd star wars sunday september 2 2012 what i ve been working on lotro sto as part of our labor day holiday weekend we went down to the smithsonian yesterday to check out the art of video games exhibit it s a fun walk down memory lane amusing to see stuff i owned copies of 20 years ago behind glass at a museum if the trip to washington in the next few weeks is not in the cards for you take a look at the tour schedule to see if it will be anywhere near you anyway the trip into town put me behind on the schedule for covering all of my mmo s within a week so today we cover two games lotro the six week delay for the rohan expansion to avoid the crush of guild wars 2 and pandaria s release dates is a minor reprieve for me i did hit the current level cap and complete the epic story but there is a large amount of reasonably high quality quest content that i have yet to see i m torn on this because i hate to skip good content but i m not sure if i will get to all of it even with the extension moreover there are deeds for traits and turbine points at stake if i left the dunland area and great river areas now they will be the first where i have failed to finish the local quest deeds realistically i m expecting to run out of time here perhaps i ll just hold onto the in progress quests and then go back to one shot through them at level 85 on the plus side at least they re producing content that i want to complete sto i m technically at the level cap in this game despite having done almost none of the leveling content thanks to a focus on the duty officer system the developer responsible for implementing this mechanic has since left the studio in his absence very little new content is being added to the system for its own sake for the most part new duty officers entering the game are added through lottery items in the cash shop and are being used to introduce more abilities that affect the regular portions of the game which i almost never play cryptic has always stated that part of the point of the system was to add a minigame that was consistent with microtransactions in the post subscription era that said i m definitely feeling like i ve mostly beaten this aspect of the game meanwhile as combat abilities continue to be added i can see the officers rewarded through the duty officer system becoming increasingly less optional for people who wanted no part in it as they say all good things come to an end i suppose posted by green armadillo at 11 10 am 1 comments labels business models cryptic lotro pvd newer posts older posts home subscribe to posts atom subscribe subscribe to pvd about player versus developer i m what they call a wow tourist wow was my first mmo and being able to set my own schedule is a dealbreaker at any given time i can be found ducking in and out of half a dozen different mmo s this blog details some of my own personal exploits but it also focuses on a meta 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