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On 29 Aug 2005 15:06:18 GMT, Graeme Faelban
<RichardRapier@netscape.net> wrote:
>Meldur <Meldur@t-online.de> wrote in
>news:ijc3h1p07b7kreq6jdmqedtuv52e3g02g8@4ax.com:
>
>> On Sun, 28 Aug 2005 05:24:03 GMT, "Arcury" <arcury@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>>Thanks all for answering my last question. That was great to know.
>>>
>>>Here is another question. I am Dark Elf Necro. I haven't done tire one
>>>solo quest for the faction. These days I do creator mission but I can
>>>never find evil group so my faction with evil camp is dubious.
>>>Should I start turning in good tokens to raise faction with good camp?
>>>If I do that, am I going to mess up the game in future?
>>>Is this faction could be related to other faction hit?
>>
>> To me faction in DoN is totally irrelevant,you can buy from the
>> opposite faction DoN Vendor being invis,interesting for example
>> if you want a second FT3 aug,cause they are lore.
>> Note that I dont do much DoNs,struggling to finish the Tier 1 quest.
>> Hanging around in RSS,MPG,RCoD,WoS,even NC all day will yield better
>> equipment than doing "Creator" missions for points.
>> If I could I would give this expansion back,there is no real use,and
>> if I want instances,there are some in OoW too,personally I still do
>> Ldons with friends,cause they are fun.
>>
>
>You cannot progress through the DoN tiers without gaining high enough
>faction with one of the two camps. You can do as many DoNs as you want,
>and buy the items available to you at the camps, but, you will never gain
>the DoN AAs that you get for completing the various tiers of DoN
>progression.
>
>DoN offers several extremely useful things. The guild lobby, where you
>can summon your corpses to be rezzed.
Yes,takes any sense of danger out of the game,dive to the bottom of
every dungeon with no need to think of a plan to get back out or what
to do if you die there.
> The guild hall (if you are in a
>guild), where you can set a portal to a variety of locations for fast
>transportation.
Yes,clicky transport to everywhere,takes any feel of being in a world
out of the game,but I think we already had this discussion often
enough here,when PoK was released.
Personally I miss ships.
> The AAs that you get for DoN progression are actually
>quite nice, and there are great augments, much better than LDoN,
>available for significantly less effort in DoN.
Why is that a good thing ?
FT items for example are much too easy to come by now,again I
admit probably a matter of taste.
But excuse me a FT3 aug you can get for just 250 points or 7
creator missions just plain out proofs my theory,that SOE is
trying to rush the players through the expansions to make them
buy another.
> Creator missions are
>boring, and are not even the best ones for gaining crystals, not to
>mention, nowhere near as good xp as some of the others. People do them
>because they percieve them to be easy, and have never tried the other
>ones, except when they had to for progression purposes.
I tried some others,the lavaspinner lair mission come to my mind,did
it twice,both canceled after more than 2 hours,cause we couldnt get
the necessary drops,sorry forgot details.
I know there is a mission in the Ascend,you can finish faster then
Creator,but even this mission isnt done anymore by pickupgroups.
>I have not done a single LDoN since DoN came out, but then, I didn't do
>all that many for some time prior to DoN too. I found them to be
>generally boring, always the same thing over and over again. I also beg
>out of doing yet another creator DoN, as that too is quite boring.
I still like Ldons,cause they require some skill in pulling and crowd
control,although the rewards are not worth it anymore as you mentioned
above,and they need an intermediate leel more than ever withall this
cheap and trivial to get "uber" items from OoW and DoN.
If i were sarcastic,I would say,all this trivialization since PoK was
very succesful in driving players away and reducing the number of
subscribers from 550k to 200k.
Meldur
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