Shadok

Jeez I've been so sucked into Neverwinter that I forgot to come protect pwnd from double posting! D: My apologies! How have you been? If you haven't already jumped out of a window. And yea I don't understand how anybody can play MMOs with a laptop mousepad O.o My girlfriend did that on GW1 and the fact that she was actually good at the game confused me to the point of headaches.

One thing I will say about the monetization is that it doesn't restrict you. You can access all of the content, it just turns getting a maximum movement mount, or an epic companion, into a month long grind. You can still access the foundry, epic dungeons, and so on. You can also get the best gear in the game without paying any money. Respec'ing is $6, which sucks, but after a few days of doing a few dungeons a day you can afford that. Believe me, I feel that some things need to be capable of being bought with gold, and the maximum movement speed mounts need to have their prices cut down big time, but this game's monetization model is far better than most P2P games end up with when they go F2P.

I know someone with the best gear in the game so far, an epic companion, and a max movement speed mount. He achieved all of this without any founder pack bonus AD, or even early access. He has made it a point not to spend any cash on the game. Of course, doing all of this if you're a casual player would take many months, but it could be done. I will say that being able to convert zen to AD to nearly get enough gear score for T2 dungeons is crap, but hopefully when they release higher tier content it becomes impossible to progress any further just by spending money. That will pretty much depend on whether or not they ease up on the BoE gear.

It's awesome so far, it's pretty much like any game where everyone wants to play DPS because its easier and faster to level. We have a few tanks that are in the 40-50 range, a couple max level healers, and then a plethora of DPS.

Neverwinter, I'm guild leader and of 52 members I'm currently the only level 60 tank so without me people pretty much sit around bored doing nothing. :/

I'm finally working my way away from my super nerd hardcore gamer schedule. For the first week of Neverwinter I was doing crap like going to bed at 2AM and waking up at 4AM. My sleep schedule basically consisted of me sleeping during server maintenance, aside from when I had work. If I hadn't hit the level cap when I did, I would probably have ended up in the hospital soon. D: