Poll: Are YOU going to buy Call of the Forsaken?Follow

Totally unscientific poll but curious what people who visit these forums plan to do with this latest xpac, whose slow staggered release is somewhat controversial.

My highest char is 76, nothing to offer me at all.

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Edited, Oct 8th 2013 12:01pm by KC13

Probably the biggest selling point for this expansion for casual players and groupers are the configured missions which allow 3+ players (mercs allowed) to enter instances with custom-designed content and decent rewards. In addition to drops from nameds within the instance, if the instance mission is completed successfully every participant gets a certain amount of special coin which can be used to buy gear, augments, spells, etc. Supposedly each instanced mission is specially built so the design of the dungeon changes and the mission challenges are custom-tailored to the mix of players in the group. Yeah, yeah, I wanna see it in true form as well. I still remember the promise of "ship to ship combat" made for The Buried Sea xpac.

There are also new spells and aa's, altho I'm hearing nothing to write home about here. Druids get a spell which combine their self-mana-regen and self-DS spells, which means druids can cast these 2 self-buffs with ONE click instead of 2. Given the buffs last 2-4 hours in terms of convenience and efficiency this change is TRIVIAL. (Reminds me of when shamans got their focus spells combined in one package, but that was significant since it amounted to 4 spells with long cast-times and they affect the whole group. Same with the cleric triple-buff (HP, AC and spell focus.)

Minor but I'm looking forward to 2 extra shared bank slots (nice for us trade-skillers to pass bags of "crap" to alts on same account) and an extra 10 spellsets. I hate when I go to save a new spell selection and I get that dread "You have reached the maximum number of spell sets, Dude!" message.

:)

been leveling my new raid toon a wiz with a boxed sk and cleric. finaly got them all to lvl 100 over the summer.
i pre on both the wiz and sk but was not going to due cleric. but decided i might want a camp fire so pre on the cleric also.
the ldon points for items i am hoping to gear all 3 up. if its too hard will do ROF progess and comeback and try later.

This. I honestly don't know why EQ seems to be the only online game that refuses to allow instanced dungeons/zones for solo characters. Maybe I'm just used to this from playing CoH (and CO as well!), but it seemed to be such an easy and convenient way of doing things. I mean, I get why they restrict groups to 3 players (to force two actual people to group), but all it really does is force people to box.

I think it was somewhat poorly communicated that this is a 95+ Content expansion only. I don't recall ever seeing that on the expansion page, i was actually under the impression that it would be available content for a larger level range.
I'm glad i didnt buy it for one of my accounts, because i would have been sorely disappointed that i wouldn't really be able to use much of it. Merc aa's and unlocking previous expansions would have been it.

The merc aa's are alright, they take a long time to get though.

That was my understanding as well, although I agree that it was poorly communicated. Obviously, the primary content is 95+ since it's a side-content expansion (so alternative to RoF... kinda). But it was very unclear as to whether the heroic missions were going to apply to lower levels. I went ahead and purchased it because I am doing some RoF stuff with my paladin (ok, with some of my higher level guildies, but I'm not totally useless as long as no one seriously expects me to tank for more than like 5 seconds). It's certainly content I may be using "soon". But honestly, the bigger issue for me was merc AAs and gear. Also, free bags. Ok. Not free, cause I paid for them, but not like "I'm going to spend cash to buy in-game stuff only".

Seriously would have been nice to have heroic missions be an actual replacement for LDoN. Perhaps aim them for 70+ (or even 60+), and make them instances for any size group (or no group at all). I really do think that EQ is missing the boat on the whole instanced mission/tasks zones thing. 2003 called and says that this is a thing we can do now.

This is the point the Devs missed. Would it really have been that much more work to make the new scalable missions with an entry level of at least 75? Put a massive xp boost on the 75-85 missions and this becomes the busiest content in the game, and escaltors the population to 95+ where they want us to be. Adding it later would be correcting a mistake, but I don't see that happening.

If you're not going to do that... then give us a new race and a renewed 1-90 levelling path. Otherwise a dabbler like me will just wait 2-3 more expacs to pay for one. I think I waited 3 years to get access to mercs and that is massively game-changing. At this time, CoTF has nothing I need... anytime soon. Sad because I even like some of the lore/storyline movement.

Maps available at eqresource.com.

I'm not near 95+ anyway (and won't be any time soon) so I guess I'll wait for more live reviews. And, realistically, buy it when it's packaged with the next newest expansion

It should be like old keyed zones... when they are a few expacs old, unlock them. Even better would be just building it into them in the first place that once you exceed a certain level you don't need a group to spawn the instances and/or trigger the mobs. Personally I like full unlocks.

IF the devs insist we do current content with a group, at least there is a population wanting to do that. Once it is 2 level cap ups behind there is no way it should still be restricted (considering that looks to be 3-4 year old content the way the last few expacs have rolled out).

So far 13-7 Yes, not bad. I'm sure Sony would be pleased.

So far as a druid I'm liking the xpac. Lots of places to solo kite with non-summoner mobs that die easily and drop ethernere essences, the key tradeskill item for this xpac.

My highest toon is 82 so I don't see any reason to buy it. Maybe when they decide to make an easier more exciting way for players to reach end game I might be interested. As it is right now I am through, yet another, burn out phase as leveling is really REALLY tedious even with potions etc.