Asheras wrote on May 7^th, 2013 at 6:08pm:


Yeah, network outage.

NW FB Post:
Hey everyone! Our team is making progress and we hope to have the servers online shortly!
Thanks so much for your patience during the Neverwinter open beta!

Someone's Comment:
When is "soon"? NEED MAH FIX

NW Response to the comment:
Our goal is to make it a literal soon and not a Soon(TM)

I always thought Soon(TM) originated from the DDO Vast and Mysterious stuff. I've never seen it used elsewhere. Mebbe an old DDO member is on their team now? o.O

I'm on!

Breaken wrote on May 7^th, 2013 at 7:18pm:


Right. Because a 15 horc fvs always does the swim on elite after the guy with evasion dies. Breaken necks and dying in traps ftw - back when you were the shit, of course, which must have been way, way, way before I met you.

Gunga wrote on May 7^th, 2013 at 7:21pm:


We didn't have anyone with evasion, It was just 3 of us in the dungeon.

Gunga wrote on May 7^th, 2013 at 7:43pm:

Think it was LordOfRage {forum name} cant remember what he was playing, it was newyears eve and I was drinking heavly. We were in crucible for fucking ever but it was fun, I am sorry to hear that you didn't have a pleasant time gunga, and I am sorry that your opinion of me is not the best.

Gunga wrote on May 7^th, 2013 at 7:58pm:

I have been playing a trickster rogue, It seems everyone is playing great weapon fighter or whatever.

Asketes wrote on May 7^th, 2013 at 6:34pm:


http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=soon%20%28tm%29

Urbandictionary entry was added in 2006 so yeah, no

Alright, I've decided I'm pretty much retarded when it comes to figuring out the chat/party/social/group/foundry/quest/everything else interface in the game.  If anyone wants to contact me in game and show me around a bit, just look for Salamir Bloodfeather on the Dragon server.  I'm running around Blacklake atm.

Inkblack wrote on May 8^th, 2013 at 8:30am:


At one point a random person invited me to group while running around Blacklake.  We then ran around doing separate things, and I couldn’t tell if it helped or not.  I tried playing with party chat but couldn’t determine how to get it working.  Later I figured out that you can use “alt” and then click on the bubble by the chat entry box to change where your text goes, but by that time I was no longer in a group and couldn’t tell if there is a party chat option or not.  I assume there is, but /party doesn’t work. 

Also, zone chat spam is pretty overwhelming.  I think the chat interface is going to take a good 15-30 minutes of figuring and configuring before I’m comfortable with it.

Also, the whole “queue” interface is still a mystery to me.  And it doesn’t look like there’s a way to look for people in different zones.

Ugg.  The game looks like it has a lot of potential, but the UI is not intuitive to me at all.

Click on the gear icon in the text UI box, and set up the tabs you want, generally you want to turn off loot rolls and zone chat and such for partying. The default chat tabs are pretty messy, but once you spend 5 minutes setting stuff up you can get it pretty noise-free.

As for grouping, yeah, that's a bit sucky, no idea why everyone hasn't just copied DDO's LFM system (in a lot of moments I felt it was quite obvious Neverwinter devs are familiar with DDO, so no ide why they haven't copied it) when it's still probably the most simple and intuitive one.

Anyway, you queue up (K key) for skirmishes, dungeons and PvP (you can queue up while solo, or in group, as long as you don't have a full group). You don't have to have the dungeon/skirmish in your log to queue up for it. Depending on your class, time of day, other factors, it can take anywhere from 5 minutes to several hours to get a group - but the thing is, you can do other stuff while queued up. So generally, it's best to queue up for stuff in your level range when you log in, then do the explorer area quests, and accept group if one pops up.

As for grouping in explorer zones (no idea what they're actually called, I just call them that ) and instanced quests (the ones you can do solo and can't queue up for), you'll need to do that manually (since AFAIK they're designed for 1 player + companion), which is very painful - you either have to spam zone chat (and a lot of people have zone chat turned off) or invite someone you notice is running around the same parts of the map as you

As far as I've noticed, the best way to group for zones is to just try out the chat once when you just start and see if there's anyone else in the zone who needs all the quests done. Wouldn't know really, I soloed all the zones and instances, other than one time some guy invited me, killed stuff with me for 10 minutes then went afk and I dropped group

Yes I've had to cancel all my Dubai plans