DarknessMyOldFriend

Sure, but the fact that you've had a lot of immersion with some of those systems simply means that some of the bloom is off the rose, and whereas if you made it happily through four games of AC or Rocksteady's Batman games you might have a bit of a built in tolerance that would make you less susceptible to the charms of the follow ups to Shadow of Mordor's follow ups as time goes buy. This is why I estimated the third game would be my peak experience. Even if it does them better you've still seen them far more than when you first picked up Arkham Asylum.

Woof. It is rough jumping into a game with a really mature economy.

Basically you need to take advantage of the fact that you are doing old stuff that high level people don't want to be doing. The advantage there is that crafting materials are required from all the level bands of the game. Farming cloth to sell will probably help a lot. You should check the AH and see what herbal mats and mining mats go for. Lots of people will go tailoring/chanting, making things with cloth then DEing them to sell, but for lower level content there is a great chance you'll do better by just selling the cloth itself.

The truth though is that you might have to wait a while for artisan flying. You can definitely cap out without it, and you'll earn a ton of gold just by doing quests. Keep playing, and if you aren't flying fast enough for your taste then think of it as a carrot on the end of a stick.

5000 G isn't an insignificant amount of cash in the game even at this point, so it could be rough to find a wealthy benefactor willing to throw it away for nothing.

Crap, this is making me want to reactivate my account. I need to stop.

How many games in the Shadow of Mordor series do you think you will play?

Personally, my natural inclination is to assume four, but it is totally possible that with AC and Batman fatigue upping my early jaded level that it'll only be three games.

If I had to put money on it I'd say I'll enjoy the first two games, enjoy the third but not as much as I want to, and then play the fourth and fifth with less and less enthusiasm, then give up on a spin off between the full fifth and sixth game. It'll probably have an interesting gameplay hook, let's say playing as a Corsair of Umbar who is becomes a double agent of Gondor. So you'll pillage up and down the coast while secretly nudging things in the direction that Minas Tirth favors, and it'd be a different side of the world than you'd seen before and it would have unique ship based combat, but I think my interest would just peter out before I end up beating the game. After that I probably won't play anymore until it is rebooted in the next console generation.

So what about you, how long will you stick with this series?

It's pretty amazing that with all its massive glaring issues that it still manages to be a really great game.

A deeply flawed really fantastic game.

So much opportunity there for them to make it better, you just have to really hope they capitalize on it.

Huge. Huge.

Hopefully it's the first of many steps in the correct direction.

I don't want drops to be as boring as they are in D3, but I do want there to be at least, you know, drops.

Rewards from boss enemies and for completing activities would be a nice touch.

Just like with every single website, dark themes are far superior.

You don't need the second half of that sentence when you are talking about Destiny.

Gina Torres (and seriously, how do you not list her as "of Firefly") is the 'Lock vendor, Fillion is the Hunter vendor, and Lance Reddick is the Titan vendor.

They didn't reduce engram drop rate, they reduced the rate at which it drops for a short time after you hard wipe in a mission, i.e., a death penalty.

Missions

• Reduced drop rate of engrams following a hard wipe [fixed in 1.0.1.4]

*Clarification: This effect only lasts for a short period of time immediately following a hard wipe

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Points are leveling up your reputation with a group.

Marks are the currency you can spend on their goods, which are gated by your reputation.