Not sure where I read it (could have been the other forums) but someone was looking for a Neverwinter Beta key. Well, here's how to get one fairly easily:

http://mmo.rokzon.com/Neverwinter_Free_Beta_Key.html

doesnt look very DnD as far as character creation goes

My favorite part was where the Cryptic guy tried to distinguish it from DDO by emphasizing Neverwinter's action-RPG playstyle.

JDollar wrote on Feb 9^th, 2013 at 2:41pm:


The AOE marker seems like something cribbed directly from GW2, but admittedly I don't know how many other MMOs use a similar mechanic.

Relatively few hotkeys seems to be the new thing with MMOs. I can understand the desire to get away from the gazillion-hotbar problem that many MMOs have, but it seems like they are going too far in the other direction (incidentally, also something that I'm not terribly keen on with GW2).

Flav wrote on Feb 9^th, 2013 at 6:32pm:


Yeah.  Completely F2P means I'll definitely give it a shot once it's released, but I'm not expecting much at all.
ESO is the one that's been on my watch list, and the more I see the more excited I get.
Stuff like this and this and this and this .

Combat Wombat wrote on Feb 10^th, 2013 at 3:43am:


Frankly it looks worse... and they won't be able to relaunch the game in 3 years with a F2P scheme as it's already F2P.

Here's another one from someone else. It's about two hours long. I'm only about 30 minutes in so I don't have an opinion on the vid yet, but it seems to be a bit more well rounded regarding features.

edit: OK, so after 15 more minutes of them screwing around and gathering party and whatnot (with some technical difficulties due to the beta) they are apparently doing the same dungeon run as the TB vid, so I'm not going to continue watching.  But that first 30 minutes might be worth it just for the extra discussion of some of the features that's in those 30 minutes.

Flav wrote on Feb 10^th, 2013 at 5:24pm:


Why so negative, Flav?

Wait a sec... cut scene:

> Azog turned to Flav, and threw dramatically his scarf over the shoulder. He placed his hand at the chin,
in a hesitant gesture, as if he were pondering how to word the feelings inside his heart. "Flav"-his voice was deep and full of shi..aahh...meaning-"your traumatic experiences in NWN2 are clouding your reasoning. Don´t you think it would be better to gain more experience about the game before wording such harsh words?". Flav twisted his face, in an internal fight with his personal french demons...<

How was it?

Flav wrote on Feb 10^th, 2013 at 5:24pm:


Pretty sure that the race depicted is a dragonborn.

Edit: Actually, yeah, it's a Tiefling. Pretty silly-looking from behind.

Vissarion wrote on Feb 11^th, 2013 at 9:36am:


It's a Kitty with that long tail and the straight horns looking like manga type kitty ears.

I tell you it's a Kitty. It will go purring everywhere.

LordPiglet wrote on Feb 11^th, 2013 at 11:18am:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5dsZhLHPeQ
Currently true, they appear to be a ranged "class" as of right now.  In the video there was a close burst type effect though most of the attacks were ranged.

Also this video actually shows you stuff as opposed to just being a PR piece.

Combat Wombat wrote on Feb 11^th, 2013 at 1:43pm:


That is incorrect Healing Surges were a way to limit daily healing.

In addition, players could use a surge without a healer about once per combat referred to as an encounter. 

Having heal pots that did easily fill up the people in the videos at least half way, would kill off needing a dedicated healer, but is that a bad thing?  Do you feel you need someone to follow you around already in DDO?  So, clerics in NW will be able to do other things other than make sure the Fighter doesn't have a boo boo.  How terrible.

I actually want to play it. I'm way too much of a sucker for D&D games (shock).