changing mounts and typing 'convert'

[SavantArtist]

wow...so I picked this up again after a few years away and just for some background I've sunk over 2k hours into this game and had 3 characters 70 plus so I'm definitely not a new player...but...what happened to simplicity? I've been searching the internet for answers on how to switch mounts in my stable! Didn't it just used to be an 'equip' button or something?? I saw somewhere we have to open our character panel, goto the mounts and click on some type of 'change appearance' button?? I've wasted way more time than anticipated trying to figure out how to switch from my first basic horse mount, to a different mount I now have inside my stable, complete w/ insignias and ready to go, except I've no clue how to swap it! I also noticed an overly amount of items which are not sell-able once bound, that's fine, but I've typed in the word 'convert' 10 times in 20 minutes!! wtf? is it me or is the game also just a tab harder for solo gamers? I rather enjoy adventuring on my own but find myself getting womped by 10 plus enemies in narrow areas, and this is all before level 10! I chose the wizard this time around so I expected a challenge but jeezis this is ridiculous. So...how to change mounts I guess is the only thing I need an answer for, any other comments on how this game has changed, not sure if for the better, or not is welcome.

[NavFamG]

What's kicking your butt is you now get stat boosts from ALL the mounts in your stable, not just the active one like in the past. so with that in mind they let you choose how it looks and what abilities you want to use.

OK, so open up the character panel, click on the Mounts Tab. On the 'CURRENT' tab You're now looking at a picture of a single mount with 4 boxes down the right hand side.

Left click on the appearance box to set how you want your mount to look, on the empowerment tab for what kind of attack you want, on the power tab for what adds you want and on the movement tab for how fast you want your mount to run at.

If you have more than 5 mounts, open up the 2nd tab 'STABLE' and you can right click on a mount to swap it out from the Active spot with one from the Inactive pool.

[NavFamG]

As to the game changes. Max level is now 20 PERIOD. Item Level is the big factor and can go up to atleast to 45K and probably higher. Anyone with an active account that had characters on it, no matter if they were level 1 or 80 were set to 20 when they made the switch.

Lvl 1 through 20 is all gated, based on you doing quests, NO MORE XP. Lvl 1 to 20 is very much a tutorial and some say can be finished in as little as an hour.

Some of the old regions were done away with and the same goes for some of the old campaigns. They say they got rid of the under utilized one's and just kept the popular ones.

The Campaigns have changed in order of item level (The AI campaign used to be the lowest and is now the 2nd highest for some reason). Also you no longer have to grind campaign tokens to advance the campaign line. It's now just like normal questing. Do that quest (box) and it's finished and you move onto the next.

Most had the final quest changed so are easier to finish.

Normal play will get you up to 30K on your item level, to go higher you'll have to grind and farm or spend money.

[Wolverine]

Well, max IL is well above 80k these days...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDee-qNj11g
but unless you balance your stats right, the higher your IL the worse any scaled content will be in the end.

And reaching 40k IL and beyond isn't a problem any longer, i've a few F2P accounts for testing stuff and running events without any ViP or other perks, and most of those characters are there with one even being above 45k.

Participating in events like the current one, Day of the Dungeon Master, will give you a lot of good stuff for free, legendary account wide mounts or legendary insignias and even mythic account wide companions...

Anyway, look for more YT videos from Rainer or Aragon in case you want to stick around and find more informations about NWO.

[SavantArtist]

Originally posted by NavFamG:

As to the game changes. Max level is now 20 PERIOD. Item Level is the big factor and can go up to atleast to 45K and probably higher. Anyone with an active account that had characters on it, no matter if they were level 1 or 80 were set to 20 when they made the switch.

Lvl 1 through 20 is all gated, based on you doing quests, NO MORE XP. Lvl 1 to 20 is very much a tutorial and some say can be finished in as little as an hour.

Some of the old regions were done away with and the same goes for some of the old campaigns. They say they got rid of the under utilized one's and just kept the popular ones.

The Campaigns have changed in order of item level (The AI campaign used to be the lowest and is now the 2nd highest for some reason). Also you no longer have to grind campaign tokens to advance the campaign line. It's now just like normal questing. Do that quest (box) and it's finished and you move onto the next.

Most had the final quest changed so are easier to finish.

Normal play will get you up to 30K on your item level, to go higher you'll have to grind and farm or spend money.

wow so I'm not losing my mind! I was wondering about the leveling up thing, I noticed I had to level after certain campaigns and it wasn't worth killing any extra enemies, which I actually kind of liked to do, when we were equal in strength that is...I sunk hundreds of moolah into this game the first time around, I can see that won't be happening this time around, it's not quite as fun which is a bummer. I totally appreciate all the inside scoop and will work on the mounts. It's kind of funny/sad, I was actually considering paying for one of the 'elite' characters to give them a try, but now not sure if it'd be worth it.

And nods to Logan, I'll have to look into the runs and events a bit more, even if it is just for the loot, thanks for that.