Portobello's Campaign has Arrived!

strumslinger

The Day of the Dungeon Master has come! Remember, the party that sticks together dies together!

http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/neverwinter/news/detail/9891263

instynctive

Not if we run with you, @strumslinger .. voted BEST PALLY 3 months running. :-)

two30

There's a bug in the intro quest. When you need to talk to Flabbergast, if you take the 2nd dialogue option, it credits you for the 1st option. So you get a fluff response, and miss the quest response.

two30

For anyone desperate for screenshots of the campaign window:

I got silver on the Catching Light contest and received 3 Adventuring Accreditation. There are other sources. For example, there's a daily quest to complete 2 trials at the Burrow Dawn Inn and receive 4 Adventuring Accreditation. Seems very grindy at first impression.

Each reward tier is 100 accreditation. Portobello's Wand of Sight, Intern's fashion, Gargoyle companion, Apocalypse Dagger artifact.

The 0/20 Die Nation thing requires Crystal Dice and gets you an Owlbear Figurine.

philmanpw

This whole event is bugged and it just started. way to quality test this stuff before releasing it. None of the quests are completing. what a waste of time.

beckylunatic

Two zone contests? Considering the timers on these, and the fact that you have to hang out long enough for them to end, pretty difficult to actually do that on multiple alts.

I figured it would be yet another alt-unfriendly grind, but seems kind of sad, depending how much accreditation you get for other activities.

two30

beckylunatic said:

Two zone contests? Considering the timers on these, and the fact that you have to hang out long enough for them to end, pretty difficult to actually do that on multiple alts.

Well, 1 of 2 zone contests. The second gets greyed-out when you complete the first, although I didn't test actually doing the second.

It looks like the design is do 1 of 2 queues, 1 of 2 contests, 1 of 2 profession tasks, and do some daily stuff in the Burrow Dawn Inn. I didn't have time to actually run any Burrow Dawn Inn stuff.

beckylunatic

I wonder if the profession tasks are the same for everyone or randomized.

beckylunatic

I will say though that I like the kitten in a helmet.

two30

beckylunatic said:

I will say though that I like the kitten in a helmet.

Edit: hmm, dark background makes them invisible

beckylunatic

two30 said:

beckylunatic said:

I will say though that I like the kitten in a helmet.

Edit: hmm, dark background makes them invisible

Pasted to browser. Sub 1-9 in link to view many kitten-hat variants.

scathias

you get 4 Adventuring Accreditation for every Trial of Traps you complete. and 3 for every race you do in burrow down. Running 100 Traps (or 25 of each of the different events we get each week) over the course of a month isn't that bad IMO, especially since you want to farm for the legendary mount anyways (which it would be nice to get confirmation @strumslinger on where exactly it can drop from. it is pretty vague right now what activities you can participate in to get the mount

beckylunatic

Oh er ah... do the trials count as skirmishes?

(It's ok if they don't. That might be too much to ask.)

darkstarcrash

philmanpw said:

This whole event is bugged and it just started. way to quality test this stuff before releasing it. None of the quests are completing. what a waste of time.

How is the event bugged?

I'm progressing just fine.

hustin1

Now, why do the two gargoyles remind me of the two old guys in the balcony on The Muppet Show?

torontodave

Because they're inspired by them. ;D

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statler_and_Waldorf

Ours are named Watler and Stadorf(?)

First impressions - Fun.. Not being able to esc skip the scenes will get old real quick. It has the feel of a country fair.

I like all the jokes. The mountain dew jokes, etc.

Not a whole lot to do tho. I did all the challenges once, and ran the Traps trial 8 times before getting bored.

The doors in the dungeon version of Respens are a little tricky. Let one person open them.

I love the 'armor' mechanic on the Drider. Hope to see more uses of it. (drag her to an exploding rune)

two30

I have no idea what to do with the Dungeon Surveys and Blank Report Cards.

scathias

blank report cards are used for completing the portobello's campaign. the dungeon surveys are for the respens campaign.

Also, you can only earn 100 Adventuring Accreditation per week

mamalion1234

noone noticed that in rare instances drop the beholder mount ?:p what does mean that ? while running a quest ? while running a contest ? when you have chance to get a beholder?

hustin1

Interesting things some of us found:

Drizzt and Minsc have the same character sheet!

All of the players have really terrible penmanship

There's a well-hidden grave marker, but paying respects doesn't seem to do anything.

Bruenor is the same height as Linu. Is he sitting on a phone book?

You might want to have a little chime or something sound when you get the announcement that the race is about to begin (or a voice-over). It's very easy to miss.

It's hard to hear some of the dialogue over the grunts and yells of NPC's hitting target dummies.

The event sliders (the ones that travel upward) only seem to move once, at the start of combat.

A blade can knock you off the race course even after you've passed it.

If too many people try to open the doors in the dungeon, they get stuck and it bugs the instance (others have mentioned this as well)

Dungeon and Forest evaluation forms should stack.

kdawgenigma

if you have to do both queues then mega fail. not everybody has level 70 characters. just ran crag and got nothing so have to assume that both are required.

strugler2k

It says here: http://mmo-play.com/rpg-games/neverwinter/news/neverwinter-portobello-s-campaign-live that there is a tabletop mode somewhere in there? Any body tried it and can help out and what they are talking about?

hustin1

I wonder if "GREEN FLAME" is a reference to the opening scene in Big Trouble in Little China. At least, that's the first thing I thought of.

katrina913

stupid update and waste of time how about some class balancing for pvp.............?

darkstarcrash

strugler2k said:

It says here: http://mmo-play.com/rpg-games/neverwinter/news/neverwinter-portobello-s-campaign-live that there is a tabletop mode somewhere in there? Any body tried it and can help out and what they are talking about?

If you go to the queue list, look under "Event". Both Respens and Portobello group queues rake place in a tabletop D&D setting, with you as a figurine.

nonewwweeee

I still have no use for these surveys from Respen's quests. They don't stack so they are filling my inv. Where are they used??

valwryn

Nobody ever reads these posts so Porto's secrets are safe here. :*

dargon

I have a question about the Portobello campaign. I have been running multiple of the event instance on four different characters each day (since the start), but have never gotten a Blank Report Card. Am I doing something wrong, or how do they drop? When I reach the 100 accreditation I fear I will not be able to proceed at all.

valwryn

dargon#3099 said:

I have a question about the Portobello campaign. I have been running multiple of the event instance on four different characters each day (since the start), but have never gotten a Blank Report Card. Am I doing something wrong, or how do they drop? When I reach the 100 accreditation I fear I will not be able to proceed at all.

The Report cards drop in the Portobello's dungeons, maybe Respen but never seen one yet. They can drop from any creature when kill'd so make sure ya kill everything. Some folks like to just run thru fast, ignore them and go'a huntin. On day 1 there was no limit on getting Report cards but they made a quick fix as everyone is now limited to one. Good Luck!!!