All the insignia's you will ever need!

lithevalkerian

Hey folks, Lithe Valkerian here and today I wanted to share a bit of Neverwinter Knowledge with you. As you all may know, with the addition of the Maze Engine comes the revamped mount system, including Insignia's and Insignia Bonuses. But insignia's are hard to come by right? Not so much. You can get insignia's currently from any profession (Thievery, Religion, Ect.) node and from chests on the world maps, though at a low drop rate, and only green quality. Quality however does not matter for the bonuses. Another thing to note is that when searching, it is best to do with a party of friends or guildmates. If you fully clear a treasure chest, it will allow the next person to get a fresh reroll on the chest with their own set of loot. Similarly, if you leave 1(one) item in a profession node, it will allow someone else to get a fresh reroll when they successfully use a kit or skill to open it. This maximizes chances for multiple people to complete their bonuses as quickly as possible. The best map that I have found so far for this is Vellosk with a total of 65 nodes and chests. Please find below the full maps that I created, since I couldn't find any others, detailing the area for each and every zone. In some places you will see a dot outside of the map area. Rest assured this is intentional as they sometimes sit beyond the map edge. The fastest rotation I have completed the Velosk map run in is ~20 minutes. The most insignia's I have seen someone pull from a map rotation here is 6. Lastly, please remember that if you gather too many items in too short of a time, you will only get short items from profession nodes. These items are Bent Fork, 50" of Rope, 1' Pole, Embroidered Purse, Piece of Broken Glass, and Religious Tome. The cool-down to start getting normal items again is ~15 minutes or so. This was implemented a long while back to discourage use of bots. Additionally, you will notice that I do not have any of the end game (60+) area's mapped out. This is because they have too few nodes and chests to be worth it, and by using the lower level zones, you get enemies that are more than 10 lvls below you when your at 70, so you pull no agro and can run through freely.

sh00termcl0vin

Or you can just farm arcane resevoir.....

mrimsogood

sh00termcl0vin said:

Or you can just farm arcane resevoir.....

I would love to know how you can farm something that only comes once a week

thefiresidecat

how do you farm arcane reservoir

lithevalkerian

Even to farm Arcane Resevoir, you wouldn't get the sheer amount in as short a time. I used Vellosk and in about a combined 4 or 5 hours on a rainy-as-all-hell Saturday managed to get 7 mounts with 3-part insignia bonuses done.

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falkenblackhand said:

I don't find the Skill nodes in the End game areas of the game to be useless at all. If anything they have upgraded items to claim where as your maps here would have rank 1 to 3 enchants and even worse resources for professions. Please consider making maps for the lvl 60+ areas as well because i think those would be VERY useful indeed for all kinds of Farming... not just insignia. Although they are nerfing all profession items out of the nodes sometime in the near future... for now it would be useful.

I'll keep it in mind. Mainly though, these were made specifically for insignia farming help. Nothing more. And while the end game area kits give better enchants like rank 4's, they aren't nearly as numerous and the zones are usually pretty populated. I'll consider doing the maps and sharing them so that they are available, but like I said, for insignia's they just aren't practical.

sha854

Thanks for the hard work Val! I managed to get 5 characters full 15 slots plus extras and 1 alt with 3 complete. I have also had enough enchants (rank 1 through 4) to upgrade one rank 8, one rank 9, and one rank 10. Yeah I farmed a lot but also got loads of XP by doing the easy kills on alts. All together I've gotten close to 100 green insignias! I definitely appreciate the fact that if I was in a hurry I could just run around and not worry about aggro!

armadeonx

Same from me Val, I appreciate the work you've put in here, I'll be letting guildies know about this post. Thank you.

lithevalkerian

sha854#2579 said:

Thanks for the hard work Val! I managed to get 5 characters full 15 slots plus extras and 1 alt with 3 complete. I have also had enough enchants (rank 1 through 4) to upgrade one rank 8, one rank 9, and one rank 10. Yeah I farmed a lot but also got loads of XP by doing the easy kills on alts. All together I've gotten close to 100 green insignias! I definitely appreciate the fact that if I was in a hurry I could just run around and not worry about aggro!

Thanks for the support! And that is a crapton!

lithevalkerian

armadeonx said:

Same from me Val, I appreciate the work you've put in here, I'll be letting guildies know about this post. Thank you.

Thank you! Hope it helps you guys!

kuero21

the loot wont refresh if you leave junk behind. the next person that opens up the chest or the skill node will only find that piece of junk in it, that was left behind from the last player.

lithevalkerian

kuero21 said:

the loot wont refresh if you leave junk behind. the next person that opens up the chest or the skill node will only find that piece of junk in it, that was left behind from the last player.

No, that only applies to a chest which is why you have to take it all. It WILL refresh if it is a profession skill node and you leave 1 item. Tested that with multiple people, even once we started getting just junk items, other people were still getting rerolls.

reaper

Thanks @lithevalkerian I linked this toy guild's site and has already been working for them so thanks again great info

lithevalkerian

reaper#3644 said:

Thanks @lithevalkerian I linked this toy guild's site and has already been working for them so thanks again great info

No problem! Glad I was able to help!

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ddem0n888

@lithevalkerian great job. I've linked it to our Guild Website.

One question to you or anyone else that knows, On PC they removed refinement from skill nodes. However it appears on Xbox they haven't. Is this going to change? It never made sense that they would on xbox as we don't suffer from the botting problem but that hasn't stopped them before.

zman81420

Cough...Dread Ring

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kuero21

lithevalkerian said:

kuero21 said:

the loot wont refresh if you leave junk behind. the next person that opens up the chest or the skill node will only find that piece of junk in it, that was left behind from the last player.

No, that only applies to a chest which is why you have to take it all. It WILL refresh if it is a profession skill node and you leave 1 item. Tested that with multiple people, even once we started getting just junk items, other people were still getting rerolls.

It does work the same with skill nodes. Half of the times I open up those skill nodes I am only getting 1 junk item. I have done such skill nodes runs as you did and very often every single node in one single map only had junk inside. Another player was looting before and didnt bother to pick it up. This happened alot in dread ring. Right after the mayze engine update I checked every node in every instance but in the first ten instances all skill nodes only had junk inside.

extremerugburn

thefiresidecat said:

how do you farm arcane reservoir

You run through it until you get to the room with the third exploding barrel since that room has the last loot node and you signpost out without killing the boss. You can then re-enter the reservoir. Rinse, repeat.

wdj40

kuero21 said:

lithevalkerian said:

kuero21 said:

the loot wont refresh if you leave junk behind. the next person that opens up the chest or the skill node will only find that piece of junk in it, that was left behind from the last player.

No, that only applies to a chest which is why you have to take it all. It WILL refresh if it is a profession skill node and you leave 1 item. Tested that with multiple people, even once we started getting just junk items, other people were still getting rerolls.

It does work the same with skill nodes. Half of the times I open up those skill nodes I am only getting 1 junk item. I have done such skill nodes runs as you did and very often every single node in one single map only had junk inside. Another player was looting before and didnt bother to pick it up. This happened alot in dread ring. Right after the mayze engine update I checked every node in every instance but in the first ten instances all skill nodes only had junk inside.

No you are completely wrong here, the skill nodes become useless with junk if you open too many in a short space of time.

Leave 1 item in the skill node and the other players can use it and take all but 1 item. I quite literally kitted out my main with 5 mounts (3 slots each), with the Insignia's I wanted, in 2 days.

All it took was for me to post in group chat at the start of each run to get everyone to leave 1 item in skill kit nodes. Ta da everyone gets every skill node in a run

vaultingfrog

Impressive work-up on this. It really is. Dont take this the wrong way though, I do actually value the effort put into this whole thing, but I have a question...

Why bother farming all of this to gear up ASAP? Its one that boggles my mind with every MMO... I get the race for gear towards endgame stuff but honestly people gear up to max or near max within days of content being released... seems kind of pointless to me but thats what people choose to do and I just wonder why the big hurry....

Again just an honest question, please dont get miffed over it.

And also again, I really do love the effort put into this. I probably am going to use this info to farm a few for AH sales. Maybe once a week for an hour if I can spare it. It seems like a great method.

kuero21

vaultingfrog#2497 said:

Impressive work-up on this. It really is. Dont take this the wrong way though, I do actually value the effort put into this whole thing, but I have a question...

Why bother farming all of this to gear up ASAP? Its one that boggles my mind with every MMO... I get the race for gear towards endgame stuff but honestly people gear up to max or near max within days of content being released... seems kind of pointless to me but thats what people choose to do and I just wonder why the big hurry....

Again just an honest question, please dont get miffed over it.

And also again, I really do love the effort put into this. I probably am going to use this info to farm a few for AH sales. Maybe once a week for an hour if I can spare it. It seems like a great method.

No, you can't sell or trade those, they are bound to character.

vaultingfrog

kuero21 said:

No, you can't sell or trade those, they are bound to character.

Getting these things from chests are bound to character now??? I have had several that are not bound to character....

kuero21

those from chests and skill nodes have always been bound to character. certain insignias awarded from the system are not, like the one that you get from the mount vendor.

lithevalkerian

vaultingfrog#2497 said:

Impressive work-up on this. It really is. Dont take this the wrong way though, I do actually value the effort put into this whole thing, but I have a question...

Why bother farming all of this to gear up ASAP? Its one that boggles my mind with every MMO... I get the race for gear towards endgame stuff but honestly people gear up to max or near max within days of content being released... seems kind of pointless to me but thats what people choose to do and I just wonder why the big hurry....

Again just an honest question, please dont get miffed over it.

And also again, I really do love the effort put into this. I probably am going to use this info to farm a few for AH sales. Maybe once a week for an hour if I can spare it. It seems like a great method.

Well as someone already said, these insignia's drop character bound. But it isn't really gearing up max quickly. You can get the mount bonuses, but the insignia's for this are only green. You will still have to earn or buy blue and purple ones. This is a way to help everyone at least have the bonuses even if they don't do a lot of CN runs or have money for keys and stuff.

lithevalkerian

Just a quick update, after the demand that has been relayed to me, I'll be doing the higher level area's over the next couple weeks after work.

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falkenblackhand said:

lithevalkerian said:

Just a quick update, after the demand that has been relayed to me, I'll be doing the higher level area's over the next couple weeks after work.

Thank you very much for that.

Just trying to find ways to help is all. Probably won't be until either next weekend or the following week that I get them all uploaded. I'll add them here when I do. With this being a holiday weekend and with my work schedule, that is keeping me busy for the next 10 days or so. lol.

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