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destinysquid
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So its been... I dunno.. a year I think since I last played neverwinter and I need help to get back on my feet again and any help is appreciated.
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So what dungeons should I do that my equipments can be accepted? Tips on getting back on the track please...
https://www.flickr.com/photos/50743595@N08/15620717192/
And how can I go to these places? Any more tips would really be APPRECIATED!!;)
Oh and a guild would be realllyy sweet!
https://www.flickr.com/photos/50743595@N08/15619856645/
So what dungeons should I do that my equipments can be accepted? Tips on getting back on the track please...
https://www.flickr.com/photos/50743595@N08/15620717192/
And how can I go to these places? Any more tips would really be APPRECIATED!!;)
Oh and a guild would be realllyy sweet!
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Also, as soon as you can, do the thing from Sgt. Knox about talking to Lord Neverember to find a strange artifact. It grants you a nice one for your class at the end. Lastly, go check out the guy on the other side of where Knox is, there is a merchant there with special items for new players, etc. He might have some free stuff for you.
That quest is actually issued by Jaraxle in IWD. Knox is just one of the NPCs in the quest.
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Players really have inflated gear scores now. More than they need. But many seem to expect everyone to have a ton of it now. So here are a couple things.
-Artifacts can boost your gear score. There is a lower level quest you can get (I'm sure someone mentioned it) to obtain an artifact. They let you pick from three. My only suggestion here is don't ever get the manual. Even if you want it, you can pick it up from the AH for a fraction of the cost of the others. If you decided later that you wanted the Waters for example (one of the choices), it would cost you 10 times as much as the manual to buy it. Once you have TWO characters that can get into IWD, you can get another quest to pick up a class artifact. Once its unlocked all your characters can get it.
-Companions can boost your gear score. Every companion has an active bonus now. That oddly enough works passively when the companion is in one of slots. Many of these are pure stat bonuses that increase Gear Score.
-Boons can boost your gear score. Not all do, but many are choices between stats that will. You get these from progress in a campaign. These start at Knox.
-Remember gear score isn't everything. You'll want a bit to play catch-up at first. You need 10K+ for a couple places like IWD. But its fairly easy to hit the soft-caps nowdays. As you upgrade your gear and enchants you'll be looking to replace your stat-boosting artifacts and pets with ones that give you special bonuses you can't get elsewhere.
I'm not sure what set is best for a TR right now. Especially with them having an upcoming revamp. I can tell you where to get it.
- Dungeons are divided on what slot the gear comes from. For example Temple of the Spider has the t2 armor piece and neck. Frozen heart has t2 feet and waist. No matter what t2 set you want, you are running the same dungeons. You can read the info on the queue screen to see what drops where.
- PvP is still an option for gearing. Both Glory and Grym coins can be used to buy pvp focused gear. But I believe its currently eclipsed by Black Ice Gear. The difference is you can't get BI until you reach IWD. And you can't upgrade all of it until you progress so far into the campaign. Which takes a considerable amount of time. No such limitation that I know of on getting the regular pvp gear.
- Black Ice Gear. Once you get going on the IWD campaign you can start getting Black Ice gear. This gear is mostly bought for black ice. And upgraded with a campaign based crafting skill. (The weapon and bracer drop randomly from heroic encounters, all other pieces are vendor bought - then upgraded.)
Pretty much everywhere a player can go is initially started at Knox. Those are a series of areas added for post 60 content. While we don't level after 60, our characters continue to grow in power because of boons and such from these campaigns.
- Gauntlgrym (not a campaign itself) is an area they added for level 60 characters, but you can only run it certain times of the day. It has a pve phase, a pvp phase, and a dungeon phase. You can use Grym coins to trade for glory and get pvp gear.
- Sharandar is the first full post 60 area. Knox sends you to talk to an Elf in town for some campaign info stuffs and then she sends you there.
- Dreadring was next. IMO its actually easier than Sharandar though.
- Icewind Dale is the hardest area to date. To get into Icewind Dale you need 3 boons from Sharandar or 3 boons from Dreadring. Its faster to get three from Dreadring.
- Tyranny of Dragons isn't on the map, but you may have missed it. They added small expansions to existing areas with a couple of daily quests and a dragon to kill. The highest part of the TOD campaign lets you get an artifact weapon. Its an upgradeable weapon that has higher base damage than pretty much anything in the game. I think next mod they are giving it a set bonus as well.
Talk to knox and get the quest to talk to sharandar elf, dread ring contact, and Harper person for ToD.
after getting these quests Go to sharandar, DR, and Neverdeath and do the introductory quests. This will be the longest day of dailies you do
Come back the next day and you have your routine down:
Stop by the AH and buy some stacks of Fomorian Concoctions, they are stupidly cheap and you can convert them into the crescents you need to buy the first 2 sharandar boons, talking only 1-2k ad buys you the first 2 boons.
Do only the 3 quests in sharandar first area, do only the dread ring lair, and do only the 2 quests and lair for common cause (should be neverdeath to start until you start unlocking new areas).
Do the quests and only the quests given to you for sharandar. skip the lair. should be only 3 quests per day, and take about 10 minutes. As you unlock new areas, don't go back to the first one just do the 3 quests in the new area. Same for ToD, just do common cause, as you unlock new ToD area's to do, just do whatever one they want you to do that day.
Dread ring you are only doing the lair and there are always people in /lfg or zone inviting to 5man these solo instances. You can join one of these groups and just hold down W and complete the lair, 5 minutes tops. If you have some spare time you can also do some of the DR dailies for campaign currencies, but you don't really need to.
Every 6 days you can get a campaign treasures box from the prayer coins, get it, it helps eliminate the grind of Sharandar and Dread Ring.
The ToD dailies, since you are only doing whatever zone common cause sends you too, will take the longest amount of time, up to 20minutes if you are unlucky with dragon timer. when you enter the zone open the map and look and see how long the dragon is going to take to spawn (up to 20 minutes). ask in zone or /lfg for someone to invite you to a shorter timer. If you join a group and are still waiting on the 2min cooldown before you can change instances, just turn around and click to exit back to PE, then come back to that zone, you will be moved to your parties instance without having to wait the 2 minutes.
You can typically complete the other part of the daily (usually click things or kill things) while you are waiting on the dragon spawn. stick around after the dragon dies and see if anyone in the party you joined wants to run the lair. If you are alone, join a party for it. Just like the other lairs they are meant for solo but ppl 5man them all the time. You can afk hold down W through these as well.
Once you've unlocked the first 3 areas of Sharandar you can stop doing dailies there. you should be close to 3rd boon, so if you want it you can selectively choose which campaign currencies you need and only do the dailies for that area to get it. Once you get 3rd boon you are done in Sharandar. If you want you can head there every monday and just do the weekly quest, that and the prayer box will eventually get you the 4th and 5th boons.
If you've been using the prayer boxes you will already have your 3rd DR boon by this time so you can unlock IWD. I'd recommend continuing to do DR because the 5th boon (Endless Consumption) is amazing for most classes. but up to you.
You're about 2 weeks into campaigns at this point, and hopefully you've got 2-3 sharandar boons, 3 DR boons, and maybe 1-2 TOD boons. it's time to add IWD dailies into the mix. IWD is the easiest campaign using this system as long as you have a bit of AD.
Once you've unlocked IWD (needs the 3rd boon from sharandar or DR), stop by the AH and buy 16 Reghed Barbarian Relics. These are super cheap and you can buy all you need for about 80k ad (that's just over 3 days of RAD refining). Once you do this you have all the currency you will ever need for IWD. Do the introductory quests in IWD and then come back the next day. Pick a side and then only pick up the Reputation quest (needless distractions or safe keeping)
the rep quest requires you to mine 300 Black Ice and complete 1 HE. All you need to do is mount up in Ice Wind pass and run around avoiding mobs looking for things to mine. There's a decent amount on the left side of the road up in the hills, they always spawn the same spots so you will learn their locations pretty quick. Sometimes they will be guarded by a few mobs, if you can't find any that are clear of mobs, try for the ones guarded by the 3 weak wolves or just 2 frost giants. If you find a black ice deposit all to yourself you can mine it 3 times for 150 BI. You need to do this twice. While you are looking for the black ice, see if there are any of the larger HEs in the area (usually there will be) and see if players are doing that HE. All you need to do is ride through the area until you get the HE pop up on your screen to get credit for the HE, no matter where you are on the map (you should be riding around looking for BI). If there's a lot of players there, you may want to dismount for a second and attack 1 mob, if the HE completes too fast then you sometimes don't get credit.
So IWD dailies is just riding around mounted, running through an HE, and hitting F 6 times. takes 3 minutes tops.
By the time you are around the 3rd boon IWD you should already have 5th boon DR and maybe 3rd or 4th boon Sharandar (if you opted to do the weekly). So at this point you will have a better idea of what you want to do, whether its commit to actually doing the Tyranny of Dailies (that's all 5 dragons a day, which will take longer each day than the first 3 mods dailies combined) or if you wanna stick to the bare minimum ToD for boon progression only.
The 300 Raw Black Ice does't have to be all mined. All of the Heroic Encounters in IWD will reward between 25-75 black ice. This counts towards the 300 Black Ice you have to earn. The solo HEs can be done under 10 minutes tops and that's if you take it easy. That's 35 BI. A larger HE (3+ players) will net you 75 BI if you do more than just and in the area. And if they are alot of player in the area your in they drop in and help with the HE even the solo one. It won't decrease your reward and it make it way easier with more player.
I do the HEs in IWD to get most of my 300 BI I need. If I get lucky find BI mining nodes for myself well that's just the one HE I need to do.
You can use HEs to get the ice, you need to do one anyway. And there is always the rare chance at a bracer/weapon. But its rather slow. And not all characters new to IWD are able to solo them. Once you've learned where the black ice nodes spawn, it takes only a few minutes to get the ice for the daily. Once you unlock Dwarven Valley its even easier imo. There are more unguarded (or lightly guarded) black ice nodes laying around.
You are suggesting for a returning player trying to catch up with this treadmill to spend 10 minutes (10 really? lets say 5 minutes) soloing an HE for 35 black ice, and to do this 9 times to complete the IWD daily. thats 45-90 minutes for 1 daily quest in IWD.
The point of my guide is to spend as little time as possible on dailies and maximizing the amount of time you have to actually play the game.
Just ride around on your horse, press F 6 times, and collect your 10 rep. repeat 35 times and congrats, you are done with Mod 3.
This have been really helpful as much as any others! Thank you. And Im sure for those other returning players will really find this useful. I owe you guys alot, hope to see you in-game! I just have one question, about sharandar rewards. I cant seem to complete it even though I clicked the zone rewards already. And if can anyone explain for what is the stars that you get there? Is that a currency I could use?
Oh and about gears, Is dungeon gears better or should I get the zone gears? Thanks alot for the help! really thank you
Depending on how you play, and what you play, either a full set or a mixture of them could benefit you the most. Many sets have buffs if there are 2 pieces or all 4 pieces. The easiest way to obtain a set is through the Auction House, however, this can be expensive. Hit Crtl-J and look at the Epic Equipment section to get a feel for what you want, then figure out how to get it.
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You can certainly jump right into running epic dungeons, as there is now a free daily dungeon key so you can open the end chest even when a dungeon delve event isn't going on. These dungeons, however, can take a lot more time to run, so keep that in mind when planning your play time.
If you have time, also do the Sharandar (Feywild) and Tyranny of Dragons daily quests. Personally, I find these more tedious, so put them off until I get the more desirable stuff out of the way, and only if/when I have time.
As for Icewind Dale - I find that mining 2 nodes, (a "full" black ice node yields at least 150 raw black ice - 50 per chunk you chip off), then knocking out any available heroic encounter is the fastest way to fulfill those requirements. As you progress, you will eventually unlock a quest to defend the town of Caer Konig itself, (Need for Mead quest), which rewards you with at least 250 black ice. Unless they changed it, that counts toward the daily quest, and you can get an item which gives a chance at getting a Yeti companion, so that's a plus as well.
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Someone give this man a medal, and make this a sticky. This would have been invaluable when I first began and got overwhelmed by the number of dailies there were. It got to a point I didn't actually do anything more than log in, do dailies, by 23:30 I would be done and then have no time to do anything more like a dungeon or such.
After a lot of Googling (which revealed little) and a lot of asking I managed to cobble together the same information Inthefade has put out. My own advice is to invoke every day and use that to buy the campaign coffers for Sharandr, by far the most badly paced campaign of the lot where we spend literally weeks (not days) grinding one specific token so we can advance to the next area.
I don't know TRs so I have little information about them, but check their sub-forums on this site. As a rule though, you don't want IWD Black Ice armor as someone mentioned above, unless you wish to PvP. For PvE you usually want your T2 armor. That said I don't know TRs or if you want to PvP so best to check their forums.
Personally I have given up on the the last two boons of ToD simply because even *if* the books drop, and that is extremely rare, I would never ever 'waste' 2-3 million AD for a pitiful 200 life steal or 3% of the same. The books would go right into the AH, so, either way, no boons for me. It was a huge pleasure to realize this and finally sit down and ignore a good chunk of what was my daily grind.
You are talking about the initial Sharandar quest? They changed the collections page but never updated the quest. When you get to the part about "click zone rewards to see the rewards for this campaign", at the bottom of your Collection page (CTRL+J) there is a box you can check for "By Location" click this box and it will update the quest for you.
The zone gear is basically a quicker way to catch up GS wise without any cool set bonuses of the original armor sets. I would second Bioshrike's suggestion of doing the Dread Ring lair and getting purples that way, especially since you are doing them already for the boons. getting purples and getting the boons will increase your gs enough so that you are eligible to run dungeons. You'll eventually want specific sets, whether its pve or pvp or whatever it is you enjoy doing. These come from either dungeons or glory from pvp.
You may have some problems as a TR with "low" gs finding a dungeon in /lfg, because most /lfg groups want like 15k+ to run t1/t2 dungeons and other such nonsense. I'd suggest joining the legit channel. Bio has a command in his sig that lets you join it.