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The New Siege of Neverwinter - Details please
hexngone
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One of my favorite events was always the Siege of Neverwinter. It would be on the schedule 2x/year and give new players a chance to earn a Siege Griffon (with Wanderer's Fortune bonus), some nice fashion, dyes, Dragon Glyphs, Quartermaster Enchants, Neverwinter Archer and Medic companions and of course the Siege Charger mount. The best part of the event was the fact that I could work really hard and earn Strongboxes of Influence to donate to the guilds in my alliance to help them grow. They were earned through recruiting Mercenaries (Stronghold hold quest) and from crafting Defense Supplies from various profession materials. These materials were designed to engage the players that had not done much crafting to try to make things and level their artisan ins the process. Donation Defense supplies gave you Medals of Honor which could be used to buy the Influence Strongboxes (which require no key to open).
When I look at the description of the Siege of Neverwinter event coming in another week, I see what looks like a cut/paste of the Achievement earning process from Hell Pit and Harvest of NIghtmares.
1) If you are changing currencies, can we exchange our Medallions of Battle that we earned?
2) Will we be able to craft Defense Supplies and exchange them for currency that will allow us to buy the Stronghold Influence boxes? Are the recipes the same as they have always been?
3) Will we be able to buy the Siege Griffon and all the other wonderful items that were in the event store with the new currency?
4) I was hoping you would issue General Sabine as a Companion as she is related to the event. The Golden Warhorse is nice too, but I have to keep his stall clean.
Looking forward to the event, but hoping that the core rewards and activities of the event are still retained through the update.
Thanks in advance for any information you can provide.
When I look at the description of the Siege of Neverwinter event coming in another week, I see what looks like a cut/paste of the Achievement earning process from Hell Pit and Harvest of NIghtmares.
1) If you are changing currencies, can we exchange our Medallions of Battle that we earned?
2) Will we be able to craft Defense Supplies and exchange them for currency that will allow us to buy the Stronghold Influence boxes? Are the recipes the same as they have always been?
3) Will we be able to buy the Siege Griffon and all the other wonderful items that were in the event store with the new currency?
4) I was hoping you would issue General Sabine as a Companion as she is related to the event. The Golden Warhorse is nice too, but I have to keep his stall clean.
Looking forward to the event, but hoping that the core rewards and activities of the event are still retained through the update.
Thanks in advance for any information you can provide.
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https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/neverwinter/news/detail/11501743-siege-of-neverwinter!
It doesn't seem to answer too many of the previous posts' questions--no mention of guild vouchers, no mention of defense supplies, not certain if alts will be able to run and gain new stuff, not certain what the buy back will be for the old currency, but they do at least mention it. Nice update on the new companion (Mythic--account) for the 5 achievement coins, which is great if you already have the Warhorse. Funny thing is that they didn't update the medic and archer companion descriptions.
So--unfortunately, I still have many of the questions that were asked in the original post.
Hope to see more info before the event.
Looks like the new currencies (Token of ...) are account-wide because you can turn them in for an account-wide rewards, e.g. mount or companion?
Hopefully all characters on an account can contribute then (not like the Masquerade of Liars where only one character could pick a faction, finish that quest and would get repeatable quests).
Also will we still get voucher drops? For many the Siege was mostly for getting a boost of Influence and Tyranny currency to donate to the coffer and help guild progress considerably. This time I want lots of Fey Trinket vouchers too since the threshold to gain and contribute them has been raised to IL 40k+, far out of reach for many players...
Is that a bug? Is there some entrance requirement they don´t meet and wasn´t mentioned? (like a quest they haven´t done or a minimum IL - if so that kinda defeats the purpose of getting new players some freebie mount and stuff)
The old stronghold quest was worth it IMO, the new one isn´t. At best you get an 100 Influence voucher per day. You could have done a stronghold HE instead. Okay, maybe to trade the vouchers on AH (instead of joining a guild to donate).
"When the second week of the siege begins you will have a chance to earn an extra [Token of Participation]. This will come from providing supplies to aid the battle"
I'm speculating here that (hopefully) the mechanism for producing the Defense Supplies (Stronghold guard recruitment and Defense Supply crafting in the Workshop) will be activated then. Perhaps the Master of Coin offering the 'Guard Recruitment' quest the first week was an error/oversight?
Frankly, we seem to have enough 'puzzles' to work out with the Cult Assult and Invavasion HEs failing to spawn a Cult Leader (apparently because mobs are being killed before they enter the camp areas?) which results in 15 minutes of wasted effort.
I am thankful to see that the old currency/rewards seem to all be available. Included are the old Defense Supply cases which to me implies that they are still functional if you have some in banks somewhere.
Stay tuned.
"For completing the daily quest “Siege of Neverwinter” 14 times throughout the event duration you will acquire ONE token of achievement. This token can be used in the Achievement store."
https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/neverwinter/news/detail/11501743-siege-of-neverwinter!
a) Only one character per account can complete the quest "Siege of Neverwinter" every day (all other characters on the account can then only repeat "Breaking the Siege" until reset).
b) If this one character does it 14 times, he gets ONE token (according to the description).
So after 14 days of doing it with one character, I will get ONE token? Mount or companion cost FIVE.
Are these a reward to look forward to in 5 years?
Vouchers obviously, Seals of the Fallen and AD.
With 14+ days of participation, Tokens of Achievement for some multi-year reward after participating in these appointment events. Tokens of Challenge for day 14-21. And Tokens of Participation seem to be a reward for "Breaking the Siege" too so alts can get them and they can be farmed until cap (whatever the daily cap is, I´ve heard people talk in zone chat about 3 or 4 on their characters so that would be more than 42 over the 21 days span).
When the event was new, everyone were looking forward to getting a legendary mount, since legendary mounts were very rare and expensive at the time the event was launched. Not so any more.
The new mythic companion likely also will be reduced in value by the time we can actually get it(unless you spend already-earned tokens on him, of course). And that companion is not that good to start with.
Don't forget toxic lead minis are a great snack food during those long sessions!
Just killing time...
they could have made the map a queued trial zone, when entering we have the campfire and maybe some chest for ending the trial, the wood barricades is the entrance to the trial zone when interacting with it, when entering we trigger the small he we have at the barricade after completing that set the party to move to middle area summoning the blue dragon big heroic encounter and we are sent towards the catapult but we have to defeat the general small heroic encounter in order to have access to the catapult arena heroic encounter after destroying them trigger black dragon heroic encounter after defeating the black dragon direct the party to save neverwinter soldiers from enemy campfire trigging that zone heroic encounter after saving the soldiers summon the main threat the giant red dragon heroic encounter and that how the rework was done, this as a 5 players trial
@noworries#8859 @nitocris83
With the event week changeover today we enter week 2 of the event. According to the description in the calendar (one of two possible responses to my request in this post for 'Details') the text quoted above exists. I (and many others) are totally confused as to how we can actually perform the task in the last sentence "providing supplies to aid the battle". There is no drop box, there is no vendor, the Profession ability to craft the Defense Supplies is not active. I and many others have found Defense Supplies we made in years past and (due to time) did not yet turn in, there is no vendor accepting them. There are rewards at the PE vendor for Medals of Heroism, but there is no source for them other that what might be leftover from previous events.
Is the omission of the artisan/recipe for Defense Supplies an error to be fixed ASAP? @nitocris83
Is the omission of a vendor to accept Defense Supplies for Tokens of Participation missing soon to be activated? @nitocris83
The blog posting on the updated/revised event mentions
"Cult Warband - Cult Warriors prowl the battlefield, scouting the city's defenses and looking for soldiers to ambush. Defeat these bands of marauders to push back the besieging army."
Yet I have never seen this as a named HE event in the instance. Is this something that will be added in week 3? or an omission? @nitocris83
I realize this all could be posted in the Bug Report(PC) Forum, but I've added it here because I started here to ask for a description of the event and what was provided and what is actually active do not seem to match up. Please provide some clarification so we know if we have misunderstood something or a future patch will remedy the situation.
The good news is ... it is not Saturday yet.