10 years of Neverwinter.

gildriador · April 2023

Hi everyone,
I created my Wizard 10 years ago at the beginning of openbeta.

My Wizard was created on the Dragon server.
At the beggining of the game, this 3 differents server was online if I remember well.

Dragon server
Beholder server
MindFlayer server

I'm curious if some player who started their characters at the beginning of Neverwinter are still playing Neverwinter.
I have played all content from original Mod 0 to Mod 25 on their lunch date, with my Wizard.

fritz · May 2023

10 year anniversary is still a couple month away for me. I technically had another account with characters from May / June 2013, but I wasn't really satisfied with my race / class choices after playing for a few weeks. So I registered my current main account because I didn't want to delete my progress either and the game was free-2-play.

My first char was a Guardian Fighter. I followed Envy's and Rokuthy's builds:

https://www.arcgames.com/en/forums/neverwinter#/discussion/483940/envys-dps-guardian-fighter-compendium/p1
https://www.arcgames.com/en/forums/neverwinter#/discussion/484982/rokuthys-hybrid-tanking-build-gf-for-end-game-pve-and-pvp-content/p1

llewelyn89 · May 2023

Here's another oldie

rockster · May 2023

I started in the first year the game was going and the first new mod after that which came out was Icewind Dale, they advertised it as the biggest map ever etc etc., remember? So I think I missed the start by a few months or something. I certainly missed the cat fiasco. But I joined during mod2 anyway.

I still have my OG character, he's still existing, a DC cleric, but it's on an old account I no longer play on. I rage-quit a few times over the years (first time was mod 6) and one time was particularly strong and bitter for me, I vowed I would never pay the company one more cent of my money and wasn't ever going to play again. But of course after a long while I started getting homesick for the place like I always did and wanted to come back, I missed just simply being there. So I made a compromise with myself. I would play again, but I wouldn't pay them any money and I wouldn't take it seriously and just do not much and just hang out there and not play really, and certainly not be competitive like I had been before and I would make a new account and play it in a totally different way. I could just enjoy being in the place I loved and avoid the disappointments the devs constantly put us through. But I believed that it was impossible for me to use the same account, I had vip rank 12 and loads of stuff, and I thought it would be too hard to change my habits and move to this new attitude with all those things, it would remind me and unconsciously push me to slowly slide back to old habits, so I decided to make a clean fresh start and make a new account and just play on it for sh! ts and giggles.

Well one thing led to another and now I pay even more in cash to the game than I did before (much more) and I'm as serious as I ever was about my performance and I once again have vip rank 12. So it was a total failure and in the process I lost my OG handle without any #456764 numbers after it. But I can't play two accounts, I only want to play one, and I got attached to my new characters so that old account just sits there doing nothing now. Though I did migrate all my old enchants over at one stage because I paid for them and earned them so why the F not.

First character was so squishy and died all the time no matter what I tried, it was just exhausting staying alive, and after about 6 months I think it was I changed to GWF and enjoyed that much more because he really could take advantage of the lifesteal and as long as he was bashing enemies he stayed alive. Then after a couple of years I got bored with just hitting things over and over and wanted something fresh to do, I made a CW and mostly followed Fnhusa57's build which was very good at the time he did his vids and my damage was through the roof with his setup. That CW was the last character I had on that old account, but I play one now on this account which I have a ton of fun with. I have a DC for dedicated heals, a wiz for dedicated dps, GF for dedicated tanking and I'm also playing on the side developing both a SW and a Rogue just for fun.

Looking forward to the 10th anniversary, hope they can launch it without bugs or disappointments, but I'm a realist.