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The Cragsteep Crypt (Dungeon Delve)
apocrs1980
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Name - The Cragsteep Crypt @apocrs1980
Short Code: NW-DKZHULOVG
Mission Type: 5 man dungeon delv
Average Duration: 1.5 Hours
Amount of Combat: Very heavy
Starts at: World map, depart from any gate.
Mission Summary: Something terribly wrong is rumored to have happened in the town of Cragsteep nestled in the South Western Crag Mountains it is a hub of valuable trade for Neverwinter and other outlying cities. However, the trade has mysteriously stopped and no one has heard from any of the citizens of Cragsteep for days, you and a few of your closest allies are charged with finding out what happened.
Author tips/hints: See PRO TIPS section in lower post for all hints and tips of surviving the dungeon.
Hello everyone, Apoc here!
I wanted to take the time to thank everyone who helped me fine tune the Dungeon!
Also, I have always wanted to to create a dungeon that I would have fun running through and that others will enjoy as well... something that is both visually stimulating and has memorable battles, and I think I have accomplished this.
As any Dungeon run make sure you are well equipped you will be facing down dozens of evil hoards in the ancient crypt so make sure to equip AoE and healing abilities! Careful and well timed pulls can go a long way and mean the difference between success and death, I hope everyone enjoys this labor of love of mine as well, Cheers!
Here are the details,
RECOMMENDATIONS:
This is a dungeon so it is best to bring the "holy trinity" ( Tank / Healer / dps )
Please note the difficulty of this dungeon scales greatly as your character levels up.
Although you can play solo it is not recommended as it takes a very long time to do and is extremely challenging!
Also please note that the Rewards in the Chests at the end of all UGC missions are completely at random, authors unfortunately have no control over this.
NOTE: If you do need to take a break from the dungeon, hit the back button on your mini map, and you will not loose your progress! This will allow you time to sell stuff and get a sammich!
Recommended Level: 30+ (for the best challenge)
Group size: 3-5
Average length: 1.5 hours
Style: Dungeon Crawl Heavy Combat - some story elements "completely optional."
Label: (quest)
BETA 1.15 patch notes:
Based on player feed back the following amendments have been made:
* Number of encounters significantly reduced in efforts to cut down on Dungeon run time, difficulty of encounters remains the same.
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Here are some facts about the dungeon-
This was built with a group of adventurers in mind I was thinking of epic 10 man raids actually when I made this, it may be solo-able at lower levels but I only would attempt this if you really want to be challenged, have way too many HP pots than you know what to do with, or do not mind spending over an hour or more playing through the dungeon. The time is takes to complete the dungeon on solo for that matter is directly effected by your class type and it's ability to kill monsters. A GF will take FOREVER! Believe me I know. :P
Ideally I had 4 to 5 players in mind when creating this, and if you run it as a group of 3-5 it is easier and takes significantly less time to get through, I timed 40 min tops with a group of 5.
Total time to complete just to get it to a beta status was over 448 hours working non-stop.
Other things to help those who find it too difficult,
every encounter placed in the dungeon has a purpose weather that be story driven, protecting a vital piece of progression, or preventing players from zerging through as fast as they can.
in the Cragsteep Crypt, you can avoid triggering the Ancient protectors by walking around the floor triggers if you wish to speed up the dungeon.
Should I kill that pat??? The Soul Reaver patrol on the bridge leading to the fight with the Epic Eight can by bypassed with good timing and never be engaged, should it be killed it spawns a lot of nasty crypt crawler packs, the choice is yours.
Hide and Seek: Alyssya Crass hides if you kill her all of the shadow clones disappear shortening the fight significantly... Happy Hunting.
On the Broodmother encounter she summons Crag Spitters, these should be your first target as if you leave them alone they will nuke the party from afar.
Darious Whitemane: Same as Alyssia Killing the real Darious will cause his shades to vanish.
BOSSES:
Jarrod Elswan
Epic Eigh Adventurers & Alyssia Crass
Cinder Gore
The Broodmother
Darious & Blackmore's end
Like any Dungeon monsters have a priority to them, leave some well enough alone and you can find the group overwhelmed in seconds, there is always a BEST way to get through and its up to the players to come up with their own style of finding it.
Side notes:
*Authors can not place vendors
*We can not alter or give out loot
*Best loot is generated from length of quests #of monsters killed # of deaths, there for this is made with the best loot drops in mind.
*We can not place actual "BOSS" encounters yet as they do not exist in the Foundry.
Ravenloft
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Himmelville - Are you easily frightened?
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On one side of the mountain, there were bones...
Ravenloft
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The only thing we did get was a demo that Winin did and pulled the pics from it, those are posted in the link in the OP.
That being said it will be interesting to see how each group overcomes some of the enemies in game, all I can say is there are times where it's better to try and sneak around that patrol then take it out.
I do have some early photos of the areas so people can get an idea
Ravenloft
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Ravenloft
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The dungeon is published and ready to roll, I'll leave this page for feedback and any bug reports that people find tyvm and have fun!
Keep in mind we do have music set in our content however due to a bug it is not surviving the publishing process there for music and sound FX will not play during live versions of UGC.
Ravenloft
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Every time they idiot-proof something...they make better idiots.
Ravenloft
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You don't need videos when you have an epic adventure like this up.
Two words: SIMPLY AMAZING!
You should grab your friends, if you don't have any buy some, set aside an hour or so and go do this quest RIGHT NOW.
I promise you will not regret it. It is a prime example of how powerful the foundry can be in the right hands.
The best thing about Neverwinter Nights was the modding community and how they kept me playing FOREVER. Can't wait to check out your work.
<Rarely Sober> - Beholder
Foundry content is available across all server shards.
I will take them in to consideration as I continue to work on polishing things up, once the Foundry does have access to Boss encounters the dungeon will undergo considerable revisions
Thanks again for all of the feedback I find it very valuable and appreciate everyone for playing.
Ravenloft
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Ravenloft
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And yes, it's a loot wh*re's dream quest.
Ravenloft
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I was in the "what I guess was the last room" where the door locks behind you. Died, couldn't bet back in. I suggest putting a campfire in there.
Crazy fun though! Went from level 13 to 16. Got 5 Nightmare lockboxes.
there was also a player who commented that the portal actually got him clipped into a wall and ended up on the ceiling? if they wouldn't mind commenting here where that had happened and
I'll get it addressed right away. Thanks everyone for testing out the Beta of the dungeon you suggestions and comments let me know where tweaks should be made and what I happen to get just right.
Ravenloft
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But the room is where you have crypts that you interact with and it says: here lies Robobo and Redhammer etc. Died in there, couldn't get back in. If there is a teleporter, I didn't see it.
Ravenloft
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However I got stuck at "Hold out against Elwan's militia until [untill?] the Portals have closed WAVE 2/5 (1/2)". Killed all the mobs and nothing happens. Exited, restarted from the beginning and the same again.
Could you please check if it's fine for you? Maybe I am doing something wrong/need to trigger something?
Ravenloft
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Things to note:
- Upon Dying in the final fight (vs the 8 heros) I was teleported outside of the room and unable to get back in. This ended the run for me as I could not finish and the teleporter on the third crystal was out of line of sight.
- Amazing use of Traps
- Amazing use of mobs, mixing CC mobs with ranged and swarming flurry things.. great work.
- I started off at level 10, with 8 potions. Finished at level 13 with none.
- The drop rate of potions was just keeping up with my usage until the end when I finally ran out but I know that's completely random.
- Those little skeletons that do the flurry of blows were the biggest threat to my GWF.
- Great dialogue throughout, I was expecting just a challenging dungeon, but found myself really getting into the story as well.
- Overall I would have given you 4.5 stars for this and tipped but I was unable to complete it and missed the final review.
Redhammer is pretty powerful he might of sealed off your teleporter!
bwahahaha I'm Hoopty Redhammer don't tell anyone!
tyvm for the feedback!
Ravenloft
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