Neverwinter Mod 16: Guide For New Players (Campaign Tips,15k Item Level, Archer Build)

Complete guide for new Neverwinter Players:

- The main goal is to get to max level of 80 quickly by join guild that has xp boost and complete guild quests daily.
- Buy all of the items mostly from auction house.
- Random queues daily to get astral diamonds.
- Have potion, superior potion, invocation blessing, and portable altar ready all the time.
- Do not forget to invoke daily (Ctrl + I) and spend celestial synergy on Coffer of Celestial Artifacts.
- VIP is the most worth to spend your money on.
- Neverwinter anniversary is around June, there will be huge discounts

Campaign:
- Finish Undermountain quest first to get all of the epic equipments
- Easy: Acquisitions Incorporated, Tyranny of Dragons, The Maze Engine, Sharandar
- Medium: Underdark, Dread Ring, Icewind Dale, Storm King's Thunder
- Hard: The Cloaked Ascendancy, Jungles of Chult, Ravenloft
- Second priority: Elemental Evil

- Acquisistions Incorporated: weekly quests only, proceed boons last.
- Tyranny of Dragons: Stop the quest at the assist the Harpers, then upgrade the boons. Take 3 quests daily from Harper Boward at Protector Enclave and Neverdeath graveyard (grave swap / disrupt ritual). Do 1 weekly quest at Well of Dragons. Get the books and hoard coffer from auction house.
- The Maze Engine: Daily and weekly quests only.
- Sharandar & Underdark: Advancement and boons only. Collect 18 seeds and 18 charms only.
- Dread Ring: Weekly quest, demon hunting, and Sergeant Knox quest only. Advancement and boons only.
- Icewind Dale: Explore Dwarven Valley and boons only. Weekly quest, demon hunting, and contract daily quest only.
- Storm King's Thunder: Get Voninblod from gathering relics around Bryn Shander map with excavator potion and shovel from store. Weekly quest and defending the dale quest only. Accept all quests (+ - 12) from all SKT map then finish it all at once, but do not complete the quests as it is for defending the dale quest, only 3 quests need to complete. Proceed boons last.
- The Cloaked Ascendancy: Do not do the lower part quest. Weekly quest, rituals and one digging site daily until 100%.
- Jungles of Chult: Advancement, Boon, and then Monster Hunt. Do everything until it reach weekly haul.
- Ravenloft: Follow the advancement, do quests until it reach weekly haul, proceed boons last.


(I use Ranger - Warden class as an example)


Equipment:
- When you reach 70, go to undermountain quest to get full set equipment for free.
- Change the equipment when you have enough seal of the crown and mountain from random queue.
- Get item level of 882 for raid shirt and pants on auction house.
- Refine weapons & artifacts to unlock enchantment slots.


Artifacts:
- Lostmauth's Horn of Blasting sets (neck, waist, & artifact)
- Sigil of the selected class (get it from Neverember quest)
- Soul Sight Crystal (primary artifact for solo boss)
- Kessel's Spheres of Annihilation


Status & Boons:
- Only increase the status that you are lack of. The ideal cap is at 52,000, maximize power as much as possible.
- Offensive: Critical Strike (priority) - Armor Penetration - Power - Accuracy - Combat Advantage
- Defensive: Defense (priority) - Deflection - Awareness - Critical Avoidance - Hit Points


Enchantments:
- Get rank 8 enchantments for all slots
- Get Azure Enchantment for utility slots (xp gain)
- Azure (crit, def), Dark (arm pen, crit avoid), Silvery (deflect, accuracy), Radiant (max hp, power)
- Shadowclad enchantment for armor, Dread enchantment for weapon slot.
- Major Combat Advantage Armor & Weapon Power Kit
- Cube of Augmentation


Companions:
- Energon (summoned)
- Any green companions for your stats then changed to all epic.
- Bonding Runestone, Rank 9
- 6 Profane Runestone, Rank 9 & 3 epic companion equipment from undermountain quest.

Mounts:
- Apparatus of Kwalish (priority to get rough astral diamonds and epic mount for fast movement speed)
- Suratuk's Jungle Spider - Wanderer's Fortune (extra refinement points)
- Arkaiun Courser - Protector's Camaraderie
- Panther - Slayer's Bloodlust
- Moonbear - Berserker's Rage
- Rare Dominance & Aggression Insignias

Powers:
- At will: 3, 4
- Encounter: 2, 1, 7 (melee)
- Daily: 2, 3
- Class Feature: 1, 6
- Feat: 2, 2, 1, 2, 1

update:
- best way to get rough astral diamonds after random queue is by queueing epic / demogorgon trial.
- try to prioritize finishing undermoutnain quests to get epic companion and other epic equipments and artifacts.
- End game equipment: Alabaster Weapon, Wyvern Set
- End game companion: Ioun Stone of Allure, Frozen Galeb Duhr, Razorwood, Deepcrow Hatchling

Awesome! Just returning after 2 years, very helpful!