Characteristic Highlights
New Journey Zone: Northdark Reaches
With a civil battle brewing within the Underdark, King Bruenor wants your assist to seek for a lacking scout and uncover the circumstances of the disappearance. Discover the occasions that happen between Starlight Enclave and Glacier’s Edge, the primary two books in RA Salvatore’s The Method of the Drow trilogy, and meet fan-favorite characters on this new storyline, developed in collaboration with RA Salvatore and Geno Salvatore.
With the brand new Journey Zone and new storyline comes a brand new marketing campaign, repeatable cases, and Heroic Encounters.
Additional info at: Neverwinter: Northdark Reaches – November 8!
Learn extra at: Neverwinter: Northdark Reaches Dev Weblog Hub
Dungeon Rework: Temple of the Spider
The Temple of the Spider dungeon has been reworked, and is now obtainable in each Regular and Grasp problem. Delve as soon as once more into the Temple of the Spider to rescue a Excessive Priestess from the judgment of the Spider Queen.
The Regular model of this dungeon is accessible to all gamers with at the very least 25,000 Merchandise Stage and is included within the Random Dungeon Queue. The Grasp model is a problem worthy of the strongest adventurers within the realm and requires 75,000 Merchandise Stage. Each are unlocked via marketing campaign development.
Additional info at: Developer Weblog: Temple of the Spider Rework!
Wizard Updates
The Wizard class has seen many bug fixes and stability tweaks, with the aim of permitting many extra powers to be viable. Each the Thaumaturge and Arcanist have seen vital enhancements total. An inventory of the adjustments is on the botom of the notes.
Additional info at: Developer Weblog: Wizard Updates
Stock Updates
A large swath of quality-of-life enhancements has been made to the stock interface! The Stock now has search performance, and all baggage besides most important or overflow baggage can now be renamed, changed with a distinct bag (so long as there’s sufficient house), and extra.
Gadgets may also be multi-selected for motion, the PC shopper now has the flexibility to fit an merchandise into the Potion Tray with out opening the stock, gamers can use Damage Kits mechanically by interacting with the Damage HUD component, and the checklist goes on. We actually suggest studying the weblog beneath for particulars!
Additional info at: Developer Weblog: Stock Updates & Extra!
New Lockbox: Myconid Lockbox
With the brand new module comes a brand new lockbox! This lockbox makes use of the identical opening type because the Dragon Cult Lockbox and the Dragonslayer Lockbox. The distinctive prizes to this lockbox are:
The Myconid Bulette mount, which has a Energy and Accuracy aura, in addition to a fight energy that will increase enemies’ harm taken from the participant.
Rumpadump, a companion—additionally seen as a personality within the Northdark Reaches storyline—who has a Crit Strike and Crit Severity proc as a participant bonus energy, and a Motion Velocity enhancement.
Additional info at: Developer Weblog: Myconid Lockbox!
Q&A Stream with Brett Norton
Tune in Wednesday, November 9th at 2:00 PM Pacific time (22:00 UTC) for a quarterly question-and-answer stream with our Govt Producer, Brett Norton! The stream might be hosted on Twitch, at: http://twitch.television/crypticstudios
Additional info at: Q&A with EP Brett Norton – November 9
Recognized Points
Northdark Reaches Journey Zone
- Braelin reappears in his cage after finishing ‘The Doorways of Neirt Elamshin’ quest
Temple of the Spider
- Some gamers could obtain additional boss forex in Temple of the Spider (Grasp).
- Gamers could stay in fight after defeating Da’Zora Mizzrym till exiting her boss room.
- Some spell combos from Da’Zora Mizzrym boss struggle could trigger an FPS drop for consoles and minimal spec PCs.
- Barrel Bombs on Halbryn Darkish Stalker struggle could not fade instantly after being killed.
- Hissing sound impact from an ignited fuse on Barrel Bombs could proceed taking part in after it explodes
Myconid Lockbox
- Mount package deal from the Myconid Lockbox doesn’t show the proper mount’s title.
Rewards
- The Moonlight’s Blessing Energy just isn’t triggered by some bard AoE therapeutic spells.
- Northdark Navigator buff incorrectly states that it really works “within the Underdark” (Energy is simply energetic in Northdark Reaches)
- Northdark Navigator buff has a placeholder icon
- ‘Northdark Plate’ armor does not show correctly on characters when carrying a physique paint trend merchandise.
Wizard Class Stability
- Short-term HP from ‘Spell Mastery Defend’ solely absorbs 66% of injury taken.
- Short-term HP from ‘Defend’ is granted after a 1 second delay.
Stock Enhancements
- Utilizing the potion belt picker does not show customized bag names.
Normal
- Dashing Chapeaus from Dashing Key Bundle hides the character’s hair when outfitted.
Launch Notes
Content material and Atmosphere
Normal
- Icespire Peak: Some lacking partitions have been changed.
- Prophecy of Insanity: This queue has been faraway from the Reaper’s Problem rotation.
- A number of minor visible points in Protector’s Enclave, e.g. home windows with unusual reflections, have been addressed.
- Shores of Tuern: Energy space indicators now not journey up partitions right here.
- Tutorial: There may be as soon as once more a step to equip the tutorial mounts after buying them from a vendor. These mounts can now not be deleted or faraway from the stock.
- Numerous performance points in sure older content material have been addressed.
- Numerous typos have been addressed in a wide range of content material.
Achievements
- Gamers who had accomplished Rank 3 Slayer achievements, however had not been granted the suitable titles, will mechanically be granted the suitable titles briefly after logging in.
- Rise of Tiamat: The meta-achievement now persistently positive factors progress when the suitable achievement is earned. Gamers who had gained an achievement with out gaining meta progress might be mounted on login.
- The in-game achievement for finishing the Crown of Keldegonn now applies with both Regular or Grasp problem completions.
Campaigns and Adventures
- The Maze Engine journey now requires completion of The Dwarven King journey.
- The Redeemed Citadel Marketing campaign in Previous Occasions now not erroneously implies progress will be made.
Fishing
- Fish now chew far more rapidly.
- The window throughout which the participant can set the hook has been diminished.
- These adjustments ought to have an effect on all fishing areas, irrespective of the zone.
Future Occasions
- April Fowls: Seed Bread and Scorching Wings can now be bought in bulk.
- Celebration of Lliira: Lliira’s Favor can now not be offered to distributors.
- Feast of Lanterns: All kinds of quality-of-life enhancements have been made to this occasion, together with making canine simpler to search out, permitting numerous gadgets to be bought in bulk, and making interactive objects simpler to see and work together with.
- Summer season Pageant
- Sunite Garb can now be crafted whereas Summer season Provisioning is energetic.
- Grand Summer season Feast ought to now be craftable utilizing the most recent variations of Caprese, Squash Soup, and Watermelon Sorbet.
- Older variations of the Grand Summer season Feast, Easy Summer season Feast, and Lavish Summer season Feast can now not be crafted.
- Winter Pageant
- The next Gadgets can now be bought in bulk:
- Illuminated Field
- Small Iceworks
- Crate of Blacklead
- Sky Beam
- Bathe of Lights
- Sky Lantern
- Giant Iceworks
- Monsters on Ice: Plee and Aakhii now assault gamers extra usually when engaged, and at the moment are immune to manage results.
- Gamers ought to now not unintentionally be despatched to the race podium when fishing.
- The next Gadgets can now be bought in bulk:
Fight and Powers: Different
Artifacts
- Demogorgon’s Attain: The tentacles summoned by this artifact now correctly operate in all applicable content material.
- Northern Jewel: This artifact now grants 1020 Mixed Score at Mythic high quality.
- Mythallar Fragment: This artifact now grants 960 Mixed Score at Mythic high quality.
Courses and Stability
- Bard
- When utilizing the Artwork of Warfare feat, Fleche’s AoE impact now correctly triggers results that proc from AoE energy utilization.
- Cleric
- Anointed Military’s important heals are now not modified by the goal’s Vital Avoidance worth.
- Astral Defend can now heal critically.
- Astral Defend’s tooltip now appropriately states that it heals for 250 magnitude, not 100. This isn’t a performance change.
- Hallowed Floor can now heal critically.
- Gentle of Divinity can now not typically lead to a number of targets being marked.
- Gentle of Divinity’s important heals are now not modified by the goal’s Vital Avoidance worth.
- Paladin
- Aura of Life can now critically strike.
- Hand of Divinity can now not typically lead to a number of targets being marked.
- Hand of Divinity’s important healers are now not affected by the goal’s Vital Avoidance stat.
- Motion Velocity values granted by Motion Enchantments, Guild Boons, and equipment (shirts/pants/rings) ought to now not be modified by the next:
- (All) Revive Illness
- (Barbarian) Spinning Strike
- (Numerous) Block and Block-related powers
Companions
- Black Demise Scorpion: This companion now correctly assaults bigger enemies similar to dragons.
- Forest Feypanther’s Presence’s mixed score now correctly scales with the standard of the Forest Fey Panther.
- Ioun Stone of Attract: This companion’s tooltip now correctly states that it grants Management Bonus somewhat than Management Resistance.
- Pseudodragon: This companion now correctly assaults bigger enemies similar to dragons.
Enchantments
- Fortified Nature: This Fight enchantment now shows its Protection score within the character sheet.
- Fortified Nature: The buff utilized by this Fight enchantment now has a extra informational tooltip.
Mount Insignia Bonuses
- Alchemist’s Invigoration: The length of this bonus has been elevated to 18 seconds, up from 10.
- Barbarian’s Revelry: The therapeutic granted by this bonus has been elevated to 4%, up from 2%.
- Berserker’s Rage: The Vital Strike bonus now applies at 80% or larger Motion Factors, widened from 90% or larger. The Deflection bonus now applies at 20% or decrease Motion Factors, widened from 10% or decrease.
- Cavalry’s Warning: The length of this bonus has been elevated to twenty seconds, up from 10.
- Champion’s Return: The therapeutic granted by this bonus has been elevated to 10%, up from 5%.
- Knight’s Rebuke: The therapeutic granted by this bonus has been elevated to five%, up from 2%.
- Oppressor’s Reprieve: The therapeutic granted by this bonus has been elevated to eight%, up from 3%.
- Protector’s Camaraderie: The Vital Severity and Protection scores granted by this bonus have been elevated to 300 per stack, up from 200.
- Slayer’s Bloodlust: This bonus now grants 1000 Vital Strike, up from 500, and now lasts for 15 seconds, up from 5 seconds. As well as, the buff can now stack, as much as a most of 5 stacks.
- Survivor’s Blessing: The therapeutic granted by this bonus has been elevated to five%, up from 2%.
- Warlord’s Inspiration: The worth proven by this bonus’ tooltip is now appropriate, and making use of a number of iterations of this bonus now not has an opportunity to scale back its effectiveness somewhat than gaining diminishing returns.
Potion Tray
- The Forger’s Field and the Chain of Scales can now not be outfitted collectively on the Potion Tray.
- There may be now a restrict of 1 Battle Horn of any sort within the Potion Tray at any time.
Enemies and Encounters
Rise of Tiamat (Regular)
- Baaltor the Immortal and Osynafil the Timeless now summon one fewer add every.
- Hearth Breath, Chilly Breath, and Poison Breath now trigger much less pushback in Section 1 and 4.
- Severin’s HP has been diminished by 15%.
- Tiamat’s HP has been diminished by 15% in Section 5.
- Tiamat’s Claws’ HP has been diminished by 25%.
- Tiamat’s Heads’ HP has been diminished by 15%.
- The HP of provides in Section 2 has been diminished by 20%.
Gadgets and Financial system
Normal
- Public sale: The Lockbox class now exhibits the brand new type of Lockboxes.
- Luggage of Celestial Refining now not include Marks of Efficiency, Rank 2 or 3.
- Financial institution: The utmost variety of Shared Financial institution slots has been elevated to 104. Observe that reaching this worth nonetheless requires buying slots.
- Dungeon Grasp’s Information is now Historical Dungeon Grasp’s Information, and the outline has been up to date. It may be offered to shops for silver, and now not has any impact.
- Overload Enchantments now have a stack restrict of 99, and will be bought in bulk.
- Numerous gadgets that had the identical names, however totally different performance, have been renamed.
- Numerous weapons and neck slot gadgets from Dragonbone Vale and Dragonslayer can now correctly be transformed to Refinement factors.
Binding
- The next mounts had been incorrectly granted as Bind to Character even in sources that ought to be Bind to Equip. After this patch, future drops of those mounts from these sources (dungeons, lockboxes) might be Bind to Equip. Already-obtained variations are unaffected.
- Zakharan Bay Horse
- Inexperienced Owlbear
- White Owlbear
Collections
- Artifacts and Artifact Gear obtainable from Battlepasses and different limited-time occasions/promotions now seem in a novel ‘Particular’ Assortment. Gadgets in these Collections are value 0 factors.
- ‘Particular’ classes that observe limited-time Companions and Mounts have been added to the Companions and Mounts collections. A number of limited-time Companions and Mounts have been moved to those new particular classes.
- Demogorgon’s Wrath Neck and Waist have been moved to the Artifact Gear assortment.
- A number of Mounts have been moved to extra applicable classes (for instance, salamanders will not be cats).
- The ordering of Mounts, Companions, and Occasion collections has been revised.
Gear
- Lycan Boots of the Pack: Pack Mentality now particularly states that it requires a fight companion.
- The next rings now not grant a bigger quantity of stats than anticipated:
- Ring of the Curse Bringer
- Exalted Ring of the Curse Bringer
- Forgotten Assault Ring of the Prospector
- Forgotten Raid Ring of the Prospector
- Forgotten Restoration Ring of the Prospector
- Forgotten Ward Ring of the Prospector
Occasions
- Bonus RP Occasion: The overall variety of preservation ward rewards has been elevated to fifteen, up from 5.
Legacy Campaigns
- Storm King’s Thunder: The Voninblod reward from quests and heroic encounters has been considerably elevated.
Professions
- All crafted Sword Knots at the moment are correctly Bind on Equip.
- The artisan Unkra Forend’s description has been up to date.
Rage of Bel
- Vallenhas Elite Solider, Slaghound, and Hound of the Forge drop charges from Field of Vallenhas Treasures have been elevated.
- Transmute drop charges from Containers of Vallenhas Treasures have been elevated.
- Ring of Bel drop charges have been elevated.
- The variety of Infernal Secrets and techniques gamers can earn per day has been doubled.
Seals
- Seals of the North now not have a weekly cap. Sources that granted Seals of the North now grant Seals of the Dragon.
- Seals of the Wild at the moment are out of date. Sources that granted Seals of the Wild now grant Seals of the North.
- Seal Distributors now carry merchandise for Seal of the Dragons and Seal of the North.
- The Grand Alliance Seals set has been moved to the Seal of the North retailer.
Vault of Stars
- Queen of Air and Darkness: This boss ought to now persistently give rewards to all gamers, and permit want/greed rolls on uncommon gadgets.
Zen Market
- Glory of Neverwinter pack (30k Merchandise Stage enhance) now correctly provides an account-bound Sword of Zariel, somewhat than character-bound.
Person Interface
Character Choose
- Merchandise Stage now shows on chosen characters.
Character Sheet
- Attributes: On Xbox or PlayStation® methods, the footer labels are as soon as once more correct to the obtainable actions.
- Powers: If gamers focus a feat, the entire feat class is now scrolled into view.
Normal
- Gear Preview: The animation picker now correctly performs the suitable animation on PC.
- Queues: The framerate whereas the queue checklist is open on Xbox and PlayStation® methods has improved.
- The Examine pane on the Shimmering Lockbox now exhibits the suitable key.
- Numerous bag icons have been up to date.
- Numerous incorrect icons have been corrected.
Residence Web page
- The Residence Web page has had a structure change. It ought to give extra helpful info at a look, and might now show developer bulletins within the lower-right panel if any are energetic.
Stock Updates, as seen in Developer Weblog: Stock Updates & Extra
- Search performance is now on the high of the Stock pane, in addition to many different panes.
- Bag administration has been reworked. The “Stock Choices” button within the Stock footer will enable entry to anew vary of choices, together with rearranging baggage, renaming them, setting most popular merchandise sorts, and extra.
- Gamers can now choose a number of gadgets and transfer them suddenly, beginning with the chosen empty house. To pick out a number of gadgets on PC, press Ctrl whereas left-clicking; on Xbox methods, press the X button; on PlayStation® methods, press the Sq. button.
- PC gamers now have entry to the Potion Tray context menu that Xbox and PlayStation® gamers had entry to.
- Interacting with the Damage component on the HUD now permits the participant to make use of an damage equipment with out opening the stock.
- Gamers can now set companions to their default title when binding them, whereas nonetheless retaining the free rename obtainable for later use.
- Gamers can now pin as much as three currencies at a time for constant show of their HUD.
- Vainness Pets now have an equip slot within the Vainness Pet stock, in order that it’s simpler to see which pet is at present summoned.
- Further Style Library slots can now be bought with Astral Diamonds. The default worth remains to be 100, and as much as 100 further slots will be bought, for a most of 200.
Map
- Landmarks now draw above space waypoints.
Choices
- Key Binds: The “Utility” energy has been renamed “Tactical” in the important thing bind settings.
Professions
- The HQ probability indicator now correctly exhibits values above 0 if, for instance, gamers use HQ gadgets even when the artisan is beneath the required Focus to grant H probability.
Character Artwork, Animation, and Results
Normal
- Gith Longsword now exhibits weapon illusions.
Visible Results
- Numerous visible results have been adjusted to higher match each the traditional lighting mannequin and the brand new lighting mannequin on show within the Northdark Reaches journey zone.
- The Shadow Wolf mount and companion have been revised to suit the theme whereas decreasing overdraw.
Fight and Powers: Wizard Updates
Bug Fixes
- Arcane Tempest now positive factors a ten% bonus to wreck when used within the Spell Mastery slot.
- Arcane Conduit now positive factors a ten% bonus to wreck when used within the Spell Mastery slot.
- Arcane Energy Subject every day is now correctly modified by the caster’s stats.
- Arcane Energy Subject now correctly offers Arcane harm and will increase stacks of Arcane Mastery.
- Arcane Energy Subject’s harm is now affected by A Step Above Mastery.
- Arcane Singularity’s harm is now correctly elevated by Sturdy Regal Collar.
- Chill Strike now receives the ten% bonus harm profit from Spell Mastery when used from the Tab slot.
- Directed Flames now not causes Smolder to fail to proc when forged quickly.
- Elemental Reinforcement: This feat now states that its harm bonus is simply utilized to Wizard spells, and never different sources of injury.
- Fanning the Flame’s AoE harm over time element is now correctly elevated by Spell Mastery.
- Fireball now positive factors a ten% bonus to wreck when used within the Spell Mastery slot.
- Maelstrom of Chaos ought to now calculate its harm much like different character powers.
- Maelstrom of Chaos ought to now not lower its important harm the upper the character’s Vital Avoidance stat.
- Oppressive Pressure now appropriately states that the magnitude within the Daze portion of the ability as 375 magnitude. The Repel portion of the ability now states 325 magnitude. Performance didn’t change for this energy.
- Repel ought to now deal harm to manage immune targets when used from the Spell Mastery slot.
- Storm Fury ought to now not lower its important harm the upper the character’s Vital Avoidance stat.
- Storm Spell now appropriately offers diminished harm on non-crits.
- Defend spell now correctly supplies a 20% maxhp defend, and a 30% defend when used within the Tab slot. Beforehand each customary and Tab slots had been offering solely 20%.
- Defend now correctly offers extra harm on important hits (from the AoE brought on by reapplication).
- Spell Mastery tooltip clarified (no useful change).
Stability Fixes: Base Class
- Arcane Presence: elevated from 0.5% to 1.0%
- Arcane Singularity: elevated Magazine from 800 to 1200
- Arcane Singularity now offers harm to control-immune targets.
- Entangling Pressure elevated from 500 to 600.
- Ice Knife: elevated Magazine from 1800 to 2300
- Icy Terrain elevated from 350/385 to 400/440.
- Magic Missile: Magazine elevated from 40 to 60
- Oppressive Pressure elevated from 325+375 to 370+420.
- Orb of Imposition: elevated from 20% to 25%; added “Your management powers do 5% extra harm towards control-immune targets.”
- Ray of Enfeeblement elevated from 450 to 520.
- Ray of Frost elevated from 55 to 65.
- Repel elevated from 500/200 to 580/300
- Defend: Magazine elevated from 230/253 to 350/400; Defend quantity elevated to 30%/40%; casting time diminished from 1.6s to 0.53s
Stability Fixes: Arcanist
- Alacrity: elevated cooldown discount from 2 seconds to five seconds
- Arcane Bolt: elevated Magazine from 60 to 120
- Arcane Conduit: elevated Magazine from 200 to 300
- Arcane Empowerment: elevated harm bonus from 10% to twenty%.
- Observe: The experimental change on Preview to trigger it to “tick down” cooldown occasions as a substitute of simply dashing up recharge has been reverted. General quantity of cooldown discount (on common) just isn’t affected.
- Arcane Energy Subject: elevated from 50 to 60. Fastened a bug the place it did not settle for buffs or mods. This ought to be a big energy enhance.
- Arcane Tempest: elevated Magazine from 300 to 400
- Chaos Magic: elevated proc probability from 5% to 7%
- Disintegrate elevated from 400 (600) to 500 (750).
- Elemental Reinforcement: elevated harm bonus from 5% to 7%
- Eye of the Storm: decreased inner cooldown from 20s to 10s
- Iced Lightning: harm bonus elevated from 10% to 30% and now contains Hanging Benefit as effectively.
- Lightning Bolt: elevated Magazine from 200 to 350
- Maelstrom of Chaos: elevated Magazine from 600 to 1400
- Snap Freeze: elevated Magazine from 40 to 70
- Steal Time: elevated Magazine from 260 to 350
- Storm Fury: elevated Magazine from 50 to 200. Fastened a bug the place it was critting each time
- Storm Pillar: elevated from 30-80, 40 to 40-100, 50. Will now not generate AP in case you do not hit any targets
- Storm Spell elevated from 100 to 120.
- Hanging Benefit elevated from 100 to 120.
Stability Fixes: Thaumaturge
- Chill Strike elevated from 575/225 to 660/300.
- Chilling Cloud: elevated Magazine from 65 to 90
- Combustive Motion: elevated AP bonus from 1% to five%
- Conduit of Ice: elevated Magazine from 230 to 350
- Directed Flames: diminished harm from 80% to 25%, however can now proc each second (down from each 12 seconds, though there was a bug that meant it would not even proc that always)
- Fanning the Flame: elevated base Magazine from 100 to 500, tick magazine from 33 to 100, and diminished cooldown from 21 to 18
- Fireball: elevated Magazine from 250/550 to 350/700
- Frigid Winds: elevated harm bonus from 1.25% to 1.5%
- Frost Wave: elevated chill stacks from 3 to six; mounted bug the place it did not Freeze
- Livid Immolation: elevated Magazine from 700 to 900
- Glowing Flames: elevated harm from 20% to 30%
- Icy Rays elevated from 520-720 to 600-850.
- Ice Storm: elevated Magazine from 600 to 1200; eradicated knockback and changed it with knockdown
- Icy Veins: elevated vary from 15′ to twenty’
- Relative Haste: elevated max cooldown velocity bonus from 10% to twenty%
- Relative Haste: This feat now grants 5% cooldown velocity per Chilled enemy close by, somewhat than granting 1% per stack of Chilled close by.
- Scorching Burst: elevated Magazine from 30-80 to 60-110
- Shatter Strike elevated from 250/150 to 300/200.
- Smolder: elevated harm per tick from 40 to 150. Observe this can have an effect on plenty of Smolder-related Feats and Class Options as effectively.
- Smoldering Restoration: diminished Directed Flames bonus from 1.5% to 0.3% (nonetheless a web buff resulting from adjustments to Directed Flames)
- Swath of Destruction: elevated bonuses from 5%/2% to 10%/3%