Neverwinter Community Watch

The Community Watch is a recurring format on the weekends that summarizes interesting stories, forum posts, links and news in the Neverwinterverse that are worth reporting, but don’t warrant a full own post. Here’s what happened during the last week:

• MUST READ: The Troubling Psychology of Pay-to-Loot Systems. The topic is also being controversially discussed on the Arcgames forum.
• The Feytouched Enchantment can bug out using AoE encounters.
• A user compiled an impressive list of missing old transmutes.
• Uncensored has a brand new discord server. Stop by and chat with us!
• Neverwinter hit 15 million registered accounts last week. Hurray!
• A rerun of the Driftwood Tavern Community Live Stream #2 is available here.
• Players rightfully joke about the featured Gamer’s Decide article in the official news section. It’s awful…
• Is drama brewing on the wiki? Guys continue to bring tooltips up to date, but one user voiced some frustration about Hawchang acting rather exclusively.
• A user shared some excellent data on the Quartermaster Enchant.
• Youtube content:
  • How to get free inventory bags by Ace_killa_q
  • How I screwed up during 2x RP by Irfaan Khan
  • Neverwinter PVP highlights by Alsrandomkill
  • Masterwork Weapons not worth it? by Nova
  • CtA Storm Front Walkthrough by DDM’s Realm
  • Orcus solo challange on a Combat HR by Suwa
  • Mod 11b Discussion Breakdown ft. Nova the Prophet by Mystik
• FAQ type questions:
  • How long does it take it take to get to 3,000 item level without spending money?
  • How important are the early campaigns?
  • What’s the current status of SW’s right now?
  • What Artifacts would you advice for a Protection Pally?
  • Is Steel Defense not working on Svardborg?
  • HR at 2800 IL soloed Orcus from 1/3 health to dead…HOW??
  • Do Portal Stones disappear if you don’t use them?
  • Anyone actually receiving +4 companion gear from Illusion?
  • Question with GWF rotation and IBS use.
  • Doing dungeons in a group, why the hurry?
  • Fast Way to Powerlevel?
  • Best method to get companions to heroic / legendary?
• Builds:
  • Garl’s Warlock Soulbinder Fury PvE Build [Mod 11]
  • AC PVE Devoted Cleric MOD 11
  • Divine Oracle (DC) : Best buffer in Town (mode 11 / PS4)
• General talk:
  • HOT topic of the week: Should Bonding Runestones be limited to two per Companion?
  • The group composition meta can be frustrating sometimes…
  • Thank You Redditors of Neverwinter
  • So the DC is a dying class? Interesting…
  • Can you buy Voninblod with AD or Gold?
  • Wow! This thread asking for Trade Bar advice seriously got out of hand! The ceddit version has all removed posts.
  • PSA: Relic Weapons > Drowned Weapons for GF
  • Here’s your weekly RNG rage thread.
  • Endgame Utility Slot Role-Call. What are you 4K+ folks running in your Utility Slots?
  • Reduce Stronghold costs. It is time.

PC

• Shroud of Souls dev blogs:
  • Great Hall (plus vlog!)
  • Great Hall Environment
• Cryptic proposes some changes to the item level requirenments in queues. Feedback Thread!
• Should PVP premades move their matches to preview?
• The annoying GPU settings bug that caused the game to display error messages on AMD cards might finally be gone with the Shroud of Souls update.
• MMOS.com is currently giving away cute Space Hamsters!
• With loadouts looming, people are searching for the best DPS specs for their support chars.

Consoles

• Garlaanx and FNHUSA57 brief players with their Cloaked Ascendancy guides!
• MMOGames is still running a giveaway for Unicorn Mounts for the PS4 and Xbox. MMO-Central as well!
• Discuss the Mod 11 ZEN market additions on consoles in this thread.
• Cavalier Gaming played Neverwinter for a bit and wrote a small review.

These are our community updates for this week! In case you run a blog or channel or found a resource that frequently updates with new content about the game, don’t hesitate and contact us so we can monitor the site.