So, very similar to the previous campaign Mod 18 Infernal Descent also comes with special currencies. And this time Infernal Descent’s currencies also play a key role in the new mod. This post is all about Infernal Descent’s Currencies where you will learn about the basics of currencies, types of currencies in Infernal Descent, how to farm-specific currency in mod 18, and how to spend and utilize them at optimum level. 

Infernal Descent’s Currencies 

If you wish to read about infernal descent then you read our mod 18 guide here. So, there are basically 2 important currencies in neverwinter mod 18. Actually, you can count them 3 as campaign currencies always considered as first and foremost currency to obtain. So, in short there are 3 major currencies in infernal descent campaign

1. Family Crests
2. Chaotic Writings
3. Seal of Fallen

Family Crests :  Descent into Avernus campaign needs Family Crests to unlock boons, progress campaign, unlock new dungeon and definitely to increase the weekly haul too.  

Very similar to previous campaigns, this campaign also has weekly cap of 100. Although we can increase it upto 175. As mentioned in above image Family Crests can be earned by doing repeatable quests in avernus. Mod 18’s campaign is very small and you can wrap it easily even with limitations of weekly haul which is also very easy to increase. You can keep a maximum 20,000 family crests with you after this it would not stack.

Chaotic Writings : Above all, this is an elemental currency abundantly equivalent to previous modes of the game. Usually, There is store for specific campaign in the game. Avernus is not different from this. You can buy decent quality gears from campaign store of avernus which also has 1250 iLvL. And these are only class specific gears. You can buy these gears with chaotic writings only. 

But there is a new twist in this mode. You can even spend these chaotic writings on Surprise Bag of Juma in Vallenhas Stronghold which provides you pretty decent gears like : 

How To Farm Chaotic Writings ? 

Very simple and easy, you just need to follow daily and weekly questline to earn plenty of Chaotic Writings. You can easily earn writings just in Vallenhas zone but if you follow the questline path then beware about that there would be a limit or cap on daily or weekly quests. So, you can never obtain an unlimited supply of writings only from quests.

You can easily get chaotic writings by killing rare monster and by doing Heroic Encounters. But spawn ratio of these monster would be a pain, but you can always find farming group in zone chat easily. 

The super fastest way to farm chaotic writings is to farm Heroic Encounter named Demonic Summing. Right now, this is one of the most famous tasks in neverwinter world. Its trending in world of vallenhas’s chat zone with the name of “APE”. you would see lots of people are saying “+ape” and “add for ape”. The Ape flood in chat zone is happening just to farm chaotic writings in easiest and simplest way. 

Where To Find Juma or Location of Juma ?

Actually, it’s really hard to get up there to Juma as the location is too far and out of zone without any path. You would need to make your path forcefully with mount.

It would be very hard to explain the exact location but we are sharing a video and an image so you can easily get up there as soon as possible. 

Rewards from Juma NPC:  You will definitely get a high iLvL gear with plenty of end game stuff along with rADs or AD’s. we have opened like 32 bags by today. And got around 120k rADs, 3 Helms,4 Heads, Epic Mount, Wards, plenty of useless vanity pets. Well it’s not so much of excellent items but still it’s worth the time. 

Seal of Fallen: It’s another currency you gonna farm in Neverwinter Mod 18. You can redeem these seals with seal trader in PE. They have added a large number of new gears to buy with seal of fallen from seal trader. The entire process to obtain and stack seals are very much similar to previous campaigns. You can farm seal of fallen from epic dungeon queue and heroic encounters. 

You can’t go ahead 1200 seals and all the gears costs different price like 300, 400 and 600 respectively. You can obtain infernal based gears from seal trader for your class, snapshot given below:

Conclusion 

So, That is all about Mod 18 Infernal Descent Currencies Guide. We defined all major level currencies and also explained the possible ways to farm these currencies in infernal descent. We will update this guide whenever we get another new method to obtain currency in different ways. 
Hope you like our guide. Feel free to share your ideas with us in the comment section. You can also share your guide to help community members. Kindly visit write for us page if you wish to contribute in our blog.

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In this particular post, we are going to give an overview about Neverwinter Mod 18 Infernal Descent like new campaign, stats,  new gears and specially, how to prepare yourself for mod 18. 

Basically, Mod 18 is very small campaign set in Avernus. The campaign itself does not seem to be very effective and engaging. But, this campaign comes up with very solid and high item level gear and set.  

Actually, this game is all about farming and if you can farm particular arena for some BIS gear then Mod 18 is the way to go. You will definitely get Best in Slot gear from this Mod. So, it’s worth to farm it. 

Overview of Avernus Campaign Mod 18

First of all, we will talk a bit about the campaign Avernus.  This campaign has very similar format to all previous campaigns of Neverwinter. The Avernus campaign is the first Level 80 endgame campaign of neverwinter game. All the boons, gears, updates and dungeon cover up under the weekly cap very similar to previous campaigns.

We would love to suggest you to complete the basic campaign as soon as possible to unlock all boons and dungeon. So you can get new BIS gear for your toon as early as possible. You may need to farm heroic encounter a lot and yes, it’s worth for your character progression. More on this below in the post

Stats Cap For Neverwinter Mod 18

As we expect with every mode, there would be a hike in stats requirement for new area, dungeon or campaign. So, Yes the required stats for new zone is around 5,000 higher than previous mode or trial TOMM. If you joined the game a few days back and yet to reach the end game content then these stats requirements gonna be a bit hard for you.

You can easily farm the zone and HE’s even with decent stats you are not supposed to reach any cap or threshold for this. But, if you really want to put your hands on new dungeon and want to farm it on a regular basis.then you may need to reach the required stats according to your role in the party and dungeon. 

Here is the stats cap for Neverwinter Mod 18  

Power – as high as you can get it

HP – As much As you can and around 700k for tanks 

Armor pen – 85k

Accuracy – 85k

Critical Strike – 85k

CA – 135k

Defense –  85k

Deflection – 85k

Critical Avoidance – 90k 

Awareness – 95k

So, you need to reach the cap if you want to run dungeon with party without any issue.

How To Prepare Yourself Mod 18- Infernal Descent

Now, You already aware with cap for stats. Now it’s time to talk about other valid stuff related to Mod 18- Infernal Descent, like it’s zone, enemies, dungeons and how to prepare yourself for neverwinter mod 18. We are going to share some tips so you can easily face all the enemies of new zones in mod 18. 

1. We would like to suggest you to begin with Expeditions. So, go and start farming ME’s and WE’s as much as possible with all your character. And grab high item level gear from all expeditions with all of your characters. 
   
   It’s always good to have plenty of gears to fine tune your stats in future even with high item level gear.  You should always target to get gear for your character and companion also. If you do not have high iLvL gears for companion then you should get it before launch date of Mod 18 to optimize your stats at best. 



2. It’s worth your time to farm HE’s in new zone as they have chance to drop pretty decent gear. So, you should always go and farm HE’s to get gears with decent stats and high iLvL. (specially just go after bosses and hunts)
   
   
3. Mod 18 is going to be all about Elven Battle Enchantment. So, try to grab one high level elven enchantment if you don’t own one. Mod 18 is full of CC effects and to handle those nasty stun and effects. You may think about Elven Battle Enchantment. We would love to suggest you get one high level Elven Enchantment even if you are dps as it will provide you even more damage. 
   
   
4. The Orcus’s set got a big hit in Mod 18. It was inevitable it would happen sooner or later, but it’s really very disappointed stuff that they did not add any new set as replacement. Definitely, that is going to affect large players database. 
   
   There are few alternatives like Arcturia set, Trobriand set, Apocalypse set and ToO set. You can still use orcus set as primary source or damage buff but its not gonna work as before and would not outperform other sets. I would like to suggest you to go for Arcturia Set.
   
   
5. As discussed earlier, you need to farm expeditions a lot to get high iLvL gears for your character or may be for companions. Along with that you would also target to get Arcturia set even if you own one.
   
   As we know orcus set just got a big hit (from 20% to 10%) which makes arcturia set is one of the best sets for dps in game. It has already crossed 1 million prices in auction house, so, simple as it just go and farm expeditions as much as you can because arcturia set may reach the skyrocket price with launch of mod 18.
   
   
6. Start campaign ASAP. It will provide plenty of upgrades for your character in no time. Farm heroic encounters on a regular basis, unlock dungeon before boons. It will provide you plenty of stuff. (Don’t run after boons earlier)
   
   
7. Last but not least hunting, if you do not know then let us inform you that after the skip in Mod 15, Mod 16 and Mod 17 from hunting its back in Mod 18. Hunting was always an awesome part of neverwinter world. And most of the time community always welcome hunting either its in chult or in barovia.
   
   You are supposed to get an awesome piece of gear from hunts with guaranteed drop rate this time. Though monster spawn ratio would be a pain in the ass as developer love to implement it in this way  

Some Other Important Facts and Tips about Mod 18 Infernal Descent

1. New campaign is a bit interesting as compared to previous campaigns. You still need to wait for few days to start getting campaign currency after cap. However, this campaign is not boring, tedious and grindy at all. You can easily reach weekly cap within a few hours. 
2. You should always farm HE’s because it may drop BiS gears for specific class and role. 
3. Mod 18 seems very small and short. It will be hard to keep players busy until mod 19. That may be gonna hurt a lot to developers of the game.
4. There is no specific update on professions and master work gears. This mod also lacks new gears and companions. 
5. To be really, new dungeon seems bit easier as compare to ToMM but still its not worth the time as rewards does not seem to be effective at all.
6. Still, CW, HR and TR are BiS when it comes to DPS. Warlock class still feels way weak  compared to other classes. 

This is all about Mod 18 for now. We will update the post on a regular basis with new updates. If any of you want to be a contributor or want to add his/her guide to our blog. Kindly mail us digitsguide@gmail.com

In short, Neverwinter Mod 18 seems interesting at first but it loses his brightness when you finished the campaign itself. Good thing is that they are already working on class balance which will be expected to go live in upcoming patches and forum announcements. 

Let us know if you have any doubt or question about anything related to Neverwinter Mod 18 Infernal Descent. 

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Right now, Entire community of Neverwinter is getting a massive buzz for Tower of Mad Mage. There are plenty of dungeons, skirmishes, trials, raids and huge content in neverwinter world, But Tower of Mad Mage is hardest content till now. This raid has most complex mechanism of Nevewinter.

Our Neverwinter Mod 17 ToMM Guide will provide you veritable walkthrough of Tower of Mad Mage like; complete understanding of the most complex mechanics till now, how to fight with the boss, what kind of group/party you will need to get success, almost each and every Do’s and Don’ts, powers, skills etc. This ToMM Guide will cover every major and important aspect as well every small and tiny things as your team formation and understanding of ToMM will decide the fortune of outcome. 

P.S- Do not even think about finishing this trial in single try  

Overview of ToMM Guide 

So, The most important question is what makes ToMM Guide (Tower of Mad Mage) different from others. As I have already explained, Tower of mad mage is newly added trial along with new expansion of Neverwinter Mod 17 Uprising.  

This ToMM Guide is crafted to help you with all mechanics and explain you everything from the basics of the ToMM to its complex mechanics. It will give full details about recommended stats, ratings, powers, classes and their roles, boss fight and phases, etc in depth. 

Complete explanation of boss fight is the most comprehensive part of this ToMM Guide. The step by step representation of complex mechanism of the boss fight, the recommended preparations for the fight, optimal stats and best team composition. 

Optimal Stats for ToMM

There are not much changes when it comes to stats for Mod 17’s generic questline (excluding ToMM). You will be doing fine with previous stats/build of Mod 16 for new quests. But as you know we are just talking about Tower of Mad Mage or ToMM then scenario is bit different and classy for this.

You need to increase a lot more stats all together to get you chance of completing the trial at a good ratio. Very similar to previous mode, practically power and hit points both are the most effective stat to work on all together.  

I’m going to provide you the best and optimal stats to beat the tower of mad mage. Let me inform you that below mention stats in table are not BiS or targeted for ToMM at all. It may vary from player to player. Kindly allow me to clear with an example. 

It’s not 100% perfect to get 300k hitpoint. Because survivability in ToMM is the most important part of trial and its actually tough too. So, you may not survive well enough with 300k HP. 

In such case, you may need to spend some more effort and time on HP and need to touch 400k to get maximum survivability with massive health points. In ToMM,  Boss hits extremely hard and can one shot everyone with his massive damage upto 1Million.

Best Team Formation For ToMM

The Tower will pit 10 adventurers against the Mad Mage himself; Halaster Blackcloak, ruler and creator of Undermountain. As I already mentioned earlier in this post that the trial ToMM is not gonna be cake walk or hack and slash stuff. You will definitely gonna see one of the most difficult content of neverwinter till now. So i would love to suggest you to brace yourself and get ready to face death.  

The Tower of Mad Mage features an entry item level requirement of 24k. You need to unlock the ToMM by doing some repeatable quests in Stardock. But if you do not have item level of 24,000 then sorry but you can’t participate in trial at any cost.  You also need proper team of healers dps and tank to crack this hard content. 

In this trial, Party coordination is too important and each and every class plays an important role accordingly. E.g previously you can complete CODG even without Tank. or some of the players completed CODG just with single healer in a group with ease. But in ToMM you need everything at BiS like healer, dps and tank. Let me explain it in a bit more detail.

Class Stats and Roles  For ToMM

DPS- I have already mentioned required stats to ToMM guide for DPS in above table such as power, arp, crit etc but still the most important factor to do heavy damage for dps is power. We have different stages for DPS to complete ToMM with optimum powers. 

Basically you need minimum, 160k power to survive in ToMM and do some notable damage. I would like to suggest you to reach up 184k power asap to make ToMM an enjoyable run and do some massive damage. Your goal should be around 210k power at least at complete end game content to use your DPS at best.,  

Damage always depends on playstyle of the player, knowledge of class and understanding of concerned content like dungeon or trial.  But still, Wizards and Rouge still has a slight edge over other class. On a personal note, Barbarian is still a meh for me.(you can ignore this if you do not like this at all).

Healer- Being a healer, You will be having a lot more responsibilities. You should cover all above mentioned stats in table along with 40% of outgoing healing. Definitely, even with this new trial ToMM guide, neverwinter continuous a long time tradition to pick and place cleric as best healer of the game. Obviously, cleric is going to be the first choice as healer even in this ToMM Guide as it has better refilling of hit points as compared to paladin and warlock. 

But Warlock is best and undisputed champion of healing against single target or boss. So, it may change the scenario this time. It has the fastest and safest way to regenerate healing powers with ease. But remember it does not come with healing ratio like healer and that’s why it may struggle to compete with cleric for number spot of healer in ToMM Guide.

Tank- This class role will be a huge point of talk in ToMM. But let me tell you a thing, this time each and every class is viable to do ToMM. Either it’s Fighter or Paladin or even Barbarian too. Well, I personally think barbarian has less defensive skills in his arsenal as compared to paladin and fighter. (correct me if i am wrong).

You need to work on your defense and critical avoidance before anything else.  For sure, hit points are the most important stat to work on lonely. But, Kindly reach the cap for defensive stat and critical avoidance then left over in hit points to reach out the maximum amount of health. Being a tank you should always try to reach minimum 700k Hp and around 840k hp for optimum use. You can easily cross this mark with latest gears, different buffs and bonuses.

Mechanics of Trial and Boss Fight

As we already discussed Tower of Mad Mage is the most ruthless, merciless and steely content till now. This trial does require you to understand the special mechanics to wrap up the area. I’ll explain every bit of information, fight and mechanics with straightforward examples. 

This trial needs 10 players in all to participate, grouped as healer, tank and dps. 2-3 healers, 2-3 tanks and 6-7 dps to edge over the mage himself Halaster Blackcloak. He is the most menacing, threatening, treacherous; savage, wild and desperate boss of neverwinter world. He basically do different kinds of elemental damages like fire, lightening, cold along with different attacks as well. I’ll explain all the phases, attacks and pushes with proper and step by step mechanics. 

Tower of Mad Mage Phase 1 :-  

As I already said in the previous paragraph, Halaster uses different kind of elemental damage during the fight. So, In the first phase of fight, Boss will pick up one of elemental power randomly. 

When you get the boss health to 80% he actually starts the first phase and pick up one of the elemental power in a very odd way. 

And when HP drops to 60% then it will pick up the second elemental power from the remaining two. 

And of course when HP drops to 40% then it will come up with last and remaining elemental power. 

When the boss reaches 20% health it will start the Phase 2 of the trial. 

Note: Halaster will pick any elemental powers like fire, cold and light randomly. There is no pattern and order in selection of elemental power. 

Tower of Mad Mage Phase 2 :-  

This phase can be counted as the easiest as well as one of the most difficult of the entire trial. As it does check the power and damage of the entire party. At the beginning, the entire platform will become very small in size with massive fire all over the place. But there will circle over player to protect them from Halaster’s attack.

Halaster will grow his size to enormous. And will try to destroy the circle with his bare hands. You just need to hit his hands as hard as possible. It seems very easy and simple as you just need to drop his hp to zero to end this phase. 

Note: You will get only 30 seconds to finish the job. If you would not be able to finish it up within 30 seconds then simply wipe period otherwise

Tower of Mad Mage Phase 3:-   

This is literally the most complex and impenetrable phase of the entire trial. Well, it will start with death from above. So, Simple enough, all of you guys should move to one location of the platform all together(very similar to the way you guys do in LoMM against worm fight. 

In this phase, Halaster will be using elemental damage again but this time fight will be a bit more complicated. So, your entire group need to be more aware and accurate  while dealing with Halaster.  

First one is known as Single Elemental Phase where he will be using single elemental power in different intervals. And that interval would depend on the health of the boss. He will use different elemental power according to these health portions: 

1. 100%-90% HP.
2. 90%-80% HP.
3. 80%-70% HP.

But remember there will not be proper sequence for the elemental power. Like, he can use light, cold or fire any one of them between 100-90% HP. Let’s take an example and Suppose, he used light between 100-90% HP then by next level from 90-80% he will never use light again. This time he will pick one of power from fire and cold. And if he uses fire then last one from 80 to 70% he will be using cold only. 

In the Dual Element Phase he will use powers from combinations of 2 elements. Everything is the same as above but this time Halaster will use combo of elemental powers, like fire and cold, cold and light and so on. The switch points between combinations are at these thresholds:

1.  70%-55% HP. The phase begins when Halaster says, “That was just a warm up.”
2. 55%-40% HP. The phase begins when Halaster says, “This is beginning to get interesting.”
3. 40%-25% HP. The phase begins when Halaster says, “Perhaps you are worthy foes after all.”

Last but not least, All elemental phase, he will use all of elemental powers all together.  This is the final phase of the fight which procs from 25%-10% HP. This phase repeat the entire fight from beginning once again. Halaster will be using Single Elemental Power until 10% HP then switch the power again.  Halaster will also use dual elemental power when he sucks up the HP to 70% again. He will use a combination of powers from any of 2 elements and will never use the combination previously used. When the boss reaches 25% HP then last all elemental phase will start. where he uses rotations combining all 3 powers with electrified floor, dark blue, red and purple rings, firebombs etc. 

Remember, you have only 12 minutes to complete the trial. if anyhow, u would not be able to finish it off then simply it means reset. 

Tower of Mad Mage Phase 4:-   Short and simple when halaster reached 10% HP it starts last and final phase of the trial phase 4. He will use fireburst, downburst, 2x Disintegration Wave, Hypothermia + 2x Eruption and sunfall finally. 

In the end, I can say that Tower of Mad Mage is really an extremely powerful and extraordinary stuff rom neverwinter developers. I even agree with the point that this guide still needs lots of improvement like different phase powers, sections, buffs, debuffs, explanation of all fire, light, and cold powers in detail. I will update the guide accordingly as soon as i get enough understanding of all powers and procs. 

ToMM is one of the best content of neverwinter if you really like challenges but if you do follow only easy content then that might not be suitable for you. I believe most of the players play neverwinter for it’s tough mechanics and complexity. And last but not least i would love to inform you that the rewards in ToMM is worth 200%. Previously, you might just disappointed with reward chest of LoMM but it’s worth when it comes to ToMM.

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They have done a few changes in this game with Neverwinter Mod 17 Uprising and in this post we are going to highlight most of them. We may have some missing points and pointers, we will try our best to update the entire features of Mod 17 as soon as possible. Kindly come forward and help us and all players by giving feedback in the comment section to help neverwinter community more and forever. Well, lets jump into Neverwinter Mod 17 features, ups and downs and let’s discuss what does actually neverwinter Mod 17 gather with it.  

New Story-line Neverwinter Mod 17 Uprising: As we know, they have done so many changes and updates with Neverwinter Mod 17 Uprising like New PvP Map, Appearance overhaul, New Race, New Gears, Locations, Maps, New Challenges, Master Expedition etc but as always the most effective content of Neverwinter expansion  is “STORY LINE”. To face the new challenges, fight unique foes, to overcome and handle the disturbance between the gith and the illithid in undermountain, Which eventually leeds everything to new area STARDOCKS.

New Trial: ToMM – Tower of the Mad Mage: Finally we get a chance to make  fight against Halaster Blackcloak. Well, we feel it as one of the most challenging contents we have ever experienced in Neverwinter history. These are few pointers you should consider before giving a try to ToMM. 

• iLvL requirement is 24K iLvL to unlock and enter ToMM
• Requires 2-3 tanks; 2-3 healers; 4-6 dps as usual
• New enemy stats increases to 30k in Halaster Blackcloak, 
• Halaster Blackcloak force player stats to increase to 80k and  CA 130k as enemies stat rating increase by 12k.
• New trial against Halaster has most difficult mechanics of neverwinter which involves dps checks, heal checks, mandatory aggro management from tanks. (we will write a complete guide on mechanics soon)
• Lots of new gears with higher iLvL and stats drops from Halaster Blackcloak like New Artifact, Belt and Waist
• It seems even Dps Needs 370k HP to avoid the one-shot mechanics in the trial. 

Halaster Blackcloak hits very hard and comes with very hard mechanics which needs 18 to 20 cross checks to crack from each kind of class. So, it’s going to be very hard for you guys inside ToMM. get ready face wraith and powerful strike of Halaster Blackcloak.  

New Player Race: Gith   Here you after a long wait of years there is new race called Gith in neverwinter. You will be helping Gith community in Neverwinter Mod 17 Along with that you can also be one of them by creating new character with New Player Race Gith. (or you can reroll race) More detail on unlocking Gith will be posted soon.

Appearance System: There is complete overhaul of fashion module of Neverwinter in Mod 17. There is a new appearance tab just after the character tab. Now, We can use new library of dye and colors to alter the overall look of our character. We can modify each and every piece of gear with new color combinations. 

Early-Game Content Touch-ups: Love it OR Hate it but with the release of Neverwinter Mod 16 they have made neverwinter lovable for new players. Some of the vets might not agree and love the way they modify the entire game in mod 16 but previous mod did a great job to grab the attention of new players in the community. And in Neverwinter Mod 17 Uprising they just added one more step to it and retouch the early game content from core.

Protector’s Enclave Remodeling: They are saying that Lord Neverember invested more gold in Protector Enclave. We have new sky, improved texture, new overhaul designs in protector’s enclave. They have moved events area to mount area and now mount area have moved to the center of the protector’s enclave.

Notification Improvements: Simple yet effective, we have new notification setting. We can set everything up by pressing ESC key and click on Notification Setting. There you can simple tick or untick each and every option you wanna see in chat notifications e.g if you do not want to see trade notifications or lockbox notifications in chat window then you can simply disable it. 

New PvP Extension: There is  a new PvP map with brand new PvP Rewards + new Pvp season. PvP has been under the radar of exclusion from long time. Finally, we are going to have some new PvP additions.

• Now we can get unique rewards which includes PVE items, armor enchantments enchanting stones and mark of potency. 
• We can also get 1000iLvL gears for PvP from zen store as well. 
• We have brand new armor set name Arbiter Armor consists item level 1020.
• Lots of outdated and old gears have been removed from game completely.
• We have brand new PvP Arena named “Stardock Arena”. 
• We have new potion for PvP exclusive and entirely dedicated to Action points. Only available and consumable in PvP maps. 

One New Weapon Set: there are new artifact weapon set named Lionheart Weapon Set. It has very similar stats, iLvL and base damage as Alabaster Set. but it has a different kind of bonus

“Set Bonus” 

Increases damage dealt by 5% whenever your Stamina is full. Effect decreases as Stamina decreases. Decreases Damage delt by up to 5% whenever your Stamina is empty. Effect decreases as Stamina increases

New Rings of Undermountain: Right Now, at the time of Mod 16, This game has  some legendary and non legendary rings like Ring of the Shadowstalker +5 are BIS simply because of Swordsman’s Perk. In Neverwinter Mod 17 Uprising, we are going to get around 14 new ultimate and super awesome rings with the same kind of bonus with far better iLvL and stats. Some of them are below: 

New Artifact:  There is a new artifact set called Halaster’s Set which includes Halaster’s Blast Scepter, Tinfoil Chain of Madness and Papier-Mache Belt of Madness from the trial (ToMM)

“This set has very strange bonus “ When you stand still for 6 seconds your Damage and Movement Speed will be increased by 10% for 6 seconds”

Note: Halaster’s Set is going to talk of the town soon. As there will be lots of discussion about this set either it’s best or worst.  

New Companion Gear: Well, Well, Well, Well, So they listened to the community and finally we have some crazy amount of stuff for our companions. In Neverwinter Mod 17 Uprising, we have good amount of drop for companion gears from Expeditions of Mod 17. These gears have crazy stats like 12k Combat Advantage and 1010 iLvL. There are around 36 new gears on at the time of writing mod 17 guide. 

Everfrost Removal Clean-up: Finally, They have removed the everfrost stuff from game from core. They have removed everfrost damage, everfrost resistance, everfrost potions, from all gears, items and relics.  Now, in Neverwinter Mod 17 game does not support everfrost stuff anymore.

There are many other things still need to check in Neverwinter Mod 17 Uprising, we haven’t checked each and every bit of stuff in detail yet e.g there are new shirts and pants of iLvL 1010, there are new lockboxes with new lucky reward chances. There is new Warden Expedition in Neverwinter Mod 17 Uprising. 

We will let you know more about Neverwinter Mod 17 Uprising,  Stay Tuned. Kindly drop your views in comment section and help neverwinter community. So, each and every player can help each other.

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With each and every dungeon, developers add lot of challenges, complications, scaling,  hard mobs, hard boss, tough mechanics which can be accomplished only with the proper build, team combination and party play. Lair of Mad Maze Guide also needs proper teamwork with proper team which includes DPS, Tank and Healer eventually. 

Our Neverwinter LoMM Guide will walk you through complete step by step walk through of LoMM like how to fight with mobs, understanding the mechanics of all three boss Arcuria, Bore Worm and Trobriand in detail. 

If you’re looking for more info on Neverwinter Mod 16, you won’t find better than our Neverwinter Mod 16 Guide, which is packed with beginner-friendly info and advanced tips and tricks.

We have divided this Neverwinter LoMM Guide in different sections to make it easier for you to understand the things exactly as it stays because Lair of Mad Maze Dungeon is bit complicated and above the radar for beginners  

Overview of LoMM Guide

Well, the top question is what makes LoMM Guide (Lair of Mad Mage) different from others. The LoMM dungeon is a new dungeon crafted along with Mod 16 undermountain. Believe it with the name, fame and hype it is massively different and may even be better from other dungeons. 

This LoMM Guide is developed to explain you the basics of the LoMM and understand its complex mechanics. It will give all insight to overcome all bosses with ease and complete the dungeon eventually. 

The explanation of all three boss fights (Arcuria, Bore Worm and Trobriand) is the most comprehensive part of this LoMM Guide. The step by step representation of each fight informs about the complex mechanism of the boss fight, the recommended preparations for the fight, optimal stats and best team composition. 

Optimal Stats for LoMM

We have already shared a in-depth information on stats and crafted very easy to understand table for stats for LoMM. if you are still not able to find the guide. Kindly visit our Mod 16 Guide here for more details.

Best Team Formation For LoMM

As we already know, Neverwinter is basically team/party collaboration online rpg  game based on dungeon and dragon universe. Where we need to make party of Damage Dealers, Tank and Healer. LoMM Guide is likely to follow the same footsteps of classical D&D universe. Basically, we need 3 DPS, 1 Tank and 1 Healer. Almost all kinds of DPS classes are viable if you reach out the optimal stat cap.

Note: Cleric seems to be best healer in LoMM. Tank class really does not matter but still we would love to go with Fighter because of his single target tanking viability. Warlocks as healer seems bit out of radar though eventually good as damage dealer    

Dungeon Mechanics and Boss Fight of LoMM

As we already know, LoMM is very complex dungeon but mob phases of LoMM is bit easier as compare to boss fights.  We do not require to follow any special mechanics to wash out the mob. LoMM has a lot more tough enemies with specific types of attacks, stuns, shocks etc. So, you must wait for tank to grab an aggro before making your way toward mob  

LoMM Guide On First Boss Fight – “Arcturia”

Arcturia is the first and the most strenuous boss of Lair of Mad Mage. She has the most complicated, convoluted and circuitous mechanics of entire dungeon. The fight goes very smooth and simple with Arcturia alone, But it gets very complicated when she opens her arsenal of attacks with mimics and cocoons. We will explain both phases in simple steps.  

Mimics:  So, fight begins with tank grab an aggro against arcturia. and all other party members need to get involved with their predefined responsibilities.

When party take down arcturia’s health around 75% then she spawns mimics from all four corners. all of them spawn with different color from different corner which enhances their health bar from weak to strong respectively. 

Let’s try to perceive it more, as propounded above each corner spawn mimics with different hp and movement speed 

e.g. “Mimic from yellow corner usually carry more health and very good movement speed” and a “Mimic from green corner usually comes with low hp and slow speed”

These Mimics just gonna target the middle of fighting arena. if they able to reach the middle then it will spawn very powerful Golem or Hulk, Which is not only very difficult to kill but give massive buff to Arcturia as well.

To deal with this situation, We need to follow proper mechanism. Like: all of the dps should take care of each corner alone and Tank+Healer should go for green corner.

The best damage dealer (DPS) of the party should take down the mimics from yellow corner as it has a lot more hp and speed as compared to others. Same goes with green, As we know mimics from green corner has less hp and movement speed So, Tank and Healer should take it down together.

Cocoons:  Well, When  you finished the mimics phase, There will be an another superlative attack from Arcturia. She randomly picks one of the players from party and turn him/her into red cocoon. 

Simply and in short, This phase simply is unreservedly dedicated to HEALER only. if you do not have very good healer then it will be almost impossible to pass this phase. 

Anyway, it can be too easy if you really know what you need to do. So, To deal with this tough situation cocooned player should type “c” in chat window that all party members can go away from him and healer should heal them all. If any of you stay around cocooned player and it  explodes which gives instant death to cocooned player and any player that stands near by him/her. which usually means wipe or reset.

LoMM Guide On Second Boss Fight – “BoreWorm”

IF you guys have been doing Undermountain campaign lately. Then we assure you that you very much familiar with Bore Worm. But in LoMM Guide, Bore Worm comes with different powers, attacks and in bit powerful form. Though we urge to identify The Bore Worm  as easiest boss of “Lair of Mad Mage” This boss has two phases as well. 

Phase 1: Very similar to Arcturia, Bore Worm fights also goes in to different phases at 75% health and 50% respectively. As we already discussed, this is the easiest boss of LoMM Guide. So, it starts with face to face fight with BoreWorm and he starts with placing a Red Circle on players, and remember that Red Circle will push DOT (Damage Over Time) over targeted player.  

Well, When you take down his health to 70% then there will be lots of boulders falling from above on the ground. The Bore Worm pull each and everything towards him in the middle which includes all players, party members, boulders, rocks, pieces and everything. 

So, you need to escape that pull from worm and try not to reach in the middle (if you unable to escape the pull it means insta death) even team mates can’t revive you. Your last hope would be life scroll only. 

But there is a catch, along with escaping the pull you need to kill and destroy all boulders so they can’t reach middle. If they somehow managed to reach middle then there will be massive buff for boss in 2nd phase. 

Phase 2:  After the first phase of pulling and boulders now Bore Worm come out with massive charge attack. In this phase you just need to survive and survive, This phase is all about HEALER again, if you do not have good healer then you just can not pass it away. 

Bore Worm is immune to all kinds of attack in this phase as we have mentioned earlier, you just need to survive in this phase. So, have a look at overcharge and undercharge bar of Bore Worm. you just need to gather the entire party and stand near the entry gate. Bore Worm will give you massive discharge attacks but cleric will save the ass of entire party. When charge bar vanished away then Bore Worm can be attacked again. 

At 50% health bore worm will spawn boulders again with golems. Well, the best tip we can give is to avoid golem and finish boulders as soon as possible. You just do not need to attack golem at this stage. Then literally worm will come out again with electric discharge attack with heavy aoe attack very similar to first stage. But this time golems will follow you up to gate and you need to kill as many as golem at that stage. 

Second to that on the other side, when discharging phase goes off, the boss will kill all the pending golem and that would be the end of this phase and now worm will no longer be immune and can be killed. So, kindly prepare yourself and finish him off. 

Tip: Failure to have boss kill at least one golem in that phase would result in another round of discharging phase.  

LoMM Guide On Last Boss Fight – “Trobriand”

This fight is all about tanking and for “TANK”. If you and your party got weak tank OR Tank does not know what he needs to do then there will be wipe within 10 seconds of time   So, Yes as HEALER in Bore Worm fight of LoMM Guide, TANK will be Soul and God of final boss fight of LoMM. 

So, Just like all bosses, this fight also starts with face to face encounter with Trobriand. After some time he changes his gear and attack with first powerful push Electro Charge Attack. This attack is bloody powerful and can finish you off even with single hit. But Trobriand always do this attack on aggro holder and of course that should be tank or you (if you are TANK in the party) 

Each of this attack need to be aimed at 1 or maximum 2 scorpions that lay dormant around the arena. Hitting them with this attacks will awaken them one-by-one and Tank should aim trobriand’s attack towards inactive scorpions. DPS should finish them off as soon as possible. While tank should keep playing hide and seek with boss on the other side. 

When the tank complete his task then Trobriand will go into the middle and perform a big AoE that will awake all unawakened scorpions. If you have already killed few of the scorpions then team will be facing maximum 2 scorpions at time. Which is actually very good sign towards completion of the LoMM Guide. 

Note: Scorpions actually hits harder than the boss so all dps focus on them while the tank “dance” with the boss

Now, you will feel it like reset and everything takes his position back as before. In short you need to complete the first phase one more time but with little bit powerful scorpions. 

Now once again Trobriand comes in the middle, open his arms and activating 4 pillars on 4 different corners. And this phase dps guys should work as quick as possible and finish those pillars quickly. Simple enough Period.

When you just finished off the pillars, quickly head over back in center area on stone tile, because Trobriand will process massive electric damage in entire surface. You need to save yourself from this. You must have full life to escape this as Trobriand charge it more 250k damage. Lots of people are complaining about this mechanism as its really hard to pass because trobriand usually one hit the entire party except tank and healer some times. 

Tank shall protect the whole party at once. Each and every tank class does have such feature or power to protect entire party at once. For example Fighter can turn on Knight Valor to eat entire damage at once. 

Last but not least, another massive and powerful attack from trobriand. Tank buster again with one hand do massive amounts of damage on aggro holder. Ofcourse tank would work. Then dps shall kill him up before he start doing it again.  

This is all about our Neverwinter LoMM Guide. If you have any question or doubt. Kindly ask in comment section so we can help each other and share the best information with entire Neverwinter community.

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Neverwinter is full packed, rich features, engaging, challenging and complicated MMORPG. If you just joined the game, let us tell you that you have to spend lot of time to understand the mechanism and game play of Neverwinter. This game has already crossed around 15 phases of different Mods and Updates since 2013 and developers just released one of the most huge, massive and biggest update of all time for Neverwinter few days back known as Neverwinter Undermountain or Neverwinter Mod 16.  

So, Neverwinter Mod 16 Undermountain Guide is without a doubt an outstanding update that really comes with lots of new stuff, updates, modifications, changes, new story line, dungeon, new zones, area and many more. Mod 16 Undermountain comes with so many changes that neverwinter feels like a new and fresh game or release of this year.

They changed almost each and every bit of the entire game like game play, mechanism, classes, character level, item level, build progression, gears and many more. To be very frankly, most of the changes seems very good for now but these changes comes with lots of bugs and glitches (even developers informed and announced that on official blog).

Although, they have released and implemented new patches and fixed some issues like scaling, issues with companions, enchantments, auction house etc but still there is huge space for improvement. Kindly see patch notes for complete info on official site here for each and every update specifically on every Thursday.

So, in this specific blog post of Neverwinter Mod 16 Undermountain Guide to stats and counter stats, We are not going to discuss anything about any specific class, build  feats, boons and gears combination. We are going to give insights about how does stats, game play, counter stats work in Neverwinter Mod 16. In Short, with the launch of new mode Neverwinter Mod 16 developers gave a heavy weight to stats. So, now we can say that stats and counter stats are the only thing that you should really worried about.

In our Neverwinter Mod 16 Undermountain Guide, we have explained all the game mechanics of stats and counter stats that you should know while playing the game. We have covered all the major stats, counter stats mechanics in detail that will surely give you strategic advantage after reading our Mod 16 Undermountain stats and counter stats guide completely.

Neverwinter Mod 16 Race and Racial Abilities

Races in neverwinter used to play an important role. but with the release of latest mod 16 undermountain, we do not have much difference in our game journey just because of race selection. In Neverwinter Mod 16 Undermountain Guide, we are not saying that race will not effect the outcome of your build, it does make some impact at some level but these are not gonna be like game changing and game breaking stuff for you. Though you just always pick consider look, appearance and physique of your character before picking up race for your toon

Our Neverwinter Mod 16 Undermountain Guide aims to familiarize you with basic attributes, elements and properties of Neverwinter Mod 16 so that whenever you jump into the game, you must not waste your time by wandering here and there and seeking for help in zone, guild and parties.

Overview of Neverwinter Mod 16 Undermountain Guide

In Mod 16 Undermountain the most important fact is Opposing Rolls. We are just going to explain Opposing Rolls below :

Opposing Rolls : Before each and everything one must clear the basics and must know the meaning of opposing rolls and how does it work. We will explain it in very simple and in layman language. Let’s say you have a rating, it can be anything like Critical Strike, and an enemy has an opposing rating such as Critical Avoidance. So, in this example these two ratings are compared to figure out how effective you are against that opponent is known as opposing rolls.

There are basically four major stats and counter stats comes under Opposing Rolls :

Armor Penetration <-> Defense

Critical Strike <-> Critical Avoidance

Combat Advantage Bonus <-> Awareness

Accuracy <-> Deflect

Hit Points and Power got counter stat so no opposing rolls for both of them.

We will discuss each of the stat in detail later on this blog post but let’s take an example to clear the statistical fact in more depth.  

This is how opposing rolls really works in Neverwinter. There is bit of math to do but we are going to explain it with very simple example.

% gain = (Rating –Opposing Rating) / 1000

Which is basically saying that for each and every 1000 stats/rating points you are above enemies  opposing rating picks up 1% stat for you. .

We will get an another example to clear above mentioned scenario in bit details. Suppose, you have 10,000 Critical Strike and an enemy has 7,000 Critical Avoidance.

As we already discussed about percentage gain formula which is % gain = (Rating –Opposing Rating) / 1000. So, in our current example we have :

Critical Chance = (10,000 – 7,000) / 1000 = 3%

This is all about opposing rolls, one more thing we would like to discuss is that the final results can never be negative which means if an enemy got around 20,000 Critical Avoidance in above given example then your critical strike is going to be like 0%.

So, with launch of Mod 16 undermountain, we have lots of changes in stats and mechanism as we have already discussed bit of the them already in Neverwinter Mod 16 Undermountain Guide. They have added and removed different stats accordingly to maintain the balance of the game. Now at this point, we are going to discuss about all newly added opposing stats.

Neverwinter Mod 16 Offensive Stats :

Power : As we already know about power that it does not come with any kind of cap. You can get as much as power you want for your character. At the time of “Mad Maze” release we would love to suggest you to get a lot more power as this new dungeon known as Lair of Mad Mage do require heavy Power/Dps. A pure, genuine and effective dps should have minimum 120k power in his arsenal for “LoMM” (Lair of Mad Maze)

Armor Penetration : In Neverwinter Mod 16  Undermountain, Armor Penetration is the most effective and important stat that you have to work on before everything else. Here is the very simple mechanism behind the offense and defense system of neverwinter mod 16. If you really wanna do any kind of damage to enemies then you have to hike up your Armor Penetration as its simply countered by enemies’ defense stats. At the time of writing this guide, we need around 68k Arp to reach so we can do sufficient damage to mobs/bosses.

Note:It was 66k cap earlier before but they increased the stats by 2,000 in recent patch.

Armor Penetration <-> Defense

damageReduction %=  targetDefense − ArP/1000

Accuracy : This is what we call counter of deflect, if you find that enemies are deflecting your each and every attack then you just lack a lot accuracy. In Neverwinter Mod 16 Undermountain Guide enemies comes with almost 60k deflect rating. So, we just need to target 60k accuracy at least. And if you gonna deal with buffed enemies like LoMM those have around 68k rating so you definitely gonna need at least 68k accuracy so you can make some effective and hard damage to enemies in LoMM.

Deflect <-> Accuracy

targetDeflectChance %= targetDeflectStat − ourAccuracy/1000

Crti Strike: Before Neverwinter Mod 16 Undermountain Guide there was exactly 100% crit chance rating in the game. Which is now changed to 5% base bonus and 50% cap.  In short the thing is that if your critical strike is less than enemies crit resist then you are just wasting all your stats, points and efforts. We are not going to discuss a lot more about critical strike and opposing rolls here as we have already explained it detail. If you anyhow skip that part Kindly Click here To  Read

Critical Strike <-> Critical Avoidance

Critcal Chance %=5000+CritStat−targetCriticalAvoidance/1000

Combat Advantage : If you are taking it to the end game scenario then Combat Advantage may play a big role in your offensive stats. Though, there is no sure shot point either to put all points in combat advantage or not.  Some veterans players are suggesting not to put lot more points in combat advantage all alone. Well, Each and every player can have different perspective for specific term and mechanism. We have played neverwinter mod 16 undermountain upto end game and experienced the below terminology.

We tried our best to explain all the things with an example in Neverwinter Mod 16 Undermountain Guide. So, Lets try to clear it with an example again,  as we know, an augument got a huge buff and boost in Mod 16 and most of the player using an augument in mod 16 till today. So, if you are playing solo with an augument then there will be huge problem for you to get an edge over an enemy like combat advantage.

So, you will definitely have to put necessary points in combat advantage to pierce the awareness of an opponent to do proper damage. Though, you can easily gain the combat advantage with the help companion that can support in fighting unlike an augument. and in party run there would not be much issue of CA at all but still you should have at least 80k-90k CA minimum and 118k CA rating for optimum level. (targeting Lair of Mad Mage).

Combat Advantage Bonus <-> Awareness

Combat Advatnage Damage %=10000+combatAdvantageBonus−targetAwareness/1000

Neverwinter Mod 16 Defensive Stats:

Hit Points:  This is core rating and most valuable stat when it comes to defense. Hit points works very similar to power as it has no cap like power. And this is really suggested to get as much as hit points as you can as soon as possible. Though Hit Points are not only one kind of stat to focus on for defensive and tank build. There are many more defensive stats comes into play. We are explaining them below in appropriate order of importance.

Defense: This is simply the most important stat when it comes to defense as its simply a counter of armor penetration.  The more numbers in this stats will alleviate the damage you take and it’s up to max 50%

Deflection :

Well, Deflection is one of the important and impressive stat to increase all along with defense or without defense. If you are really going to work on Tank then we would love to suggest you to reach cap for both defense and deflect. Earlier days of neverwinter, deflect builds are not so common and famous all along as compared to defense build but now things seems to be change and take place in other way.

As we already know the opposing rolls and their working we must have to counter the enemies accuracy as much as possible and that is only possible when you really max out the deflect at cap. If you have more deflect in your arsenal you will have a lot more chance to deflect an attack which caps at 50% like defense.

Critical Avoidance

As we already discussed above Critical avoidance is opposed by critical chance. Let’s try to make it easy with an example, you just need enough critical avoidance to counter the Critical Chance of the opponents (according to different area and level) including their base 5% chance

in this case 60000 + 5000 or 65000 . Anything above that is wasted.

Awareness

Awareness counters the Combat Advantage rating, this is really bit of complicated stat to work with. You are not supposed to cap it for each and every scenario in the game. Because combat advantage and awareness works differently and according to the situation like; if you are doing elol dungeon with party. Then as tank you may need to cap awareness to face all mobs and twin Scorpio to counter their combat advantage over you.

So, it simply means whenever you are going to face more than one opponent they will definitely have combat advantage over you and to counter that you need to get awareness at high rating. But similarly at same dungeon while facing final boss of elol “Lostmauth” there will be no combat advantage and in this scenario awareness does not matter and you can easily skip this stat in such situation.  

Tip : To maintain awareness the rating against mobs and boss, you may need to carry different stats in character sheet. So that can be obtained by having different load outs one for boss and other one would be for Mobs and multiple opponents.

Stats To Aim for Neverwinter Mod 16

So, as mentioned in above table we shall always try to reach the cap for each stat and max out every stat to make out our build a pure brute force in each and every corner of the game.  But there are some exceptions like we get natural 5% armor penetration so can we target 5k less ? Hold On! and technically Yes!

68k Defense cap is only for non tanks but if you are going to use Tank then it will be like 58k as tanks get a natural 10% that goes to cap. we will be discussing priority of the stats for neverwinter mod 16 soon.

Along with all these stuff in Neverwinter Mod 16 Undermountain Guide, we would love to share one more underestimated stat found on our gears/armors known combined rating. To be frankly Combined Rating is one of the most underrated stat in neverwinter mod 16. In simple language, Combined Rating is gear stat that adds to all other stats for your character.

This means that a +1000 combined stat on a piece of gear will result in:

+1000 Critical Strike

+1000 Accuracy

+1000 Awareness

+1000 Combat Advantage Bonus

+1000 Deflection

+1000 Armor Penetration

+1000 Defense

+1000 Critical Avoidance

Note: Combined Rating does not add power and hit points by any means.

Hope, our Neverwinter Mod 16 Undermountain Guide to Stats and Counter Stats helped you in some way. we all know that Mod 16 still got a lot of bugs and need fixes. we appreciate developers as they are doing their best to fix them up as soon as possible. Even our guide may miss some of the points and may be not updated to current state of the game with recent/latest patch.  We will update our guide time to time as per latest patch and announcements.

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