I will plan on updating this article periodically while we all adjust to the new mod. There are many ways to make AD, and with a little effort you can easily make 700,000 to 1,000,000 AD per week. There are two major sections below, Quick & Easy and Supplemental,
TL;DR for Quick and Easy
Every day pickup your stronghold, daily key, do random leveling, intermediate, advanced. Run a bunch of epics for the drops, check your seals frequently and trade them in. Every Monday do your weeklies, sell unbound goodies on at the auction house. Rake in a million AD per week.
TL;DR for Supplemental
Play the auction house, use your guild marks wisely with scrolls and mastercrafting resources, farming items for the auction house, and level your leadership profession to 25 to make RP to sell or use.
With these two types of enchantments in your five utility slots you can start to collect lots of refinement points (RP). I like to run with three quartermasters and two dragon hoards. you can purchase both off the auction house. You can also obtain quartermasters during certain CTA events throughout the year. You can also make dragon hoards in the Tyranny of Dragons: Well of Dragons campaign (go up the tree one level, turn right). Get your quartermaster's first, they yield better rewards! Be sure to immediately go to your inventory and right click them and "Mark as Protected" so you don't accidentally refine them.
Lastly, here is the key information on each and a super useful video at the end. You will see in the video 1200 bags are going to be opened. This is not uncommon! Watch and see what kinds of rewards are given. ALWAYS, ALWAYS, wait for the 2X Refining events to open them and get the double the rewards.
Quartermaster's Enchantment (Second Generation)
When applied to an item:
Utility Slot: You have X% chance after killing a foe to find a bag of goods. Mutliple copies and higher ranks of this enchantment increase the chance of finding a bag of goods, and improve the quality of the goods found, including Refinement items, Campaign currencies, and Enchantments up to Rank 7 (bound when awarded). You do not have to pick up these rewards off the ground, they automatically appear in your inventory when awarded!
Quartermaster's Enchantment, Rank 12 YIELDS 3.5% chance each. 3.5% x 3 enchants = 10.5%
This is the magic percentage, 10.5%, because that's when rank 7 enchantments have a chance to drop. So keep ranking them up to at least rank 12, until then BORROW someone's level 12's when OPENING your spoils of war and other bags. It is when you open them that you need 10.5%. Thus, you can be a lower percentage while collecting them. When borrowing be sure to immediately go to your inventory and right click them and "Mark as Protected" so you don't accidentally refine them.
Dragon's Hoard Enchantment (First Generation)
When applied to an item:
Utility Slot: You have a X% chance after killing a foe to find a jewel at your feel. Multiple copies of this Enchantment increase the chance of a find (so you do have to pick up the reward off the ground).
There is no magical percentage, the higher the percentage the more often a reward drops.
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Article by El Sacerdote@John#5811 of The Grey Company
Cryptic is coming out with some major changes, below is just a small part to whet your appetite. Click the READ MORE AT ARC link at the end to see the whole article. There are some really cool, nice changes, and some that will cause distress (see bonding stones). Enjoy!
Why the change?
Refinement is a core part of Neverwinter gameplay, but a lot of the time it could feel like it was weighing down on you as a player. The pure number of items that needed to be held on to, the matching bonuses, the different reagents for different artifact types, and yes the hoarding of items until the 2x Refinement Points weekends to maximize the gains. In the end it felt more like a chore that had to be done than a fun part of the game where the player kept making progress.
For new players, the system is overwhelmingly complicated. They don't know what enchantments to use as food, what to hold, what to look for, and we wanted to make that experience far easier for players to figure out. On top of all of that, there hasn't been any major additions to the system in a long time. We took a hard look at all of this and came up with a plan to improve it in multiple ways.
Refinement Points
Having to match enchantments, stones, and types of items created a massive amount of inventory to maintain and organize. In the end, this doesn't add to the experience as much as it takes away from it all. So we did just that, took it all away. Now players will use Refinement Points (thought you might like to keep your acronym) which will be a currency. Gemstones, Enchantments, Runestones, Artifacts, Artifact Equipment, Uncommon (Green) Equipment (must be identified), will all break down into Refinement Points which will be a currency on the inventory sheet. All of the refining will use Refinement Points for upgrades, along with reagents of course. This means you no longer have to manage all of those different item types and dread looking at your inventory or bank. You can just break it all down into a simple currency that all items share.
To go along with this we have a new conversion window that has some easy options to input all of the different convertible items that you want to break down into Refinement Points in one simple click. In addition, any item which can be converted, can be by using the drop down menu for that item. The refinement upgrade window will now have a nice clean interface where the player can slide a bar to determine how many Refinement Points they wish to add to the item. This bar will default at either the amount needed for the next level, or the maximum a player can deposit if less than a full level as we felt that is the most common action players would do. On top of that, you can now put in the full amount of RP needed to level up and upgrade all in a single button press. Nice and quick and easy!
And you may have noticed how I mentioned Identified Uncommon Equipment can be turned into RP and thought "Man, identifying all of my green drops will be such a pain!", well we are also adding an Identify All button which will take your ID scrolls and identify all the unidentified items in your inventory with one click.
Now because we switched to a currency and want to try for manageable amounts of currency. We reduced both the value of RP points of the items and the cost to upgrade items by a factor of 10. Example a black opal now awards 1,000 RP, but costs are lowered by the same factor as well. To be very clear, this does not change the cost of refinement at all! This simply reduces the values all around so we can keep the currency lower and have room for players to hold plenty of currency and grow the system in the future. We will give the exact progression charts in the technical details post as well so that you can all see for yourselves how it will be functioning.
Summer Festival offers some pretty awesome rewards, and the key to the best of it is getting yourself some Sahha Balls. Through Sahha you can gain copper, silver, and mitheral tickets. Note that there are many highly valued items beyond the legendary mounts, there are strongboxes to help your stronghold development, preservation wards, and many hard to get enchants only offered through events, e.g. Brutal enchantment. Here is a video of how to start obtaining Sahha Balls. It is unedited at the moment (will edit and speed it up soon), but it walks you through the process that is not explained well in Neverwinter. The first time you do this on your character you must play in a Sahha match, but after that you don't need to that. You get three balls the first time you complete the tasks, then you get one per day and only have to collect the flax seed and run the profession to get your ball. So this means the first day it takes a little time, but after that it is pretty quick. Enjoy!
After you have created a truckload of sahha balls, party up some friends so that everyone will reap the rewards. Go to any enclosed space in the game, e.g. under the bridge (in the corner wedge) in the summer festival map, inside a tent at the main campground in Volosk, and start kicking your ball as fast as you can. The ball is on a timer, so the more you kick it the more the rewards drop. This is why you want a confined space, so the ball doesn't get away from you. Don't pick up any rewards until the timer on the ball expires, otherwise you won't kick it as much and you won't get as many rewards to drop. It is fairly easy to create 800-1000 balls during the event with five characters on your account. You are looking for the mitheral tickets to drop. Take them to the vendor by the soccer field and trade them in. This is how you can get a chance for awesome drops, like a tensor disc.
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Mithral Tickets Midsummer Legendary Mount Raffle Chance at Emperor Beetle, Black Ice Warhorse, Tenser's Floating Disk, Imperial Rage Drake, or Skeleton Steed Midsummer Epic Mount Raffle Chance at Heavy Inferno Nightmare, Sylvan Stag, Owlbear, Apparatus of Kwalish, Gorgon, Rage Drake, or Giant Beetle Midsummer Artifact Raffle Chance at Forgehammer of Gond, Token of Chromatic Storm, Thayan Book of the Dead, Kessell's Spheres of Annihiliation, Horn of Valhalla, or Sphere of Black Ice
Silver Tickets
Amnian Jadeite
Preservation Ward
Azure Enchantment, Rank 7
Silvery Enchantment, Rank 7
Radiant Enchantment, Rank 7
Dark Enchantment, Rank 7
Draconic Enchantment, Rank 7
Brutal Enchantment, Rank 7
Cruel Enchantment, Rank 7
Vicious Enchantment, Rank 7
Savage Enchantment, Rank 7
Black Ice Enchantment, Rank 7
Every Type of Insignia!
Golden Bell
Strongbox of Influence
Strongbox of Surplus Equipment
Strongbox of Gems
Copper Tickets
Flowers for everyone
Favor of Sune
Enchiridion of the Volley
Codex of the Check
Fundamentals of the Spike
Compendium of the Set
Body Paint "Dancing Clouds"
Body Paint "Barbed Flames"
Body Paint "Gilded Wire"
South Sea Coutrements
South Sea Sarong
Ornate Sahha Ball
Brown Boo Sahha Ball
Red Dragon Sahha Ball
Blue Beholder Sahha Ball
Relaxing Summer Chair
Our alliance tanking seminary is this Sunday 3 pm EST. We streamed some dungeons today, and Black Dragon gave some commentary on how he tanks, Castle Never (CN), Epic Templs of the Spider (eTOS), and Epic Lair of Lostmauth (eLOL). We hope you enjoy this video, and it whets your appetite for the tanking seminar. Details on the seminar are below in the previous post!
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Sunday
New video linked on our Stronghold menu/page on the topic of T3's, aka Big Heroics in the Stronghold.
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So we are starting to add videos to the website, and our first is a quick tutorial on how to tend the stronghold. This video is also on our stronghold page/menu above, but is here to make it convenient for you to see just what is new!
YouTube Tending Video (5:24)
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TeamSpeak (TS) has the ability to speak to you. It can tell you that "Xerxes" has entered the channel, or "John" has left the server, etc. This feature is particularly helpful if you do not have two monitors and TS needs to run in the background behind Neverwinter. This feature is client based, so each person decides whether or not they want to turn it on. To use this feature:
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
Create a bookmark if you are not already using one and enter the following settings. Otherwise, manage your bookmark and enter the following settings.
Bookmarks menu, "Add to Bookmarks"
Click the "Go Advanced" link at the bottom to the left of the OK button. This will bring up more options.
Bookmark Name: Alliance Or whatever you want to call it
Nickname: Xerxes Enter the name you want to see appear for you when you are on TS, do not put any tags on it such as [GT][SoS][TCA] etc. These automatically appear when a server admin grants you privileges. If you put your own, you probably will fool the server admins, and they won't grant you any rights.
Phonetic Nickname: Zerk-zees Enter your nickname as in #4, but instead spell it as it would sound. Many names will be just fine, but if you have non-English name with a different pronunciation, or a name with special characters, you will need to do your best to write it phonetically. This is how TS will try to say the name so that it is meaningful to everyone who uses Text to Speech. Again, only enter the name, no tags or other text. Use the "Self" menu, "Set Phonetic Nickname" and you can try spellings out, press play, and find one you like.
Server Address: ghosttemplars.teamspeak3.com
Put a check in the final checkbox called "Connect on Startup," if you want TS to always startup using this bookmark. By using this bookmark, you will not have to enter all of the above settings each time you launch the application. This is super convenient. If you don't see the checkbox, go back to step 2, and make sure you "Go Advanced."
Click OK to save these settings.
HOW TO SETUP TEXT TO SPEECH
Tools menu, "Options," select "Notifications" on the left.
Change the Sound Pack to "Default Text To Speech" Notice the "Get more soundpacks" link just above the apply button. If you want a different soundpack, it is highly advisable that you use this link and only download soundpacks from reputable and well known sources. You don't want to download a soundpack that is a Trojan virus or other malware, you don't want a keylogger that could harvest your login and get your game hacked. Use only reputable companies for soundpacks.
Select "Playback" on the left, and notice the two volume sliders. The second is the "Sound Pack Volume," and you can lower this so that TS will make its announcement softly and won't overpower all the other voices in your TS channel. I set mine to -37.0 dB, which is less than 10% of the slider. Everyone's computer, headset, etc. is different, so find a happy place for you.
Click OK to save these settings.
VERY IMPORTANT: Now close the application completely and relaunch it. All done, have fun with it!
Thank you to Nasali and the many others in TS that helped during the implementation of the Text to Speech feature!
Keybinding is an easy way to accomplish some repetitive tasks in the game. Here are the keybinds that I like to use and where I've put them. You can keybind just about any action in the game and the links that follow reveal a lot. Just type the keybind into your chat window.
Or if you prefer to bring up the VIP selector menu:
/bind # gensendmessage Vipaction_Root 1
Notice that keybind below for the follow command is normally typed in chat as "/follow", but for keybinding it is just in quotes without the slash. This is true for all the slash commands.
Programmed in TeamSpeak (not Neverwinter)
F9 Toggle Microphone Mute On/Off
F10 Toggle Away Status On/Off
F11 Toggle Speaker Mute On/Off
Devoted Clerics Only
This is the keybind for exultation and it is binding to Q. Notice you must type in the exact player name that you want to force exultation to, in this case Jannus Skinbrother.
/bind q "Hardtargetlock 1 $$ target "Jannus Skinbrother" $$ +PowerTrayExec 2 $$ Hardtargetlock 0"
When finished with it, use:
/unbind q
Remember to Save them to your character: ESC, Options, Interface tab, "Save UI" button at the bottom
We donate gems to the our guild coffer, and sometimes we purchase stacks of 99 with AD to donate as well. However, we need a lot more. A great way to make substantial donations is to craft them, but a few things are needed to make this happen and you can see these requirements below. However, if one upgrades the person to purple Grandmaster Jewelcrafter and upgrades to a purple asset, the yield will be higher and they will craft faster!
If you want to help the guild, but don't have the Grandmaster or purple assets, that's okay. Our crafting team can get the job done! Just send any gems (raw, sem-precious, precious, perfect), and leather strips (exotic or abberant) to @tselung (or @nevertoad if Thyra's email is full). You can find them by going to your Inventory, Profession Resources, and attaching them to a mail message or trading them to the desired person. We can start cranking these gems out and get our guild hall upgraded much, much faster.
