Any new player advice, hints, tips and builds ?

[JH]

As per the title, can any experienced Neverwinter players give starting tips and suggested character builds for a complete new starter.

Given the timing of this post and in a sacrificial lamb to the slaughter manner I will of course fully disclose that I will be taking up the sword, staff or chicken on Xbox One when this goes live in a few hours.

Does anyone know if the servers will be cross platform. I would guess not but you never know. If for any genre it makes sense it's MMO's. I wonder if Elite dangerous or Skyrim Online will be ? Anyway, I digress.

Many thanks in advance.

I will heroically wade through any abuse and derogatory posts for your pearls of wisdom.

[Admiral ivan]

Be a contril wizard,good starting class

[Admiral ivan]

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[Admiral ivan]

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[Wolverine]

collect any loot you come across, but only use identification scrolls on those items you use for your own character(s). sell white and green loot for silver/gold, and blue and beyond for Astral Diamonds in the Auctionhouse (the little hammer icon, at the top of your screen, you can auction items from anywhere, but you have to go to a mailbox in a city to get AD or items from auctions, and check the price on items before you put it up for sale).

start doing daily quests as soon as possible and don't forget to refine the raw AD you get through it.

don't upgrade companions, just level them up, and if you have enough AD collected to get a better companion, check the Auctionhouse. in most cases a new much better companion is much cheaper then to upgrade even 1 companion you allready have.
when your companion has leveled enough, go to the AH and buy level 60 blue gear to equip. and put into their defense runeslot "Eldritch" runestones to profit from their stats.

when you have enough spare AD, start to convert them through the AD-ZEN-Exchange (icon at the top of your screen) into ZEN, to buy anything you need or want from the ZEN store.
for starters, wait for character slots to be on sale again, and then get a few, you will need them...

first "profession" to level up is Leadership. start with "hire a merc", when you leveld further enough, upgrade those to "train a guard" and then "train a footman".
you can then send those out on quests, that will give you more raw Astral Diamonds. the required assets can be bought from a npc in the city. a profession quest will lead you to it.
and you can use this profession to level any alt and earn more AD for your main character or to convert to more ZEN - and that would be the reason to buy more character slots at the beginning.

at level 20 you will receive a quest to get a horse, this will just be a temp. mount. so, buy yourself a cheap permanent mount from the AH for AD.

you can get bags through questchains, so keep an eye out for those and do at least those quests to get more room in your inventory.

last but not least, check your map for dragon events and participate as soon as you can, you can get some nice equipment from those, and the main and offhand weapon will increase with your level.

welcome to NWO.

edit: don't forget to invoke at least daily, safe your ardent coins for the companion Angel of Protection - yeah, i know 360 coins, equals 360 days, but see it as a huge bonus at the end of this long road.
and use your celestial coins for the Coffer of Wondrous Augmentation every 7 days, and hope for a Coalescent Ward.

[JH]

Wow, that's some top stuff, many thanks !

If you see a huge half orc called Jarn crashing around just cut him some slack and maybe a wide bearth.

I've only played a little because as expected the servers are getting hammered so I will come back off peak to get further but for free it seems some pretty solid hack and slash so far.

"looks like meats back on the menu boys !"

[HeathenEyes]

anyone know where i can get info on how to switch from playing neverwinter some where ells to play it on steam how do i do that?

[Wolverine]

install it new through Steam? i think you can add the NWO client to Steam, but it won't showup in your library... there might be ways to copy your game data into the Steam folder and then see if it works, but i doubt it will.
and even then you have to use the old or the new ARC launcher to actual play the game.

[Wolverine]

And one other thing, right now you can just jump right into the game and play, since you will get a free reset for your skills with the new mod in a few days.

[dragonzofdeath]

my number one advice don't play this game!!!!!!!! 7 days playing i haven't been able to unlock chat trade or anything else my inventory is full of blue(rare) items and i can't sell or trade... i was dumb enough to pay vip for it and still can't do ♥♥♥♥... i'm level 35 and unlocking alot and still can't get stuff done..... just don't play this game it'll will stress you out once you notice you can't do anything!! i been doing every quest to make sure i'm not missing anything well guess what i still can't do anything!!! this game is so anti newbie and on top of that since your new you can't ask clans for help and you can't go to website and ask for help!!! they blocked you on there too cause your new!!!!