Invitations to the Crimson Court Plot Quests (Baron, Viscount, and Countess)

[redhookjohn]

Many have been asking about how Invitations work, so here is a summary:

The "Burn the Hives" Courtyard quest will pop at week 3. You can do this at your leisure.

After that quest, the first "infestation" of the Estate will begin. Courtyard pests will begin to slowly appear in other regions. When the infestation level reaches HIGH (around week 8-10), you will start to encounter monster groups that include the "Gatekeeper". The Gatekeeper, if killed before he can escape, will drop an Invitation.

Each invitation allows one entry into the Courtyard boss quest. Unlike other quests, you may take as many attempts to finish the Courtyard boss quests as you like, and your progress is saved. (The dungeons are Epic length!)

After the boss is vanquished, the infestation level will be reset for a time before starting to climb again, setting up for the next special quest.

We hope this clears up some of the confusion!

P.S. In today's hotfix (June 21) we sped up the infestations some (especially the first one) and also increased appearance rates of the Gatekeeper. This should get you to the Baron quest faster!

P.P.S: For those of you continuing existing campaigns, the week schedule will begin when you enable the DLC.

[Anthor of Lorach]

You need to find another invitation trough the 4 regions. Then you can enter there again

[maxk0824]

Winston Smith님이 먼저 게시:

You need to find another invitation trough the 4 regions. Then you can enter there again

WELP, TIME TO GRIND FOR A FEW WEEKS

[Tatourmi]

I am desperately waiting on that infestation for the viscount. How about a new type of courtyard quest "A social event" which would get you an invation or a guaranteed encounter with a gatekeeper?

[1hitparry]

Tatourmi님이 먼저 게시:

I am desperately waiting on that infestation for the viscount. How about a new type of courtyard quest "A social event" which would get you an invation or a guaranteed encounter with a gatekeeper?

A guaranteed way of farming invitations would be good. Does anyone know the rational behind locking the CC behind the invitation system? It took me 4 or 5 tries just to get to the Baron (unfortunately I had to retreat so I'll have to farm another invitation). I'm at the point in the game where there's little else to do but grind grind grind. And working through the CC is even grindier than the rest of the game. I don't mind grinding through the dungeon multiple times, but the invitation system slows progress tremendously.

[Inkidu]

1hitparry님이 먼저 게시:

Tatourmi님이 먼저 게시:

I am desperately waiting on that infestation for the viscount. How about a new type of courtyard quest "A social event" which would get you an invation or a guaranteed encounter with a gatekeeper?

A guaranteed way of farming invitations would be good. Does anyone know the rational behind locking the CC behind the invitation system? It took me 4 or 5 tries just to get to the Baron (unfortunately I had to retreat so I'll have to farm another invitation). I'm at the point in the game where there's little else to do but grind grind grind. And working through the CC is even grindier than the rest of the game. I don't mind grinding through the dungeon multiple times, but the invitation system slows progress tremendously.

It's laways something that's felt odd to me too, manily because I've heard everyone say:

CC is meant to be played from a new game!

But the invite systtem is clearly something that gates early games, and adds grind. I've asked the developers directly what the rationale was and gotten nothing so far.

[1hitparry]

Inkidu님이 먼저 게시:

It's laways something that's felt odd to me too, manily because I've heard everyone say:

CC is meant to be played from a new game!

But the invite systtem is clearly something that gates early games, and adds grind. I've asked the developers directly what the rationale was and gotten nothing so far.

I've considered starting a new game. But I have so many high level trinkets that I don't want to give those up and start the grind all over again. I ended up just modding the level restriction so that I could run through with my high level characters (because I no longer have any low level characters).

[ValDarkmoon]

I just got the DLC a couple days ago and I have a couple of questions about invitations. The gatekeeper enemy only appears outside of the courtyard, correct? If so then the fact I've only found one so far I guess gets chalked up to bad luck?

Second there is a quest that is always available in the courtyard, a short level 5 dungeon where the object is always to collect 3 curios filled with "The Blood", I notice that there is a progress bar for the courtyard that advances every time I complete this quest but it doesn't seem to serve any purpose or am I missing something? Do I have to fill that bar to get a gatekeeper to spawn elsewhere?

I end up doing the quest for the Blood often because about half my roster has the curse and the building that provides two Bloods per week is insufficient though I do have a stockpile of around 150. It's managable for now but I would like to get to work on getting myself cleaned up a little. My first two attempts at the baron the crocodile killed a party member trying to get a key (thankfully, they did not die in vain). The one where I had a flagellent with unyielding locked in and a Martyr's Seal fail on the first ever deathblow resist check he had to make was...annoying.

[lolo.77dante]

the game crash at this level ! and after automatique save!! my game is.....end???

[Breadsmith]

If I could give you all my 22 invites to the Baron and entire runs in the Ruins without a single non-bloodsucker fight, I gladly would. The Court is a pox upon this land, but also a gift that demands to be given.

[Arilade]

i cant found invitation item . plz help me.

[Khelavaster76]

The spawn rate for Countess invites are much lower than for the previous bosses. Nevertheless i found the messengers appeared with the most frequency in long dungeons (about 2 per dungeon) and only rarely in medium dungeons.. almost never in short dungeons.

[Noods]

These invitations are straight up ruining the fun of this game. I beat this game several times and came back to play the expansion. I started a new game and I am about to reach the Countess. However, I have run out of the invitations and can't find another one after 20 pointless runs. The mechanic of the invitation has straight up turned the game into a grind. Nothing ruins a game like pointless grinding. Gating this dungeon with an arbitrary grind is sad.

[Sarani]

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[Baron von Gosu]

It encourages more grinding because they don't show up until infection level is high. It can be a very annoying and tedious game mechanic

[Bloody]

Hi Team

i am unable to progress. I picked a spot which went to a locked gate. But i do not have the key to unlock the gate, I am unable to retreat back to the original spot and retreating to the hamlet sets me back and returning uses a Baron invite but places me back unto the path preventing me from moving forward or choosing another node.

Any help or do i have to find a cheat and put the right key there? And if so can someone tell me which keys ?