On April 23rd, the Lockbox of the Mad Mage will make its debut in the game. This new type of lockbox can contain the Legendary Hellfire Engine mount, the Grung companion or other types of goodies. Of course, all of the contents are themed around the upcoming Undermountain expansion coming later this month.
Legendary Hellfire Engine – mount:
- Legendary mount speed
- Equip Power: +4000 Critical Strike
- Combat Power: Hell on Faerun (Summons the Hellfire Engine to shoot devastating hellfire out of it’s mouth, burning enemies and applying a lingering damage over time.)
You can also check out last week's blog post about the Undermountain Expeditions coming with the expansion. These provide players with "some of the most challenging and rewarding content in Neverwinter" and are "variable, scaling, repeatable" romps through Undermountain.
To ensure no two Expeditions are the same, multiple methods of randomization have been overlaid to create a varied system. At the core of the Expedition system are the three modular “floors” selected at the start of a run. These are pulled from the three different floor archetypes, “arena”, “corridor”, and “rooms”, and strung together to comprise a complete Expedition. Arena floors have short travel time, are built around a challenging boss fight, and always punctuate the end of an Expedition. Corridor floors have a linear design with a focus on fighting mobs. Rooms floors are more non-linear and encourage exploration, but also culminate in a challenging mini-arena. The difference between these floor archetypes gives meaningful variety in the level design for each Expedition; a run with three arena floors feels much different and offers different gameplay and pacing than two corridor floors and an arena.
Read more at the links above.
