Neverwinter Delay on Drow

Hey guys so I have been reading the Neverwinter Forums a lot today. We have been told that the Drow race, which for a long time has been said would be free at launch, will be delayed for 60 days for exclusivity purposes. What type of exclusivity? Well only a Hero of the North will be allowed to play Drow until the end of the 60 day period. Personally I find this a bad move by marketing. I believe if they are going to add an exclusivity period it should allow Guardian and Hero pack owners to play Drow. I also believe a 30 day period would be better.I find that the current choice will lose potential players which are potential customers.

I will give you the quote here from the FAQ about this issue


What are the specifics surrounding the exclusivity of the Menzoberranzan Renegade Drow that comes with the Hero of the North Founder's Pack?

The Menzo-Renegade look, tattoo, racial background, racial ability, and special companion will remain permanently exclusive to Hero of the North Pack purchases. The vanilla, non-Menzoberranzan Renegade Drow race will be unavailable for at least first 60 days after release. We are currently planning to do a future update that will allow all players will be able to create a regular Drow character.


I will try to see if we can get more info and possibly get vanilla Drow at release.

Well I dont know what else to say about this.


Thanks for reading, dont forget to follow my blog


Death

Neverwinter Mount List

Hey so I have some datamind(not by me) mounts for Neverwinter Online. Here is the info


 Bear Mounts - 5 total, 1 with armor
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 9 Different Spider Mounts, 1 Collector Version (only armored one)
 Icons_Inventory_Mount_Giantspider_01


Icons_Inventory_Mount_Giantspider_Armored_Collectors <-- Hero of the North Variation

Icons_Inventory_Mount_Spider_Broodmother_01


Icons_Inventory_Mount_Spider_Broodmother_02


Icons_Inventory_Mount_Spider_Broodmother_03


Icons_Inventory_Mount_Spider_Deathjump_02


Icons_Inventory_Mount_Spider_Spiderling_01


Icons_Inventory_Mount_Spider_Spiderling_02


Icons_Inventory_Mount_Spider_Spiderling_03



 A ton of horses with a Nightmare Lore Variation
Icons_Inventory_Lore_Nightmare
Icons_Inventory_Lore_Nightmare_Armored
Icons_Inventory_Mount_Arabian_Bay
Icons_Inventory_Mount_Arabian_Grullo
Icons_Inventory_Mount_Clydesdale_Brown
Icons_Inventory_Mount_Clydesdale_Brown_H_Armor
Icons_Inventory_Mount_Clydesdale_Brown_L_Armor
Icons_Inventory_Mount_Clydesdale_Buckskin
Icons_Inventory_Mount_Clydesdale_Buckskin_H_Armor
Icons_Inventory_Mount_Clydesdale_Buckskin_L_Armor
Icons_Inventory_Mount_Clydesdale_Chestnut
Icons_Inventory_Mount_Clydesdale_Chestnut_H_Armor
Icons_Inventory_Mount_Clydesdale_Chestnut_L_Armor
Icons_Inventory_Mount_Horse_Appaloosa
Icons_Inventory_Mount_Horse_Appaloosa_H_Armor
Icons_Inventory_Mount_Horse_Appaloosa_L_Armor
Icons_Inventory_Mount_Horse_Black
Icons_Inventory_Mount_Horse_Black_H_Armor
Icons_Inventory_Mount_Horse_Black_L_Armor
Icons_Inventory_Mount_Horse_Brindle
Icons_Inventory_Mount_Horse_Brindle_H_Armor
Icons_Inventory_Mount_Horse_Brindle_L_Armor
Icons_Inventory_Mount_Horse_Grey
Icons_Inventory_Mount_Horse_Grey_H_Armor
Icons_Inventory_Mount_Horse_Grey_L_Armor
Icons_Inventory_Mount_Horse_Palomino
Icons_Inventory_Mount_Horse_Palomino_H_Armor
Icons_Inventory_Mount_Horse_Palomino_L_Armor
Icons_Inventory_Mount_Horse_Pinto
Icons_Inventory_Mount_Horse_Pinto_H_Armor
Icons_Inventory_Mount_Horse_Pinto_L_Armor
Icons_Inventory_Mount_Horse_Sabino
Icons_Inventory_Mount_Horse_Sabino_H_Armor
Icons_Inventory_Mount_Horse_Sabino_L_Armor
Icons_Inventory_Mount_Horse_White
Icons_Inventory_Mount_Horse_White_H_Armor
Icons_Inventory_Mount_Horse_White_L_Armor
Icons_Inventory_Mount_Nightmare
Icons_Inventory_Mount_Nightmare_Armor
Icons_Inventory_Mount_Unicorn

3 Worg Mounts - One Armored

one Panther Mount


So lots of cool mounts will be ingame, Hope you follow my blog

Death

More Races Coming to Neverwinter

Hey guys, so our local dataminer on the forums found some info I think you guys will like, I know I did.

Info has been found for both the Dragonborn race and the Half-Orc race. This is great news, and although it is not an "official" release the Devs did not deny the info. SO Ill give you what I have for each race and let you think things out.

                                                                 Dragonborn
                                
These pics were all that was obtained on the Dragonborn Race

And for Half-Orc  we have this


                                   Half-orcs combine the best qualities of humans and orcs, though some would argue that the good qualities of orcs are few and hard to find. From their orc blood, half-orcs inherit great physica strength and toughness. They are fierce warriors, fleet of foot as they charge into battle.

Well I hope you guys like this and thanks for reading,

Death

Neverwinter Beta Weekend 1 Review

Hi there guys,

As yall may know I participated in Neverwinter Online's  Beta Weekend 1. I have decided to give a little info of what I felt about it.

To start off I only tested the Guardian Fighter. The game starts the same for everyone, you are on the bridge and you must fight your way to the city of Neverwinter. Here you learn most of the basics, attacking, moving, , to use the shift button etc.
After making it into the city you begin to follow a very linear quest line, during this you are still being guided through helping you get-a-hold of the non-traditional  control scheme. Personally I had a little trouble with the controls.
Following the quest line you are brought to different areas in the city of Neverwinter which had been destroyed previously by both problems that occurred in the Spellplague and  the eruption of Mount Hotenow. (Due to this destruction many monsters, evil wizards, bandits, and more have moved in and tried to take over. You must battle these foes to try to push them out of the city.) After a while you get quests that teach you mechanics such as invocation, teach about companions, mounts and more.

Overall the game was quite fun, the action based combat keeps you thinking and makes it a game you cannot just keep in the back of your head while also watching tv. The combat actually reminded me of the Assassin's Creed games how you must actively block and dodge and choose your attacks. It is very fun and interactive.

The quest in the game and quest-lines were very fun. Also the dungeons were interesting normally containing a "boss" at the end of each dungeon.

In Neverwinter I felt very powerful and it was very gratifying to play.

Although some things definitely felt incomplete. For example the fact that Deities and backgrounds didnt really play much of a part except for when RPing. Also the invocation system seems like it should be brought farther and allowing you to give "offerings" that fit your deity so that it can allow you invocation to be more or less pleasing to your deity, which would give more AD when you invoke.

Truly though once you get past the non-traditional controls and figure out how to work the action based combat you become a force to be reckoned with.

They had a system for choosing stats, a tree of feats to choose from which include paragon paths, also there is use of skills although, I believe skills should be used for more than they currently are used for, but I cant say exactly how.

The social system needed a few fixes, but from what I understand, that is already underway.


Overall it was very fun and reminded me of DnD a lot of DnD but felt incomplete,this makes since though as it is beta.

I plan on streaming the next beta weekend on twitch.tv/deathscrowbar, also I recently got a lot of good info while I was on the NOCS, to listen to it you can go to this link.

Thanks for reading, I hope you are willing to follow my blog,

Death

NOCS Podcast Episode 2

Hey guys episode to of the NOCS is done. We had a great time making this with
SENIOR ENVIRONMENT ARTIST Mike Apolis AKA Crypticmapolis   and

LEAD PRODUCER ANDY VELASQUEZ AkA The Squez

and last but definitely not least

COO of Cryptic Studios and Executive Producer of Neverwinter Online.

AandretheGiant and I had tons of fun. We had good question. Fountains of info new an old.

It started out with Aandre and I just talking with Mike after a about 30 minutes with him Andy came on and during that we got about 15 minutes with Craig and ended up with nearly 45 minutes with Andy, and also had the Lead Designer walk in and listen to us. Afterwards we had about another 30 minutes with Mike.

It was super fun I loved Aandre loved it and  Mike, Andy, and Craig loved it. I hope you guys love it and please listen to the the new episode.

You can download it from dropbox here.

I hope you love it.

Talk with you guys later,
Death

NOCS

Hey guys, just finished recording the NOCS podcast with AandretheGiant. We have one Mystery Guest and one Surprise Mystery Guest. We will have it done in a couple days. This Contains Great Info on Neverwinter Online.  Although it is not out yet you may quench your thirst for Neverwinter info by listening to the first episode of the podcast,  and joining the Neverwinter Forums. 

This was a special interview and my first to give to any game related person. I am sure you guys will love it, feel free to keep up with the podcast. also feel free to follow my blog.
I will have more info when possible,

Death

Archer Ranger and Scourge Warlock In-Game

Hey guys after some of the awesome guys on the Neverwinter Forums did some snooping around in the Beta Client Files they found Character class data. It included all previously announced class and 2 More the Archer Ranger and the Scourge Warlock.

Also we found this


Scourge_Daily_AccursedSouls
Scourge_Daily_Broodofhadar
Scourge_Daily_Infectiouscurse
Scourge_Daily_Phelgethos
Scourge_Daily_Tyranicalcurse
Scourge_Enc_Dreadtheft
Scourge_Enc_Fireybolt
Scourge_Enc_Killingflame
Scourge_Enc_Vampembrace
Scourge_Atwill_Eldritchblast
Scourge_Shift_Shadowslip
Scourge_Curse


But basically we have been waiting forever for this info so it is Awesome.
I hope we can play them in beta.
Alright Guys thats all the info I got now.

Thanks and please follow me,

Death