Neverwinter Online Module 3: Curse of Icewind Dale

By: Igure Sankyou

Introduction:

The new module start with a mensage saying that you are able for icewind dale, so now, its just get the quest with Sgt. Knox and speak with the icewind dale traveler on Protector Enclave, next of the market.

Coming in the to Caer Konig town, just get the quests are able to do, speaking with the npcs on town til Icewind Pass is open.

To travel for Icewind Pass its necessary to have a contract with a Mercenary Faction, so you need to chose between Arcane Brotherhood and Ten Towns.

The differences between the two factions is only the pvp daily quests and one daily quest of icewind pass.

In this new area to unlock boons and upgrades its needed to have reputation, its easily to build your reputation doing dailies and at moment its needed 35 days to max reputation.

As is possible to see in the next picture, the structure of this campaing is difference and more complex tham DR and Sharandar.

The Baerick’s Iceforge is the way to upgrade the black ice profession, been able to refine black ice, forge black ice enchantments and equipments.

In the right way you can upgrade the areas that are able to travel on icewind dale, so its recommended to unlock this path as soon as possible.

The left way is the boons of icewind, some usefull and some useless.

Icewind Pass:

The icewind pass is a hostile area that monsters have lv 61 and bosses 65, full of heroic encounters.

Heroic encounter is an automatic event that happens in a specific area of the map randomic at time, being divided in common encounters, rare encounters and epic encounters.

The Epic Encounters have a great mark in the map, like the Black Ice Domination, and almost of them have time to be done, dropping black ice, epic itens for black ice profession and some equipments to transmute and use on the black ice craft.

Dwarven Valley:

It’s a area full of heroic encounters and monsters at lv 62.

That area have daily quests too with another resource for your campaing progress. Can be unlocked in 5 days.

Black Ice PvP Domination:

Its divided in 2 phases, first one Domination and Second, Black Ice Harvest.

In the first phase, its close a normal pvp, but, the differences start with the question, WIN or LOSE?

So, if you think a little bit it means that the losers of this phase can win the event in the same way.

The winner of the event is the winner of the second phase, but, its not hard to explain.

When the classical pvp match ends, its gonna to spawn a Black Ice Motherlode, on the area of the map, and summon too a lot of npcs to fight at the side of the winner, BUT, the loser of the first phase can summon a Juggernalt golem to fight just activating the 3 points on the map that are marked.

The second phase is just harvest this black ice resource to 100%, but, if the loser of the first phase steal 100% of their points in black ice first, they win, that’s all in middle of a great battle and two sides of npcs and monsters attacking each side.

So, what’s better? 10 npcs with 30k HP or 1 Juggernault with the same HP of DK one?

What is the best strategy? Win the first phase or lost?

That’s some questions that need to be answer and just can be done with the real situation.

Black Ice Domination Map:

That’s the appearance of the Golem Activator: