Level Cap coming to 20?

 Us long time players of Neverwinter is bound to be in a shock when we hear that our now level cap is 20...we've been thru 60, 70, and 80....and now back to 20!! Let's take a look into how we got there and what the devs of Neverwinter are thinking to accomplish....

GOALS

Streamline Leveling – Get players to our newest and best content faster. Balance the progression and rewards. Make each level achieved feel rewarding.

Teach the Game – Reimagine how the game is taught. Build a linear flow that ensures players are shown important systems.

Improve Performance and Visuals – Update old assets and fix underlying technical issues.

While players needn’t do anything to prep for the changeover, it does sound like some of the old leveling adventure zones have been temporarily retired, presumably until they can be retooled for the new leveling curve. Hopefully in upcoming news we can learn more about the renovations to our old favs^_^

The zones we vaulted are:

• Blacklake District
• Tower District
• Blackdagger Ruins
• Helm's Hold
• Pirate's Skyhold
• Rothe Valley
• Mount Hotenow

Along with the new leveling system Cryptic is introducing some new places for players. One of those is The Adventurer’s Guild

A place for all the greatest adventurers to meet, train, and claim their hard-earned rewards. This building is a new addition to Protector’s Enclave and will serve as a hub for leveling adventurer’s in their efforts to help the Sword Coast. The old Trade of Blades has been remodeled to serve more than just PvP. Many useful vendors have moved in to provide a variety of services, and Sergeant Knox guides all new adventurers from within the main hall. There are side rooms fitted for the needs of all kinds of adventurers. Clerics will find respite in the chapel, Wizards can peruse the mystical arts in the library, and Fighters can share stories around a roasting boar in trophy room. If you have an interest in tales from the past, the Acolytes of History have set up in the archives on the second floor, who offer lore from Neverwinter’s past. Keep an eye out for acolytes out in the field to hear more tales and perhaps help achieve things thought lost…

The Training Room

A special demiplane for adventurers to safely practice techniques and test their mettle. Players practice combat basics like Combat Advantage and Tab Mechanics here. After joining the Adventurer’s Guild, players will be able to access the Training Room with its testing functionality enabled. This will provide our dedicated build-makers and testers with a place to explore the combat systems with convenient features like no cooldowns or infinite Action Points.

Along with these new changes you will notice that system updates have been done to better explain how the game actually works. One of the major changes is they have new visuals for important Main missions. They have an updated overhead icon as well as new treatments in the journal and quest tracker and also built new visuals for Event missions to distinguish this special limited time content from regular questing.

Existing Characters

Because of the major changes to the leveling flow and level cap, existing characters are going to be set to level 20 and offered a free gear pack to get them in the right place to start on epic content. The leveling Adventures will still be available to play and we encourage everyone to play through the new tutorial missions and claim the Adventure rewards. Any characters who were last in vaulted zones will be warped to Protector’s Enclave and Sergeant Knox will offer a quest to meet with the Reward Claim Agent for the gear pack. While in the midst of doing all these things they are also going to build exchanges for old currencies that will no longer be used..so watch for those that you don't miss out!! Hopefully they will allow a great deal of allotted time to all the players, in case they don't keep a eye out for deadlines.

Preview

The best way to understand these changes is to jump onto the Preview server and try them out. I've posted a video below explaining exactly how you can do that..who knows what all these new changes will bring to Neverwinter, there are lots of opinions and questions but the game is in overhaul drive at the moment and us long time players will I know stick around to see the results, happy huntings!

*credit of this video goes to NeverwinterGames*