Tag: Never Winner

MMOments: Neverwinter Key Test


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Neverwinter is a game that I’ve had quite a bit of fun in lately. Between the game’s constant events, my slow progress of leveling up my character, and distractions of daily life preventing me from playing too much, I finally managed to nearly hit the game’s level cap. As I write this, I’m sitting at around 75% of the way between level 59 and 60, and I figured why not put some money down and buy a bundle of keys just to see what I can get. For the record, I’ve spent $20 bucks on Neverwinter altogether so far. I used it to buy a bag of holding and some profession packs about six months ago.

With that in mind, I have never bought keys for lockboxes in an MMO (not counting Team Fortress 2), and I’m actually pretty intrigued as to what I’ll get. Aside from a whole box of disappointment, I’m not expecting much. The bundle of ten keys cost $11 bucks.

  • Box #1
    • 9 Tarmalune Trade Bars: Currency for the trade bar merchant. Most things cost between 500-1,000 bars.
    • 1 Corrupted Strongbox of Enchantments: I opened a lockbox and found another lockbox. This one contained a lesser plague fire enchantment.
  • Box #2
    • 6 Tarmalune Trade Bars: Oh goody.
    • Companion Fortification Kit: Another lockbox within a lockbox. This one contained runestones.
  • Box #3
    • Reghed Barbaric Relic: This is something that is used in the Icewind Dale campaign. I haven’t gotten that far in the quest line yet.
    • 6 Tarmalune Trade Bars: Oh joy.
  • Box #4
    • Iron Strongbox of Enchantments: It contained enchantments. None of them any good.
    • 5 Tarmalune Trade Bars: More of them.
  • Box #5
    • Planar Idol: Exchange this for an astral resonator which can be used to extract astral diamonds.
    • 4 Tarmalune Trade Bars
  • Box #6
    • Priceless Thayan Antiquity: Can exchange at a merchant.
    • 8 Tharmalune Trade Bars
  • Box #7
    • Priceless Thayan Antiquity
    • 4 Tharmalune Trade Bars
  • Box #8
    • Priceless Thayan Antiquity
    • 3 Tharmalune Trade Bars
  • Box #9
    • Artifact Provisions Pack: Contains stuff for refining runestones.
    • 4 Tharmalune trade bars.
  • Box #10
    • Corrupted Strongbox of Enchantments
    • 10 Tharmalune Bars

So there you have it. A whole lot of nothing. I coulda had a V8.