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Neverwinter: The Maze Engine Hits March 15th

Mark your calendars and prepare to call in sick, because March 15th marks the official launch date of Neverwinter’s next module, The Maze Engine. The update brings a plethora of new content and changes to existing features, including the return of dungeons and major tweaks to the mount system. Players who are interested in checking out the update before it goes live can sign on to the public test realm and copy their characters over.

The Maze Engine brings back numerous familiar faces from Drizzt, Minsc, Makos, and more.

Following the events of Neverwinter: Underdark, a new threat has waltzed its way into Neverwinter in the form of Baphomet, the Prince of Beasts. Baphomet seeks the ancient Maze Engine artifact in a quest to alter reality in his favor and bring about the destruction of Neverwinter. Thankfully, familiar faces such as Drizzt, Minsc, Linu, Makos and many more return to aid adventurers in their plight to take down the demon lord.

The Maze Engine also marks the return of Castle Never, where players will need to take on its new inhabitants.

(Source: Neverwinter)

Neverwinter Strongholds Getting Cheaper

The latest Neverwinter development blog is available and the topic of conversation are strongholds. Guild Strongholds were created as a method of improving player engagement, which while it has worked out great for larger guilds, the smaller groups are finding the costs of progression to be rather frustrating. In response, the Neverwinter team has been gathering data on how to make the process less cumbersome and annoying.

Issue number one became the need for Astral Diamonds, a resource integral to just about every other part of the game meaning that smaller guilds with more casual players would wind up having to give up all of their Astral Diamonds to the coffers, effectively making them unable to participate in other parts of the game. The answer was to reduce Astral Diamond costs, improve rewards for donating harder-to-obtain currencies, and allowing people to collect guild resources through professions.

The changes discussed will go live in the Maze Engine update.

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PWE Announces Next Neverwinter Module, The Maze Engine

Perfect World Entertainment has announced The Maze Engine, the next big update for Neverwinter, will be hitting home computers this Spring with Xbox to follow. The Maze Engine is set to introduce a number of much anticipated updates, including the long awaited return of dungeons. Four fan favorites are set to return with new graphics, a new design, with Castle Never returning as a high level dungeon.

Also available for level 60 players is a new single player campaign set after the events of Underdark.

Neverwinter: The Maze Engine continues the story of demons escaping from the Abyss that was started in Neverwinter: Underdark. I don’t want to give anything away just yet, so be sure to look for an upcoming blog where we’ll go over the story-thus-far, and give you a peak into what you can look forward to as overwhelming madness permeates the… /sigh right… no spoiling. I’ll just say for now that a lot of your favorite characters are making return appearances and ready for adventure!

The announcement details upcoming blogs covering a new mount system, queue improvements, famous faces, and more.

(Source: Neverwinter)