Speaker A
Hey, and welcome to Neverwinter with Aragan. So the devs just made a bit of a preview update.
Preview of Neverwinter Module 32.5 introduces account-wide Celestial Insignias using Celestial Essence and updates to Cleric abilities.
Key Takeaways
- Account-wide Celestial Insignias improve convenience but add a new currency cost.
- Cleric buffs have been buffed for better area and duration management.
- Upgrade system is more reliable with 100% success rate for celestial insignias.
- Current claim system has an exploitable bug allowing infinite insignia duplication.
- The system balances convenience with trade-offs like binding and cost, pending player feedback.
Summary
- Module 32.5 introduces account-wide Celestial Insignia unlocks requiring Celestial Essence currency.
- Celestial Essence can be obtained from master content chests, appointment event vendor, and Zen market.
- Cleric updates include increased area for Divine Glow and Exaltation buffs and adjusted Hallowed Ground duration and recharge.
- Celestial Insignias now have a 100% upgrade success rate, removing previous 50% chance.
- Dissolving mythic insignias returns half the upgrade cost in insignia powder; celestial insignias return less.
- Account-wide insignias require unequipping and become character-bound upon trade-in.
- Players can claim unlocked insignias on all characters, improving quality of life but adding cost layers.
- A bug allows infinite claiming of insignias by slotting and reclaiming, which needs fixing before release.
- Celestial Essence from appointment events is bound, with uncertain binding status for other sources.
- Master content required for essence farming is challenging for newer or casual players.
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For the next half expansion, module 32.5.
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And it very thankfully brings a system where we can get account-wide celestial insignia unlocks.
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However, they will need a special currency called Celestial Essence, three per unlock.
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There were also some minor changes to the cleric.
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Divine Glow, the buff will now be an area of 25 feet instead of 15.
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Same for Exaltation, and they've made the base duration of Hallowed Ground 18 seconds, removing that two seconds from the Sanctified Ground.
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So yeah, maximum duration 18 seconds, and the recharge speed is properly listed.
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That will correctly show in your character sheet, I have 13%, casting Hallowed Ground, we now have 28%.
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Other than that, I don't see any other changes here.
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So now let's have a look, what are they doing with this Celestial Insignia unlock?
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To have it as account-wide.
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Well, we first see, we'll need the original Insignia.
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On Celestial, plus three Celestial Essence.
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When you read the description, they say they can be found in chests at the end of master content, dungeons and trials.
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And purchased from the appointment event vendor and the Zen store.
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The Zen store on the preview server never is up to date with anything.
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So if we check the appointment vendor, we can see they're available just for participation tokens.
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You can buy one for seven of them.
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You generally get around 40 to 50 per event.
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I currently have 140 on this character, so we're able to go and buy 20 of these.
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They get placed in the other currencies of your inventory.
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If you wanted to get enough Celestial Essence via these tokens, you would need about 400, which is equivalent of about 10 appointment events.
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They generally only do like three to five at best per year.
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But again, they claim you can get this essence also from doing master dungeons and trials, just the end chests and the Zen market.
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But we'll have to wait to confirm any good drop rates.
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And we've no idea right now what the Zen market price would be, I would suspect like 100 Zen each.
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But yeah, you need three essence per insignia.
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So let's get a Celestial Insignia, they have also very nicely done away with that 50% chance.
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It's now also 100% like all the other ranks.
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That's great to see.
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The cost is still the same, 2,500 Insignia powder, just like it is in our current state of the game.
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To get a legendary to mythic.
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And they have gone back and also changed, so if you dissolve a mythic insignia, you actually get 1,250 back.
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That is the same amount you have to spend to get it upgraded from legendary to mythic.
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We can just quickly confirm that by upgrading a purple one.
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That cost 250.
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Then upgrading a legendary one, 1,250.
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And then it would be mythic.
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And once it's mythic, you could go and dissolve it and get the same amount of powder back, but it is a waste for that original legendary insignia you upgraded.
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But as for these Celestial Insignias, if we look at dissolving those.
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They will only give 1,500.
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Definitely not worth dissolving those.
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So once we get some of these upgraded, ideally we'll upgrade our full set.
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But even just having one, we should now be able to go and trade that in and make it account-wide.
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So checking here, we can see the ones available to us are only the ones not equipped.
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So yes, you'll have to unequip them.
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And they'll very likely have to be unlocked as well.
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Because I have a hunch this is going to bind to them.
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But let's confirm that.
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So we will purchase our Fortitude Insignia right here, trading it in.
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And obtaining the one with the or tag.
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We look at the bind status on that, and it is indeed bound to our character.
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So pretty much like your enchantments.
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But at least the system is not as convoluted.
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So if we claim these now, having bought those as well.
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Spending three essence per insignia.
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We should now be able to switch character.
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And be able to claim those insignias on all of our characters on our account.
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We indeed can.
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They just have the special tag and we can claim them for free.
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So now we can have account-wide Celestial Insignias.
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A great quality of life addition.
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I just think some people are not going to be happy with the price tag of buying that convenience.
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They're adding another layer of cost.
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Personally, this is fine because I have saved up enough of those event participation tokens to get nearly a full set traded in and made account-wide.
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On top of that, I'm not even sure I'll want to trade them in and make them account-wide.
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Because when you do, you lose all their value, and you can no longer trade them.
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You can no longer switch them with say other people if you wanted a different insignia.
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It's unlike the enchantments, with the enchantments, we were forced to trade them in and make them account-wide.
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It had to be bound to be upgraded from mythic.
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With insignias, you have the choice.
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But at least the option is there.
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I don't think it's a perfect one.
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But it's definitely better than nothing.
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Ultimately we'll have to see how much they're going to cost on the Zen market.
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It could well be 10 Zen each, or 100.
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Maybe even 1,000, which would be quite ridiculous.
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But again, the easy accessible source right now, if you have been saving your participation tokens, it's seven per essence, which means 21 per insignia change.
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Which then is a total of over 400 for a full set of 20 insignias.
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Now the devs better be paying attention.
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And reading the players' feedback.
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Because there's a very exploitable bug with the current claim system.
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Basically, these insignias, right, I can go and claim this now.
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I only unlocked one Fortitude Barbed Insignia.
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So I can only claim back one.
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But if I go and slot this here.
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The item no longer exists in my inventory.
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What that means if I go back to the claim, it will now give me the option to claim back again that Fortitude Insignia.
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I could basically just have one Celestial Insignia and claim an infinite amount of them.
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So long as I put them into the slots.
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This, yeah, needs to be fixed.
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It was like this with the initial Celestial Enchantments as well.
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Again, it was isolated to the preview server.
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Fortunately we could test it before it became a widespread thing.
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I mean, of course I would love this system to come live and they would actually leave it as is.
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But it's rather broken.
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I could just unlock one or two, maybe three insignias and have my stable fully kitted out with them.
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So the devs should probably put in some checks where it can look at the insignia slots on the mounts.
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And whether or not you have put that mount there.
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Because they also need to have the check of if I put this mount away, the insignia is still slotted in the mount.
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And I could claim another.
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And throw it then on this mount, and then go and switch over to the other mount that has it.
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So the devs need to do some more testing on this and confirm if they want it to be in this state or not.
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I do also want to quickly confirm if I trade in multiple of the same type.
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Can you correctly claim multiple back?
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So that's three Fortitude ones.
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Going to the unlocks, we can indeed buy more of the Fortitude ones here.
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So we will do that.
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And then we should have a total of four that we can have then as reclaimed.
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Yes, indeed.
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But again, I could hide them on my mounts.
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And then claim back another four here.
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So yeah, that most likely needs fixing before this goes live.
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Just to be clear, that Celestial Essence is bound to your character.
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At least the stuff obtained through the appointment event store, we don't know from the chests or the Zen market.
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And in terms of those master content chests, they say it's from the current master dungeons and trials.
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So that would be the latest one.
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Right now, that would be Master Soul Harvest and the trial Master Shackles of Divinity.
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So not exactly accessible to newer or more casual players.
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Absolutely feel free to leave your feedback in the comments and otherwise on the official threads in Discord.
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These things are still open to change.
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The devs do appear to be listening to our feedback, which is great, and they're implementing things for the better.
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So with that said, thanks for watching.
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We'll see you guys in the next one.
Topics:NeverwinterModule 32.5Celestial InsigniasCelestial EssenceCleric updatesAccount-wide unlocksInsignia upgradeGame previewMMORPGAragon
