Adventurers traversing the Underdark and beyond in The Maze Engine will uncover wondrous rewards once thought lost to the Abyss.
The challenges of The Maze Engine await providing all new Artifacts, Enchantments, and Gear to enhance experiences alongside your favorite heroes of Neverwinter. Claim victory over the Demon Lords and attain rewards of never-before-seen fame and flair!
New Enchantments
The influence over Neverwinter from the Demon Lords Baphomet and Orcus brings various spoils, including a new Normal Enchantment benefitting multiple offense and defense stats, and two all new weapon and armor Enchantments for besting their demonic forces.
New Normal Enchantment: Demonic Enchantment
The Demonic Enchantment heightens gear attributes to effectively ward against foes anywhere from Gauntlgrym to Castle Never:
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Demonic |
Offense Slot |
Defense Slot |
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+ Power |
+ Life Steal | |
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+ Critical Strike |
+ Deflection | |
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+ Armor Penetration |
+ Maximum Health Points |
New Armor Enchantment: Shadowclad Enchantment
The Shadowclad Enchantment is an armor-only Enchantment that can be socketed into any Armor Enhancement Slot.
Shadowclad provides an enhancement to Deflection. As it becomes refined, additional benefits to Defense and survivability emerge:
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Shadowclad |
Rank 7 – Rank 10 (Lesser – Perfect) |
Rank 11 (Pure) |
Rank 12 (Transcendent) |
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When receiving damage each hit stacks a 4%/6%/8%/10% increase to your Deflection rating for 5/6/7/8 seconds. |
When receiving damage each hit stacks a 10% increase to your Deflection rating and a 4% increase to your Damage Resistance for 8 seconds. |
When receiving damage each hit stacks a 10% increase to your Deflection rating and a 4% increase to your Damage Resistance for 8 seconds.
When you successfully deflect an attack with 8 stacks of Shadowclad, your armor has a 100% chance to Daze nearby foes for 1 second and places you in Stealth for 4 seconds. |
The Shadowclad Enchantment can be obtained in the new Epic Dungeon: Castle Never.
The Maze Engine Campaign Rewards
Assisting King Bruenor Battlehammer to uncover the true nature of Baphomet’s siege on Gauntlgrym provides various rewards:
Every quest will reward players with a large amount of experience, resonance stones for RP, and a small amount of rough astral diamonds. Every campaign task will grant a large amount of experience. Players will also be able to earn the following unique rewards from campaign tasks.
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Campaign Task |
Reward |
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Aiding Bruenor Battlehammer |
Green-Quality Dwarven Battlerager Companion |
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Locate Vizeran DeVir |
Replica Battlerager Armor Fashion Chest and Pants (account bound) |
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Gather Components |
Choice of one of 5 blue-quality mount insignias |
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Defend the Sword Coast (Repeatable) Choice of one of the following rewards |
10 Conquerer’s Shard of Power 10 Dungeoneer’s Shard of Power 25 Seals of the Protector 1 Demonic Tome of Experience – Account-Bound tome that can grant small, medium, or large portion of experience. |
Through overcoming major challenges during the Campaign awards, Tales of Adventure are awarded: The exclusive Campaign currency used during The Maze Engine Campaign.
As in previous Campaigns, completion of Campaign tasks grants various rewards, including new boons.
The Maze Engine: Boons
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Choice 1 |
Abyssal Siphoning |
You gain 5% Life Steal Severity. |
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Abyssal Regeneration |
You gain 400 Incoming Healing Bonus. | |
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Choice 2 |
Demonic Influence |
You gain 400 Combat Advantage Bonus. |
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Demonic Resilience |
Control effects will now have 5% shorter durations when applied to you. | |
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Choice 3 |
Demonic Endurance |
Your Stamina regenerates 10% faster in Combat. |
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Demonic Swiftness |
You now gain Action Points 3% faster. | |
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Choice 4 |
Displace Fate |
When below 30% health you gain a shield increasing Damage Resistance by 60% for 3 seconds. |
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Engine Inspiration |
Your healing spells have a chance to heal allies around you for 20,000 hit points. | |
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Baphomet’s Might |
When striking a foe you have a chance to gain 2000 Critical Strike bonus for 6 seconds. | |
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Baleful Clutch |
Grants 10% increased Control Strength. |
A Final Reward: Baphomet’s Infernal Talisman
For completing the campaign, brave adventurers receive the artifact, Baphomet’s Infernal Talisman, part of a 3-piece Artifact set featured in The Maze Engine:
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Baphomet’s Infernal Talisman |
Increases Action Points by 1%/2%/3%/4% every 3 seconds while in combat
+ Power + Critical + Deflection
3 of Set: Deal up to 20% additional damage based on the difference in hit point percentage between the player and the target. |
Parting Gifts: A Familiar Cloak
Players can earn a neck-transmute cloak that will allow them to look like a certain famous dark elf adventurer.
Castle Never Rewards
Orcus and his undead allies laying siege to Castle Never comes with merits, as successful defenders reap treasures from empowered remnants guarded by the Demon Lord’s accomplices.
Adventurers into Castle Never will discover items and gear reborn from the influences of the great magical presences once and now home within its walls:
- 6 new Underdark Rings, including the Ring of Orcus, which has a chance to summon an undead servant when you are struck
- Various “Ruined” items, for transmute or salvage, based on the loot drops from the original version of Castle Never
- Various “Shattered” items, which provide extra RP specifically for artifact equipment
- Shard of Shadowclad Enchantment
- Demonic Enchantment
Additionally, Dungeon Chests within Castle Never will provide:
- Demonic Ichor
- Faerzress
- A chance to find the Shard Orcus’ Wand, a new Artifact.
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Shard of Orcus’ Wand |
Conjures an orb that pursues nearby foes at random, dealing damage to nearby foes every second. After dealing damage 5 times to any number of foes or after 15 seconds, the sphere explodes dealing damage to nearby foes. Damage dealt by the orb increases as it remains active, up to 250%.
+ Power + Movement + AoE Resistance
3 of Set: Deal up to 20% additional damage based on the difference in hit point percentage between the player and the target. |
Demogorgon Revisited
And finally, Demogorgon will have an additional new reward, the final piece of the new Artifact set.
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Demogorgon's Girdle of Might |
+ Strength + Constitution
+ Power + Critical + Deflection
3 of Set: Deal up to 20% additional damage based on the difference in hit point percentage between the player and the target. |
Thanks for reading, and we hope you enjoy uncovering these treasures while solving the mysteries of The Maze Engine!
Can’t wait to see you in game!
Scott Shicoff
Lead Designer
