Hey there, everyone! This is Terramak, here again to give you a rundown of the Sidereal Voyages Battle Pass, new to our 28^th module, Adventures in Wildspace.

The main milestones of this Battle Pass are the same as usual. You can gain 4,000 Battle Pass XP over the course of each campaign, with a reward at every increment of 1,000 Battle Pass XP. The Premium Reward Track unlocks a second set of rewards at those increments, across all milestones of the Battle Pass, for 2500 Zen.

However, this Battle Pass tries something new: When you gain Battle Pass XP above the max of 4,000 in a given milestone, it spills over into the Further Rewards milestone, accessible via the “Bonus Progress” button in the Journal. Every 1,000 spill-over Battle Pass XP nets you a repeatable reward. Note that the spillover Battle Pass XP for a milestone stops once it’s ended, but you’ll start gaining it again once you’ve completed the next milestone.

TL;DR: You can now get rewards for continuing to engage in the Battle Pass even once you’ve completed a milestone.

Flavor-wise, we tried to make each milestone feel as though you’re helping out an individual character in the overall story. We didn’t lean too hard into it (for instance, we didn’t do any unique contact dialogs for players who cap out in a milestone), but if the change in flavor ends up feeling better to you all, there’s a chance we may be able to put a little more love into it in future iterations. (We probably won’t make it feel like a dating sim, though, as much as I’d like to :D)

As usual, players are eligible to gain Battle Pass XP from the Battle Pass activities once per day, and that eligibility accumulates for up to three days. More details below!

Campaign Details

Milestone 1: Captain’s Orders

Start: 7:30 AM Pacific time on April 23, 2024

End: 7:30 AM Pacific time on May 28, 2024

Note: Players who purchased the Premium Track may gain progress through the Last Chance period.

 

Activities:

• Random Skirmish / Trial Queue: 115 Battle Pass XP
• Random Dungeon / Advanced Dungeon Queue: 135 Battle Pass XP
• Certain Zone Quests: 75 Battle Pass XP

 

Rewards:

Battle Pass XP	Free Track	Premium Track
1000	15x Mount Upgrade Token 15x Companion Upgrade Token	4x Enchanted Key
2000	Moondancer Artifact Choice Pack	2x Astral Lockbox
3000	2x Enchanted Key	10x Shard of Greater Empowerment
4000	Coalescent Mote	Companion: Captain Elaina Sartell - Account

 

 

Milestone 2: Wildspace Jamming

Start: 7:30 AM Pacific time on May 28, 2024

End: 7:30 AM Pacific time on July 2, 2024

Note: Players who purchased the Premium Track may gain progress through the Last Chance period.

 

Activities:

• Random Skirmish / Trial Queue: 115 Battle Pass XP
• Random Dungeon / Advanced Dungeon Queue: 135 Battle Pass XP
• Complete a Major Heroic Encounter new to Spelljammer: 75 Battle Pass XP

 

Rewards:

Battle Pass XP	Free Track	Premium Track
1000	20x Reward Reroll Token	2x Astral Lockbox
2000	2x Enchanted Key	4x Enchanted Key
3000	5x Shard of Greater Empowerment	Moondancer Mount Choice Pack
4000	Moondancer Illusion Choice Pack	Coalescent Mote

 

 

Milestone 3: Raising Funds

Start: 7:30 AM Pacific time on July 2, 2024

End: 7:30 AM Pacific time on August 6, 2024

Note: Players who purchased the Premium Track may gain progress through the Last Chance period.

Activities:

• Random Skirmish / Trial Queue: 115 Battle Pass XP
• Random Dungeon / Advanced Dungeon Queue: 135 Battle Pass XP
• Complete a quest in the new zone: 75 Battle Pass XP

 

Rewards:

Battle Pass XP	Free Track	Premium Track
1000	Astral Lockbox	45x Mount Upgrade Token 45x Companion Upgrade Token
2000	5x Scroll of Mass Life	Moondancer Vanity Pet Choice Pack
3000	Greater Bag of Holding (72 slots)	Coalescent Mote
4000	4x Enchanted Key	4x Magnificent Resurgence Lockbox 4x Enchanted Key

 

 

 

Bonus Progress: Further Rewards

Progress may only be gained by players who have completed a milestone while it is active. For each 1,000 progress gained, players may claim a reward.

 

Free reward: Moondancer Chest of Gratitude

Premium reward: Moondancer Chest of Premium Gratitude

 

 

Odds	Free Chest	Premium Chest
1/10	Battle Pass Standard Choice Pack	Battle Pass Premium Choice Pack
1/10	7500 Astral Diamonds (refined)	7500 Astral Diamonds (refined)
1/10	50 Tarmalune Trade Bars	50 Tarmalune Trade Bars
1/10	3 Preservation Ward	3 Preservation Ward
1/5	50 Insignia Powder	50 Insignia Powder
1/5	15 Companion Upgrade Token	15 Companion Upgrade Token
1/5	15 Mount Upgrade Token	15 Mount Upgrade Token

 

Choice Pack contents in the Reward Information section below.

After the Battle Pass

Once the Raising Funds milestone ends, players will be able to buy a pack that unlocks the Premium Track and automatically completes progress in all Sidereal Voyages Battle Pass milestones. This purchase will be available until the start of the next module, and as usual, the price of this purchase is reduced based on the player’s progress in the Battle Pass and whether they had purchased the Premium Pass.

Please note that you will not be able to gain progress in Further Rewards once the Raising Funds milestone ends! (Minor technical exception: You can gain spillover XP once for each milestone if you’re below the cap, and gain enough XP to exceed the cap. It’s not enough for a reward on its own, so it’s not worth intentionally aiming for.)

 

Reward Information

Companion: Captain Elaina Sartell

The unique reward from this Battle Pass is the Moondancer’s very own Captain Elaina Sartell. Her idea of a vacation is more action-packed than most: Since you’ve earned her trust and she’s earned yours, she’ll join you in your adventuring on Toril and beyond.

When earned through the Sidereal Voyages Battle Pass, Captain Elaina Sartell starts at Epic quality and is unlocked account-wide.

Summary

• Companion Enhancement: +Forte (Self) / +Power (Companion), no proc required. Caps at 5%.
• Offense Enhancement: Proc on taking Combat Advantage damage: Heal and deal AoE damage equal to 7.5% of your MaxHP. 10s ICD.
• Combat style: Single-target melee with heavy focus on group buffs.

 

Companion Enhancement: Enduring Craft

Continuing the Enduring line, Enduring Craft provides constant Forte to the player, while the active companion gains Power. As before, it always applies to your companion and yourself as long as your companion is summoned and is not downed.

The value caps out at 5% Forte to yourself and 5% Power to your companion, based on the quality of the summoned companion. We expect this will find interesting uses for a variety of classes, though some will likely find direct stat increases to be more desirable.

Offense / Defense Enhancement: Elaina’s Riposte

Aside from the Combined Rating, this enhancement doesn’t provide any stat buffs. Instead, it has a proc:

• Equip: When receiving Combat Advantage damage, you heal +7.5% of your Maximum Hit Points and deal that value to enemies within 15’.
• Not affected by Incoming Healing or Outgoing Healing.
• Internal cooldown: 10 seconds.
• 750 Combined Rating

 

Note that these values depend on Captain Elaina Sartell’s upgrade rank; the above values are at Mythic quality.

 

We expect that this enhancement will be exceptionally useful in the Offense slot for many tanks, allowing them to squeeze out more survivability in AoE situations while pitching in on damage output. The damage burst hits 15 targets maximum, prioritizing closer enemies. Note that this does not trigger from reflected damage, and damage burst counts as reflected damage for the purpose of other powers’ triggers.

 

Combat Powers

This companion is ostensibly a single-target melee companion; however, she bucks archetypes, kicking off an experiment in replacing one companion power with a non-stacking aura. In combat, she’s best against single targets, and in testing, she’s rather potent in those cases. However, she really shines when in a party, as she grants an Action Point Gain bonus to all party members within 50’.

 

Precise Throw: Throws a dagger, dealing damage and causing the target to bleed.

• Range: 30’
• Area: Single-target
• Cooldown: 3 seconds
• Bleed duration: 3 seconds

 

Cutlass Combo: Attacks the enemy with her cutlass, then bolsters nearby allies with a boost to Critical Severity for a short duration.

• Range: 12’
• Area: Single-target (strikes), 50’ radius (buff)
• Cooldown: 15 seconds
• Buff duration: 10 seconds
• Buff targets: Party members, no limit

 

Readiness Aura: Grants +5% Action Point Gain to the summoner and allies within 50’. This effect does not stack.

• Area: 50’ radius
• Buff targets: Party members, no limit
• Cooldown: N/A (always active)

 

Note: In-game, the power tooltips claim they affect allies rather than party members. The tooltips will be updated in a later patch.

Moondancer Artifact Choice Pack

This pack contains the player’s choice of one of the following artifacts:

• Scintillating Symbol of Air
• Scintillating Symbol of Earth
• Scintillating Symbol of Fire
• Scintillating Symbol of Water
  • These artifacts are upgrades to the existing Elemental Symbols, capping out at 1500 Item Level at Mythic quality. Their stat distributions and use powers remain the same as the originals, and they count as the originals for Collections.
• Epic Artifact Upgrade Pack - For players who may not be interested in these artifacts.
  • Contains 100,000 Refinement Points, 5 Rare Enchanting Stone, and 1 Glyph of Potency.

 

 

Moondancer Illusion Choice Pack

This pack contains the player’s choice of one of the following illusions:

• Eclipse Illusion (Armor) - Previously available in exchange for Enchantment Medallions, or from the Blood War or Dragonforged Lockboxes.
• Glorious Illusion (Armor) - Previously available in exchange for Enchantment Medallions.
• Brilliant Energy Illusion (Weapon) - Previously available in exchange for Enchantment Medallions.
• Prominence Illusion (Weapon) - Previously available in exchange for Enchantment Medallions, or from the Dragonforged Lockbox.
• 300 Insignia Powder - For players who are not interested in any of these Illusions.

 

Moondancer Mount Choice Pack

This pack contains the player’s choice of one of the following mounts:

• High Forest Bear - Available from premium dungeon rewards and Juma’s Bags. Formerly available from the Zen Market.
• Enchanted Courser - Available from premium dungeon rewards and Juma’s Bags. Formerly available from the Mysterious Crystal Charger promotional event.
• Gorgon - Available from premium dungeon rewards, Juma’s Bags, and the Tarmalune Trade Bar Merchant.
• Silverleaf Sled - Formerly available from the 2018 Zen rewards promo.
• 150 Mount Upgrade Tokens - For players who may not be interested in these mounts, or have all the ones they’re interested in.

 

Moondancer Vanity Pet Choice Pack

This pack contains the player’s choice of one of the following vanity pets:

• Arcturia Simulacrum - Available from Lair of the Mad Mage, previously from Redeemed Citadel.
• Shadow Owlbear - New!
• Halbryn Dark Stalker - Available as a rare reward from Temple of the Spider (post-remake).
• Mini Rainbow Cosmic Pig - Previously available from community giveaways.
• 20 Gold - For players who are not interested in any of these vanity pets.

 

Bonus Progress: Battle Pass Standard Choice Pack

This pack contains the player’s choice of one of the following items:

• Gold Draconic Wings mount
• Emote for Neverwinter Salute emote
• Neverwinter’s Standard Artifact Pack pack
• Neverwinter Hunting Hawk gadget
• 10 Gold - For players who are not interested in any of these items.

 

Bonus Progress: Battle Pass Premium Choice Pack

This pack contains the player’s choice of one of the following items:

• Mini Panda vanity pet
• Dragonfire gadget
• Panda Baby augment companion
• Panda mount
• 10 Gold - For players who are not interested in any of these items.

 

Completion Achievement & Title: Crewmate

Upon receiving 4000 Battle Pass XP in each of the Battle Pass milestones, the account will be eligible for an in-game achievement: Crewmate. On future logins or map transfers, characters on the account will receive the achievement if they don’t already have it, and will be eligible to claim a title of the same name from the Reward Claims Agent.

As this is a time-limited achievement, it grants 0 achievement points, and should not appear in the Achievements list if the Battle Pass is not running, or if the character is below level 20.

 

Purchases

This battle pass has the standard suite of purchases:

Sidereal Voyages Premium Pass

2500 ZEN

Unlocks the ability to earn Premium Track rewards in all milestones of the Sidereal Voyages Battle Pass.

 

Campaign Completion

1000 ZEN

Raises your progress in the current Battle Pass campaign to 4000, allowing you to claim all rewards immediately. As a bonus, this will allow you to start gaining Further Rewards progress immediately if you find these packs compelling.

 

Premium Pass & Completion

5500 ZEN

Only available between the end of the Sidereal Voyages Battle Pass and the start of the next module. Unlocks Premium Track rewards and automatically raises progress to 4000 in each of this Battle Pass’ campaigns.

Price is reduced based on:

• Whether the account has already purchased the Premium Pass.
• How much progress the account has made in each of the Battle Pass campaigns.

 

Closing

That was a lot of information! Is there anything you’d like me to go into more detail on? Less detail?

We’ve finally phased out Epic Collars from our standard rewards. For the Illusion Choice Pack, which took its place: Is this something you’d like to see going forward? I’ll keep an eye on opportunities to award other fashion and transmute gear without lowering the mechanical / gameplay value of these packs, too.

Thanks once again for reading! We appreciate you playing Neverwinter, and we hope these Battle Passes provide a nice bonus to continued gameplay without making you feel too pressured to log in all the time.

 

Vincent “Terramak” Malley