Neverwinter "Siege of Neverwinter" Event Launches, Interview
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Perfect World and Cryptic Studios kicked off their week-long "Siege of Neverwinter" event within their Dungeons & Dragons-based MMORPG Neverwinter this past Thursday, and in case you haven't actually been participating in it, there's an interview over at OnRPG with designer Brian Gilmore that explains it in greater detail. An excerpt:
The event will include two new Heroic encounters, which were just introduced in the Tyranny of Dragons expansion. Can you explain how these will work for those who may just now be returning to Neverwinter?
Heroic Encounters are open-world quests that multiple players can freely help to complete. Players who fight in an Heroic Encounter will automatically receive special rewards for their valor, so there's always a reason to jump in.
During the Siege of Neverwinter, we'll have several new heroic encounters for adventurers to join, from defending a breach in the city's walls, to destroying catapults as they hurl boulders at the city, to slaying an attacking dragon.
You've also mentioned a Siege Battlefield area. Would you elaborate on what this area is, and what players will find there?
The Siege Battlefield is where the action of the siege takes place, and is its own map which will only be open during the Siege of Neverwinter event. The army of the Cult of the Dragon has torn a breach in the city's outer wall, and now are focusing their forces there, hoping to fight their way into the city proper. General Sabine, the Neverwinter Guard, and the city's heroes are all that stand in their way. Players will have to help defend the walls, destroy the cult's siege engines, join the Neverwinter Guard in mass battle, and fend off dragon attacks.
