Illusionist's Gambit

Illusionist's Gambit is a Skirmish that is part of the expansion The Cloaked Ascendancy. In a Unknown Sewer Located within The River District.

Skirmish

• Required Item Level: 20,000
• Group Requirements: N/A
• Estimated Play Time: 15 Mintues

You've heard rumors of a Wizard doing strange experiments within the Sewers of Neverwinter. Some say great treasure awaits those who survive this wizard's trails, Will you find out?

Mechanics

The Illusionist's Gambit skirmish has three rounds, each round features multiple waves of random illusionary bad guys and bosses. Winning the first round will award Bronze, the second Silver, and the final round yields Gold. In the final round you meet the wizard himself, Lukan of the Mystic Veil.

After the first and second rounds players vote on whether to continue to the next round or leave with the rewards earned so far. The majority vote wins. Teams only lose the challenge if nobody is in the arena any longer. In this case you are forced to leave without rewards. Underpowered teams therefore should carefully judge whether they can make it through the next phase.

When players die, they are not out of the fight. They have to walk through a Portobello-like course and earn their way back into the arena.

In each round the team is placed on a platform on a random map. Except for the visuals this however has no effect whatsoever. In addition to the randomized map and mobs, up to three random mechanics are activated. They show up in the quest log and you should keep an eye on the active ones. Most are negligible or just annoying but others, such as mobs randomly reflect 100% of the damage, lead to one-shots all over the place.

Loot

• [Rough Astral Diamond]
• [Peridot]
• [Abandoned Treasures]
• [Seal of the Brave]
• [Aquamarine]
• [Enchanted Fleece]

• One piece of Companion Equipment (see tables below).

The maximum reward for Gold is 150 Abandoned Treasures, 50 Seal of the Brave, one Enchanted Fleece, one random piece of Companion Equipment, one or more Refining Stones, some XP and Rough Astral Diamonds.

There are 6 different stat types of Companion Equipment, each one comes in a belt, neck, ring, grimoire, icon, pact blade, sword knot, and tailsman. The +3s and lower can be sold in the Auction House, the +4s and +5s are account bound, but can be sold if obtained by other means such as certain lockboxes. The +4s and +5s have double offense or defense slots.

Stat Type	Major Stat	Minor Stat	Slots
Bold	Armor Pen	Crit	Offense
Defiant	Critical avoid	-	Defense
Fierce	Crit	Combat adv.	Offense
Heroic	Armor Pen	Combat adv.	Offense
Obedient	Critical avoid	-	Defense
Sturdy	Critical avoid	Deflection	Defense

Rank	Major Stat	Minor Stat	Single stat	Slots
+1	4860	0		None
+2	4932	0		1
+3	2016	3024	5040	1
+4	2045	3067	5112	2
+5	2088	3132	5220	2

• Belt

Item	+1	+2	+3	+4	+5
Bold Belt of the Companion	+1	+2	+3	+4	+5
Defiant Belt of the Companion	+1	+2	+3	+4	+5
Fierce Belt of the Companion	+1	+2	+3	+4	+5
Heroic Belt of the Companion	+1	+2	+3	+4	+5
Obedient Belt of the Companion	+1	+2	+3	+4	+5
Sturdy Belt of the Companion	+1	+2	+3	+4	+5

• Grimoire

Item	+1	+2	+3	+4	+5
Bold Grimoire of the Companion	+1	+2	+3	+4	+5
Defiant Grimoire of the Companion	+1	+2	+3	+4	+5
Fierce Grimoire of the Companion	+1	+2	+3	+4	+5
Heroic Grimoire of the Companion	+1	+2	+3	+4	+5
Obedient Grimoire of the Companion	+1	+2	+3	+4	+5
Sturdy Grimoire of the Companion	+1	+2	+3	+4	+5

• Icon

Item	+1	+2	+3	+4	+5
Bold Holy Icon of the Companion	+1	+2	+3	+4	+5
Defiant Holy Icon of the Companion	+1	+2	+3	+4	+5
Fierce Holy Icon of the Companion	+1	+2	+3	+4	+5
Heroic Holy Icon of the Companion	+1	+2	+3	+4	+5
Obedient Holy Icon of the Companion	+1	+2	+3	+4	+5
Sturdy Holy Icon of the Companion	+1	+2	+3	+4	+5

• Necklace

Item	+1	+2	+3	+4	+5
Bold Necklace of the Companion	+1	+2	+3	+4	+5
Defiant Necklace of the Companion	+1	+2	+3	+4	+5
Fierce Necklace of the Companion	+1	+2	+3	+4	+5
Heroic Necklace of the Companion	+1	+2	+3	+4	+5
Obedient Necklace of the Companion	+1	+2	+3	+4	+5
Sturdy Necklace of the Companion	+1	+2	+3	+4	+5

• Pact Blade

Item	+1	+2	+3	+4	+5
Bold Pact Blade of the Companion	+1	+2	+3	+4	+5
Defiant Pact Blade of the Companion	+1	+2	+3	+4	+5
Fierce Pact Blade of the Companion	+1	+2	+3	+4	+5
Heroic Pact Blade of the Companion	+1	+2	+3	+4	+5
Obedient Pact Blade of the Companion	+1	+2	+3	+4	+5
Sturdy Pact Blade of the Companion	+1	+2	+3	+4	+5

• Ring

Item	+1	+2	+3	+4	+5
Bold Ring of the Companion	+1	+2	+3	+4	+5
Defiant Ring of the Companion	+1	+2	+3	+4	+5
Fierce Ring of the Companion	+1	+2	+3	+4	+5
Heroic Ring of the Companion	+1	+2	+3	+4	+5
Obedient Ring of the Companion	+1	+2	+3	+4	+5
Sturdy Ring of the Companion	+1	+2	+3	+4	+5

• Sword Knot

Item	+1	+2	+3	+4	+5
Bold Sword Knot of the Companion	+1	+2	+3	+4	+5
Defiant Sword Knot of the Companion	+1	+2	+3	+4	+5
Fierce Sword Knot of the Companion	+1	+2	+3	+4	+5
Heroic Sword Knot of the Companion	+1	+2	+3	+4	+5
Obedient Sword Knot of the Companion	+1	+2	+3	+4	+5
Sturdy Sword Knot of the Companion	+1	+2	+3	+4	+5

• Talisman

Item	+1	+2	+3	+4	+5
Bold Talisman of the Companion	+1	+2	+3	+4	+5
Defiant Talisman of the Companion	+1	+2	+3	+4	+5
Fierce Talisman of the Companion	+1	+2	+3	+4	+5
Heroic Talisman of the Companion	+1	+2	+3	+4	+5
Obedient Talisman of the Companion	+1	+2	+3	+4	+5
Sturdy Talisman of the Companion	+1	+2	+3	+4	+5

Links

• Developer Blog: Illusionist's Gambit Skirmish
• Developer Blog: Illusionist's Gambit Environment