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The Dungeons and Dragons Online branch of the New OutRiders have been busy questing in the epic levels of Eveningstar, which is part of the Forgotten Realms campaign of the Dungeons and Dragons world.  Epic dungeons are reserved for those who have leveled beyond the standard 20 levels that characters normally cap at, and who have begun their journey into fulfilling their epic destiny, where each character can gain another ten epic levels along with the power that comes with it.  In traditional pen and paper, several editions allowed for “epic” or “demigod” levels past 20, but in the current 5th Edition, level 20 remains a hard cap for player characters, unless custom variances have been implemented by a savvy dungeon master.
Come join *NOR/ in DDO for free!

https://signup.ddo.com/ddo.php?ftui=DDOBlackDragon&abrs=100_1487582019

Play to your heart’s content with enough free content to level your character up through the ranks, gaining DDO points along the way simply by questing, and giving you the opportunity to unlock new quests, races, classes, or a myriad of other perks that can help your character along.  See you in game!

Yavool Ramnoth, Lord and Realm Leader of *NOR/’s Dungeons & Dragons Online branch
*NOR/LD RL:DDo

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Happy Anniversary to the Guild Wars 2 branch of NOR! This month marks one year since the Guild Wars 2 realm came out of retirement from NOMAD status and returned to be an active barony. Since then, we have grown from a handful of wandering, wingless adventurers to our current roster of nearly fifty active members in a full duchy with a level thirty-five guild hall and are regularly soaring to new heights. We are grateful for all of the terrific members who have helped to make the GW2 realm a fun and successful year. We look forward to building upon that success and making the next year another great run. If you’ve been thinking about playing GW2, we warmly invite you to come and take a look at the game (it’s free to play) and join us for our regularly scheduled events!

A lot has happened since the last newsletter. ArenaNet released episode four of Living Story three entitled, “The Head of the Snake.” The story picks up right where the previous cliffhanger left off, and introduces yet another world map to explore. It has received a lot of positive feedback for its unfolding story and the release also included a new raid wing, “The Bastion of the Penitent”, which is both a treat to previous Guild Wars 1 lore as well as harmonizing splendidly with the current story. The patch included some nice re-design to existing fractals, most notably “Thaumanova Reactor”, which has become more intuitive and streamlined. Those of us running fractals have really appreciated the effort ArenaNet has been putting in to keep them fun and fresh.

Over the last month we completed the “Guild Armorer 2” upgrade to our guild hall, which enables us to purchase additional armor skins with our guild emblem. We also added the ability to craft Guild Hero banners, which are much appreciated by players out in the open world during large scale events. We’re currently working on upgrading the mine, which will enable us to harvest the aetherium needed to purchase future upgrades. Zyera and Valikk enjoyed their first kill of Cairn the Indomitable, the first boss in the Bastion of the Penitent, in participation with our Project Knighthood [KNHD] guild alliance. In addition, Aranhawk has tasted success with a few take downs on the Vale Guardian with the Raid Combat Training group. Congrats to all! We’ve had growing interest in raiding again with some of our newer members, and with the experience NOR has been able to obtain with our [KNHD] friends, we hope to be able to field our own NOR team in the not so distant future. If you have interest in finding out more about raids, please speak with Zyera or Valikk.

Recruitment for the Guild Wars 2 branch steadily continues. We’ve enjoyed the active participation of several new recruits NivoraFrostscar, LeodWolf, Cynkinese, Vyxian, and DesuRaider. Welcome to NOR, it’s great to have you and we hope your become long-time members of the family! We’d also like to congratulate Goblinlitter on her promotion to squire! It feels like she’s always been here and we’re thankful for her company.

As we enjoy the steady drops of new content and await word on the next expansion, we’re keeping busy with a wide cross-section of activities. Thank you to everyone who contributes to our success and we wish you all much happiness in your gaming!

Duke Windemere
*NOR/DK BL:GW2

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At this writing, we are about 2/3 way to the next upgrade of our guild hall in Neverwinter.  A big thank you to all of you who came on and did influence runs!!

This week is Double XP, and many of us have dusted off a dust-covered alt or two or three and taken them for spins.

Mod 11: The Cloaked Ascendancy launches on Tuesday 2/21.  This mod promises a new skirmish called Illusionist's Gambit, and the return of an old favorite dungeon Spellplague.  The leveling version of Spellplague is same as the old one, while the epic version features new monsters, bosses, fight mechanics, environments, and of course, new loot.  The artifact weapon sets of this upcoming mod will not have a higher item level than the old ones, but it will give you different stats and buffs to suit individual play styles.  There will also be a new questing system, and the word from the forums is that this campaign should be less grindy than previous campaigns.
That's all Outriders.  May all your treasures be legendary, and even mythical.

Honor to the Guild!!!

Count Dlandru
Duchess Phelaia

Rain’s take on Module 11: With two days to go before Mod 11's release I thought I'd take the opportunity to showcase some of the highlights and what this Mod has in store for us. I'll attempt to be as spoiler free as possible…full story

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Many exciting things have occurred since our last newsletter! It’s 250x XP time!  If you’ve been wanting to level up some toons or level up the command points, now’s the time.  You can even raise it up to 350x XP with a boost.  Leveling has never been easier!

We are running as often as we can to help everyone who wants better gear to get it.  If there are quests you have been unable to complete and need our help, let us know, we enjoy helping.  Recently, we had a NORbie who needed Explosive Conflict to complete a mount quest he’d had forever.  That has now been checked off the list.  We are having tons of fun running, so please feel free to join us!

We welcome our newest recruit L’hana! We hope you love it here as much as we do.  If you need someone to run with or answer questions, feel free to let us know.  We’re always happy to help.

As the Branch moves into the next exciting phase, we invite everyone to keep contributing in whatever ways you can. The NOR Spirit is flourishing here, and we hope that together we all can continue to pull together and take the Branch to new heights. Good luck in your gaming adventures and we hope to see you in game! May the Force be with You!

Countess Galaxiya
*NOR/CS-swToR