Most importantly, always pet the dog.
Nydar Mode
The mod might be considered quite difficult to some, so I added the so called Nydar Mode. This is a buff that increases your Damage by 35% and your Health Points by 8%, as well as some other minor stats.
Please consider using it should the mod feel too slow or difficult, and stop using it when your character gets stronger. But before doing so, consider all options you have: Pop left-over Beutekugeln for upgrades, visit the Faction Merchants, complete all unlocked Devotion Dungeons, buy a Relic Blueprint and craft it, grind some Bounties, pet the dog.
To enable it, either choose the “Easy play-through” option in the beginning, or add the token through the console: character.GrantPlayerToken NYDAR_MODE. A new dialog at the Lectern of Wisdom will appear afterwards.
Differences of Nydiamar and the Main Campaign
— Devotion Points —
Gaining Devotion Points works differently than the main campaign.
Instead of finding the Devotion Shrines, you now find Devotion Spheres scattered around the world. Finding and popping them unlocks Devotion Dungeons. Playing through these dungeons lets you discover the Devotion Shrines as you already know them. But each dungeon also has an unique challenge for you to overcome before you get to the shrines.
Devotion is an area that connects all six Devotion Dungeons. You can access it through the Underground Fortress.
— Leveling Factions —
Siegmar’s Landing is the Faction Centre, where all Faction Merchants are located.
So called Faction Tokens are used to gain reputation for each faction. You can acquire these by playing through the Faction Arena or from Level-Up Rewards.
The Faction Arena has three different parts with varying difficulty. Each part requires an entrance fee — 1 to 6 Faction Tickets and some Iron Bits. You can get Faction Tickets from all quests or certain chests, as well as through crafting.
— Skill & Attribute Points —
While you won’t find any Devotion Shrines in the world, you will actually find Skill & Attribute Shrines. Restoring them gets you a tome, which you can exchange at the Lectern of Wisdom to get either a Skill or an Attribute Point.
Important Features
— Beutekugeln —
These are Loot-Spheres, which can be popped by dropping them outside your inventory — so basically by destroying them. You will encounter many different variations of them while playing.
Easy to miss: You can craft the Beutekugel (Blueprints Components) by default, which is useful for Devotion Shrines and overall component upgrades.
— Blessings, God Events, Corruption, Favor of the Gods —
Blessings are very powerful buffs intended to compensate your characters shortcomings when starting out on Ultimate (for example countering negative resistances).
God Events are random events that can happen almost anywhere you are. They can either be something positive, such as a loot explosions, or something negative, such as hostile monsters appearing around you.
Favor of the Gods determines the chance of the God Event either being a positive or negative event. You gain Favor through completing quests and dungeons.
Using Blessings increases Corruption over time, which influences the frequency and scale of the God Events.
Link to the update post with more in-depth information
— Capturing Creatures —
You can not capture any normal creatures directly. Instead you open so called Soul Vessels that roll a random rarity and then a creature pack. It is not guaranteed to capture a pack this way.
Bosses and Nemeses can be caught by using a Capture Apparatus right before killing them.
You can either summon these caught creatures directly through a Binding Stone to your aid or let them fight other creatures inside the Arena of Sedaah where you can spectate the fight from above.
Link to the update post with more in-depth information
Chests
Nydiamar only uses new chests. Here’s a list with some of them and their drops.
— Common and Uncommon Chests:
Chest (Common) & Metal Chest (Common) & Small Metal Chest (Common)
Balanced between Equipment and Materials
Chest (Uncommon) & Silver Chest (Uncommon)
Slight focus on Materials
Drops Equipment
Actually quite common
— Valuable Chests:
Silver Chest (Valuable)
Low chance to drop a Faction Ticket
Low chance to drop a Beutekugel
Equipment focused, with a decent chance to drop uniques
Golden Chest (Valuable)
Low chance to drop a Faction Ticket
Low chance to drop a Beutekugel
Equipment focused, with a very high chance to drop uniques
Magical Chest (Valuable)
Guarantees a Blueprint
High chance to drop a Faction Ticket
High chance to drop a Beutekugel
Equipment focused, with a decent chance to drop uniques
Material Chest (Valuable) & Treasure Trove (Valuable)
Very high chance to drop a Faction Ticket
Very high chance to drop a Beutekugel
Materials focused, with a decent chance to drop Special Materials
Nather Chest (Monster Infrequents)
Only drops Monster Infrequents (duh)
Nydiamar Chest
Drops only Nydiamar specific items (e.g. Faction Tickets or Beutekugeln)
Low chance to drop an Attribute or Skill Point potion
— Other Chests:
Hidden Chest (One-Shot)
Equipment focused, with a very high chance to drop uniques
Jewelry Box
Drops only accessories
Chest (Iron Bits)
Drops only ~10 000 Iron Bits
Quest Rewards
Some quests can have different rewards based on the choices you have made during the quest.
Hawton Mine — Stolen Supplies
Normal
Materials
2 Beutekugeln (Uncommon)
1 Beutekugel (Components Low)
12.500 Iron Bits
1 Stash Scroll
Experience
1 Experience Scroll (S)
35.000 XP
1 Faction Ticket
Elite
Materials
1 Beutekugel (Valuable)
1 Beutekugel (Components Normal)
20.000 Iron Bits
1 Stash Scroll
Experience
1 Experience Scroll (M)
200.000 XP
2 Faction Tickets
Ultimate
Materials
1 Beutekugel (Legendary)
2 Beutekugel (Components Normal)
32.500 Iron Bits
1 Stash Scroll
Experience
1 Experience Scroll (L)
425.000 XP
2 Faction Tickets
Strange Well — Investigation: Strange Well
Tomb — An Once Forgotten Legend
Normal
Materials
2 Beutekugeln (Uncommon)
2 Beutekugeln (Components Low)
17.500 Iron Bits
1 Stash Scroll
Experience
1 Experience Scroll (S)
50.000 XP
1 Faction Ticket
Elite
Materials
1 Beutekugel (Random)
1 Beutekugel (Valuable)
1 Beutekugel (Components Low)
1 Beutekugel (Components Normal)
25.000 Iron Bits
1 Stash Scroll
Experience
1 Experience Scroll (S)
1 Experience Scroll (M)
250.000 XP
2 Faction Tickets
Ultimate
Materials
1 Beutekugel (Random)
1 Beutekugel (Legendary)
1 Beutekugel (Components Valuable)
40.000 Iron Bits
1 Stash Scroll
Experience
1 Experience Scroll (S)
1 Experience Scroll (L)
500.000 XP
3 Faction Tickets
Outpost — Enya’s Vision
Outpost — Return the Lost Necklace
Nehada Desert — It’s a Trap!
Normal
1 Beutekugel (Uncommon)
1 Beutekugel (Components Low)
10.000 Iron Bits
1 Experience Scroll (S)
25.000 XP
1 Faction Ticket
Elite
1 Beutekugel (Valuable)
1 Beutekugel (Components Normal)
17.500 Iron Bits
1 Experience Scroll (M)
125.000 XP
1 Faction Ticket
Ultimate
1 Beutekugel (Legendary)
1 Beutekugel (Components Normal)
27.500 Iron Bits
1 Experience Scroll (M)
250.000 XP
1 Faction Ticket
Sanctuary — A Young Girl and Her Heirloom
Normal
1 Skill Point
1 Beutekugel (Random)
1 Experience Scroll (S)
50.000 XP
1 Faction Ticket
Elite
1 Skill Point
2 Beutekugeln (Random)
1 Experience Scroll (M)
250.000 XP
2 Faction Tickets
Ultimate
1 Skill Point
3 Beutekugeln (Random)
1 Experience Scroll (S)
1 Experience Scroll (M)
500.000 XP
3 Faction Tickets
??? — Crate
Normal
1 Skill Point
1 Beutekugel (Uncommon)
1 Beutekugel (Components Low)
10.000 Iron Bits
1 Experience Scroll (S)
25.000 XP
1 Faction Ticket
Elite
1 Skill Point
1 Beutekugel (Valuable)
1 Beutekugel (Components Normal)
17.500 Iron Bits
1 Experience Scroll (M)
125.000 XP
1 Faction Ticket
Ultimate
1 Skill Point
1 Beutekugel (Legendary)
1 Beutekugel (Components Normal)
27.500 Iron Bits
1 Experience Scroll (M)
250.000 XP
1 Faction Ticket
Nehada Desert — A Quest in the Desert
All Difficulties
2 Beutekugeln (Components Normal)
2 Beutekugeln (Valuable)
2 Experience Scrolls (S)
2 Faction Tickets
Unique Armor: I'm Attractive (Converts enemies to your side)
World — Shard of Nebulbeth
Normal
1 Skill Point
1 Beutekugel (Random)
2 Beutekugeln (Valuable)
3 Beutekugeln (Components Low)
32.500 Iron Bits
2 Experience Scrolls (S)
250.000 XP
1 Faction Ticket
Elite
1 Skill Point
2 Beutekugeln (Random)
2 Beutekugeln (Valuable)
2 Beutekugeln (Components Normal)
50.000 Iron Bits
1 Experience Scroll (M)
500.000 XP
2 Faction Tickets
Ultimate
1 Skill Point
3 Beutekugeln (Random)
2 Beutekugeln (Legendary)
2 Beutekugeln (Components Normal)
1 Beutekugel (Special Materials)
100.000 Iron Bits
1 Experience Scroll (L)
875.000 XP
3 Faction Tickets
4 additional Skill Points can be acquired inside the Depraved Ruins and the Mystic River (for each difficulty).
There are 6 Devotion Spheres scattered around the world.
- Hawton Mine — End of the Infected Wasp Area
- Strange Well — Where you fight the final encounter, on the cliffside (the one you came from)
- Tomb — Where you fight the final encounter (the one after the hidden entrance)
- Sanctuary — Unlock the 4th reward area, move forward and take the path on your right between both bridges (made out of roots)
- Odul Aela’s Dungeon — Somewhere inside the 3rd room
- Ashes — Somewhere in the middle of the whole area
Path Puzzle inside the Depraved Ruins.
Solution with tile chances
About the secret:
The hint has nothing to do with the partial solution (must be assumed or else there would have been multiple “0% tiles”) and goes as follows:
Important here is “the next correct tile” part. Of course when you get to the second row, suddenly all tiles below are “0% tiles”, so you need to assume that the secret tile can never be one that could have been correct before.
The grey path with the question mark does not make any sense — you could just go directly to the correct tile on the left, and therefore the tile below can never be right.
Here are the locations of the Fragmented Stones, if you are struggling in finding them all:
Locations
First area
The shard located at the Hawton Path got moved to the Hawton Mine.
Lorshade Mine
The shard located in the lower mine area got moved to the Strange Well.
The shard located in the upper mine area got moved to the Catacombs of Khueel (Hidden inside an urn, which is right at the railing in the middle of the main hall).
Second area (excluding Lorshade Mine)
The shard located at the Weerhoalt Cemetery got moved to the Tomb.
The shard located at the lower part of the Catacombs of Khueel (Entrance) got moved to Sanctuary.
Colors
- Brown = Hidden in a stump
- Grey = Hidden under a marked stone
- Black = Clear / Not hidden at all
Don’t forget, always pet the dog.
Required Settings
Do not go lower than these settings or else some areas are not going to look or work like they should. The mod is still playable without these settings.
Set Shadows to High or higher.
Set Shaders to Medium or higher.
Set Reflections to Off.
Set Lighting to Medium or higher.
Set Weather to Low or higher.
Lowest possible settings do look like this, excluding the resolution:
