Neverwinter Armour Enchantment Slot

Welcome to our Fighter Vanguard Guide, updated for Mod 18: Infernal Descent and Mod 19 Avernus.

In this guide, we will give you tips and info on how to play the Fighter class.

To learn more about the new mod, check out our mod 19 Avernus guide.

The Vanguard is the tank spec for the Fighter class in Neverwinter. They can on foes toe to foe and keep the party safe. If you want to dish out some damage as well, consider a Dreadnaught build loadout as well.

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The purpose of our class guides is not just to show you a build that you can copy and use on your character, but to show you a base build and teach you the mechanics and stats of the game, so you can understand and play your class to its fullest capabilities.

Try different gear, feats, and powers and learn to tailor your own build for your playstyle. See our guide to making your own build for more info.

Basic Fighter Vanguard Info

Other Fighter Builds

Best Fighter Vanguard Races

  1. Metallic Ancestry Dragonborn – 3% + Healing – +2 to Any two stats – 1500 Crit – 3% Increased Damage
  2. Dragonborn – 3% HP + Healing – +2 to Any two stats – 1500 Crit – 3% Increased Damage
  3. Gith – +2 Dex and +2 Str or +2 Int – 3% Stamina Regen – 5000 Combat Advantage
  4. Tiefling – 5% + Damage to targets below 50% health – +2 Cha and +2 Con or Int – 10% to reduce damage of target for 5 sec by 2.5%
  5. Human – 250 to all ratings (offensive & defensive) – +3 to any stat.
  6. Dwarf – 20% Resistance to Knock and Push – +2 Con and +2 Str or Wis – 2000 Defense bonus.

Fighter Vanguard Ability Score Priority

Put all your available Ability Scores into Strength and Constitution.

Fighter Vanguard Stat / Rating Priority

Offensive Stats:

  • Armor Penetration (Caps at 90K)
  • Critical Strike (Caps at 90k)
  • Accuracy (Caps at 90k)
  • Combat Advantage (Caps at 140k)
  • Power (No Cap)

Defensive Stats:

  • Defense (Caps at 90K)
  • Deflection (Caps at 90K)
  • Critical Avoidance (Caps at 95K)
  • Awareness (Caps at 100K)
  • Health (No Cap)

Fighter Vanguard Paragon Path, Powers & Rotation

Fighter Vanguard Combat Powers

At-Will Powers:

  • Threatening Rush
  • Brazen Slash

Encounter Powers:

  • Shield Throw
  • Anvil of Doom
  • Iron Warrior

Daily Powers:

  • Bladed Rampart
  • Phalanx

Class Features:

  • Anvil of Challenge
  • Steel Recovery

Fighter Vanguard Feats

  • Shieldthrower
  • Cleaving Bull
  • Critical Deflector
  • Sharpened Senses
  • Deep Breathing

Fighter Vanguard Boons

You should always choose boons based on what stats you currently need. Therefore a selection of several viable boons is available to you for each tier.

At end-game, you should hit the stat caps without needing any of the boons.

Tier 1 Boons

  • Recruit’s Training – 250 Power
  • Critical Avoidance – 250 Critical Avoidance
  • Cultist Bulwark – 1000 HP
  • Cultist Power – 1% Increased damage and damage resistance vs. Cultists.

Tier 2 Boons

  • Squire’s Training – 250 Power
  • Defense – 250 Defense
  • Armor Penetration – 250 Armor Penetration
  • Demonic Bulwark – 1000 HP
  • Demonic Mastery – 1% Increased damage and damage resistance vs. demons.

Tier 3 Boons

  • Knight’s Training – 250 Power
  • Awareness– 250 Awareness
  • Dino Bulwark – 1000 HP
  • Simple Support – 2% Companion Influence
  • Dino Power – 1% Increased damage and damage resistance vs. dinos.

Tier 4 Boons

  • Captain’s Training – 250 Power
  • Deflect – 250 Deflect
  • Accuracy – 250 Accuracy
  • Necrotic Bulwark – 1000 HP
  • Necrotic Mastery – 1% Increased damage and damage resistance vs. undead.

Tier 5 Boons (Choose 2)

  • Severe Precision – 1% Crit Severity per rank
  • Welcome Blessing – 1% Incoming Healing Per Rank
  • Quick Turnaround – 1% Recovery Speed per rank.

Master Boons

  • Focused Retaliation 3/3

Guild Boons

  • Offense – Power
  • Defense – Hit Points

Fighter Vanguard Weapons & Gear

If you are new to Neverwinter and need to know how to get better gear and increase your item level, check out our Gearing Up Guide.

The best way to gear up in Neverwinter is by making a lot of Astral Diamonds, check out our Astral Diamond Guide to learn all the secrets of AD farming.

Head

  • Lion Guard’s Barbute
  • Infernal Forged Breastplate

Armor

  • Lion Guard’s Ward Cuirass
  • Infernal Forged Breastplate
  • Barkhide

Arms

  • Lion’s Guard Gauntlets
  • Spiked Defender Vambrace
  • Plated Gauntlets of the Successor

Feet

  • Lion Guard’s Sabatons
  • Infernal Forged Cuisses

Weapons

  • Celestial Set
  • Lionheart Set
  • Legion Guard Set
  • Alabaster / Burnished Set

Main Hand Modification:

  • Threatening Rush

Offhand Modifications:

  • Health Points
  • Incoming Healing

Rings

  • Ring of the Overwhelmed +5
  • Ring of the Condemned +5
  • Defending Ring of The Sentinel
  • Leading Ring of the Sage
  • Striking Ring of the Veteran
  • Gold-Plated Ring

Neck & Waist

  • Reflective Armaments (Reflective Collar, Mirror-Plated Belt, Erratic Drift Globe)

Shirt

  • Infernal Forged Shirt
  • Protege’s Shirt

Pants

  • Infernal Forged Trousers
  • Protégé’s Pants

Fighter Vanguard Artifacts

Primary Artifact

  • Wyvern-Venom Coated Knives
  • Forgehammer of Gond
  • Halaster’s Blast Scepter
  • Erratic Drift Globe

Secondary Artifacts

Choose secondary artifacts based on the stats you are lacking.

  • Frozen Storyteller’s Journal
  • Flayed Storyteller’s Journal
  • Darkened Storyteller’s Journal
  • Arcturia’s Music Box
  • Trobriands Ring
  • Staff of Flowers
  • Halaster’s Blast Scepter

Fighter Vanguard Enchantments

When getting enchantments, always get the ones with the stats you are lacking in with your gear, boons, etc in mind. For example, if you’ve capped Crit with your gear and boons, don’t get azure enchantments for your offense slots. If you still need to refine your enchantments, see our Refinement Guide for tips on how to farm refinement.

Offense Enchantments

  • One Tenebrous Enchantment
  • Radiant Enchantments

Defense Enchantments

  • Radiant Enchantment

Armor Enchantments

  • Elven Battle Enchantment
  • Negation Enchantment

Utility Enchantments

  • Tactical Enchantment
  • Fey’s Blessing / Dragon’s Hoard / Quartermaster’s Enchantment

Weapon Enchantments

  • Bronzewood Enchantment

Overload Enchantments

  • Resiliency of the Depths / Bulwark Of Brimstone from Hell Pit
  • Various Marks from Stronghold Vendor
  • Corrupt Black Ice / Lethal / Piercing
  • Black / Red Dragon Glyph

Armor Reinforcement Kits

  • Hit Points Armor Kit

Jewelry Reinforcement Kits

  • Combat Advantage Jewel
  • Stamina Regen Jewel

Fighter Vanguard Consumables & Buffs

Consider getting VIP for the Power of VIP HP buff if you aren’t already. Also always stand in campfires to get the +1 ability campfire buff.

Get one from each of the rows below:

  • Empowered Chain of Scales (Best in Slot) > Adorable Pocket Pet > Tymora’s Lucky Coin
  • Foehammer’s Favor Elixir
  • Superior Flask of Potency +1
  • Sambocade – Caprese

Fighter Vanguard Companions

Summoned Companion

  • Bulette Pup
  • Deepcrow Hatchling
  • Owlbear Cub
  • Ioun Stones
  • Quasit

Enchantment Power

  • Potent Precision

Companion Powers

Below is a selection of viable companion powers.

Offense Powers

  • Rimfire Golem’s Presence – 16000 HP and 2000 Armor Penetration

Defense Powers

  • Harper bard – 12000 HP and 15000 Awareness
  • Red Dragon Ioun Stone – 10% Incoming Healing and 8000 HP
  • Alluring Insight – 10% Healing and 2000 Power
  • Monshea Druid’s Wisdom – 16000 HP and 2000 Critical Avoidance
  • Iron Golem’s Presence – 16000 HP and 2000 Defense

Utility Powers

  • Xegyi’s Insight – 32000 HP
  • Energon – 32000 HP

Companion Equipment

Double slotted “Of the Companion” gear

Companion Runestones

Empowered Runestone and runestones for any stat you might need.

Fighter Vanguard Mounts

When choosing a Legendary Mount for the Mount Powers, look for a mount that has both a useful equip and combat power.

What other mounts you use is not that important. What is important is to get the right insignia bonuses, and many different mounts can offer the various bonuses. To find out what mount has the bonus you want, check out our Insignia Bonus Guide.

Insignia Bonuses

All classes and specs should consider using Wanderer’s Fortune before you have refined all your gear and enchantments, for extra refinement every day.

  • Survivor’s Blessing
  • Oppressor’s Reprieve
  • Barbarian’s Revelry
  • Gladiator’s Guile
  • Knight’s Rebuke
  • Champion’s Return

Insignia Type

  • Prosperity
  • Fortitude
  • Dominance

Fighter Vanguard Mount Powers

Mount Equip Power:

  • Stalwart – 50000 HP

Mount Combat Power

  • Trample (War Triceratops)
  • Piercing Screech (Armored Griffon)

If you have any questions or suggestions about our Neverwinter Fighter Vanguard guide, please leave a comment below! More info about the Fighter class can be found at The Neverwinter Reddit.

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Welcome to our Ranger Warden DPS Guide, updated for Mod 18: Infernal Descent and Mod 19 Avernus.

In this guide, we will give you tips and info on how to play the Ranger class, previously called the Hunter Ranger.

To learn more about the new mod, check out our mod 19 Avernus guide.

The Ranger is a melee & ranged DPS class, with a lot of crowd control abilities as well.

Neverwinter Armor Enchantment Slot

The purpose of our class guides is not just to show you a build that you can copy and use on your character, but to show you a base build and teach you the mechanics and stats of the game, so you can understand and play your class to its fullest capabilities.

Try different gear, feats, and powers and learn to tailor your own build for your playstyle. See our guide to making your own build for more info.

Basic Ranger Warden Info

Other Ranger Builds

Best Ranger Warden Races

  1. Metallic Ancestry Dragonborn – 3% + Healing – +2 to Any two stats – 1500 Crit – 3% Increased Damage
  2. Dragonborn – 3% HP + Healing – +2 to Any two stats – 1500 Crit – 3% Increased Damage
  3. Wood Elf: 1% Critical Chance. +2 Dex and Wis. 10% Resistance to Slow
  4. Drow: Darkfire (Defense Reduction Proc). +2 Dex and +2 Wis or Cha. Trance (Heal quicker at camps)
  5. Half-Orc – 5% Crit Severity – +2 Dex and +2 Con or Str – 10% Movement Speed for 3 sec when entering combat

Ranger Warden Ability Score Priority

Put all your available Ability Scores into Strength and Dexterity.

Ranger Warden Stat / Rating Priority

Offensive Stats:

  1. Armor Penetration (Caps at 90K)
  2. Critical Strike (Caps at 90k)
  3. Accuracy (Caps at 90k)
  4. Combat Advantage (Caps at 140k)
  5. Power (No Cap)

Defensive Stats:

  1. Defense (Caps at 90K )
  2. Deflection (Caps at 90K)
  3. Critical Avoidance (Caps at 95K)
  4. Awareness (Caps at 100K )
  5. Health (No Cap)

Ranger Warden Paragon Path, Powers & Rotation

Ranger Warden Combat Powers

At-Will Powers:

  • Storm Strike
  • Clear the Ground

Encounter Powers:

  • Hindering Strike
  • Marauder’s Rush
  • Boar Charge

Daily Powers:

  • Call of the Storm
  • Forest Ghost

Class Features:

  • Blade Storm
  • Seeker’s Vengeance

Ranger Warden Feats:

  • Focused
  • Storm’s Recovery
  • Blade Hurricane
  • Skirmisher’s Gambit
  • Enhanced Conductivity

Ranger Warden Boons

You should always choose boons based on what stats you currently need. Therefore a selection of several viable boons is available to you for each tier.

At end-game, you should hit the stat caps without needing any of the boons.

Tier 1 Boons

  • Recruit’s Training – 250 Power
  • Critical Strike – 250 Crit
  • Cultist Bulwark – 1000 HP
  • Cultist Power – 1% Increased damage and damage resistance vs. Cultists.

Tier 2 Boons

  • Squire’s Training – 250 Power
  • Armor Penetration – 250 Armor Penetration
  • Demonic Bulwark – 1000 HP
  • Demonic Mastery – 1% Increased damage and damage resistance vs. demons.

Tier 3 Boons

  • Knight’s Training – 250 Power
  • Combat Advantage – 250 Combat Advantage
  • Dino Bulwark – 1000 HP
  • Simple Support – 2% Companion Influence
  • Dino Power – 1% Increased damage and damage resistance vs. dinos.

Tier 4 Boons

  • Captain’s Training – 250 Power
  • Accuracy – 250 Accuracy
  • Necrotic Bulwark – 1000 HP
  • Necrotic Mastery – 1% Increased damage and damage resistance vs. undead.

Tier 5 Boons (Choose 2)

  • Severe Criticism – 1% Crit Severity per rank
  • Call of Power – 1% Action Point gain per rank
  • Quick Turnaround – 1% Recovery Speed per rank.

Master Boons

  • Blood Lust 3/3

Guild Boons

  • Offense – Power
  • Defense – Hit Points

Ranger Warden Weapons & Gear

If you are new to Neverwinter and need to know how to get better gear and increase your item level, check out our Gearing Up Guide.

The best way to gear up in Neverwinter is by making a lot of Astral Diamonds, check out our Astral Diamond Guide to learn all the secrets of AD farming.

Head

  • Lion Guard’s Raid Hood
  • Fancy Duelists Mask of Cormyr
  • Protégé’s / of the Spy’s Guild

Armor

  • Ebony Stained Hide

Arms

Neverwinter Armor Enhancement Slot

  • Vivified Primal Assault Gwanitis
  • Spiked Defenders Vambrace

Feet

Neverwinter Armour Enchantment Slot
  • Rusted Iron Leggings

Weapons

  • Celestial Set
  • Lionheart Set
  • Legion Guard Set
  • Alabaster / Burnished Set

Main Hand Modification:

  • Enhanced Clear the Ground / Storm Strike

Offhand Modifications:

  • Critical Severity

Rings

  • Striking Ring of the Master
  • Leading Ring of the Teacher
  • Ring of the Shadowstalker +4/+5

Neck & Waist

  • Armaments of the Wyvern (Solo)
  • Apprentices’ Spoils (Music Box Set) (Groups)

Shirt

  • Ebony Stained Shirt

Pants

  • Pants of the Sentinel

Ranger Warden Artifacts

Primary Artifact

  • Envenomed Storyteller’s Journal
  • Staff of Flowers
  • Decanter of Atropal Essence

Secondary Artifacts

Choose secondary artifacts based on the stats you are lacking.

  • Frozen Storyteller’s Journal
  • Flayed Storyteller’s Journal
  • Darkened Storyteller’s Journal
  • Arcturia’s Music Box
  • Trobriands Ring
  • Staff of Flowers
  • Halaster’s Blast Scepter

Ranger Warden Enchantments

When getting enchantments, always get the ones with the stats you are lacking in with your gear, boons, etc in mind. For example, if you’ve capped Crit with your gear and boons, don’t get azure enchantments for your offense slots. If you still need to refine your enchantments, see our Refinement Guide for tips on how to farm refinement.

Offense Enchantments

Slot
  • One Tenebrous Enchantment
  • Radiant Enchantments

Defense Enchantments

  • Radiant Enchantment

Utility Enchantments

  • Tactical Enchantment
  • Dark Enchantment
  • Fey’s Blessing / Dragon’s Hoard / Quartermaster’s Enchantment

Armor Enchantments

  • Barkshield Enchantment

Weapon Enchantments

  • Vorpal Enchantment

Overload Enchantments

  • Various Marks from Stronghold Vendor
  • Corrupt Black Ice / Lethal / Piercing
  • Black / Red Dragon Glyph

Armor Reinforcement Kits

  • Power Kits

Jewelry Reinforcement Kits

  • Combat Advantage Jewel

Ranger Warden Consumables & Buffs

Consider getting VIP for the Power of VIP HP buff if you aren’t already. Also always stand in campfires to get the +1 ability campfire buff.

Get one from each of the rows below:

  • Empowered Chain of Scales (Best in Slot) > Adorable Pocket Pet > Tymora’s Lucky Coin
  • Wild Storm Elixir > Elixir of Fate
  • Squash Soup > Watermelon Sorbet

Ranger Warden Companions

Summoned Companion

The most important thing to consider for a summoned companion is to get an Augment Companion. There are a bunch to choose from, some have more useful powers than others.

  • Bulette Pup
  • Deepcrow Hatchling
  • Owlbear Cub
  • Ioun Stones
  • Quasit

Enchantment Power

  • Potent Precision

Companion Powers

Below is a selection of viable companion powers.

Offense Powers

  • Tamed Velociraptor – 2000 Power per party member using it.
  • Staldorf – 8000 Combat advantage
  • Deepcrow Hatchling – 8000 Power
  • Batiri – 4% Damage against bosses

Defense Powers

  • Minstrel – 4000 Power and 2000 Awareness
  • Broom – 4% Critical Severity
  • Splinters – 4% Critical Severity and 2000 Critical Avoidance
  • Green Slime – 8000 Defense
  • Phase Spider – 2000 Critical strike and 4000 combat advantage

Utility Powers

  • Alpha Compy – 5% Power
  • Owlbear Cub – 10% chance to hit for 50% of you Power

Companion Equipment

Double offense slotted “Of the Companion” gear

Companion Runestones

  • Empowered Runestone

Ranger Warden Mounts

When choosing a Legendary Mount for the Mount Powers, look for a mount that has both a useful equip and combat power. The best choice for a first legendary mount as a Ranger is a Swarm.

What other mounts you use is not that important. What is important is to get the right insignia bonuses, and many different mounts can offer the various bonuses. To find out what mount has the bonus you want, check out our Insignia Bonus Guide.

Mount Insignia Bonuses

All classes and specs should consider using Wanderer’s Fortune before you have refined all your gear and enchantments, for extra refinement every day.

Neverwinter armor enchantment slot
  • Assassin’s Covenant
  • Cavalry’s Warning
  • Combatant’s Maneuver
  • Artificer’s Persuasion
  • Gladiator’s Guile
  • Survivor’s Gift
  • Survivor’s Blessing
  • Barbarian’s Revelry

Insignia Type

Brutality / Dominance for Power, or alternatively any other with stats you need. You can also use Insignia’s to get your defensive stats to cap for survivability.

Ranger Warden Mount Powers

Mount Equip Power:

5000 or 10000 Power

Mount Combat Power:

Bat Swarm (Swarm) (Best in Slot) > Tenser’s Transformation

If you have any questions or suggestions about our Neverwinter Ranger guide, please leave a comment below! More info about the Ranger class can be found at The Neverwinter Reddit.

For the latest Neverwinter news, go to the MMOCULT Neverwinter Hub.