Character creation | First steps Neverwinter Guide

Last update: 11 May 2016

Your characters will not have anything in common, they have a separate banks, achievements are unlocked for one hero (with few exceptions), you will join guild with one hero, not whole account.

Race selection

After server selection the fun begins, screen below presents first stage: race selection.

1: Gender selection and character preview (gender choice is purely cosmetic, does not affect the statistics or the gameplay).

2: A description of the race and its characteristics - each race has two distinctive passive skills and one called Ability Scores, which determines to what main stats (strength, vitality, dexterity, intelligence, wisdom, charisma) are added as a racial bonus.

3: Available races.

4: Previous and Continue buttons.

Racial bonus gives +2 to one predefined Ability Score, and +2 to one of two AS, only humans have the ability to add only two points to AS.

Race	+2 predefined	+2 to choose	+2 to choose
Half-Elf	Con	Cha	Wis
Elf	Dex	Int	Wis
Drow	Dex	Cha	Wis
Dwarf	Con	Str	Wis
Halfling	Dex	Cha	Con
Half-Orc	Dex	Con	Str
Tiefling	Cha	Con	Int

Class selection

Available classes with their roles in brackets:

• Control Wizard (CC, DPS, Ranged)
• Devoted Cleric (Healer, Support, Ranged)
• Great Weapon Fighter (DPS, Offtank, Melee)
• Guardian Fighter (Tank, Melee)
• Trickster Rogue (DPS, Melee)

For more information check the classes section of this guide. When you select a class you can see its characteristics and some skills examples.

Class description with examples of skills

Ability Scores rolling

Another important step is to set up your initial Ability Scores, they are randomally rolled.

Each class have one main ability and two secondary, and the gameplay is minimally affected by remaining three.

Here you can roll best ability scores setup using Reroll Scores and choose best racial bonus.

Class	Main	Secondary	Secondary
Control Wizard	Int	Wis	Cha
Devoted Cleric	Wis	Str	Cha
Guardian Fighter	Con	Str	Dex
Great Weapon Fighter	Str	Con	Dex
Trickster Rogue	Dex	Str	Cha

Ability scores are not rolled individually. Instead, all six values are selected simultaneously, by randomly picking a row from the following table:

Main	Secondary	Secondary
18	13	13	10	10	8
18	13	13	10	8	10
18	13	13	8	10	10
17	14	13	10	10	10
17	13	13	11	11	10
17	13	13	11	10	11
16	16	12	10	10	10
16	15	13	11	11	9
16	14	14	11	10	10
15	15	13	12	11	10
15	15	13	11	10	12
15	14	13	12	12	11

Appearance, biography and character name

If you got to this stage everything you do now will be purely cosmetic. Start personalizing the appearance of your new hero, you can select one of the available presets, or customize your character to give it own, unique look.

Although appearance does not affect general gameplay it is worth remembering that playing PvP could be better with smaller character (it will be harder to target you in the crowd) or if you are interested in playing dungeons as a tank it could be wise to create hero with big posture so healers will have easier job targeting you.

Appearance can be changed later in the Tower of Alteration for Zen.

You can now choose your diety affiliations and character origins.

Your last step is to enter your character name (or roll random one) and if you would like - fill some biography details telling other players something more about your character.