MMORPG.com has teamed up with Cryptic Studios to bring our readers another first look at Character Customization in Neverwinter. In this developer blog, we take a look at the "clothes (and equipment) that make the man". See how your character will be able to sport just the right look before joining the conversation in the comments.

In addition, equipping the right armor greatly improves your chances of survival or even walking away unscathed. With multiple armor slots, you have many ways to protect yourself from harm during battle. The most important slots are Head, Armor, Arms, and Feet to protect you from absolute fatal blows from foes. Other slots are necessary to enhance your effectiveness such as Neck, Waist, Shirt (under Armor), and Trousers. It’s essential to equip yourself with the best available equipment for your character level – don’t leave any slots empty!

Read more Neverwinter: Further Perfecting Your Character's Look.

Originally posted by Avison
"Neverwinter has nearly unlimited character customization if you consider 'nearly' to mean the standard affair"

its cryptic.. they invented "unlimited" character customization, it maybe standard affair now for a cryptic game but not for a mmo. most mmo's you cant chance a thing but some colors and premade faces..

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And to cryptic...c'mon whit the External Beta already,  PE/Cryptic gave out keys months ago, its time to get the Beta's  going and stop messing around whit fake new Testing names in order to bypass promissies made :P  ..internal alfa..external alfa..family alfa.. Internal beta, limeted Beta, Limited external beta... that the new game ;)  ?

This game's character customization is shaping up to be the worst by far it sounds like than any mmo currently. Which is pretty  ironic when it comes to Cryptic Studios since customization is usually the only thing usually worth anything in any of their games they make. 

That being said, if Neverwinter doesn't even have that leg to stand on it pretty much tells me the game is 100% useless.

Originally posted by Avison
"Neverwinter has nearly unlimited character customization if you consider 'nearly' to mean the standard affair"

Well its Cryptic game so one thing is sure that even if rest of the game sucks their character creation and customization is going to be top notch. COH, CO and STO still has some of the best character creation to this date.

Originally posted by Czanrei

This game's character customization is shaping up to be the worst by far it sounds like than any mmo currently. Which is pretty  ironic when it comes to Cryptic Studios since customization is usually the only thing usually worth anything in any of their games they make. 

That being said, if Neverwinter doesn't even have that leg to stand on it pretty much tells me the game is 100% useless.

 

Funny haa? how we read the same article and come to different conclusions? i am thinking that character customization in NWN is going to be even better than all previous Cryptic games but considering how limited character creation is in MMOS most of the time with exception of games like DCUO, AION etc, i wouldn't be complaining if NWN customization is on par with COH and CO if not better.

Originally posted by Czanrei

This game's character customization is shaping up to be the worst by far it sounds like than any mmo currently. Which is pretty  ironic when it comes to Cryptic Studios since customization is usually the only thing usually worth anything in any of their games they make. 

That being said, if Neverwinter doesn't even have that leg to stand on it pretty much tells me the game is 100% useless.

 

 and you come to this conclusion from what data? Ah right my bad forgot this is the internet where people don't need facts they can just jump to blind uninformed opinions to make predictions.

I'll say it again so people dont waste time (unless you all need filler content).  Unless it is on par with or outperforms Eve's character creation options, then it isnt worth mentioning....they are all they same.

"If you are more defensively-minded, protect yourself by adding Defense to increase your damage resistance."   ...................get out of here, who does that?

I think its funny that these stat bonuses are taken from WoW WotLK and CoH. Yeah, theres 2 well balanced starting points.

They even take the least balanced stats from both games. Armor penetration from WoW(which was removed because it was impossible to balance) and Regeneration(unkillable Scrappers ahoy!).

PvP in Neverwinter will definitely be ....interesting.

Personally friggin fed up with Cryptic's atrocious PR work.  Game suppose to be release early 2013, a beta schedule that is suppose to be announced in Jan and still as of yet been made, and they are completely ignoring their community who have been screaming, tearing heads off just for some plain simple ACTUAL GAME DETAILS!!!!!  Cryptic is just doing a circle jerk and nothing in terms of actually marketing their game.

And why post an utter pointless article, but thats the track record for Cryptic.  Constantly posting articles/interviews/ect that never shed any new light on the game.

Originally posted by Xiaoki

I think its funny that these stat bonuses are taken from WoW WotLK and CoH. Yeah, theres 2 well balanced starting points.

They even take the least balanced stats from both games. Armor penetration from WoW(which was removed because it was impossible to balance) and Regeneration(unkillable Scrappers ahoy!).

PvP in Neverwinter will definitely be ....interesting.

Yeah, regeneration is definitely from City of Heroes... it's not like it was in my Dungeons Master's Guide in 1982,  http://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/SRD:Ring_of_Regeneration or if your world started with MMORPG's, then it's only 14 years old - http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?item=2020 .

Originally posted by Ambros123

Personally friggin fed up with Cryptic's atrocious PR work.  Game suppose to be release early 2013, a beta schedule that is suppose to be announced in Jan and still as of yet been made, and they are completely ignoring their community who have been screaming, tearing heads off just for some plain simple ACTUAL GAME DETAILS!!!!!  Cryptic is just doing a circle jerk and nothing in terms of actually marketing their game.

And why post an utter pointless article, but thats the track record for Cryptic.  Constantly posting articles/interviews/ect that never shed any new light on the game.

I disagree that this article doesn't shed light on the game, because I learned some new things, though it was very difficult to read.  I very  much doubt this article came from Crypic, however.  As someone who also works for a Chinese company (and has worked for other companies headquarted outside of NAM), this has the fingerprints of a "I am at HQ and I know everything, and this is how we market PW games in China so this is what we will do in North America and it will be the best" thought process all over it.

"Hey, are MMO HAS ARMOR GUYS! YOU GET TO EQUIP STUFF AND IT MATTERS. THIS IS SO NEW AND EXCITING!"

Please stop talking to us like we're 4 year old idiots who've never seen an MMO or played an RPG.  Its like MMO tutorials. Holy hell.

Being involved with the gaming industry on both sides, developer and consumer, is frustrating.  When we can stop treating everyone like inexperienced dolts and make some real leaps, things will get interesting.  Unfortunately we're bound to taking abysmal, safe baby steps due to the way financing works.