What you Need to Know to Beat The Imperial Citadel Dungeon! (master basics) - Neverwinter Mod 28

Here I cover the basics you need to know to complete the new dungeon, The Imperial Citadel! This covers the 1st boss the Monstrous Menagerie, the 2nd boss the Zodar and then the final boss Emperor Xeleth himself! There is a lot to learn in order for you to succeed, so this should help a lot in how to understand what is going on!
This is based on the Master version, but the mechanics should be very similar in the easier versions, just a lot less punishing, so you can probably ignore a lot more things.
TIME STAMPS
00:00 Mobs on the ships
01:39 1st Boss, Monstrous Menagerie
05:33 Mobs in the gardens
06:20 2nd Boss, Zodar
11:57 Mobs at Astral Font
12:19 3rd Boss, Emperor Xeleth
22:50 Artifact Calls
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[@davidkilnowski7726]

There you are. That is the content that I follow you for. I remember back when I started in 2016, my guild didn’t talk to me. I had you teaching me the game and the dungeons. Good to see you back to the basics. You shine bright my friend.

[@Aragon-]

thank you :)

[@williambooze]

Thanks for this. Ran the baby version in randoms yesterday. This made all of that make sense. Looking forward to running advanced and master this week! Thanks for explaining this, sincerely, all of us tanks out there!

[@grazzap56789]

Same got to the menagerie and wipe cheers Aragorn

[@Luck3yv]

Incase anyone is still wondering Killing the scorpion early in the first boss enrages the thoon hulk, makes it hit for like 4 million per basic swing, so its basically a team wipe when that happens, its not guaranteed but it will be extremely difficult to not die

[@jackjones5185]

@Aragon at the 19:30 mark, I don't think you guys are explaining how the actual mechanics work. The reds coming from the middle crystal are charging the outside crystals to show that those crystals are the ones that are about to light up and blow up a few seconds after so you can know very easily what parts of the map are gonna be safe

[@VasileXY]

Agreed. This is a helpful guide but still incomplete because it was rushed to be published quickly for the views... It should be updated with complete, correct explanations.

[@maxpain3063]

Thanks for this vid I always come to your vids when im stuck on mechanics for these dungeons/trials 😊

[@zkrings]

Starting tomorrow will be week 2 on the campaign for me and will be able to unlock the dungeon, so hopefully I will be able to do a few runs using this guide. Thanks for the video.

[@relaxingvideostofallasleep1303]

Ty for the video, I watched it and haven't gotten the queue tonight. My other half did get it, so I was able to walk him and his group though it.

[@asteroidxarmageddon2354]

It seems like the safe tile during the triple mirror mechanic rotate clockwise dased on the top down footage you've shown.

[@Aragon-]

it is pretty random I have had like: - far > right > door > right > far > right > repeat but also left > door > left > far > right > far >

[@NytLegend]

Since the hr have a bunch of bugged powers now, it seems that a wardens powers would be too slow to be effective againt boss 2 and 3

[@asteroidxarmageddon2354]

That polarity mechanic has been broken since the release of Spelljammer....anyone that has done Lair of the Mad Mage should know what I mean. When Trobiand triggers that mechanic and you and another person are tethered with opposite polarities, it doesn't matter how far you are away from eachother as you both will still explode as if you had collided and take debuffs when the mechanic resolves. The number of times I've stood a football field away from my tether partner only for the game to smack us with damage downs and a vulnerability, saying we failed because of a bug....then I get oneshotted by the unavoidable raid-wide caused by destroying the towers...yeah it broken.

[@Aragon-]

yup, that was the reason they disabled the debuff effecting you, cause they didn't fix the original issue yet

[@breteboy1968]

On ps5. The green crystal kills you if you dont move and the purple crystal kills you if you do move... its totally backwards lol. Almost like a troll by the devs you have to do the opposite on what its telling you. Ive seen 4 clones come out. So the whole arena is red! So getting a deathless run is completely rng lol

[@mell.7017]

Is your whisper knife build the same as the one you put out a month ago? Also, is it more effective in there over assassin? Gg ty for vid. Helps a lot.

[@Aragon-]

it is using this top setup: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rnm8mqJ4j7Z_apI

[@mell.7017]

@@Aragon- Thank you sir. Tired of my mage. Going to run my rogue now. I used to love fighter dps but w that vengeance management bs. They took the fun out as well as my strafing ability w my heavy slash 😡. Fighter dps was fine. It just needed a bit more ap Gen. Ty for response.

[@MyLifeMyFitnessMyWorld]

Just started yesterday. Can’t wait to start dungeons I’m only level 11

[@skizzere1988]

Fix the servers, then u can easily complete!😅 the lags we are experiencing on ps5 are ridiculous. Don’t get me wrong, we complete all the time but it’s just not fun really.

[@Aragon-]

same for PC if you play at peak times

[@jayg9757]

I pop a heal and wait 5 seconds for it to show on pc.

[@breteboy1968]

Yes mate its a joke tell me about it lol

[@user-tz8xb7qc7v]

What kind of mobs are in this dungeon? Can some boons be useful?

[@raelvega]

Nice guide thank you! Do everyone use Owlbear Figurine there? No Dragonfire?

[@user-nl3kx4me6v]

Cause Dragonfire is useless, and somecalled "bonus damage on bosses", that you saw on some videos, working only on Chult dummy.

[@Aragon-]

Dragonfire is great damage, just not as good burst as the owlbear

[@fredrauch418]

I bought the owlbear, but can’t stand its slow animation! 😂

[@jakesikora2245]

Last night I noticed that one of the illusions that he summons takes less damage than the others when you attack him, didn't get to test the theory a lot but I think by finding the one that takes less damage you can get the cone attacks to stop and all illusions de spawn like first boss in dwp not sure if this was a fluke as we only tried a couple times that run. Also that was on advanced not master

[@vanitycrise358]

This dungeon is fun, but the lag and the delays are killing the experience for me. Hopefully they fix it

[@yamenk8285]

do you know what to do to avoid getting all clones is it from lack of dps or is there another reason

[@Aragon-]

you cannot avoid all. It is timer based

[@yamenk8285]

@@Aragon- i mean when you get all 4 clones at the same time and have nowhere to go

[@Aragon-]

Oh that, yeah no idea what to do if you get 4 clones. Potentially they just have too much Hp

[@tornetzero7540]

Смотрел с такой внимательностью, будто я понимаю английский.)

[@AltairGT89]

Hi. After the second boss, I got a green light and I couldn't move. Why it happened and whether it can be treated ?

[@Aragon-]

Green light?

[@AltairGT89]

@@Aragon- Yes, and after that I couldn't move. Even after death, it didn't let me go. And I came out of the dungeon

[@johnpreskey3036]

And they have put this in the rdq quest

[@niverxyoutube7636]

Now only a good reason to run the dungeon and the mod might have been good😂😂

[@fredrauch418]

💯

[@kittywampusdrums4963]

Another abominably complicated dungeon most players won't have the skill to do. Great.

[@Aragon-]

Well that's master for you. You need decent skill to do it

[@kittywampusdrums4963]

I can do the advanced one but master suckssss I'm a retard and can't play I just mash buttons and scream with my mouth closed hhrrrrrmmmm I KILL TEH SNEK!

[@kittywampusdrums4963]

I'm a detard

[@spiroskotsikoris9439]

is the new armor good for me? (paladin tank)

[@Trick_415]

no.

[@mrlinde6518]

Max 4 stacks in the middle boss 2.

[@kevinhanley6969]

AHWOO thank you

[@Aragon-]

cheers :D

[@Savage-ih5il]

Cavedog

[@asteroidxarmageddon2354]

Just released something about the Astral Font....technically it shouldn't be able to damage you....but it stunning you causing an insta-death and a death you can't even scroll from by standing in it too long or entering it too many times makes perfect sense. In the tabletop, The Astral Font is described as, "A 40-foot-diameter, 2-foot-deep pool of glowing pale liquid ged by a 10-foot-diameter beam of harmless blue light which streams down from an aperture in the ceiling 175 feet above." However, any creature that starts it's turn in the beam of light from the Font is magically teleported to the radiant core of Xaryxis and takes a bunch of Radiant Damage....in other words, you get thrown into a sun and die.

[@Aragon-]

thrown into a sun and die, lmao xD but yeah, it literally is a beam to the sun xD

[@1000byakuya]

I'm actually really interested in this as an advanced and master dungeon. Idk what posessed the dumbasses to stuff it in as a random dungeon q tho. Had a couple so far and been chaos on 1st boss despite a couple knowing the snake mechs(including myself). But from a premade groups perspective it looks fun as fuck.

[@absolut_OW]

I didn't play this dungeon yet but i feel that it's an anti-barbarian dungeon 😂

[@chadgibson3238]

I need a BiS for rogue now ! This crap with "XYZ increase when with one enemy but decreases by 1 stack with more than 1" is too fubared. Gimme simplicity !

[@Scare69]

Hello Aragon, please tell me, maybe you know which builds in the Imperial Citadel will be better against many enemies? Which weapon will be stronger in Bosses? Mirage or Solar?

[@Aragon-]

Mirage in most cases

[@Namret-cn6fb]

Just completed this dungeon in its RDQ version for the first time. Was quite funny, but Xeleth seems just awful on advanced and Master version xD

[@birbwatcher5515]

i rly liked MSP when it was a thing

[@Johnny-ge7yb]

Thanks. But it looks like another dungeon to avoid.

[@Iv3y_Lamar]

My favorite new dungeon in the past few mods. Very Star Wars -esque and not as heal intensive on the advanced version

[@justzcross6236]

It happened to me to have all clones filling the entire area, everyone just dies

[@Aragon-]

Yup, rip. You can dodge it though

[@justzcross6236]

@@Aragon- tried to but that Just kills you

[@Aragon-]

I dodged it a few times now. Just need perfect timing

[@jessicalulu92]

@@Aragon- dodge in what sense? that you use dodge or that you stand in a specific place?

[@Aragon-]

@@jessicalulu92 that you use your immunity fram ability at the right time to "dodge" the damage

[@LALKOM]

жесть

[@chehadesemaan9807]

My god the devs never test anything this dungeon full of bug and glitches how many testers they have one people have all the items from glitching the killed the dungeon in the first week very 😭😢

[@Aragon-]

it has far less bugs than many dungeons before it

[@lynnjensen150]

LOL. You said "ONE OF THE WIZARDS". This is a dungeon! 5 characters. 1 Tank, 1 Healer and 3 DPS and you actually said ....... "ONE OF THE WIZARDS" SO THAT MEANS YOU HAVE TO HAVE 2+ WIZARDS IN ORDER TO DO THIS DUNGEON?? That is a REAL QUESTION ARAGON PLEASE ANSWER IT. If NOT why did you say "ONE OF THE WIZARDS"? What are non wizards supposed to do? Make wizards? If not why are you doing a video with ONLY elitist classes? How are NON WIZARDS SUPPOSED TO DEAL WITH THE SNAKE? ONCE AGAIN THE DEVS HAVE MADE THIS DUNGEON ONLY VIABLE WITH WIZARDS!! The elitist attitude of these developers is truly amazing. LOL

[@Aragon-]

like I said, have the healer take the snake... I guess your so focused on being anti-wizard xD

[@lynnjensen150]

My main character is a wizard. Why would you ASSUME that I am anti wizard. I am not. Nothing in what I said is anti wizard. You have it backwards and upside down. What is sad is sooo many other dps classes, if not all of them, have been made either meaningless or irrelevant for content like this. For a new player, if they want to do dps, the only viable, valuable option is to make a wizard. They have utility and do high dps. No other dps class has that combination to even near the same level as wizard. Plus the dev's will do whatever it takes to keep wizards as an elite class in this game.

[@Aragon-]

Just know, the Devs do not have favouritism with the classes! They do their best to balance them. Most of the time they are just not aware of things. Again, you do not need a wizard to do this dungeon just fine. There are other ways.

[@user-bt7oe5jj1o]

Trying to hit the boss from around a constantly moving scorpion is horrible. As the wizard keeping CC on the snake moving back and forth just cant get the targeting very fast. Shitty design.

[@cousjcc]

How exhausting. Its like theyre aiming to make literally EVERYONE that isnt a min/max player walk away from this game. I've been teetering on the edge and this level of annoyance with constantly running around during bosses combined with forcing us to bind our enchants to max them..... so many reasons to drop NW like a bad habit.

[@SeanBotha]

More lazy devs doing same thing they have done for year just making it bis only again. So glad they will all be gone soon.

[@LosManexStudio666]

You dont care about the game so much that you probably watch every video on it and i bet like 90% you still play the game too, like most of the haters here :) And as most of the haters you cant even descibe what is bad about it, you just spill the hate every time you get a chance Im not a blinded fan of the game, on the contrary as the active player i know very well the problems of the game. But i will just never understand that kind of comments. Whats the point? If you dont like the game, you just stop playing it and forgot about it. Spreading blind hate on the internet helps noone

[@truthbiased3282]

wtf is with all the mechanics? absolutely disliked moondancer and this looks more of the same, not to mention the flooding of too much gear etc etc ... hopeful new owners will change this in upcoming mods ...

[@Aragon-]

moondancer had like no mechanics, makes it so boring for master content. This is much better. You would prefer dungeons and trials like Demo? a big bag of Hp that barely does anything?

[@truthbiased3282]

@@Aragon- well i liked mdwp, so ya, agree to disagree. moondance was shat

[@Iv3y_Lamar]

Wait… so you complain about moondancer having mechanics, but you loved mdwp..? Lmao ok 😂

[@truthbiased3282]

@@Iv3y_Lamar referring to the chaotic over board ones, lnot an absolute putz. the whole game has them, so obviously not it all ... duh

[@1000byakuya]

​@Aragon- SO MUCH THIS. moondancer is boring I honestly fail to see the mechanics other then stressing tanks out lol. Moondancer just left me feeling ehh and feeling bad for tanks.

[@gabe-angel]

You're views make no sense at all this game started dying off after barovia ban wave even worse after combat rework its a 10 year old game with less than 500 players a week on ps5 and even less on xbox and steam data bade shows super low player base but youre numbers per view would mean every single player in entire game across all platforms watch you which is false . if this is a stunt buying views to try and impress deca games in germany it wont work they are aware of full player base numbers and would also see issue with you're strange view count and deca games only work with deca games no youtubers as cryptic have in past . stop buying views from you know where and keep it real everyone knows all you do is make preview builds that dont effect you're wallet and try sell stuff for cryptic so no body of value watch any of this keep it real or keep it up until deca take over no matter youre inside knowlage is ending this year all hale deca games germany

[@wowthatswicked6848]

You do know neverwinter is ranked 34 out of 140 mmos right with 3 million players so far 2024-04-02 had 28,000 players online

[@wowthatswicked6848]

Protectors on PlayStation usually has 20 instances full of 20 players with the same number in the new campaign zone

[@wowthatswicked6848]

Then you got whoever is inside dungeons or the new dungeon at that time lol so that’s like my friends like always active with 100 players online and I still see tons of new people I never met or see new players leveling up

[@LosManexStudio666]

Man... your hate to the game/devs blinded your eyes so much. Even on steam there is around 1300 online player peak (it means a total amount of player on just steam is at least 3+ times more, because people live in different time zones, play at different times, etc). In addition, you can play on PC with just Arc launcher, and i think a good amount of players use it (i switched from steam myself, to login to my alt account, you can't do that on steam). And in addition to all that you have consoles, and judging by all info i know there is even more players compared to PC (i heard that on consoles you dont really have much other MMOs so Neverwinter wins in terms of that) On the last stream with exec. produccer of the game, in chat the community manager said that steam player base is just a small partion of all players, and well, you may say they just lying but by all info i know i can trust them actually. And yes, you can also look at Aragon views and confirm that additionally :) So seems like online of the game is atleast around 2.5k players, and i can easily guess that there is more than 10k active players that login in a game at least few times a week. And well, you can have players that not playing right now (maybe just because they are busy) but still being interested in new content and stuff. So its not that suprising to see around 5k views there

[@sixnesss]

Prolly the worst dungeon in the game :D, not becouse its hard or something , its just simply non enjoyable at all ,anyway good guide as always keep it up !

[@Aragon-]

I find pretty fun compared to a lot of others. Prefer it than mdwp

[@sixnesss]

@@Aragon- ye well thats ur opinion and i appreciate that , but i just dont like wildspace at all and yeah mdwp i also dont like but somehow looks better. Cant wait for new mod when regular zones will rise up again , i find out that are way better designed , here esp in doomspace a lot of buggs

[@LosManexStudio666]

I dont really like the theme of space in Neverwinter either, but i think this dungeon is the best what come out of it honestly

[@sixnesss]

@@LosManexStudio666 whole new zones are laggfest delays etc , hope they did something to this so we can play without get pissed off , idk the name of asteroid but q when u need to kill some space batiries that zone is complete mess, also the other one where u kill some lizzard ppl also a lot of buggs , and yeah dung is decent at the end i agree with u