Glyphs

The Glyph System came with the Neverfall expansion. Once your character has the Chaotic Soul cultivation, you can merge the Sage and Demon forms of a skill into a Sanctified skill (from a skill book, see Skills and Skill Books) and then set a glyph into it to boost its power or change its effect.

Press R and open the glyph tab on the right of the Skills window. The left side lists the skills that accept glyphs, the right side shows your glyph slots, and below them is the Glyph Bag for storage. You can equip up to 3 glyphs after Chaotic Soul and up to 6 after Celestial Saint, and you may swap skills and glyphs whenever you are out of combat.

Each slot comes from a quest given by a Glyph Master standing outside the City Hall of Neverfall. The first one opens once you can reach the Western Steppes. Finishing a quest gives an item; right-click it and the slot is open. The masters also sell the slot items for 10,000,000 silver coins, but the quests are free.

There are five glyph types, and each gives a skill a different effect. Their colours follow the Chinese five elements, and the effects roughly match, though this is not a strict rule.

• Dawnlight Halls: the bosses drop tradeable level 1 glyphs and the last boss can drop level 4. The dungeon's daily quest gives level 2 glyph packs, and a weekly quest from Archmage Conrad (for 6 Dawnlight Feathers) gives more.
• Icebound Underworld bosses can drop tradeable glyphs, including level 4.
• The Soul Purification weekly quest from General Summer in Nordeville (kill Changeling Commander Haspon) rewards level 2 glyph packs.
• Finishing the Chaotic Soul and Celestial Saint cultivation quests gives glyph packs (see Spiritual Cultivation).
• One Lucky Coin buys a level 1 glyph of your choice from Assistant Wang Tsai, usually next to the banker in big cities. PvP event season rewards may also include glyph packs.

To level a glyph, open the Glyph Growth tab, put it in the centre and surround it with glyphs to feed it. The window shows the success chance. Success raises the centre glyph by one level; failure drops it by one. You cannot feed a higher-level glyph into a lower one.

All glyphs in the same tier give a skill the same effect; leveling inside a tier only raises the stats. The source's suggested path estimates the cost in level 1 glyphs on average: about 45 for level 4, about 3,780 for level 7 and around 400,000 for level 10.

Besides the skill effect, each glyph adds stats that grow with its level and differ by class: HP first, then physical and magic defense, attack, Spirit, and at the top attack and defense levels. Example for Blademaster, Barbarian and Seeker (shortened):

With all six slots open you can earn a glyph bonus: if most of your glyphed skills share one property, you get that property; a tie gives nothing. The three properties beat each other in a circle, each dealing 15% more damage to the next. Players with no bonus take 5% more damage from those who have one, and the same property gives no change.

A skill must be upgraded before it can hold a glyph. Each class can upgrade twelve skills: six open with Chaotic Soul and six with Celestial Saint. The books come from Royal Knight Hector in Neverfall (349 593) in exchange for Neverfall Squire's Badges and Knight's Badges. Town Portal is the one skill shared by all classes that also takes glyphs.