Neverwinter Refinement Points Guide

Welcome to our Refinement Points Guide! The Refinement system in Neverwinter got a much-needed update in module 12b. This guide is now updated for mod 22 Dragonbone Vale.

It is now much faster to refine gear, artifacts, and enchantments. The x2 enchantment events are now gone, but refining is double as fast all the time. You also no longer have to feed artifacts to other artifacts, and the cost of refining enchantments is much lower.

Refining is quick through the Refinement Menu accessed through the gear icon in your inventory.

All you have to do is farm or buy refinement and get going! In this guide, I will show you the best tips on how to refine your gear fast and farm refinement.

If you learn the ropes of real Astral Diamond making, farming AD is actually a lot faster than farming RP. See our Astral Diamond guide for more info on this.

When buying refinement off the AH, calculate how much you are paying for each point. For example, an Emerald is 550 AD on the AH on PC right now, it provides 250 refinement. 550 / 250 = 2.2. So you are paying 2.2 AD per refinement.

Understanding Refinement Points (RP)

Refinement points are a type of currency used to upgrade your enchantments, artifacts, and runestones. As you level up these items, they become more powerful, granting you enhanced stats and abilities. The process of upgrading is called “refining.”

General Refinement Tips

Convert items:

You can convert unwanted or unused enchantments, runestones, and artifact equipment into refinement points by right-clicking on the item and selecting “Convert to RP.”

Events

There are two types of events to look out for especially when it comes to refinement points. Mobs you kill during the event will have a chance to drop Refinement, and you can pay Astral Diamonds to increase the amount of RP they drop. The best way I have found to rack up RP during the event is to run dungeons.

There is a cap of 100k RP for the event and when you hit certain milestones you get more refinement as rewards to a total of 125k RP and 5 Preservation wards for the entire event.

The second event is the 2x Refining Stones Event. All bags dropped from Enchants like “Spoils of War” from Quartermaster’s Enchantments should be saved for these events.

Mount

Have a mount with Wanderer’s Fortune. This has a cooldown though so when you see that the Wanderer’s Fortune Proc is going off, you’re not getting items, you can unequip it if you want.

Invoking

Invoke the gods when you can for some extra refinement items. You will also earn “Celestial Coins” that can be spent on Coffers of Celestial Artifacts that provide you with valuable Enchanting Stones, Coalescent and Preservation Wards that you will need to refine.

Having more alts that you simply use to “Invoke” daily will provide you with more coffers as they are account bound.

Farming Refinement Points

The best way to farm RP is generally by just doing the content you usually do with Wanderer’s Fortune. So run all your daily queues and do the stuff you would normally do. There are a couple of spots that you can farm for additional RP.

Runic Corruption Refinement Farming

In mod 16 Undermountain, a good way to farm refinement points is by doing the Runic Corruption events.

These events are constantly going on in almost all open-world zones in Mod 16. Simply go to a zone and look on the map for an event. Start killing mobs, as soon as one finishes, a new one starts.

The reason this is good for RP is that there are a lot of mobs being killed, especially if there is a group farming them. In addition to all the normal loot, there also drops blue quality gear that can be refined. The epic loot cannot, however, be refined.

Dragon Runs in The Well of Dragons

These start every hour at quarter to the hour (12:45, 13:45, etc). Go to the Well of Dragons and watch the chat for what instance number the run is happening it and switch to that instance or ask for an invite if it is full. After the 5 dragons are killed in one instance, move to the next one and you will usually be able to kill all 5 there as well.

One run nets about 3500 RP

Dread Ring

Daily quests in Dread Ring offer some great rewards. The daily lair quest from Sergeant Knox can even reward you with Superior Enchanting Stones. Be sure to forge the Adamantine Gauntlet for extra rewards.

More lair keys can be bought through the Dread Ring campaign store with Vanguard Scrips. Vanguard Scrips can be bought from the Bounty Master in Dread Ring for Onyx Fragments which can be bought off the AH or farmed from Dread Ring mobs. Meaning you can farm the lairs more than once a day. You need 50 Onyx Fragments to buy 10 Vanguard Scrips for one key.

One run through all the dailies nets about 4000+ RP

Sharandar

Sharandar quests also offer great RP rewards. Complete 3 quests in each of the three areas, and earn an emerald from each. Sharandar mobs are also very weak so killing the mobs here is really quick.

Each area also has one lair. You will get a free key to the chest at the end of it from the Leprechaun but can buy more from him for 10 Gold Crescent. Gold Crescents can be bought for Fomorian Concoctions at the Bounty Master, and Fomorian Concoctions can be farmed or bought off the AH.

One run through all 9 quests and one lair nets about 7000+ RP

One lair nets about 2000 RP

That’s it for refinement point farming. If you have any tips for our refinement guide, let us know in the comments below!