M13 Information

So as is typical of these posts this is the index to help you find exactly what you're looking for quickly. As a brief overview if you were hoping for less Chult you wont find it here. As Terramak put it, on a scale of 1 - 10 how much of the new mod is Chult? 11. Be prepared for even more dinosaurs (mounts and otherwise) and new wild animals. The new Trial is to be as difficult as expected of a Master level trial. There are all sorts of new things to work on in Omu.

Vlad's Note: This thread is currently incomplete. For other info see NW Uncensored.

Index
Weapons
Gear
Mounts
Companions
New Trial

New Weapons

Well I was hoping I was right. I felt that it was too soon for new weapons with higher stats, particularly higher based damage. I was wrong. There's a ton of new sets and in addition to the new "base" sets there's a mechanism to upgrade them into Exalted which basically doubles the stats gained comparing a new normal legendary to our old one.

For instance, see the Spinethrasher and Exalted Spinethrasher:



As you can see it's 138 Base Damage, 534 Power, 122 Critical and Recovery, the Exhalted is double that at 278 Base Damage, 1072 Power, 244 Critical and Recovery over the current Legendary GWF weapons.

Currently you need 5 of the Soulmonger Ampoules to upgrade your MH and 3 for the OH. These of course come from the new trial (which will be incredibly difficult). You can get one per week but you have to actually complete the trial to get the ingredients.




Set Bonuses

More Gear! Armor, Rings and Such!

As expected there is a lot of new gear. Some of it is specialized and helps ranged or melee classes more. Overall there is just a ton due to the fact you have gear from a couple people in Omu, the hunts in Omu, new Masterwork and several new artifact gear sets.

Head



Chest



Arms



Feet



Shirt and Pants



Rings



Sets

Mounts

There's a bunch of new mounts. The main one is the Triceratops. The Legendary War Triceratops


Then the regular Triceratops


I really hope it gets a better equip bonus since it currently is identical to the Flying Carpets but it probably won't. Seems a bit redundant to have another 2k/4k Defense mount again.  It got a new mount bonus already. 8K/16k HP which is nice since no other legendary has 16k HP yet.

Lots of new spider mounts and a few other Dino's in addition to the Triceratops.

Companions

As everyone knows the situation with Companion gear isn't too good so what do devs do? Fix it? No way, they give us companions focusing on mostly or exclusively ring gear. That's right. They added a new Augment the Infant Gorilla which is 3 ring slots.



The Alpha Compy is much the same but it's a Leader not an Augment. 3 Ring slots.



The Chultan Tiger however is a Striker but has a neck slot and 2 ring slots. It also has what appears to be a debuff attack as well. "Enemies affected by the Tigers DoT Bleeds take 10% more damage from all sources".