Neverwinter
210 Achievements
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Boundless Ability
You succeeded in an ability check when drinking with Lucas Shaneway III.
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How to unlock the Boundless Ability achievement in Neverwinter - Definitive Guide
*See Ways to Improve Your Chances below if you have 22-24 in one of the required attributes.
Solution
This can be found in The Maze Engine Campaign, Act 3, Mission 6: Strange Concoctions, which becomes available from Bruenor Battlehammer in Mantol-Derith about 15 days into the Campaign.
Bruenor will send you to see Lucas Shaneway III who will challenge you to a drinking contest. You will be asked to choose which attribute you want to use to try and beat Lucas with, with the exception of Strength.
Your success at each drink is based on classic D&D dice rolls, so there's no guaranteed way to win it. If you succeed at all three drinking challenges, you will unlock the achievement.
Ways to improve your chances
The following can be stacked in order to grant +3 temporary attribute points.
1. Make sure to stand in a campfire (there's one right behind Bruenor) for a few seconds. This will give you the Campfire buff for 15 minutes, which gives you a +1 to each attribute. This is denoted by a flame icon in the buff bar under your name. Note: the Mending Wounds buff is also denoted by a flame icon.
2. The Elixir of Fate can be purchased from the Vault of Piety or from the Auction House. This will increase all of your attributes by +1.
3. The Potion of Heroism can be purchased from Thradisar Starwise in Sharandar or from the Auction House. This will increase your primary and secondary attributes by +1.
When you fail, press instead of continuing with .. This will allow you to exit the conversation and immediately try again.
Thanks to Reaver Lion for this trick.
If you do accidentally continue after failing, see DeadlyPikachu 's solution for how to bypass the 15 minute cooldown on accepting the mission.
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You succeeded in an ability checks when drinking with Lucas Shaneway III.
this achievement is easy to miss or fail if you have a lower item level character, how ever if you have a class with a non strength attribute of 25 or more it is very easy to unlock. This video will show you how
Chapter 6: Lucas Shaneway, who we saved in Chapter 2, has a grimoire that we need, but Lucas has challenged us to drink with him instead. When you approach, and he delivers his challenge, you are presented with 5 ability checks. You must succeed at one of these.
Constitution Check: I'll have a drink!
Wisdom Check: Lucas, this isn't the time for drinking. Please give me the item.
Intelligence Check: I don't think your superior would approve of this behavior.
Dexterity Check: I'll have a drink. Sure, I'll have a drink. (you automatically use sleight of hand)
Charisma Check: Let's save the fun for after we kill Baphomet.
This can go many ways, as an example, I play a rogue with high Dex. I chose the Dexterity check which was labeled as 'easy difficulty'. Once I successfully completed that it gave me another Dex check at 'medium difficulty', and finally a 3rd Dex check at 'hard difficulty'.
On the flip side of things, I tried an intelligence check (medium difficulty) with my GWF, he failed that right away. It then reverted me to a constitution check so I could complete the quest and get the grimoire.
I did the quest a 3rd time with my CW and chose an Intelligence check at medium difficulty. Once I successfully completed the ability check; Lucas gave me the grimoire. I didn't have to do any other checks.
Choose an option, preferably with a stat you have that's very high, and Lucas will respond with "You're not fun, but you're right. Here's the grimoire". He'll hand you the book and net the achievement. Should you fail the ability check, you must complete the rest of the act until you can replay the chapter.