Neverwinter
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Protector of the Prophecy
You got a Gold victory in the Incursion variant of Prophecy of Madness
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How to unlock the Protector of the Prophecy achievement in Neverwinter - Definitive Guide
The Prophecy of Madness skirmish can be started using your Queue. To join, you will need a level-70 character. There is no minimum item level requirement for this mission, but don't expect to get gold with a weak toon! Once you join, you will be put into one of the 2 possible variants: Madness or Incursion. You cannot choose the variant you want to play, but you can see which variant you joined by looking at the title of the quest: if it is "Demonic Incursion", you're in the correct variant for this achievement (the other quest is called "Protect the Prophecy").
The Incursion variant consists of 3 "phases". To get gold, you will need to do good in all phases. However, you won't necessarily need to get Gold in all 3 phases. For instance, I got an overall Gold rating by getting Gold / Silver / Gold. Note that I often ended skirmishes with Silver / Silver / Gold, and that gave me an overall Silver rating.
During the first phase of the skirmish, you will need to close as many portals (called abyssal tears) as you can (press on the portals). Once you close a portal, demons will emerge from them. Once you kill these demons, other portals will spawn. The scoring in this phase comes from closing portals, but you will still need to kill mobs quickly to spawn new portals.
During the second phase, you will need to close portals again... but this time the portals are bigger and spawn stronger enemies. The bigger the portals are, the more points they give. Therefore, concentrate on the largest purple portals, and then on the medium blue ones. During this second phase, do not open the green portals unless your group is melting through mobs and you are waiting for additional portals to appear.
Finally, during the third phase, you will need to kill the Balor boss. You have a limited time to take him down, and a Gold rating will be awarded if you manage to kill him within a minute.
This is by far the hardest skirmish to Gold in the Underdark expansion. I suggest getting a group of at least 2800 to 3000 item score DPS-oriented classes. Unfortunately, Tanks and Healers are not really useful in this skirmish, but they may contribute by opening portals, killing mobs, and buffing allies.
FYI, most people that have this achievement got it during the first few months after this expansion was released. The achievement was then made harder by a patch that decreased the time available to get gold ratings. Then a second patch came out, which "may" have changed things a bit (this is my understanding anyway, but it's hard to tell the difference). I got this achievement after this second patch. Therefore, it is now possible to get this achievement, but it requires more effort and planning. Good luck!!
Protect the Prophecy is a variation of the 'Prophecy of Madness'; which has three phases:
Phase 1: You must kill the enemies that appear out of the rift tears around the arena and protect the totems. You can split your group to each cover a side. The faster you kill the adds the quicker you'll earn gold.
Phase 2: You are now required to kill the enemies that spawn from the rift tears and they'll drop 'Faerzress Essence' that you must use to repair the 4 totems around the arena. It is not required to max all 4 totems, but don't let any of them be destroyed! The faster you repair the totems the faster you earn points to gold! You also don't have to repair a totem each time you get an Essence drop; you can hoard a bunch and then repair one totem numerous times to maximize score.
Phase 3: Defeat Balor; he's a large demon boss. Just zerg it!