The Watch Guide

Guide to The Watch in nightingale: find Allan Quatermain, buy recipes from Essence Traders for 100-1300 T3 Essence, and reach gear score 260-270.

Congratulations on reaching The Watch! The first thing you’ll notice is the changed perspective into the third person and a lot of people running around. If you didn’t know, The Watch is an online shared player space where you can team up with like-minded people to tackle the most difficult tasks that nightingale has to offer. So, what should you do first? Well, continue with your quests for now. Eventually, you’ll need to speak to the elusive Allan Quatermain, the one person you’ve been searching for since the beginning of the game, who you can find by heading up the stairs in the center of the main room. Work your way through the few quests until you complete the questline fully, as you’ll get a choice of some epic gear that will help in the battles to come.

When you’re done with that, you’ll be onto the endgame. Due to it still being in Early Access, this part of the game is still under heavy development, but there’s still a fair bit to do. All of the Essence Traders located in The Watch have recipes for all of the best crafting stations, so you’ll want to start doing that first. Each recipe will cost you 100 T3 Essence, which can only be obtained from the vaults or the Ascended Realms with the former being the best way to get it so far. Once you have the stations, you’ll need the recipes to make use of them, and once again, you’ll obtain them from the numerous traders in The Watch (with some being in the Ascended Realms).

These recipes are expensive with them sitting at around 1,100 - 1,300 T3 Essence per recipe, so you will have to grind the ascended realms or vaults to acquire the essence. Then all that’s left is for you to grind your Gear Score to the highest level while you wait for new content to release. Currently, that is 260-270, but there is an exploit/bug at the moment that shows players at 350-400. This is done by equipping a couple of specific tools in each hand, but they’re not any stronger than if they had 270 gear on as it’s just a visual bug.

The Watch Facilities:

When you enter The Watch for the first time, walk forward into the main building, and on the same floor, there will be numerous Essence Traders around the floor. The NPC (non-player character — anyone the game controls, not you)’s names will change every time you enter The Watch, but their wares will not. Here is a list of traders and their wares, done clockwise starting at the main door:

• Miscellaneous Essence Trader: Sells Firearms, Realm Cards, Resources, and crafting recipes.
• Firearms recipes cost 1,300 T3 Essence each (Lee Metford Rifle, Éclair ‘Paradox’ Shotgun, Porter Pistol, Webley Revolve, Winchester Rifle).
• Realm Card recipes cost 75 T3 Essence each (Antiquarian Ascended Card, Vault Card).
• Consumables Essence Trader: Sells Potions, Cooking, Augmentations, and crafting recipes.
• Potion recipes cost 75 T3 Essence each.
• Cooking recipes cost 75 T3 Essence each (Ritual Meat).
• Augmentations recipes have no listed T3 Essence cost (Boat Wheel, Mounted Creature Skull, Bellows).
• Crafting: Basics recipes cost 100 T3 Essence each (Excellent Alchemical Boiler, Calcularian Stove).
• Clothing Essence Trader: Sells clothing recipes, augmentations, and Crafting Station Recipes.
• Shirts and Tops recipes cost 1,100 T3 Essence each (Druidic Bundle, Hermetic’s Casual Shirt).
• Hats recipes cost 1,100 T3 Essence each (Druidic Bonnet, Passaieux Bundle).
• Gloves recipes cost 1,100 T3 Essence each (Druidic Gloves, Hermetic’s Gloves).
• Gear recipes cost 1,100 T3 Essence each (Druidic Bundle, Hermetic’s Capelet).
• Boots and Shoes recipes cost 1,100 T3 Essence each (Hermetic’s Bundle).
• Augmentations recipes have no listed T3 Essence cost (Crude Coat Rack).
• Crafting: Refinement recipes cost 100 T3 Essence (Weaving Loom).
• Crafting: Basics recipes cost 100 T3 Essence (Excellent Sewing Bench).
• Mystic Tools Essence Trader: Sells mystic tool recipes and Crafting Station Recipes.
• Tool recipes cost 1,300 T3 Essence each (Mystic Core Tools, Mystic Axepick, Mystic Climbing Picks, Mystic Fishing Rod, Mystic Hammer, Mystic Lantern, Mystic Maul, Mystic Spyglass, Mystic Umbrella Glider, Mystic Watering Can).
• Crafting: Basics recipes cost 100 T3 Essence (Excellent Workbench).
• Dauntless Tools Essence Trader: (Wares not fully detailed in source).

• Access to endgame content and vendors.
• Epic gear from completing initial quests.
• Crafting recipes for advanced stations and items.