Canyon path, occupied by bandits in "A Fistful of Silver" expedition.

View on the streets of the ruined city in "Eternal Battle" expedition.

Boss Arena of the "Three Sister'" expedition.

In this expedition players start at the site of an ambush on a royal transport.

Players follow a road along a canyon and have to be aware of alarm mobs, disguised as barrels, who will attrackt other enemies.

I kept the landscape large and minimalistic to contrast the chaotic nature of the bandits.

The level features a day and night light cycle, which gives you a entirely different experience depending on the ingame time.

The knockbacks of the brawler mini-boss forces player to play carefully or to clear the area first.

The destruction of the city and abuse of royal insignia by the heretic bandits increase towards the end of the level.

The backdrop of the level shows an extension of the city.

The market place is the most challenging area. There are several patrolling guards and alarm-mobs who will attrackt a deadly amount of mobs, if they are triggered and not killed fast enough.

The boss of the level is waiting in front of the royal bank. Because of his uses lethal area control spells I kept the ground quite clear.

Moodboard of steppe landscapes and "wild west" towns, which inspiried the theme of the expedition.

Combat encounter with a choice between more silver reward, and a riskier but faster fight against an alarm mob.

The level layout is devided between a large landscape in the steppe and a robbed town.

The crumbling bridge on the battle field in front of an ancient city is still guarded by undead soldiers.

The gates of the city were broken centuries ago, but are still defended.

An undead archer and mage are waiting on high ground to attack any enemies from above.

Players follow several rings of narrow streets on their way up to the governor of the city.

The higher players ascend the rings of the city, the larger the views on the lower parts of the ruined city.

The deadliest part of the expedition is the plaza in front of the governors palas.
Players approach them from below and are faced with patroling knights and an undead controll mob, who pulls players to its place.

The entrance of the palas is guarded with two knights, which can be a hard fight in this tight space.

Inside the building players have to face a last chokepoint with a knight and a pulling mob.
Ranged characters can hide barricads to prevent themselves of beeing pulled on the bridge.

The governor awaits on the edge of the ruins of his palas.

Sketch and base layout of the city, with highlight areas for certain mob types.

My moodboard betrays a clear source of inspiration for the sieged city.

Barricaded enemies and mobs on high grounds are dominating the fights of this expedition.

Players start at the edge of a mountain with the hints of a small village in the backdrop.

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After ascending on the walls, an inner building is reveald in the background.

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Three female statues behind the miniboss who guards the monastery, are foreshadowing the boss figzht against the three sisters.

After a first part of the expedition out in the snow, players transition into the actual monastery.

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The bossfight in this expedition features three mages and a converted royal guard. It requiers a good focus on one mob after another, to survive the fight.

For the winter event version of this expedition I created more challenging version of enemies, with a lot of lethal skill shots and area controll spells, for much fun and desaster.

Fire explosion throwing statues are adding an additional layer of challenge.

For the 2nd part of the expedition I used spell zones on the ground. Ice patches are slowing players, fire zones are adding damage over time. You have to cleanse the slowing freeze by walking into fire and burning damage by walking onto ice.

Layout sketch and reference screenshots for the Fishy Business expedition.

Short after the start of the expedition, players get a first glimpse on the shanty town they will enter later.

First players have to fight their way through a maze of plundered good.

Mortar mobs on platforms are controlling some fighting areas. You can chose between killing them first, or just avoiding the area effects.

View on the mini boss area from the platform of a Mortar.

Killing the Mortar in front of the mini boss gives you two advantages: You remove an additional threat in this fight, but you also have a view on the arena of the mini boss form the platform of the Mortar.

Transition into the murky harbor and center of fishy business.

After the harbor players enters the streets of a shanty village.

The boss of the fishy business awaits you with his assistant in a larg fish monger hall.

Old mine rail tracks are leading the player deeper into the Mine.

The fights in this first solo expedition are kept simple and easy to read.

Players find a hidden settlement built into the ancient mines.

The main path for the player is very clear, but the backdrop tells the story of a more extended settlement.

A long bridge serves as transition between the settlement and the deeper mines, with a glimpse on more ancient structures in the backdrop.

Again players are led by rails.

The view on the the boss area, gives you a changse to plan your fight.

The descent to the boss is building up suspension.

You fight the overseer of the excavation in front of a huge ancient statue, which they are going to dig out.

Top view and screenshot of one of the most challenging parts in front of the boss room in a Morgane dungeon. It is easy to pull to many mobs at once and making you a nice prey for other groups of players, who want to kill the boss.

Example of mob staging in a highlevel Undead dungeon. Long chokepoints with few mobs are connecting rooms with challenging fights and allowing interesting PvE and PvP tactics.

If you clear the small camp in this mob hotspot you get a glimpse on one of the boss spawnpoints and an advantage in PvP.

Forest backdrop which I built for a mob camp.

Keeper camp in the forst which I decorated.

I built the entrances of magical transport portals following the concept of our environment artists.

Environment decoration of a miniboss area in one of the raid zones.

View from high round in the Morgana Hombase (raid zone), on to group content around it.

I also built and staged some levels out in the nature. Here an example of a lake in Swamp.

A special entrance, which I built for the dungeon of the "Keepers", a mob faction with embraces nature.

Keeper dungeon entrance in the Steppe.

Keeper dungeon entrance in the Mountains.