Areas by Challenge Rating

Challenge Rating (CR) is used on NS4 to determine experience points awarded for killing a particular creature, and is an indicator of creature difficulty. Killing creatures of higher CR will award more XP. Killing creatures of lower CR than your character level will award proportionately lower XP, down to no XP award for much lower level creatures.

The CR level range of area also roughly indicates the intended level for parties adventuring in the area. Note that bosses have CR ratings higher than the overall average, in most cases 2-4 levels. Bosses in high level areas routinely have CR >40, but are still killable by appropriate parties and/or PC's.

The areas adjacent to Faction cities are generally suitable for adventuring from Level 1 to Level 7 or slightly higher. Jobs are designed to help with initial leveling.

Higher level areas are tabulated below. Locations of non-planar areas can be discerned on the Maps page.

Area	Avg CR	Min	Max
Icy Flats	7	6	9
Bandit Headquarters	8	4	11
Ogre Pass	9.5	9	10
Haddon Mirk	10	7	12
Minotaur's Lair	12	11	14
Snake Pit	12	10	15
Catacombs	13	6	16
Mountain Trail	13
Haddon Mirk: Crypt	13	11	16
Haddon Mirk Ogres	14
Giant Mountain	15
South Road Tower: Depths	15	14	16
Frozen Waste	16	15	17
Troll Cave	16
Gnolls	16	14	19
Ash Mountain: Mezzoleths	17	11	19
Undersea City	20	18	21
Ice Trolls	20	19	21
Ice Efreets	23	23	24
Isle of Dreams	24	21	25
Ice Giants	25	23	25
Underdark: Caverns	25	24	26
Amazons: Upper	27
Skara (Day)	27
Dwarf Home	30	28	32
Skara (Night)	30
Plane of Fire	30	28	31
Plane of Earth	31	30	32
Plane of Air	32	31	33
Plane of Earth: Molemen	32	32	32
Forest Home	32	31	33
Halls of Death: Outer:	33	32	35
Plane of Water	33	33	35
Halls of Knowledge	34	33	34
Plane of Shadow	34	31	39
Dwarf Home:Stairs	35	34	35
Elyssium	36	33	37
Halls of Death: Inner	36	34	38
Dragon Eyrie: Outer	36	34	39
Positive Plane	37	36	38
Demonweb Pits: Outer	38	36	40
Dragon Eyrie	38	33	41
Negative Plane	38	36	41
Illithid Colony	39	39	40
Celestia
Abyss
Tu'narath	45	43	46