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.

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
Haddon Mirk	10	7	12
Catacombs	13	6	16
Haddon Mirk: Crypt	14	11	17
Undersea City	20	18	21
Ice Trolls	20	19	24
Ice Efreets	21	15	24
Isle of Dreams	24	21	25
Ice Giants	25	23	25
Dwarf Home	30	28	32
Plane of Fire	30	28	31
Plane of Earth	31	30	32
Plane of Air	32	31	33
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
Demonweb Pits: Outer	38	36	40
Dragon Eyrie	38	33	41