Isn't spellpower on that still fucked ?
I 'd rather blow hundreds more plat on pots during TR than store MORE stuff.
Really, 2 LGS items, invis clickies and craft the rest/destroy when useless.
WTF bta is good ?

Because, Holy Shit inventory/bank management sucks so much.

Wipe wrote on Jul 23^rd, 2013 at 11:07am:


SP on Sora Kell was bugged for a bit.  Has been fixed for a while now.

+2 To Hit/+2 Damage 40 Spell Power, for set
BTA ML11 +5 Str, Cha, Wis.  +11 Diplo, Intim, 5 shot Secret Door clicky
BTC ML13 +6 Str, Cha, Wis. +13 Diplo, Intim and True Seeing

I bounce a ML 11 set around whatever toon is TRing.

At the end of Mokune's 13th life I *only* had 100 or so BTC items.  5 Bag Pages + 3 Bank Pages left plenty of room for storage of Augments and other stuff that I could stack (and redeposit back into TR cache) since I'm gonna be on life 14 for a while.

Honestly I could easily dump/destroy/sell off 90% of what I am storing and be completely non-plussed.   Since MoTu EDs, EGH etc etc I only focus on a couple characters at a time so have PLENTY of Storage.

Sora Kell set + Conc Op Hp Goggles + Triple Air SP & Cha Skills Neck, really helped me slot and plan for multiple lives ymmv.   

Gave up on a Torc for Mokune...I "easily" (maybe should say painlessly) got it on my 3 casters that don't get much play but despite 3 20th lists and a run or 2 each life I have not ever seen it.   

I just now got an Amulet of Stormreaver or w/e it's called and slotted +150 SP and use my GS neck for buff, SP and swap in for UMD when needed.

Going from a +8 at level 25 to a +11 at level 28 is a bit redonc.  It was always lame that you got +6 somewhere around 11-13 and then nothing until +7 at level 20.  They should go back and fix the curve.  Something like this:

+1 at 1
+2 at 5
+3 at 7
+4 at 9
+5 at 11
+6 at 13
+7 at 17
+8 at 21
+9 at 23
+10 at 25
+11 at 27

Rework the gear so that epic stuff is all +7 or +8  (no epic stuff with +6, that's bullshit).  ToD rings get bumped.  Dunrobars and MoTU stuff gets bumped, eGH stuff gets bumped.  Then it all fits. 

Right now, anyone with a +8 item EE(like the Tablecloth, or SR prophecy ring, or Dragon helms with a +8, etc) is getting fucked in the ass.  It'd be one thing if they went to +9.  No big deal.  But to go up by 3?  Fuck you.  Nobody is taking a -3 in their primary stats.  70% of the eGH stuff becomes leveling gear.  All the MoTU stuff except the CiTW weapons is crap.  +7?  that's a full -2 off max. 

Most all the FoT loot is invalid.  It's funny, but the CiTW loot actually holds up better.

Besides XP and comms (Assuming they keep using them for something) why would anybody even step foot in eGH? 

Way to blow away 10 quests and a raid 4 months after you release it, Turbine.  WTF?

I am thinking my decision not to grind Underdark through eGH, opting to TR instead for many lives, was wise...

Asheras wrote on Jul 23^rd, 2013 at 4:35pm:


Raising the level cap DOES NOT expand end-game.  It makes it smaller.

If you upgraded Twilight for DC casting you're an idiot... oh wait, it's Asheras.

Appeal of Twilight since at least U17 has been 120/120/114 spellpower, +24 implement, and Arcane Augmentation. Considering how generally poor DC casting is and has been, the spell focuses were a throw-in.

Dark_Helmet wrote on Jul 24^th, 2013 at 12:26am:


That's about the Shard Exchange and nothing more.

cdr wrote on Jul 23^rd, 2013 at 10:33pm:


This.

My Sorc will be happy to keep Twilight as it is and slot Evocation +5 and Cha +11 in Necklace(EE Iron Beads is fucking useless now) and some other slot like Boots.

I am just at a loss really....

I was having a smoke and considering this thread.

A part of the game I enjoy immensely is gearing characters.

NOT mind-numbing farming or trading my grocery money for EE items.

Rather, knowing that I have some nice gear on TR and looking forward to using it takes a lot of the edge off the absurd XP req for legend lives.

The give/take of choosing what to use and after almost 4 years of play I still enjoy finding ways to gear that I hadn't considered before.

Endgame gear grinding is a trap when we all know full good and goddamned well the gear will be invalidated.

Given this, why the oly fraqqing fuck dont we have full end reward lists on 20th completions and 50% named item lists on 10 completion?   Faqqing idiocy. 

There are a couple spots in leveling where you have so many good choices for whatever gear you want to use and figuring that out is fun for me.

What I can't for the life of me figure out is why does the DDO Turbine crew insist on fiddling and fucking with character builds and game mechanics more than I like fiddling with gear (and the toon roulette wheel of mules)

How many other MMOs out there fuck with character abilities and game mechanics this much?  My experience is limited to Asherons Call 1 and WoW but I never experienced this level of "Let's Fuck with the players' builds, ignore bugs, give em smoke and mirrors, lure them in with wine (spiced up with rufis), fuck em in the ass, empty your wallet and tell you to suck it up and have a nice day"

If you must fiddle with something I recommend the JC Penney Lingerie catalog....It's hard to fuck that up...

Mokune wrote on Jul 24^th, 2013 at 6:42am:


I think you've hit the nail on the head as far as the reason for me constantly TRing goes. End game is just such a moving target (and a small one) that there really hasn't been much point since MoTU landed.

A dev (one we (mostly) like) has mentioned that systems changes should be calming down soon, with the focus switching back to content. I can only hope that this is true.

Wipe wrote on Jul 24^th, 2013 at 7:21am:


I agree with most of what you wrote, but don't quote me as calling cap gameplay "mind dumbing farming" when I didn't. I simply don't feel the urge to build for end game at this point as it is not only really small compared to what it was, but also has very little to it that I want to spend the time to get if I know it's going to be obsolete in 6 months anyway. My call; maybe not everybody's call.

TRing is as autopilot as you make it. If you constantly cycle the sorc/whatever TR builds which need a +5 heart to get the past life, sure. But coming up with a new fun build to cap each time is a different story. Even though most of the quests tend to be the same ones again, you can approach them in new ways.

Dhalgren wrote on Jul 24^th, 2013 at 6:48am:


I sure hope so mate. 

Not sure if Erudition will be worth it after U19 if you're willing to drink alchemical pots... I slot it for the mana and the alchemical spellpower, but there's bigger mana boosts available with U19 and the +8/+3 stat becomes almost irrelevant.