Well with the Random shit FoS put in the named loot random lootgen was better than Named Loot anyway.

Systems!

Carpone wrote on Aug 22^nd, 2013 at 4:42pm:


Ego Trip.

When on an Ego Trip you can't leave any remains of the previous guy that worked on that particular subject. As such he just had to make sure everything made by previous item creators got trashed.

Only person with even remotely similar bad reputation was heheh...*drumrolls*... Fernando.
That was well deserved also, but he wasn't a dev.

This is the Vault, expect weird things like that.

We all love , especially for all the good he did to DDO...

He managed to get more things broken than FoS.

Found Deadly 9, Resistance 9 Goggles with a colorless slot.

Sure its level 28, but that is a keeper.

Honestly what this is going to mean is that there's going to be no 'finished gearset' anymore. There won't be a perfect set because there are too many permutations to items. What there will be is good enough for whatever content you run.

Limiting effects by equipment type was no doubt too much effort for FOS.

cdr wrote on Aug 23^rd, 2013 at 11:54am:


You know it's more fun if effects and their locations aren't predictable!  I can't wait to loot a Con  +4 Maul of Swim +7.

Clearly the old loot schedule was negatively impacting player retention. 

I can't begin to count the number of times I saw new and old players stop playing because Banishing could only be found on Pierce or Bludgeon.

Pulled a +10 Deadly +10 Accurate helm ML28 w/ Wondrous Crafting.  If only it were goggles.  Apparently you can get a colorless and yellow slot on the same item now: Only 1 bajillion shards on the ASAH.

Bitch all you want about random lootgen, but Turbine finally unfucked the shitty combos (+4 CON of +7 Swim) we saw for years.

One of the named items, the Skirmisher's Amulet I think, that I got from one of the Wheloon prison quests had Deadly IX and Dodge 9%.

My rogue is still completely lethal (67 Assassinate DC boiiii) even though I'm using gear like the epic Abishai set so I don't feel like farming for better items, but I'm pretty sure I'll eventually find stuff that will be better than what I have in every single aspect.

Spybot wrote on Aug 22^nd, 2013 at 5:40pm:


I disagree with what he's done, but I don't understand the raging hateboner people seem to have for him. When people are comparing him to Hitler and wishing he'd die of AIDS I think they should take a step back and think to themselves "wow, I am being a complete nutter right now."

I'm a lot more pissed at whoever though it would be a good idea to raise the level cap to 28 without adding any new raids. Even if CitW and FoT had top-tier loot, it would be sad to be condemned to run two raids (one of them an insufferable drag) until they release another raid. Before MotU we had, what, seven relevant raids? Now all of them are pretty much dead, and CitW and FoT are following suit.

If they simply released an epic version of the old raids, even just the devil raids, and added epic versions of their raid loot that can compete with what was once vendor trash, they could easily make a game with some semblance of an endgame. We already know they have an epic version of Shroud laying around.

Of course, this won't happen. I recall a quote from FoS, in response to asking if DQ epic items (which are still pretty hard to obtain) would be buffed, saying to the effect "why would you want your old epic items if new ones are coming out?"

Sgtgig wrote on Aug 23^rd, 2013 at 8:39pm:


Search for Solar Dawnings posts here it might enlighten you up a bit.