I'd level your crafting to 150 in the other schools, if you can.  The XP decay on repetitive crafting of shards makes it more efficient to craft the older 130-150 shards now and then craft the new shards when they come out.

All your favorite ML 9 +6 stat items, on your favorite slots of course.

Your favorite low level monster killers, just in case the new ones suck.

That's about it.

QuantumFX wrote on Aug 12^th, 2016 at 12:53pm:


Holly mother of god.

This is just level 30 gear:


And the forum tears over the Cannith’s power level are beautiful.

Slarden is a happy camper.

QuantumFX wrote on Aug 12^th, 2016 at 1:12pm:

From the looks of it, I will be levelling up crafting once again. And so will everybody else.
But, where's the logic here. They revamped random loot that outshined everything before it, almost every named item.
People run TS, Shroud, or buy loot boosts why ?
Random junk put some life into auction houses.

Now they are making sure they invalidate previous work once again. What the actual fuck ?

If this is not really short term vision and complete blindness to the game as a whole then I don't know what it is.

That ring or gloves would get snagged in a heartbeat for hundreds of shards if it would get pulled. Insane.

I still think that the best loot should be obtained by beating the toughest content, not getting carpal syndrome in the safety of lagging crafting hall.

Thanks so far btw.

Wipe wrote on Aug 12^th, 2016 at 1:55pm:

Crafted loot is op. Everyone has a new grind. They will sell crafting potions by limiting the amount of essences accepted at a time. You're all welcome.

QuantumFX wrote on Aug 12^th, 2016 at 12:53pm:


Not that I'm complaining, but 'attributes' are only listed in the third list.  So +Stat of +Insightful Stat should not have been possible according to their released data.

I'm happy to see that they got something wrong in a good way for a change.  Or will they bug fix this the same way that the move speed ship buff is going to be fixed?

QuantumFX wrote on Aug 12^th, 2016 at 2:21pm:


Every item, or just good items?

Under the old system only a handful of really good shards called for purified dragonshards, the general crap level-grinding shards did not. Please tell me this is the same.

Frank wrote on Aug 12^th, 2016 at 2:19pm:


False.  That's not even close to accurate. 

The 3 lists you are referring to only speak to what level of crafting you need to make those effects.  What effects can go in each slot comes from the RLG rules already published:

http://ddowiki.com/page/Update_29_randomly_generated_loot

See the table that shows base stats are in either the prefix or suffix slot and insightful stats are often in the extra slot.  (which is the mark of cannith slot).

So you can make a +15 Con, +15 Str, +7 insight Str(or con) belt in the new system, for example. 

QuantumFX wrote on Aug 12^th, 2016 at 2:34pm:


So theres "everything thats worth crafting" and theres "the stuff that is not worth using but you craft anyway specifically for the XP."

When I was leveling in the old system, I probably made about 100 useless shards for every actually decent shard, because things that were worth crafting required rare and unusual mats such as chain end-rewards, eberon dragonshard fragments, etc, etc.

So, the question is: does EVERY SINGLE SHARD EVER require and dragonshard fragment, or just the actually useful ones, leaving dozens of cheap recipes that we can use for leveling up?

Asheras wrote on Aug 12^th, 2016 at 2:50pm:

It is entirely accurate.

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Bolds for emphasis.  Attributes are only shown as a Group 3 affect.  That doesn't just imply that you can't put an attribute in any other slot, it outright states it.