Meursault wrote on Aug 15^th, 2016 at 11:14am:


Did you expect anything else ?

FF and UWA got almost forgotten in the new random loot, and while they did add FF and you can find it, UWA is rare... very rare.

I'm not certain, but I think they don't like these abilities and just want to get rid of them ( phat chance with the number of people that have these items stored in banks. )

IIRC there was something about ghostbane being automatically applied to all weapons up to a point... now I can't be certain.

Anyway, Ghostbane was a stupid move by Plume De Soleil, the old Ghost Touch, Undead Bane and Disruption are clearer and overal better.

Asheras wrote on Aug 15^th, 2016 at 11:28am:



Then it's better than Heavy Fort that used to be ML 9.

Just an FYI for anyone planning to run the tutorials on alts, the 25% success boosters are BtC, only the xp boost is BtA.

Asheras wrote on Aug 15^th, 2016 at 11:20am:

You're mistaking the entire point. Everybody knows how to work around the Turbine dick in their mouth. What you're hearing is that not everybody wants it there.

I think you guys may have more essences than you realize.  I sent all my essences to my main crafter before copying him to Lammaland and wound up with a little over 190K.  Your greater essences convert at a 1:1 ratio, and the lessers convert at a 5:1 ratio.  (This is years worth of essences, with little essence crunching.)

Slarden used +35% boosters exclusively.  I'm sure that you can make do with a mixture of Store bought/Favor Vendor bought boosters.

EDIT: I'm now reading he did the high risk recipes.  My experience was with recipes that started at 40%+ before the booster.

With 2 of the +75% elixirs, I had gone from level 260 to level 336 and had around 30K essences left.  And I wasted essences until I started getting into the groove of leveling.  The trick appears to be paying attention to how much XP you get per essence.  (You can see the XP potion modified value in the crafting machine interface!)  If your XP per essence is less than 1.25:1, stop using that recipe.  This means using bound shards until you hit that threshold, and then switching to the unbound version.

As mentioned before, don't obsess about hitting crafting level 400.  Just go until you can craft a Minimum Level 30(+4) bound shard and you will be set for making all the bound shards you'll need.

QuantumFX wrote on Aug 15^th, 2016 at 8:59pm:

People keep saying this like it is amazing or something.  It is not amazing, or new, or even interesting.  It is exactly how the current CC system works.  Swallow an XP pot and the interface shows you the adjusted XP totals.

Meursault wrote on Aug 16^th, 2016 at 6:43am:


Heh, ok.  That reminds me of the Neil DeGrasse Tyson speech about how we're 1% different from a chimp and yet we proudly display our children's crap on our refrigerators, and how a hypothetical alien race that is just another 1% smarter than  us could treat our best and brightest as just the most precocious of an otherwise idiot species that we would not bother to try to communicate with.

Awww, that guy Stephen Hawking can do differential calculus in his head, how precious!  So can little Johnie, we've got his latest child-like work tacked to our refrigerator door...

This is what I'm working on now.
We are getting closer.

Frank wrote on Aug 16^th, 2016 at 8:30am:

LOL, I missed that one, that's great.

Asheras wrote on Aug 16^th, 2016 at 9:03am:

All of that too, Turdbin dick is like chicken - so versitile it's in your mouth in every week 

People may be bitching about a relatively minor thing, but the point is that there are so many things to bitch about right out of the gate.

And I agree that it's sad how low it had fallen, they put a lot of work into making it and people put a lot of work into leveling in it. It's even more sad, though, that they couldn't be big enough to pass on the opportunity to give the customers a big steaming FU with their new system. It would have added so little to their work to add recipes for stuff like FF, UWA, and deconstruction of all of your old shards. They could have made it like the Shard of Potential that took any essence, take any old shard and return new ingredients based on its level.

I'll still use the new system, but I'll be pissed at Turdbin for pushing it out incomplete and poorly balanced, and that will engender resentment not gratitude. That represents a serious missed opportunity for Turbine, if they put in his much work, they should have put in just a little more and they'd have gotten so much higher return on their effort.

Grand wrote on Aug 15^th, 2016 at 10:02pm:


He never said he did not dupe them, he simply stated it took 3 years to get to where he was. This would not be considered a lie among jedi or aes'sedai.

OldCoaly wrote on Aug 16^th, 2016 at 3:23pm:


That's a weak argument.

If you want to help them, then give them a +3 Con, +3 (meaningful stat), +x(meaningful effect) ML 4 item.  Don't give them UA and FF.  That's like saying "welcome to the neighborhood.  Here's a fruit loaf and some KY jelly".  Maybe some of your home brewed beer (that tastes like piss.  Because all home brews do.  You know it's true.)  Most likely, you are moving out of that neighborhood.

I'd argue there are a lot better things to whip up for a new player than UA and FF.  There is nothing about them that is mandatory and "without them we can't do nice things for new players and improve retention.". 

New players on first lives don't need UA.  (and all characters start with a clickie for it.  Which is all you ever need)  And, although FF is nice and all, it's not that big a deal at low levels and you get a clicky version in the end reward for Redemption in Korthos (which covers most quests) and you typically get a permanent option in the end reward list from Water Works. 

BTW, FF is probably coming in Cannith Crafting.  NoWorries said on the DDOCast that the unscaled effects haven't been added to lama.  Just the scaling effects.  All this forum drama and bedwetting is mostly just knee jerk over reacting by people who don't know what the fuck they are talking about.  In other words,  Situation Normal.  Carry on, Citizen.   


P.S.  All this assumes that people who can craft unbound shards are actually hanging out in the harbor handing out twink loot to newbies to encourage them to stay with the game.  Which is total bullshit.  If we had that level of vet focus on new player retention, the game would have a lot more new players becoming long time players.  All evidence points to vet players either ignoring new players at best and actively griefing them at worst.

OldCoaly wrote on Aug 16^th, 2016 at 4:50pm:


im not trying to disagree with you cause im that guy who is like "muh options" so i never want anything removed

but the new loot system shits feather falling items and ua is useless unless you are too retarded to buy hp potions so really theyre trimming irrelevant shit. the real truth is that your 'new players' wont have the frame of reference you do, and will never know that they are restricted an option that is literally irrelevant unless you are aware of it.

i say this as someone who agrees WITH you