Digimonk wrote on Aug 18^th, 2016 at 2:36pm:


Quiver of Alacrity is no ML and has 10% ranged alacrity and 30% move speed. On the quiver slot, its kinda tough to beat.

I certainly HOPE everyone here has one of those by now...

Revaulting wrote on Aug 18^th, 2016 at 5:48pm:


No room for something that niche on a BtC trinket. That'll get thrown out after the third TR.

Thanks. Appreciate the fix.

noamineo wrote on Aug 18^th, 2016 at 4:15pm:

Yes, this is the alternative for ranged alacrity at low level assuming someone does have a bunch of those from the 10th anniv thing.  However, at some point Turbine may fix that.  If/when they do, it will be too late to do the masterful+alacrity items.

Digimonk wrote on Aug 18^th, 2016 at 10:34pm:

Yes.  On the other hand, the festival trinkets (I forget where they come from, Risia turn ins?  I just have about 5 in the bank) don't get MC and so will lose nothing, and will be able to be made BtA and 3 property trinkets.

Revaulting wrote on Aug 19^th, 2016 at 6:14am:


That's a nice out of context quote that changes the meaning entirely.  Well done!  Not many people get paid anything at all to play a video game, but Turbine does 'pay' people 25 TP/100 Favor, and an iconic can smash low level content like House J Coin Lords and earn the TP and the extra bank/inv space at the same time.

Excluding only L Tempest, that's 890 Favor and with 10 Favor anywhere  else a fairly handy 225TP.  Crush it w/o bothering with breakables and optionals, just looking for max favor/hour and it's probably 2-3 hours work, tops.

Toke wrote on Aug 19^th, 2016 at 11:00am:

It seems to be anything craftable. So I'm gonna guess yes.

Revaulting wrote on Aug 19^th, 2016 at 6:14am:

If it removes the masterful craftsmanship then it won't be an ML 1 alacrity item anymore.  It will be ML3.  Granted, the difference between lvl 1 and 3 is pretty small.

I get paid zero for all the hours I already play the game.  What's your point?

Revaulting wrote on Aug 20^th, 2016 at 10:49am:

I am salaried and do not get additional compensation for working hours beyond what is required to perform my job functions.  Thus, playing DDO when I'm not working does result in negative pay as you put it.

If you want to look at it your way though, unless you earn a substantial income from your hobbies, everything other than "work" has an opportunity cost.  That's kind of the point of hobbies and recreation versus work so it doesn't matter if you spend that time farming TP for a BTA trinket, reading a book, etc.

I will play DDO x hours in any given week regardless of the need for a BTA store trinket.  In the normal course of playing DDO I easily earn enough TP from favor, monster manuals, etc. to get BTA trinkets from the store without putting any special effort into it so why not?

How many other named trinkets you have is irrelevant to this discussion since none of them are ML1 and have ranged/melee alacrity.  There are very few useful trinkets for melee and ranged builds in the lower heroics.  Good named trinkets start showing up around level 13 and the RNG speed items don't grant 10% until higher levels.  Thus, an ML1 BTA trinket with 10% alacrity on it is useful.

Revaulting wrote on Aug 21^st, 2016 at 1:01am:

Hah.  I did end up working for the equivalent of that guy at my previous job.  12+ hours days with 18+ hour days while on-call wasn't enough.  Wised up, went and got a job at a company where one of their core values is quality of life and they don't want you working 80 hour weeks.   Oddly enough, I got 20% more pay, too.  Go figure.

You are correct that everything has an opportunity cost, even working.  In context of our discussion though, we were comparing playing DDO and acquiring TP versus work so I kept the opportunity cost likewise restricted to that context.

I flower-sniff, too.  My motto in missions is "Kill them all, break them all."  =P  Drives the more zergy people in my guild crazy.  Even flower-sniffing though, 150 TP is earned in the first few levels of every TR without any active farming of TP on my part.  Having an ML1 BTA melee alacrity trinket is basically a convenient perk from something I put minimal effort into acquiring.

slowertraffic wrote on Aug 23^rd, 2016 at 5:44am:


aye, also note that non-flexible lores go to weapon/shield/trinket only, while flexible (lvl 145~) can go to ring, amulet, armor/clothing/docent.

weapons/shields and armors are ml 6 with masterful

rings, amulets, trinktes are ml 7 the same way

I'd say since there are not much good heroic/armor/ docents, now is the time to farm sharn chain p2. for armor/docent and make some nice ml 6 lores.

Note: you can effectively have 3x ml 6 lore 15% items, when dualwielding and armoring. BUT farming weapons bta is messy. Prolly STK is the fast with 10~ mins. :/

EDIT: Oh well, there are cannith challange gears giving 12% lore at lvl 3 (or lvl 1, hehe). So if you miss out this loresticking, you will still have some options, tho not as good as the old crafting.

my understanding is that new challenge gear will no longer be craftable.  I imagine old gear will be considered named and will not be craftable either.

So I'm pretty sure you won't be enjoying that anymore.

anyone knnow how/if the consumable crafting will work?

Will there be runestones?

Will there be ammo?  Both arrows and bolts?  Will the Holy ammo be 2d6?

slowertraffic wrote on Aug 28^th, 2016 at 12:39am:


And will it break DR?