lol, the previous years ingredients worked just fine last year anyway.  Just pulled them from the bag, then drug them over the new stack of un-decaying, and "poof", the became the same product.

They can call themselves SSG, but inside, beats the heart of Turdbine.

I missed last year. Is there anything worth running for? To me, only the augments looked interesting.

TeamScorpioRI wrote on Oct 7^th, 2020 at 11:12am:



As the dude said, augments.
Some niche anto-reaper themed weapons.  The xbow was good pre nerf to inquis, now its just ok for mechanics.


Some cosmetics if you are into that shit.

Indeed, too grindy for their worth. The vamp slayer only leverage over regular silver ruby is 1d4 damage that even in vulnerable monsters is negligible in regular questing, not even mentioning reaper.

Ghostbane if you dont have other source of ghost touch is ok i guess, but even on a dedicated all around undead beater, how many do a normal player need? 1 per toon at most?

And endless night is trash since they fixed level draining cheese.   Maybe on a swf vampire/EK using nightmare but thats over the top niche.

Only way they get players to farm augments is if they added some of those new ones in the trader list. Otherwise is a newbie thing to do.

I use an endless night aug. All other things being equal (such as bypassing DR), it's probably the best trash dps aug.

noamineo wrote on Oct 7^th, 2020 at 3:09pm:


Few years back turbine implemented a fix for neg levels on monsters, making them recover  quick, thats the system we have now.

When endless night augment was first introduced that mechanic wasnt there and the average player could neg level a monster to death, if he had enough atack speed.








Btw, there was a way for a slow atack speed player to bug the neg levels and make them last longer on the monster so they could benefit from that (THIS is the cheese i refer to), but thats another story.

https://ddowiki.com/page/Epic_Ward

Uhhh, the point of neg level on weapons is to instantly reduce the  CURRENT HP of a monster that will not be recovered even when the monsters gains its level back

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It's the reason why this little bad boy (https://ddowiki.com/page/Item:Nightmare,_the_Fallen_Moon) makes short work of anything vulnerable to neg levels in low epic content where it belongs

Anyway, I still got 7 keys from last year and almost no materials. Do you people realize that these fucking SSG monkeys can even fail at failing? Guess I'll just trade those few spectral weapons for my alts and get a couple of festive diamonds. I was hoping for weapons to get a slight upgrade considering the falchion from the cove is way better than the 2 handed axe from mabar

https://ddowiki.com/page/Captain%27s_Cutter
Ghostbane to hit reapers and guaranteed force damage

VS

https://ddowiki.com/page/The_Night_Revels (search the great axe at bottom page)
Ghostbane  to hit reapers and force damage ONLY on crits (and for those of you to sleepy to remember, Gaxes crit on 20 by default without feats or enhancements)

True, the force damage is higher in the great axe version but, unless you can afford to reliably crit with a greataxe, the falchion always comes on top and if you can afford feats and enhancements it means you are fairly high level and there are better options anyway.

My music library is ready, it's the only way I survive the mindless grind of these events 

Reyes. wrote on Oct 7^th, 2020 at 2:48pm:


That is what I figured. I do have one of the light damage augments that is slotted on my lvl 10 crafted wraps (Monk player here). It is ok for that little extra boost, and I had a free slot, but not game changing. I might just skip it then, or help guildmates farm if they need anything.