1. To keep your inventory slots bloated, so you'll eventually buy more character slots, inventory banks etc. in effect spending more money and/or burning TP leftovers.
2. To encourage you to do a TR from time to time (or roll a new char) and eat the stones - to keep you in TR loop so you can carry some noobs eventually. Also you'll prolly run new content during such TR so you post some lowbie stuff on ASAH, which makes noobs empty their pockets on astrals.


Fun Facts:
1. You will need ~1200 gold rolls xp to do a full heroic TR from it (10x more if silver, half if during double dice weekend).
2. Basing only on free silver rolls it would take 20+ years to collect xp for a full heroic TR (if you roll every 16 hours). 2 years basing on current free gold rolls as VIP (they will stay).
3. During Double Dice XP weekend for TR you'll need 560 rolls, which is 8400 astrals "only". Someone had to spend about $250+ to buy this amount in the first place (Otto box in comparison is $30).
4. It takes at average 3 minutes to gain same xp as from gold roll just by playing the game (for a semi veteran let's say) even on early levels.

Everyone thinks that XP stones is the main benefit of DD rolls, but in fact is only a TR bait / inv bloater.

Oracler wrote on Mar 15^th, 2022 at 9:00am:


The whole point of the post is players are hoarding the stones, fat jerry is saying SSG doesn't want players hoarding stones. All your suggested uses involve hoarding stones.

Oracler wrote on Mar 15^th, 2022 at 9:00am:


Accurate.

My personal theory is SSG thought that 500-1000 XP would be beneficial. Like so many things they were wrong.

kum-gulp wrote on Mar 15^th, 2022 at 9:07am:


From Cordo:

Quote:


They are were obviously not going to make them stack for so many reasons. But what's odd is the specific statement that seems to be discouraging hoarding them at all.

Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz wrote on Mar 15^th, 2022 at 12:26pm:


No, you can absolutely blame him for that. Supportability is an engineering thing, Sev is the engineer. The reason they shitcanned CS was because it was too expensive. The reason it was too expensive is because Sev failed to develop tools for it.

Cordovan doesn't know that XP stones are useless past the first few levels because he doesn't actually play the game and TR like normal people.

I mean, okay, you TR, you use stones to get to level 3 or so...that's fine...but using stones when doing iconic lives makes no sense because you start at level 15 anyway so they just pile up and its a PITA...

Personally, I'd use all of em at this point before they find a way to nuked them, the comments by Jerry ring like the stuff they normally start floating before gutting something. Full disclosure, I stopped caring about xp stones when boxes became so widely duped and available. While its not quite quicker to zerg a couple quests and slayers to get to the threshold its a lot less mind-numbing than using a big stack of xp stones.

My 2 GP

Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz wrote on Mar 15^th, 2022 at 12:26pm:

Severlin destroyed DDO. Power creep became power leap. Look at the achievement forum before and after Severlin.

Gunga wrote on Mar 25^th, 2022 at 1:42pm:


Yeah hasn't Sev been on the team since it was Asheron's Call?

Standing Stone Games wrote on Mar 25^th, 2022 at 5:39pm:


Even if he wasn't officially on the DDO team he would have been firmly involved in production. DDO shares most of its code with AC.

dieinafirescumbag wrote on Mar 25^th, 2022 at 10:49pm:


Sev seemed like a money now and worry about the future later kind of guy. Season pass was under his reign to. Kept the game alive I guess, but at what cost.