The Lord of Blades is a deity. His weapon is the great sword.

What type of named weapon does not drop in the Legendary Lord of Blades raid?

If you guessed "great sword", you win some vault cred.

The favored weapon of WF/BF is the great sword (because of BF paladins), but his actual weapon is a trident: https://ddowiki.com/page/Lord_of_Blades 

In DDO, a trident is a spear. One of the main items is a spear which looks exactly like his trident (and also counts as a favored weapon for BF/WF in-game): https://ddowiki.com/page/Item:Spear_of_the_Mournlands

Standing Stone Games wrote on May 26^th, 2022 at 2:52pm:


Heh, yeah. LoB definitely would like to use a Military Fork. I was just pulling from his description:
Attack Damage: Trident (Slashing). Note that his damage will be far higher if he has the Power of the Forge buff:

Are legendary alchemical any good?
Heroic is pretty much shit.
Then again 99% of the game loot is pure shit unless it was re-vamped recently.
So maybe if they altered the system alchemical weapons could now be decent......

wasnt motu almost right after secrets of artificers?  it took a big shit on it that i remember

Shunned wrote on May 26^th, 2022 at 9:34pm:


Yes, i remember that "offhand only" thing too. Sounds like another one of their dumb ideas.

https://ddowiki.com/page/Alchemical_Crafting#Legendary

Looking at the list on the wiki, it seems they are only really useful as caster sticks. The wiki doesn't have much info sadly, it doesn't even have a list of legendary blanks. I'm not sure what some of this stuff does like "Legendary Electric Storm" and im not ingame to check at the crafting altar.

The tier 3 does let you craft Alchemical X Attunement which is an elemental proc, but i'm not sure how effective that is. And the weapons are the only source of permanent alchemical stat bonus I think.

They're still very good for level 20, but the problem is that at 23, you have the Caught in the Web weapons, and at level 24 you have T1 Thunderforged. A lot of people don't think it's worth it to farm out LoB just for a weapon which is only usable for 3-4 levels.

Also, it's kind of a pain to figure out which difficulty of LoB drops what, and then finding people to run the damn thing. It's a lot more painful than, say, ToEE, Slavers, or Greensteel farming.

When I do play DDO, I don't typically run epics anyway, so my alchemical is just sitting in my bank, collecting dust.

Anothersock wrote on May 27^th, 2022 at 6:31pm:


You can run DA instead of shroud to get shards, all levels of shards drop in it as well as all ingredient levels. At 5 accounts and you'll have greensteel coming out your ears. The only thing you need from Shroud is the Essence of Cleansing.

Anothersock wrote on May 26^th, 2022 at 7:54pm:



At the time some of them were. The wraps, in particular, were good for DC monks.

To this day, they are one of the few sources of +2 Alchemical stat. I have an Alch. shield on my DC druid for this reason.

Not even bothering to slot the sentient 3/4 lives that aren't caster. The system is a bit too taking on moving the sentient jewels off to different weapons, so lives where the weapon isn't the sentient one get no sentence 😜

ManyCookies wrote on May 27^th, 2022 at 8:08pm:


No. And neither can the legendaries. That's why they didn't bother with legendary alch 2-handed weapons.

ManyCookies wrote on Jun 3^rd, 2022 at 7:28am:


Supposedly, multistep crafting and sentience are incompatible.

5 Foot Step wrote on Jun 3^rd, 2022 at 11:16am:


Couldnt they just add the sentient slot at the last step of the process, like how sharn "nearly finished" adds an augment slot at the last step?

Well, this being SSG, they probably couldnt get it to work...

Edit : Wait a sec, sharn nearly finished gear can take sentient gems and they have a multistep crafting process. Yet, it works fine for them?