Merrick wrote on Feb 11^th, 2012 at 4:33pm:


the problem with NO ML items is that it removes part of the "dangling carrot" from the equation.   If you are able to start out with with all your gear that you'd eventually have to wait for until Level 13 or Level 15, then some (maybe many) people would get quickly bored as they were leveling, not being able to look forward to hitting Level 5 to use that gear, or Level 7 to use that gear, and so on.

The developers have to balance things so that the money keeps coming in every month.   While a certain population may not be affected the desire to hit a new level so they can use new things, the devs can't cater to that minority if they want to stay in business.

Ran the chain a bunch yesterday. Got a DD +10 ring (no trapper characters, but whatever) and a clever +5. So some decent rings are still dropping.

For all of the "low levels are easy" talk that I generally agree with, a 30% striding ring that you can wear on a first level character really is game changing.

I took the Dragonmark of Exp. Retreat on my Fighter as a placeholder until I swapped it out at level 12 and I was so very glad that I did.  Having that on a ring would be even better because then I could have fast movement even on non-human characters.

I got a no ml +6 cha ring before I started my wf sorceress who capped a few weeks ago.  Figured that was the end of my luck, only go in now to ransack the asylum chests for symbiot and summon trinkets

Saal

BoBoBo wrote on Feb 14^th, 2012 at 8:34am:



The barkeep knows what to do with them, sell them to him.

BoBoBo wrote on Feb 14^th, 2012 at 8:34am:


End rewards can (and do) ransack.

Two days ago, I re-ran the chain on Elite for favor except for the astoundingly annoying Acute Delerium which I punked out on and just ran Normal.  I was pleasantly surprised to pick up a +6 Int ring in the end reward list.  I never did get a striding ring, but since I ran the chain for favor so that I could hit 3000 on my Wizard before I TR him, I'm quite pleased by the +6 Int.

cdr wrote on Feb 20^th, 2012 at 7:04pm:


I really should know better.  That character is actually an enchantment specced Pale Master, so I end up just throwing Mass Hold at enemies that have fort saves that I can't bust through with instakill.  My DCs have gotten decent enough that those enemies don't really exist anymore, so I tend to forget that he's actually enchantment specced. 

I'll have to try it again with that strategy.  I'll be interested to see how it fares with regular beholder spawns wandering around.

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Hahahaha, yeah right.... This is turbine/ddo we're talking about. You don't need to ask if they will "fix" all the rings people got from this chain. I don't think they're capable to do this.