Epic Vale would be nice for sure.  I have a feeling though it's being delayed until they can figure a way to get Premium's to pay for it.

Yeah yeah I know it's a tin foil hat thing but cummon I only dust that bitch off 2 or 3 times a year max!   

Time to re-spec again. Building for epic Rainbow.

Groo The Wanderer wrote on Sep 9^th, 2013 at 1:27pm:


EE Skyvault Shield and all Epic versions of the Adamantine Knuckles have 3 slots. 

However, epic GS would be cool.  I'm pretty sure they've already shown Epic Harry and some Epic GS on Lama.

Ok it would appear I need to be more specific, I was a little vague there and it appears some couldn't make the jump I did.

To be more specific I mean 3 identical Augment slots.  You know where we could choose 3 Red or Blue slots.

Basically what I am getting at is that if Greensteel gave us the ability to drop in augment slots with colors of our choosing it would make the loot relevant on the EPIC scale as it would be configurable.

Groo The Wanderer wrote on Sep 9^th, 2013 at 1:27pm:

Fuck that idea in the ass with no lube.  Making players farm a heroic raid for epic raid items is ass backwards.

The item qualities in the Green Steel crafting system need to be available as augments.  If Turbine wants to make those augments only available in Epic Shroud, then that's fine with me.  Personally I'm not a fan of the Vale quests.  Epic Elite Coal Chamber?  Fuck you.

Asheras wrote on Sep 9^th, 2013 at 11:52am:

ToD is boring; it's three lame tank and spank fights.  The only technical requirement is having the tank face the boss away from the raid so no one else gets cleaved.  The Turbine raid development team needs to play other MMOs like World of Warcraft that have interesting boss fights.  We'll never see it in DDO, but I miss boss enrage timers.

Carpone wrote on Sep 9^th, 2013 at 4:40pm:


Hard enrage timers are stupid.  It just makes the raid a gear check.  Soft enrage timers, I am all for.

Asheras wrote on Sep 9^th, 2013 at 5:27pm:

Pre-EDs the game had gear checks.  Either your DPS was sufficient to kill a raid boss or casters chugged mana pots.

I find it funny that VON6 still has a 45min timer, and that one ToD flagging quest has a 2 hour timer.  It's a complete fail on the developer's part to design a raid or quest that takes that much time to complete.  They obviously never played EverQuest where that was the norm, and players despised it.

Groo The Wanderer wrote on Sep 9^th, 2013 at 6:24pm:


I sincerely doubt you will ever see Red/Orange/Purple slots on anything but Weapons and shields, since you can be reliably sure that Turbine didn't code any sanity checks into the slotting mechanism. A player might be able to rationalize a Ruby of Superior Shock becoming a guard if slotted into goggles, but the item only has the weapon's on-hit proc coded to it and at best will do nothing if slotted into a non-weapon. While we may want those slots for spellpower in non-weapon items, the on-hit procs mean we can't have it.

Asheras wrote on Sep 9^th, 2013 at 9:46pm:

I love the bridge, pillar and egg mechanic in VON6.  It punishes dumbasses but rewards teamwork.  DDO content needs more of that.  The actual Velah fight is a snoozefest; it's too fucking predictable.

Carpone wrote on Sep 9^th, 2013 at 10:57pm:


Agreed.  Von6 is still one of my favorite raids just because of the above.  I used to love running it on Epic.  (Before there were EN/EH/EE).  Even though the Velah part was a snooze fest.  The only interesting parts in the Velah portion was that 99% of toons could not stay in on fire, so that mattered to call it out.  A bad kiter could mess up the reavers.  If you had enough DPS you could avoid eggs entirely. 

If Velah moved around like the Truthful One and took to the air and rained fire on you and such, it would be even better. 

If you didn't kill the eggs and the fire eles spawned and the fire eles either (1) buffed Velah's damage until they were dead or (2) gave her a regen until they were dead or (3) both then the raid would be more challenging as well. 

I like mechanics that make you split the party up and accomplish multiple objectives at the same time to avoid negative consequences.  It makes it much harder to have dead weight in the group.  I want a raid to NEED at least 8-10 competent players to be successful.  It's virtually impossible for 1 boss to engage all 12 players without it turning into a boring beat down.

My favorite part of FoT is the first part when there are 3 dragons, 3 giants and adds popping up regularly.  It's chaotic and its fun. 

ToD kinda does this in part 3.  You have Horoth.  You have Suulu.  You have Orthons.  A good group makes it pretty routine, especially with current gear, but when the raid came out?  Part 3, especially on elite, was challenging. 

I really think raids would be better if they didn't have 3 difficulty settings.  They are Raids.  They should only be runnable on Elite.  And the failure rate of pugs should be 50% or more.  The loot should be correspondingly worth it.  +4 and +5 tome drops.  Loot that you can't buy (With TP or on the AH) that is far superior to anything Loot Gen.  Even if the loot gen is 4-5 levels higher. 

Pathetic.

bob the builder wrote on Sep 10^th, 2013 at 2:47pm:


But now they have Ghostbane...

kierg10 wrote on Sep 10^th, 2013 at 3:23pm:


if you were in the brothel, and the zombie was cheaper, would you?