https://www.ddo.com/forums/showthread.php/431029-Commendations-of-Valor-Update

We’re aware of several topics of discussion relating to Commendations of Valor. As players get more time with Update 20, we’ll be keeping an eye on how Commendations of Valor are working out and will consider possible changes. We have identified two issues that we feel we can address sooner rather than later:

1. Bind-to-Character: Earning Hearts of Wood via multiple Characters
Commendations of Valor are an Epic Ingredient that are Bind-to-Character, because we plan to use them for lots of different reward types. However, this puts extra strain on players who are earning Hearts of wood by playing many different characters, or who may have one character earning Commendations in lower levels while another character is already at the level cap. We’d like to address this to give additional options to these players while still allowing us flexibility for reward items we offer through Commendations in the future.

2. Commendations of Valor and Bag Space
The number of Commendations of Valor received scales heavily across different character levels, which means it’s challenging to simply reduce the amounts of Commendations bestowed, or the costs for Hearts of Wood, without consequence for characters of different level. However, this was not intended to put stress on bag space, so we’d like to address that too.


Introducing: Heart Seeds
We’re adding a new, entirely optional ingredient relating to Commendations of Valor and Hearts of Wood called “Heart Seeds”. This new ingredient adds some complications, but we felt those complications were worth it in order to address the above issues.

Heart Seeds:

Stacks of these precious seeds can be combined to form Iconic or Epic Hearts of Wood.
Purchasable with Commendations of Valor, these seeds are Bound to Account (unlike Commendations of Valor), allowing you to get hearts of wood by pooling resources from multiple characters.
Bound to Account items are tradable to your other characters through the Shared Bank.





Notes:

You can obtain 1 Heart Seed by turning 100 Commendations of Valor.
You can obtain either one Iconic True Heart of Wood or one Epic Heart of Wood by turning in 42 Heart Seeds.
You can still obtain either of those Hearts of Wood by turning in 4200 Commendations of Valor. You can safely ignore Heart Seeds if the above issues don’t affect you.
Heart Seeds are currently only obtainable through the barter interface associated with Commendations of Valor.
Heart Seeds can only be used to purchase Iconic True Hearts of Wood or Epic Hearts of Wood. In particular, they cannot be used to buy the potions that Commendations of Valor can be used for.
You cannot turn Heart Seeds back into Commendations of Valor.



Thanks for your feedback on Commendations of Valor and Hearts of Wood.

Real solution to comms problem = letting people put bags in guild chests.

It's just you.

cdr wrote on Nov 20^th, 2013 at 2:57pm:

Easy solution,  bring back duping.

If this solution is what it takes to make it BTA then I'm all for it. Yes, it seems like it would be simpler to make the Comm's BTA but I'm not going to look the gift horse in the mouth and then punch it in the face.

just wish they would lower the fucking amount of comms already

Quak wrote on Nov 20^th, 2013 at 3:30pm:


I think they are being silly by saying this is a problem.  No quest gives less than 10 comms that i've seen.  Divide everything by 10 and make them BTA.  All problems solved.

Grumlee wrote on Nov 20^th, 2013 at 3:15pm:

We already have too many goddamned ingredients, that's why. And if you don't spend TP to get a bigger bag, one stack of CoVs will overflow out of your bag before you have enough to ETR/ITR.

Besides I already have at least 20 large bags full of shit already. I don't need any more.

rest wrote on Nov 20^th, 2013 at 3:48pm:


I have green bags coming out my ears. If you don't, perhaps go run The12 favor and get another one. You get a new large and a small every life. This is not an issue.

its a good way to get the hearts earned by multiple toon. but they are still to expansive

Grumlee wrote on Nov 20^th, 2013 at 3:51pm:


rest wrote on Nov 20^th, 2013 at 3:48pm:

Asheras wrote on Nov 20^th, 2013 at 3:49pm:

Cetus ran every EE quest during an ETR and came up well short for a heart. Some where on that very organized fan forum in one of the Com of valor threads.

The thing is that you CAN level so much faster in epics that hitting 28 and not even getting enough Comms due to farming the high xp quests is totally different than farming up 20 Tokens.

I'm doing VoN3, Wiz King, OoB, GH saga, Demands, Graves, Blades, Trial, BoB, two or three times a day. easily over a mil xp without Pots. Mix in Chrono, Von 5-6, foT, Citw, ADQ every 3rd day, why not. It takes me 4-5 days playing around 20 hours to get to 28. But the comm rate for that is really low, like buy a heart low.

NOTpopejubal wrote on Nov 20^th, 2013 at 4:36pm:


Accept the invite request from the toon placing the bag and ignore the subsequent invite request(s) from any other toons.  Once the word gets out, the problem will go away pretty quickly.