https://www.ddo.com/forums/showthread.php/465390-U28-Items-Official-Discussion

https://www.ddo.com/forums/showthread.php/465393-U28-Items

Well someone has a sense of humour with the item names - hopefully the loot isnt a joke.

Some of the names:
Ship Kickers - had a chuckle at that one.
Slice & Dice Daggers
Locked & Loaded (looks like handwraps, but says it is a spellcasting item)
Fatal Flaw
A dagger called Dice
Increased Potential
Return to Sender Throwing dagger

I agree with Hasty's comments that the set items seem all over the place at the moment.  Really worrying that the loot design doesn't have more sense of purpose in how it would be used.
I applaud NoWorries sense of humour though.

I don't see many of these items competing well with TF.
TF gear is crafted through grind, but this new stuff still doesn't offer much new over MoD gear and other end game gear?

As always, interested to hear the Vaulties thoughts on this.

So the docent is Int +4 and the robe is Cha +4?  I guess non-robots don't want Int?

Look.  It's not raid loot, so it probably shouldn't be better than DoJ items.  But it should be on par with Trials, Demon Assault, and Devils Details loot.  Since that is BTA level 28 gear.

Yobai wrote on Sep 17^th, 2015 at 1:24am:




The more I read, the more I think these are gag releases to stir the pot.....      

Artorias wrote on Sep 17^th, 2015 at 2:54am:


It suits. It is just an envelope. 

Wow, April 1 came by pretty fast.

DropBear wrote on Sep 16^th, 2015 at 10:40pm:


I can only think they were making the Locked & Loaded wraps for a Cleric/Monk multiclass.

Artorias wrote on Sep 17^th, 2015 at 2:54am:


How hard is it to change the DC on something?  That seems very easy to me, but I'm not a coder.

ThatLukeGuy wrote on Sep 17^th, 2015 at 3:18pm:


I guess.  But the only problem is that they are significantly weaker than other options for a Cleric/Monk when in spell casting mode.

DoRayEgon wrote on Sep 17^th, 2015 at 3:58pm:


It's Turdbine we're talking about. 

Do you really need any other reason? It's not a problem on how easy it actually is but more like how willing to do so they are. I'd like to be proven wrong but turbine has a really long history on this kind of things 

Still, a quick side by side of this stuff vs. the HH loot shows that the HH loot (at ML 26) is way better.  Comparing it to E Orchard (ML 27), E Orchard Spanks it.  This stuff is on par with the named items from wheloon and Stormhorns (ML 26 and ML 27).  Which was generally scorned as weaker than loot gen when it came out, 2 years ago. 

But it's supposed to interest us and be ML 28.  I hope the new content is good XP per min or hella fun.  Otherwise, I'll be running it once on EE for bonus and favor and then go back to farming DoJ, MoD, Wyrm, TOEE, and quests that actually give decent items.

Asheras wrote on Sep 17^th, 2015 at 6:17pm:



watching that sludge slosh around inside your head as you slooooooooooooooooooooooooooooowwwwly come to the same conclusion everyone else did instantly when they saw the loot is like watching paint dry.  slow stupid paint.