Challenge is only for melees.

no. wrote on Mar 20^th, 2017 at 2:39pm:


I don't have a problem with incorporeality per se. I like a game that expects you to be prepared for different situations. That is (in my opinion) good game design. What I do have a problem with is a game that expects you to be prepared for a situation for which it has not supplied you the tools. The fact that this applies only to melees (and to a lesser extent ranged chars i suppose) makes this an even weirder design choice as not every class even has to use these tools.

Ghostbane augments have been duped a plenty.

Find someone willing to sell/trade, the end.

There is a definite lack of low level ghost touch, which is bad for new players.  Catacombs offers the possibility of one on end reward, but is P2P and has a couple wraiths in the chain (I feel like this is similar to using a word in that word's definition. Ghost Touch should be available from a place before you get to Catacombs. Though I can see from a lore standpoint why they may not want that.)

They should change the end rewards on Necromancer's Doom on Korthos to a small list of Ghost Touch weapons.  Kind of like the Collaborator end reward.  Undead themed, low level, new friendly, not needed in the quest in which you earn the reward.  Win/win.

I think everbright is fucked up now too.. it was pretty low lvl to craft and cheap in mats to make it.

Now... expensive as fuck. Pretty High lvl to make it bound. And fucked to lvl unbound at lvl 400.

Why the fuck they do that? Those weapons used to be pretty common. Now youll never see them in the ah.  It would be nice to either see them back in the loot tables instead of some other garbage they have and/or they should lower the levels to make them by at least half. And use a small amount of old mats to make them instead of the shit way they have it now.

Oh and on the subject.. why is making true seeing so expensive?

Skrilla wrote on Mar 20^th, 2017 at 4:22pm:


Once you make it, you'll see that it really wasn't all that expensive...

Digimonk wrote on Mar 20^th, 2017 at 9:07pm:


First off, I'm not saying incoorporality cannot be overcome or even that I have trouble overcoming it. I just said that the lack of incoorporality bypass in LOW LEVEL content bothers me FROM A DESIGN STANDPOINT since they've made another difficulty mode specific mob that uses incoorporality. The items with ghostly or ethereal on them are mid level at best.

But I guess my main problem with this system is, again, that it tries to impose an element of difficulty specifically to certain classes that only really causes problems to people that haven't played too long.

Personally I have plenty of +1 ghost touch of pure good old CC melee items, i don't even notice. Anything not swinging a weapon, ditto. So the only people really impacted by this are what? I'd say newer players. And as some people have stated that might be by design because reaper is supposed to be the toughest of the toughest (that worked out well....) but then those same players that difficulty is aimed at can just roll up a caster/lock and even they won't notice the "challenge".

I might be alone in having this gripe with the design of reaper mode and that's perfectly okay. I didn't come here to have my own opinion validated I came here to hear yours (which apparantly is only "lol git gud scrub") very insightfull.

Agreed. You should have done this thread on mobos.

But just imagine the number of SSG paladins there, if even on the Vault you are getting a number of them...

Also it's fucking retarded that the reapers slow attack seed and have PRR but don't have anything to fuck casters and don't have MRR.

Ghost touch being required as a go to weapon is just fucking retarded game desing.

Asheras wrote on Mar 21^st, 2017 at 9:18am:

They could switch from annoying mob design to annoying mob design. First reaper is a wraith, next is a scorpion, etc. ...

Slowing player movement speed and bloating reaper hp (via dmg reduction) is also boring as fuck. So of course yes, more of that 

Revaulting wrote on Mar 21^st, 2017 at 7:45pm:


Chainging from a wraith to a scorpion doesn't change the fact that the reaper has PRR and no MRR and hits like a triuck.  Because casters can kite and don't do physical damage.  Unless you make the reapers limiting kiting (to put casters in some actual peril) and reduce their damage similar to melee damage reduction that already exists, then you haven't solved a damn thing by changing the mob from a wraith to a scorpion to a spider to a troll.

Digimonk wrote on Mar 21^st, 2017 at 11:32pm:


I can see that there's plenty of other stuff to bitch about in DDO. And I totally agree, the gathering lots of different items for different situations is part of the charm of DDO. Hell IMO it's part of PnP to have the DM present an obstacle and having just that specific skill/item/idea that makes it way less  difficult.

Perhaps my problem with the design of reapers is in part that they're implementing a mechanic they themselves seem to both be moving away from and towards at the same time. In tower of frost for example there's a couple of orange/red named with very high DR. Cool you should just carry a DR beater. But epsecially in random loot those DR beaters don't appear very often. You can cannith craft them, but the price of admission in cannith crafting is quite high. Luckily we have stuff like GS and some older named items that make superb DR breakers but that's mostly from content that SSG hasn't touched in 3 - 5 years.

I feel like SSG is creating this weird combination of expecting us to be prepared for anything in combination with limiting our easy access to being prepared for this stuff. Everbright is another (less aggregious because crafting) example of this. It might just be me (and in reading the replies a lot of people are perfectly okay with this although it still smells of lazy design) but even recent named loot has been so either lackluster or must slot that I feel there's a whole well of niche item combinations they''re leaving untapped. Before the FoS loot overhaul you could have some truly interesting situational lootgen items. Now the truly amazing lootgen items are those that have a higher number of X.

Or maybe i'm just getting old.

And as to the whole reaper is way more challenging for melee than ranged/caster. The retarded thing is 1 skulling might (especially with the current champion bug) be easier for casters in most circumstances, the lost souls can keep you topped up for quite a while. The weird part is that the slavers end fight was (at least in it's first draft) designed very specifically to also hamper ranged toons. It didn't really work in practice and SSG seems to be completely out of ideads as to how to challenge ranged toons so they might just have said fuck it and not invested any more time. Side effect of this is that I find my current repeater rogue life boring as fuck but hey, rockstars and all.

Bushin wrote on Mar 20^th, 2017 at 1:54pm:


The fact Reaper mode was necessary at all is a tribute to bad decision making.

Ditto Racial TR and Racial AP.

It's an admission they couldn't balance the game difficulty, the class balance, or the racial trees and so they had to incentivize it all.

As to the Ghost Touch thing... I believe the Rockstarz™ are scared shitless to touch the loot tables again for fear of another "Ghostbaning" incident.

I'll agree that setting the crafting levels so high for common utility items is a head scratcher, but then again, they're also trying to incentivize the new crafting, or rather the new collectables, to run the mass-duped old ingredients out of the game.

Which is another tacit admission of failure on their part, however they choose to frame it to get to sleep at night.

In any event, like Digimonk said, there's lots of options to overcome this particular hurdle.

Which isn't very high to begin with.

And this is coming from a guy that HATES "challenge".

YMMV.