Named Heroic weapons from TOEE. Cannith Craft for lvl 15. Pansophic Circlet for casters, if you don't really care too much about incremental gainz. For WF, get the Heartwood docent. Cannith Challenge gear can be really nice at 15, too, if you've got a pile of old dupped ings.

Despite Cannith crafting & Slavers gear, an upgraded Quiver of Alacrity is still in the running as "best TR twink item ever".

I also like having an ML 1 Feather Falling item with a slot, with a Master's Gift slotted.

I am partial to a keen randgen weapon as soon as you find one.  I think lowest I have seen was ml 3.  I switch to vorpal once I get improved crit feat.  I second the masters gift in a ring, quiver of alacrity and phiarlan mirror cloak at start.  The greater bold trinket is nice for melee.

Solid items.

Don't forget spell power potions , Cheap and last 3 min

I have 4 gear set points, mostly:

5,
10,
14,
18

I use loot gen to 5.  At 5, I use Abashai stuff and a few CC items to fill in the holes.  Then, I add in ToEE weapons(and maybe armor) at 7 and a slavers set at 8.  Everything else waits till 10 (when you can get 3 effects) and have a level 10 set of gear (that ditches the Abashai stuff but incorporates slavers set and any green steel coming at 11 and 12).  GS weapons at 11, which generally go to cap.  Cannith Challenge items (ring of the stalker, for example) also fit in around here.  A few items from gnomework and devil's gambit join the GS items and mix in with a level 14 cannith crafted gear set (Slavers set generally gets replaced at 14).  The level 18 gear set is almost all CC crafted (1 or 2 GS items, or key named items - i.e. Ring of Stalker are still around).  Weapons are still mostly GS.

I don't change gear that much at other times. 

Skoodge wrote on Jun 12^th, 2017 at 5:36am:

gear set for dc casting ml 13~ http://www.ddovault.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1492272151/8#8

that one is for warlock, but can be made for any dc stat by swapping out the dc stat mods in your crafted gear for the appropriate stat.

Skoodge wrote on Jun 12^th, 2017 at 4:33pm:

That's why I never make a decent toon. I have more alts than Fran.

I agree about 1-10. It's more fun to let the toon gather its own crap gear from chests. Though I have 6-8 copies of Crystal Cove & Cannith Challenge gear at each ML, I stopped shuffling it around a while ago. The Bracers are the only Cannith Challenge item that's truly universally useful to every race & class. The Boots are right behind, and Ring right behind that. Cove gear, the Spyglass is still among the best swap-ins in the game for secret doors, but you can get True Seeing earlier nowadays. A big stack of gems is the bis for Feather Fall, Blindness Immunity, & Hvy Fort. Fear Immunity too, but that's less necessary.

Fuck the Cannith Challenge Cloak. It comes in second (or distant third) to something else at every ML. Fuck it in the pants. On the other hand, the CC armors have stepped up in a big way. Those might be your answer for 11-14. Also, CC gear got updated to unbeatable elemental type spell power & spell crit. at its ML, and it mostly remains there. Still, fuck the CC cloak.

WonderfulFoppyBint wrote on Jun 12^th, 2017 at 5:16pm:


STFU.  You can make that at level 1 now?  I was playing with the planner on 5 Footers link and thought it was either borked or I wasn't using it properly because you could never make anything that powerful so low-level before.

Teraza's Perfect Sight is a foundation of most of my melee builds, if nothing else for freaking Gianthold.  I use custom googles to handle blindness but this is like a million times better than having to spread it out.

My equipment it usually built around (2 years ago at least)

Ghost touch (hate switching weapons any more than I have to, so I keep it on equipment)
Displacement
Protection from blindness and true seeing
Fortification - and really need to research how it stacks now.
Spell resistance - until what, level 12 or so when it stops working?  Also need to research the new magic resistance system, not sure the numbers I need at what levels (Asheras had a good set of levels to change gear at going there).
And pretty much the maximum plus at level for all the stats (even on a melee for the boost to saving throws - which it looks like that might not be as useful any more with the new bonuses offered).
After that I try and cram as much useful bonuses as possible in where ever I can, depending on what's allowed on the item and how many slots I have free.

Looks like I'll once again be returning to the auction house to obsessively check for items with the maximum amount of slots...and crying with joy when I actually find one that has a blue/green slot instead of the white/yellow like all the rest ><

Skoodge wrote on Jun 13^th, 2017 at 4:28am:

Yes, until I fall asleep. Yes. No, they are not important to me.

Maybe reaper is less boring when you have a decent toon? I suspect not. Elite gets more boring, the better your toon gets.

Slight update - managed to make a level 11 tier 3 ring of the stalker by the skin of my teeth.  Would love to have a level 15 one too for TRing, but I'm not complaining (I "stocked" up on the epic ings by the thousands but didn't go as overboard on the heroics ).

Revaulting wrote on Jun 13^th, 2017 at 8:38pm:


You know, I almost get the shortsightedness of that one, I had just TRed back to back 3 times and swore to never do it again.  And while I'm surprised and happy to see the useful things I stocked up on, what I don't get are some of the blatant oversights on my part.  Like why the hell didn't I stock up on planar shards for bag farming/selling?  Or (mostly) why the fuck didn't I dupe the hell out of deadly fever blanches and the other hard to find collectables that are just a fucking nightmare to farm?

Revaulting wrote on Jun 14^th, 2017 at 11:55am:


So much this.  Duping wouldn't even be needed if they stopped walking that fat line between "we have no clue how to play this game" and "we want to squeeze every fucking penny out of you as we can."

I get why they keep the drop rates low on some things - so they can sell us astral shards, chest boosters (total dick move that one), and crafting boosters.  But when you get things like the collectables, yeah, they can keep them unreasonable low (which they have) so we use shards to get augments and pots - but to include those same low drop rate items into the new crafting system - they're fucking clueless on what's going on in their own game.

I really did start enjoying the game a whole lot more when I started dupping though.  I was playing what I wanted to instead of just running the same freaking quests over and over to slowly gather what I needed for one piece of equipment.

On the bright side - I can TR about 200 times and still grab about 100 augments while doing it, I made sure I was covered there.  And I can probably set up 6 toons with dragon armor - not too bad

(am kicking myself for all the low level tomes I traded for dragonshards though, pre-dupping.  Now I have hundreds of dragronshards and 4 toons that could have used the stat boosts)