Digimonk wrote on Nov 9^th, 2017 at 6:13pm:

It should not stack, but that set up doesn't have doubleshot or ranged power boost anywhere else.

Digimonk wrote on Nov 9^th, 2017 at 6:13pm:

Yeah, small increases at best. few % points. If the Pinnacle ring stays functional then it becomes worth to redo the gear sets.

This system would work if they stopped obsoleting shit every 6 months. Would be a rewarding system to parse through and etch out slight advantages and preferences. But as it is now it's just fucking musical chairs for no random reason. Did you see the abjuration item? All 3 bonuses to abjure dc on it+ spell pen... Who the fuck uses abjuration? When am I ever going to try to battle inflated mob CRs with a goddamn dispel spell.... What kind of person makes an item that, if made with any of the other  schools, would be an item players would love. Instead I get the sick Dispel build gear, bro. That no one will ever use. How could you make vendor trash and sit there like throwing steaming piles of garbage is creative "tough choices" ?

harharharhar wrote on Nov 9^th, 2017 at 5:59pm:

If the mob is immune to vorpal but can be negged then crippling flames is the better weapon.

harharharhar wrote on Nov 9^th, 2017 at 5:59pm:

Last time I used heroic enervation was during druid treasure property glitch. It procs way more than 5%. It was the best property to slap onto a whirlwind because of the constant proc. 25-33 would match my eye test from memory. trap the soul is probably like 2-3%.

Dawn bringer is a significantly reduced amount of neg levels from all other options, though lifestealing with a shitty crit profile is not far behind.

Ok so the next question is: is the DPS from dawnbringer lower enough than a TF T3/Crippling Flames and Ruby Slotted that Sov vorp would get outdone.

Proc damage is higher for TF, but 3000 damage on a high skull reaper is a lot.

TF T3 does 27.1% of a mobs life on a Vorpal (10%+10% of 90% of health or 9%+10% of what's left which is 81% or 8.1%)

For high reaper skulls in Epics where mob HP is inflated it might actually be worth level draining with a TF weapon (3x faster than just the ruby alone) and then switching to Dawnbringer to mop up

Rubbinns wrote on Nov 9^th, 2017 at 12:52pm:


Doesn't GS disruption have a will save? People mainly used it for the damage dice.

Carpone wrote on Nov 10^th, 2017 at 6:54pm:


All great ideas, but they never do it. And so we end up getting that dope as fuck item to finally make that Greater Glyph of Warding build you've been wanting to make.

I guess Banishment ( in particular because it is AoE ) and Dismissal would be good but for some reason the mobs save against it more than they should be. Necro fort saves somehow work better than Banishment when using a relatively close DC. Even versus high fort save mobs like Acid Wit acid-earth elementals. It should be glaringly more effective to Banish than it is to Necro them, when considering will saves on elementals are lower than fortitude saves. And some quests they cannot be banished from.

An entire other rant on how they need to update the spells, schools, and spellbooks. While we are at it get a feat pass, but continue telling us how "tough choices" they are. The feat fix should be short because only really the saves and skills feats are trash in ddo. The spells need a lot of work.


They're going to have to gratify harder than that. They make items that no one will use. No one in the future either. What kind of future builds are they building for then? How long do they think they got? I recall steelstar is the dev with the quote in his sig about how they don't only create things for builds right now. How passive aggressive and sensitive can he be? Can we just get some items that would be liked by players. Just go a little meta and drop something for the popular builds. Cater to your audience a little?

You're right about the orb being a good drop for the meta. So were the reaper daggers we got from mabar. They did try to make a staff one time. They got brave and put fire/lit/acid spell lore onto a staff. Then added glaciation spell power. Not lore. When the forums asked why they would so such a blatantly dick-headed thing, the devs responded by removing glaciation power from the nothing-to-do-with-ice-staff. And never completed the item as a staff of elements. They pulled a "I'm taking my ball and going home" over a petty thing like glaciation lore....

Edit : Found the quote from NoWorries https://www.ddo.com/forums/showthread.php/476542-U32-Named-Loot-First-Look?p=584...

"Very powerful item" lololo

Banishment and Dismissal use a special DC formula that takes into account the difference between the mob's level/HD/CR and the caster's caster level. This works fine on normal, but on elite/reaper where CRs quickly outpace PC level it is not uncommon at all for that difference to be 20+ making what would normally be a no-fail DC into an always-fail DC.

I mean max abjuration CL is what? 30ish? You're just not going to see any outsiders under CR 50 in LE/endgame reaper.

I don't think there is even a small window at level 7 when Dismissal first becomes available to use it on weak will mobs on elite+. Maybe if you specialized in abjuration, but that's just not worth it.

Carpone wrote on Nov 11^th, 2017 at 1:41pm:

Because they don't play the game. But also wow has so much stats. From Item Level ranks to deep individual advance stats that can be sorted by numerous categories. It's the MLB of MMOS. I looked up dps rankings for this patch and could see how better balanced builds were against one another than ddo. There was a spread of 25 builds that had 1.5m to 1.3m dps vs bosses. In ddo this isn't the case. it would be closer to a few builds at 1.5m and then the rest are half that or less.

Bosses are easy.

Alex DeLarge wrote on Nov 15^th, 2017 at 10:10pm:


Because no one will group with you?

Alex DeLarge wrote on Nov 16^th, 2017 at 11:52am:


he will never admit it but it's ok, the alternative is still really good. Just not as good

Carpone wrote on Nov 19^th, 2017 at 6:13pm:

I figured we would have to after they released the raid items. At least we know the items to build around now. The Avenger set is sick. But it's only light armor and belt as far as I can tell?

Edit: nvm

Fleetfoot Necklace
Necklace
Silent Avenger Set****
Superior Reinforced Fists
Feat: Wind Through the Trees
Natural Armor Bonus +20
Wisdom +20
Yellow Augment Slot
Green Augment Slot


Silent Avenger Set:

Mist-laden Vestment: Light Armor
Fortification (Heroic: +77%) (Legendary: +202%)
Parrying (Heroic: +2) (Legendary: +9)
Physical Sheltering (Heroic: +14) (Legendary: +50)
Insightful Resistance (Heroic: +2) (Legendary: +7)
Green Augment Slot

Braided Cutcord: Belt
Quality Dodge (Heroic: +1%) (Legendary: +4%)
Blurry
Deathblock
Diversion (Heroic: +9%) (Legendary: +31%)
Green Augment Slot

The belt and necklace are the going to be staples for every ranged and melee build. Who passes up 20 artifact dstrike/shot?

harharharhar wrote on Nov 19^th, 2017 at 7:34pm:


there is also the goggles and a robe that offers the set bonus.

Van Richten's Spectacles
Goggles
Silent Avenger Set***
Dexterity +20
Reflex Saves +16
Doubleshot +12
Magical Sheltering +52
Blue Augment Slot
Green Augment Slot


Patience Through Peril
Clothing
Silent Avenger Set***
Deathblock
Ghostly
Physical Sheltering +52
Profane Well Rounded
Blue Augment Slot
Green Augment Slot

So it has to be eye slot, which is dope as fuck and the neck slot. equip the neck with insightful wisdom 2 augment and it's 22 wisdom. same as a 15/7 item.

improved deception and ghostly are hard to slot. prolly end up using the new trinket :
Echo of Ravenkind
Trinket
Herald of Dawn Set
Eternal Holy Burst While you are wearing this item, your melee, ranged, and unarmed attacks gain the Holy Burst ability. (This weapon is holy. The weapon deals an additional 1 to 6 good damage each hit. In addition, critical hits deal an additional 1 to 10 good damage for weapons with a x2 critical multiplier, 2 to 20 for a x3 critical multiplier and 3 to 30 for a x4 multiplier.)
True Seeing
Constitution +20
Improved Deception
Yellow Augment Slot
Green Augment Slot


If the ring stays unnerfed then it's also a bis item. so is the profane and q deadly ring. we could just also give up the belt slot instead of the neck. take the quality dodge and not have to fuck around slotting ghostly and improved deception items. keep the EGG slam the belt and goggles on and work from there? Or neck + goggles + new trinket + ghostly item somewhere ( or man up and take the feat while spamming Shadow Veil).