Carpone wrote on Oct 4
th, 2017 at 8:25pm:
I appreciate the insight. If that qualifies as shenanigans around here, I'm glad I've ignored this event.
I checked it out for the hell of it and can confirm two things -
First - It's a quicker farm than Haverdasher or Millers...it shaves at least a good 15 seconds off the pointless grind (but at least with the korthos quests you can do some pointless collectables farming along with the mimic farming).
More importantly I can confirm you were right to sit the event out. I spent a day grinding out enough to get a cloak before realizing they were basically worthless. I thought it was going to give a bump to my PRR, but it's a base rate that scales with Cannith Crafting.
The event has Turbine written all over it. Slow, pointless and unfun grind for cute but worthless loot. Outside of the collectable crates, all the event is doing is making soloing quests more difficult (those mimics are fucking hell on hires).
As usual, they even fucked up the greedy, money hungry aspect.
Pot boosts would have sold higher than the one-shots they were selling and item boosts (like mimic hats) would have flown off the racks at even 295 DDO points. They really need to dip into their budget and send someone on their team to a sales and marketing course.