I need to get back to work asap, but if I don’t do my blog post it will bother me and keep me from working very quickly. So I will be simi short.

You might remember a little more then a week ago I did a post about crafting an green steel item for Butterz. Coming Together Where I talked a lot about How I didn’t need CordOp for her and ran the gauntlet of other possible items. And then how to build one of them and my thought process.

Well I made a CordOp.

Why?

Well I was 100% sure it would always be helpful. I was not so sure about the other items. So that is why. When push comes to shove I went back to what I could trust for the long term. Take that however you like.

For the record the item looks a lot like the Trap the Soul item I made. Going Neg,Hp (+1Str skills) – Pos,Hp (+2 Con skills) – Pos/Neg Sp (+3 Chr skills) So the same logic stands, minus that not needing Cord Op.

The first tear was built on the boat. I do enjoy having a the guild up enough to craft on the boat. Then I went out to Shavrath to do the second tear. But we are a little short to do the last tear with out spending TP.

So I formed/lead a shroud the other day to finish my crafting. But I ended up being short on energy cells and I didn’t notice until everyone was already gone. And my buy back was mostly empty. Also something I noticed last night, I left my Supreme Shards in the bank. So I was super full of fail. But the run was fast 20 mins and super pleasant considering I was leading, ie took the first 10 people that hit the lfm. Fopo was already in the group when it was formed.

So last night to do something different. Remember the TR Train leveled our balls off over the weekend. I talked everyone in to doing some “loot” runs in the IQ for vendor trash. With Fopo helping by passing over any +8 weapons and my own pulls when there wasn’t 4k+ renown in the reward list I got my cells charged in 20 mins or so.

I don’t know about Fopo but the wife said she made just under half a million plat during those runs. Think I will end up making that run once or twice a week to save up for silver wraps….The wife and I both need a pair or two…. Plat Mondays?

Fully celled up, I do my crafting on the boat. The wife made a GS bastard sword when her Arty hit 12. having banked shards before TRing. But being a little short of scales when TR time rolled around. So she footed the bill for the third tear crafting alter. Saved me from having to wait an extra few days to craft.

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Thanks to the xp bonus weekend and the TR train being real troopers and being willing to kill quests for xp, well at least most of the time. We went from 9 to banking 13 over the weekend. Not all that far away from having to take 13 in fact. There was some big pay offs along the way, 43K with out optionals in Shadow Crypt and more then 30K from Von3. You got to love that bravery bonus + bonus xp + the best Xp pot TP points can buy. I was a bit of a slave driver only stopping for sleep, poop, and food. Truth be told I did take a little longer food breaks in hope that people would have that little extra time to sort their gear. But there was some waiting around waiting.

Any way I am sitting at level 12, meaning that my Bowonk shell is fully on line. The next 8 levels can be almost anything. I have Fighter, Pally, Ranger, Rouge and Arty left to live. And they all can go on this shell and other then Arty they probably will. I am inclined to try arty as a straight up 20 level build. I might also make a rog build that will let me play with the Assassin PRE. I think i might really like it.

So it is the matter of what will give the biggest benefit to having been done for the next life while letting me enjoy this life?

Ranger lets me work my monk levels up to 9 and the bad touch. I really like the bad touch. And ranged damage from the past life is good once you have Manyshot/10kStars, aka lvl 7 and 12 of the bowonk shell.

Fighter, opens up a lot of feats and Hps now. Making next life a little smoother in the to hit/stun/trip departments.

Pally, is more amp now and more next life. But I will need to eat a Chr Tome and find room for an item if I want any of the chr powers to work at all…. Did I forget more AC?

So in my mind they are all tied up. If you have a suggestion let me know other wise I will have to go with my gut when I need to level.

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The number of “active” accounts in a guild for maxim renown is 6. This gives a 300% bonus to any renown earned. Not that 7 “active” accounts is that much worse at 285%. Or 8 for that matter at 270%.

But it all comes down to that meaning of “active”. The game uses something called a Modified Guild Size to determine the number of your “active” guildies.

The DdoWiki saids the following about Modified Guild Size :
Modified Guild Size = Total Active Accounts – Inactive Accounts (>30 days since any character has logged in on that account. These accounts do not count at all for anything.) + Recent Departures (<14 days since the last character in that account left the guild. Willingly or not.)

Note: Inactive accounts do not hurt your guild renown production or decay. However recent departures do. Thus booting inactive accounts actually hurts your guilds overall renown production. As your modified account size will go up by one for 2 weeks after the last character from that account is removed from the guild. You’ll also lose 25% of the renown that character gained while a member of the guild.

I know you all are thinking “That is all well and good Samius but why do you care?”

Let me tell you. We have had a few old members returned in the last few days.

Current guild policy is if an old member returns to game and wants an invite into the guild they get one. Unless they were removed for some reason other then to help with the Modified Guild Size. People that have been gone for a long time get removed if we are doing a mass purging. Unless they worked out an extended leave before hand.

That was a lot of nothing, so let me see if I can get this out in a way that makes sense.

We have the core: Tobril, Torance (the wife) and myself. The Renown Earners.

Then we have the next class, Guildies that play on sparingly. Normaly we can count on this once a week any time they are one beyond that is a bonus: Rostin, Steiner and Tim. Renown break eveners.

Then we have the 3rd string, account that are super active for a few days/weeks every few weeks or so but removing and adding around there play would make for an active player anyway. This is my other/son’s account, and Micheal (although he has had longer breaks also). Renown Net Loss, but short term gains.

As you can see that gives us 8. But there has been a lot of things happening in the last few days/weeks and I think there will need to be some shake ups in the next few days, to get the Modified Guild Size stable as we can again in the next 2 weeks.

The First is Phlor is back. If your a long time reader you might remember a few Phlor stories. If not let me say at his prime he played more then core member. But he doesn’t like leveling and TRing burnt him out. So keeping his game play high requires getting him capped out. And he is notoriously Flaky. He is totally into what he is into at that moment until he sees some other shinny and then he is into that thing. So that is a worry.

Tim hasn’t been on line since the new Star wars Mmo released. But Micheal resubed for at least a month and has played everyday for the last 8 or 9 days and I fully expect him to do so at least until his sub is out. Maybe longer.

One of the things the core DG members have been working on doing is get our ship up. We just don’t have all the slots we want. So we need a bigger boat. Every “active” member needs to make 1k renown a day to make up for their decay.

So I think what will happen is I will either remove my other account or make sure it is actively getting renown 2 or 3 days a week trying for at least 10k renown a week. To net a little gain.

Inspired by RaspberryX on her non- Ddo blog I want to do 101 things about me. Some will be Ddo related others will be personal. Be warned some things will follow a pattern others will seem totally random.

Lets do this.

My main account was given to me by a friend who played for a few months and then quit.
Since then he as returned (part time) and i kept the account.
My first DDo character was a 28point halfing Samius, He now lives on Thelanis and never gets played. 😦
My current Samius has been a Wiz(3 lives), Clr, Fvs, Bard, Sorc, Barb, Monk.
I am undecided as to what class to make this life. Fighter, Pally, or Ranger?
I was 3 years old when i first tried to drive. I kicked the running car in to drive and rolled down the street with my father chasing me on foot down the road. I crashed into the front porch. At least I turned into the right driveway.
My first dog was named Snickers, I hear she was more of a parent then a pet. I don’t remember her at all.
I put down the next two dogs I had myself when the time came.
Their names where Sami and Bull.
Yes, I am named after the dog.
I am allergic to cats.
We have two.
If i thought I could get away with shooting them, I would.
I proposed to my wife durning the first month of dating.
This will make 13 years of marrage.
When asked my age, I have to do the math.
My favorte TV Show ever is Coupling (British version).
More then anything i want to run away and become an exotic pet rancher. Manly for food stuffs.
I am not a fan of “Reality Tv” but I love Swamp People and Sons og Guns. And am looking forward to Comic Book Men.
I am an Instrument rated Pilot. Not current atm…
My parents divorced when i was super young. Like when i was 1-2.
My father demanded and got full custody of me, then married a 6’2″ pissed of German woman that hated me.
I still have dreams were i put her head on a stick in my front yard, Conan Style.
I think some times that the Aborigines right, and this is just a dream world.
I am a really bad Christan. I think that you believe is more important then what. And that God has a kind of Multiple Personality. And the one God is all the Gods but just playing pretend.
I also believe in Evolution.
Also the Bible is full of shit that was added by men and edited by men. So it is full of crap.
But I still think of myself as a Christan. A horable shitty one.
Oh, I believe in Aliens and Bigfoot and all that shit. Why do we have to “know” something to believe? I can’t “prove” one way or the other, so why not go for it?
That said I don’t believe in Man made Global Warming… By CO2.
And i think that environmentalism is a religion. Not a bad one, but it meets my definition of a religion.
I am for smaller goverment.
Pro Choice
Pro Legalize ALL drugs.
Anti-Goverment Health care
Anti-political-correctness
And ❤ the Movie PCU!
I am not a rasicst, Unless we are talking Drow then i hate those guys. Stupid SR! 🙂 But i can play the part when needed. Like when there is a dwarf in the party.
I have had a hard on for Alison Hanagion since she was 13. I was 12 at the time so it is Okay.
I want to roll up a female Elf, because i think they are sexy.
But haven’t found a build for one yet.
I have more Divine casters then Arcaine ones if you don’t count bards as Arcane. Other wise they might be tied.
I like to do quests with no voice chat so i can can play a podcast or a show or something.
Build talk while questing pisses me off.
I have done LoB twice, and MA never.
I like Eberron more than any other not home brewed setting.
And really dislike Forgotten Realms.
But i did like the first Neverwinter Nights game.
In fact if we ever had a daughter her name would be Emowyn after the NPC.
I think i have a monthly cycle when i just don’t give a crud about anyone or anything.
That cycle lines up to my wife’s cycle almost 100% of the time. Making it a real hard time of the month.
It takes me about 2-3 mins to get to work.
I leave with 5-6 mins to get to work every day. But some how i am always end up 2-3 mins late.
I go home for lunch almost every work day, unless it is the odd Thursday, then I go to the Hibachi Grill place in town.
I don’t have a sense of smell. Don’t ever remeber having one.
I also can’t spell well at all.
I play the Cello. Not as well as I did. But I do.
I broke my arm once, And it took me 3 days to convence my step mother to take me to the doctor.
I have been ran over with a car, twice. Same car, different days. Same Driver too….
I dated a girl once where we hung out in a church all the time. Yes I got my freak on some. 🙂
I have been shot a few times. Only once was an issue. The rest was during Pheasant season but i did have to dig out shot many a times.
I like veggies. Peas, broccoli cauliflower and cucumber are all good here.
I have never completed all the explores in the Sub.
I have soloed Garamol many times.
Javabot almost soloed Tempest Spine at level. Was on the way to the Marut when i ran out of time to finish and had to log. 😦
My highest bravery bonus so far is hundred eighty something.
Angelina Jolie is on my NO list because of Billy Bob Thornton.
I swore a lot at Chester in Acute Delirium the first time, over mic, in a full party.
I rolled on the seven fingered gloves mainly for the -10 SPF, and won them. Pissing off a real A$$hole.
I ❤ Defending your Life, I try to live life overcoming my fears because of that movie.
My gay song is “I Will Survive” by Gloria Gaynor. I love that song.
Iron man/ Tony Stark is my super hero.
The greatest story of all time is Hands of the Mandarin, with a close runner up Maximum Carnage.
I really like Carnage/Cletus Kasady. And want to see that “super hero” Movie. Eating babies and all.
I cried the on day during first week of third grade in school. Because I missed pissing my day away.
I got 3 days of ISS a few months later when I took a dirty mag to school.
I read the book My Side of the Mountian so many times I think i have it mostly memorized.
Kulgan from Magican by Raymond E. Feist is my favorte Wizard ever.
I once had a job where would play DDo and say things like AFK for live weather report while pugs fell over the fact i was live on the radio while playing DDo.
I have never dated out side of my race. Kinda sad about that now. 😦
I have never dated a dog. Not so sad about that.
I do kiss a little girl with a beard and take her to bed with me. But she is my puppy so it is cool.
I grow stuff in my basement. But that stuff is Peppers and Mint so it is cool.
I hate it when a mob is Deaths Warded.
But love it when they fail a Flesh to Stone.
My favorte food is my Grandmother’s Mac and Cheese. Followed up with a old spicy chicken sandwich from Wendy’s.
I kicked around the idea of buying a Wendy’s once.
Speaking of Wendy’s I worked at the one in Great Bend, KS for 3 years. I was fired 4 times by the owner in one day. Then as i was leaving i was told not to be late for my shift the next day.
I have been playing some kind of DnD since i was 14-15. That is about 20 years.
Clankenbeard sent me a box of Fallen Empires, I took them to OK last weekend and did notheing with them. They are still in the drunk of the car.
I had a Ford Festiva. I didn’t know how to drive stick when i bought it. I did by the time i got it home that day.
I haven’t done any epic raids since i Lessered Butters to do epic raids.
I think Katerina is hotter then Elena in the CWs The Vampire Diaries, even though they are played by the same actress.
Yes I watch The Vampire Diaries and One Tree Hill, No you can’t have my man card!
I can’t watch Tom Cruse movies any more. Speaking i watched a couple having “relations” while the rest of the room watched the first Mission Imposible. Movie was so so the “show” was good.
Fin Fang Foom is the best dragon ever, Vela is only kinda scary compared to him.
When i was 12 i stayed up for 50 hours to beat Shining Force 2 before I had to return it.
My longest PnP combat lasted for 6 hours. Counted up the rounds, it was 3 mins in game time.
I want to see a good aerial combat in DDo, and gnomes. Mostly Gnomes.
It took me almost 2 hours to do my list.
I want to develop a cult like commune before the poo hits the fan.

I want to take 10 mins and talk about how the change in my diet is going. I say change in vs just diet because I am going to try to make this a fairly permanent change. I am 17 day ish into eating like a caveman. I have cheated some, like when a salad has cheese on it. I try to weed out any big chunks but if some gets in there I am down with that little bit of cow love. Hmmm Blue Cheese.

Over all I am feeling good, better then any “diet” before in fact. That is good because shrinking my waist line was not my main goal. But feeling better, so in that case it is working. Not that my waist isn’t also shrinking.

I do miss some things. Like Cheese, oh Grandma’s mac and cheese and milk. I love big bowls of cereal and a glass of milk with cookies. Oh Cookies. Well I think I have the cookie thing handled. There is a place called the Caveman Bakery. And they make baked goods for peleo brothers that need a bit of a bread fix.*Update* The cookies came last night. They are ground nuts into a powder/flour with chopped nuts and dry fruits held together with a little honey. They are dense and chewy kinda like good fruit cake.

Speaking of Peleo no nos, I found a place online that makes a chip out of plantains. And now that I have had eaten a bag (they come in little 4 oz bags) they have totally replaced normal chips for me. I let the boy and wife eat one and the look on their faces was like they were chewing on a turd. But you know what? I have always had a borked sniffer. And food as never tasted the same to me as it does to other people. And these are good to me. If that is because of my lack of smell or that I haven’t had a chip in a month or more I don’t know.

I have even learned to make some food things that I had never known before. Like how to use a Nut Squash in a simple soup, home made mayonnaise or sausage.

For years my household didn’t have a scale. I think mainly weight was never something we wanted to know; and we/I still don’t. To me it is a number, I would rather know in a meaningful way. Like how I have to add another notch in my belt or how a pair of sweat pants that has its draw string tied in a knot for years to be the right size, are now way to big. Lets just say at some point I will use my scale if only to get to the “safe” weight for my Wii board. I use it rarely now with no issues but when I stand on one foot I think it is plotting my swift death. I know if was standing on my back I would be looking to kill me.

Okay, Talk some more in a few days when it has been 30 days.

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I wanted to talk a little about how I am doing on my Peleo. I wanted to be a little accountable to you all as a way to keep myself on track. But last night the strangest thing happened and I want to tell you all about it before I forget.

The abbot skunked me. Not just normal skunking, IE no raid loot. That happens all the time. No, I mean no loot for me in the raid chest at all. And it was a hard run there could have been a seal in that box. Hell there could have been some really great loot in the box even!

Everyone in the raid starts to tell me to bug/ticket it. So I do so, right then. With little to no hope that a Dm might spawn me a raid chest. As I am the only one now left in the raid instance sounds like a fair option to me.

So I go to fill out a ticket and I select down through the menus until I get a text box. I fill in a one or two word description and then fill out the long text area and try to submit my ticket.

Error. I forget the exact message but it was something like: you need to pick an option for that last box. And I realize that last box the one that is a text box is meant to be a drop down menu and it is checking that I have selected and option. Grrr.

So I did what any other DdoCaster who has a friend or two at Turbine would do. I called them. Explained the error and walked through the error together and end up filling out an bug report. With the knowledge that even if I did get a Dm he probably wouldn’t have have been able to help me. Oh well. At least I got a bug report filled out.

Speaking of bug reports, when you look at the form the first line is the best: “IF YOU NEED HELP, please do not use this form.” It goes on to explain the options to get help but I just love that line.

Oh and for those of you that where following on twitter about that handwrap/module issue my wife was having while crafting. We got an answer that I never read anywhere. You can not use guild sloted wraps while making a module and hope to use them. Your dog is not a proper member of your guild so making a module with wraps with guild slot is like throwing them away. I hear this is a bug, But I don’t see it on the Known Issues page but I am telling you about it. I would say take the time to read that list let me get you a link. Doing a find on handwraps I see this bug also: “Guild Augment Crystals that are designed for weapons do not work properly on handwraps.” I will say this though, i use the little damage crystals on my wraps all the time and it says the damage is working, so i am going to say that the To Hit crystals maybe broken.

Anyway back to work.

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It is Monday again, I really don’t have an issue with Mondays well at least not in the since that it is the first day of the work week. I fully expect a certain amount of shit to hit the fan on Mondays and that makes the day go faster. Where I do have an issue with Mondays is when they take over other days of the week. Like when your Tuesday is so shitty you realize that it is really Monday again. And when a Monday works its way into a weekend those are the worse.

On Mondays when I sit to write my blog post I think back over the weekend and see if anything stands out worthy of you the readers time. And this week the answer is not really and kinda. I want to talk about my diet, mostly as a way to have a little accountability. And healthy Samius is a good playing Samius but I think I will save it for later this week. A little some thing for you to plan on skipping or to look forward to.

But as I like to start the week off talking Ddo lets look at gearing out for level 9.

Last night, the TR group finished off the level 6 quests on elite and leveled to 9. Now any time we level up it takes a little more time then it really should, as everyone has a huge TR bank to look through and tries to mix and match the gear out for what class combination they happen to be playing at the time. I am kinda lucky in away this life as I am running the bowonk shell this life. This allows 99% of my gear to remain the same as it was last life. MY issue is that I am going a lot more AC earlier then last life. I didn’t try for AC last life until much later (about level 12-13). Now however most of the gear I gotten then for AC also works out now. Not that I didn’t/don’t have to make some changes.

First of all thanks to the Cannith crafting I can make +6 stat items with a 78% chance of success. Which is fairly good odds. Although I watched the wife burn two +20% crafting success boosters trying to make a +6 stat shard for her self with almost the same %. So what do I know?

So the key items for my AC at level 9 are Chattering Ring, Dex+6 (Cannith + lowering the level Shard), a trinket that is +3 nat armor/+1 dodge (Got the idea from Crafting with Cortney), +6 wisdom (see Dex plus Monk levels) Monk centered bonus, earth stance, Jidz and a Protection item/spell. Putting all that together with ship buffs I manage to get myself to a 44-46 AC at level nine. Good enough that even on Elite I only really have to worry about casters. But my incoming healing via Lesser Vamp wraps and Fist of Light makes up for it.

My issue is if I want to keep the Brawling Gloves on for the Spike Studded and Sneak Attack Bonus then I have to live with the +3 strength bonus. When the cove returns next I will have to try and remember to make a pair all the way to tear 3.

My problem with this gear set up is that I had to move my con slot to the belt slot. Meaning that I can’t work in a Spare Hand, which is amazingly good! I might have to work some magic and move my fort to my armor and put con on the neck slot. Wonder what level a Life Sheild of heavy fort would be??? And is it worth the effort to replace everything at level 12 when I get my GS items?

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Last week I ran down the list of planed gear for Buttez. Last night I was able to swap for a scroll of the Big Top. Thanks Fo. And I was able to make my Epic Big Top. So that leaves getting the blank Belt of the Mroranon, fetching my Tod ring and getting a shard of power and I can make green steel of some sort.

I want to run down my though possess on for my green steel for two reasons. First it helps me get clear on my plan and two people seem to get some value when I do exercises like this. So lets get started.

Open slots with my gear plan are bracers, ring and boots. As I plan to swap boots often they are out for GS on this guy and you can’t make a GS ring that leaves bracers for an item.

From my playing so far she hasn’t run out of Sp yet so I don’t think I need to bother with a SP/cordOp item. But with all of 460 hp I do want to look into a HP item. But I want to boost my Chr skills, haggle can never be high enough! But the Hp and Chr skills don’t go together. What to do? Single vs Dual? Do I need to think about TRing when planing out this item?

It really to comes down to 2 things. How many larges to I want to spend and is this a forever item? For me I am am more worried about the long time use of the item so I am willing to spend a little more on it now and not wish I had something else later.

Air and Positive allow Chr skill boosts. So I am thinking a Hp/Hp/Chr skills I can still get +3 to my skills that I can clean in a few shroud runs and make a tear 2 skills/skills item for cheep later to swap into for haggling and whatnot.

So what ends with Air or Pos? Air Guard, Greater Disruption Guard, Lighting 2, Vacuum2 and CordOP. All of which are useful. I am leaning towards the Lighting 2 or the Air guard. The Lig2 second tear gives chain lighting clicky, useful for a small amount of damage. Air T2 is a haste clicky great for TRing and melees. But less helpful for a bard with the spell and sp pots. The Vac 2 also rings true as an option; I think it does okay in epics but the Destruction as a clicky a little less helpful then the haste clicky.

For now I am going to plan a Vac2 item, I might do the others later as a double post just so you can see them.

Negative Hp selection gives Str skills, while Air Hp give Dex skills. One will be +1 to skills the other +2 so the order of Neg/Air or Air/Neg can be important. Dex skills are Balance, Open Lock, Hide/Move Silent, Tumble. While Str is Jump and Swim I am thinking Dex makes more since.

So if I were to make a GS Item for Hps +3 Cha Skills and Trap the Soul it would look like so:
GS: +10 hp, +1 Str Skills, +15 hp, +2 Dex Skills – Destruction (2/day), +100 sp, +3 Cha Skills – Trap the Soul Guard

I don’t know if that helps you but it kinda helps me. And that is what is important.

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Monday night I mostly took a break from Xp farming on Samius to do some scroll farming and other epics; mainly due to the fact the wife wanted to watch tv and get away from the computer. Right before bed I saw a EboB LFM up and thought “Why not?” Ebob is almost a solo quest, shouldn’t be that hard to pug. But the group was kinda a mess. Didn’t want to play like a team and ended up all dead but me who took a DD and came back and stabilized the party. But some people had released and we started again.

So last night during what I hope to make a habit (Epic Tuesdays) I was not in the mood to drag along poor players. I don’t care what your experience level is stay alive and follow the leaders instructions.

We do a warm up Ebob, and it goes well. You can tell there is a few less skilled people in the group but Tobril makes up for it. And we don’t have a ton of issues. After we complete we decide to move on to ETide we lose one but pick up a rogue.

I knew the name, but I didn’t know if that was from good things or bad things. But his hp were at about 430 and I was a little worried. But I have low Hp alts and good play can take care of that, so I let it go. I want to say there was a few deaths early on; or at least that was my impression. Some of that was a guildie on his cleric. Who wants to fight a little more then his experience level really allows and keep the party alive. And there was one death I watched happen as he ran ahead of me and my song and agroed more mobs then he could handle. And then another where I had just sang to a caster and a couple melee mobs that would have jumped the party and went back to the group while they were killing a red named cow. He took off to kill the sleepy mobs and got in over his head and died.

Need less to say afterwards I had a slightly lower opinion of this rogue’s skill level. Via tells I ask Tobril if he wants to stealth reform, I know he has a shorter temper then I do when it comes to this kinda of thing. And he says sure as long as we keep the Rogue….What? I explain my thoughts to him, and he replies “Did you see the kill count? Any one that keeps up with me can stay.” As I am out of the quest and back at the boat I say “If your sure…”. And the group stays together, I just know it is about to be a long night.

The next 2 or 3 epics went really really well. I did check on the kill logs here and there and he was keeping up with or was our best killer. At one point the wife pointed out that she and the Rogue where tied and Tobril was 4 or 5 kills behind.

I have to say I was totally wrong about mister Rogue. And he wasn’t unpleasant to play with conversation wise to boot. I will say I have had days where I didn’t start off super strong and I think that was all that happened here. But if I hadn’t given this Rogue a second chance I would have stuck him in my mental shitty pile where clearly he did not belong.

So I guess I am saying sometimes if you give some one a second or third chance they might surprise you. And you also have to remember that anyone can have a false start or expect a given style and take a little bit to adjust to it not being the “norm”.

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So as some of you know I love twinking out my alts and my Trs. And while Cannith crafting is just about the best system to twink out; the ice games open up a whole lot of potential to get twinky.

I think I have talked about my feelings on twinking before but if not in a nut shell I love it. At low levels after a certain level of experience you can’t help but twink the most powerful thing in the game. Your level of skill.

Even a horrible player that has capped 2 or 3 guys and half pikes through every quest should have the basic skills to own the first 3-5 levels of Ddo quests. You/They might need a hair more experience to zerg them on elite in starter rags and flame touch great axe but what do I know. Maybe those piking skills can carry the day.

So all twinking out does for experienced players is pump up the fun. Well for non permie players any way.

So what did I twink out with the icy burst ritual this cold front? A BTA flaming falchon no min level and a lvl 2 holy great axe.

I try to keep an eye on my rewards lists. I always check the min level on an item. Some places are known for lower then normal level items. Like the Titan end reward list (I once pulled level 6 race required +6 dex boots). But BTA items are all over Ddo.

So over the last year I pulled those babies. I think I talked about the icy/pg repeater I saw in the carnival end reward list. And the Ddowiki has a good list of quests and chains that drop different BTA items.

I know Fopo has been running a few of the quests that drop BTA weapons, and getting good results. He has a PG Greatsword and a PG longbow both no min level. And some other items that I can’t remember.

I have one more kit to burn before the alter takes of on me. And my high level gear is mostly in place. Only missing a few slots here and there and those are epic items anyway. No, what I need is more key low level twink items that are helpful on many different builds. Maybe I can hunt up a bow like that PG one Fopo has…

Any way ❤