I finished "The High Road" with Wytorimabor, as he is the only character I have that can get there. I find that the new named end rewards are BtC on Equip. I really like this, as I have a few friends that do not have all of the updates to the game, and my groups awesome healer type doesn't have access to the series. I didn't find anything that I could really use, but I did see that the Epic version of Forgotten Light was up for the taking. So, I pick that and send it off to the awesome healer. I hope that the rest of the updates are just the same way, as I like to help the others in my group. I might just get a list of gear that the others in my group need, so that I can not only farm for me, but the others as well. I don't see the need to sell something on the AH or SE for some exorbitant price, as I will find the plat on my own, or just sell it at its cost, and allow you all to bid up to what you would like to pay for it.
I also got a +3 Dexterity Tome from another of my guild-mates! Apparently all of his characters either didn't need it, or he just was willing to part with it. He asked me what I would offer him, I said 200k plat, and he said "Sold, American". He later said that he would have given it to me free, but I said I would still pay him for it. They are very hard to come by, and I know that he took a hit on giving it to me at such a small price, as the current AH opening bid it 450k, and there isn't one on the SE at the moment...
I know that this is just rambling, but I have had a long day (the first work day in a week), and words are not coming out in coherent sentences. Maybe I will be more coherent later, and able to put down something better...
Monday, April 8, 2013
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
an update and a blast...
...from the not so immediate past.
Well, for me, at least. I ran a PUG with 2 of my guild-mates and we actually wiped! Apparently Lord of Blades will do that to groups on epic Hard. Wytorimabor was running tank, but couldn't hold agro without dying. We came to the part after you kill the puppies, and when the Quori trash came, we couldn't hold it together any longer...both cleric types died, and then the rogue that was throwing resurrections / raise deads also died... it ended a total mess. We also had some stupid bitching, moaning, and griping going on in the chat which was also something I haven't seen/heard in a LONG while.
The last time I was in a party that wiped was on maybe my 4th or 5th ever Shroud run, where we thought that we could run it on elite and also wiped at the second coming of Harry. I think that was before Christmas, and my job... I just thought that I should say something about what I have actually done lately.
Questing/Flagging:
Wyt is working on flagging for the new raid in GH and Black Abbot. Also he hasn't worked out all of the High Road series of quests, and has only solo'd the first in the series so far. I also still haven't ran the Amrath (sp?) series yet, but a good friend of mine gave me the pieces I was missing for my boots of anchoring, so I can build them when I need to. I am also one piece (# III) away on my Sigil so I can be flagged for the Black Abbot raid. Since last year, I hopped onto a group that was running HoX, Master Artificer, and Lord of Blades, so I was able to get into that one and we didn't wipe. I got into a VoN raid and won it too. I didn't know what we were doing in VoN, as the people were zerging it, and I know I missed at least one chest and the reason why we were in there... But anyway, check those off of my list of needing to be attempted and won on any setting.
Equipment:
Since my last update, last May, I have completed two tier 3 GH items, a Dwarven Axe, and a pair of goggles, which I have cleansed. they are both nice, but I am finding that my un-epic'd Templar's Justice with the force ritual added is still working out just fine. I would like to get a Duergar's Waraxe of the Weaponmaster, just to see how it matches up to the Justice. I upgraded my Epic Rock Boots to tier II and inserted a Diamond of Intelligence +5 into it. I figured I didn't have any intelligence boosts on Wyt, so I should get one, and I didn't see anything that I wanted to put there, that I already didn't have on, somewhere else...
TR:
Niernen has TR'd back into a wizard (second life), and is waiting on 7th level so he can get the maximum amount of xp from the quests we are running with the TR group.
Other Characters:
Notagmtrojan, Slipperyfish, and Ursamajorr have all been trekking slowly, as my job has been pretty much engulfing what used to be my abundant gaming time (but such is life). They all are in the 10 - 15 level range, so they are in that "too hard for soloing but can't find a party to run quests when I want to" stage of character building. Maybe I will get some time this summer to do just that...
Notagmtrojan is in a state of flux. I retooled her for Mabar, but I haven't retooled her back into the demon-killer that I initially intended her to be. She has way too many weapons, and way to little space for them all, so I don't know what I will be doing with her. I will definitely fix the tooling I did, and then figure her out, so to speak...
Slippery is now a dedicated repeater shooting, Master Mechanic. This is good, as I found a decent guide in the forums regarding this class. I still enjoy playing as him, and he works out when my friends need a rogue to fill out their parties.
Ursa is becoming a bit of a menace as he is a druidic half elf dilettante with fighter. He has more options to his weaponry than he would otherwise... I am still learning how to run with him, but it is still fun to do so. He hasn't become a hindrance in the parties he has been in, so that is good.
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Well, that is all for today. I hope that we all get the loot we want, on the first try. Be well and stay safe you all!
Fight On!
--GMT
Well, for me, at least. I ran a PUG with 2 of my guild-mates and we actually wiped! Apparently Lord of Blades will do that to groups on epic Hard. Wytorimabor was running tank, but couldn't hold agro without dying. We came to the part after you kill the puppies, and when the Quori trash came, we couldn't hold it together any longer...both cleric types died, and then the rogue that was throwing resurrections / raise deads also died... it ended a total mess. We also had some stupid bitching, moaning, and griping going on in the chat which was also something I haven't seen/heard in a LONG while.
The last time I was in a party that wiped was on maybe my 4th or 5th ever Shroud run, where we thought that we could run it on elite and also wiped at the second coming of Harry. I think that was before Christmas, and my job... I just thought that I should say something about what I have actually done lately.
Questing/Flagging:
Wyt is working on flagging for the new raid in GH and Black Abbot. Also he hasn't worked out all of the High Road series of quests, and has only solo'd the first in the series so far. I also still haven't ran the Amrath (sp?) series yet, but a good friend of mine gave me the pieces I was missing for my boots of anchoring, so I can build them when I need to. I am also one piece (# III) away on my Sigil so I can be flagged for the Black Abbot raid. Since last year, I hopped onto a group that was running HoX, Master Artificer, and Lord of Blades, so I was able to get into that one and we didn't wipe. I got into a VoN raid and won it too. I didn't know what we were doing in VoN, as the people were zerging it, and I know I missed at least one chest and the reason why we were in there... But anyway, check those off of my list of needing to be attempted and won on any setting.
Equipment:
Since my last update, last May, I have completed two tier 3 GH items, a Dwarven Axe, and a pair of goggles, which I have cleansed. they are both nice, but I am finding that my un-epic'd Templar's Justice with the force ritual added is still working out just fine. I would like to get a Duergar's Waraxe of the Weaponmaster, just to see how it matches up to the Justice. I upgraded my Epic Rock Boots to tier II and inserted a Diamond of Intelligence +5 into it. I figured I didn't have any intelligence boosts on Wyt, so I should get one, and I didn't see anything that I wanted to put there, that I already didn't have on, somewhere else...
TR:
Niernen has TR'd back into a wizard (second life), and is waiting on 7th level so he can get the maximum amount of xp from the quests we are running with the TR group.
Other Characters:
Notagmtrojan, Slipperyfish, and Ursamajorr have all been trekking slowly, as my job has been pretty much engulfing what used to be my abundant gaming time (but such is life). They all are in the 10 - 15 level range, so they are in that "too hard for soloing but can't find a party to run quests when I want to" stage of character building. Maybe I will get some time this summer to do just that...
Notagmtrojan is in a state of flux. I retooled her for Mabar, but I haven't retooled her back into the demon-killer that I initially intended her to be. She has way too many weapons, and way to little space for them all, so I don't know what I will be doing with her. I will definitely fix the tooling I did, and then figure her out, so to speak...
Slippery is now a dedicated repeater shooting, Master Mechanic. This is good, as I found a decent guide in the forums regarding this class. I still enjoy playing as him, and he works out when my friends need a rogue to fill out their parties.
Ursa is becoming a bit of a menace as he is a druidic half elf dilettante with fighter. He has more options to his weaponry than he would otherwise... I am still learning how to run with him, but it is still fun to do so. He hasn't become a hindrance in the parties he has been in, so that is good.
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Well, that is all for today. I hope that we all get the loot we want, on the first try. Be well and stay safe you all!
Fight On!
--GMT
Sunday, March 31, 2013
GMTrojan / Wytorimabor
Character Plan by DDO Character Planner Version 03.16.01
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Wytorimabor the Stalwart
Level 25 Lawful Good Dwarf Male
(20 Fighter \ 5 Epic)
Hit Points: 482
Spell Points: 0
BAB: 20\20\25\30\30
Fortitude: 17
Reflex: 9
Will: 7
Starting Ending Feat/Enhancement
Abilities Base Stats Base Stats Modified Stats
(28 Point) (Level 1) (Level 25) (Level 25)
Strength 16 25 28
Dexterity 14 16 16
Constitution 16 18 20
Intelligence 14 16 16
Wisdom 8 10 10
Charisma 6 8 8
Tomes Used
+2 Tome of Strength used at level 8
+2 Tome of Dexterity used at level 8
+2 Tome of Constitution used at level 8
+2 Tome of Intelligence used at level 8
+2 Tome of Wisdom used at level 8
+2 Tome of Charisma used at level 8
Starting Feat/Enhancement
Base Skills Modified Skills
Skills (Level 1) (Level 25)
Balance 3.5 23.5
Bluff -2 4
Concentration 3 10
Diplomacy -2 4
Disable Device n/a n/a
Haggle -2 5.5
Heal -1 5
Hide 2 8
Intimidate 2 42
Jump 7 37
Listen -1 5
Move Silently 2 8
Open Lock n/a n/a
Perform n/a n/a
Repair 2 8
Search 2 10
Spot -1 5
Swim 3 14
Tumble 3 9
UMD -0.5 15.5
Notable (worn Regularly) Equipment
Supreme Tyrant Green Steel Goggles of Negative
Purple Dragon Armor
Purple Dragon Helm
Purple Dragon Gauntlets
Epic Rock Boots (Tier II)
Cloak of Night (Level 24)
Fabricators Bracers
Signet of the Shining Sun
Epic Ring of the Buccaneer (Tier II)
Elite Spider Cult Mask
Templar's Justice
Epic Swashbuckler (Tier II)
Level 1 (Fighter)
Feat: (Selected) Toughness
Feat: (Fighter Bonus) Weapon Focus: Slashing Weapons
Enhancement: Dwarven Armor Mastery I
Enhancement: Fighter Item Defense I
Enhancement: Fighter Toughness I
Level 2 (Fighter)
Feat: (Fighter Bonus) Combat Expertise
Enhancement: Fighter Armor Class Boost I
Enhancement: Fighter Haste Boost I
Enhancement: Fighter Strength I
Level 3 (Fighter)
Feat: (Selected) Bullheaded
Enhancement: Dwarven Constitution I
Enhancement: Racial Toughness I
Level 4 (Fighter)
Feat: (Fighter Bonus) Weapon Specialization: Slashing Weapons
Enhancement: Fighter Armor Class Boost II
Enhancement: Fighter Toughness II
Level 5 (Fighter)
Enhancement: Fighter Armor Mastery I
Enhancement: Fighter Item Defense II
Level 6 (Fighter)
Feat: (Fighter Bonus) Dodge
Feat: (Selected) Skill Focus: Intimidate
Enhancement: Fighter Strength II
Level 7 (Fighter)
Enhancement: Fighter Armor Class Boost III
Enhancement: Fighter Haste Boost II
Level 8 (Fighter)
Feat: (Fighter Bonus) Improved Critical: Slashing Weapons
Enhancement: Improved Intimidate I
Enhancement: Improved Intimidate II
Level 9 (Fighter)
Feat: (Selected) Stunning Blow
Enhancement: Fighter Stalwart Defender I
Enhancement: Fighter Greataxe Specialization I
Enhancement: Improved Intimidate III
Level 10 (Fighter)
Feat: (Fighter Bonus) Greater Weapon Focus: Slashing Weapons
Enhancement: Dwarven Shield Mastery I
Enhancement: Dwarven Shield Mastery II
Level 11 (Fighter)
Enhancement: Dwarven Constitution II
Level 12 (Fighter)
Feat: (Fighter Bonus) Greater Weapon Specialization: Slashing Weapons
Feat: (Selected) Two Handed Fighting
Enhancement: Fighter Stalwart Defender II
Enhancement: Racial Toughness II
Enhancement: Improved Intimidate IV
Level 13 (Fighter)
Level 14 (Fighter)
Feat: (Fighter Bonus) Power Attack
Enhancement: Fighter Strength III
Level 15 (Fighter)
Feat: (Selected) Improved Two Handed Fighting
Enhancement: Dwarven Shield Mastery III
Level 16 (Fighter)
Feat: (Fighter Bonus) Greater Two Handed Fighting
Level 17 (Fighter)
Enhancement: Fighter Toughness III
Level 18 (Fighter)
Feat: (Fighter Bonus) Shield Mastery
Feat: (Selected) Superior Weapon Focus: Slashing Weapons
Level 19 (Fighter)
Enhancement: Fighter Stalwart Defender III
Enhancement: Fighter Greataxe Specialization II
Enhancement: Fighter Toughness IV
Level 20 (Fighter)
Feat: (Fighter Bonus) Improved Shield Mastery
Enhancement: Fighter Weapon Alacrity
Enhancement: Dwarven Spell Defense I
Enhancement: Fighter Armor Mastery II
Enhancement: Fighter Tower Shield Mastery I
Enhancement: Fighter Dwarven Waraxe Specialization I
Enhancement: Fighter Dwarven Waraxe Specialization II
Level 21 (Fighter)
Feat: (Selected) Great Strength
Level 22 (Fighter)
Level 23 (Fighter)
Level 24 (Fighter)
Level 25 (Fighter)
Monday, December 31, 2012
Happy New Year!
May you all have a great and joyous year! Fight the good fight, and have fun storming the castles!
--GMTrojan
Thursday, May 24, 2012
Update - May
Well as before - If you care, read on, if not please go to another persons post to troll and leave rude comments...
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Adventures: 1) Flagged for Lord of Blades, this past month. That makes: The Shroud, Lord of Blades, Vault/Plane of Night, Reaver's Fate raids that I am flagged for. I still need Zawabi's Revenge, Assention Chamber, The Twilight Forge/Titan Awakes, Tower of Despair, and Hound of Xoriat. Well, I need to be good enough with a good enough party to get to the Hound of Xoriat first... If I have doubled up on one or another, oops... I did a ton of Smuggler's Rest so I could get the epic versions of the gear I wanted and had at lower levels.
Gearing: I am now/still trying to clean out the inventories of all of my toons. I filled them up quite a bit with loot from the Smugglers Cove event that just ended. I finally got that Epic Cavalry Plate that I had been wanting for what seemed like forever. I then matched it with an Epic Swashbuckler, and an Epic Buccaneers Ring. I also got the Fabricator's set and Magewright's Spectacles from House Cannith. I have not upgraded them yet, so I have not seen that part of the bonuses. I'm starting to see the beauty of these pairings and maybe, just maybe will be able to use them into the distant future with Wytorimabor. I know that the spec's don't truly work for a Stalwart Fighter, but the Intelligence boost doesn't hurt at all. Besides that, Niernen will grab them up when he reaches level 18, which might possibly happen in December or so... Niernen has just picked up all five pieces of the Abishi set. I haven't played him with the full set active, so I don't know if it will work out for him, but the increase to his Evocation and Conjuration won't be a bad thing. I just have to figure out what I will be losing in exchange from the addition of the pieces. It will probably just mean that I am going to be changing a lot of things out during adventures now.
Toons: Well, I used that Heart of Wood to retool Wytorimabor. I used the basic build that is given in the ddowiki on the Dwarven Stalwart Defender......
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This is unfinished, but it just may be soon... Real life is happening
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Adventures: 1) Flagged for Lord of Blades, this past month. That makes: The Shroud, Lord of Blades, Vault/Plane of Night, Reaver's Fate raids that I am flagged for. I still need Zawabi's Revenge, Assention Chamber, The Twilight Forge/Titan Awakes, Tower of Despair, and Hound of Xoriat. Well, I need to be good enough with a good enough party to get to the Hound of Xoriat first... If I have doubled up on one or another, oops... I did a ton of Smuggler's Rest so I could get the epic versions of the gear I wanted and had at lower levels.
Gearing: I am now/still trying to clean out the inventories of all of my toons. I filled them up quite a bit with loot from the Smugglers Cove event that just ended. I finally got that Epic Cavalry Plate that I had been wanting for what seemed like forever. I then matched it with an Epic Swashbuckler, and an Epic Buccaneers Ring. I also got the Fabricator's set and Magewright's Spectacles from House Cannith. I have not upgraded them yet, so I have not seen that part of the bonuses. I'm starting to see the beauty of these pairings and maybe, just maybe will be able to use them into the distant future with Wytorimabor. I know that the spec's don't truly work for a Stalwart Fighter, but the Intelligence boost doesn't hurt at all. Besides that, Niernen will grab them up when he reaches level 18, which might possibly happen in December or so... Niernen has just picked up all five pieces of the Abishi set. I haven't played him with the full set active, so I don't know if it will work out for him, but the increase to his Evocation and Conjuration won't be a bad thing. I just have to figure out what I will be losing in exchange from the addition of the pieces. It will probably just mean that I am going to be changing a lot of things out during adventures now.
Toons: Well, I used that Heart of Wood to retool Wytorimabor. I used the basic build that is given in the ddowiki on the Dwarven Stalwart Defender......
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This is unfinished, but it just may be soon... Real life is happening
Thursday, May 10, 2012
First Epic Run Completed
Yep! Finally! Got my first epic adventure completed. Lords of Dust, if you want to know. I didn't get any scrolls or tokens for making epic weapons from that series though... :-(
We also tried VoN1, but got wiped in the Arena. How do you get out of the way of the kobold casters? Or is there a series of spells you should have cast on you for the defense you will need to block them all? Acid fog and death spells don't go well together... Well, off to fight another day!
--GMT
We also tried VoN1, but got wiped in the Arena. How do you get out of the way of the kobold casters? Or is there a series of spells you should have cast on you for the defense you will need to block them all? Acid fog and death spells don't go well together... Well, off to fight another day!
--GMT
Sunday, April 22, 2012
April Update...
If you care, read on, if not then enjoy a different post. Life is too short to read the musings of trolls in the comments!
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I finally flagged for the Shroud raid. I don't have enough mats to make my GS item yet. I am choosing a set of bracers, as all of my other slots are pretty much taken up by gear that Wyt likes, and is using. I need more chipmunk funk and shiny pebbles, to make the last of the manufactured mats for the blank item. I have been wanting to try Epic adventures, and I actually got another lvl 20 buddy to try Disruptor on elite (lvl 21) last night, and we didn't make it twice in a row. We almost made it the first time, but that damned Entropic Skeleton wouldn't freaking die in enough time... The only good things about it, is we did kill the damned thing and got a level 17 chest out of it each. Granted selling the gear barely covered the repair bills, but it was worth the experience of the attempt. Do you need more people to attack the epic challenge quests; as I think it should be attainable with 2 live toons, or will the game just scale the mobs to something even worse... We are pretty much playing it the way we play the non-epic version to grind out the mats, but there just seems to be something missing... if it is the fact I am not a spell-wielding maniac, then the game can just suck it... Toons... I am also thinking of using my lesser heart of wood to retool Wyt's Feats and skills. I built him a long time ago, when I was playing pretty much solo and chose whilly nilly his skills and other stuff. I now have the chance to fix the failures of my inexperienced past, and maybe, just maybe, be just that much better and not suck too much to be a viable part of an epic adventuring team. I am finding a lot of fun in my Paladin (Notagmtrojan) and realize that she may never become some epic slayer, but the toon does make me happy when she lops off a kobold's head! Niernen is becoming better at taking out large mobs. He entered a PUG last night (read below) and pulled a few people out of the fire. He died a few times, but that is because I forgot to grab a hireling first and they didn't have one either... They sat in the dungeon, dead, and I pulled and got one, and 4 minutes later...done.
Gearing... I am finding more stuff that I don't use than do now a days. Most of my other toons are decked out in decent gear that Wyt had found in his adventures, so they are not running much to find it. I am still trying to get the gear that Wyt needs to do epics...
Adventuring... I am kinda sad that at least one of my static group has not been on in way over a month. She has been an integral part of our little happy family and it is also sad that I have not spoken to her in a long while. Plus, times are a changing, making a longer bridge between levels of toons that I can run with, with friends. I even actually jumped into a couple of PUG's last night, and had some fun. There wasn't much interaction between me and the others in the groups, but for those that know me, know that this is a big step. I have weird rules to running adventures - most notably: 1) No PUG's. I guess that this is because of a time I was invited to a group that needed a rogue...I didn't know the adventure very well, and definitely not as a rogue, and was bitched out by some player that got angry because I "didn't have the gear I was supposed to..." and "stupidly set off a trap" that everyone knew was there. I died in the beginning and pulled out of the group. I didn't need to hear what that person had to say, in the way s/he was saying it. I figured that if they wanted my assistance they would have to deal with my shortcomings too. I hope that that toon died (aka permadeath) and they had to wipe the attempt
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I finally flagged for the Shroud raid. I don't have enough mats to make my GS item yet. I am choosing a set of bracers, as all of my other slots are pretty much taken up by gear that Wyt likes, and is using. I need more chipmunk funk and shiny pebbles, to make the last of the manufactured mats for the blank item. I have been wanting to try Epic adventures, and I actually got another lvl 20 buddy to try Disruptor on elite (lvl 21) last night, and we didn't make it twice in a row. We almost made it the first time, but that damned Entropic Skeleton wouldn't freaking die in enough time... The only good things about it, is we did kill the damned thing and got a level 17 chest out of it each. Granted selling the gear barely covered the repair bills, but it was worth the experience of the attempt. Do you need more people to attack the epic challenge quests; as I think it should be attainable with 2 live toons, or will the game just scale the mobs to something even worse... We are pretty much playing it the way we play the non-epic version to grind out the mats, but there just seems to be something missing... if it is the fact I am not a spell-wielding maniac, then the game can just suck it... Toons... I am also thinking of using my lesser heart of wood to retool Wyt's Feats and skills. I built him a long time ago, when I was playing pretty much solo and chose whilly nilly his skills and other stuff. I now have the chance to fix the failures of my inexperienced past, and maybe, just maybe, be just that much better and not suck too much to be a viable part of an epic adventuring team. I am finding a lot of fun in my Paladin (Notagmtrojan) and realize that she may never become some epic slayer, but the toon does make me happy when she lops off a kobold's head! Niernen is becoming better at taking out large mobs. He entered a PUG last night (read below) and pulled a few people out of the fire. He died a few times, but that is because I forgot to grab a hireling first and they didn't have one either... They sat in the dungeon, dead, and I pulled and got one, and 4 minutes later...done.
Gearing... I am finding more stuff that I don't use than do now a days. Most of my other toons are decked out in decent gear that Wyt had found in his adventures, so they are not running much to find it. I am still trying to get the gear that Wyt needs to do epics...
Adventuring... I am kinda sad that at least one of my static group has not been on in way over a month. She has been an integral part of our little happy family and it is also sad that I have not spoken to her in a long while. Plus, times are a changing, making a longer bridge between levels of toons that I can run with, with friends. I even actually jumped into a couple of PUG's last night, and had some fun. There wasn't much interaction between me and the others in the groups, but for those that know me, know that this is a big step. I have weird rules to running adventures - most notably: 1) No PUG's. I guess that this is because of a time I was invited to a group that needed a rogue...I didn't know the adventure very well, and definitely not as a rogue, and was bitched out by some player that got angry because I "didn't have the gear I was supposed to..." and "stupidly set off a trap" that everyone knew was there. I died in the beginning and pulled out of the group. I didn't need to hear what that person had to say, in the way s/he was saying it. I figured that if they wanted my assistance they would have to deal with my shortcomings too. I hope that that toon died (aka permadeath) and they had to wipe the attempt
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