Ghost Touch or the lack there of

[Rightous]

new life, new weapons and trying to do reaper mode and all i have is a lvl 4 heavy repeating ghost touch cross bow.
im now lvl 12 doing +4 reaper and it take's more then a full fusilade which in the mean time while i jump backwards
trying to escape there 145 damage hits i end up dead.
I have had a choice of over 200 crossbows from rewards since i started this character and not one has been a ghost touch.
i got lucky and got the lvl 4 from a shard auction.
why would you make a reaper mode needing ghost touch weapons and NEVER offer a ghost touch weapon in a reaper end reward???
what kind of backward thinking is this?
i stopped playing this game for years because slaver equipment doesn't look any different fully loaded then the empty slaver equipment and after making a epic
dex slaver item i put it on and sold off the rest of the empty drops and oops one of the clicks must have been double and the item i put on was in the empties and it was sold so i figured it out while still
standing at the same trader what had happened and i went to buy back but oops there was no slaver items in the buy back so i contacted support right then and there told them what happened and they emailed me back and asked the time and place which i was still standing at.
they emailed me back a day later and told me to bad we don't replace sold items.so i said to bad im out and after 3 years i finally cooled off enough to come back.
now im trying to do reaper made and a ghost touch is needed and since i been back not one ghost touch weapon has ever dropped especially a crossbow so i bought the only one ghost touch item in both shard and regular auctions.
i need to know why there are so few ghost touch drops I just can not understand the ridiculous lock of the developers of this game.
work for a year to make a item and it can't be bought back and it cant be replaced.
make a reaper system and not drop the items needed to fight them.
Please explain this logic so i think better of you.

[Renvar]

You can cannith craft this weapon, or use an augment in any weapon with a red or orange slot. I'd recomment Ratcatcher from Threnal. ML 8, killer crit profile. And a slot for a Ruby of Ghostbane.

Then there is the ethereal effect you can get on items. Like Black Opal Bracers, Ethereal Bracers, Spectral Gloves, or Ring of the Stalker. Those are nice options.

Then there is the Ghostly effect, which also allows you to hit incorporeal mobs. LIke Softsole Slippers at ML 10 from Ravenloft. Use the DDO Wiki. There are a lot of options for itemization.

[Tyrande]

Get a Black Opal Bracer, Spectral Gloves, Ethereal Bracers? That way you can use any weapon.

[Livmo]

Get a Black Opal Bracer, Spectral Gloves, Ethereal Bracers? That way you can use any weapon.

And

https://ddowiki.com/page/Item:Dream_Visor

[Livmo]

https://i.imgur.com/B7hyV4E.jpg

[tinyelvis]

Or play a pale master. They seem to have all bases covered. They are the Spocks of DDO.

[Saekee]

Or play a pale master. They seem to have all bases covered. They are the Spocks of DDO.
EK too, but yeah, same class...Spellsword (or SpellWEAPON) gets ghost touch

but the gear suggestions above are excellent. Cloak of INvisibility out of Tempest Spine, 5 min run to farm it, rinse repeat til you get it. Ellisdee has a Youtube video on it too if you need to see it.

[hp1055cm]

Please explain this logic so i think better of you.

98% of all ghostbane random loot items ever created were created during the release of U19 back in 2013.
Many people thought we had too much ghostbane at that time, if you can believe it. ;)
Every chest had a ghostbane item. It was everywhere.
I don't think the devs have recoved from the backlash yet...

Don't worry, we are at the minimum cycle and soon will return to the days of ghostbane like it was a long time ago...



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[jskinner937]

You can cannith craft this weapon, or use an augment in any weapon with a red or orange slot. I'd recomment Ratcatcher from Threnal. ML 8, killer crit profile. And a slot for a Ruby of Ghostbane.

Then there is the ethereal effect you can get on items. Like Black Opal Bracers, Ethereal Bracers, Spectral Gloves, or Ring of the Stalker. Those are nice options.

Then there is the Ghostly effect, which also allows you to hit incorporeal mobs. LIke Softsole Slippers at ML 10 from Ravenloft. Use the DDO Wiki. There are a lot of options for itemization.

GL getting a ruby of Ghostbane on the HcL server. Considering that is a mabar exclusive.

[yfernbottom]

I bought a ghostbane Xbow on the HcL server. They weren't cheap, but there were plenty of weapons for sale for plat.

[jskinner937]

I bought a ghostbane Xbow on the HcL server. They weren't cheap, but there were plenty of weapons for sale for plat.

Ruby of Ghostbane is an augment only available from Night Revels. Sure you can find Ghostbane items on th AH but you cannot slot that into a red slot on ratcatcher.

[mr420247]

GHOST BANE FOREVER

You'll get my ghostbane from my cold dead fist

Sorry had too

[Alrik_Fassbauer]

I have had a choice of over 200 crossbows from rewards since i started this character and not one has been a ghost touch.

Not even Guidance from The Catacombs ?

Edit : Just checked : No, Guidance doesn't have Ghost Touch.
But some bolts have. I think Ghost Touch bolts can even be crafted. I have a few from random loot. Random loot Ghost Touch bolts and arrows are rare, though.

But : Ghost Touch crossbows DO exist !
I have 2 myself. From random loot. They are very rare, but they do exist. You must check the pawn brokers regularly, I think I have one from there.

[Rightous]

very helpful comments i thank you all
I think i have dream visors in some inventory but did not know they have ghost touch on them this will help soooo much

[LurkingVeteran]

It's probably worse for first-life melee. They often have a small window to burst down some reapers or die, and can't rely on crafting etc. It just becomes an arbitrary gear check, where all vets will make sure they have a ghost touch weapon while new players will die. At best they google for a solution, or at worst they give up.

As long as reaper remains the most common PUG difficulty, and high DPS, I question the wisdom of putting arbitrary gear checks like that on reapers. 30% ethereal might be ok, but since reapers are the signature challenge of reaper difficulty, 50% is a very heavy penalty for first-life melee.

This really applies too all high DR/immunity mechanics in DDO, it shouldn't be hard pass/fail based on the particular items or specs people happen to have. It's fine if they are less effective sometimes, but since new players don't know what they will face in advance, they should never be vastly less effective or face certain death just because they didn't have the "right" build or brought the right DR breaker for the quest.

[LightBear]

Spels don't need ghosttouch.
Wolfs get some from nature warrior.

https://ddowiki.com/page/Category:Ghost_Touch_items

[Paladin_of_Power]

Best thing I did for my Inquisitive is craft a Holy Crossbow of Evil Outsider Bane, with Vampirism. With a red slotted Ghostbane ruby. Works wonderfully for Reapers, Devil race, and incorps in general. Abishai and Orthons just melt away.

[C-Dog]

It's probably worse for first-life melee. They often have a small window to burst down some reapers or die, and can't rely on crafting etc. It just becomes an arbitrary gear check...
Catacombs has some ML 2 GT weapons - a great sword, a longsword, a dagger, and handwraps.

o https://ddowiki.com/page/Catacombs#Reward_List (GS is from one of the quests, not end reward)

[eightspoons]

Obviously far too late now, and not at all relevant to the topic of ghost touch, but just felt the need to point out a helpful feature a lot of players don't seem to realise exists:

always, always, always lock items you definitely don't want to lose so you can't accidentally sell/destroy/dissolve them. Use the padlock button in your inventory window.

That's all.