Shroud loot builder for dummies

[NutlessWonder]

sorry for all the edits, I actually got a bit turned up checking the planner against the wiki

the planner lists the correct recipes for the essences from what I checked

you may have accidently used the wrong ingredient, making an ethereal instead of a material essence

Edit: the difference between ethereal and material is that material requires a shrapnel while ethereal requires a chain. You may have accidently switched the two of these.

I dont know, like i said in earlier post, i sat there reading the ingredients multiple times to make sure i did it right and plus the list doesnt change for sm/md/lg mats all same and same order. i have the print out infront of me as i did it. BUt whatever its to late now.

[Srozbun]

I dont know, like i said in earlier post, i sat there reading the ingredients multiple times to make sure i did it right and plus the list doesnt change for sm/md/lg mats all same and same order. i have the print out infront of me as i did it. BUt whatever its to late now.

well in the long run it won't matter too much as you will acquire tons of smalls/meds and will be pigeon holed by your lack of large ingredients. Be glad that you caught this before you used any larges for tier 3. The planner does list the correct recipe so based on the fact that you got nullification for both tiers 1 and 2 I'd say when you were crafting you mistakenly used chain instead of shrapnel both times. Just be a bit careful the next time you craft.

[NutlessWonder]

well in the long run it won't matter too much as you will acquire tons of smalls/meds and will be pigeon holed by your lack of large ingredients. Be glad that you caught this before you used any larges for tier 3. The planner does list the correct recipe so based on the fact that you got nullification for both tiers 1 and 2 I'd say when you were crafting you mistakenly used chain instead of shrapnel both times. Just be a bit careful the next time you craft.

yea, i have tons of sm/med mats its the blanks that are a pain to get. idk how i wouldve placed wrong in alter when reading the printout while putting in and triple checking to make sure. but thank you for your help. i will farming the hell out of the vale now i guess. - huge waste of time.

[tihocan]

I was using your planner to go with a pure uholy/evil weapon and got to tier two and realized that its all screwed up. Tier two of evil on a wep give nullificatoin. Can you tell me if that is what that is supposed to give. I was hopeing to get hve unholy/evil blast/ evil burst and now i dont think its going to work. Can you tell me if that will change when i go to evil burst on the item. if not then it needs to be changed in the planner or at least noted so that ppl dont waste their time and mats for somethign that is wrong. it kind of errkd me when i saw that it had nullifiication on it.

Sorry about that, you probably made an ethereal instead of material essence. I double-checked the crafting steps for this item and I don't think it's a mistake in the planner (though nothing is impossible, but to be convinced of an error I'd need a screenshot of the crafting log output, or you to point me exactly towards the the faulty crafting instructions if there's an obvious mistake in them which I'm missing somehow).

The key step to watch when crafting an item is when you're about to imbue the shard: make sure the gem / essence / focus match those from the recipe. This way if you made a mistake when making one of these, you don't have to start again from scratch, and you don't waste a shard either.

[Arcath]

The tier 1 Negative energy absorption upgrade on a weapon is 15%. The loot planner is showing 10%. I made a ConOP weapon last night and put the nea on tier one and was pleasantly surprised it was more then I expected.

[tihocan]

The tier 1 Negative energy absorption upgrade on a weapon is 15%. The loot planner is showing 10%. I made a ConOP weapon last night and put the nea on tier one and was pleasantly surprised it was more then I expected.

Thanks for letting me know! I fixed it. I can't remember where I had took the numbers from, and the Wiki lists the 3 tiers of neg energy absorption as 15%/20%/15%, which looks weird, so I kept 20%/30% for tiers 2 and 3 but added a note that they are unconfirmed.

[Don1966]

so i've spec'ed out a necklace using this planner and have a question on it. it seems i can have wizardry VI, +100 sp and +50 sp on for a total of 275 sp. are all of those sp going to stack?
all of my choices are shown in the screen capture located here http://www.tsupra.com/greensteelnecklace.jpg

[Sanadil]

It will be a total of 300, and yes it stacks. If you are a full blown lvl 20 Favored Soul, or Sorcerer, you get 450.

Wizardry VI = 150 SP (Double for FS or SORC)

[tihocan]

so i've spec'ed out a necklace using this planner and have a question on it. it seems i can have wizardry VI, +100 sp and +50 sp on for a total of 275 sp. are all of those sp going to stack?
all of my choices are shown in the screen capture located here http://www.tsupra.com/greensteelnecklace.jpg

You know you can link directly to the url in planner, no need to take a screenshot
The stacking information should be shown when you mouse over an item, although currently it doesn't show for the "group title" for items that are in a group (like for instance it won't show if you mouse over "Wizardry VI", but it will if you mouse over one of the items below). That's something I know I should fix...

The short answer is yes, they all stack together.

[Don1966]

It will be a total of 300, and yes it stacks. If you are a full blown lvl 20 Favored Soul, or Sorcerer, you get 450.

Wizardry VI = 150 SP (Double for FS or SORC)

my bad, forgot that wizardry is 25 sp per rank. with that said it seems i found a tiny, insignificant typo in the loot builder, when you hover over the stuff under Concordant Opposition box it says +125 sp, not 150 sp. i'm very glad to find out it all stacks before i started to add the effects to my necklace. of course now i really gotta farm an extra set of large ingredients.

[hermespan]

You know you can link directly to the url in planner, no need to take a screenshot

QFT. I LOVE this feature. I have all of my GS planned out and have bookmarks for each piece. They come in real handy when you are crafting in the shroud, especially if you are building 3 GS concurrently in various stages of completion.

[tihocan]

my bad, forgot that wizardry is 25 sp per rank. with that said it seems i found a tiny, insignificant typo in the loot builder, when you hover over the stuff under Concordant Opposition box it says +125 sp, not 150 sp. i'm very glad to find out it all stacks before i started to add the effects to my necklace. of course now i really gotta farm an extra set of large ingredients.

Thanks a lot for letting me know, I fixed it

[Cam_Neely]

Getting close to crafting my first item, and want to confirm a few things before starting.

1.) "Energy cell" used in making the blank are the ones that can be bought in Meridia correct?
2.) "Low energy cell" (med and High) are the ones that you get in chests in the Shroud and can be repowered by +6 to +10 weapons?
3.)Alignment: Holy
Elemental blast: Acid
Elemental burst: Acid
Mineral II (Metalline, keen, slicing)

is the combo for the typical boss beater?

4.) Can these (and should they) be attuned with force ritual added as soon as the bank is made?

[stainer]

Getting close to crafting my first item, and want to confirm a few things before starting.

1.) "Energy cell" used in making the blank are the ones that can be bought in Meridia correct?
2.) "Low energy cell" (med and High) are the ones that you get in chests in the Shroud and can be repowered by +6 to +10 weapons?
3.)Alignment: Holy
Elemental blast: Acid
Elemental burst: Acid
Mineral II (Metalline, keen, slicing)

is the combo for the typical boss beater?

4.) Can these (and should they) be attuned with force ritual added as soon as the bank is made?

1-3 yes (high powered cells can be powered with a +8 weapon)
4 I haven't added any rituals before. Not sure how that works.

[tihocan]

Getting close to crafting my first item, and want to confirm a few things before starting.

1.) "Energy cell" used in making the blank are the ones that can be bought in Meridia correct?
2.) "Low energy cell" (med and High) are the ones that you get in chests in the Shroud and can be repowered by +6 to +10 weapons?
3.)Alignment: Holy
Elemental blast: Acid
Elemental burst: Acid
Mineral II (Metalline, keen, slicing)

is the combo for the typical boss beater?

4.) Can these (and should they) be attuned with force ritual added as soon as the bank is made?

1. Yes
2. Yes. You only need to power up Medium and High ones (in practice, I only had to do it for ones, because you typically loot enough charged Medium ones).
3. Yes. Having +2 Exc Con is also fairly popular, although less so since ToD rings.
4. Yes, you can do rituals on them whenever you want. Whether you should or not is up to you.

[Cam_Neely]

thank you both for your quick replys. Now to just get those pesky materials to start making a blank -.-

I'm thinking attuning is a definite for me. I'm building a greatax for my Barbarian, and none of my alts are greatax wielding, so its not like ill be passing it to them. So cant really think of a downside to do it.

[tihocan]

thank you both for your quick replys. Now to just get those pesky materials to start making a blank -.-

I'm thinking attuning is a definite for me. I'm building a greatax for my Barbarian, and none of my alts are greatax wielding, so its not like ill be passing it to them. So cant really think of a downside to do it.

It's just there is no upside if you don't add a ritual. It's bound anyways as soon as you equip it or upgrade it.

[Matuse]

it seems i can have wizardry VI, +100 sp and +50 sp on for a total of 275 sp. are all of those sp going to stack?

Yes, they are going to stack, but don't do it.

There are so many ways to get Archmagi in the game, and Archmagi and Wizardry VI will -not- stack. Unless you're just dying for that +1 skill boost, stick something better in that upgrade, something that won't be obsolete before you even finish the tier3 upgrade. The elemental spellpoints will stack with either of them.

[SINIBYTE]

ToD rings

Speaking of.. is there a planner for these? Still need more trophies, but getting close to doing my rings...

[tihocan]

Speaking of.. is there a planner for these? Still need more trophies, but getting close to doing my rings...

I made a quick one here.