Quote Originally Posted by taurean430 View Post
Silver longbow at 3,800 plat buyout: are you advocating ranged dps?


+3 Silver Bastard Sword of Pure Good, 45K plat buyout: bastard sword proficiency

+2 Frost Silver light mace of Pure Good, 25k plat buyout: +2 light mace

There were plenty of other things that I saw that were reasonable, I'm just too lazy to continue screenshotting them. That is as of 5 mins ago... but these somewhat reasonable deals on DR breakers are mixed in with 300k + plat buyouts of similar weapons. In one case that made me chuckle, there are four +5 Metalline Bastard Sword of Pure Good's up there: low price is 135k plat and high is 500k plat. Meanwhile, if you look you will find the +3 Silver Bastard Sword of Pure Good I have a screenie of above.

Heavy fort is available via numerous sources. There isn't any excuse not to have it. Head/Neck/Ring/Belt/Robe slots are easy to find items for. My first toon had it at level 8 without anyone mentioning it's value to me. It's self explanatory, and practically free from at least two sources.

The problem I see with newer players like myself isn't that these things are not available. It's more like being unmotivated to look for stuff you need to make it. Combine that with the tendency of some player to not want to be bothered with a less than ideal, but effective weapon. Get enough of these people in a Shroud run and you will have what I had the other day: http://forums.ddo.com/showpost.php?p...7&postcount=18

When I started getting interested in running Shroud on my first toon there were similar deals available on serviceable weapons. I used those until I found what I wanted.
reasonable? start a new character on a new server, and then let me know if you think anything near 50k for minimally acceptable harry beaters is reasonable? No reliable guildies to help or zerg you up either. pug it on up. Is that the kind of stuff you had when you where running in all those 13-16 25min pug shrouds back in the day?