It looks like higher tier items will become purchase only....

[Draugkir]

well its a business..

if you sign up as vip.. youll get some monthly free points for crafting.. so.. issues sorted

[Thrudh]

My only complaint so far is high level crafting ingredients dropping in end reward lists of non-high level quests.

Sounds like:
A) A lame way to force people to run sorrowdusk.
B) A way to let mid-levels make money by selling their stuff to high levels
C) A way to get lv 20's to smash through low level quests for grind.

Other than that, everything i've read is very exciting. Even the TP levels of the crafting stuff isnt bad.

This isn't much different from the limited crafting we already do... Vials of Pure Water aren't found in the top quests... You either grind out some low level quests or buy them on the AH...

[Syvrak]

If some of the blanks are only available in the DDO store i personally think that crafting may tip the scales towards being a pay to be uber game.

- no items in game at the moment require a purchase from the DDO store outside of packs which are not a "consumed resource"

- no ITEMS in the store are required to play the game atm aside from packs

- if the trinket blank is exclusively found in the DDO store who is to say that there won't be other DDO store exclusive blanks? this could very quickly become a very disturbing trend towards purchasing the ability to craft things that other people who may play/work even harder in the game cannot simply by whipping out a credit card.

edit : i hope i'm just doomsaying

Haven't gotten on today yet. But, what would make the most sense to me is if they are selling regular 'blanks' in the store on top of you being able to make your own blanks in-game. Much like you can purchase +1 - +3 weapons in the store. But, who the heck needs to bother since they drop all over the place. Hoping that the "blank" you produce from, say, a +5 silver kopesh axe is a silver blank instead of just a "blank" which would mean it's just steel.

Will find out soon enough. Here's hoping.

[Valakai]

*casts empowered, mamimised, heightened DOOOOOOOM* (would also use extend but extend no longer works on almost nothing but buffs)

I dont get why people get so bent out of shape over the DDO Store and Turbine wishing to make money instead of serving every f2p who never spend a single dollar on TPs.

[sirgog]

Mana pots drop in the game like they're going out of style. What's your point?

The top ones don't. Mana pots have a cooldown, and the in-game looted mana pots cannot generate as much mana back ultra-fast as the store ones can. (The same can be said about some of the top-tier healing consumables, but they aren't useful past about level 12).

Still, if these trinkets are store only, this is really bad form. They should drop somewhere in game, and so should the Concentrated Mana Potions.

[Gremmlynn]

I have a feeling, come U9 live, every general vendor in the game will be selling an item simply called "trinket". As, at least from what I've gathered from this forum, one can buy from a vendor an item simply called "club" to make a blank for that uber "+5 vicious club of greater halfling bane" everybody wants. Though they may get tricky on us and make players figure out where the Tower of the Twelve or Portable Hole is to buy one.

[Backley]

I have a feeling, come U9 live, every general vendor in the game will be selling an item simply called "trinket". As, at least from what I've gathered from this forum, one can buy from a vendor an item simply called "club" to make a blank for that uber "+5 vicious club of greater halfling bane" everybody wants. Though they may get tricky on us and make players figure out where the Tower of the Twelve or Portable Hole is to buy one.

We can hope, but know that that would be a change from the current claim on the Lamannia DDO Store:

Craftable trinkets are only available in the DDO Store!

[Gremmlynn]

We can hope, but know that that would be a change from the current claim on the Lamannia DDO Store:

That could simply be because they haven't gotten around to changing the item tables on the vendors or decided how they are going to handle it exactly as of yet. This really feels like it was something that was only realized at the last second and the store option tossed on as a fix.