(Passive\Free) Pastlife feat

[Neouni]

[Valindria]

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5% chance not to use a charge on rod, staff, or wand and +1 UMD (can be stacked 3 times).

http://ddowiki.com/images/Artificer_Pastlife.png

Edit: not sure the issue cause after I posted I could see the pic...

[Cyr]

Zero percent chance of not using a charge on a rod, staff, or wand would not excite me...

+1 UMD is okay, but the toons which have it are generally going to have enough that a +1 to +3 to it is not going to make much difference.

Very unimpressive past life benefits...bard might even be better /shudder.

[Pewf]

Excuse my noobiness, but what are rods?

[Jaid314]

Excuse my noobiness, but what are rods?

standard (pen and paper) D&D magical item. basically, they're scepters, sometimes they'll have "clickies" and sometimes they'll have permanent abilities.

edit: oh, and in the event that it applies to all clickies, this could be quite interesting. it could mean a chance to not use up your SP recharge clickies, for example, or another use of an eardweller, or more lesser maximise clickies, and so on. it might not be a big deal, but then again it might be a really big deal.

[Shade]

Excuse my noobiness, but what are rods?

In ddo, they the same as wands.

Rod of Teleport is the only one i can thnk of offhand thats ingame atm. Works like any other wand.

[HarveyMilk]

Pretty lackluster. Maybe if it was 15% stacking, instead of 5%, it'd be fun

[Tuney]

You guys might be thinking the +1 umd is 'lackluster' but you are thinking 'just end game.' Mid-early game that +1 UMD can make a diffence! The past life sounds intresting all togeather, If the class is fun I might alter my build to use the past life or even change from bard to it hehe.

[Lithic]

Zero percent chance of not using a charge on a rod, staff, or wand would not excite me...

+1 UMD is okay, but the toons which have it are generally going to have enough that a +1 to +3 to it is not going to make much difference.

Very unimpressive past life benefits...bard might even be better /shudder.

It could be better, but up to +3 UMD could mean the difference between starting with an 8 cha, or 11 cha to hit +39, or using up an item slot for a UMD item, or not needing to switch gear at all.

For my rogue for example, at 20 I'll have:

23 ranks
03 completionist
03 3x artificer past lives
05 titan gloves
06 20 cha (12 start, +6 item, +2 tome)

Saves me my cloak spot, which is currently a +5 cha skills/blindness immunity/disease immunity, conc opp 2 cloak. I could even take skill focus UMD, bump cha to 14 to start, and get a +4 cha tome to drop the titan gloves if there ever comes a decent OL/DD item. If you don't mind taking GH into account, you can even drop the cha item and +4 tome.

Don't get me wrong, +2 would be way better, but for any UMD user, these past lives (especially if stacked) will allow for more flexibility. Now the question is will an artificer life be too painfull to stack 3 of them?

[Neouni]

Most people seem to forget, pastlife feats mirror what the class is about.
So if the pastlife gives this, the class itself probably has much better versions as class enhancements or prestige lines.

[Mister_Peace]

In ddo, they the same as wands.

Rod of Teleport is the only one i can thnk of offhand thats ingame atm. Works like any other wand.

It's like a clicky club with non-recharging charges, because you can hit people with it.

Edit: Monsters. You can hit monsters. Don't hit people. PvP is bad. Drugs are bad. Stay in school.

[Mister_Peace]

3x artificer past lives

You need to change your signature if you're going for 36 past lives.

[Jay203]

ionno, i kinda like the artificer past life

granted the % could use a bit of boost like 10% per stack?

[Cyr]

It could be better, but up to +3 UMD could mean the difference between starting with an 8 cha, or 11 cha to hit +39, or using up an item slot for a UMD item, or not needing to switch gear at all.

For my rogue for example, at 20 I'll have:

23 ranks
03 completionist
03 3x artificer past lives
05 titan gloves
06 20 cha (12 start, +6 item, +2 tome)

Saves me my cloak spot, which is currently a +5 cha skills/blindness immunity/disease immunity, conc opp 2 cloak. I could even take skill focus UMD, bump cha to 14 to start, and get a +4 cha tome to drop the titan gloves if there ever comes a decent OL/DD item. If you don't mind taking GH into account, you can even drop the cha item and +4 tome.

Don't get me wrong, +2 would be way better, but for any UMD user, these past lives (especially if stacked) will allow for more flexibility. Now the question is will an artificer life be too painfull to stack 3 of them?

Luck bonus, GS item, greater hero...

Again the point here is that you either have the UMD or you do not and 3 points is not really tipping over some break even point.

[Thrudh]

Luck bonus, GS item, greater hero...

Again the point here is that you either have the UMD or you do not and 3 points is not really tipping over some break even point.

It certainly helps with all the builds that only have 11.5 UMD skill from cross-class...

but not enough to take 3 past lives...

If the "no-charge" thing actually worked on clickables... that could be very interesting.

[Cyr]

It certainly helps with all the builds that only have 11.5 UMD skill from cross-class...

but not enough to take 3 past lives...

If the "no-charge" thing actually worked on clickables... that could be very interesting.

If the no charge thing worked on all items then it would be interesting. It would give you 5% more average sp per epic ring of spell storing and give you 5% more xp pots for your money then...

[Riggs]

Store rods of healing.

Unless a lot more useful rods enter the game - or wands start doing some real damage - pretty meh.

[Gkar]

I think it would be much more useful and within the flavor of artificer if the PL gave:

+1 UMD
+1 crafting rolls

The selected PL feat could either be a larger active boost (+5 UMD +5 crafting for 1 minute) or a smaller passive bonus (your +1 UMD/Crafting increases to +3)

Or give them something for that selcted feat that is a spell like ability mirroring something unique to them, such as "imbue armor with quicken enchantment, 3x/rest"

[Bodic]

the APL should be either a buff spell or summon Addy defender that lvls as you do.

[Letrii]

It could be better, but up to +3 UMD could mean the difference between starting with an 8 cha, or 14 cha to hit +39, or using up an item slot for a UMD item, or not needing to switch gear at all.

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