New Challenge items

[voodoogroves]

WOW. My guess is nobody was running this stuff so they REALLY upped the ante.

Yeah - my eye went first to the axe ... then the bow ... then the others aren't bad at all either ... and if these get both a red and a colorless? Well, good times.

[Vellrad]

F*** weapons.
What with wand bracelets?

[hit_fido]

But once again... no dwarven axes!

WOW. My guess is nobody was running this stuff so they REALLY upped the ante.

[sirgog]

But once again... no dwarven axes!

Heh, my new Stalwart would kill for a high DPS d-axe that's like that greataxe.

[Veriden]

Is it me or do they have the elements on some of the weapons wrong?

For example: Archers are often seen to understanding the winds and thus keen on air element, Khopeshes are weapons originating in Egypt a desert place and thus keyed to fire. Rapiers I can see being air but axes strike me more of elemental earth due to dwarves and their keen liking to axes.

Just observation, other than that cool weapons that I'd never use.

[hit_fido]

You know, I can't see why it's beyond the game technology to make this kind of reward item completely "players choice". They did seem to take that direction with the new raid crafting, you can make any base weapon and apply any tiers to it, right? So why go and limit these rewards to just four weapon types? Let us choose the element and the base, so you could make a dwarven axe of fire or water if desired, or hand wraps, or light maces, whatever.

Heh, my new Stalwart would kill for a high DPS d-axe that's like that greataxe.

[Auran82]

You know, I can't see why it's beyond the game technology to make this kind of reward item completely "players choice". They did seem to take that direction with the new raid crafting, you can make any base weapon and apply any tiers to it, right? So why go and limit these rewards to just four weapon types? Let us choose the element and the base, so you could make a dwarven axe of fire or water if desired, or hand wraps, or light maces, whatever.

My acrobat is still a sad panda.

[maddmatt70]

But once again... no dwarven axes!

Yes, excellent observation. Will we ever see a quality named dwarven war axe in DDO? It has only been 5.5 years.

[LeLoric]

Ok did some testing on the slicing winds for the rapier.

4 ticks over 8 seconds

ticks I saw were from 116 low to 136 high

So approximately 125 avg so 500 avg dmg overall

Proc rate didnt seem anywhere out of the ordinary so lets consider a couple choices here.

1.5% chance (same as lightning strike confirmed)

500*.015 7.5 avg dmg per hit

2% chance (same as unconfirmed chance for corrosive salt on ddowiki)

500*.02=10 avg dmg per hit

Compare that to my previous post compared to a rad II rapier which had the rapier above by 3.8 per hit over the new rapier without winds factored in.

So that means this does either 3.7 or 6.2 more dmg per hit over a rad II if either of the above proc rates are real.

[Ganak]

Nice weapons.

Would someone post what ingredients it takes to make each one please?

[dwen]

Pack's still 1500 points?

Thought so, fire everyone involved and keep your ghetto epics.

[Kmnh]

Hey, a two-hander with greater incineration!

That sounds really useful on non-devil content.

[Shade]

Ok did some testing on the slicing winds for the rapier.

4 ticks over 8 seconds

mmm i only saw 3 tics in pvp, thought didnt test very thouroughly, just a cpl procs

[Shade]

Is it me or do they have the elements on some of the weapons wrong?

For example: Archers are often seen to understanding the winds and thus keen on air element, Khopeshes are weapons originating in Egypt a desert place and thus keyed to fire. Rapiers I can see being air but axes strike me more of elemental earth due to dwarves and their keen liking to axes.

Just observation, other than that cool weapons that I'd never use.

yes..
Fire on the axe also doesnt make sense from a gameplay standpoint.. Given we already have an epic two hander with incineration (which happens to be severely superior for pretty much anything you can crit)

[Gizeh]

New toys added to the new pack... so by itself the pack sucks, is no fun and it's too expensive as well?

[Shade]

New toys added to the new pack... so by itself the pack sucks, is no fun and it's too expensive as well?

Theres fun to be had in some of the challenges.. Just still very rough around the edges.

[MakeItADouble]

But once again... no dwarven axes!

Yup, what a bummer. Can we has just one uber purple colored D. axe!

[Qezuzu]

Theres fun to be had in some of the challenges.. Just still very rough around the edges.

This. The packs are quite entertaining and a lot of the loot is good, it just needs some changes, is all. This patch has many of them, like BtA ingridients (which was obviously a bad move).

There's a lot of potential.

[Failedlegend]

Hmmm....Khopesh

Here's hoping they add a Bastard Sword and D-Axe

Oh and anyone else wondering whats up with all the lore items...aren't those mostly useless aside from the arty ring (well the lore stuff is useful but the secondary effects don't really mesh with them)

[thandros]

no No usefull wraps or Docents again )