Do not unleash the ioun stones

[Ganak]

All your ion stones belong to meh!

[Aelonwy]

That's easy to fix: Make them exclusive.

Yep. Problem solved.

[sirgog]

Poor OP can no longer get free FRDS by spamming Harbor trade, waiting until they find a sucker to buy a PLIS/VPIS off dirt cheap, then reselling it.

Now, you have to EARN your FRDS instead.

So sad for you.

[NaturalHazard]

Poor OP can no longer get free FRDS by spamming Harbor trade, waiting until they find a sucker to buy a PLIS/VPIS off dirt cheap, then reselling it.

Now, you have to EARN your FRDS instead.

So sad for you.

Did I post something similar somewhere? was that you that gave me a pat on the back?

[AylinIsAwesome]

Oh, contraire mon frere:





http://forums.ddo.com/showpost.php?p...9&postcount=89

That post is from about 30 minutes after mine you know...

[badbob117]

I wonder if we will see lfm's up stating for players to Show the Leader their stones. ! Could get kinda pervy!

[Wraith_Sarevok]

Absolutely not supported.

I'm tired of grinding or trying to pay a fortune for my Pale Lavender. Making them end rewards is easily one of the best changes in the entire update.

[Ganolyn]

That post is from about 30 minutes after mine you know...

And mine is almost two hours after. What's your point? You didn't know at the time and I pointed the thread to updated info. Everybody wins!

[J1NG]

I think there's something some people need to know before they get over sensitive over the easier access of an Ioun Stone.

The Pale Lavender Ioun Stone IS exclusive once it is unsuppressed. You can never have more than one on your toon unless the others are still suppressed ones. And it has been exclusive since Update 6. So it's been like that for nearly a year already when it was first unsuppressable.

So there is absolutely no chance of abuse in the way it's been described; getting loads of them unsuppressed. It just won't work like that. The moment you try to unsuppress another one on your person with one already one, it is destroyed (removed from you/you never get it). And if you are thinking of getting one into the bank then unsupressing another, it still won't work as the Exclusive mechanic will prevent you from having more than 1 at time.

J1NG

[Kmnh]

Yay I look forward to running a full bar of PLIS. I'll never bother killing casters again

[J1NG]

Yay I look forward to running a full bar of PLIS. I'll never bother killing casters again

I'm afraid you won't be able to, check my post above yours.

J1NG

[MsEricka]

Your doom post is unwarranted. The pale lavender ioun stone is not that powerful. By your post I shall assume you do not have one nor have ever seen one in action.

They ain't that great, and I have them on multiple toons. They are VERY situational.

[Taimasan]

If they give a random ioun stone every 3 chain completions in the dreaming dark the following WILL happen: all ppl who know the pale lavender one and got the adventure pack will run and run it until they get one. now imagine an elite group in which at least 4, or even 6 players got one. thats 200 to 300 spell absorbtions in the best case. and 60 to 90 recharges per rest. in that case, enemy casters are not even worth a laugh anymore, u can just delete them out of the game. theres a good reason these stones drop that seldom. They already gave the ppl VERY good loot in all new adventure packs with a VERY high drop rate. that should be enough to feed even new players who get the stuff very quickly. There arent that much "old" items that are better than the new stuff anyways. that will anger everybody who bought an ioun stone for millions of pp in the auction house. and dissapoint the few who were lucky enough to find one. this would be a slab into the faces all those ddo players lucky enough to own one. and yes, a slab into my face too.

With this post Taimasan "Mad Monk" Mendiethia shall set precedent:


Forum Rule #1:
1:1 - Whoever shall hast the greenies to give thine glorious rep thou shall sow it on the lambs first post.
1:2 - Even if thine greenies go to a trollalolol, it shall be so, for once you were without greenies.
1:3 - And your greenies shalt be given.


In other words, for your first post. No matter the content.......


+1

[joaofalcao]

Have to agree to the poster. The influx of stones will creat unbalance.

Unfortunatly, this will fall on deaf ears. The majority of the players care only about loot and will hang themselves in their own treasure before realizing the damage their doing.

[Stormdum]

If they give a random ioun stone every 3 chain completions in the dreaming dark the following WILL happen: all ppl who know the pale lavender one and got the adventure pack will run and run it until they get one. now imagine an elite group in which at least 4, or even 6 players got one. thats 200 to 300 spell absorbtions in the best case. and 60 to 90 recharges per rest. in that case, enemy casters are not even worth a laugh anymore, u can just delete them out of the game. theres a good reason these stones drop that seldom. They already gave the ppl VERY good loot in all new adventure packs with a VERY high drop rate. that should be enough to feed even new players who get the stuff very quickly. There arent that much "old" items that are better than the new stuff anyways. that will anger everybody who bought an ioun stone for millions of pp in the auction house. and dissapoint the few who were lucky enough to find one. this would be a slab into the faces all those ddo players lucky enough to own one. and yes, a slab into my face too.

I found this post extremely difficult to read and I'm confused about something. You claim 60 - 90 rechages per rest? My ioun stone recharges 15 and 18 recharges per rest so if you mean to add up the collective effort of everybody shrining I think that is a bit of a stretch. I have alot more going for my defense than one simple ioun stone and the fact that nearly every one of my guildies has one on each toon is hardly groundbreaking when we're in a group together.

[twigzz]

Unleash them, I could give a rats ass. I have/had both PL and VP stones and meh. Fix the ML on them and they would be even more meh.

[Quarterling]

Yeah, it's already exclusive so no need to worry about that.

[UrbanPyro]

Deleted.

[nolaureltree000]

they arent expensive because they are OP, they are expensive because they are rare.

PLIS arent terribly useful at high levels, but they are awesome at lower levels. but lower levels dont mean much, and are leveled through in minutes to hours so big whoop.

every toon having a PLIS is pretty inconsequential even though that will not happen.

[Scriplin]

If they give a random ioun stone every 3 chain completions in the dreaming dark the following WILL happen: all ppl who know the pale lavender one and got the adventure pack will run and run it until they get one. now imagine an elite group in which at least 4, or even 6 players got one. thats 200 to 300 spell absorbtions in the best case. and 60 to 90 recharges per rest. in that case, enemy casters are not even worth a laugh anymore, u can just delete them out of the game. theres a good reason these stones drop that seldom. They already gave the ppl VERY good loot in all new adventure packs with a VERY high drop rate. that should be enough to feed even new players who get the stuff very quickly. There arent that much "old" items that are better than the new stuff anyways. that will anger everybody who bought an ioun stone for millions of pp in the auction house. and dissapoint the few who were lucky enough to find one. this would be a slab into the faces all those ddo players lucky enough to own one. and yes, a slab into my face too.

Get your facts straight before you post please. Unsuppressed PL ioun stone absorbs 50 spell LEVELS, not 50 spells, and 15 spell levels per person per rest, not 15 spells. Also, in case you are unaware, there are PLENTY of groups of 4 - 6 players who have this item that play together, it's called high level guilds, TR groups, and dedicated groups.

It's about time they put a method into the game to actually get this item without it being just total random luck, unless you want to create a toon, run the WW one time for a crack at the end reward from the harbormaster, delete, and repeat. Completing a quest arc 3 times for a SINGLE ioun stone to be listed in the end reward list is fair.

Also, there's no guarantee that you will get a PL if that's what you're after. There are 10 ioun stones: one for each attribute, the listen / spot one, protection, spell absorption, and spell points (hope I didn't miss any, and if I did, then there are more than 10). So let's say there's an equal chance for each ioun stone to come up. That means you have a 10% chance to get a PL ioun stone. If you don't, you get to do the quest arc, three more times. And then you get another shot. Yes, I will do DD full quest arc 30 times if I have to, to get a PL ioun stone.

Furthermore: the level cap is about to increase to 25 with the expansion, what does that tell you? Ioun stones might be the **** now, but when the expansion hits, they're going to probably be good, but no where near as powerful as they are now. And after all, the PL is the only one that is powerful endgame, and if there are more than 9 spell levels once the expansion hits, and more powerful casters (casting on average higher level spells than currently), running through 50 spell levels will happen much quicker.