Run out of componets

[mobrien316]

If someone jumps in to save your butt... you say thank you.
If they make an error - you say thank you for trying.
Getting angry over a small error made by someone who joined late just to help you is irrational and immature.

My quote was not meant to address someone who jumps in late and tries to save a wiped party.


I guess you were just dying to call someone irrational and immature?

[BladeTricks]

I ran out once, and bought the components in the store. Why did I buy them? So my character could do it's job without causing issues for the rest of the raid.

This is the same thing as a tank forgetting curse pots, healers not having scrolls, melee forgetting pots. None of you find this acceptable, but running out of components somehow is?

Overreacting much???

Did you read the part where OP said he got into a Bastion group (not an epic raid that could wipe if the divines miss a beat) that had wiped at the beginning of the quest, and that he was still, given said circumstances, willing to go in to help them finish the quest?

[flynnjsw]

Get over yourselves and realize that when you run out of something, you're no longer contributing to the party as effectively as you can.

As opposed to the rest of the party, who are contributing...by being DEAD.

[BoBo2020]

My quote was not meant to address someone who jumps in late and tries to save a wiped party.


I guess you were just dying to call someone irrational and immature?

Actually no.

The OP specifically references jumping in late to save a party that had already wiped.

Your quote "appeared" to respond to the OP.

My statement about being irrational and immature is how I feel, in general, about people who look a gift horse in the mouth and was not directed at you.

It is unfortunate if you took offense as none was intended.

[Gawdzilla]

This is an easy thing to fix, place a hotbar on your screen in an out of the way location and place all components into it giving yourself a constantly visible stock, never eun out again, win.

[stainer]

This is an easy thing to fix, place a hotbar on your screen in an out of the way location and place all components into it giving yourself a constantly visible stock, never eun out again, win.

This is good advice, and I do this. Another thing I do is top off components at the vendor in pt3 of shroud. I check every time I run shroud on one of my casters. If you think about it, once you get flagged you end up running it pretty frequently.

[mobrien316]

I keep my spell components on my hotbar, and I top them off as close to 1000 as I can get. When any of them get into the 700's, I teleport to the Portable Hole and top them off again.

I never run out of spell components.


It really is such a simple thing to keep track of, and it's not like you go through hundreds and hundreds with every quest.


If you are on your first life and have no money, keeping each stack at 100 would work just fine. Again, it's not like you cast hundreds of the same level spell in any one quest.


I wouldn't boot someone for running out, but I would certainly consider that a mark against them. If they otherwise played a good caster, then I would chalk it up to a simple mistake. It's really no different than a ranger not remembering to get arrows, or a rogue not remembering to get tool kits. Does it mean they are horrible players? Of course not. But it certainly does not make a good first impression.

[Melcena]

This is an easy thing to fix, place a hotbar on your screen in an out of the way location and place all components into it giving yourself a constantly visible stock, never eun out again, win.

I know my more professional caster friends to this to ensure that they never run out of components, except on the ocassional blooper where they forget and then we laugh, and turn the quest/raid/epic into a challenge to find out if we can run it without him having to use the little amount that he has left, where whoever makes him use that last one pays him 200k.

But on a side note, as I mentioned earlier, if you think you actually have a feat that you can live without, pick up eschew material. +2 on spell cost really isnt that much in the course of a raid/epic.

[zwiebelring]

MsEricka is well prepared for this thread. Best Troll ever.^^

[~Hinjoola]

To me a caster who forgets to bring components is like a Barbarian who forgets to bring his great axe...

[Cordovan]

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[dragon2fire]

To me a caster who forgets to bring components is like a Barbarian who forgets to bring his great axe...

The other side of that is to me. A party that charges off with out heals is a party that is telling me they can heal themselves. Honestly if those guys had died on my watch i would of bought components form the ddo store but i wont spend real money to try to fix stupid. And personally i don't squelch a barbarian whose axe breaks.