Mabar rewards: +5/+6 Ability tomes and a few new rubies.

[SlowDM]

Mabar is the only event i like. Was looking forward to upgrading my cloak. +6 tome meh but i'll try my hardest to get one anyway :-)

[Talon_Moonshadow]

Mabar... bah humbu.....Wait.... +6 tomes?! How soon is Mabar?!

[Qaliya]

They have never been this easy to attain. This is a guaranteed tome for very little grinding/work. The tomes you speak of previously were a ridiculously low drop chance in raids that you had to run a bazillion times.

Or a few bucks in the DDO store. Which of course is such a huge burden for the average player, right?

Give me a break.

Incentives to do things that are fun and social rather than soul-numbing grinding with the frustration of rare, random drops? More, please.

[JOTMON]

To get these, you need a Signet of the Endless Night. They are awarded the first time you kill the Spectral Dragon each day.

Few notes:

- Please tell me the +6 tomes are not real. Or that they are avaible somewhere else. Otherwise this should go AWAY. Such a "powerfull" item cannot be made only avaible temporarily in the game.

- Don't use this stupid mechanic of Neverwinter of "Daily Quests". I want to get the items whenever I want. I want to spend a whole day farming mabar and getting done with it ASAP. I don't want to do it everyday. Double the cost if you really want but don't start with these Daily things.

- Rubies are ML1. Really nice.

- Festival Solar: I don't know if this always existed but anyway, the fact that a different "Festival bonus" AKA Risia games will overwrite this is just..silly. It's 1d4 light damage. Make them stackable.

Nice, these are items that would entice me to come play Mabar.
I like the ruby Augments, will definitely try and work some of these in..

Restricted 1x use/character +6 tome... is a nice teaser.. I don't mind this..
Much better than running 20th end rewards for a chance at a random BTC stat tome, really sucks when you run 60 FOT and get the same BTC tomes that you already have....

This mentality of one a day is great for casual players but sucks for hard-core gaming nights.

People play recreational games when they have time, by implementing a 1/day reward restriction on a limited time event you really are screwing a large group of players.

Peoples play times vary, not everyone has 1 hour every day to run Mabar when it is available..

Someone who plays 14 hours in a weekend for a 2 week event vs playing 1 hour a day for the same 2 weeks should have the same end result.

Telling the person that can only play in spurts that they are not eligible for rewards because they are restricted to 1 a day is stupid.

Really screws with weekend warriors who work or have lives and don't get a chance to play DDO daily. ... cramming it all into a 6-10hour hardcore night or two is the best they can do..

DDO really needs to rethink this.
The whole 1 signet/day thing is garbage... let me run it as often as I want to earn signets.. why restrict it to one a day...
~equal time for equal rewards~.

[djl]

Bet they add "Mabar Bypasses" to the store which enable you to get more than one signet drop per day.

[brian14]

Are the rubies BtC, BtA, or unbound?

[maddmatt70]

No compelling reason to really run this like I thought unless somebody has to have +6 tomes before they put them in a raid. Either the winter raid will have them or when the cap goes up to 30. I hate this event and find it dreadful - if it were a +8 tome I would probably run it.

[Sebastrd]

Incentives to do things that are fun and social rather than soul-numbing grinding with the frustration of rare, random drops? More, please.

Exactly. I certainly hope this trend continues. I also love that this event makes them available to everyone, not just the isolationist EE crowd.

[RedOrm]

Bet they add "Mabar Bypasses" to the store which enable you to get more than one signet drop per day.

Maybe I'm misremebering what they said. but... Am I the only one then who read it as 1 signet per character per day?
I'm planning to run a lot on my main both for the daily signet and in order to craft a new L20 robe for when I do an epic TR, but I was also planning, after the first dragon, to do the next dragon on my secondairy, and so on. Assuming I remembered/understood the signet drops correctly, my only complaint will be the lack of hours in a day :P

Greetz,
Red Orm

[Hephaistor]

Can anyone please tell me what DR and resistances the spectral dragon has? Like a undead dragon, like a blue dragon or none at all when the lights are light?

[Lord-Of-The-Games]

You can only get one tome per character i think.

[Shaatan]

Will there be a lot more rage if I said that +6 tomes are bugged? They give only +5 stat bonus for some players.

[Wizza]

Will there be a lot more rage if I said that +6 tomes are bugged? They give only +5 stat bonus for some players.

Not really. After seeing that they are bugged, smart people will let others use the +6 tomes first and then use it themselves.

[TPICKRELL]

Can anyone please tell me what DR and resistances the spectral dragon has? Like a undead dragon, like a blue dragon or none at all when the lights are light?

Eternity scales but this is the best answer I am aware of to your questions:

http://ddowiki.com/page/Eternity

[Catteras]

Whats the big deal +5 can be bought in the store, one per character limit and one signet per day pretty much guarantees you wont get more than a couple of these, and probably only on characters that need the tome for something that wasn't possible before (like hitting 23 STR for overwelming crit feat, on a toon that it not strength based or some such). It's hilarious listening to this player base pine for whatever Turbine DOESN'T DO.

If they make the loot too powerful then they obsoleted old loot
If they make the loot too weak, then there's no reason to buy the expansion pack
If they put tomes in as a rare drop, then they are forcing you to grind
If they put the tomes in the store, then it's P2W
If they put the tomes in an event, then it's a ZOMG LIMITED TIME.
If they plopped the **** thing in your inventory for free, it would be ZOMG INVENTORY SPACE!

This. You're on to something. No matter what Turbine does people will complain. LOL

[harry-pancreas]

I did. None of it answers the question. Saying you really want something is not providing an answer for why it makes a big difference. Most of the things people consider "must have" in this game simply aren't.

It's funny how many people say that getting Completionist has been devalued because 2 extra points on every ability score doesn't matter that much any more, but every time they introduce a tome with one extra "+" on it, people freak out.

I also see no rational explanation for why it's the end of the world for there to be an item that's only available in an event. No, not everyone can get these items. Guess what -- there are zillions of items that various groups of players cannot get, for one reason or another. That's life.

It's a heck of a lot easier for the average player to get something out of Mabar than one of those super-rare raid or epic items.

+ 1 million. The pure truth.