DDO Bonus Days!

[Cordovan]

DDO Bonus Days bring you +2 Loot, now through July 13th!

[patang01]

DDO Bonus Days bring you +2 Loot, now through July 13th!

Sweet!

Time to go plunderin'

[janave]

Thanks

[G_Lich]

Right on time for me to cap my booty plundering chest blessing swashbuckler to 28. Harpies sing songs of loot in the storm horns! Will be interesting to see +6 chests... (+2 Jewel, +1 Guild, +1 Treasure Finding, +2 Event).

[UurlockYgmeov]

still feels appropriate since still in U22...


Argh thar be booty! Sqwaaaaak!

[janave]

Right on time for me to cap my booty plundering chest blessing swashbuckler to 28. Harpies sing songs of loot in the storm horns! Will be interesting to see +6 chests... (+2 Jewel, +1 Guild, +1 Treasure Finding, +2 Event).

Please report back your findings.

[G_Lich]

Don't expect too much, I have a -7 loot curse I think.

[Hamlin]

I always ignored this and considered it a non-bonus weekend. Especially since the random loot got hosed. I'm curious, does this make it any more likely that raid loot will drop? Or named items from quests?

[cdbd3rd]

I always ignored this and considered it a non-bonus weekend....

It's all in the rotation. Some weeks some people will find helpful, others won't. Next week, vice versa.

[Krelar]

Right on time for me to cap my booty plundering chest blessing swashbuckler to 28. Harpies sing songs of loot in the storm horns! Will be interesting to see +6 chests... (+2 Jewel, +1 Guild, +1 Treasure Finding, +2 Event).

If your bonus goes to high it seems to wrap back around or something.

Ran both level 30 raids on EN last night with +2 jewel and +1 loot. Pulled only ML 26 random loot from both.

Afterwards ran EH FoT (level 26) pulled all ML 27 and 28 random loot.

Then ran EH Von 3 (level 24) pulled all ML 27 and 28 loot including 1 ML 28 masterful craftsmanship item (So technically ML 29).

A quest 6 levels lower should never be dropping better random loot than raids.

[Zzevel]

If your bonus goes to high it seems to wrap back around or something.

Ran both level 30 raids on EN last night with +2 jewel and +1 loot. Pulled only ML 26 random loot from both.

I also noticed last night while running Challenges in Eveningstar (@ Lvl 28 w/ a level 28 char and a +2 Loot gem / +1 Treasure Finding Buff) I was also only pulling level 26 gear... I wrote it off to the possibility Challenges dropped lower level loot, but after seeing this, I am not sure...

[afroblue]

I tested it with a guildmate, we opened more than 50 chests with chest blesser and jewel +2: there seems to be no bonus at all.

If someone have different opinion let us know, it could still be bad luck, but we ransacked 4 high level chests, loot level 30 to 35, and we got the usual crappy loot. At the moment I think we wasted a +2 jewel, and some time too.

[janave]

There could be a hard-cap. I think loot bonuses should increase the hard cap by the same amount. (Similar to armors max dex bonus.)

So a +1 loot bonus at lvl28 would roll on a higher table, the max randgen may still be capped, but this way you may get the special tier loots more likely.

This is just theory, i dont know how it really works, I ran Brothers of the Forge with +3 bonus on EH and indeed i was getting lower loot compared to running it on lower dificulty and no loot buff.

I also tried running Raiding the Giants vault, and got a few lvl20-21 items from the chests and from the reward list.

[afroblue]

We opened more chests, and found no high level loot. I use to farm chests with my blesser with regularity, when you have a loot bonus going on you immediately see it opening high level chests. Not this time. I expect someone that had a different sensation to reply to this thread, and I will go back to chest-farming, but I fear nobody will do, because the loot bonus is not working.

That means that I will keep doing PUGs for EE deathwyrm, wait one hour to fill party, spend 10 minutes to get sure everybody know it well, 30 minutes more to reach the final fight... and see party wiped because all get frozen for 30 seconds.

The dilemma is: useless chest farming, or useless raid running? Since I love this game so much, I will do both, just for the sake of doing something useless.

[maddong]

https://www.ddo.com/forums/showthrea...Epic-Loot-Caps

The link button isn't working for me.
You aren't noticing a difference because of the loot caps.
You are capped at char level +5.
You are capped at level 32 with a +2 jewel.
31 with a +1 jewel.
30 if not using a jewel of fortune.

So optimum efficiency during a +2 loot event is using a +2 jewel and hitting level 28 chests. If you have a chest blesser you can hit level 27 chests. However after looting a lot of level 32 chests I agree that the freq of level 28 items is lower than level 29 chests. You do get better augments in the 32 chests though.