Old Mabar stuff

[Killonius]

I am probably jumping the gun, but what about the old ingredients from Mabar? Lich dust, chipped skull, etc.. Will we be able to trade them for new ingredients, or just throw them in the fire?

[Cordovan]

Sorry, but no. The old Mabar ingredients will not be used for the Night Revels event.

[DANTEIL]

Sorry, but no. The old Mabar ingredients will not be used for the Night Revels event.

Makes me sad, but so - is it definitively irrevocably okay to delete them from my bags/storage? I know you hate to say never, but Turbine is never going to bring them back right??

[Thar]

Sorry, but no. The old Mabar ingredients will not be used for the Night Revels event.

if they are not going to be used, can they be swapped somehow for the new ingrediants or mysterious reminents? not fair due to the issues with the prior event for those that couldn't complete what they needed to?

[lifestaker]

Sorry, but no. The old Mabar ingredients will not be used for the Night Revels event.

so......

I would not recommend getting rid of any old event ingredients, but do not know our future plans for old Mabar ingredients. When we know more, we will let people know.

DO you now know more and can say if/when we should throw out all these items. People asked back with the mimic event if they should toss them then, it seemed at the time like you wanted to think about them being useful.

I would just like a clear answer if able. Can you let us know if they are all junk and we can throw them all out to free up space. I know the release notes says "Mabar Festival of Endless Night ingredients have had their names and descriptions updated to note their deprecated state." A little insight into what value these items that people invested points and time to get are worth would be nice.

[Marupal]

Sorry, but no. The old Mabar ingredients will not be used for the Night Revels event.

The hoarder in me makes me ask, are the Mabar ingredients really going to disappear from our bags, or is that just flavor text? They're kinda cool souvenirs.

[Gljosh]

if they are not going to be used, can they be swapped somehow for the new ingrediants or mysterious reminents? not fair due to the issues with the prior event for those that couldn't complete what they needed to?

I have thought that an Earth Day Event would work well, have a Gnome that takes non-sell able items and gives you Tokens, Comms of Valor, and now Remnants.

[InsanityIsYourFriend]

Makes me sad, but so - is it definitively irrevocably okay to delete them from my bags/storage? I know you hate to say never, but Turbine is never going to bring them back right??

1. Read what your motes of night are now called
2. In the release notes it states the answer to your question ^_^

[Ykt]

1. Read what your motes of night are now called
2. In the release notes it states the answer to your question ^_^

https://www.ddo.com/forums/showthrea...00#post5550100

1. Read Cordovan's post

2. There's is no clear answer, do not delete your ingredients

[JOTMON]

I am probably jumping the gun, but what about the old ingredients from Mabar? Lich dust, chipped skull, etc.. Will we be able to trade them for new ingredients, or just throw them in the fire?

The Mabar replacement event uses completely different ingredients.

for the players that hoarded years (this started in 2010) of ingredients from events( legit.. I could care less about what some dupers did in 2014, I only care about my stuff), Its the wait and see game..
I get the impression we are going to be screwed over by them, but not trashing my ingredients until Cordovan says so.. and will probably earn a coupe infraction points in the process..

[FestusHood]

I can understand if somebody got caught unaware when the last Mabar event ended early, and they didn't have a chance to cash in their ingredients. What i don't understand is why somebody would intentionally not turn them in when the event is active to save them for the next time. I generally turn in everything i can at the end of any festival, and if there is stuff left over that isn't worth turning in, i'm not too concerned about it.

[Stoner81]

I really hope we can turn in or convert our old Mabar ings to the new festival even if it was on a 2:1 basis or something like that just please please let us use our left over ings!!!!

Stoner81.

[JOTMON]

I can understand if somebody got caught unaware when the last Mabar event ended early, and they didn't have a chance to cash in their ingredients. What i don't understand is why somebody would intentionally not turn them in when the event is active to save them for the next time. I generally turn in everything i can at the end of any festival, and if there is stuff left over that isn't worth turning in, i'm not too concerned about it.

Mabar, Cove, Ice games,... annual events, are not one hit wonders..

So if you don't craft during the event you save up and carry over to the next one.
Especially if you didn't get enough key components like scales due to lag bug issues from locked up instances, and cant repeat the raid enough times due to insufficient turn ins and long wait timers.
May even be waiting to craft items for alts or waiting for upgrades to be updated for the events..

There are still a lot of casual players that don't have the opportunity to run for 16 hours a day during the event to grind items and get everything in one pass.
This may take several events for players to get the items they may want.

[Thar]

I can understand if somebody got caught unaware when the last Mabar event ended early, and they didn't have a chance to cash in their ingredients. What i don't understand is why somebody would intentionally not turn them in when the event is active to save them for the next time. I generally turn in everything i can at the end of any festival, and if there is stuff left over that isn't worth turning in, i'm not too concerned about it.

perhaps you didn't have enough of what you needed at the time? or they had hinted at +6 tomes (pulling it at last min) so why not get a head start?

[Lauf]

I can understand if somebody got caught unaware when the last Mabar event ended early, and they didn't have a chance to cash in their ingredients. What i don't understand is why somebody would intentionally not turn them in when the event is active to save them for the next time. I generally turn in everything i can at the end of any festival, and if there is stuff left over that isn't worth turning in, i'm not too concerned about it.

since I am one of those who don't turn in everything, let me try and explain why.

I have had, for example, roughly 16k (!) unused greenshards from the cove event, and then they released new items for it, like the endless flask of rum, the rune arm etc.

that 16k stack quickly vanished, and I had to farm cove several more times before I had everything I needed.
that is not to say I have everything I *will* need from there, just everything I needed at the time.

new items may be released, or I may roll new toons, and I may not have time next time around to farm the event. so when an event is up, I farm all I can, use what I need, and save the rest for later. (even if there's no clear idea yet of what that 'later' use may be)

this is done with the understanding that events are not a one time thing, and that there will be a "next time".
so right now, just like I have banked a new stack of another ~15k greenshards, I also have plenty of mabar thingies, especially since there's long been talk about updating the mabar loot.

terminating the event without allowing some sort of conversion panel is, IMO, inconsiderate to say the least.

at the very least they should include an option to turn in old ingredients for old items.

[Livmo]

When the Mimic event debuted we were given the chance to get old Mabar items from trading in the new mimic motes during the Mimic event. This was touted as your opportunity to hustle and get some of the old Mabar items.

Another new event will debut around this coming Halloween. And it will have different ingrediants as well.

Here is the U28 release notes, https://www.ddo.com/en/update-28-release-notes

From the release notes,

Mabar Festival of Endless Night ingredients have had their names and descriptions updated to note their deprecated state.

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No offense to anyone intended, but if you wanted old Mabar items you were given that opportunity with the Mimic event:

http://ddowiki.com/page/Mimic_Hunt

Of course, save your old ingrediants and move them to an alt. That is what I did. Never say never, but Mabar is old news and more than likely will never return.

[patang01]

Sorry, but no. The old Mabar ingredients will not be used for the Night Revels event.

Would it be possible to add the turn in station and such somewhere so people can trade in all that stuff a final time since it will most likely not be coming back?

[Cordovan]

Makes me sad, but so - is it definitively irrevocably okay to delete them from my bags/storage? I know you hate to say never, but Turbine is never going to bring them back right??

Yes, you can get rid of the old Mabar ingredients if you wish. None of the ingredients will be used in the future. We aren't automatically deleting them from the game as we know some folks like to save these things for archival purposes.

[Razor_Wit]

5 Dev comments in at least 2 Mabar threads yet no explanation of why they chose to throw away our hard earned materials and time. They made the wrong choice for their customers and don't seem to care one iota about it. For me, at this point its more about the response (or lack there of) then the mats. I won't be spending money in game for quite some time as a consequence. Clearly they have no idea how much time players invested in Mabar.

[fangblackhawk]

Sorry, but no. The old Mabar ingredients will not be used for the Night Revels event.

reiteration of previous forum posts i have made..... i was at the vender cashing in my ligit earned mats 10000 + motes and other mats had my wand in the vender to get its last upgrade and i am now stuck with one +11 and one +9 mabar wand ...... and now the only way to get the +11 is to fnd the right cards in an event that happened once that was a combo of (failed?) two events with stinkin mimics every were (managed to get my cloacks for one toon woot lol) when in reality i lost two weeks of sleep for nothing!

love this game have been playing since i found it like 4 years ago and will keep playing regardless of this..... BUT for gods sake let me do SOMEthing with all these mats besides trash them or save them to link to future players as "hey look at this remenant of a time we all got screwed cuz of laggggggggg" please and thank you in advance


EDIT: look at this time we got screwed by lagggggg and a few unsavory players who got the ban hammer for there cheating and we still got punished!