I really like the anniversary gift...and I'm curious for the layout of Jorasco...

[Seikojin]

They screwed up by making the cosmetics BTC..

Nah, it would be more hassle to distribute a limited amount of tokens if they were BTA.

[EllisDee37]

You and me both. Farming abbot over and over is soul-crushing, and it's not even guaranteed on the 20th completion.

I only farmed Abbot because I got free quivers on all my characters during the 10th Anniversary. I never would have set foot in that raid (or even flagged for it) if I didn't need to upgrade all those quivers. Took me two months of one-off bypasses to get all my seals. (Two runs per night using a bypass for the second run, two nights per week for ~8 weeks.)

[Whitering]

I only farmed Abbot because I got free quivers on all my characters during the 10th Anniversary. I never would have set foot in that raid (or even flagged for it) if I didn't need to upgrade all those quivers. Took me two months of one-off bypasses to get all my seals. (Two runs per night using a bypass for the second run, two nights per week for ~8 weeks.)

I can't find my bypasses, maybe when they do the inventory sorting upgrade they have I will find them on whichever mule, sorry, which ever alt, they are on.

[-D_Rock-]

I really hope you guys let us get the quiver again this year. I was on a hiatus during last years anniversary and missed out on that =[

Or, just save up some ddo pts while tr'n with 1 other person then you both buy some bypasses and farm out 20 abbots in 3 days. 3 to not be 'too' grindy.

[Dreppo]

I only farmed Abbot because I got free quivers on all my characters during the 10th Anniversary. I never would have set foot in that raid (or even flagged for it) if I didn't need to upgrade all those quivers. Took me two months of one-off bypasses to get all my seals. (Two runs per night using a bypass for the second run, two nights per week for ~8 weeks.)

Would this be a good time to point out that you can also get a seal by turning in a completed Shield (8 fragments) or a completed Tome (8 pages)?

[jillie]

Would this be a good time to point out that you can also get a seal by turning in a completed Shield (8 fragments) or a completed Tome (8 pages)?

Well, but gathering those things is about as grindy as it gets! Of course, I ignored that when I needed a bunch of seals for all my quivers 2 years ago and used up a bunch of shields and tomes ...

[Cetus]

Or, just save up some ddo pts while tr'n with 1 other person then you both buy some bypasses and farm out 20 abbots in 3 days. 3 to not be 'too' grindy.

Nah, my limited DDO time is reserved for racial past lives nowadays

I'd rather just deal with casting expeditious retreat and guzzling haste potions than doing 100 abbots before I get the darn thing. The drop rate is abysmally low and the end rewards aren't guaranteed either.

[JOTMON]

Nah, it would be more hassle to distribute a limited amount of tokens if they were BTA.

Nah,
BTC cosmetics is just bad for the game and the players.

Giving a pick 1/toon BTC cosmetic for the 12th birthday was a mistake.
The game has a heavy reincarnation and life changing system which does not accommodate extra storage used up by cosmetics, or help with the crappy TR cache storage issues, or the limited bank space we are already struggling with.

making any cosmetic BTC was a mistake

Not having an account wide cosmetic closet that allows all the cosmetics to be usable by every character on the account (similar to the cuti-pet system) was a mistake


I have no interest in BTC space hogging cosmetics.. BTA cosmetics I can at least store on alt mules...I already have 80ish BTA cosmetics spread across my account..
The BTC ones are already screwing with my storage space on playable toons , packmule alts have trashed the BTC cosmetics..

Get rid of the BTC tag for ALL cosmetics... its a stupid restriction that serves no reasonable purpose.

[Mofus]

Yay another well thought out anniversary gift.......ahh well ok, maybe not. Don't know what's up with ssg and these cosmetics all of the sudden. What happened to gifts like the 4th anniversary when we coulf choose from +2 tomes or mana pots or other useful items? Seems like we are in a rut here. Come on ssg get it together and make the anniversary gift great again

[slarden]

I was actually thinking this is the worst anniversary gift ever.

I thought 2 years ago was the best letting people get old but rare raid items. Then it got worse last year and much worse this year.

Cosmetics are supposed to let you have a bit of feel of creativity in the appearance of your character.

It seems to me that giving EVERYONE the same cosmetic defeats the purpose.

And how SSG could not even consider this is beyond me. This is why super rare cosmetic chase items in quests are more interesting. You have something unique and visible. They had the right idea 2 years ago, made it worse last year and showed how little they are willing to put into the game this year.

[valkyrie622]

Really... Cosmetics....More useless stuff to fill up the inventory.... Are you going to make us a cosmetic bag of holding to put all the stuff we are not using in..Meh

Last time we actually got stuff that was useful. I liked the chance to get my guys an item that they might not get other wise.
I would have preferred something like the old Raiders box with stuff that we could chose from some of the upper level raids.

[JOTMON]

I was actually thinking this is the worst anniversary gift ever.

I thought 2 years ago was the best letting people get old but rare raid items. Then it got worse last year and much worse this year.

And how SSG could not even consider this is beyond me. This is why super rare cosmetic chase items in quests are more interesting. You have something unique and visible. They had the right idea 2 years ago, made it worse last year and showed how little they are willing to put into the game this year.

meh,
giving a way raid reward items was a mistake.. it screwed over the purpose of actually running the raids.

The anniversary gift should be a unique gift that you only get from the anniversary cake while being a registered player at the time of the anniversary give away.
and it should be for every toon or usable by every toon on the account.. this one off BTC BS is just asinine.

[fmalfeas]

What about an assortment of basically obsolete but hard to get stuff? Like old Shards (I guess leave SoS shard off if it's still considered OP) and seals? It wouldn't be a super powerful gain, and might be useless to many, but I'd love to finally get my mitts on a Shard of the Red Dragon. (Or one for every character I have. My red dragon scale pile is excessive anyway.)

[PsychoBlonde]

The updated Jorasco means it still looks about the same, but it's not quite as un-necessarily mazelike as it was. No sense of old-Jorasconess has been lost, but you don't have to worry quite so much if you accidentally take a wrong turn that there will be a wall in the way!

They got rid of the pointless Reincarnation portal (since it was moved so long ago that nobody even remembers that you once had to go to House J to reincarnate). They also added a sweet lounge area overlooking the House:



Slapped a big pointless pillar in the middle of Coldwake Pond (don't ask me), and added a new Plaza area next to the Drowning Sorrows tavern:



The trainers are now all in one spot:



And that obnoxious jackass Micah d'Jorasco is STILL on TOP of the building:

[The_Human_Cypher]

The updated Jorasco means it still looks about the same, but it's not quite as un-necessarily mazelike as it was. No sense of old-Jorasconess has been lost, but you don't have to worry quite so much if you accidentally take a wrong turn that there will be a wall in the way!

I did a tour of House J just now and it doesn't seem that different, except that I didn't get lost as I often do.

[Lycurgus]

They got rid of the pointless Reincarnation portal (since it was moved so long ago that nobody even remembers that you once had to go to House J to reincarnate).

Not to ask a silly question, but where does one go to reincarnate now???

[fmalfeas]

Not to ask a silly question, but where does one go to reincarnate now???

Hall of Heroes. There's a door to the Reincarnation Grove.

[EllisDee37]

Would this be a good time to point out that you can also get a seal by turning in a completed Shield (8 fragments) or a completed Tome (8 pages)?

I got around 5 seals that way, but then didn't have any more mats so I had to farm the raid for the final 7 seals I needed. (I picked up 12 quivers from the anniversary event and was upgrading all of them.)

giving a way raid reward items was a mistake.. it screwed over the purpose of actually running the raids.

Well, like I said upthread, I never would have set foot in Abbot (or even flagged for it) if I didn't pick up a dozen quivers during the 10th anniversary event.

[AbyssalMage]

Well, like I said upthread, I never would have set foot in Abbot (or even flagged for it) if I didn't pick up a dozen quivers during the 10th anniversary event.

Shhh...People don't read.

Personally still haven't set foot in that raid but I also didn't pick up any quivers (my mistake). I guess I could do the raid but seems overly punishing.

[Torrun_McScaly]

I my self like the look of the free cosmetics but I also agree we should get something to put cosmetics in to save us space. it isn't the best gift have gotten that I would say was when we could pick the eternal flask of heroism and as far as I know that's the only time we could of gotten that It wasn't op and it was useful at low levels so I wouldn't mind if we got an item that it was a one time thing and it has at least a real use in game even if its only for low levels like a scabbard/sheath that goes in the trinket slot and it kind of acts like the quiver of poison by adding a 1d5 acid damage to none missile weapons min level 1. its not op it has some use and don't think it be overly missed if people weren't able to get it it'd just b something new flavor text could be a decretive sheath made for the guards of stormreach after 12 years of service