U39 Preview 1: Crystal Cove Loot Revamp

[Cocomajobo]

The next time the Crystal Cove event is enabled after Update 39 goes live there will be new loot available to be crafted. Listed below are the currently planned new rewards (most of these are revamped versions of the old Crystal Cove items that are now in line with modern scaling effects. Players WILL be able to upgrade the old versions of items to these new versions when the event is activated.).

It is worth mentioning that Hat crafting and consumables are not planned to change.

The actual trade in vendor is not available to test in this preview, however, all of the new items are available to purchase from "The Loot Guy" in the center of the test dojo. These new items are also listed below:

Brigand's Cutlass Scimitar
Minimum Level:4/8/12/16/20/24/28
Damage Dice: 1.5[1d6]/1.5[1d6]/2[1d6]/2[1d6]/2.5[1d6]/3.5[1d6]/5.5[1d6+2] The additional 0.5 is because of Vorpal
Critical Profile: 18-20/x2

• Anarchic 2d6/2d6/3d6/4d6/4d6/5d6/8d6
• Vorpal/Vorpal/Vorpal/Improved Vorpal/Improved Vorpal/Greater Vorpal/Greater Vorpal
• Incite +12%/+17%/+21%/+26%/+30%/+34%/+53%
• Intimidate +6/+10/+14/+16/+17/+18/+22
• Red Augment Slot

Cutthroat's Smallblade Short Sword
Minimum Level:4/8/12/16/20/24/28
Damage Dice: [1d6]/[1d6]/1.5[1d6]/1.5[1d6]/2[1d6]/3[1d6]/5[1d6+2]
Critical Profile: 19-20/x2/19-20/x2/18-20/x2/17-20/x2/17-20/x2/17-20/x2/17-20/x2

• Bleeding2d6/2d6/3d6/4d6/4d6/5d6/8d6
• Doublestrike +4%/+6%/+7%/+9%/+11%/+12%/+20%
• Hide +6/+10/+14/+16/+17/+18/+22
• Move Silently +6/+10/+14/+16/+17/+18/+22
• Red Augment Slot

Ornamental Dagger Dagger
Minimum Level:4/8/12/16/20/24/28
Damage Dice: [1d4]/[1d4]/1.5[1d4]/1.5[1d4]/2[1d4]/3[1d4]/5[1d4+2]
Critical Profile: 19-20/x2

• Concentration +6/+10/+14/+16/+17/+18/+22
• Potency +29/+41/+52/+63/+73/+84/+132
• Spell Lore +3%/+4%/+6%/+7%/+8%/+10%/+15%
• Efficient Metamagic - Maximize I/+I/I/II/II/II/II
• Red Augment Slot

Ratkiller Maul
Minimum Level:4/8/12/16/20/24/28
Damage Dice: [1d10]/[1d10]/1.5[1d10]/1.5[1d10]/2[1d10]/3[1d10]/5[1d10+3]
Critical Profile: 20/x3

• Stunning +4/+6/+7/+9/+11/+12/+20
• Staggering Blow This item is enchanted to make your attacks send enemies reeling. When you roll a 20 on an attack with a melee weapon you will knock the target down unless it makes a DC 17 Balance check.ed as a result.
• Earthgrab This weapon stores the implacable strength of the earth deep within. When this weapon is used, this power occasionally comes to the surface, calling on the earth to erupt from the ground and hold an enemy in place.
• Animal Bane 2d10/2d10/3d10/4d10/4d10/5d10/8d10
• Red Augment Slot

Swashbuckler Buckler
Minimum Level:4/8/12/16/20/24/28
Damage Dice: [1d4]/[1d4]/[1d4]/[1d4]/[2d4]/[2d4]/[2d4]
Critical Profile: 20/x3

• Parrying +1/+2/+3/+3/+4/+5/+8
• Doublestrike +4%/+6%/+7%/+9%/+11%/+12%/+20%
• Guardbreaking This item enables you to break an enemy's guard in between your melee attacks. On critical hits with your melee weapons, enemies will become dazed as a result.
• Dexterity +3/+5/+6/+3 Insightful/+4 Insightful/+5 Insightful/+8 Insightful
• Blue Augment Slot

Glass Cannon Rune Arm
Minimum Level: 24
Exploding Cannon Shot: Fires a conjured stone projectile that explodes when it strikes an enemy or object. Opponents in the blast radius take both bludgeoning and fire damage.

• Impulse +125
• Kinetic Lore +18%
• Intelligence +11
• Fortification Penalty -25%
• Rune Arm Imbue: Bludgeon V
• Rune Arm Imbue: Fire V
• Green Augment Slot

Duelist's Leathers Light Armor
Minimum Level:4/8/12/16/20/24/28
Armor Bonus: 5/7/8/10/13/15/21
Material: Spiritcraft Leather

• Feat: Mobility
• Balance +6/+10/+14/+16/+17/+18/+22
• Accuracy +5/+8/+10/+12/+15/+17/+28
• Dodge +3%/+5%/+6%/+8%/+9%/11%/+18%
• Green Augment Slot

Cavalry Plate Heavy Armor
Minimum Level:4/8/12/16/20/24/28
Armor Bonus: 10/15/16/21/26/31/40
Material: Mithral

• Life Shield/Life Shield/Life Shield/Life Shield/Improved Demonic Shield/Improved Demonic Shield/Improved Demonic Shield
• False Life +12/+18/+24/+30/+36/+42/+69
• DR 10/10/10/14/15/20/30/Chaotic
• Resistance +3/+4/+5/+6/+8/9/+14
• Green Augment Slot

Brawling Gloves Hands Slot
Minimum Level:4/8/12/16/20/24/28

• Strength +3/+5/+6/+8/+9/+11/+18
• Spike-Studded This item is reinforced with metal studs that improve your unarmed strikes. Your unarmed attacks do an additional 1 to 4 piercing damage.
• Glass Jaw Strike While wearing this item, when you roll a 20 on an unarmed attack, you will deal a tremendous blow to your target that will daze it (as the Sap ability) and may knock it down as well.
• Deception +2/+3/+5/+6/+7/+9/+15
• Green Augment Slot

Ring of the Buccaneer Ring Slot
Minimum Level:4/8/12/16/20/24/28

• Dexterity +3/+5/+6/+8/+9/+11/+18
• Swim +6/+10/+14/+16/+17/+18/+22
• Underwater Action You are able to breathe underwater.
• Protection +3/+4/+5/+6/+8/+9/+14
• Green Augment Slot

Treasure Hunter's Spyglass Trinket Slot
Minimum Level:4/8/12/16/20/24/28

• Detect Secret Doors Clicky/Detect Secret Doors Clicky/Detect Secret Doors Clicky/True Seeing/True Seeing/True Seeing/True Seeing
• Search +6/+10/+14/+16/+17/+18/+22
• Spot +6/+10/+14/+16/+17/+18/+22
• Use Magic Device +1/+1/+2/+3/+3/+4/+7
• Green Augment Slot

[LrdSlvrhnd]

Players WILL be able to upgrade the old versions of items to these new versions when the event is activated.).

1) Does this work only for actual upgrades (ie L4 to L8, etc.) or will we be able to upgrade while keeping it the same level?
2) Will upgrading require stolen gems of the appropriate level? (ie, am I gonna have to downgrade all my stolen diamonds/emeralds/opals/malachites to pyrites/alabasters to update my L4 spyglasses?
3) L28 stuff, whoo! Does this mean new stolen gems to farm up?
4) Looks like you're removing the tiers and just going one per level... I heartily approve of that, but please tell me they're not going to require the trinkets like the T3s did! That was often my sticking point with upgrading from T2 to T3 lol

[PsychoBlonde]

Ring of the Buccaneer is in the NECK slot?!

[Cocomajobo]

Ring of the Buccaneer is in the NECK slot?!

It's only for those with a very thin neck. =P

Fixed.

[Cocomajobo]

1) Does this work only for actual upgrades (ie L4 to L8, etc.) or will we be able to upgrade while keeping it the same level?
2) Will upgrading require stolen gems of the appropriate level? (ie, am I gonna have to downgrade all my stolen diamonds/emeralds/opals/malachites to pyrites/alabasters to update my L4 spyglasses?
3) L28 stuff, whoo! Does this mean new stolen gems to farm up?
4) Looks like you're removing the tiers and just going one per level... I heartily approve of that, but please tell me they're not going to require the trinkets like the T3s did! That was often my sticking point with upgrading from T2 to T3 lol

I'll poke the appropriate people for answers on these tomorrow as I don't have the information on hand.

[LrdSlvrhnd]

Ring of the Buccaneer is in the NECK slot?!

Sure... haven't you ever heard of wanting to "ring someone's neck"? *flees while giggling maniacally*

[Rhysem]

Suggestion: add a clicky to the ring of merfolk's blessing instead of/in addition to underwater action at higher levels?

[Aelonwy]

Looks like everything except maybe Glass Cannon, is loosing at least one and sometimes 2 effects while being updated to the "new" scaling. I will have to consider very carefully if I even want to update some items.

[xveganrox]

Looks like everything except maybe Glass Cannon, is loosing at least one and sometimes 2 effects while being updated to the "new" scaling. I will have to consider very carefully if I even want to update some items.

Spyglass/smallblade are getting nerfed and dagger is getting nerfed hard. Lesser Maximise is only available on Abbot raid loot after this.

[edrein]

Cavalry Plate Heavy Armor
Minimum Level:4/8/12/16/20/24/28
Armor Bonus: 10/15/16/21/26/31/40
Material: Mithral

• Life Shield/Life Shield/Life Shield/Life Shield/Improved Demonic Shield/Improved Demonic Shield/Improved Demonic Shield
• False Life +12/+18/+24/+30/+36/+42/+69
• DR 10/10/10/14/15/20/30/Chaotic
• Resistance +3/+4/+5/+6/+8/9/+14
• Green Augment Slot

Heavy Armor this time around rather than actually being Mithril medium? Could I perhaps make a request that the new material be Darkleaf/Ironwood if you want to make it heavy with this revamp? I'd love to be able to use it on a druid.

Brawling Gloves Hands Slot
Minimum Level:4/8/12/16/20/24/28

• Strength +3/+5/+6/+8/+9/+11/+18
• Spike-Studded This item is reinforced with metal studs that improve your unarmed strikes. Your unarmed attacks do an additional 1 to 4 piercing damage.
• Glass Jaw Strike While wearing this item, when you roll a 20 on an unarmed attack, you will deal a tremendous blow to your target that will daze it (as the Sap ability) and may knock it down as well.
• Deception +2/+3/+5/+6/+7/+9/+15
• Green Augment Slot

Is this finally going to make handwraps count as piercing weapons for the sake of Ninja Poison? Can I finally go handwrap dark monk once more?

[cru121]

Ornamental Dagger would be significantly better if it granted Insightful Potency and Insightful Spell Lore. Or Festive. And add back the clicky.

Ratkiller change Animal Bane to Natural Bane to make it less useless.

Swashbuckler: Compare [W] size to Van Richten's [2d10+10] + 15.

[Jetrule]

Huzzah! Thanks for the reasonable upgrades. Let the grinding begin.

[J-mann]

Heavy Armor this time around rather than actually being Mithril medium? Could I perhaps make a request that the new material be Darkleaf/Ironwood if you want to make it heavy with this revamp? I'd love to be able to use it on a druid.




Is this finally going to make handwraps count as piercing weapons for the sake of Ninja Poison? Can I finally go handwrap dark monk once more?

Yes please, fix mithril to still count as heavy armor for prr purposes or change the material of it. It makes it really hard to justify that max dex bonus if you are only getting medium armor prr bonuses.....

[Arkantios]

Treasure Hunter's Spyglass Trinket Slot
Minimum Level:4/8/12/16/20/24/28

• Detect Secret Doors Clicky/Detect Secret Doors Clicky/Detect Secret Doors Clicky/True Seeing/True Seeing/True Seeing/True Seeing
• Search +6/+10/+14/+16/+17/+18/+22
• Spot +6/+10/+14/+16/+17/+18/+22
• Use Magic Device +1/+1/+2/+3/+3/+4/+7
• Green Augment Slot

Uhh, where did the insightful int go??

[LrdSlvrhnd]

Suggestion: add a clicky to the ring of merfolk's blessing instead of/in addition to underwater action at higher levels?

But... why? It's already got UA and swim, what would Merfolk's Blessing do other than give other people a swim bonus? And if they did it "instead of UA" at higher levels, it'd be a swim clicky that doesn't stack with the permanent (higher level) swim and now no longer has UA. So, uh... why?

[Silverleafeon]

Congratulations on the work done to modernize the crystal cove loot.

[kmoustakas]

Congratulations on the work done to modernize the crystal cove loot.

I agree.

Question: will the gloves be fixed to work with new version handwraps now? They used to be bugged when the changes to handwraps into actual weapons were made

[LightBear]

Ok, looking good.

To put the plate back where it used to be, could you make it a medium armor instead of heavy and add some small festival bonus to make up for the loss of prr/mrr?

Edit:
Also, while the dagger is improved in a big way it us not where it used to be. Lower numbers and make it universal instead of potency would make it more like the original flavor it had, although not as tasty.

[Evean]

Will the new weapons be sentient-ready?

[Iriale]

Ornamental Dagger Dagger
Minimum Level:4/8/12/16/20/24/28
Damage Dice: [1d4]/[1d4]/1.5[1d4]/1.5[1d4]/2[1d4]/3[1d4]/5[1d4+2]
Critical Profile: 19-20/x2

• Concentration +6/+10/+14/+16/+17/+18/+22
• Potency +29/+41/+52/+63/+73/+84/+132
• Spell Lore +3%/+4%/+6%/+7%/+8%/+10%/+15%
• Efficient Metamagic - Maximize I/+I/I/II/II/II/II
• Red Augment Slot

Better efficient metamagic in epic, pls. Orange slot in epics, pls

Treasure Hunter's Spyglass Trinket Slot
Minimum Level:4/8/12/16/20/24/28

• Detect Secret Doors Clicky/Detect Secret Doors Clicky/Detect Secret Doors Clicky/True Seeing/True Seeing/True Seeing/True Seeing
• Search +6/+10/+14/+16/+17/+18/+22
• Spot +6/+10/+14/+16/+17/+18/+22
• Use Magic Device +1/+1/+2/+3/+3/+4/+7
• Green Augment Slot

Now the spyglass give a +20 bonus at level 20. Why +17? Where is the insightful int bonus, and the open lock at 24? This is a nerf!