Must Have Items for Doing All Your Lives?

[Dmitrythewizzy]

I have played casually for years. I usually kick around for a month of subscribed and get a character up to level 20. I noticed that I now have 13 various kinds of lives under my belt. I read about getting all the classes and races to level 20 gives you benefits that stay with the character. Soooo. I thought i would try and finish at least the one having to do with the various classes (as opposed to races). I picked Sorcerer for this life but have had a hard time gearing him as I go because I never played one before.

This got me to thinking... there must be people here who can give advice on the best items to have in the bank to level lowbies up to twenty in all the classes. Maybe this has been done before? That way, once i get this guy to 20, I can go back and get the gear to help the next class/race I pick. I'll give you an example, it's really well worth farming up a Hobble Crossbow https://ddowiki.com/page/Item:Hobble%27s_Crossbow if you want to do lives that use repeating crossbows. My last few lives used repeaters and that is a good low level one. Has there ever been a good master list of stuff like that? (maybe even sorted by class and level?)

Also, my bank is soooo overflowing with level 1-20 blue items that I have no idea are decent or not, it would be great to just delete some.

Thank you all for helping me over the years, I generally only lurk but I do love the game and the various builds posted here have made it so much better for me.

[Dmitrythewizzy]

I'll use this post to add things as people suggest them

Repeating Crossbow

https://ddowiki.com/page/Item:Nicked...Light_Crossbow Level 2 From Sharn Syndicate End Reward

Two Handed Club for Killing Oozes ( And not destroying all your other weapons) (Melee Classes mostly)

https://ddowiki.com/page/Item:Muck%27s_Devastation Level 6 From https://ddowiki.com/page/Kind_of_a_Big_Deal

Trinket Slot Item

https://ddowiki.com/page/Item:Voice_of_the_Master Level 5 From Delera's Tomb (I just saw this can be made into an augment wow!)

Cloak

https://ddowiki.com/page/Item:Mantle_of_the_Worldshaper Level 5 Mantle of Worldshaper has the plus exp and the hidden trueseeing thing if paired with Voice of the Master.


Augment:

Take the Mantle of the Worldshaper and Voice of the Master (two items directly above) and somehow get 5 Greater Tokens of the Twelve (I have never gotten these - says they are from raids) and make https://ddowiki.com/page/Item:The_Master%27s_Gift. I have not done this but I think you can add it to the Blindness goggles below for a really amazing low level eye slot item AND get the exp bump at level 1.

Trinket Item for Casters

https://ddowiki.com/page/Item:Vibrant_Purple_Ioun_Stone Level 1 (but really should wait till 20 to get) 200 spell points can use at level 1 Dreaming Dark thingy - I remember it took me a bunch of times through to get this and make it vibrant.

Eye Slot With Blindness Ward for Level 1!

https://ddowiki.com/page/Item:Goggles_of_Unbroken_Sight Level 1 Random from the end chest of https://ddowiki.com/page/The_Hobgoblin_Horde - took me about 4 times through. Low level blindness cure/ward is why you want it.

Quiver Slot

https://ddowiki.com/page/Item:Quiver_of_Alacrity Level 1 Quiver items that has +30 Runspeed (this is amazing!) Comes from Black Abbot Raid and looks kinda hard to get for a nub but would be super useful in an otherwise non-stat slot.

Neck Item with Fortification 100

https://ddowiki.com/page/Item:Nightforge_Gorget Level 9 Made in the https://ddowiki.com/page/A_Relic_of_a_Sovereign_Past Quest - you run around and pick up ore. Long quest but You get enough for one item. Takes a bit (List of all the items you can make https://ddowiki.com/page/Category:A_...t_reward_items)

Easier to Get Neck Item with a Death Ward Clicky

https://ddowiki.com/page/Item:Rose_Quartz_Sigil_Stone Level 9 From https://ddowiki.com/page/White_Plume_Mountain (there is a lower level death ward clickie but the neck stats on this item are also pretty good)


Trinket Item to Eat Bad Spells

https://ddowiki.com/page/Item:Pale_L...(unsuppressed) Level 5 Like the ioun stone above, this comes from Dreaming Dark and is upgraded there as well. It takes a while to get but it's super great against bad caster fights. Get one once level 20.

Item to res Groupmates or Hireling when Dead

https://ddowiki.com/page/Item:Ring_of_the_Ancestors Level 11 From this Quest https://ddowiki.com/page/Slavers_of_the_Shrieking_Mines (I don't have this yet but I recall this quest vaguely being kinda a pain)


CLICKIES (stuff you don't wear but want to have to click!)

https://ddowiki.com/page/Item:Planar_Gird Level 9 Greater Heroism Clickie! From https://ddowiki.com/page/The_Xorian_Cipher (need a hireling to solo this I think)

https://ddowiki.com/page/Item:Visor_..._Render_Guards Level 5 Death Ward Clicky Splinterskull End Reward Super Useful!

https://ddowiki.com/page/Item:Anger%27s_Step Level 1 Two clickies per rest of speed (you can buy lots of haste posts too but this is free and you get it from https://ddowiki.com/page/Sacrifices one of the optional quests on Korthos I personally have been using thiseven now at level 13...





FROM FESTIVALS AND OCCASIONAL EVENTS

Clicky https://ddowiki.com/page/Item:Hood_of_Unrest Level 1 Head Item with 50% Dodge on it From Halloween event Night Revels (I somehow did not get this even though I was playing then and love that event!)

Clicky https://ddowiki.com/page/Item:Reveler%27s_Regalia Level 1 Clicky with +25 crit damage for 90 seconds From Halloween Event Night Revels

Trinket https://ddowiki.com/page/Item:Greater_Stalwart_Trinket Level 4 Dayum this is kinda amazing... procing stoneskin... geesh From Crystal Cove Event and this is the top upgrade so gonna take a while to make.

Caster Main Hand Item (Flaming) (Icy) (Shocking) (caustic) (Necrotic) Forum Post https://ddowiki.com/page/Item:Flamin...Post_(level_5) Level 5-10-15 From Anniversary Event Great One Handed for Casters - Each comes in a main type of damage group. I got the Flaming one as a Fire Sorc.

Clicky https://ddowiki.com/page/Item:Eterna..._Free_Movement Level 1 Ten minutes Uptime with Ten minute reuse Allows Free action Costs 10K Remnants and is only available during Champion Hunter Week

[Dmitrythewizzy]

I just got the Flaming Forum Post in level 5 10 and 15 for my Fire Sorc... is it worth adding? Seems pretty great and was super easy to get.

[janave]

Speed items in all flavors, these days a horse mount (borderlands or shop) and the lowest Striding +30 item you can get, before that Exp Retreat and Haste clickies + 100 Haste potions. UMD for teleport scrolls is helpful to move around public areas, quickly getting to sell, repair, restock.

A Search + Spot ( and True Seeing item helps)

Voice of the Master ( or Augment version preferrable) is nice to have but may take a while out of the loop, if you ask nicely players will surely help with tokens.

Health gear and self healing gear.

Augments for Fear and Blindness immunity. (saves time and frustration)

[Matuse]

Blindness Ward Goggles of True Sight with The Master's Gift slotted.

You'll wear that every life for a LONG time. Unfortunately it also needs 250 Crafting skill to reliably pull off, and creating a Master's Gift needs 5 epic raid tokens. But blindness ward is nice, and true sight is great for secret doors and casters that throw Blur on themselves...and those goggles are ML:1, so you get the bonus XP 4 levels before you can equip a Voice Of The Master.

[phillymiket]

My strategy for gearing a characters as I get heroic PLs is to try to have consistency where I put stats.
For ex, I try to always have my Con item on my neck, deadly or spell focus on goggles, etc.
That way most items can stay almost every life, depending, and I won't half to rearrange everything just to change one item.

I used to get a vanilla stat item for those spots, like a +4 Con items min level 5 or 7, +6 Con at level 9 or 11.
You could do that pretty easily these days and have it be just fine.

But if you really want to go all-out, grind out some generic gear sets, like Slavers and Ravenloft.
Do make it pretty generic.
For ex, neck chains with +5 Con, +1 ex Con, +10 Balance, Green slot.
Every toon on every life will use that.
Better to missing something you'd prefer but can do without (like +Heal skill item on Divine) than to reinvent the wheel every life.

Re-gear at specific points every single life.
For example, use w/e at lv 1.
Re-gear with the "good" starter gear at 3 or 4.
Re-gear with Slavers gear at 8.
Re-gear with Ravenloft/Greensteel gear at 12.

Honestly, that should do it, Ravenloft will get you to 20 just fine.
I see no point in re-gearing at level 18 if you're just going to TR at 20.

Try to keep Augments slotted forever.
I'd rather wait until level 8 to use the Slaver's stuff rather than pull out augments just to use it two levels earlier.

Be at least one life ahead of your gear.
Farm up that Necromancy Focus item the life *before* you TR into Wizard.

You can make it so that you only have to swap out your main/off-hand/armor and one or two slots to go from Fighter to Sorc or whatever.

[Dmitrythewizzy]

Blindness Ward Goggles of True Sight with The Master's Gift slotted.

You'll wear that every life for a LONG time. Unfortunately it also needs 250 Crafting skill to reliably pull off, and creating a Master's Gift needs 5 epic raid tokens. But blindness ward is nice, and true sight is great for secret doors and casters that throw Blur on themselves...and those goggles are ML:1, so you get the bonus XP 4 levels before you can equip a Voice Of The Master.

That's awesome... I will add that - but yeah that is something that is hard to make. Reading about it seems like getting those 5 Greater Tokens would not be easy to get. What kinds of Raids drop them? Any of the pre20 raids?

[Dmitrythewizzy]

Speed items in all flavors, these days a horse mount (borderlands or shop) and the lowest Striding +30 item you can get, before that Exp Retreat and Haste clickies + 100 Haste potions. UMD for teleport scrolls is helpful to move around public areas, quickly getting to sell, repair, restock.

A Search + Spot ( and True Seeing item helps)

Voice of the Master ( or Augment version preferrable) is nice to have but may take a while out of the loop, if you ask nicely players will surely help with tokens.

Health gear and self healing gear.

Augments for Fear and Blindness immunity. (saves time and frustration)

This is a great post... I had forgotten all the self healing items - worth putting those in - also would add getting Deneith faction for the bolts and arrows.

[DrawingGuy]

Take the Mantle of the Worldshaper and Voice of the Master (two items directly above) and somehow get 5 Greater Tokens of the Twelve (I have never gotten these - says they are from raids) and make https://ddowiki.com/page/Item:The_Master%27s_Gift. I have not done this but I think you can add it to the Blindness goggles below for a really amazing low level eye slot item AND get the exp bump at level 1.

A lot of people already gave good answers, so figured I'd address a comment of yours. Voice of the Master is especially nice if you plan on doing a lot of TRs as it gives you 5% XP from level 1 and with complete gear flexibility. You can approach it's use either by farming multiple ones and putting them in a "every life" item like a CON item, or buying Jeweler's Kits (no extra farming, but costs plat/shards/$$$). I have personally farmed enough to go 1-30 without ever needing to move an augment. It was quite a grind, but worth it IMO. That said, you can find Greater Tokens of the Twelve in the following Raids:
- The Chronoscope: This is one of the best raids to farm tokens in. It isn't that long, easy to short man, requires no flagging so anyone can join, and you can use old timers if you want to farm faster and can get access to them.
- Plane of Night (Von 6): This Raid has a pre-flagger that is amazing XP in a chain of quests that are also great XP, so you generally will have no trouble filling this Raid and you may get people willing to pass tokens. However due to the pre-flag raid, not worth using timers on for token farming.
- Zawabi's Revenge (ADQ2): This is one of the fastest raids in the game, but very few people flag for it and has a quest only pre-flag. You won't get many people joining, but if you are on a good ranged build, this is easily soloable. However Raid timers do NOT work on this Raid, so don't waste them here!
- Master Artificer and The Lord of Blades: These are the red-headed step children of Raids. They have pretty high flagging requirements, are pretty complex, and do not provide compelling XP or gear. Not easy getting a group together for these, but are fun (and Killing Time helps you be aware of some of the mechanics of LoB), so is nice to run at least once to see them.

Sadly I converted most of my Raid tokens for hearts before Master's Voice existed, so had to start from square one there. But I personally found the Mantle/Voice farming to be more tedious than chrono/von farming


Back to the topic, I want to reiterate the importance of Shield/Nightshield wands/scrolls/clickies. Available from level 1 in the marketplace, last 5 minutes, and 20 UMD means even if all you put in was 1 UMD you can still use them (though part of the reason to use Persuasion items). Shield has the advantage of 4 stacking AC (which is great at early levels), and Nightshield has the advantage of protecting from Darkfire along with Magic Missiles (though that isn't too common). You may even get a Shield clicky item from the Threnal chain farming for Worldshaper cloak. No matter the source, this can save you often, and should be used from lvl 1 to lvl 30.