Ah, for the unaware, Toven d'Cannith's name was misspelled in the flavor text of Toven's Hammer for roughly 10 years, which is why I made Toben's Hammer (it's the runearm of Toven d'Cannith's little known identical twin brother - Toben d'Cannith - obviously). This is also why the flavor text of Toben's Hammer is "The Sequel!"
BUT!
Jokes you'd need to have been playing DDO for 10 years aside: it's time for the first annual
Tuesday Afternoon Loot Feedback Round-Up Post!
Full disclosure, I'm going to be lying low for a few days for unrelated reasons, and therefore won't have as much time as I'd hoped to catch the fire of the first blush feedback as it happens. That being said, here's what I'll be tinkering with over the next few weeks, in no particular order:
- Make the Legendary Alchemical Weapons more attractive compared to other raid weapons of the same tier. I know deep down inside no one's looking for yet another crafting system, so I'll be doing everything in my power to make this happen without one. The Heroic Alchemical crafting system will be losing a huge chunk of its costs with this update and I'm not going to reverse-course on my goal to remove as much grind from DDO as I can just yet.
- Take a deep dive into the items whose designs were dictated by their heroic counterparts (so the House C stuff in LOB/MA, and roughly half of the loot in VOD). I kept really close to the original, heroic designs, and it looks like that wasn't the best plan. It seems like players from 10 years ago valued different things than they do now - who knew? I have a few evil ideas to make them a lot cooler and I hope you'll check back in preview 2 to take a look.
- Make the set bonuses a lot more attractive - or at the very least, a lot more unique.
- Build a falchion out to drop somewhere in one of the raids (no promises)
- Actually get around to fixing the on-punch stuff that's been clogging up my to-do list for about 2 years now
- Fix those proc rates! Ahhh! 100% is the worst %!
- Switch that longbow over to Acid.
As more suggestions pour in, I'll add more to my list, so don't worry that you're too late to add your two cents.
As a friendly reminder, there's a real human behind this cheerful Black Abbot picture - if you'd like your ideas to be heard, making them constructive and actionable is your best bet. "Rargh this is garbage and isn't worth improving" won't get anywhere - it doesn't help me help you at all. Every loot list ever made has started out from somewhere, and there's plenty of time to make deep and involved changes to basically everything in this list.
The entire point of a preview like this is to make changes, and changes are definitely coming, so please add your thoughts and I'll see what I can do. Thanks <3