Trap the Soul Gears

[Waveclaw]

I've recently had luck on looting and got a Soul-Trap Guard Shield. How does the spell works as a "guard"? How often will it take effect?

[Kipling]

Every time you get hit, there is a small chance that what hit you will die, and there will be a soul gem on the ground.

[Mindos]

Every time you get hit, there is a small chance that what hit you will die, and there will be a soul gem on the ground.

I am totally not seeing any soul gems when this goes off, I have it on random armor.

[Phoenicis]

I am totally not seeing any soul gems when this goes off, I have it on random armor.

I gave a docent with trap the soul to my pet for a few levels. Got maybe 5 gems all told.

[JOTMON]

Its basically useless.
Its a copy of the outdated heroic greensteel crafting effect.
You have to get hit for the 1-2% proc chance and then the mob has a dc 30 will save and there is a mob HD20 cap.
~Since Update 34 this spell no longer bypasses death ward.~


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Trap the Soul Guard
Effect: This item stores an overwhelming, merciless power deep within. When the wearer of this item is successfully attacked in melee, this power occasionally comes to the surface, sucking out the life force of an enemy and imprisoning the essence of their body and soul in a gem.

On being hit by melee attacks - 1~2% chance to cast Trap the Soul spell on attacker, Hit Dice limit seems to be 20 (tested in Orchard of the Macabre, undead with more than 20 Hit Dice were still unaffected after 2000+ hits).
Will Save DC 30
Found on: Vacuum II Greensteel Items; Soul-stealing (lootgen armor/shield prefix)




The only useful soul shard are for the adamantine ritual

Essence of Earth can be obtained by casting Trap the Soul spell on a CR7 Earth Elemental and used for Adamantine Ritual. You must use Small Khyber Dragonshards and HD 20 version of Trap the Soul spell for CR7 Earth Elementals. Note: CR8+ Earth Elementals are too high, and will result in a Strong Soul gem (unsuitable for the ritual).


DDO never really developed soul shard crafting to be of any real use.. the bane arrow cannith crafting was the last thing i recall seeing soul shards being used in.

[mobrien316]

Going into Chamber of Insanity and using Trap the Soul on the four minibosses in the corner rooms get you an undead stone, which is useful if you are crafting Undead Bane weapons.

[Alrik_Fassbauer]

I have never seen items with this effect.

[Phoenicis]

I have never seen items with this effect.

I have a docent on Sarlona with the effect. I've seen a couple others but don't have them any longer.

[Waveclaw]

Okay! Thanks for the advice! I guess I'll go to the Depths and block with it in hope to get the earth elementals' soul gems....

[TitusOvid]

I tested the proc-chance with a guildie today and it didn't proc ones in over 10 min. We tested in the PvP area though. Maybe it doesn't proc there.

Cheers,
Titus.

[Waveclaw]

Hmm... That's a bit... Disappointing. Perhaps I'll just create a warlock alt and farm for earth soul gems instead...

[Talon_Moonshadow]

I've recently had luck on looting and got a Soul-Trap Guard Shield. How does the spell works as a "guard"? How often will it take effect?

Pulled one on a low level Docent.

Put in on my Arty's dog.

The dog got beat up and killed several times in ever dungeon I went into, so I know he was getting hit a lot.

Three Harbor dungeons later, it finally went off and I got a soul gem.

I vendered it right after that....

[Zavina]

Its basically useless.

DDO never really developed soul shard crafting to be of any real use.. the bane arrow cannith crafting was the last thing i recall seeing soul shards being used in.

I find that Ghost touch & Evil Outsider bane on flametouched weaponry, for lowby anti-reaper weaponry is awesome.

And if people are going to craft undead fighting weapons, go for "Unnatural Bane" rather than "Undead Bane". You get something like 4 for 1 (Undead being part of it) with Unnatural.

Other than that, I agree with you overall with the soul crafting issue.

I also have a GS soul drainer. It does proc but not as much as I'd like. It's on an old light repeater I've had for years.

[Tyrande]

Its garbage if the item is used for Epic. Every monster has a hit dice more than 20. For Epic, they need to upgrade those effects to DC 70, and legendary to 100; and change the name to Epic Trap the Soul, Legendary Trap the Soul and remove the HD limit; since it also doesn't bypass death ward, what good are they?!?

My crafter just put it in the Essence grinder machine.

[Sho-sa]

Hmm... That's a bit... Disappointing. Perhaps I'll just create a warlock alt and farm for earth soul gems instead...

When I needed these gems for Adamantine ritual I would farm Taming the Flames for all the Earth eles to the right. I forget which difficulty level was needed for them the be CR7 but it was either normal or hard.

[LeoLionxxx]

Going into Chamber of Insanity and using Trap the Soul on the four minibosses in the corner rooms get you an undead stone, which is useful if you are crafting Undead Bane weapons.

FYI, the "Unnatural Bane" enchantment includes undead, so there's actually no reason to craft Undead bane if you can go for that one!

[mobrien316]

FYI, the "Unnatural Bane" enchantment includes undead, so there's actually no reason to craft Undead bane if you can go for that one!

I didn't know that. Thanks.

[cdbd3rd]

I've got T-t-S armor on my Arty and my mechno-mutt. At level 6 so far, I've gotten a handful of Weak stones (useless).

Wasn't aware of the other limitations on the power noted in posts above. Will probably retire the armor & docents in a few more levels after gathering a few normal level soul stones - just for becuz.

[Stoner81]

Best option for Trap the Soul (imo) is a Warlock since they get the spell but unlike Wizards they only use bog standard spell components and not those stupid Khyber Dragonshards which are a **** nuisance!

Stoner81.

[Waveclaw]

Best option for Trap the Soul (imo) is a Warlock since they get the spell but unlike Wizards they only use bog standard spell components and not those stupid Khyber Dragonshards which are a **** nuisance!

Stoner81.

Sounds good, thanks for the advice!