Sentinels of Stormreach finished on E BB

by Melkior @ MelkiorWhiteblade.blogspot.com

http://melkiorwhiteblade.blogspot.com/2013/04/sentinels-of-stormreach-finished-on-e-bb.html

I had finished bargain on blood solo elite before, and then I took a look at Lamannia after taking my TR character over to see what the enhancements look like. Once thing I am quite pleased about is that you can qualify for Arcane Archer sooner in the half-elf tree, but that building up in the tree now takes 5 points instead of the regular 4.

Imbues didn't seem to work correctly, but I went all out and took my level 11 ranger over as well, and trained up AA to cap. Seems to work pretty good, but I don't have a good baseline for comparison.

I also don't know how 10k stars will work, or Zen Archery, so I've got a bit of trepidation about the build. It sounds like a free LR might be given once the enhancement system goes live, as some builds might not be viable anymore. I'm not keen on Angel of Vengeance / AA / Some generic Monk tree  but that will remain to be seen.

Anyways, I tried out ranged on my TR on the test server and wasn't really impressed, though my Ranger did do a bit better. So I felt ready to finish up the chain on Khyber this weekend. Got kind of skunked on end rewards, though.

Now to move on to other level 7 quests for my bravery bonus. I'm thinking Gwylan's Stand.

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New Delera's Loot

The Update 17 end reward item updates for the Delera's chain are all very intriguing, even more so than some of the other stuff I've picked up here and there, and making a choice isn't as easy as it once was.

Even some items that get regular use got a bit of an upgrade, if only an augment slot. I don't yet have a silver longbow so Serpentbranch looks reasonable. But I also have the other items in my reward list that include two slots, which could come in useful:

• Boneshard Flute
• Hellfire Cloak
• Obsidian Dagger
• Serpentbranch

They all have their uses, but at this point, I am leaning towards Serpentbranch. Thoughts?

Level 9

I got my third life fvs/monk to level 9, which means heavy fort, rapid shot, and divine power. I also ran challenges to get the earth bow, and I crafted sonic damage and masterful craftsmanship onto it, so still min level 8.

I'm keen on getting some of the new augment slot loot from Delera's, I just have the last part to do. I'm also looking forward to running Sentinels on elite bravery bonus. Elite BB is sure lots of tasty xp, but I think it's much harder to solo! It's gotten me a little bit out of my soloing shell but that leads to my next point.

I've learned that I really can't zerg very well. I don't know if that is a build problem, or a play style problem. Survivability is a big issue. Some quests I do just fine, but with a full party zerging through or splitting up, dungeon alert means really getting slowed and bogged down. At least that is how it is for me. I'm sure things will be different once I get blade barrier.

OurDDO Feed

Evennote from the myDDO blogs has put together a nice resource for those of that blogged (even occasionally like me) to keep all the DDO blogs together in one place, and I should be included in the near future. Check it out at OurDDO.

In other news

Third Life: Monk / Favored Soul/ Fighter

I'm using wax_on_wax_off's monkcher build here (http://forums.ddo.com/showpost.php?p=4222951&postcount=11) for my third life and so far so good. Between Fernia wraps and Fanged wraps I feel pretty good. Cha is dumped so I can't even cast yet, until I get to third level and my tome kicks in, and I can craft myself a +3 cha item, min level 3. That will last me a little bit.

Doing quests the first time on elite is a bit different than what I am used to, but it does bring a little bit of challenge to the game at the early levels, when usually having some twink items makes low levels trivial.

Don't Panic

Lots of changes are in store for the new year, and I think it's important to keep one thing in perspective:

3rd Life and other thoughts.

I know winter festival type stuff is approach soon, actually coins are dropping now, but grinding them out isn't much of a draw for me right now.

Losing my superior glaciation that i had ground out winter motes has given me a once bitten twice shy mentality about the whole thing. Submitting a ticket is supposed to get help, but with response times being so poor and having to be online at the time to get it resolved is annoying.

I did get mabar handwraps though, adding to my repertoire that I've been building up. I think my third life might be a favored soul/monk type character, but I'm looking for a build that can do both melee and 10k stars if possible, but if not, I'm leaning toward handwraps.