Those ordinary items are boring(same pattern,change x% of HP/MP when new expansion comes). Anything interesting enough and worth camping in RoS?? I mean,is there something unique like Honed Wurmslayer(EoK) which has a must-have aura for all my tank bot??
Skull of Null is the spell equivalent of wurmy effect for charm slot. Any of the VP fun items you can use are worth it.
Ya the VP items are about it for unique items this expansion. As Derka said, the skull charm has spell damage reduction like the wurmslayer does for melee. The priest staff has a heal clicky. the OT hammer has an AE Proc that's useable by all classes. I think the caster one has a mana restore clicky, but it shares a lock out with normal robes. The melee weapon has a unique proc on it as well.
This. If you don't play with a slower often and just group then a belt with Tendon Slice will greatly increase your survivability. Despot's Belt drops in Gorowyn or you can get a TS Vital Conflagrant Belt
The priest hammer http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?item=132332 isn't really worth it it has the same cast/recast and click effect as the much easier to get Small Manisi Branch http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?item=127742 that they got last year.
The base one does... So if you don't raid, then yes, the branch is as effective in healing. The raid version heals more.
I don't know if I would say Much Easier to get. The branch required killing all 6 ancients in an hour, I know when we did it originally we had multiple groups in zone working together to get it. I'm sure it's easier now, but I bet it still takes more then 1 group to get them all in time. The hardest part to getting the new Heal clicky is getting keyed. If you're keyed the new item is way easier to get, kill a named then some trash and you're finished. And like Ngreth said the raid version has a better heal.
Speaking of RoS clickies, I am a bit surprised that there is no zonewide rare Erudite Illusion item (All/All version of Mask of Obtenebration) in new Howling Stones. Hope Devs can add a chase Erudite illusion item.
Any chance of fixing Emperor of Ganak familiar stacking issues? It's frustrating to not be able to use an item for full completion of group tasks in RoS due to its stacking conflicts with the knights temporary hp buff.
Would be disappointed if the reward for completing all the group progression is designed to basically not be usable by so many classes unless they want to give up an aweful lot of hp from the temp hp buff. Thank you for taking the time to reply though Ngreth.
I don't know exactly how to convey this thought, but.... I wish their was 1 group/encounter and/or quest per expansion that was purposely hard. Where the Dev's designied it to have whatever mechanics they wanted without any regard to what it would take to beat it. No tuning passes other than the initial by the devs for bugs. It would just be there and we as players would just have to find a way. Even if it wasn't doable for 99% of the population until future level increase. And it would offer a CHASE item that will last for a quite a few levels. What that would be, I am not sure. An Aug of some kind would be the obvious choice in my mind, maybe with a focus effect or click on it. Or both.
I mean not associated with progression but just a stand alone. I think there might be a little less complaining about it too if it was understood that it is meant to be difficult and the CHASE loot it offers won't be obsolete anytime in the foreseeable future.
I like the idea of a super hard mission that gives better then normal drops. I think Gundolin is right though, the amount of crying about it being unbeatable would be insane. Even if it isn't part of progression or anything required, people would complain like crazy. As far as the aug idea's go, we can't have clicks on augs, focus effects are fine but no clicks. I think one of the dev's explained it before, basically if you create an aug with a click and put it in an item with a click it will cause issues. So, augs with clicks are off the table. I wouldn't mind seeing something like the tears of alaris as a reward for a super hard mission though.
Over and over... I hear on these forums... if there is a best in slot item... then we are REQUIRING people to do the content (that is the word the concerned folks use in its various forms...) So yes, there would be wailing and gnashing of teeth over a super difficult event to get something that is best in slot. (see Veeshan's Peak and faction there... (and people can argue easily that much there is not best in slot... but definitely... only place to get some of it) See a conversation about adding a reward to hunter achievements... see... well, you get the idea.)
By design as in we didn't think people use HP buff lines like Defiant Stance? 900 extra HP on top of that spell line must be game breaking for completing RoS right? Maybe it should be looked at again?
