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I won the screenshot of the week over at Dungeons & Dragons Online. I got 500 DDO points.
In the picture, I am riding one of the new mounts from the Keep on the Borderlands adventure pack that was recently released.
So I managed to kill off another character.
My level 24 Purple Dragon Knight (PDK) died in Thunderholme. I was adjusting the mirrors and foolishly walked through one of the laser beams. Instant death.
This was the toon that wasn’t competing. I was just playing around casually and not taking any chances. Big fail.
I got the Bleeding Eyes and the Red Sash reward from the event.
I am looking forward to transferring this guy over to the normal server. I managed to unlock 3 filigree slots on his sentient maul.
I also got a +8 Wisdom tome and a +6 Strength tome from gold rolls on this fella.
His crit rate while buffed is 35% with a multiplier of x7.
I usually see 500pt and 700pt crits, and using Exalted Smite, I have seen it go as high as 3,500 damage. It should go higher once I complete the sentient weapon.
My maul is Cormryn from the Eveningstar challenge vendors. I got lucky and pulled a Good Blast of Improved Paralyzing. There is a 3rd effect on the maul, but I don’t recall what it was.
I died. Again.
Just 12k reaper exp away from getting my 10th point and the nice reward. I had been running everything on R2 during my second life and was quite confident.
At level 14 and holding rank 56 on the reaper leader board, I got taken out by a group of rats in “Invitation to Dinner.”
I don’t feel like there is enough time left before the event ends for me to recover from this upset. I will head back to Cannith and farm the Mabar event.
I also play Forge of Empires and Pokémon Go, which also have Halloween events running, so I have lots to do.
Well, things are proceeding smoothly. I have reached level 20 on my reaper toon and am currently farming tokens to TR. I reached 6 reaper points and am about 2.5k away from the 7th point.
My next life I will reach the 100k reaper exp and claim that prize. I may try for the Favor reward or if the reaper exp comes easily I may try for the full 20 reaper point reward.
I have decided on Drow as my race for the next life. I will also take two levels of Rogue for the Evasion feat and the trapping skills. I really missed out on a considerable amount of loot from locked chests and exp from quests with nasty traps.
I have had abysmal luck with named gear from Sharn this go around. I ran the Sharn saga on Normal, Hard, and Elit,e earning 3 skill tomes. I then repeated the individual quests till I had ransacked them on Hard mode. I only managed to get 4 of the named weapons.
Not a single set item showed up. I ran the “Welcome to Sharn” quest on normal with my monk on Cannith server twice and got set items both runs. I am convinced the drop rate is lower here on the Hardcore server.
I also tried the Soul Splitter chain on Normal, but no luck with gear. On the “Members Only” quest, I did manage to do it on Reaper mode without any reapers spawning and got a piece of the Dreaderkeeper necromancer set. So I have one item now from a high-level gear set for the next life.
Well, all worked out. I got the cosmetic cloak for reaching level 20. I only have around 900 favor on my character and 3 reaper points. For the leader boards, I will use alts to reach the top. I decided not to TR my main and have passed the RL gear down to other toons.
I have for the favor ranking a Purple Dragon Knight that is going 14 Paladin and 6 Fighter.
On the Reaper ranking, I am using a 17 Warlock with a 3 Paladin build for hefty saves using Divine Grace, moderate PRR/MRR with Sacred Defense, and quick heals from Lay on Hands.
I have decided to just go for the 10 Reaper point prize to make things easier on myself. I’ll get two more points this life and then TR and reuse the build the next life. I then just need to repeat all the same quests and I will have the 10 points by level 13.
I have seen many TR’d players running around. I need to catch up.
Success at last.
This last build works wonders and survives well even on Elite. 9 levels of Bard and 11 warlock.
I am up to level 17, and I am banking level 18 while I finish the Gianthold Saga.
I’ve tried a Normal mode run of the Sharn Saga but found no gear. I’ll have to bump it up to Hard to get something good.
I am up to 830 Favor and 2167 Reaper exp. Now I am debating whether or not to TR when I hit 20.
Dying after Reincarnating would be embarrassing.
Well, I certainly am doing good with the bard warlock build.
I just hit level 10 and am starting to farm Ravenloft for gear. I expect the RL quests will get me to level 12, and then I will go straight to Sharn and then maybe Necro 4 or Vale.
Level 20 doesn’t seem so far away now.
I did buy the Greater Tome of Learning upgrade from the shop and also a Sovereign XP potion. So the experience is flowing in, even on the lower-level stuff.
With the Bardsong on my hireling and its summon, I can mostly sit back and let them handle the aggro.
I got the Barovian Scepter from the NPC in the entrance area. With just 2 levels of Warlock, I do good damage.
So I am up to level 8 so far.
I joined “Open Guild for All Two.” I figure some buffs would have prevented my first death from acid.
They’ve got the big ship but won’t have buffs till tomorrow. We can gain like 3 guild levels a day, max I think.
I have 2 levels of Warlock and 6 of Bard. I am using Fey Pact and shooting chain-shot blasts. I
have my bard song, but I still need more APs to get the HoT enhancement from the Spellsinger tree.
I’m off to work but will try for 10 tonight. I’m playing it safe and only running Normal mode.
Well, wouldn’t you know it, I managed to get myself killed again.
I got to level 9 and was holding 10 with maybe 154k till level 11. I was planning on hitting Ravenloft for a new crossbow and then an early jump into Sharn at 12.
I died in a force trap on a bridge on Sorrowdusk Island. I was trying to get to the trap box on the other side.
Bad idea since reflex was my lowest stat, and I didn’t have evasion.
Once again, I didn’t set aside any gear or add anyone else to the guild. So that’s all lost.
I got to “mailed invitations” and was planning on adding an Alt as successor until my guild leader gets back from his trip.
He’s totally missing out on all of this death.
Anyways, I don’t think I have the patience to do that same build again. It was way OP against Undead/Animals, but grinding for the right gear all over again is too much.
I will just go with a Bard-Warlock with the Spellsinger tree for perpetual heals.
That’s what I used to farm Tokens of the Twelve back on the Cannith server. Easy, set it and forget, maybe watch a movie, kinda build.
Well, I quickly gave up on my idea of an Aura-lock build. Getting that up and close to monsters and possible death was more than my nerves could handle. I’ll just try again with the first build.
I did make improvements, mostly by adjusting my starting stats to meet prerequisites for ranged Feats that I spaced out last time.
I am going to take 6 levels of Paladin to get Ghost Touch from the Knight of the Chalice enhancement tree. It also adds 1d6 light damage to my attacks.
4 levels of Artificer, so I can handle traps and get the Iron Defender pet to handle some aggro. The Renegade Master-maker tree gets me extra Hitpoints/AC/PRR and protection from magic missiles.
Lastly, 10 levels of cleric with maybe 10 Action Points placed in the Radiant Servant tree, while using the remaining points for Inquisitive.
I am at level 9 right now.
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