Tuesday 8 May 2012

Build Your Guild

So today I actually took the time to read what the Build Your Guild event is all about - when Tangy leveled up and got us 70+ k renown, I was intrigued!
Apart from the renown bit, there's an XP bonus for grouping with guildies so I thought it might be time to do some leveling together again. Unfortunately we seem to be a bit scattered as for level ranges, I have a level 10 and level 16, Tangy is 12, not sure about others. Anyway, this is what I'm currently looking to do on my characters, give me a shout if you want to join me for these or any other XP runs:
Reckluse 10 - VON flagging on elite, level 8 Necro tombs on elite, possibly Threnal
Micron 16 - Fleshmaker elite, any other Orchard quests for sigil bits + Litany once I get full sigil, Crucible elite, other GH quests on any difficulty including Tor elite and normal with dragons, Siegebreaker series and others - not too picky.
EDIT: According to this, there's also a +25% XP bonus starting on the 10th of May. Apparently it's on until Sunday inclusive.

Monday 7 May 2012

Challenges

Hi dudes,
As we have started running the challenges in House Cannith lately, I thought I'd throw in a couple useful DDO Wiki links. Turbine have apparently got into the habit of adding a new crafting line with almost every update and it's difficult to keep up. There is now Cannith crafting, Shroud crafting, Challenge crafting, Alchemical crafting, Stone of Change crafting, Epic crafting, Crystal Cove crafting and god knows what else, each with is own freaking ingredient types. They really try hard to make people spend some TP on ingredient bags. :p At least they make use of the barter box interface fairly often, which makes things a bit easier.

Anyway, if you want to craft challenge rewards, you need to run certain quests, each of which drops a different ingredient.
Basic info - an overview of the challenge rewards, what quests you need to run for which ingredients
Weapons - a more detailed overview of weapons that can be made with all levels and tiers and a listing of all available weapon types.
Ingredient trading - the ingredients can be exchanged for different ones at a 2:1 rate, so you could for example spend more time farming one easy challenge and subsequently trade the ingredients from it for a different type that drops in a harder challenge.