LDON Week 5 Item and ScreenshotsSep 5th, 2003 at 12:19 PM by Illia
Sony sent us another batch of items from Lost Dungeons, which comes out on Tuesday. This batch shows that augementations are not limited to level 60+ items, and appear on lower level equipment as well.
Some pictures of the Takish'Hiz dungeon theme (click for much larger pic):
If your playing on the Roleplay server(firiona vie I think it's called) the augented items DO NOT become no drop. Then again...pretty much everything on that server isnt no drop.
Im not sure if they are in each camp, but in the BB wayfarers camp there is a pedistal with what looks like a birdbath atop it. You click on it and it opens up a window (simular to a craftsmans kit) that you place the armour piece and the aug stone in and click combine. To reverse the augmented armour (IE..take the aug out of the armour) you need a solvent. Note that augs DO make items no-drop.
I really really like the LDoN expansion... started playing EQ in May of 2002 on MM... i like the 7 level requirement, as it requires more interaction getting a group... a nice playing environment while waiting to get levels and AA's for the higher level Planes... group interaction and the learning experience is another plus... keep up the good work SOE..
Quick not on augs, i've ben adding them to nodrop items that i'll be keeping for awhile anyway, ie Earring of the Solstice, Righteousness, etc. so not sureif they make the item nodrop or not, but this seems to be the best strategy. /shrug
So cool cant wait.. checked it out today. TY curse. splurt, splurt, chase a dum necro around winged deathed em. rooted pet, drifting deathed em. then i gate out like a bish. an heal up the 2k he did to me. hear later they got a ench o my guild.I play on rallos an these cheeze pks used to just camp the great divide book. at least now the'll have a lil varity. 8P.... anti's all the way. 1 day we will win. lol
negative... they must've changed it recently... someone linked me adamantite apualets (sp?) w/ augmentation and it said no drop... i know for a fact adamantite's are droppable otherwise... so when you augment your item... it WILL be NO-DROP... kinda sucks cause i let my 34 mage use my 58 chanter gear... if it gets augmented, he cant use anymore :(
If that makes the items that were once droppable NO DROP... will make twinking and selling the items obsolete I would assume. Guess you would still be paying the same amount for the item you would have before the expansion if this is the case and just upgrade the item you wanted upgraded for yourself.
If it does not make your item NO DROP, expect a sky rocket in price for auged items of course and reduced cost in the regular ones.
All this I guess we will see when servers are up and within a week of patches fixing other patches hehe
I think this keeps people without LDON from getting them and trying to fit them in the slots. Personally I don't have LDoN yet, but I do have an augmentation stone from speaking with the Wayfarer's that the NPC in my home city told me to visit. I've not put it in anything yet, and it says it will get better as my standing with the Wayfarer Brotherhood improves.
a 9 hour patch must be awesome, sure they will have emergency patches just hope they consolidate patches as much as possible, but i am very intrigued about augments, and if they can ever be undone, i hope so , in order to change for a newer upgrade i mean. well waiting for the 9 hour patch to get done with so i can play see ya in game soon i hope.
Personally if I havent made it to elementals ... and of course not time zone wHy THE F! would I purchase this expansion ... Would it be a desperate attempt to stay in game ? Sony thanks for this flag crap "quest" and why isnt there alternative quests to get to elementals ?? I have tried for elemental zones enough =( and after all these months ... RETIRE.
Old world items (pre-LDoN) will have Slot Type 1 on most items (Except ammo slot items and certain others). Most of the haste augments I have seen are Type 3. This means they will only go onto new items from LDoN, and you most likely will not see an item able to use an Augment slot if you can stack the effects. Even if that did happen, I am sure they have it coded so only the greater of the 2 would be used.
We're sure they'll be coding in the most logical manner.
While it will likely end up this way, I'd say some breakage of old world items will occur. Whether the whiners get them to stay that way is another matter. I smell an emergency update patch. =)
#Anonymous,
Posted:Sep 07 2003 at 10:29 PM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) i cant wait till this expansion is out. i've been waiting forever. this is gonna turn rallos on its head. i cant wait. pvp will have reached an ultimate high ;P
#REDACTED,
Posted:Sep 08 2003 at 7:46 AM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) Oh yeah??? You wouldn't know what to do with a pipe even if you had one, and as for druids...well a sexy soulful erudite shadowknight wouldn't have to even start talkin about hairy footed halflings. Pfft.
I'm gonna be grouped over and over and over until I get enought +int, hp, and mana augs to make my gear just flat out wrong. Just going to wait about a week after it's released to start this in case of bugs.