Category Archives: Staff Picks
DDO Staff Picks – 2012 February
5 Essential items for Soloing chosen by Tolero
When F2P launched, I decided to make an “experiment” character to see what it was like to try and solo to level cap as a melee. I’m a fairly relaxed and easy going player who likes to chase butterflies more than beat down monsters, so the idea of having to play quests – without having stronger spec’d friends in party to lean on – was kind of scary.
I wanted to see what kind of situations the Store helped with most that otherwise I would have been stuck without. I’ll probably write more about what it was like on MyDDO, but for now I wanted to help highlight some of these Store items for other solo players! -Tolero
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DDO Staff Picks – May
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Slayer Boosts |
| Boost the amount of kills you get toward slayer quests in adventure areas by 25%! With this effect, for every four kills you make, you get credit for one additional bonus kill. Lasts for 30 minutes. Pauses in public areas and when logged out but does not pause in quests. Lesser, Medium, Greater & Major Boosts available. |
| STAFF QUOTE: “I have tons of landscape XP coming my way from a bunch of Slayers I am going to finish up this week!” |
| STORE LOCATION: XP & Loot Boosts > XP Boosts |
| LEVEL: All |
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30-120 |
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Royal Armor Appearance Kits |
| Change the appearance of your character’s armor with an Armor Kit – even that of Warforged. Choose from shades of violet, sage, crimson and more! |
| STAFF QUOTE: “It looks great on my Warforged!” |
| STORE LOCATION: Cosmetics > Armor Kits |
| LEVEL: All |
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150-450 |
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Ingredients Bag |
| Store stacks of ingredients in one inventory slot! – Bound to character |
| STAFF QUOTE: “Crafting is coming in U9, so I’m expecting to get a lot of use out of these.” |
| STORE LOCATION: Gear & Equipment > Storage & Bags > Crafting > Ingredients |
| LEVEL: All |
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350-595 |
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Guild Renown Elixir |
| Consuming a Guild Renown Elixir grants your character a 20-75% bonus on all earned guild renown for 3 hours. Single, 5 & 25-Stacks available. |
| STAFF QUOTE: “My guildies and I don’t get to play as often as we like, so these help balance that out a bit.” |
| STORE LOCATION: Guilds > Guild Miscellaneous |
| LEVEL: All |
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75-5250 |
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Half-Orc Race |
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| Half-Orcs keep fighting long after other races give up! Create new Half-orc characters on any server. Half-orcs are the strongest of all the player races and so excel in melee combat, and start with higher strength and lower intelligence and charisma. |
| STAFF QUOTE: “I LOVE my half-orc barbarian!! He’s big, he’s mean, he’s strong, and he’s all mine!” |
| STORE LOCATION: Premium Items > Races & Classes |
| LEVEL: All |
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1295 |
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Shared Banks |
| Share items among the characters in your account on the same server! Base bank has 20 slots; Four additional 10-slot upgrades available! The only way to trade bound-to-account items (items that cannot be mailed or auctioned) to your other characters! |
| STAFF QUOTE: “Love this for my alts.“ |
| STORE LOCATION: Premium Items > Gear & Equipment > Storage & Bags > Shared Bank |
| LEVEL: All |
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995-1495 |
