Auction & the Stone of Change

Started by DocJon · 4 posts · 1,091 views

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    OK, had to wait about an hour to get back online, but I took care of a few things in DDO that I'd wanted to do. First, check my auction. I sold sumthin'! Seems like a HEFTY action fee, though. I don't recall seeing such a heavy fee before. 899 gp would be ~90 platinum, and that's like 40% of what I took away.

    Some of these pics may look a little off - I reduced the colors to 256 so they wouldn't be so large. I kept them png files because they seem to be sharper, and easier to read.

    Anyone else with DDO auction experience think that's unusually high?

    I also picked up another vial of pure water, which let me do the Stone of Change ritual to add a +1 AC bonus to my robes.

    Robe Before (at Stone of Change):

    With needed items on Stone of Change:

    It only needed 15 of the prayer beads, and it gave me back all the ones it didn't use.

    The final result. Notice the upgraded AC, from 15 to 16.


    I had to do a binding ritual on the robe first, which, logically enough, bound the item to me. It also prevents the item from ever getting permanently damaged, so if it gets banged up, it will always be fixable. Finally, the binding ritual allows me to perform other rituals on it, like this one. The binding ritual requires a number of Khyber Dragonshard Fragments equal to the square of the level of the item in question. Mine was a 2, so I only needed 4 fragments.

    I don't know if this was a smart item to do this on. I have no spell resistance without it, so it adds +13 to it for me. I don't know if that's good or not, as I couldn't find further info on how that works out in-game. All I know is the robe was pricey, looks cool 😀 , and I didn't see anything else at all that upped my spell resistance, anywhere.

    It was interesting to do the ritual thing anyway, and maybe now the clerics/wizards won't bind/hypnotize me so much.
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    Dang, that is a steep fee. That pushes costs way up if you ask me.
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    Atomm wrote:Dang, that is a steep fee. That pushes costs way up if you ask me.

    Well, I'm thinking it might be an error. I think it was like 20x what it should have been. Maybe Cold will see this and give his opinion. He's the only one I know that has a lot of auction experience. Paladin sold some stuff last night, but that was only one time and I don't know if he remembers what it charged. I don't remember what they charged when I sold stuff before, but I don't remember it being that high.


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    AFAIK, the items that you need to use the Stone of Change. Dunno if there are more.

    Kyber Dragonshard- [(minimum level of item ^ 2) Khyber Dragonshard Fragments ex. Level 3 item need 9 Khyber Dragonshard Fragments] for Binding/Attuning Ritual (allows you to do all other Stone of Change rituals, and so item can no longer take permanent damage(can always be repaired)).

    Strings of Prayer Beads
    - 15 used in Alchemical Armor Edrich Ritual (+1 AC). These are as common as dirt. I currently have over 100 of them. They take up one slot.

    Pure Water- 5 used in Alchemical Armor Edrich Ritual (+1 AC)

    Adamantine Ore- 10 used in Adamantine Ritual 1, 15 used in Adamantine Ritual 2, done to increase item's durability.

    Soul Gem: Essence of Earth- 10 used in Adamantine Ritual 1, 20 used in Adamantine Ritual 2, done to increase item's durability.

    Tomes: Prophecies of Kyber
    - 2 used in Alchemical Shield Eldritch Ritual, to increase your shield's AC by 1.

    Silver Flame Hymnals- 6 used in Alchemical Shield Eldritch Ritual, to increase your shield's AC by 1.

    Luminescent Dusts- 3 used in Force Damage Ritual, to add additional 1 point of force damage every hit to your weapon.

    Fragrant Drowshood mushrooms- 9 used in Force Damage Ritual, to add 1 point of force damage every hit to your weapon.

    Sparkling Dusts- 6 used in the Force Critical Ritiual, to add 1d4 points of force damage on each successful critical hit to your weapon.

    Deadly Feverblanch Mushrooms- 12 used in the Force Critical Ritiual, to add 1d4 points of force damage on each successful critical hit to your weapon.

    Lightning-Split Soarwoods- 4 used in the Resistance Ritual, which adds +1 competence bonus to saves to your jewelery item.

    Funerary Tokens- 22 used in the Resistance Ritual, which adds +1 competence bonus to saves to your jewelery item.