Tweaking in DAoC

[Kobold]

Well...I thought the idea was, when you are low lvl and wear a high lvl item (like a lvl 50 item when you're lvl 30), the item don't give all the bonuses, but it do. MY friend and me playing some alts (light enchanter and light ment) and was thinking...lets tweak those chars! And omg, with capped con and int etc and lotsa +hp items and nice focus staff...it's like we have 600hp (without buffs) on lvl 30 as luri mage, and don't use much mana with those uber light nukes.

When I was in BG1 with this char, SBs/infils PA didn't take more than half my hp...I qc mez him..range..stun...nuke..dead.

Ofcourse those purps items go down a bit fast in dur..but not that fast really. So if you have a lvl 50, pharm seals in DF with him for you're alts,...purp equipment rox

 

[PJS]

Twinking

Unfortunately highly purple stuff drops very quickly to 70% at which point you lose the bonuses

 

[Kobold]

Yeh it will drop to 70% CON after a little while, but then you can repair it and the DUR will fall a bit...but it will work until the DUR is down to 0 or sumthing...never ruined an item totaly before, but have a cloak at 20% dur and it still give bonuses

 

[oblivion_6]

hmm maybe at lv 30 this works but i noticed that when my first char started i had some lv 40 stuff whic h was way purple to me and i didnt get the stats increase or anywhere near the same AF till later on

 

[old.anubis]

there is some limit, like lvl of the char should be not less than 1/2 lvl of the item. for example jewel of venom bought in df (+5 env, lvl 50 item) doesnt work at lvl 24. i couldnt use lvl 40 cloak from spindel until i dinged 20.
still there are exceptions, you can use some lvl 50 items in 1st bg.
and yes, it is nice to have +hp/con capped on yer twink

 

[old.Charonel]

you've gotta remember the stat caps, it's at 1.5 times your lvl, ie a lvl 7 char could only have a total of +10 in any stat, a lvl 3 char is even worse off at a mere +4 to stats, whereas at lvl 35 you can get +52 in item bonuses, so twinking, while works to some extent is still not perfectly possible, because you have to be ABLE to take the twink, and that requires lvl's, regardless of how high the item is that your using.

+skill caps are even smaller, at (i think, not certain) one fifth your lvl, at lvl 37 i can only get a max of +8 to skills, which would be 37 divided by 5 = 7.4, so perhaps either i'm wrong (not surprising ) or it rounds it up, but it's something like that.

but your item cap is 1.5 times your lvl, same for buffs i think, which of course, work on a seperate cap.

 

[cjkaceBM]

Stat Cap = 1.5 x Level
Skill Cap = Level / 5 +1
Resist Cap = Level / 2 + 1

 

[old.Charonel]

thanks cjkace, nice to have the skill cap clarified at last

 

[inuyasha]

Hehe

Sucks ass for the bg backstabbers that there is no limit for hitpoint items then =))))

+165 hp...yey!

Should help at level 20s =)

 

[old.anubis]

nope, there is a limit, lvl * 4
so at lvl 20 it will be +80 hps

 

[Kobold]

Originally posted by old.anubis
nope, there is a limit, lvl * 4
so at lvl 20 it will be +80 hps

Hmmm sounds reasonable. Where you got that info btw?