DDO Bonus Days!
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Unless there is an item effect called "Named", this bonus does not do what you think it does.
As far as I know, the only bonus/effects that increase the chances of named loot dropping are: https://ddowiki.com/page/Item:Elixir_of_Discovery. Per the Wiki, those are only available from Improved Epic Otto's Irresistible Box and Gold Daily Dice and during occasional DDO Points promotions.
Higher difficulties (i.e. Elite, R1, R5, etc.) also increase the chances of named loot drops over the base Normal difficulty.
Everything other than running on higher difficulties and the Elixirs of Discovery only increase the chances of the RNG non-named loot spawning in the chest with higher/max effects and bonuses. I think at one point, the chest blessing thing from Mark of Finding used to increase the actual level of the chest, thus resulting in higher ML RNG loot but even that got changed to increase the quality of the RNG loot effects instead.
In other words, all the "Treasure Hunter" type bonuses are mostly a garbage newbie trap. They're only good for true newbie players, people who intentionally run a toon with an RNG loot gearset instead of named stuff, or farming RNG stuff to sell for plat.
For reference: https://ddowiki.com/page/Looting
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Sophie The Cat Burglar
Exotic Items Recovery Specialist
This may be the one where the Saltmarsh wilderness drops a gigaton of stuff. I am too tired to check right now. Maybe later.
droid327
Well-known member
You can't bury the lede on this bonus like that! I missed a couple hours of potential reaper frag farming...
droid327
Well-known member
IME TH weekend significantly increases the rate of reaper bonuses on items
Sophie The Cat Burglar
Exotic Items Recovery Specialist
Just ransacked Saltmarsh wilderness with a character. Found something like 15 artifacts, 8 other named items, and two sentient experience thingys.
The Narc
Well-known member
Lol oh you just have been distracted by all that highly intelligent build advice from the hack streamers present at the event, especially the canadian ones EH! Roflmao
SSG has said that Treasure Hunter bonuses don't increase the chances of getting bonuses on named loot (Mythic and Reaper bonuses) but a lot of players believe that it does have an effect.
It definitely does not increasing the chances of getting named loot, but it may make your named loot better if you're running on Reaper.
Elixirs of Discovery affect the chances of named items dropping.
Treasure Hunter Elixirs (which stack with the Treasure Hunter weekend bonus) affect the chance of getting higher bonuses on any item, including mythic and reaper bonuses.
droid327
Well-known member
When have they said that?
Regardless, even if they did say that, I feel comfortable saying they're demonstrably wrong
My rates of Reaper items are qualitatively higher during Treasure Hunter weekend, and anecdotally many others have reported the same thing.
I just opened ~16 chests (one full ransack, two non-ransacked) with a +10 potion running alongside the bonus, no rerolls, and pulled 2 Reaper pieces. Almost every chest also contained a filigree, with an unusually high number of rares.
Good info. Guess I should dust off those stacks of Treasure Hunter Elixirs sitting on bank mules and give this a go.
Sarlona Raiding
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Thank you for the bonus weekend - I would love to see this type of bonus weekend more frequently.
