type 3 augment

[Zolina]

Any ETA on when the new slot 3 augments will go live?

[Ngreth Thergn]

Not this patch.

[Wyvernwill]

It's already been announced that Type 3 were going to be Focus based augments :P Or atleast I remember hearing something about that. I know in LDoN that was entirely what that single slot was to be for as well.

My only question is: Are these going to be dropped or vendored or tradeskilled? Or will it be a combination of the three?

[Zyeil]

... the next best aug I could find is 5ac, 5hp, 5mana....

Just curious, which aug is this?

This one?

Frosty Marble Sphere of Augmenting
NO TRADE AUGMENTATION
Augmentation type: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Slot: HEAD FACE EAR NECK SHOULDERS ARMS BACK WRIST RANGE HANDS PRIMARY SECONDARY FINGER CHEST LEGS FEET WAIST
AC: 5
HP: +5 MANA: +5
Recommended level of 20.
WT: 0.0 Size: TINY
Class: ALL
Race: ALL


I found that on Lucy, and on EQitems, but it doesn't seem to be on Magelo at all. Also not on the EF vendor and can't find a source for it anywhere. I'm not even sure if it's worth finding if it IS in game, as some augs are still showing slot 3 on lucy (like the early BiC pieces) that no longer are.

[Sharrien]

Might be a drop from one of the LDoN raid instances. Those were never extensively farmed, so the info about the drops from them might be scarce.

[Laniele]

Because the crybabies who are too gimp to go out and fight for their gear are jealous and don't want us having great augments like BiC that you can't buy in the bazaar or sit in guild hall and make.
Fits right in with the LoN *buy your gear* philosophy.
Coming soon, EQ item mall, don't play, just shell out some cash and you too can be uber.

Someone needs a good swift kick in the quest container.
Yes, I'm unreasonably ticked off about that change.

Poor Donb, he gets very tetchy if anyone messes with his BiC.

He has singlehandedly gotten a good chunk of our guild sucked into BiC, by ninja inviting people as they logged in and dragging us all off to >insert random GoD zone here< for as long as I can remember.

[Kaliaila]

Deepest Guk was avoided like the plague back then due to the fact that it was very very crowded. Not too surprising that new drops are being found for it.

[Luvimt]

Oh it had NOTHING to do with any player comments.

It was decided by the team before there was even a glimmer of slot 3's going out to players.

It is still by far the most flexible augment there is, but there is definitely the desire to make people choose between it and other "stat giving" gems, and not go into a slot where there is no intention of including stats. (there is a minor hint about slot 3)

Am hoping that If these are focus effects that bard instrument and singing mods will be included as they have been forgotten for type 12's in the past (neither OoW or DoD allowed TS'd or included dropped bard mods).

Due to this lack of instrument mods, I am not able to wear cultural in certain slots as I am tied to gloves that have singing, legs that have wind, boots that have percussion and arms that have string mods.

It would be great to have some options to swap out some slots.

[Tstukalo]

I have gotten wind, brass, and stringed augs at the DoN camp in Lavastorm, but except for bloodstone of the dance (which is a ranged item, and there are range items out there with better stats now), I cannot find a percussion aug at all.

[Luvimt]

I have gotten wind, brass, and stringed augs at the DoN camp in Lavastorm, but except for bloodstone of the dance (which is a ranged item, and there are range items out there with better stats now), I cannot find a percussion aug at all.

The problem I have with these is that they are all only 1.8. My pieces of armour with mods on are all at least 2.3 (most are 2.6) and I would not be willing to lose that mod for any amount of hps. 1.8 just doesn't cut it at higher levels and I would just end up swapping in instruments to "focus" my songs.

[Chandos]

2.0 4tw. I still swap in a drum when I'm kiting or want max debuff out of HoS, but with the 2.0, I don't worry about song mods much.

[Luvimt]

2.0 4tw. I still swap in a drum when I'm kiting or want max debuff out of HoS, but with the 2.0, I don't worry about song mods much.

Well I still havent got around to 1.5 yet, let alone 2.0, I know, I slack! But why should bards be tied to armour or epic when non-bards have so much choice with focus and melee effects? We are the only class that had just 1 piece of armour for each "focus" this expansion - wear warped steel or keep your old gear seems to be the message from SoE.
If instrument mod augs were introduced we'd at least have a similar choice to every other class as to what to wear and what weapon to use.

[Zolina]

Any speculation what the type 3 augs will be like? Vendored, mob dropped, or tradeskilled? I'm also not sure what stats they'll have. If they have focus effects, they might clash with the focus effects on the armor they fit in, I think an item can only have one focus effect.

[Ratblaster]

My guess is that these type-3 augs may be similar to what we had with DoN vendors in lavastorm. You cold buy augs with focus effects (mana preservation, dot/buff duration, range, etc) and these would be good for spells up to lvl 80 (just as DON augs were good to 70 which was max level at the time), but the power of the focus would be less than the power on equivalent raid focus (and perhaps SOE coudl also introduce corresponding type-3 raid augs).

Or perhaps they will be like the flowstones in OOW that tradeskillers could add focus effects to, with the appropriate rare drops like discordant scoriae.

Anyway, thats just my guess until SOE leaks details on exactly what they'll do...you did request speculation

[Kaliaila]

And anyone that has the EB aa and innate self buffs with see invis capabilities or a faerune item would not need the see invis augs.

The bolded part is correct only because there are no faerune/see invis items with a type 3 slot as well in SoF.