Obulus Death Shroud  

 

Aye after the plat cheat prices went up, slowly coming down.

Got one off of Froglok Bok Wizard(at platform after cages before chef/bar) as well as the Dar Knight if you hunting it in OS instead of Bazaar.

This actually does work with Port (and Gate), but you do not see the effect because it happens right after you begin to zone, but before you actually arrive at your destination, as your system is loading.

Works on all spells, level 60 and below, with the exception of complete heal and percentage heals.

This price also includes many prices from before the Focus Effect patch... the value of this increased tremendously when they put Mana Preservation III on it.

The savings come out of the mana you USE, not your total mana. If you have 6,000 mana, your actually going to save 10% mana on that extra 600 points everyone is talking about in this thread.

If you were able to use every point of mana, then you'd find that you were able to cast about 667 points extra from a pool of 6,000 mana for a total of 6667 mana.
[6000*.1=600 600*.1=60 60*.1=6 6*.1=.6
600+60+6+.6=667]

Also remember that, for the purpose of these calculations mana generating items increase the available mana pool. When you expend that generated mana, you get the same savings. So if durring an encounter you get an extra 1200 mana from mind buffs, canabalize or whatever, you can add an additional 133 mana savings after you use this additional mana.

So 6000 original mana with 1200 generated mana gets you about 800 additional mana in savings for the conflict.

{note: Some complex mathmatics can be employed to calculate the savings. However, EQ is a game for all ages and technical levels. Intuitivly multiplying out the savings is simple and fast enough. For this reason, I did not include any formulas, feeling the examples provided were enough. The numbers used were plucked from this discussion. My character has no where near this much mana, and thus my personal savings are proportionatly less than those stated.}

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Edited, Tue Apr 29 00:27:37 2003

Similar price on The Nameless. Usually hovers around 15k. *Somehow* one of the traders put it up for 1350. Maybe he missed a zero.. who knows.. I grabbed it and transferred the item over to my druid. I havent tested it much since I just got it but it looks like my nukes, damage shields, and sow fall under the MP3 focus.

Focus effects are not procs. They're permanent. They also work on any lvl character. The difference in focus levels are what spells they affect. Focus level I is up to ~22nd, focus II is up to 44th (I have a few of these) and focus III is all spell levels. This item will cause all spells to cost 10% less (other than specifically designated spells, such as Complete Heal which is not affected by any focus to my knowledge)

Only 10%? to put into perspective what he just said, lets look at how much 10% actually matters..

only 10% of rangers die every day...(how many times you seen that happen)

only 10% of summons result in a casters death (seen that a lot too)

only 10% of the mobs in loy arent under cons (/shiver)

that only 10% ONLY makes a live saving event bout once a day lol.

that may be exagerated, but wearing this over somethin with a little better stats is worth the saved hardship of trying to find a cleric at 3 am.

think about it, winged death takes me 350mana, snare takes me 35 mana..thats the 10%, that 10% can save my life from an add in a bad siuation, and given the right situation that 10% could leave me enough to evac your sorry ass.

case dismissed you lose ONLY and 10% dont go togehter goodbye


Edited, Sat May 24 00:50:50 2003

Is amazing how many people post stuff on the boards trying to sound like they know what they are talking about when its obvious they don't. I am a ranger myself and wouldn't dare to say I know all about priest classes.

Not much benefit??? Well since you're a ranger, you probably wouldn't.... but as a cleric this helps immensely, as we constantly are casting heal spells, buffs, etc etc. ONLY 10% conservation of mana??? Since at lvl 60 my mana pool is about 3500, that would save me 350 mana if I were to cast until I am OOM. So basically, we have a 350 mana item in the shoulder slot with the obulus death shroud. You're crazy if you think anything a mage can summon is better than this (no offense, mages).

Ugh . . . I have clerics in the guild that say whenenever they group, even for a few hours, unless there are repeated wipeouts for some reason, you dont go thru huge amounts for symboling. They also say they jasper buff the non Enchanters/clerics/MT's . . . I just dont see how so many clerics are blaming their wealth issues on not charging for resses and DOT buffs . . .

Im a ranger. I dont charge for crap!!! I normally pay for resses and ports. I still have enough money to do what I have to. Are you telling me that clerics out there could not farm the LSoEE when it came out? Thats how I made 10k easily! 1 Farm of the LSoEE!!! There are many ways to make plat.

I know its off subject, but I'm so tired of this excuse for not having money . . . I know so many clerics that are way more loaded than I am . . . considering on many occasions, most clerics are reimbursed with gems for DOTs in certain camps. How bout the fact that a cleric can usually get a group easier than many other classes? You get more XP than us because of that . . . should we non wanted classes whine? Wait, how bout because you get more chances to get into the better camps, you have chances at better loot . . . how bout that idea. I CANT STAND THE CLERICS OUT THERE THAT WHINE ABOUT NOT HAVING CASH!!!

I doub it, I know the 2 Mana Preservations will not stack, and I believe affliction efficeny just makes the DOT do more damage faster doesn't it? (not sure) I thought the effliction efficently lowerd the time of a DOT by 25% but kept the sme damage so I guess it would stack then. I have Range III and Affliction Extension III and they work together on Dot's

just trying to help by giving you my observations

I think paying over 10k for this is an incredible waste of plats. As VI add more focus items are added to the game you're going regret paying for 10k for this gimped shoulder.

you forgot about you specialization you idiot remember that ?

oh great. somebody found out that there are items with effect Flowing Thought III. Of course everybody would rather chose a FT3 item instead of this one, so please go to bazaar and shout "WTB items with FT3". I am sure you will get lots of offers.

and while were are there, why would you chose a FT3 item. There are FT7 items. Does that make FT3 items worthless for you?

get real. play the game and someday find out what the attribute "no drop" means.

Atrocious - eat, sleep, EQ -

Wrong about this being the only tradable MP3 item, crystalline Torque from Velks has it as well.

Yep price will be going up now. Mana Preservation can make a big difference.