Last Blood of the Champion  

 

Your first sentence seems to be correct from what was seen during the DoDh beta and from the progress being made by tradeskillers so far. However, the negativity of the rest of your post is misplaced.

The final step is a no fail combine that uses the no trade dropped component to produce a no trade final product. However, the container used for that combine is made by a large number of tradeskill steps requiring high levels of skill in tinkering, smithing and other skills. The parchment and ink used up in the process of making each augment are also tradeskilled using tailoring, baking and brewing.

In addition, the links found for these augs so far show them to only fit in Type 12 augment slots. These augments slots are ONLY found on DoN cultural armor, so as the high end raiders make these augments, they will need to buy the tradeskilled armor and symbols to go with the new augments. The augments + grandmaster DoN armor will have similar stats and effects as found on dropped armor from raid encounters of the same difficulty as the events where the augments dropped.

Finally, the Last Blood augments like the one shown above are expected to drop from raid instances off Dreadspire that will be Anguish+ in difficulty, but the lesser augments have been seen off easier events. The Bazu Stone for the 2nd best version of these augments has dropped in a couple different raids that are described as comparable to Tacvi or MPG raids in difficulty. The Discordant Stone for the 3rd best augments has been found off a raid mission that allows up to 54 people but has been defeated by a single group of Anguish geared toons and could be done at a much lower level with more people. The Chronal Stone has not been found yet, but would presumably come from even easier events.

Edited, Sun Oct 9 11:21:33 2005

The final combine (per beta) was not done against a tradekskill "skill" check, but it was a no fail combine in a container (made through tinkering). The container, along with several ingredients in the aug combine had many subcombines with various different tradeskills.

So, everyone could potentially benefit, not just tradeskillers.

There are also 4 different tiers of these augs. "Last Blood of the XXX" is the final tier. There are lesser versions of this aug. Each tier has about 25 or so different variations to the aug, including different focus and worn effects.

Edited, Fri Sep 16 13:44:05 2005

I also read the same thing Scotty posted below, that these are not live. However, if they were, this would hardly be worthless to someone in Anguish gear, unless your whole guild has already gotten their breastplates. To start with, the Grandmaster Breastplate, plus Grandmaster augment, give a total of 99ac, 145 hp/mana/end. Toss this uagment on it, and you are up to 144ac, and 355 hp/mana/end (and still have an open slot for an Anguish aug). That means you actually end up with HIGHER ac than Anguish BP, and for clerics also more hp same mana, for knights more mana same hp. Effects are better on Anguish BP, but for the lower DKP members of most Anguish guilds, this would be a nice upgrade from GoD breastplates.

This was on test, and to my knowledge Absor said this line of augs would NOT go live. Even if they did, these would be dropping from top-end, nearly anguish level raids I would imagine, where you basically have to have a 500hp bp to begin with.