I really like the current color, but I can completely get on board for having options. Not sure about pink, but having options are always better than having none.

I can see how that'd be useful information... Right now I'm just PvE. Using the group finder to do a few hard modes and ran Karraga's for the first time last night. Hard modes have been going ok. But the operation seemed more difficult than I had expected. Too many times (2-3?) I was in the middle of casting a big heal while innervate/etc was on cooldown only to have my target die. Figure it's either my spells not casting fast enough or the previous spell not hitting hard enough. Seeing as how I'm pretty close to the crit %, a bit low on the surge % and bit high on alacrity % I'm going to go with the earlier spells not hitting hard enough. I've got a few columni items, the rest are the tier 1 whatever-it's-called that I'd collected prior to my break.

I had a similar situation. Not quite as big a guild though. I got out and joined another guild. Building a guild back up is a pain that I didn't want to go through right now. Just wanting to enjoy playing the game since I've freshly returned.

I've been gone from the game since around 1.3 and recently came back to give it another go since I have some time to spend once again. After searching the forums, I've not found any comments about healing stats/gear after the 1.2/1.3 time frame. Are the base stat lines still the same? Surge 75%, crit 35%, alacrity 8-10%, max out power/willpower Also, around the time I stopped playing I remember talks about being able to remove set bonuses from items and attach them to custom gear. I tried that last night with the tionese chest item to dump it into my preferred gear look and it didn't bring the set bonus ability. What's up with that?

You can never PRE-ORDER content on DDO through the in-game store. You CAN buy it after it's been released to the subscribers/purchasers. This is pre-order. Want to spend your in-game coins? Wait 'til it's been released.

Yep, I used to do that often prior to 1.2. Now it's just annoying to have a few of the same mission piled up (eg Archaeology) and take 2-3 days to get through them. I figure I'd just misread the notes and they took that option AWAY.

He already has slicing. I'd go with Underworld Trading.

I wonder this also. I was just seeing the standard "Armormech (XXX)" come up when I clicked the RE button. Nothing showed if a schematic was available or not.

Back in WoW-times, my guild had a "Kegs & Eggs" raid on Saturday mornings that started around 7am. Lots of rules for when you had to take a drink. If you weren't slurring by the second boss, you got kicked out of the raid for not doing it right.

There's a toggle choice in the preferences menu that allows you to compare companion gear at the same time, you end up with two seperate pop-up windows. One with your gear and one with your companion's gear. At work, so I can't dig into the menu to find the box you need to click.... but it's definitely there.

Check out the sticky at the top of this forum.

Increasing your companion affection level increases your crit chance. At 10k affection on all my Sorc minions, none of which have any bonus to biochem crit, yield about 1 in 6 items with an augment slot. This is just from my limited sample set of course. But you can definitely get them at a much higher % chance than 1 in 100.

On my Merc, all my companions are maxed out at 10k rep and I continue to run the Rich 5 companion gift missions all the time. Sell 'em on the GTN for a tidy profit. If I can't find any Rich metal missions, they're fetching me gifts.

8k each? I need to change servers it seems... You guys much be rich.

I broke 75 level 49 blue earpieces before I gave up on it.