Veritas en Dominae Newsletter, 6/15/2010: 
 
Below you will find important links that will help you optimize your leveling, itemization, grouping experience, and give you the tools you need to decide on your end game items. I highly recommend you bookmark this information so you can refer to it easily.
 
Character Planner 
A character planner will help you with all the choices you'll be faced with when making your character. It will give you important information about your hit points, feats, and action point choices so you can make the best out of whatever concept you're trying to build.
 
 
Named Loot 
The Definitive Static Loot Reward List will help you decide what the best items are for your character to wear at what levels. Use Control+F to search for a particular item property that's useful for your build.

 
Monster DR and Weaknesses
Bane Weapon Types
These pages will tell you which monsters are vulnerable to which types of weapons and will tell you what kind of Greater Bane weapons to look for to fight a particular kind of monster.

 
Quest Guide 
The Quest Guide lists most quests in the game by their level, with details on strategies, the types of fights you'll face, and often has solutions or tips and hints to difficult puzzles and boss fights.
 
 
Interactive DDO Game Guide 
The Interactive DDO Game Guide is the last crafting resource you'll ever need. It has a complete FAQ and drag down menu to create Greensteel Items, how to create Epic Items and upgrade them, and even has a tutorial on some of the higher end content in the game that includes crafting. Included in the program is a puzzle solver for Shroud, and a micro tab that lets you refer to the Definitive Static Rewards list. It's a must-have.
 
Information is power. By knowing how your character will end up at level 20 and what gear you intend to go after, you will save valuable time (and valuable time for the guild) you might otherwise waste chasing gear that isn't nearly as useful to you. Even better, it prevents you from hurting your guildmates by taking gear out of their hands that's much better for them than you and vice versa.
 
Members of Veritas en Dominae are fortunate, because unlike so many other guilds that do end game content, there are no requirements as to the kind of toons you can play. If you want to make a repeating crossbow sniper mechanic build, you're not going to be turned away because it's not mainstream or a cookie cutter raid build.
 
I will, however, offer one piece of advice. If you plan on doing end-game content with your character, make sure you have at least 400 hit points in your end game gear. Keep in mind that this is only 295 hit points before a Greensteel +HP item and a +6 Con item. What this usually translates into is a Constitution score of at least 14. If you have less hit points than this you will more often than not be a liability to your group and have a poor experience in end-game content due to frequent deaths.
 
If you need build advice, never be afraid to ask questions in guild chat. That's what your guildies are here for.