Dungeons & Dragons Online is a hybrid tab-target MMO with game mechanics and character building that are heavily inspired by D&D 3.5e.>ServerWe're playing in the Shadowdale server.>GuildWe have a guild up, Frens Of Eberron.Use this command to enter our chatroom, you can ask for a guild invite in here if you like: /joinchannel MMOD rage>Downloadhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/206480/Dungeons__Dragons_Online/https://www.ddo.com/homeThe MMOdventure anons will be playing this for the next 2-3 weeks, although some may play for much longer.>>2051131
Free stuff code, redeem it in the DDO Store: GATHERYOURPARTY2025Wiki: https://ddowiki.com/Class overview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqZW1r9_EtgRace overview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x34l6K25B4ACharacter builds: https://forums.ddo.com/index.php?forums/character-builds-and-classes.24/Festivult event: https://www.ddo.com/guides/ddo-festivult-guideSymphony of the Fey event: https://www.ddo.com/guides/ddo-symphony-of-the-fey-guide
There's a couple of character planner apps out there, right?Which is the best one?
>>2136378https://forums.ddo.com/index.php?threads/ddo-character-planner-ddobuilder-version-2.554/
Since most will abandon the game after a few days the best content I would recommend in order of iconic to DDO are:-VON quest chain plus the raid, try to do the raid in a teaching group so you actually see more of it instead of everyone rushing it. Even rushing it you get to see one of the better Raid entrances of any final boss.-Necro 1-4+wilderness zone, be aware these have some real hard ones in it and require group ones as well. If you only do one part do Necro 4 and the wilderness zone.-Three Barrel cove + Stormreach harbor Saga, three barrel for pirates puzzles and one of if not the most coveted items in the entire game, Stormreach for Spies in the House and the final mission-Gianthold chain can skip the raid as its not that interesting. Gianthold Tor really lets you feel the size difference between you and giants plus has dragon bosses. Crucible is a great group quest that has a lot of non-combat puzzles and actions to complete-All expansion content is pretty good narratively and tends to have great gear.-Delita's Tomb some of the few quest chains that still fell like old school DDO difficulty even though they are still nerfed as well. -Tempest Spine super easy raid but iconic first raid for new players.
Oh hell yeah. I had been yelled at about the big free stuff code and have wanted to check DDO out. Perfect excuse with this being the next game.
>>2136508Totally forgot the Desert Sands, while you could skip the raid the preraid is pretty good. Probably number 3 on that list unless you hate hard dungeons then it would probably go to 2.
>>2136580>with this being the next game.the _current_ game, anon. hop on.
Did anyone manage to make this work with dxvk?
knock off the chud shitstop saying the n wordyou have been warned
>>2137180>t. supreme chud
>>2137180not.ChadChud
>>2137180>chudhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C.H.U.D.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChudWhat does movie name or ethnic slur gotta do with it?
Anyone know what time the sales end? I noticed the 30% off coupons end today, but no clue if that also applies to adventures. I preemptively picked up two in case we want to run them.
>>2137297Not sure. We should probably co-ordinate purchases in any case. I got the ravenloft and feywild packs myself, had exactly enough ddobux with the coupons
>>2137305Yeah I picked those up too, I might try to farm the Shar one as well.
I boughted Ravenloft. Currently have 51 DDO bux, so I'll probably be able to get Feywild in a couple days.
An anon mentioned on the previous thread that Dragon's Dogma Online was the best MMO you guys played until, does anyone else agree?
>>2137388No, just because I don't like the action combat. Also, the UI is absolutely terrible. He's probably right otherwise, it's a high quality game with some very cool systems.Standouts for me were Warhammer Online, Uncharted Waters, Neocron 2 and possibly Age Of Conan.Maybe Ferentus, just for the experience of playing it with the gang, very fun. The game itself is an unfinished mess and devolves into a brutal, boring grinder once the storyline abruptly ends.SWG and RIFT are also good games, but they're both pretty dead and way past their heyday.
>>2137361If the sale doesn't end in few days we probably should end up grabbing the level 15 adventure instead.
>>728770768>Dream of Mirror Online>Pretty solid party grinder. The progression ticked my tism similar to SWG and SMT:I. Chinese martial arts atmosphere was cool.At some point that game just started BSoDing my PC Uncharted Water, too.
>>2137413TRIPLE BONUS?!?
Hey EU bros, friend me or invite to a guild. Xuthrig Belmanyxkreth Sorry for rp name, I have dragon autism. I'm down to dive dungeons, raids, help out at lower levels, whatever.
>>2137507Cool, I logged off sadly, but maybe see you around tomorrow same time.
>>2137507I just got back, I'm probably going to read up a little about the game, make a char, and I'll add you to friends once I finish the tutorial. I would love to see the raids at some point but I'll settle for finishing quests at a reasonable pace together.
>>2137413What did you like particularly about those games you listed?
hello. i have played ddo since 2007. this game is fun but turtle wow and world of warcraft in general is much better. there was a time when i preferred ddo over wow but that was before 2012 when cursespewing, vorpal, paralyzing, exhausting, maldoriot, wounding, puncturing, strength sapping, disruption, and smiting weapons still used their direct from the 3.5 source material effects. the new game devs after 2012 saw this as imbalancing and made all of those cool fun effects worthless and only happen on 5% of hits and made curses last like 1 minute instead of being permanent, as well as making stat damage and negative levels just wear off after a few minutes. thanks for reading
also when i came back to play ddo after a long multi year break i learned that if you want all quests and raids unlocked you have to buy like 9 expansion packs at $40 each. sharn is apparently where all the good items are and its behind a $40 paywall. also everyone will have 2x the hit points as you and to this day i have yet to find out how
example of what i mean https://youtu.be/e0VaAwS3LS4?si=2f8lDStwhKnWCK56game used to be fun but dei green haired lesbians as ceos ruined it because shes mad she wasnt born a man
>>2137675>>2137685That is so sad! I will try to go back in time to play the old and good version of DDO. If that fails, I will play turtle wow and world of warcraft instead, because those are clearly better games. Even though I just got most of the adventure packs and 2 expansions for free in DDO. God bless.
is ddo still worth playing? in my opinio yes especially if you have never played it before. but back in the day it was way better. the ddo of today is heavily power crept and all the old cool weapon effects have been nerfed. but the dungeons and quests and obstacle course like dungeon design is still a lot of fun to play
>>2137712>but the dungeons and quests and obstacle course like dungeon design is still a lot of fun to playTo me, that's the main thing that makes the game worth playing.First it's the dungeons and quests.Second is the character building.
>>2137685>also everyone will have 2x the hit points as you and to this day i have yet to find out howReaper enhancements I believe.
>>2137685Most of the people with a ton of HP are completionists with a lot of epic past lives>While possessing all 12 Primal Epic Past Life Feats, you gain a total of 36 maximum HP at level 1, increased to 84 at level 10, 132 at level 20, and 180 at level 30.>You were a Barbarian in a past life. You occasionally find yourself filled with a nearly irresistible urge to smash boxes. With your head. Each time you acquire this feat you gain 10 additional hit points. This feat can be stacked up to three times.>You win DDO! You gain +2 stats and +2 skills. This Feat is automatically obtained at level 3 for all characters that have completed at least one class or archetype past life for each of the available classes in the game.>You're a cultural master! You've leveled to 20 in every race 3 times, and for your efforts you are awarded this Feat in all future incarnations of this character. This Feat gives a Character: a +2 bonus to all Ability scoresDwarf and Warforged Past Lives both add another +1 CON.CON tomes will give +2 at level 1, +3 at level 3, +4 at level 7 etc.Starting at level 9, anyone with 6+ Reaper points will be able to have +20 HP regardless of quest difficulty.At level 1, that's +70 HP. At level 10, it's +184. And that's before getting into enhancement points, gearing, and the bonuses to Heroic Durability for taking feats like the Two Handed Fighting or Two Weapon Fighting lines.
>>2137712It seems very pay2win if you wish to get serious. But for our 2 weeks, it's a fresh experience, very different from most MMOs, and has been a blast so far.
>>2137685Everything you need is on fey, ravenloft and sharm and they go on sale for 99 ddo points every year.>also everyone will have 2x the hit points as you and to this day i have yet to find out howpast lives, enhancement points on the class defensive tree, + constitution, and insightful constitution gear. stat books you get from drops and favor milestone rewards. guild buffs.
>>2137675I like that the dungeons are different challenges in DDO is WoW similar in that aspect or just tab targeting?>>2137712If the Elite level quests or at least Hard were free from the get-go, then yeah, it would be worth to play it.The game on Normal is retardation levels of easy. It's just auto-walk.
>DDO back in the dayYou were level capped at 4 until you bought a sigil from the store or found one from questing, at which point you were capped at level 8 until your bought a different sigil or found another one from questing, at which point you were capped at level 12 until your bought a different sigil or found another one from questing, at which point you were capped at level 16 until your bought a different sigil or found another one from questingIf you died you lost a chunk of experience so you had to grind even more to get to the next levelQuest ransack was permanent, after doing a quest 13 times you never get any exp from that quest againNegative effects were permanent until specifically removed by a spell that removes them, including blindness lasting into town though resting and through tavern regeneration. Better hope you can stumble your way to a healer that can cast Remove Blindness on youReincarnation removed all of your used tomes, so you have to regrind out any tomes you want for your buildThe Raid leader dictated who was allowed to grab loot from the raid chestEVERY pack had to be bought, there was no coupon code, there was no 99 point giveawayDwarf, Elf, Halfling, and Human were the only races unless you paid for more
>>2137734i looked at reaper enhancements and those are only active inside reaper dungeons. like i soloed some reaper 1 got some reaper enhancements and theres no like +50 hp reaper enhancement that you can point into like 20 times. its literally like i get into raids at level 34 and dudes got 3k, 4k hp and thats everyone while i have like 900hp going hard as fuck on constitution and toughness and enhancements and gear like how? even with tanks with their competence % bonus to hitpoints via stance i built an iconic fighter lvl 15 all feats toughness all points constitution all enhancements hp bonuses and elf bards same level had more hp than me
>>2137810starting from 20 you can open the quest on elite / reaper. it's a strange decision, but at least it only affects the early game
>>2137810dungeons have traps and complex elements. wow dungeons are much more linear and balanced so you cant get easy wins. in ddo even today you can still use clever game mechanics to win in almost every dungeon. jumping over all the mobs, getting onto little nooks or crannys and throwing fireballs, going invis the whole dungeon, ect. much more creative and fun but wow is much more robust and has better end game where you dont have to pay to get into raids. there are free raids in ddo but the good items are in the paid raids
>>2137823That's the exact problem.>>2137831Yeah, that's why I think I'd prefer DDO rather than WoW if only the quests weren't so braindeadly easy on Normal, which would be not a problem if they at least opened them on Hard, these Devs are retarded, it's like they want new players to be bored out of their minds.
>>2137817>Dwarf, Elf, Halfling, and Human were the only races unless you paid for moreYou could unlock a drow, but maybe that was later than you are speaking of.But anyway, yeah, there were a lot of restrictions, I would say game is pretty great now, overall, despite the usual problems of mmo format. And combat actually feels something more than a generic mmo, although, it's easy to overlevel much of content, or just cheese it other ways, but again, that's usually a problem of many mmos.But dungeons are fun, even old generic quests can be fun.
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>>2137507I made a fresh character on EU, Azoola Vetra blue dragonborn. In Korthos Village rn, lets group up and level for a bit. Not sure if friends are per character or account wide.
>>2137823That's why you have to play in a party, or even get your one character to level 20 on one account and then multibox with another account while making a party.
>>2137868Guild is in US server tho.
Every MMO ever
btw if you want to speed up the road to 20, filter this list by XP; starting from around lv 8 there are some quests that give a lot of xp and are actually worth replayinghttps://ddowiki.com/page/Quests_by_level_and_XP
>>2137871Don't you guys need another party member?>>2137889This is useless unless it's xp per minute, Haverdasher as an example is a quest that gives very little xp but you can finish it in under 2 minutes so it's much better for farming.
>>2137879I'm in Mongolia tho. 200+ ping inventory management is beyond my patience, I just wanted to coop with someone at least for a bit.
>>2137888>need to find the bank>look for the most crowded place on the mapEvery time.
>>2137895you knoiw some of those very long quests are very quick to finish right? you don't have to do all the optionals on every run
>>2137507>>2137868I'll consider rolling on the EU server once the time runs out and I feel like playing more.Until then I'll suffer through ping to play with everyone.
>>2137908>MongoliaWtf, it's past 2 AM there. You need to sleep.
>>2137913Is the ping really that bad? I mean, it's actual network latency now considering we're on 64bit servers?
>>2137817it was pretty wild before korthos was introduced as dedicated tutorial zone
>>2137938I personally notice "some" lag which kinda sucks as a melee (enemies run out of range as you swing, or you get less time to react to things), but it hasn't been too bad.
>>2137938It's honestly hard to say how much is due to network and how much due to ancient engine shenanigans. Rubberbanding is also an issue in LotRO.
Long quests are better than kill kobolds in sewers quests. At least so far, they had more stuff to do and more secrets to find.
>>2137817This all sounds based.
>>2137938It's quite wonky with my 130ping, but the game is also bad at registering collisions and projectiles, despite being action oriented. Bank and DDO store are the worst. I've also crashed often during loading, took some tinkering to fix.>>2137923Yeah, I'm too old for nightly mmos, g'night.
Are the 99 coin adventure packs really 2.5k when not on sale?
>>2137973yes
>>2137980wow, that's ass
>>2137973I'd rather save for shared account bank ngl
>>2137970>Yeah, I'm too old for nightly mmos, g'night.Good night. I guess I could still meet you tho, on EU server. I need to move my other accounts anyway, so might as well create one character there.
>>2137987>Festivult
>>2137817>Quest ransack was permanent, after doing a quest 13 times you never get any exp from that quest againHow the fuck did that work if you lost too much exp on death? In theory you could be soft locked?
>>2137987ZUG
So maybe If I do this I can enjoy all the quests in their appropriate levels without over-leveling.
>>2138048That could work, or grouping with a much higher level alt that just sits at the entrance. You may as well just level normally and then reincarnate when you hit 20 and then play all new quests until you've seen everything and are ready for epic levels.
>>2137817>Negative effects were permanent until specifically removed by a spell that removes them, including blindness lasting into town though resting and through tavern regenerationThat is fucking awesome. What a shame that this genre is absolutely ruled by minmaxing faggots and solospergs
>>2137970>>2137994I might join you two on EU serb too after the thread moves on to the next game
Does anyone know the way?
>>2138270Maybe try turning back.
>>2138270What does Tungsten say?
>>2138307He'll be back on the cage because I can't stand the sound of his footsteps.
>>2138270you could have named your boy Wolfram. Now the other defenders are going to bully him at dog school.
vecna pussy ass bitch
>>2138245Yeah, will also see how many stick around, if good mumber then I will keep that one character on US server too.
>>2137152Not running it on Linux but surely if it works on proton[1] with a platinum rating it should work with dxvk.[1]https://www.protondb.com/app/206480
Anybody else feel like a little giggle when I mention my friend...
Sharing screenshots.
The harbor has a little platforming challenge as an alternate path to the tavern.
Low INT gaming...
>File too largehttps://files.catbox.moe/xrpda4.mp4
>>2138755>Half-horseAdorable
>>2138783I don't get it.
>>2138783
I could use the first time favor rewards on Shadowdale. What classes are people in the guild playing/what's needed?
>>2139134Disable Device or a guy who can get hit more than once.
The game feels quite different in first person, if you have a ranged character I suggest you try it for a while.
>>2139483first person gives me big Morrowind and Thief vibes
>>2139525>The PitBest fucking quest in the game right there
>>2139595>best dungeon in the game is a literal garbage dump full of smelly lizards>after hours of dicking around in the sewersThis game has a terrible sense of humor.
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Holy shit I got wreaked by some lich and his negative levels in Temple of Elemental Evil first quest. First death of the game and dungeon got reset too, sad times.
This game kind of sucks ass. It doesn't feel like it's balanced around anything. Some classes have a blatant advantage in, I imagine, 90% of content except for maybe the very ultra top-tier raid content.It definitely feels like it's carried over all of DnD's issues with casters, when they can just fucking pull infinity damage nukes and utility out of their asses at any point. Getting to apply metamagics to each spell individually, AND it's free for SLAs, is just fucking ridiculous and makes caster feats a million times more valuable than martial feats. Casters get +150% damage on all of their SLAs for a single feat, martials get +1 attack (in a game where attack bonuses are effectively divided by 5 compared to PnP).I expect the dynamic only changes in extremely specific high-tier content and for the rest of the game you're running around oneshotting every pack of enemies in the game.
>>2139762This is a reminder there's a few mandatory buffs you need to start wearing at all times. Protection against Evil to bounce Charm/Dominate, Deathward to bounce most level drain, shield to block the magic missile family (yes family, there's more powerful versions), elemental resists. You get absolutely mauled if these buffs are down.>>2139766The game felt a little bit better before shadowfell dropped even if the old talent system sucked ass. Casters were nowhere near this efficient at combat though the game still loved to shit on you for playing melee.The reworked talents shredded the original balance so all the old quests that expect you to only be hitting for 1/3 of what you are. This changes towards the end of heroic levels where casters can't just rely on their SLAs to autowin and have to use their normal spells which does wear them down fast if they don't instantly get slapped for drawing aggro. The game feels very much balanced around epics and even then the reaper difficulty was added purely because power creep has continued to build.
>>2139766i feel like a lot of martial power is locked behind items. it feels much better when you get a good weapon on a martial when comparing against a caster. though it does get silly when you power is locked behind a +7 attack roll or a +7 weapon damage modifier on some googles.
>>2139766Is there any MMO like this one? With good quest design but actually balanced?
>>2139833sadly none, it's all WoW-clones, chinese grindfests or realismslops
>>2139766>>2139840You guys this would be offset if Elite was opened from the get go?
>>2139842It makes the gap worse. Casters are still beasts at higher difficulties while martials get shit on as the damage increases. Being able to hit your enemies hard first is an advantage that outstrips everything.
>>2139883Not at all, enemies don't die in one hit on elite, the caster will be out of resources if they don't manage it well.
>>2139885Sure if you're casting from your list. Even without the SP regen song buff SLA efficiency is insane it's near brainless.Shit like Cleric Divine Disciple abuse is absolutely bullshit. They basically only run out if they have to start healing people.
>>2139891Which on Elite they'll have to.Don't get me wrong I'm aware of it's problems, I'm just saying that Elite would offset this somewhat because Elite is the only difficulty that is not brainless auto-walk.Traps on Elite for example don't hurt, they kill.
>>2139789>mandatory buffsCan I get those reliably from potions or wands or something? I have an activatable deathward googles apparently, but not much else.
If you guys wanna a challenge but is F2P, here's what you can do:Just don't level up.Let me explain: You can hold leveling up indefinitely but still can gain XP, you only advance to the next level when you speak to a Trainer, so let's say you want to experience all lvl 1 quests at their appropriate level, just do all of them and when you eventually finish it speak to a trainer to level up to lvl 2, you could probably reach level 4 or 5 in one go after finishing them all on all difficulties if you want,You may also still spend Enhancement Points but they'll get gated by level sooner or later which is kinda cool.
>>2139921... well I wish I realized this sooner.
>>2139905yes, check the potion vendors and wand vendors.in the middle of the marketplace and in these 2 stores in house jorascohttps://ddowiki.com/page/Feather%27s_Fall_Apothecaryhttps://ddowiki.com/page/House_of_Wizardry
>>2139893>Which on Elite they'll have to.No. They don't. I've run bard and a cleric through Elites. Spellsingers get less SLAs than other casters but 3 is plenty, you barely need to think about using your normal spells and you have plenty of resources. Divine Disciple is almost cheating with their SLAs. If anyone plays Sorc or FvS like this they never run out because they have increased SP. What eats into most casters spellpoints is buffing or metamagic CC spells and you don't usually need to do that outside of some very specific encounters. Also traps are traps, they kill everyone equally except the classes that get evasion. That generally makes life worse for everyone and doesn't really level the gap. You could argue it makes the gap worse if a caster does the standard 2 rogue level dip to get evasion.>>2139905They're not great but you can across the market, house P, J and, if you're in a guild, K. Nightshield items are better for guarding against magic missile because they can have a caster level above 1 they last longer letting you need to think about it less. Magic circle against Evil scrolls are better than protection because it's a higher level spell so the duration is longer. There's a potion vendor in The Catacombs which you should consider unlocking as she has nice energy resist potions. Deathward is activatable loot only. You'll want a deathblock item on top in case you get hit by dispell so you don't get phantasmal killer'd. Xoriat hounds can and will dance you to death if you don't have deathblock/deathward.Freedom of Movement is one I forgot and you'll need to find on an item.
>>2139921That's pretty genius.
>>2139946I get your point, but now you're focusing on optimization, and it's true... for low level missions, when you get to the later heroic levels all that is meaningless.So yeah, if you optmize against the game you obviously will destroy it at low-level content and there will obvious be a gap between classes that are optimized for it than those who aren't.
>>2139954Optimize? It's 2 feats that carries all the way through. The only thinking part about it is not doing dumb shit like charging headfirst into a horde of Abishai or hitting golems with the wrong element.The game has it really weird where you can get by almost unscathed then you get random spikes like the end of the slave lords chain where the final fight is actually impossible without a good tank.The gap really only closes up in epics.
>>2139969You can't reach lvl 20 relying on those SLs alone anon, I understand your point but you're offshooting it.
Man, sucks I didn't get any time to play last week and am barely starting now. The dungeon crawl feels like it'd make for a kino group experience.
>>2139982Don't be afraid to group up with people from your level to the highest level dungeon you can.
>>2139971>You can't reach lvl 20 relying on those SLs aloneSolo sure but in a group you can absolutely get away with it though you wouldn't want to as you'd be giving up some decent tools for some pain points.This really only changes on reaper 3 where the damage penalty smacks casters hard enough they need to push into their normal spells.
>>2139982You're fine, just join up, we have frens who will help you catch up. Just yesterday we were running Feywilds.Just remember to NOT to touch any of the bards in the guild, they bite, and DO remember to say "nice unlocking Rhel" when you find a chest, 50/50 chance it opens when said correctly.
>>2139921yeah, I don't know about other classes, but for cleric I was holding down left mouse button for the first 3 levels and not just because that was my best tool, but also because I didn't have anything else...that's not really fun
Can I make a warpriest Cleric that focus on using a sword and a shield or is that futile?What are the build choices (class dips, feats, etc) that would make that work the best?The priority order would be healing > general survivability > raw damage, while trying to maximize these as much as possible with the options I have.
>>2140082>warpriest Cleric that focus on using a sword and a shieldso... a paladin?
Didn't realize breaking enough boxes gives you bonus experience at the end of the quest. I was just doing it because I love vandalism
>>2140092Pretty sure Paladins don't get Domains, the Radiant Servant enhancement tree, or 9th level spells, but I could be wrong.I'm kind of new.
>>2140082You can do that for sure, but consider that healing is mostly done between combat encounters, unless you make it your all-consuming priority.If it were me I would play as a warpriest, taking whatever diety is aligned with swords, Vulkoor? And then when I could afford it I would buy the Falconry enhancement tree, which, among other things, lets you use your wisdom for melee damage and accuracy.Cleric has many great features that scale with cleric level, so I wouldn't personally multi-class, even though you could.
If you want a character capable of soloing most content, you can just do level 1 Rogue/level 19 Paladin, ofc you get the first level as Rogue for the initial skill points.Then you focus on UMD, Search, Open Locks, Disable Device, and if there are points left, Jump.
Let's try to schedule some quests over here?>The Pit (Puzzle)>Slave Pits (Apparently Tough Final Fight)>Stormcleave Outpost (Supposed to be difficult)>Tempest Spine (Raid)Who's up for it? What day/time can you? What's your level?
>>2140119Would you go int as well, or would ranks in those skills be enough?
>>2140119I forgot to mention: With Feydark Illusionist you can do Charisma for attacks and damage, and depending on the build, you can smack 15 strength, max Charisma, and 14 INT. You get force of personality to use Charisma for (i think) Reflex saving throws, and magical training to get access to Feydark Illusionist.Overall you'll have more spell points, a lot more survivability, can disarm traps in case of no rogue, and with 15 STR you can dip into 2-hander feats, allowing for massive strikethrough damage.
>>2140119Or an Artificer with Augment Summoning + Summon Monster (lvl x scroll or wand) + Hireling + Hireling Summon.
>>2140124Just the first Rogue level, the items that grant bonuses to Search, Spot, Disable Devices and such are fucking powerful, we're talking +11 at level 8 which is more than enough to disarm traps in Elite.I did a similar build (without the Feydark Illusionist) using strength, covered my Wisdom deficiency with named items and lived my first life as a F2P, only later i got VIP and started buying content.I ran the build as a human for the extra feats.
>>2140127WHen i did that build i was F2P and hadn't unlocked artificer yet.
>>2138634I seen him around yesterday, lmao.
>>2138762Ayy, I was there, nobody could do it. Stupid party.
I'm thinking of making a Dark hunterany oldfags can say some words about it?
I cast...Magic Missile!
>>2140166The most powerful spell.
I really all this alien acanetech eberron has everywhere.Have no Idea what's this supposed to be, maybe a heater for the tavern?
>>2140174when your dwarf uncle gifts you a handmade, practice new tea kettle for Christmas
How big of a deal is Power Attack for 2h builds? Am I absolutely bricking myself by skipping it? If I understand correctly the accuracy is negligible as crits will be a big chunk of my damage anyway, but I'm not quite sure how big of a difference Power Attack makes.
>>2140000In mother Faerun, Halfling touch you.
>>2140215Mandatory>Two-Handed Style>Power Attack>Improved Two-Handed>Grater Two-HandedFeats in this game are not really customization, but tax.You could create a Thief-Acrobat and pick up the (Acrobatic) talent for Role-Play reasons but what would be the point since you can easily find items that give +2 in jump and tumble?
>>2140227That doesn't really answer my question. I'm interesting in knowing how much that 10 damage contributes to my damage output, how many other buffs like it will I have access to, at what point it falls off in usefulness (as I see a lot of people swap to Precision later on), etc.
>>2139921>you could probably reach level 4 or 5 in one go after finishing them all on all difficulties if you want,You don't gain indefinite experience.If you're level 1, you can gain enough experience to be 1 EXP away from level 3, then it stops giving you more experience until you take level 2.
>>2140228Like other MMOs, DDO eventually gets into modifiers that increase stats by percentages, like Fire Lore which increases Fire spell damage crit chance by a %, the same goes for melee builds, so that damage can turn into 200 to 300 extra damage on epic levels with the amount of percentage bonuses you get with proper gear.My Warlock on Cormyr was hitting upwards of 5k DPS on level 23, and that's considered a low level stuff.
>>2140166i've been waiting my whole life for this moment
>>2140230True, but you'll run out of quests before you reach the cap. Unless you keep repeating them.
>>2139921I would do this if you could bank xp indefinitely.
>>2139818Does it? 60-70% of the gear I get looks amazing for casters, while martial gear feels extremely rare and specific. Oh, sorry, this is a +5 ENHANCEMENT bonus, you need an INSIGHT bonus. Oh shit, is that +7 to STR and +7 to damage? Better reshuffle all of your gear because you already have +4 to STR on one piece and +5 to damage on another. Whoops, that old piece of STR gear had DR on it and now you're taking twice as much damage, lol!It feels like most of the mods in the pool are dedicated to casters and it's very easy for them to find something they can use. Maybe that's not true, but that's how it feels.
>>2140258grass is greener syndrome90% of that gear that "looks" amazing for casters would actually be dogshit even on the casters who can make the best use of themyou don't need Combustion on 3 different pieces of gear because they don't stack, and spell power is the literal easiest thing to slot which also makes it the worst thing to randomly get rolled on your gear because that essentially makes it have a dead enhancementmeanwhile martials have very obvious weapon progression, going from [1d6] to 1.5[1d6] to 2[1d6] weapons to boost their raw damage, or picking up a weapon like the Nightforge Avenger Blade, a long sword that crits on 17-20 instead of the standard 19-20 to turn into a crit machine
>>2140236I am doing this right now, I just hit rank 9 now and finished all korthos village quests + stopping the sahuagins on normal>hard>elite.
>>2138473I couldn't manage to get it to run with DXVK, tried both versions of dxvk and both x32/x64 launchers.Thankfully DX11 works okayish.
>>2140258Everyone uses the named items from the expansions instead of random loot because it's a lot stronger. I still have Feywild gear at level 28, it's not that hard to throw a mess together as a martial.
>>2140109>but consider that healing is mostly done between combat encountersEven with stuff like big aoe heal from Radiant Servant and the healing aura (although that''s near the end of the tree)?>Falconry enhancement tree, which, among other things, lets you use your wisdom for melee damage and accuracy.Oh, that sounds great.>Cleric has many great features that scale with cleric level, so I wouldn't personally multi-class, even though you could.That makes sense. I was just wondering if a couple extra feats early or maybe access to the lower tier stuff on some other class' enhancement tree wouldn't be worth a level or two of multiclassing.Well. I'll fuck around with the planner later and do some reading on the forums I guess.Thank you anon.
>>2140082Warpriest enhancement tree.Smite Foe is both your primary attack and, once you get Ameliorating Smite, your primary party heal in combat.Sovereign Host faith both gives you Long Sword as a favored weapon and gives you a once-per-10-minute Oh Shit Full Heal button.For Domains there are a couple solid options>HealingGives you 2 healing SLAs and lets you skip Empower Healing metamagic because you get it applied for free.>LuckGives you Displacement as an SLA which you otherwise wouldn't have at all (barring racial shenanigans), and lets you succeed your saves on natural 1s>StrengthLets you mostly ignore annoying enemies that sap your Strength, lets you dump DEX entirely and use STR for Reflex saves, be immune to knockdown, and save against stuns>WarHoly Sword is one of the best self buffs for critting.For your tier 5, you have to decide between Warpriest's +20% max HP, +10 PRR/MRR/AC, full BAB, a free Cleave and Divine Intervention, and Radiant Servant's Resist Elements Mass and Healing Aura.Personally I would go Warpriest here, and only take enough Radiant Servant to get Positive Energy Burst.You'll also have to consider which Race (and racial enhancements) and whether or not you have any universal enhancement trees like Falconry or Feydark Illusionist
>>2140296>level 2 almost 3 on adventurer
>>2140174its purpose is to glow
>>2140157drow ranger. any class race combo in this game is fun. magic users are the most powerful. warforged sorc. tukaw build? yall are too young to know what im talking about
>>2140119dont even need rogue skills unless you have a full party on reaper and even then unless its some deathtrap trap that you cant jump around. locked doors are the only realistic obstacle and even then they always give you a way around locked doors via a key or hidden passage or not hidden passage
>>2140025you get blade barrier at level 11 which hasnt changed since 2007. blendo matic. run as many enemies through the edge as you want and if youre good at it you can get them right on the triggering edge of blade barrier and cause a whole bunch of damage really quickly
>>2139789ive been playing since 2007 and protection from evil has always been a meme spell that nobody uses. a better spell is magic missile or niac's cold ray. basically kill the boss in 1 shot or die and recall out faggot. ive never thought "this vampire got spells n sheeeit" i go "fucking vampire dieeeee!!!!" spamming maximized empowered searing light
>>2139766yes. the green haired dei lesbians as ceos want tiefling warlocks or sorcerers or wizards to be the coolest best class because they hate traditional fantasy games where its all men dwarves and hobbits on a rough and gruff journey with granular camping elements and rough terrain ect these women want flashy cool spell effects that they think makes people go "oh wow cool i actually like gay people now"
>>2139762dont worry negative levels only last 1 minute each now. back in 2007 that was permanent as well as blindness deafness curse flesh to stone and many other effects. why? because it was all white men programming the game and their mindset was "next time dont get flesh to stoned" or "you got healers for a reason". but in today's world with dei green haired lesbians calling the shots, permanent bad effects are scary and nobody likes losing so those are gone
>>2138214ruined by green haired dei lesbians at standing stone games who's mental state is protecting players from feeling sad or losing because the green haired dei lesbian(s) herself lost at being born a male and so as a result she has to dedicate her life to ruining something she thinks white males like
>>2140403>on adventurer?
>>2139903the textures in the new areas are so eye bleedingly bad
>>2139789casters used to suck dick. 2007, u had no "spell power" "action points" "talents" "spell crits". you had fire ball. and it did 30 to 60 damage. the end
worst part about this game by far are the paywall locked quests. after level 10 basically all quests are paywalled. you can solo the 3 or 4 free quests at each level if you want but all the good gear is in the $40 expansion areas. and they got like 18 or 20 "expansions" (big ass explorer zones with like 10 quests). if you want the best sword at level 10 you have to buy it (ravenloft). and what that does is deincentivize toxic gameplay because now youve got $1,000, $5,000 invested in this account
all the decisions for the company are made by women and approved by fat bearded males with no power
I was watching this dragon fly around the skybox, thinking it's just visual fluff, when it suddenly started barreling right at me.
scared the shit outta me
>>2140482That bitch wing buffeted me to the ground when I finished her quest.
>>2140122
>>2139971This sort of thing always reminds me of the 50-page threads I've read through in my life where people are debating whether a particular caster cantrip (in the tabletop game) is broken, only for someone to finally go - okay, it's not broken, but now what if the caster decides to cast, IDK, a level 5 spell? And inevitably all the people who were vociferously defending the cantrip for 50 pages start hemming and hawwing and going WELLLLLL IT DOES COST RESOURCES YOU KNOW YOU CAN'T DO IT ALL DAY I THINK THIS IS A MORE COMPLICATED SUBJECT THAN YOU'RE GIVING IT CREDIT FOR THE FIGHTER HAS AN EDGE IN A TYPICAL 20-COMBAT ADVENTURING DAY WHICH IS RECOMMENDED BY SOME THIRD PARTY ADVENTURE PUBLISHERS
>>2140414oh so it's like a melee class and not bow using ranger anymore
>>2140510Don't forget that the casters are squishier and if they get focused by enemies (in this aggro based MMO) they'll die!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74x2FXV9y58https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSSILD1M4k8groovy
>>2140709I liked this very synthy track in that played in the crafting hall.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bj5JAx3ZdDs
Fuck Strhad
>>2141272LET THERE BE LIGHT
The whole server gathered in one place.
>>2140174Some sort of magitech brewer? I dunno.>>2140485kek
Do you guys wanna take some group photos? If you're up for it, let's meet to take some at 9:15 pm UTC, Saturday.>Time Converter: www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Dungeons+and+Dragons+Group+Photo&iso=20251220T2115&p1=1440
>>2141582Could we push it back an hour? I don't think I can make that tonight
>>2141582It would 23:15 PM for me. But I guess I could do that.
What level is the general now? I see a lot of Ravenloft pictures, I'm not in the guild cause I have my own but I'm about to hit 13. Mite b cool to party.>>2140174Probably some sort of heater with a fire elemental inside. In Eberron a lot of their technology is through bound elementals, like in the case of airships. One of the Sharn quests has you fight an optional boss after breaking the bindings on a washer and dryer, and a water elemental and a fire elemental come out. >>2141582Will monitor the thread for if this happens, I'm down.
>>2141707>be an elemental>some shitters stick you into a fucking dryerwtf
>>2141696I imagine it'll last over an hour, maybe even two. Hopefully that'll be okay. It's at that time because any later and it becomes a problem for Euros.
>>2141710Now imagine you're a water elemental bound to a toilet. And yeah, those exist.According to the Eberron creator elementals don't perceive the world as we do, and don't have souls, they're literal forces of nature so it's okay. But he's also not opposed to people in the world THINKING that, when in reality the elementals experience and feel everything as we would.
>>2141716>water elementalonly cute girls would be allowed on my seat
>>2141719Based
>>2141707>In Eberron a lot of their technology is through bound elementals, like in the case of airshipsCool, had that feeling. One of the quests you had to "activate" one elemental to protect us.
>>2141719>>2141723>not having a sexy Otyugh instead.
>>2141731Can't have 3.5e D&D without the "Otyugh Hole".Everybody wants that Otyugh Hole.
>>2141731Bless you
I did it. I finally beat the dungeon™ and killed the dragon™. Soloed on elite because I need more reaper points. Knockdowns and perma-slow as a melee was super annoying.
>>2141779What level?
>try to sell all junk>hit 1.2k plat and 108 gold>picrelwhat
>>2141794I was level 12 and the quest is level 12 for elite, so nothing special lol. But that dragon has fucked me up in the past on more squishy characters more times than I can count.
>>2141799Valetha?
>>2141797the cap doubles every level
is the server lagging for anyone else?
>>2141849yep
>>2141849Yeah I was about to respec my 10-year old Sorceress since her build is extremely power-creeped but chickened out.I'll do it when the server is more stable.
>>2141797There is probably a way to give your money to the guild when you hit the plat limit.When you hit the 10k limit you should buy one of the collectables bags.
>>2141797https://ddowiki.com/page/Currencyanother strange legacy "feature", never managed to hit the limit on a fresh character
>>2141957I don't know how it happened, had 200plat, sold some items from borderlands and instantly hit 1200plat
>>2141966If you have high charisma, or the haggle skill, you can make some serious plat just selling trash to vendors.
I dunno what to use my platinum for. I once saw a +8 con tome in the AH for 2 mil but I didn't have enough at the time, and everyone just sells ability tomes for those blue crystals.
>>2142008The crystal auction house is one of the worst things the added to the game.
>>2142013Yeah but probably a necessity, given how easy it is to get platinum.
>>2141957I hit it at level 4, after getting carried through some higher level dungeons by people here.
>>2141957i hit the limit once by selling a random item at the maximum amount i could list it for and some person accidentally boughted it
>>2140535blade barrier is a place down spell and it lasts like 20 seconds and you run enemies through it like wall of fire but instead of a damage tick every second or whatever its a damage tick every time they run through it
>>2140430adventurer, champion, hero, legend28, 32, 34, 36 point builds
>>2142076i then boughted all the mats for my greensteel. large devils scales chains ect. back when lvl 16 and shroud was the hardest raid
me and my fat elf wife
So about that one-time use reset we get when creating a character.What do you keep when you use it? What do you lose?
>>2142176If you're talking about the lesser heart of wood, it only lets you change one level I think. I've never used it.
>>2142176I'm doing it.Reincarnation Grove, couldn't find the OST name.Best music. I could be here for hours just vibing.
>>2142244>>2142253Is it this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpE20dZDg6M&list=PL875A46740922AF80Also did it let you change more than one level?
Guild group photo in 1 hour.
>>2142274where we meetin
>>2142269That's the one, thanks fren.No, it didn't let me change any levels, but you customize your appearance completely.Which I didn't want to, so whatever.
>>2142279>customize your appearanceWhy would anyone do that when true, epic and racial reincarnation exists.
>>2142176A +0 Lesser Reincarnation has you keep your race, all class levels, and alignmentYou get to change your ability scores, skill points, feats, and appearanceSome classes have you choose your spells (Sorc, Bard, FvS for example) while others I don't believe you get to do so (Alchemist, Wizard)
>>2142274for what
>>2142169she cute>>2142276I hope in the Harbor
>>2142319Pick a tavern or something, I'm not in the guild and won't be able to find you otherwise unless you post it in the chat or whatever.
>>2142324The harbor tavern then, lobster one. Or maybe Korthos island, since it's scenic.
>>2142336Kek, nice.
>>2142336I still don't know what sort of monster that is supposed to be.
>>2142352A lower-level demon called flenser, they come in different elemental varieties.
>>2142359>*sniffs toes*>*tips hat*>"milady">is reincarnated as a 3 foot tall halfling manlet for his transgressions
>>2142359Which plane are they from? Eberron has a bunch of those.
>>2142329if you want Scenic, go to Ataraxia's Haven and go to the tavern in there.Only issue is it's level 7+ so shitters who don't quest can't get there
>>2142365Then let's just meet up on Harbor or Korthos, my char is just level 3.
>>2142362Pretty sure Risia due to ice, but it's entirely possible they came to the surface from Khyber, which is sorta like Eberron's Underdark.
Let's just meet up in Korthos first.
>>2142362Khyber, Xoriat, and Shavarath.
Omw, where's the group pic?
>>2142396korthos docks
>>2142396We're currently in Korthos, at the docks.
>>2142416
Well, I enjoyed messing around. I hope some anons will stick around in DDO, so we can fuck around more.Good night.
>>2142484doing parkour?
Was a fun time bros, even if I was the amogus and I'm reporting everything that was said to my dad at SSG. I forgot to turn off my crosshair on all my screenshots like a retard, and they all kinda suck.
>>2142540Alt z should do it...
>>2142550it doesn't if you're a real gamer
>>2142540Is meet up over?
Anyone interested in farming the Slaver quests tomorrow? They drop accessories that are very customizable and make it easy to fill out any gaps you have in your items.I've got Hard mode unlocked where they start dropping 8 mats per chest, plus the items themselves drop like candy (I got 4 of the rings in a single Normal run).https://ddowiki.com/page/Slave_Lords_Crafting
>>2142565Sorry, we pretty much just finished. We took photos around and then did a raid. A number of us are taking a break in the marketplace, a little south of the central square.
>>2142572What level do you need to be for it?
>>2142588Probably around 5? No idea. Quest and items themselves are ML8.Oh and there are slimes and rust monsters, so having a resistant weapon can be useful.
Thank you everyone for participating, it was a lot of fun!
>>2142597Well, we shall see. I will probably have more time to play, unlike today.
I take back the jobber comment, Kruber doesn't fuck around
>>2142619that thing looks unsettling
we withstood the might of the Conjoined Devastator
>>2142493real asscreed type raid
Man, I'm fucking unlucky as hell.How was the raid?
>>2142572If you need help I can whip out a lvl 4 char. Just send a message to Athesis if you see her online.
>>2138048I've found that since you don't level until you actually go to the trainer you can always just bank levels. Hell you had to bank levels back in the day because of how shit your options got without some good adventure packs or expansions.
>>2142822I'm really glad we actually got to use the airship, I was worried guild renown 10 would take fucking forever
>>2143110You can only bank one level though...?
>>2143151You get up to 1.999999 levels.
Fuck green wisps
>>2142619das rite>>2142810you didn't miss much, don't worry. In fact some of us did a different raid right after and it was even shittier lol
this is how far I got launched btw
>>2143210His final act.
Is there a way to make hireling manually attack a target? I'm trying to break "not strong enough doors" he broke one randomly, but refuses to interact with others. And none of my spells work on it.
>>2143300There's an attack or interact button in the hireling bar right?Select the door with Q (IIRC) and press the button, I guess.Maybe change it to be agressive.
>>2143556Ravenloft's wilderness size is pretty cool. I like how you can jump all the way from the Castle Ravenloft's ramparts down to the Blood and Vine tavern with feather fall.
Man I want to like this game but the cash shop has to be one of the most blatant I've seen in a western MMO. So much power locked behind premium currency.
>>2143612For me it's the elite level dungeons.It's fucking ridiculous.
>we want Snake Eater audienceI haven't seen that much ladder climbing in the game since half life
How long does it take for the ransacking penalty to get lifted? I've been grinding the dino crisis quest for 2 days for the plate chest and I keep getting low lvl loot now.
>>2143872it says it's -50% per day and caps at 80, so...
>>2143902That helps me diddly squat when it doesn't say anything about whether the duration is cumulative or not. I certainly hope it isn't, because the ransack penalty applies both to xp and loot and that would mean you only get 1-2 tries per day for an item you could've used for a week or two, but you'll have outleveled when/if it finally drops.
>>2143977I'm not sure if it's per dungeon or per difficulty. If it's the latter, you could try running lower difficulties, with worse droprates, but still a chance.
>>2143844Yeah, some of it is ridiculous.
>>2143988I doubt it's not dungeon wide, but I'll give it a shot. Getting lvl 8 loot from a dungeon that's lvl 15 on elite because of ransack is retarded design.
>>2143844the one on the right you can pull a lever to get an air jet instead of climbing the ladder
>>2143872Press Escape go to Options and turn on Detailed Chest Information (type chest in the search bar and go through the tabs until you find it, I think it's either in Gameplay or UI)You can loot a chest 8 times before it becomes Ransacked and stops dropping named loot, at which point you have to wait for the ransack timer to expire.Chests start their internal ransack timer the first time you open a chest. It lasts for 7 days, so if you loot a chest 1 time on Monday and then 7 times on Friday you'll have to wait until Monday to get named loot again.
Posting some screenshots.
>>2144101Well shit. What a bullshit mechanic. I'm fine with the xp penalty, because otherwise you could just spam a short one, but what's even the point in having dungeon locked loot if you can't grind for it.
Dungeons get so much better when you get out of the Harbor.There are still plenty of "kill everything" quests, but the locales offer a lot more variety.
This one made swimming underwater fun.
>>2143844
I'd say this dungeon is my favorite so far.
Is there an actual reason to use 19-20 weapons besides that e.g. longsword has a lot of named weapons? It takes a full feat slot (Knight's training) to make them competitive with 18-20 range weapons and x3/x4 weapons. Even among the Knight's Training weapons, my pick would be Warhammer because it becomes 18-20 x3 with only 1 feat invested (which is by far the most efficient critical profile for a d8 weapon, although d6 scimitars and the like can achieve a similarly effective 15-20 x2 profile with just improved criticals).
>>2144140I'm skipping the stinky Harbor. Went Cerulean Hills straight away
>play DDO>read Eberron and 3.5 splatbooks before bed or during commutesoul of the highest caliber
>>2144690And then you realize how much they left unexplored so they can just to other settings instead. Shame.
>>2144690Wahoo!
>look up how to get mount>go to borderlands>spend an hour going to the scarecrow rare encounter and resetting the instance>get encounter 3 times out of like 15>feather not even in the chest one of those timesOk fuck this i guess I'm not getting a mount
>>2145038I did it while following the route in red in this image, with a fren who'd pass me feathers when he got some.Are you online right now? I'll help you out.
>>2145038Should've scrolled down and followed the route instead, you god damn retard. I had enough after 3 clears.
>>2145038what? isn't the code giving a free mount?
>>2144150Definitely a good one, the music for that particular dungeon is amazing too.Three Barrel Cove is probably my favorite area overall; quests aren't too long and there isn't much bs to deal with. Also the fact that the heroic and epic versions of the dungeons are actually different, as opposed to nearly all the others where the epic version is literally just the same thing scaled up.
>>2144140Dunno, I like some of the Harbor quests.
>>2145315The best thing I can say about Harbor is that it's all easily accessible. The fact that all the quests are right there in the town is great, since you don't need to run across wilderness to get to the dungeon entrance. I don't run it much anymore except for favor, though. Usually hit salt marsh but that's not f2p.
>>2145195No need to be an asshole. When I did it, some runs I'd get a single token out of the entire route.
>>2144522>Repeating CrossbowsStraight up meta weapons>Heavy/Light CrossbowInquisitive, VIle Chemist; Gnome if Light>Great SwordFavored Weapon for Warforged/KotC Paladins>Bastard Swordscan use Single Weapon Fighting or Two Handed Fighting, benefits from Strikethrough when not Two Weapon Fighting, and get +1.1x Ability Score to damage; Battle Engineer>Long SwordsFavored weapon for standard races/KotC Paladins, who also get Knight's Training for free; Ki Weapons with Whirling Steel Strike>Short SwordsFavored weapons for Drow; Ki Weapons for Ninja Spy Monks; Gnome enhancements; Swashbuckler>DaggerThe entire Vistani Knife Fighter Tree; Favored weapon for standard races; Ki Weapons with VKF; Rogue Assassin; SwashbucklerEven 20/x2 weapons have their uses. Handwraps and Quarterstaves for Monks/Rogue Thief Acrobats, Shuriken and Darts for various thrower builds, Sickles for very niche builds>>2145200The code that gave a free mount was only for a week/month after PAX. The current code is just for all of the adventure packs, some races, some classes and 32 point build.Speaking of codes:VOODUSPYCEis a code for 5 Experience Elixirs and some miscellanious junk items
>>2144150my fav dungeon is the lighthouse. but it was more fun back in the day, now its a speed run. 2007, level 2, lighthouse, worried about the skeletons cause you got slashing and they need bludgeoning ect. or youre a wizard and you might run out of mana ect
>>2145517>Bastard Swords>can use Single Weapon Fighting or Two Handed Fighting, benefits from Strikethrough when not Two Weapon Fighting, and get +1.1x Ability Score to damageThat's fucking cool.Is it worth the investment if you just want to be a sword and shield dude?
>>2145526It's probably THE best investment for a sword and shield dude.
>>2145526Sword and Board generally isn't used for serious competitive damage, but Dwarven Axe or Bastard Sword with the Two Handed Fighting and Shield Mastery lines of feats gives you the best melee damage for non-Swashbuckling sword and boarders.If you're Swashbuckling (requires 3+ Bard levels and a Light weapon) you can use Single Weapon Fighting while having a buckler equipped, and the massive attack speed increase plus Swashbuckling's crits make it the premier sword+shield dps.And if you want to combine everything together, there are 4 Short Swords which function as Bastard Swords; you can Swashbuckle them with a Buckler equipped to benefit from SWF, THF, and the Shield Mastery feats to have +30% Attack Speed, +140% Strikethrough, +10% Doublestrike, and +10 PRR alongside the 1.6x Ability Score damage and, if you take Perfect SWF, Vorpal on 19-20 and another +0.25x Ability Score damage.The build only really comes online at endgame because you need to be level 31 to take the feat that lets you both SWF and THF, so until then you're basically a standard SWF Swashbuckler (which is still a great build, you're just missing the Strikethrough so you're primarily single target damage who sucks against waves of trash mobs)It also requires a ton of feats so most builds end up being 6+ Dragon Lord Fighter for feats/3+ Bard to enable Swashbuckling/typically 2 Rogue for Evasion and Trapping, with the remaining 9 levels generally going into Fighter or Bard unless you're going for a specific class past life where you replace Rogue with your 3rd class and put your levels in that.
>>2145679I thought you can't take SWF if you have THF and vice versa? Or is that something that Swashbuckler gets?
>>2145685>The build only really comes online at endgame because you need to be level 31 to take the feat that lets you both SWF and THFhttps://ddowiki.com/page/Single_Weapon_Specialtyhttps://ddowiki.com/page/Two_Handed_SpecialtyThese are those two feats.You'd take the normal Single Weapon Fighting/ISWF/GSWF/PSWF line of feats while levelling up, and then take Two Handed Specialty at level 31 which gives you all of the benefits of Greater Two Handed Fighting. (you wouldn't level up with THF and then take Single Weapon Specialty because you still want Perfect SWF which requires the SWF feat, whilst Perfect THF can be taken without any prerequisites)For Sun Blade Swashbuckling, this just amounts to having 140% Strikethrough, but if you wanted you could pick up a Great Axe and benefit from the 2.25x ability score modifier to damage and the 6 combat style bonus to Melee Power (2.5x and 10 with Perfect THF) but you'd lose your Swashbuckling and SWF stuff.
I just remembered that last year SSG released the Slice of Life pack and how horribly it was received by the geriatric fanbase.I'm not exactly sure what they were going for with the weird gay Mindflayer date. Trying to capture the BG3 audience who don't even know this MMO exists? Still boggles the mind a lil bit.
>>2144101>>2144131Is that character or account penalty?You know DDO is like 4chan captcha you can not buy VIP but we sure gonna make the experience obnoxious for you.
>>2144150Which one?My favorite until has got to be Haywire Foundry and Mists of Ravenloft questline.
>>2145742Per character, so you can roll up a new Veteran or Iconic character, farm out 8 chests, if you don't get it roll up another character and farm it 8 more timesBut you'd need the Shared Account Bank to move the BtA named gear from your alt onto your main characters (one of the first things you should purchase)
>>2145741An adventure pack so garbage that the Tranny Lynnabel was straight up fired.The basic premise of it wasn't even that terrible; magical extraplanar creature tries to research first-hand the societal norms of the place it's currently inhabiting. It's just the writing that's so obnoxiously dogshit to the point where nobody can possibly take anything about it seriously.They need real writers and actual quality control so I JUST SHIT, WITH MY FREAKING MIND! UMMMMMM, WELL THAT JUST HAPPENED! doesn't plague half of the quest dialogue.
tfw too stupid to proceed
>>2146043Lmao
I wonder what those blue orbs at the top of the houses in Eberrron are for.
>>2146119cramming
>>2146129More choices than my Larian RPGs.
>>2145615Got it.>>2145679>And if you want to combine everything together, there are 4 Short Swords which function as Bastard Swords; you can Swashbuckle them with a Buckler equipped to benefit from SWF, THF, and the Shield Mastery feats to have +30% Attack Speed, +140% Strikethrough, +10% Doublestrike, and +10 PRR alongside the 1.6x Ability Score damage and, if you take Perfect SWF, Vorpal on 19-20 and another +0.25x Ability Score damage.What the fuck that's awesome.
>>2145741Fucking kek, going on a date with this guy? I remember him from way back when I played game more, he was involved with respec or dragonmarks...>>2146043Happened to us too, on one of the easier Harbor quests even. Dum dums didn't get a wizard on a team.>>2146119Maybe as street lights, but it wouldn't really make as much sense.
>>2146043I started carrying an item with +INT on it just in case
>>2146753Smart.
>>2146736>I remember him from way back when I played game more, he was involved with respec or dragonmarks...He still is, but he also makes appearances in multiple quests. He's one of those staple NPCs like Brawnpits. But yeah, the quest is very bizarre and poorly done, it actually made me legit uncomfortable with how it is written. Also at the end you find out that Fred is dating some other dude the whole time, that's the big reveal, it's so fucking weird I hate even thinking about it. >>2145779>An adventure pack so garbage that the Tranny Lynnabel was straight up fired.Is this true? All my research shows that he just changed his name to Tonquin around the same time the adventure pack came out. Was it a result of that? Lol.
>>2137180Fuck you Nigger.
>minimal time between work and family during the holidays, but trying my best to put in time>finally hit level 4>lets see where everyone else is>15, 16, 17>teaming outside of the guild is nonexistent>just soloing nonstopI guess this is why I never play mmos these days.
>>2146854>teaming outside of the guild is nonexistentPretty inaccurate, but unfortunately a lot of the party content is locked behind paywalls. And everyone is a geriatric boomer who can just solo Reaper 1 and just bumrush the dungeon.It's unfortunate, but what can you do with an ancient MMO like this. Also it's nowhere near as bad as the old 32 bit servers, cutting the amount of servers in half was a good idea.
>>2146854samebut I think there are a few of us around lvl 3-4-5 in the guildidk I barely had time to play so wasn't paying attention
>>2146854Nigger, if you just ask there are people willing to roll new characters to play with you.
Is playing Cleric warpriest with a weapon that's not your deity's favorite weapon shooting yourself in the foot?
>>2146854It's kind of the same for me, I just don't have much time during holidays. And other things happening.And even if I play, people seem to want to grind and rush things, that's boring to me.But maybe some anons will stick around for more roleplay friendly slow runs.
sovl....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdBq817XxOc
>>2146916We're actually at 9-13 range, those are the highest levels of the guild.If you just go in blindly you'll just find people farming dungeons you need to ask people if they want to start leveling with ya.I for example offered many time to make a lvl 4 or 7 to help people around the guild, it's just now that I'm focusing on leveling my Sorc to catch up.>>2146916After you repeat the quests you'll understand why people rush them.Get a hireling and solo the quests first to experience them first hand, then when you ready you'll find a group who can tackle these quests on reaper and you'll see what hard difficulty on DDO looks like.
>>2146968>>2146968Adding to that let me explain how this MMO works so anons won't get betrayed by their expectations.So DDO is a game of questing, you either play quests, explore wilderness, or team up for raids.There are two main modes of play: Solo and Group.You solo when you want to know a quest for the first time, or when you need to better prepare yourself for higher difficulties.Because group mode is made for what is know as Reaper difficulty, it's what gives you the best rewards, but it is hard, especially for first time players.So that's why you play solo, to get to know the quests, to prepare yourself with resources and gear for the difficult quests and raids when you'll have to team up.And people on these teams will help you a ton, just don't go in expecting them to roleplay, DDO is game for murder-hobos, although there is some people who role-play over there you'll have to go out of your way to find them, are you going for example to download discord and try to find them over the DDO channel? There are LFG people over there for different goals you may find what you're looking for.So yes, people are going to zerg through quests especially on normals and hards because 1, they are too easy if not on Reaper, and second because people already ran through them many times and they need to finish them first to unlock the harder difficulties.If you REALLY don't want to play normals solo you need to find friends or people willing to play and level with you beforehand. Just keep that in mind and frankly you'll see that DDO is a more fun game than even the big names on the MMO market. I've been having a blast these last two weeks I doubt WoW has a quest where an optional for xp is to pet all the animals in a dream monastery.
I'm waiting for NY to pass, so I can play with some EU nerds on January holidays. busy busy
>>2147022nah i'd solo to 20
This is a vague as hell thing to answer but how much damage per hit is normal at level 20? I'm mapping out a rough build and getting 250 damage a hit, which doesn't feel like a lot.
>>2146781>Is this true? All my research shows that he just changed his name to Tonquin around the same time the adventure pack came out. Was it a result of that? Lol.Let's look at the timeline:>March 27, 2024The adventure pack Slice of Life is released, free to claim for a month as part of the Year of the Dragon during Update 67>April 26, 2024Linkedin post saying "After 8 years, today is my last day at Standing Stone Games working on Dungeons and Dragons: Online."Lynnabel made a new forum account Tonquin October 2023, and the most recent post was made March 27 2024, the same day Slice of Life came out.The only other things that happened between Slice of Life and Lynnabel leaving were a patch on April 10 to fix some bugs, and the free expansion of your choice on April 24.Now one other important aspect is how vocal Lynnabel was with the community. A lot of forum posts, a lot of Discord messages, you'd frequently see 10 of Lynnabel's messages for every 1 of Cordovan's, and 25-100 of them for every 1 from other SSG staff members.So you'd think there'd be this massive farewell letter, a thank you to the community, a glorious sendoff for one of the most recognizable names of DDO, right? If Lynnabel was leaving on good terms, if Lynnabel was stepping away for personal reasons then you'd expect one last hurrah.But there was nothing, no fireworks, no bang, not even a whimper. The community found out that Lynnabel/Tonquin was no longer part of SSG because 2 weeks later someone found the post on Linkedin.The conclusion that makes the most sense is, as a result of the backlash with regards to Slice of Life, Lynnabel left on bad terms. Perhaps not outright fired by the company, but at the very least a ragequit because the community was shitting over the low quality of SoL's writing.
>>2147022Basically this. In my case, i want to get to level 20 so i can grind the Tokens of the Twelve and reincarnate the character back to level 1.
>>2136319>4 days left
>>2147173Kind of unfortunate timing it coincides with the end of the year so it will likely be dead.
>>2146546>What the fuck that's awesome.It would be if it weren't for 2 major factors.1: The build comes online at level 31, which is the literal endgame.2: There are exactly 4 weapons which even work for the build. 2 of them are complete garbage, and the other 2 are raid weapons. You are pretty much exclusively a Finality, the Fall of the Sun build.>>2146872You lose out on the Righteous Weapons line, which is +7 hit and damage, +21 universal spell power, and a buff on your vorpal strikes.You can't benefit from your Imbue, which is a major source of damage.There are 2 attacks you miss out on, one of which is a strong Cleave attack.Your level 18 core only gives additional Crit range to favored weapons.If you're a Dark Apostate Cleric, you also miss out on the Evil Imbue, Ghost Touch, and Implement bonuses.When you reach Epic levels, your Divine Crusader tree also buffs your favored weapons, but it also has a selector where you can make basically any weapon a favored weapon.Overall I'd try to stick to your favored weapon, but there might be times where it would be better to pick up something like a Great Axe for 1-2 levels while you wait for your next favored weapon upgrade.
>>21471792 weeks is not much anyway, but looking at the positive, maybe some guys will stick around.That said, I wonder if guild owner will stick around or not, without him I am not sure how guild management will work out.
>>2147169>LynnabelI just looked them up and holy shit, good riddance. FTM trannies have no business being in this boomer safe space. It's a shame cause she was kind of cute in a rat-like way before trooning out.
>>2145779>An adventure pack so garbage that the Tranny Lynnabel was straight up fired.Really?
>>2147219I'm not gonna bail on DDO but I do plan on passing the guild lead to someone else. Probably one of our sherpas
>>2147251Good idea.
If I don't get a chance to say bye due to the holidays it was fun bros. Best of luck on the next MMO and hopefully we can keep a thread going for those who plan to continue playing. t. big chungus dragon rider
>oh you didn't kill that one enemy that instantly ran away from you behind a hidden pit trap and a corner and a group of enemies blocking the path?>too bad!>here is -25% xp on a mission later
>>2147022desu it's kinda ass that you have to do every mission on piss easy shitter mode first
>>2147355It's literally what kept me from fully committing to this game for over fifteen years. Paywalling first time higher difficulty behind VIP subs is the most retarded shit ever. Once I found out about reincarnation and the ability to open hard on your first TR and elite/reaper on your second, I was hooked. Straight up rushed my first two classes and did a heroic reincarnation on each. It's not a perfect solution, but it's way fucking better than what they had for so many years.
>>2147360ehh, still would have to go through everything once
>>2147355It is I want to fucking strangle whatever exec made this pant-on-head retarded decision. Literally guaranteeing new players to only ever see the absolute worst the game has to offer
>>2147392Probably so you can solo most of the content.
>>2147371True, other way is to multibox, run everything on char and then open it for your other with multibox party. But still, you will have to play it first.Although, depending on your build and what hirelings you are using or not using, some quests can be difficult on hard, not to mention elite.
>>2147340Was fun to play together, hope we get to do that again one way or another.
>>2147371Twice for elite but yeah, it sucks. I can't see myself ever making a new character and having to go through normal hell again. Thankfully with reincarnation I have plenty of things to keep me occupied on a single character.
>>2147173Crazy how fast this last week has gone. I keep thinking I'll have time to grind out a few levels and in the end it's like an hour before I have to go down something else.
Tfw you recall on reaper.
Does the "DDO Trove" that costs 9 dollars have anything extra or is it just a scam compared to manually buying them for 99 coins each?
>>2148503It's a scam
>>2148503Not worth it while the expansions are on sale like that, but they're not always that cheap so that's why.
I'll kill them all.
>>2148874Total Droaam death. Monsters are not people.
Is this how they do their business in Sharn?
This game is great.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqdWlxMJ2k8
what did he mean by this?
and the award for greatest quest gimmick in MMO history goes to...
Masterminds of Sharn is my favorite DDO expansion, glad the frens are enjoying it.
is swim speed ever really important? Or is it enough to have infinite breath?
>>2150446DDO has a lot of unimportant relics, for example:>Jump is capped at 40It means you only need 10 Mod in Jump if you can cast jump at 9th level.Swim controls swimming speed and underwater breathing, unless you're doing like 1 or 2 specific quests, underwater breath or water action items are enough.Probably the most useless skill in the game.
>>2150446in The Crucible, if you have enough swim speed you can swim against the current which is situationally useful if you want to farm for Aquatic Bracers without doing the swim twicethere are maybe 2-3 other quests with currents where swim speed might help, but other than that it's mostly just there if you want to move faster in quests with water than your base running speedi.e. a complete dump skill
>>2150449>>2150451Good to know. I like exploring and thought swim speed might be used somewhere for a time sensitive puzzle or something. My build will have jump and search, so I should be good.
>>2150449I still max out jump and swim speed on strength-based characters, ease and speed of movement is underrated when you're doing the same dungeons for the 150th time.
why are there so many sexy slithering lady snakes in this game and why won't it let me love them??
>>2150939You were supposed to play sharn 2 with us today, why are you chasing snake ladies?
Daily reminder that Krokodil is a crisis actor.
They really need to hire a rewriter to fix all the damage Trannybel caused with the game's dialogue.
>>2150998I haven't read the text box dialogue in years, I didn't even know this was a thing.
>>2150998You get to kill him though.
Belieb?
>>2151075>Adrenaline (Epic Strike): Your next melee attack deals +25/50/75% damage, and increases your critical threat by 16>Overwhelming Force: Adrenaline now grants an additional 25/50/75% bonus to damage.>Boulder's Might: Melee Attack: Deals +50% Damage. +0/1/2 Critical Multiplier.Weapon is probably critting x8 to x10, Adrenaline and Boulder is 3.75x normal damage, and he probably got a doublestrike as wellLevel 34 so assume full filigree sets and a good number of sneak attack dicereverse engineering, he probably does 1500~2000 damage per swing including sneak dice, and Adrenaline+Boulder Crit+Doublestrike multiplies that by 60~80. 2000*60=120k.I could see it being possible for sure.
Would
>>2151075>putting max hits in your signaturenostalgia hit me
Never realized that teleport can "fail" like in the tabletop, had me all the way above Stormreach Marketplace.
>>2136319>one day left
>>2151600>they hit level 20 and were never seen again
If you guys were to start over what would you do differently? Any character building traps to avoid?
>>2151868I'd consider starting as rogue and multiclassing over to what I actually want to play because getting cucked by locks and traps feels kinda bad.
>>2151868There aren't any noob traps. On an unrelated note, I hear max int fighters are in high demand.
>>2151600+1 week won the vote, so there's now a week and one day left.
>>2151918I don't really like how you can get any ability score to damage, hit, and Tactics DC by taking the right enhancements. Unless you're playing a hardcore Tactics build, there's no actual reason to go Strength-based - everything else offers way more benefits. Even then, all the good Tactics classes are paywalled.
>>2152009Going strength is equivalent to having like 20AP to spend elsewhere. The big issue I have is other attributes will also increase your saving throws or ac.
>>2152016If it were 20 that'd be one thing, but it's more like 10, and like you said, the saves and shit you get more than make up for it at that point. Would I spend 11 enhancement points to get 100+ skill points? Yeah, probably.
>>2151868I would have spent more time playing so I could've kept up with the group and play together :(
>>2151868If I had to do it all over again, and had to take bids all over again, I would still do it all over again. I would do it all over again. I'd do it 15 times over again.
>>2151868I would've realized the build I was following doesn't get online until level 20+ due to Epic talent tree requirements to do anything.
With an extra week habbenin does this mean the frens crew is doing epics.
Someone messed up quite a bit.
>>2152367Might be leftover from when they were tweaking trees and rocks during the Great Lag of 2025 a few months back. Where's it at?
>>2152439NTA but I feel like I've seen floating foliage just about everywhere
>>2152367>>2152439there's been floating trees since ddo released
>>2152346With luck ill make it to level 10
After all this talk about Fred's First Date I opted to try it again to see how bad it really was... and holy shit. The writing is even worse than I remembered.It's a shame because there's definitely something there outside of the dialogue and story. The locations are kind of cool, the OST is a banger (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deYfhr3pN4A), and the idea of Fred trying to understand "human" interactions has potential... but they had to make it stupid and gay and romantic in a weird attempt to appeal to the BG3 audience. Doing "hanging out with a friend" would have worked a lot better.
>>2151999What fucking vote, Mr. Digits?
>>2152680>oh hell no
>>2136319So which game we will be playing after this?
>>2152879Universal Century Gundam Online was second in the poll, so that will be the next game after the extension.
How does stat damage work? As far as I'm aware, a stat being reduced to 0 means death or unconsciousness in d&d but it certainly doesn't seem that way ingame.I'm using a greatsword with 2 con dmg/hit + 1d8 con dmg/crit so I should be able to reduce most things to 0 con in 8 hits at most.
>>2152439That is in The Red Fens, I can't remember the exact spot in that screenshot, but there are floating trees in several different spots.
MMOdventure has decided to stick with DnDO for another week. Do you guys want to do a group photo later today, then another one in a week? If 3 group photos is too much, we can just do raids later today and save the photos for next week.Gotta make a choice soon.tl;dr at 9:15 pm UTC, Saturday we're either gonna do raids or take photos, please choose.>Time Converter: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Dungeons+and+Dragons+Group+Photo%2FRaids&iso=20251227T2115&p1=1440
>>2153031por que no los dos
>>2153031I vote for CTF
>>2153031I think it makes sense to have the next photo sesh on the day that we leave. I'd show up either way, so I don't really mind and I'm fine with both.
>>2153031I think we can meet up at the scheduled time, maybe take a quick photo if we feel like it, but mostly use it as a chance to do raids.
>playing Grip of the Hidden Hand>one quest brings you to the plane of law and order>it involves random ass dancing, fighting "bored" jurors, and various other things that make no logical sense in the PLANE OF LAW AND ORDERJust so happens to be the adventure pack released right before Slice of Life. Coincidence? I think not. Trannybel has to be involved... I just can't prove it.
>>2152928We need to pick a server and a faction. This buffer week is the perfect opportunity to get at least the server choice settled.
>2 ddo points short of buying something I wanted for fashiondang
>>2152947copy and pasting from the wiki:>Ability damage is always an annoyance, but it is particularly dangerous when a score is reduced to zero - this makes the affected creature helpless (all incoming damage is multiplied by 1.5). Red and purple creatures can never be rendered helpless. >Red named creature can suffer ability damage, but only up to 10 points, and may never reach a score of 0 in any stat.>Purple named creatures are completely immune to ability damage.>Creatures with Epic Ward are resistant to ability damage.>Ability damage automatically regenerates (except in Reaper mode) at a rate of 1 point per minute (applies to both monsters and players). >Constitution damage has a particularly lethal effect in reducing both your current hit points as well as total hit points. In general, every 2 points of Constitution damage reduce a creature's hit points by a number equal to its level (or HD in the case of monsters). Other important statistics affected are the Fortitude saving throw and the concentration skill. Reducing Constitution to 0 stuns the affected creature for 6 seconds.In practice, on lower difficulties you're generally killing trash mobs before you can reduce their Con to 0 to stun them, on Reaper difficulty your stat damage is going to be lowered so much it won't do anything, so it's really only useful on Elite on a character whose damage is so low that they can't clear trash normally.
>>2152680So, let me get this straight. I’m somewhere that’s not what I would call a Dungeon… I’m not seeing any Dragons, and… oh yeah, I’m on a date with Fred! Yeah, okay, that is something I do now. I make sandwiches, pet kittens -- I’ll probably uninstall next.
>>2153693Sounds like I'm switching to a generic sword with ~10 more listed dps. Slightly bummed it works that way, and the targets where it would matter are all immune, but then again you can hardly balance a hack n slash mmo with a mechanic like that. Everyone would just load up on speed and poke everything to death in 5 seconds flat.Does drained levels also regen? Greater resto is basically the only reason I rolled pala instead of fighter.
>>2153747>Negative levels wear off naturally, at a rate of 1 every 2 minutes.>Epic monsters regenerate negative levels at a very fast pace, however, the inflicted HP damage does not heal.Personally I prefer to outright be immune to energy drain (level 12 Paladin enhancement, Vistani Knife Fighter, or Warforged are all easy sources)Wounding of Puncturing weapons USED to work just like that; have a couple people holding them and they annihilated all content, which was deemed too strong so they nerfed ability damage several times.
>>2153755I am actually immune (lvl16). But I'm playing with a friend who coincidentally just bought vistani for his rogue alt I'm leveling with until I catch up with his gnome wizard (lvl22). I hope wizard gets drain immune too.
>>2153031What raids are you planning to do? Is better to say now so people can get the pre-reqs.
I love when pathing in certain dungeons gets messed up and then fixes itself at the worst possible moment, sending the entire dungeon on you.
we're trying to get some CTF going and then see what raids we can do tonight
redGODS
>>2153771Can you ask your friend what his carrying capacity is like? I want to play a gnome wizard with 6 strength just for fun but I'm worried I'll have virtually no inventory.
>>2153771>boughted vistani>when you can just get it running elite/reaper ravenloft, arguably the most run expansion in the entire game why'd he do it
>>2154115That's going to take a few days. Downtime due to irl shit. I don't hear him complain about it though, and I can't fathom him having more than absolute minimum in a dumpstat. Do keep in mind you get like 4 or 6 str from guildbuffs, if the guild is a decent level. We're in some random lvl 119 alt/noobguild.>>2154162Because we only just made it to eveningstar and he wants to use daggers.
Assuming the netcode plays nice, how long would it take to catch up?
>>2154115TEE HEE HEE
I was pleasantly surprised that this game didn't use the old tab targetting system and instead has an "action combat" style, the voice acting, being able to jump, climb, swim and use ladders was cool. I'm feeling overwhelmed from the class feats and all the shining quest icons though
Menace of the Underdark or Shadowfell Conspiracy? Which one is funner?
>>2154567>all the shining quest iconsit is pretty overwhelming. when I wasn't running with the group, I just picked a zone that looked cool to me and did one quest after the other. gatekeepers grove probably has the fewest quests, so that's where I started.
>>2154567I wish they marked the quest givers that tell you the order of a quest chain with a different color. Usually they are the ones that point you towards other quest NPCs, if you follow the chains the game has more structure.
>>2154604Menace for me, Shadowfell may be my least favorite expansion.
>>2153480humiliation ritual quest. takes ages, too.
>>2154638I'm gonna keep that in mind, I'm still in the tutorial zone>>2154658I'm ignoring everything and following one quest chain per time for now, there's too many quests or events that I have no clue whats going on
I haven't played in a loong time, and i'm sorry about that.
>>2154773Land of the Big Chunguses.
Of course it's one of the smallfolk.
The OST in this game is criminally underrated.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwoYfWBSPjI
>hit 100 ddo points>99 point sale ended yesterdayWell fuck. Missed out on myth drannor and vecna. Underdark and Shadowfell are still 99, but they're not tagged as on sale so I assume that's the prize. Either of them worth getting if they're actually on sale?
>>2155579>that's the prizenormal prize*derp
>>2155579menace for epic content, with the code that's 99% of epic content and i assume you have fey, ravenloft and sharn and those are legendary content
>>2155600I did get the feywild, ravenloft and sharn packs at 99. But if 99 is the normal price for underdark then I might as well wait for a sale. I'm not in any hurry.
>>2155711it's not the normal price, 99 is the sale for all the first 5 expansions. vecna and myth were never sold for 99
>>2155716Huh, could've sworn they were up for 99 as well. Guess I'll get underdark.
>>2155197Shame Marketplace and other big hub areas have such bad themes.
>>2155733>Huh, could've sworn they were up for 99 as well.They're on sale for actual purchase, 40% and 30% off respectively, I think. Otherwise you need 3k ddo points for myth and 2k for vecna, and I don't think those will be on the 99 point sale list any time soon (feywild was just added this time around and its 5 years old, myth and vecna came out 2024 and 2023 iirc)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_AGvXl8vmQ>no looping emote of this song for bardSovlless game. There is something called "sheet music" but idk if other players can hear your songs, and some of them are locked behind non-F2P quests, of course.>all 5 sheet music songshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R33vpkuZsU8only the first 2 are F2P>guide for finding the songshttps://forums.ddo.com/index.php?threads/the-search-for-golden-motes-symphony-of-the-fey-event-found.24170/
>>2155896I still have no idea what the event even is, and every party I run dungeons with uses the motes and I have no idea why other than it giving us some insignificant buffs.
We're hoping to go for a raid in about half an hour, be THERE or be SQUARE.
Vault of Nights in one hour!!!!!!
>>2155930>4 prerequisite quests to enter
>>2155930>>2155920I'd join but I'm level 20 and that'd suck all the xp out, unless you're doing the epic version.
>>2155938we did them yesterday bwo... why didnt you come...
>>2155947we're doing it for loot and funjust bring a shittier weapon so you don't oneshot everything
>>2155952Alright I'm down. I can open it on elite too if nobody has that option, is it in one hour or 30 mins?
>>2155974like 30mins from now - not a hard schedule, that's when one guy said he's coming back. ideally we'd have the others come online until then as well.
>>2155985kk i asked in the chat since im not in the guild.
we're rolling fags get in here
The beginning parts of this game are ass, dawg.
>Not raiding with the boysWhy even live?
It's habbening...
>>2156082>tfw too low lvl
>>2156073me on the bottom right
>>2156090You're the white cat?
there was a dragon here
There was...
I think we all did great
man that raid STINKSbut you guys made it fun GG
Man what a crazy bossfight, on reaper 9 that we did it on this was fucking insane. I can't believe we actually won through all those oneshot fire blasts and the flying divebomb arena nuke that he did toward the end, that part when everyone died and I basically solo'd the dragon for the last 50% of its health was so fucking sick, we HAVE to do this again bros
we were ROBBED
>sniffs quest giver's toes >punches end boss with fists because sword is too powerful>leaps from space, nullifies feather fall and plunges to the earth for a measly 47 dmgJust another day in the office boys. Thanks for having me along.
>>2156357he TANKED that
>>2156357>Just one more weekNooooo
>>2155910>EventEquip Lute, motes will spawn in quests. Kill mobs in the mote and play the lute again to fill your lute.>WhyFilling a lute permanently unlocks cosmetics for your account.Novice - Half CloakHorn - HornsKnight - Unicorn MountSky - Full Cloak, can only be filled on Reaper difficultyFlight - Butterfly WingsAlso each lute has a golden mote hidden in a specific quest in the game, completing the golden mote and using the appropriate lute on it gives a large amount of durability to the lute and gives you an item you can use to play a song.tl;dr - it's all cosmetics.
>>2149154
>>2156624I raise you one
I went to bed thinking about this fight, how intense it was, how power creep played no role and how everyone was vital to completing it. *cracks open bear, sips* Yuuup, they don't make MMOs like they used to.
>>2156357This game is great.
>>2157064the low poly leaves remind me of fire cape from runescape
>>2157064>Krokodil standing off to the side>Dead corpse of a dragon>Terrorist attack on a bank organized by (((adventrers)))>Rare and exotic creature killed for (((gold))) and (((loot)))Yeah, this was an op by the Laughing Knives, fucking midget bastards.
looks like post limit reached, if this is the last thread i kneel to you all goodbye https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EGeptz-BQM
>>2157862glad to hear that your neighbor survived
He's a big guy
>>2157064Back when heroic Velah was endgame players were so fucking weak that it wouldn't be out of the ordinary to party wipe to the trash mobs on the 3 islands, to Velah herself, or to the fucking environmental hazards on the bridge.The pillars required genuine coordination because if one island accidentally broke theirs too early they might not be able to re-prep it and still reasonably have enough time to complete the raid.The islands were terrifying; just about every single party I was in back then had a slot dedicated to any Bard who wanted to join, solely so they could fascinate the Ice island (and DDoor for Air was also appreciated)I saw a video where apparently Fire used to actually be full of Earth Elementals, so fuck you if you got stuck in an earthgrab loop. My first character was a Monk, so I was always assigned to Fire because Evasion was damn near mandatory on that island if you didn't have a second Bard to fascinate it/your 1 Bard didn't go all the way around to fascinate all 3 islands.Velah's breath could oneshot squishier characters who didn't get behind the rocks in time, and if you dawdled for too long in the safespots she would just spam Cometfalls to wipe your raid. Your Clerics were relying on single target spells and Cure Light Wounds Mass to keep people alive... and party health bars had no numbers on them. Trying to keep everyone above 125 HP frequently had Clerics step on each others toes and overheal, which wasn't good when they had to make their limited SP bars last the entire fight. They didn't even get Radiant Servant for their Aura or Burst until Update 5.And that's IF the party survived VoN5, which wasn't a foregone conclusion back then. The traps in the first hallway to the north had several parties waiting for a rogue who was competent enough to disable them so the entire party didn't wipe, only monks had Abundant Step for north's left side, the South side climb was lethal, and Arach's Knight was a raid boss itself.
>>2158529new bread
>>2154363>not in the clique? not welcome!Alrighty then.
>>2159030It's a dumb question because it relies entirely on (You). 1-20 can be done in 14 hours if you follow a guide to the letter, but are you willing to do that or would you rather enjoy the newcomer experience you'll never get back if you just rush?
>>2159229>would you rather enjoy the newcomer experiencethat enjoyment you lose in around 4 hrs when you realise that you can just hold left click and kill everything on mandatory normal mode
