Pro Raider EditionPrevious thread: >>2136319Dungeons & Dragons Online is a hybrid tab-target MMO with game mechanics and character building that are heavily inspired by D&D 3.5e.>ServerShadowdale>GuildFrens Of EberronUse this command to enter our chatroom, you can ask for a guild invite in here or just hang out:/joinchannel MMOD rage>Downloadhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/206480/Dungeons__Dragons_Online/https://www.ddo.com/home>MiscFree adventure packs (redeem via the in-game 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-guideThe MMOdventure anons will be playing DDO for the next week, though some of us might stick around longer. If you want to check out old/dead MMOs with anons check out the MMOD thread: >>2051131
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>newbreading on page6Hello boardtourist.
>>2158643this. that thread will still be up by the time we're done
(Combat) An antimagic field is preventing you from casting spells.
>>2158643>>2158668the lion does not concern herself with the opinion of rams
>>2158813concern yourself with THIS*unzips dick*
Big women in the Underdark.
>>2151142sexy but also classy
>>2158914Big women of Shavarath.
>>2158489What caused this powercreep?Are the items or stats overinflated nowadays or is it just the enhancements trees? If it's the enhancements tress does that mean that if I don't use them I'd be able to experience what DDO was like back then?
>>2158987Considering that common gear from Feywild and Ravenloft handed out for free is just as good as rare items from raids, probably that.
Jesus christ.
>>2159101Heck yeah!
Any EUfags planning to keep playing after the /mmod/ crowd moves on? I was thinking of going to EU serb.
>>2158987There's a lot that happened over the course of 20 years.Heroic Durability is a free feat that gives all characters bonus HP which didn't exist back then.Enhancements were completely overhauled to make them stronger than they were back then.Items themselves, both random loot and named gear, went through several overhauls to make them much stronger than they used to be. As an example, Cannith Crafting's progression for Abilities (ie. STR, CON) goes +1 at level 1, +2 at level 2, +3 at level 4, +4 at level 5, +5 at level 7, +6 at level 10, and this is what you get from randomly generated loot nowadays as well.Compare that to some ancient named loot: Gauntlets of Ogre Power were +4 STR gloves that you couldn't wear until level 9. That's it, no other enchantments on them. Charged Gauntlets and Cloak of Summer are both +4 STR at level 5, with multiple other enchantments on them.Kundarak Warding Bracers were ML9 raid gear with +3 CON, +3 Resistance, +3 Protection. Today you can cannith craft level 4 bracers with +3 CON, +3 Resistance or Protection, and if it has at least 1 Blue Slot you can use an augment for the other stat.Unless your Rogue found good random loot in chests/on the auction house, they were probably only rocking a +5-+7 Disable Device item, these days it's pretty simple to farm Death House for +12 to all your trapping skills. +5 Thieves Tools are also far more common.Feats are more powerful than they used to be (for example Mobility gives +2% Dodge, when it used to basically just be a tax feat for people who wanted Spring Attack)Classes themselves have recieved new innate features they didn't used to have, such as Second Wind on Fighters and Domains on Clerics.PRR and MRR now exist, giving everyone damage reduction they never used to have.Casters do more damage because they added Spellcraft as a skill.Anyone with Guild Buffs is recieiving a marginal benefit to several areas of their character.And there's probably more I'm forgetting.
>>2159110That sounds pretty sad.
>>2159110So... what are we supposed to do now? Does the game only starts for real when you reach epics then?
>>2159121Back then most people only ran on Normal, maybe they bumped it up to Hard in a full, balanced, well coordinated group.These days with all the added power, running on Elite is generally fairly balanced for first lifers, while Reaper 1 provides an actual challenge. If you still think things are too easy, you can bump that up to R4 or R5 and see how long you survive.
>>2159150>Ah yes, the game can be challenging and fun but it's paywalled unless you reincarnate twice.This shit has pissed me off to no end for 20 years. I appreciate that they at least gave us an option in TR, because I wouldn't be playing if they didn't, but god damn it's such an outdated retarded design decision. I guess VIP would completely dry up if they got rid of it though, pretty big selling point for first life characters.
>>2159109I swapped a week ago and already found a guild, sorry bro.
>>2159223wtf bro...
good to see they added a dialogue option for characters with only 6 INT.
>>2159159I don't have access to their internal sales data so maybe I'm just talking shit.But this seems like such a dumb business deal, the person who reincarnate are people who are stuck to the game so they would be the best target for VIPs not the people who are starting out.
What quests do I do at level 8, after finishing Feywild but before Ravenloft?
>>2159109Did you try doing a jumping quest on EU? How did it compare.
>>2159511I think the Vault of Night questline was nice for that level.
>>2159511VoN and Threnal are my personal go-tos, but you could also try TOEE. It's pretty annoying and listening to Will Wheaton narrate may make you want to kill yourself.
I think these kobolds are growing taller.
>>2159511Chill of Ravenloft, unironically.
>>2159511level 6s like Caged Trolls, Purge the Heratics, Redwillow's Ruins, Mirra's Sleepless Nights, and the three up the hill in The Twelve, other than Price of Freedomlevel 7s like Delera's Tomb (first part is level 5), the 2 in the Wild Court off of the feywild, the 4 Sentinels chain quests in House Deneith, Gwylan's Stand, Tear of Dhakaan, and The Pitlevel 8s like the first 2 Vault of Night quests, Temple of Elemental Evil, Stormcleave Outpost, Stromvauld's Mine
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>>2159908even wizards gotta pay rent
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>>2159933ok I lied it was more than a few
Whoever designed the spell wards deserves a special place in hell.
>>2160091I love the ones that dispel all of your buffs whenever you walk past.
>>2159611didn't, but I have like 190ms on US and everything feels rubberbandy/delayed or inaccurate
I only have points for one, which is better Feywilds or Ravenloft?
>>2160392well are you level 5 or 10
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>>2160392Ravenloft by far.
>>2160392Ravenloft is the best expansion in the game in my opinion, followed closely by Sharn. Feywild is just okay. If nothing else Ravenloft gives you a free top tier weapon that can carry you to epics, where the epic version of it can replace it.But the dungeons are good too. Invitation to Dinner is one of my top five favorite dungeons.
>maintenancefuck my chud shitty baka life
Imagine getting swallowed whole wouldn't that be funny haha.
The stuff of nightmares.
I'm in is there a way to show time in-game?
>>2160659haha that would be so gross too lollike if you got captured by the big spider here >>2160687 and it oviposition'd eggs in you haha
>>2160659>RA Salvatore wrote this post
>>2160683>>2160686>TFW one of the named uniques is an ML6 true sight helmet so it's one of the few quests genuinely worth ransacking.
>>2160392Feywild gear can last you from 5-15, if not 5-20.Feywild's tree you unlock can help pure CHA melees/gishes like Bard (Swashbuckler doesn't have CHA to Hit), Sorcerer (EK doesn't have CHA to Damage), Warlock (Enlightened Spirit gets neither), and Paladin who would otherwise need to invest in another stat like STR or DEX for their melee attacks.Feywild's heroic and epic set bonuses are modular; while other sets strictly require 3 or 5 pieces to work, Fey sets start working at just 2 pieces and each additional piece gives another bonus.Crown of Butterflies giving you permanent Crown of Summer (10 Melee Power, 5 Ranged Power, 15 stacking Healing Amp) is fantastic for anyone.Ravenloft's weapons can take you from 10-29 where you can swap to the epic version of the same weapon, and they hand you a free Sentient Jewel each life to get to work on those.Ravenloft's level range is much a more favorable area; it's much easier to get from level 5-10 than it is to get from 10-15.Ravenloft's tree you unlock is mostly only for Dagger/Kukri builds but there is some low hanging fruit that everyone can use like Negative Energy Absorption.Ravenloft lets you slot in Freedom of Movement at level 10 to ignore annoying things like Hold Person, as well as Lesser Displacement for a slightly better Blur.Ravenloft's quests are among the best in the game.I'd personally go for Ravenloft. While the lower level gear in Feywild is nice, being able to skip annoying shit like Threnal/Restless Isles/Necro 3 and just run Ravenloft at those levels instead, plus getting FoM for all of your characters is just too convenient for both TR trains and for altaholics.
We are so back maintenance bros.
>>2160534>>2160590>>2160772raven it is, thanks
>>2160590>Ravenloft gives you a free top tier weapon that can carry you to epicswatAre you saying that I, as a lvl 15 that haven't done Chill and have a generic +5 drop weapon, can go breeze through some low lvl quests and get a weapon that will be better than anything I can get before hitting lvl 20? Because that's what it sounds like.
>>2160772>Feywild's tree you unlock can help pure CHA meleeswait is there a catch or can I get CHA as my weapon scaling for just 3 AP? is the familiar immortal?
>>2160835Mists, not Chill.Run Into the Mists, the speak to the guy by the wagon in the wilderness for a free Barovian Weapon. +5, Silver, Holy 3, Fiery 3, Undead Bane 3. Shreds through undead, and Silver+Holy lets it DR break for all sorts of Devils and Demons.You can also get Macabre weapons from the last 4 quests/looting Talismans from any chest in the wilderness or quests and trading them at one of the inns. Macabre are +5, Evil 3, Chilling 3, Human Bane 3, and Vampirism so it's great to clear out a bunch of humans, or to heal from chip damage.Sharn weapons are a slight step up at level 15; +5, Adamantine, Holy 4, Electric 4, Construct Bane 4 but I don't find them strong in a meaningful enough way to craft them to replace the free Barovian ones.
>>2160902CHA to hit requires 3 total.CHA to damage requires 7 total.Your familiar can't be damaged or dispelled.The biggest catch would be you need Magical Training to spend points in Feydark, which pure Paladins don't naturally get unless you spend a feat on it, or get it from an Epic Destiny.
>>2160909I'm amazed by the build variety in this game and at the same time disappointed by the fact 90% of the builds literally do not work until epic levels and they never tell you that.
>>2160904>MistsAw, I'm a freetard.
>>2160945Chill is even more expensive than Mists. Chill can't even be bought in the DDO store yet, whereas Mists was (is still?) 99 points.
>>2161244Oh derp, I mixed them up.
reeee why is disciples of rage a buggy uncompleteable chain of shitI bet the Will Be Fixed Soon™ has been on the wiki since the pack came out ~40 updates ago. I sure as shit is glad I didn't pay for this.
>running epic r1s>everyone runs at mach 10 speed and 1 shots everything >can barely even get to the chest before theyre on to the next dungeon>mfwThinking back to when I first made my account, when the game initially went f2p and Korthos was bustling with people, when the Harbor tavern was filled to the brim with people pvping and hanging out and roleplaying, when the party finder was stacked and dungeons actually felt like dnd dungeons and not superhero speed runs, it makes me kinda depressed it'll never be like that again
>A quest about dread pirates>Featuring:>Very Important Pirate>Raptors of unusual Size>Dread Pirate RobertsSSG writers having a laugh over here.
>>2161549many such cases, depressing
>TFW Blightcaller druid
>>2161677>About to TR into a Blightcaster>Neck slot is locked to CON +8, Heavy Fortification, and 10 Profane PRR at level 8at least I can use the Signet Ring of Earth for the regular Corrosion and Impulse.
>>2158529>Universal Century Gundam Online is next I think I'll skip this one.
Succubi use their polymorph ability to assume humanoid guise, and can maintain this deception indefinitely.
What's the difference between an expansion and an adventure pack?The wiki is pretty vague about it, but I'm getting the impression the only difference is that expansions also gives you some cosmetics and a new race or class.
So, overall thoughts so far?
>>2162403good game but fuck the power crept difficulty and mandatory snoozefest difficulty modes
>>2162413Both of those are solved by paying for vip for a single month. You get everything unlocked, plus 500 points and by the time it runs out you'll have unlocked many things naturally.
>>2162278She can just b herself around me desu, I'm okay with that.
>>2162403It's... different. What I hate the most is how almost every mod comes with 6+ different prefixes of varying rarity, but they all do the same because they're not allowed to stack otherwise. It's D2LoD tier affix bloat that makes it borderline impossible to find random drops that aren't vendor trash.
>>2162331VIPs get all adventure packs for freeadventure packs generally have fewer than 10 quests, while expansions generally have about 14 questsadventure packs are added to the store right away and can only be bought with DDO Pointsexpansions start in the DDO Market and can only be bought for IRL money for the first few months, then are put into the DDO store later to be bought with PointsExpansions when bought in the Market come with additional content like races and monster manuals and higher tiers come with cosmetics, additional bank slots, Tomes for each character, and infinite use teleport items. The DDO Store version only comes with the quests+wilderness, no added bells and whistles.
>>2162500Well schucks. I'm going to miss some of the sharn stuff then, since I only have gatheryourparty and the 99 points pack.
>>2162276Yea, I watched a gameplay video and it looks like shit.
>>2162518Aren't all the adventure packs included in gatheryourparty? I could be wrong.
>healing hirelings when brought into epic elites
>>2162604That's where you tell them to carefully guard a completely empty area until you need to fill up
>>2162601Sharn is an expansion not an adventure pack
>>2162637Read his post wrong, just spent two hours digging my car out of snow and was kind of out of it. I thought he wrote something else entirely.
ZAMN, dwarf girls are built like -that-?!
>>2158987dei hires at stonewall games or whatever. yeah back in the day this game was unbelievably fun. way more fun than classic wow is compared to retail wow is today. like old school 2006 through 2010 ddo is basically the coolest funnest game ever made. the only thing the new version of ddo has on old ddo is content. about 100 billion new quests vs the limited selection of quests back in the day. but the gameplay was so much better, its hard to put it into words, but the power levels were correct, and the cursespewing, vorpal, disruption, paralyzing, smiting, wounding, puncturing ect effects all the effects in the game were straight out of the 3.5 player's handbook or other source material, because it was made by white men who knew "balance" is a jewish term. then after about 2011 the white guys took their profits, quit, (just like in 2009 with wow wotlk) and the company hired cheap dei green haired white male hating lesbians because the new hip thing was being mad at white people because obama just got elected. any other questions?
oh yeah and jump skill was uncapped. so if you had like 105 jump skill you could literally just jump over many of the invisible walls and not invisible walls into out of bounds areas. then the dei green haired lesbian hires "fixed" that around 2011
>>2162666>>2162667>le wokeme and my friends just can't take you seriously
>>2162500vip doesnt unlock the 11+ "expansions" which are $40 each and have the best items in them. thats modern ddo today. before it went free to play, a product of smart dei green haired lesbian marketing, it was a $15/month subscription or you just cant log in
>>2161549yeah part of the difference is the meta gaming trends in modern day. back in 2007 ect just the novelty of being in an online mmorpg was entertaining by itself. hanging out in the leaky lobster and chatting and pvping at like lvl5 was entertaining, most people werent even concerned about speed levelling ect, it was a computer game and there werent "goals" the goal was to play it
>>2160741nope :) ui hasnt changed since 2011. i hear its because of "spaghetti code" but all that means is their dei hires dont actually know how to program anything. their quests and dungeons must all be made from an in house editing program left over from the white guys who originally programmed this game
>>2162666A very cursed and inaccurate post by satan himself.
>>2162698doesnt say im wrong though
>>2162670i dont need you to do anything, these are psas. understand them at your leisure, i know its difficult to wrap your brain around the words i put on screen. i operate at a much higher intelligence quotient than basically all humans
>>2162713yeah I don't think anyone cares to factcheck you, we just know you're lying out of your as you /pol/ schizo
>>2162719whether or not you perceive the truth as a lie has zero relevance to me. thats your own mental illness, most likely caused by the obama administration. care to prove me wrong or are you (anyone) just going to dismiss me because it makes you think thoughts you werent prepared to think?
>>2162724no, obviously it's impossible to change your cultist "rightthink", and I don't think I need to convince anyone else that you're a nutcase
>>2162727>youre just wrong because.... because you just are ok?
>>2162734advice for next time, if you want people to read and listen, use less wojaks and buzzwords, you might be right but sounding like a madman hurts your credibilitymost normal people don't even know what "dei" stands for so you're shooting yourself in the foot opening the post with that
>>2162738thanks heres a video of a dude getting out of bounds in old ddohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqdH-1R_pOsits not the example i was looking for (a human wizard jumping out of bounds in house j) but it is one example you can use to understand what im talking about
>>2162753just so we're clear I wasn't thinking that the jumping was fake, that sounded soul as fuck, it's just the 5 or so mentions of green-haired people that made me roll my eyes
heres the human mage i was talking about out of bounds in the twelve (before it was made into an actual zone with quests and lammania door ect) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJvudDNFM3U
here is the video of the dude getting out of bounds via house j https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfUXopDKTdo
reminder jump used to be uncapped so if you had a really high jump skill u could just jump over walls and invisible walls and do cool shit. then the green haired dei lesbians they hired "fixed" all of the fun features of the game
>>2162480And all will be locked again as soon as you create another char.You can't win.
>>2162827Admittedly it's a retarded, outdated paywall but I appreciate that there is a f2p option to bypass it after doing two heroic reincarnations. It's certainly not perfect but it's better than what was offered before reincarnations were a thing.Anyway to the vets: I'll be reincarnating fairly soon I think and I want to run a stick monk tabaxi, is the quickstick build still viable or is there something else with dragonlord? I want to make sure it's a predominately monk life because I'm working towards class completionist and would rather run rogue with inquisitive and dragonlord just straight.
>>2162848yeah stick monk tabaxi look at how gay this game is now
Great. Now this thread is just 90% some incel /pol/ schizo being a fucking retard. Why do generals always turn into this shit, why do these faggots exist and why haven't they killed themselves yet?
was mildly interested in tagging along on one of these, but if mmodventure is a bunch of leftist tranny worshippers I'll pass. Dudes main point was that standing stone hired a fuckton of retarded dyke neolibs that fucked things up, which is fucking true. Hell, a thread ago there was general laughter at some tranny writer's comical ineptitude.
>>2163176>Dudes main point was that standing stone hired a fuckton of retarded dyke neolibs that fucked things upExcept none of that is true, most of SSG are the original devs from Turbine, and they're all... old white dudes. Trannybel was fired for her TRANSgressions, shut the fuck up and go away.
Whats been your fave MMOdventure so far?
>>2163176the main clique is a bunch of failed men that erp as anime girlsused to be a few more normal anons surprisingly but they were all driven offpeople still playing mmos in current day aren't the kind of people you want to associate with
If classic DDO was so great, why there isn't a single classic DDO private server?
>>2163472esl frog....
>>2163246none, every time I give it a try I just realize its a group of people that don't actually want to play the mmo
>>2163709Is that storm horns? The map's layout drives me absolutely insane with the invisible walls and obscure paths to quest locations.>>2163724You do realize that barely any of them are left here? 3/4s of the posts since Thursday have been you, to people who just played DDO before MMOdventure? What are you doing with your life man? Did MMOdventure touch you when you were a little kid or something?
>>2163961Just a case of retarded gamer who thought he was hot shit and got his ego irreparably hurt when he was put in his place. As evidenced by the endless stupid shit he says, he doesn't actually play the games, he's just obsessed with his "revenge".
I will say the fact that all of DDO's expansions having spots on the leveling path and having epic level content is extremely clever and I really wish more MMOs did that. It adds a ton of variety to the leveling process and means I don't have to do fucking Delera's tomb ever again. Worth every penny spent on Saltmarsh, Feywild and Isle of Dread.
>>2163723>le grammarI accept your concession.
>epic leveling consists of doing slayer wilderness where you're left behind without ddo point slayer potions or legendary dungeons where you get absolutely raped by everything while you're carried by legendary level players What a life.
is tonight the end?
>>2164161not for me that's for sure
>to continue this quest you must talk to an NPC>the NPC randomly wanders around the whole map so good luck finding them>oh and the NPC doesn't even appear until you killed X of a certain enemy in that>and that enemy also spawns somewhere only after you killed bunch of other enemies first>by the way, most enemies are invisible until you get close to themhaha, good ol' RPG design, today's baby gamers could never appreciate such brilliant gameplay
(Optional) Jump off the flying glacier!>Jump off>DieI don't know what I expected.
>>2163472lack of availability of data. also you have to program it, of which the playerbase isnt robust enough to just have neckbeards willing to do that en masse like wow
>>2164372Sounds like it wasn't good enough to bother.
>>2163098you wouldnt have sex with anyone anyways you fat ugly woman
>>2163961retard with zero reading comprehension
vgh....... it's beavtifvl....
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Inhabitants of Xen'Drik, I invite you to join in on the MMOdventure voting procedure. No Fortitude save required, though a high Will is recommended. Reflex is optional.Here's how you apply:Anons that already participate in this current round of voting don't need to do anything and will receive the next token automatically.Any anon that has not yet applied for a voting token can do so by following this procedure:>screenshot your character and character information window, see pic related>attach this screenshot to an email addressed at mmodventure@proton.meYou will then be added to the token mailing list and can participate in future MMOdventure polls.The verification screenshot can be from a previous MMOdventure title.please be sure to use any email provider that can:>read mail>send mail>attach jaypegs to a mailThe voting process will look as follows:>receive your unique token link via email, one for each round of voting>cast your vote in two rounds of voting that will be held to determine our next game>njoy resultsSo straighten out your cloaks, saddle your hoerse, should you have grinded for one, take a screenshot as described and send your verification picture to:>mmodventure@proton.memmodventure@proton.me>mmodventure@proton.memmodventure@proton.me
Let's take some group photos to say farewell to the MMOD bunch at 9:15 pm UTC, Saturday.>Timezone Converter: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Dungeons+and+Dragons+Group+Photo&iso=20260103T2115&p1=1440
>>2165621I'll be in zazenkai so I wont be able to make it, but know that my heart is with you all. >t. Gordeauxn
I have so many pic I'd like to post but the stupid captcha locks me out.After I do the captcha for the first time it'll say "captcha not required" for subsequent posts, but if I try to submit it also says that the captcha failed.Finally got lvl 20. It was really fun to play with you all.
It was a good run.
>>2165915you need to update your 4chanx
>>2166018
It's time
Why does this reminds me of Half-Life?
Don't think I'll be able to make the screenshot, but it's been real my dudes. Hope you have fun with the next MMO.
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>>2166037Rise and shine, mister elfwoman.
Oh boy, another shadowfell quest. The light world / dark world gimmick was kind of nice. Too bad swapping between the two took 5 seconds each time, enough to make the water temple blush.
>>2166330Works much better in a party, I loathe soloing that quest but love it in groups.
I like how some favour unlocks are meh like +2 to listen or some shit but then there's the fucking greater harper pin.
We're meeting up in Eveningstar. Route is Harbor -> Gatekeepers Grove -> Eveningstar
>>2158529OWARI DA
Last for Succ.
Invisible guild.
>>2166330there's some gimmick you can do to speed it up, I think it's dragging the mirror item onto the little paper doll in your inventory lets you use it immediately instead of spend 5 seconds of animation
>>2166531huh, on my screen most weapons were hidden
ham located
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>>2166630it's been an honor and a pleasure everyone. Thank you all, for a wonderful mmodventure
>>2166635good stuff
Had a lot of fun with this one, but I'll be moving to the next MMOdventure game. Thank you for the good times, frens.
why is lil bro all alone :(
>>2166800pondering the pond
>gallery is upty image uploader anon!243 pics and even a few webms, DDO is officially a hall of fame MMOdventure
From all the MMOs I've played DDO is definitively the one that would benefit from private servers the most.Hope it happens, it was a nice ride.
>>2170237>Hope it happensIt'll never happen unless DDO goes under, and even then it's questionable anyone would understand the spaghetti code. The OG Turbine-turned-SSG devs barely know what's going on when issues arise, and they were the ones who developed the damn engine.
>>2171148>and even then it's questionable anyone would understand the spaghetti codeMeme, we do have all the tools to understand and play with the code, we just need time.
>>2171201This>>2169628I dont know why, but this feller on the horse looks awfully similar to that warforged that survived the great purge of Mists of Ravenloft on Reaper 1 some weeks ago.
>>2169628how does the hornse breathe?
>>2171486It's a warforged horse, you can tell by the wooden tendons/muscles.
Is there actually any reason to hang on to siberrys shards if I don't plan on changing feats ever?
>>2173168Binding and Attuning an item requires siberys fragments
>>2173927Good point. That perma damage shit is retarded, but at least binding gets rid of it.
>>2158529Is still going? I was sadly been too busy since New Year, but I might log back in this weekend.
>>2174251Most of the MMOdventure group has sadly passed on, rest in peace.Some anons are probably still playing, but I haven't checked in myself since last Saturday. I'll probably hop on myself because the current MMOdventure game refuses to run properly and that's as good an excuse as any to play more DDO.
>>2175146Guild basically died, so i left for a level 185 one. Going to be online later today if anyone wants to run epics, or even start new characters.
>>2175186Forgot to say: Send a "tell" to Valetha and i'll be sure to team up with you fren.
>>2175146>>2175186>>2175193I will keep that in mind...
I've been playing on the eu server, just running missions on normal to experience the story and puzzles at a slow pace. Once I reincarnate I'll try grouping, if any of you are on this server.
>>2175212Currently online.
I think the userchat died as well, can anyone confirm or make another one maybe?
>dailyrolled a tome of skill +1 open lock>don't have the skillwat doWill I get the skill for free if I use the tome or will it just be wasted?
>>2175221What lvl are you at?
>>217692214 Druid called Torren.
>>2176960Eh, I'm 5. Might catch up eventually.
>>2176983I'm playing at a slow pace, exploring and seeing as much as I can before I have to worry about builds. If you keep playing our levels will intersect at some point.
>>2176550It'll still apply and stay there if you decide to reincarnate. +1 skill tomes are kind of pointless though since you can get +3s in epic sagas.
>max striding + monk inherent speed bonus + max tabaxi speed enhancement>add abundant step>move at incredibly hihg speeds, even faster than on a mountNew favorite class combo unlocked I think.
>>2177308But you have to put a point in Open Lock before you can actually use it. Does eating the book count as putting a point in, or will it just be a +1 bonus that stays hidden as long as I don't have an actual skill point in the skill?As for the other bit, the way I read things you have to eat skill books in order. 1 -> 2 -> 3 etc. Can't go from 0 -> 3.
>>2177377this is good if you have really low latency
>>2170237correct, a modular customizable level 20 private server with all the new quests from the modern client would be cool, with unchanged, straight from the rulebook weapon and armor effects ect.
>>2177750Just checked, it looks like trained skills (anything with n/a) won't apply the bonus if you don't have points in them. I have a +3 tome on open lock/disable device and it still says n/a on my current life, but it definitely applied when I ran a dark hunter who was trained in those skills.And no, you can absolutely go from 0 to +3. Pretty much all of my skills are +3 from tomes gained in epic sagas.
>>2177872Well shucks. Might as well eat it then. It's bound anyway.
>>2177377Add one level of Barb for 10% more
>doing grip of the hidden hand>get to order in the court>ocd will not let me do just one trial when i found all the evidence>mfw finding out just how long the trial part takes
Fung shui law firm general
https://ddowiki.com/page/Free_to_Play_DDO_Point_walkthroughAny reason I shouldn't skip to borderlands after clearing korthos instead of going to harbor?
>>2182041don't skip keep, it has some good stuff in there that you can use the entire game:https://ddowiki.com/page/Item:Giyar%27s_Boots_of_Dashing
>>2182044I linked that points walkthrough for a reason. I'm just going for 100 fame then quitting the char.
>>2182047If you're only doing short-term favor then borderlands is much quicker than harbor. The reason that Borderlands isn't on that walkthrough is because it's not technically f2p, despite them giving it away for free practically every year.
Do I have the dumb, or is there really no way to change server other than closing and restarting the game?
I missed the gatheryourparty2025 code deadline so I want to KMS.
>>2186526Just check back every few months, March I believe is the anniversary so there might be something similar. A year before gatheryourparty they gave out a code that gave almost the exact same stuff (no 32 point buy/warforged/fvs though, but you can get those with favor).
>>2162756>t. green haired tranny
>DDO Bonus Days bring you a Hard Difficulty Weekend Unlock>All players regardless of account status can automatically unlock Hard difficulty
>>2187157wow, this thing that should've been part of premium status, if not free2play, is now available for 4 whole days in a year? how fucking generous, thank you blizzard
>>2187157this should be a thing every weekend
>be lvl 18 meleedin>get terror in mindsunder reward>fuckyeah.jpg>oooh upgradable>mfw i need fucking 6 of each essence>mfw i have no faceWhat fucking dogshit design is this. I'll have outleveled that weapon by the time I get the shit needed to upgrade it.
So now we're pretty much done, how was the game overall?
>>2194318>how was the gamemeh/10Way too many design choices that are retarded for the sake of it. Having a gorillion different versions of the same affix because they're not allowed to stack is one of the most egregorious ones. If they can switch to mana instead of memorized spells, they can also let affixes stack.
>>2194232You're supposed to slowly improve it every time you reincarnate.
>>2194318I enjoy it, Feels more like an ARPG with weird gearing limitations than an D&D flavoured RPG.Feels like you need some expansions to have fun, particularly the expansion trove. I can't fathom doing epic levels without menace or shadowfell conspiracy. Get it on sale never at full price JFC $59.99 for ten year old content what the hellDDO store sucks ass. Its format sucks, the fact that it sells straight up character power sucks. The fact that it's extremely difficult to know what's worth buying without consulting multiple guides and there's a lot of shit that only benefits the buying character when the bullshit should be account wide is shitty.I'll probably play it for a few months. the concept of character Reincarnation tickles my autism something fierce.
>>2194318Kinda makes me wish there was a better D&D MMO.
>>2194318pretty sick, I had a grand time
>>2194339To add to this, the ransack system is bullshit.What the fuck is the point in having named loot in a non-raid dungeon if you only have ~6 shots per WEEK to actually get the drop. I'm fine with it affecting xp, but it should not affect loot so those who actually want to complete a set or get a specific drop can do so at the cost of getting zero xp.inb4>akshually it's 8Named doesn't drop if the ransack penalty takes the dungeon below the required level for the named.
>>2194429>I'll probably play it for a few months. the concept of character Reincarnation tickles my autism something fierce.This is what keeps me playing, the only thing I dislike is making a build that ends up being kinda dogshit or boring and then forcing myself to at least hit 20 with it.
>>2194318it's ok for a f2p mmo, but could be really good with a few not very major changes mostly related to the baggage it accumulated over a decadesad, many such cases
>>2175303Aight, but I am busy, sadly, but I might make some time this weekend.
>>2194232That quest is 16 years old. Literally from Update 1.The upgrade is just 15 intimidate and deception, it's not worth it at all.>>2194945It is 8, the ransack penalty doesn't remove named items from the chest lists until after the 8th time you've opened the chest. I've pulled dozens of named items on the 8th chest.
>>2196062Sounds unlikely when ransack lower the drop levels to less than what the named requires, but you have no doubt played longer than me so I'll take your word for it.I know what the bonus is and I can actually use it, despite how minor it is. I should be able to upgrade a fucking leveling weapon in a reasonable time frame and not the 2+ fucking weeks it's going to take me because of ransack bullshit.
>>2194232the ddo crafting design is designed with the idea that at that level that would be the highest level at the time and "outleveling" it is not a thought during the design of that crafting system. house cannith lvl 19 crafting, greensteel, dragoncrafted armor ect all was implemented when that was the max level. oh you outlevel it? ok well now you can do the next area's crafting system, or at least try it out before you outlevel it. even with no xp tome no xp % bonuses at 3rd life reincarnation you can easily outlevel these crafting systems by just doing their related quests and explorer areas in order to farm the raw materials for that crafting system. its well known and has been well known ever since level 16 greensteel in like 2009
>>2196188That doesn't mean the system isn't stupid. Craftables that get relegated to leveling gear should have mat reqs nerfed so they can actually be made while they're relevant. As of now, you're better off either not bothering with crafting at all or save whatever you happen to stumble upon and use it for twink gear every 3-4 lives. That's an awful long time to have whatever amount of bag slots occupied by something you'll only maybe use later.
>>2196240Erm actually you're not supposed to have good gear, like, ever. You're supposed to pick up scraps and play shitty half-assed builds instead of optimizing, that way normal mode dungeons feel good and challenging.
>>2196149
>>2187157funnily enough I still have this buff active
https://docs.google.com/document/d/10-f3Rx_WzxSRUZEpKqK488g96vAKq3CtrRbYbhiDZGA/edit?tab=t.imt8rf3d47blI'm following the beginner melee pala.Is Crusade actually worth it? I have to use How Dare You Strike Me to proc consecrate, and it has a 2 minute cooldown on top of only proccing when I hit 50% hp.I'm eyeing Gaze of the Divine as a replacement.
>>2205106T5 Mighty Crusade is what runs the Crusade machine.
>>2205158Well shit, I didn't notice that. I thought the build was just cheesing a second epic strike for free.
>>2205106I'm kinda amazed the lengths some of these cookie cutter builds go just to get +1 STR sometimes, which is very little when you already have +100 damage.
>>2205158While on the subject, how the fuck do I sustain smite charges. I don't have How Dare You yet, but I sincerely doubt that and keeping exalted cleave on cooldown will be enough to let me use smite on trash. At least not if I want to be able to keep smiting on bosses.
>save at least one villager!>the miniboss instantly casts a fireball on the group of them
>>2205158I don't know how anal this game is about wording, but Crusade isn't a prereq for Mighty Crusade and the wording doesn't say that I actually need to have a point in Crusade to procc the t5 buff.
>>2206945Those villagers clearly lack self-preservation instincts
>21585292026 is DDO 20th anniversary, so there is going to be a lot of FREE rewards. Just wanted to let people know before the thread dies.
Is cannith crafting actually worth leveling in current year or is it enough to just keep it at whatever level needed to add noncrucial stuff like feather fall to gear?
>>2224916Good to know, but I assume not yet?
>>2225442Minimum level 1 Blindness Immunity of True Seeing Goggles with an augment slot for Master's Gift is really useful to slap on and forget until level 20Blindness Immunity and True seeing both require lv 250getting Insightful stats, like Insightful CHA for a Sorc or Insightful WIS for a Cleric, can help out if you don't have the named gear that gets it for you.All Insightful Stats require lv 275Casters can get Insightful Spell Power at 225, Lores at 100, and Spell Power at 50Skill shards have no required level, but if you want to make a skill swap item for, say, level 15 (ie. Search of Disabling for a Rogue) you'd have to make a level 15 shard which requires crafting lv 150.If you have no gear, CCing can get you a full gearset.If you have a ton of named gear, CCing can fill in that last piece of loot tetris for stats you wouldn't otherwise have, rare affixes like Light/Poison Resist, and multiple augment slots for something like Demonheart Emerald + Featherfall Topaz>>2228008I don't believe they've announced an official start of the anniversary. Typically it's around the end of February, so I'd expect ~the 25th which would be their standard maintenance date.
Glad to see some anons still sticking around.
>>2234170I wasn't able to join you guys main server is thrane and was hardcore grinding for the cosmetics but I'll always pop my head into DDO threads to talk builds/gear
>perusing the token rewards>can't use the constellation greatsword that would have been a ridiculously huge upgrade because paladinT-thanks.I'm stumped as to what to choose. Tail of Suulomades looks enticing, but I'm locked to Greatsword and I doubt Falchion counts as Greatsword despite being twohanded.
>>2236026If you don't already have an endgame weapon, 1 negative level for using Constellation is well worth it.Spear of the Mournlands could also be an option for Warforge/Bladeforge/Aureon/Divine Crusader epic destiny.Cracked Core is a strong necklace with 6 Insightful CON, 3 Quality CON, and 2 augment slots for either more CON (ie. Festive CON) or high tier augments.Speaking of augments, assuming they don't put restrictions on the items you get from the box, it would be a good idea to make a couple alts just to claim BtC items to turn into BtA augments to pass over to your main.Epic Litany of the Dead can be made into a level 30 Colorless augment that gives Profane +2 to all statsConstellation, Cursed Blade can be made into a level 30 Orange augment that gives Improved DestructionPomura's Memento can be made into a level 30 Green augment that gives +5% Insight bonus to all spell critical chanceDark Diversion can be made into a level 30 Yellow augment that reduces your threat by 20% for melee, range, and spellsCracked Core can be made into a level 30 Yellow augment that increases Action Boosts, Turn Undead, Bard Songs, and Ki on hit by +1Spear of the Mournlands can be made into a level 30 Orange augment that reduces the target's Positive and Repair Amplification by 5%, stacking 5 times.each augment requires 50 Threads of Fate and 1 Empty Soul Vessel, so they'll be sitting around for a while until your main has farmed them (they're BtA)Quiver of Alacrity is BtC, but if you Cannith Craft any arrows/bolts they'll be BtA and when you put them in the Quiver you can put the Quiver in the shared bank to move it over. Very worth making alts to transfer Quivers over, since with a bit of Orchard farming you get the best level 1 twink item in the game.And if you have any Mirrors of Glamering lying around, Glamered cosmetics are BtA, so you can make a new character, get the glamer of something you would never use, and then pass it to your main.
>>2236224I am realistically years away from a point where that kind of augment fuckery becomes relevant, since I'm just noobing around with a friend with me as dps pala and him as wizard. Odds we'd ever obtain raid loot are practically non existant.What I'm eyeing are>dumathoins bracers>heart of suulomades>constellation>rune lodestone>sightlessNot really sure about the heart, but it's a minor artifact so I assume it's good ¯\_(ツ)_/¯I'd like to have Sightless but at a glance it seems like Constellation is the best weapon I can possible get, even if I'll never be able to upgrade it.
>>2236224>Augments aren't applicable anymore because they have the Gift tag on them>Quiver is being changed to be perma BtC and unable to be shared bank'dhoooooooo boy, they're really going all out to fuck up their 20th anniversaryAt least I'll still be able to glamer the 3 things I want cosmetics of.>>2236321Personally I wouldn't go for the Heart; if you find any other Minor Artifact you have to either ignore it or ditch the Heart and find a new trinket to replace it, and 4 filigree Artifacts are much more common now making the Heart's 3 slots lacklusterSightless is a very strong consideration; True Seeing, Death Block+Neg Absorb, Constitution, Sheltering are useful on everyone and then the extra Melee/Ranged Power helps all non-casters. If you had a Reaper Helmet, I'd have second thoughts about Sightless but considering you're just noobing around you almost certainly won't be getting a R Helm for a while, making Sightless much more enticing.Rune Loadstone is mediocre; Cold Iron is one of the easiest damage types to bypass, Blindness Immunity is readily available from Cannith Crafting or as an augment, and even on Reaper I barely notice champions dodging so dodge bypass is sort of an afterthought.Morninglord's Greatsword is a budget option from Mists of Ravenloft (assuming you picked it up for 99 points) so I'd probably go Morninglord Greatsword + Sightless
>>2236699>Morninglord>lvl 29Oof, that's going to take a while. I'm only 22. Currently doing menace of the underdark. I did pick up the packs and gatheryourparty though, so I have something to work towards. Sightless it is.I have leveldrain immunity so it could be argued I shouldn't be affected by the negative level from Constellation, but I sincerely doubt it works that way.
>>2237132Constellation is also lvl 29, same as Morninglord.And no, Level Drain immunity doesn't stop the negative levels from items, only from spells like Enervation and weapon procs like Draining.Negative levels from equipping items counter to your alignment technically aren't actual negative levels (a level 5 who takes 5 negative levels from Enervation instantly dies; a level 5 with 2 "negative levels" from items and gets hit with 4 negative levels from Enervation stays alive)
>>2237341The page listing the token rewards only shows lvl req for a few of the items, suggesting the ones without lvl req shown can be used from lvl 1. Shit's bound and it's not a competitive game so it'd make sense in that regard. But it's probably just a case of the devs being lazy retards.
>>2237405It's a case of the code being fucky.There are a lot of situations where the minimum level of an item doesn't display; moving from Bank to Shared Bank without putting the item in your inventory is the most notable example, but certain interfaces where you claim items don't accurately show the minimum levels of items, especially for ones with clickies or ones which can be upgraded.https://ddowiki.com/page/Item:Dungeons_%26_Dragons_Online_20th_Anniversary_Tokento see the level requirements for all of the items; other than the 2 Quivers (1 and 20) every item is at least minimum level 26.Cordovan said he was aware that the missing levels could be misleading, and that they were trying to fix it before the anniversary goes live so every item displays its proper ML.
>>2237508oh dangi've tried to get into this game a few times but never get around to iti saw the event and was thinking about getting some ring that was +170% spellpower that had no level requirement listed
>>2235549That's good too, I mean, I don't have much time for mmos as is.
Crystals are floating.
Will probably start playing if this anniversary event puts all the old expansions on sale. Biggest barrier to entry to this game is that all the expansion content costs like 400 dollars.
If I'm doing a CR 16-19 saga, do I get credit for elite or normal if I do the quest on epic normal?I'm still in range of Huntsilver and decided to do it for shit n' giggles, but running everything thrice on heroic for fuck all xp is annoying. It would be a lot easier if I could just do it once on epic normal and still get the elite credit.
>>2254641epic completions do nothing for the heroic saga
Arcane Trickster looks good, Also fuck you for making me do a wizard TR, I fucking hate wizards and the only reason I could stomach this life was because Eldritch knight and Vistani Knife Fighter carried my ass.I really should learn VON that shadow sword looks sexual.
>want to try the game for the 20th anniversary>500 dollars to buy all the expansionsno wonder this game is dead as fuck
>anniversary token rewards nerfedlaaaameThey removed at least dumathoins bracers and constellation. And for some pantsonhead reason added sword of shadow, a lvl 10 greatsword you can get an infinitely better version of for free by doing the very first quest in ravenloft.
>>2260526Heroic Sword of Shadows is the best sub-20 weapon in the game.17-20/x3 is SO much more powerful than 19-20/x2.
>anniversary tokenwhat do I even spend this thing on, I barely know the game...
>>2261424The best item to take if you have no idea what to take is the NON-EPIC Quiver of Alacrity. You'll need to farm/buy/be gifted a full set of 8 Shield Fragments or Tome Pages, which you then turn in for a Seal of the Black Abbot and use the Fountain of Necrotic Might to upgrade the Quiver so it gives +30% Movement Speed.The Quiver slot is functionally unused for all characters, so having an item with 0 minimum level that gives you maximum movement speed without taking up an item slot it fantastic, and it's the first item everyone grabs from the bank after reincarnation.Other than the Quiver, the main choice is between Sword of Shadow for the best weapon pre-epic levels if your build uses 2 handed weapons, or some flavor of level 29 gear to use for endgame which is entirely determined by your build. For example Fetters is great for Monks but useless for anyone not specced for Handwraps.
Just made a new char on Shadowdale, anyone that can hook me up with some stuff for a fresh character? Or wants to run together? Level 8>>2262408>The best item to take if you have no idea what to take is the NON-EPIC Quiver of Alacrity.That presumes you want to hop on the reincarnation treadmill, personally I don't see it being worthwhile more than a few times or once in a while. Also you get an expeditious retreat clicky in Korthos that is only 5% slower than the upgraded quiver.
>>2262408>strong weaponsehh, questing has been so easy, I don't know if I'd need thatI think I'll just pick xp boost
>>2262408Can you actually farm necropolis 4 solo for the stuff you need to upgrade?I wanted to steamroll necropolis 1 a while ago for the silverflame rep, only to find out you actually can't do it solo because of bullshit mechanics. Haven't touched it since.
>>2263372For the quests, Inferno is possible solo but it's annoying because it's a teleporter maze and you need to be able to cast/use scrolls to cast fire spells like Fireball and cold spells like Ice StormFleshmaker's Laboratory has a party check right at the end which is technically possible solo with hirelings but it's annoying to doTemple of Vol and Ghosts of Perdition are both 100% possible solo
>>2263798Intredasting. I was more or less set on Sightless, but now I'm having second thoughts. If the quiver had move and attack speed, like the affix, it'd be a no brainer.
>first run for party favors>22, solo, 2/5 stars>get 3 favors>second run>22, duo with a higher level friend, 4/5 stars>get 7 favorsSomeone explain how this makes sense.
>>2265352the more stars you get the more favors you get
>>2265570No shit. But why does 2 extra stars equal 4 extra favors. There has to be a formula, which means there's also a sweet spot for favors/hour.
>have to do anniversary event 10 times to get the marketplace teleport clicky
>>2265616y = 2x-1?
Sooo... what would happen if I take the 200k xp as a lvl 1 char? You can only bank 1 lvl and 200k would take you to like lvl 7+.
>>2267267you can make a throwaway junk character and try it
>>2266828Why the fuck would you want that when it's on the teleporter list and there's teleporters fucking everywhere.>mfw 25 runs for a sentient jewelAt least I can do them in ~8 minutes with a friend. The timeline shit on the other hand, now that's a fucking pain to solo. I can either settle for a shit amount of fragments or pray I don't get menetharum as 3rd because that fucking naga wrecks my shit on elite.
>>2267365You might be retarded if you can't see how an instant teleport clicky to the main city hub might be useful, so I can't help you there. Enjoy the sentient jewel constantly yapping in your ear I guess, any sane person turns that shit off and there's much easier options.>At least I can do them in ~8 minutes with a friend.Imagine needing a friend to get an 8 minute 5 star run. Lmao. Record was 5:30 but I didn't screencap, you'll just have to trust me on that one.
>>2267621Inventory space is limited, and getting to the main hub is trivial so why waste a slot for that.Of course I'd turn that shit off, I don't even play with sound. But as I understand it, sentience is required for filigree slots and I have no idea where to get a jewel other than this.I have to run on 25 to get 10 favors, and I'm still on first life with shit gear ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
>>2267858I didn't realize you were a fucking newbie, but it's all making sense now. Everything you say is retarded and borne out of ignorance, but that's okay, maybe one day you'll understand the QOL a short-CD perma teleport clicky is if you play for long enough.The intro quest for epic ravenloft offers a couple of jewels and you can get one per life. If you're turning off the VA there's literally no reason to be grinding party favors 25 times and destroying your sanity in the process. https://ddowiki.com/page/Tobar_the_Smith
>>2267995Well, fuck me then. Too bad the tophat is timeline and the other party favor shit is either cosmetic or not for me (pala). Im on 200 favors so I might as well finish it and listen to the dragon for a few minutes before I mute it.
>>2268006What do you want the hat for? Aesthetic? Freedom of movement is good it's not really needed outside of Eveningstar quests that have spell traps, and it can be achieved through the Death House end chest boots. If its for aesthetic the red tophat is easy af to get from the carnival quest.
Does Wish of Inheritance ever go on sale? I could swear I saw it on sale a while ago, but I'm not sure.
>>2268283I just want to glamor it. And black tophat looks better than red tophat.
>>2268287I've definitely seen it on sale, but the price was still egregious for what it does. Not sure what item would justify its one-time use to just rebind to character, especially at a cost that is equivalent to buying the latest expansion. >>2268288Aren't they all black tophats, just with different colored bandanas beneath? Anniversary is yellow.
>>2268283Level 4 Top Hat is a peak twink item to be immune to all the holds that hobgoblin casters throw around + lets you free up boots slot at 9+ instead of having them completely locked into FoM
>>2266828How does one get this? complete noob here
>>2269807https://ddowiki.com/page/Item:Commemorative_Stormreach_D12You just need to get the 100 party favors from the 10th anniversary quest, which is pretty easy to speedrun once you get in the rhythm of it. >>2269577I guess that's fair, I just never really felt holds were that annoying until Eveningstar and the stupid spell traps. Then again I don't play higher than R1 so maybe they're a lot worse. Think I'll go for it next, but I probably need a little break for my sanity.
>>2269807It's the last day of the event. Git grindin'
>>2270209>https://ddowiki.com/page/Item:Commemorative_Stormreach_D12thanks>>2270225uh, I'm fucked thenwelp wouldn't have had the time this whole week anyway
>>2270234It's an hour or 2, depending on class/gear. If you aren't a slowpoke, it's also silly good xp for the effort even if you ransack.
Is there any way to make favored soul healer hirelings NOT be fucking retarded and actually do what I fucking tell them to do? I keep telling him to stand the fuck still and he keeps ignoring it, running up to the boss and try to smack it. I even disable his melee smite.
>>2270330actually, isn't the event up until the 31st?
Damn people are still playing this after MMOdventure ended? Did you get invested?
3 month old thread that was posted in 2025
>>2270813I could swear it said the 3rd, which would make sense since that's a maintenance day.
>>2270819Was already playing before MMOdventure and pretty sure there's several more posters in the same boat. I'm almost certain there was a general here in the past, it just eventually stopped being made, so I think I'll start making it once this thread dies.>>2270832First time on /vm/?
>>2270913nice reply faggot let me guess are you 19 years old?
How solo friendly is the game? Been wanting to play but because of stuff going on outside the game it's difficult for me to find parties.
>>2271016yep
>>2271036??
>>2270951I'm 37, been playing DDO on and off since 2006. And /vm/ is an extremely slow board. What's your deal bro, you okay?>>2271016Ignore that guy, I think he's drunk and possibly brown skinned ESL. It's pretty solo friendly. Normal difficulty is the only mode you can open on first life f2p, and normal difficulty is like... really, really easy. I'm friends with someone in game who refuses to party and solos everything on normal mode, and he's on his fourth of fifth life on his main, so it's absolutely possible but very slow. Especially if you're f2p.The biggest issue right now is that the core, free game is lacking a lot. There's a reason they have these huge free bundles/massive sales periodically, and unfortunately you just missed a huge one back in December. It's still a fun MMO to play through and to see how MMOs used to be before WoW took over the market, and it's the closest thing we'll ever get to a true tabletop DND MMO. The F2P version is obviously... free.. so you don't really have anything to lose by trying it out.
>>2271116I got an account from my friend during the free questing code thing a year back. He made like 12 accounts to give away since he really wanted us to play with him then. While I don't ever plan on buying anything I at least have most of the stuff unlocked. I think. I need to check.
>>2271140Okay then yeah, that should give you a decent amount of content to work with. If it was last year's (not the year before) you'll also get some good unlocks automatically, like Warforged, 32 point builds from the jump, Artificer, etc. Unfortunately you'll be missing out on some of the best expansions, but they go on sale for 99 DDO points regularly; Ravenloft is pretty much a must-have. And you don't have to "buy" them with real money, dungeons give you favor and you get 25 DDO points for every 100 favor, and even more for the first time on a server, so you'll easily get that much just by playing.
>>2271187Mists of Ravenloft, specifically. Chill of Ravenloft is the new one which ruins everyone calling something "Ravenloft" without specifying which one.
Okay, so I have no idea what I'm doing. Is there a solo friendly build for casuals?
>>2271402https://docs.google.com/document/d/10-f3Rx_WzxSRUZEpKqK488g96vAKq3CtrRbYbhiDZGA/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.bqnl7q80gndh
>>2271453Is there a thorns/reflect build? Or something where I can stand in one place and tank (no kiting) and uses AoE skills? That's my preferred playstyle.
>>2271488Reflecting damage abilities and spells exist but I've never heard of a viable build that utilizes them, because either the damage doesn't scale, only procs at a low %, or requires dips in spellcasting classes that'll probably negatively affect your tanking. I'm not really an expert on class building but pretty much any melee class can tank, dragonlords (fighter subclass) are fucking goated for AOE stuns and have big survivability but I'm not sure it's a free subclass. Besides fighter, paladin and barbarian are great, paladin even gets an AOE insta-kill mechanic around midgame. Bear druid works really well too but I found it extremely boring, it's my least favorite class I ran through to date. I'd say just use the aforementioned link as a guide to learn the class you might want to play, as mentioned unless you're VIP you're gonna only be able to open dungeons at normal difficulty, and you need an extra chromosome to have any issues with normal dungeons unless you're super under leveled.
>>2271488Guard procs are garbage, but if you want to stay in place and AoE the Blightcaster is good for that.At level 6 make sure you take the Death Eater enhancement, as that gives you a ton of temporary HP just for killing things, and Thorn Bloom is an AoE that eminates from yourself and the damage will carry you until late heroics/early epics
>>2263372A bit of a late response but the shield fragments can drop from orchard chests too, which is a bit more tolerable than risking softlocking yourself from energy drain in Ghosts or dying of boredom in Vol. I've been using this dude's guide, have gotten half my fragments in less than an hour while solo:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wk_1RcuvZdM
Is there any gear that looks like Malicias outfit, other than the tophat you can get from the current event? Asking for a friend.
>>2274247Nothing with boob hearts and garters, but if you want skimpy armor look up>Slave Rags>Cormyrian Green Dragonhide Armor>Dragon Knight Light Armor>Garb of the High Forestthe first 2 are in game items, the latter 2 are ddo store cosmetics, though you can also make the Garb of the High Forest using Glamerdust
why is there a consistent thread for this but not neverwinter? I havent touched either in ages but surprised to see
>>2274661There hasn't been a DDO thread in /vm/ for a long ass time, we're still coasting on an old MMOdventure thread. On top of that Neverwinter is fucking dogshit and doesn't deserve a general. This game has its issues but it still maintains the same sort of charm that its had for 20 years... for the most part. Meanwhile Neverwinter is generic MMO slop that has only gotten worse with age, it unironically needs to be shut down.
>>2274657>that slight butt crack peek on female slave ragsI know what I'm grinding next time I roll a mirror.
How important are the hirelings if I just want to solo? Like, which premium ones are worth buying?
>>2275585>How important are the hirelings if I just want to solo?Depends on the class and what difficulty you're running quests at. Most people just run with a cleric hireling, as hirelings are all retarded and useless outside of healing. Once in epics said hirelings just stay at the entrance, as they get insta-killed more often than not. You bring them to you if you die for a quick rez, that's about it. >Like, which premium ones are worth buying?What do you mean by 'premium?' If you mean gold seal hirelings then none of them. They're all temporary outside of the preorder bonus ones, not worth paying astral shards or real money for. And rogues stop being gold seal only once you get into epics, so if there's something you really need behind a locked door or chest, just go back at level 21 with an epic rogue hireling.I saw an extreme case where someone on the forums played with an entire gold seal party in Reaper 3/4 iirc, because they hated social interaction. I'm guessing you're not running dungeons on reaper, so assuming you're doing normal to elite, all you really need is a cleric hireling for at-level elite dungeons. (normal you dont need shit if you have self-healing)
>>2276011The premium ones as in the ones that come from buying the Ultimate or Collectors Expansions.
>>2275585Elieri (Starter Pack)Frogo (Saltmarsh)Drossheart (Chill of Ravenloft)are all hirelings I've found are useful.Hirelings I haven't found useful areAnimated Scarecrow (Mists of Ravenloft)Shield Guardian (Masterminds of Sharn)Owlbear Defender (Shadowfell Conspiracy)I have no data onFeywild Muse (Feywild)Teal (Isle of Dread)Leafheart (Myth Drannor)Darling (Vecna Unleashed)but I assume Feywild Muse and Teal both would get outclassed too quickly, and Darling would be of limited use outside of House of Pain and maybe Spies in the House.Leafheart could be worth it.If Ultimate Saltmarsh goes on a deep discount again, getting Frogo (Lv 3) and Frogo (lv 30) covers most of your trapping needs, and if you really want to fill in the Sharn-to-Legendary gap, Collector's Edition of Vecna for the level 18 Darling would bridge that gap.Drossheart is primarily a stationary turret, throwing daggers and multivials at whatever you're fighting, but he also has an enormous range of unconsciousness, some healing, and Melt Lock to knock doors/chests that Frogo can't get without buffs.Elieri is useful to summon when you're out of mana to get some Divine Vitalities out of her, then dismiss and wait for the cooldown so you can do it again.Leafheart might be useful as an actual healer, having a heal, a heal over time, and a resurrection, but I haven't used her so I don't know what her stats are like, if her heals are worthwhile, if she's too squishy, etc.The Scarecrow, Shield Guardian, and Owlbear are all slow, too bulky to fit through most doors, and don't even deal decent damage in melee. The Owlbear is squishy, while the Scarecrow and Shield Guardian have reduced healing amplification making them a pain in the ass to use as tanks.
Because of the 20th anniversary event, the free code is back, and this time it has even more stuff in it like favored soul: NATURAL20https://www.ddo.com/news/ddo-20th-anniversary-bonus-doublestrikealso check the anniversary zone for a free cape and to unlock the new arcane trickster for free
>>2158529if you want to play this game with every quest unlocked it costs like $300
>>2277137there is a code right now to get all those quests for free, the only thing missing is the expansions, and half of them go on a 99 ddo point sale every year.https://www.ddo.com/news/ddo-gather-your-party-2026has almost all 1-30 content
>>2277137The anniversary is up. A lot of stuff usually goes on sale. And they've been recently giving away free quest codes for the past...4 years, I can't remember. I don't know if they released the code this year or if they plan to but if you want ti play it's nice to keep an eye on it.
Does this anniversary give a free expansion like last year?
>>2277178Free piece of select raid loot or 200k xp. And free archetype unlock (arcane trickster).There's also a shitload of grindable swag and decent gear for most levels. The two grind quests are also stupidly good xp for the effort if you can speedrun them.
>>2277212I don't play the game. I just log in to collect rewards. How do you get the Arcane Trickster?
>>2277223Hall of Heroes, talk to Fred, find the relevant npc on the anniversary isle.
>>2277233I can't find Fred in Hall of Heroes. Does the NPC not show up in Ghost Worlds? I can't be bothered finishing the quest to unlock Stormreach.
>>2277265You know the old servers will be killed next year, right? You can either pack up and move, or stop claiming rewards.There's both a Forgotten Realms and an Eberron HoH instance, and I think he only shows up in the latter. Alternatively he's also in phirasco and khiarlan. IF the ghost servers are actually eligible for the event. Which would surprise me, since it's extra work for practically no reason.
>>2277292I plan on deleting the character in the ghost worlds anyways. I only kept it because I didn't want to do the Korthos storyline again.And I tried transferring the character. It doesn't show up on the list.I guess I'll just make a new character and start over. I am going to miss some cosmetics but I'm not too bothered by it.
>>2277265Fred is on the bottom of the Hall of Heroes, but he also is in House P where Tolero used to be outside Partycrashers, and House J right beside the original Fred.If you don't see 2 Freds in house J on the ghost worlds then you'll have to make a character on 64 bit.
>>2277300The only part of this that makes sense is the bit about cosmetics.Korthos takes zero effort. You can even skip it. If you have the favor to start as lvl 4, which you sound like you do, you even get to skip the tutorial dungeon as well.There's a guide about transfering on the wiki. And make sure you're not trying to transfer to a server where you don't have any free character slots.
>>2277330Yeah, I found out I can skip it. I don't know how or why, I started at level 1 but still had the option to skip. It just gave me a warning saying that I haven't done the quest on the server yet.Also I did transfer my character. It has too much junk and I'm too lazy to sort it, so I'll just park it here. I think getting shared bank is going to be my first unlock. If I ever decide to play again.
has anyone played the lord of the rings online game? i'm not a fan of d&d but i really want to try lotro. is it better or worse than this game?
>>2262408>NON-EPIC Quiver of AlacrityI don't get it. Why not the epic version?
>>2277505Yes. I like DDO better, but the general consensus is that LOTRO is better. They're both fun for different reasons. Do you not like "modern" D&D (post 4th edition) or just D&D in general? >>2277554Non epic is not level capped. Once you get all the shield fragments it becomes an unbreakable, level 0 source of +30% striding as well as the 10% range attack increase in your least used inventory slot. Meaning that if you're ever going to true resurrect (which you fucking should, its awesome), you'll basically be running around with capped enhancement bonus run speed. Epic is better for certain builds in epic but upgraded regular is good for literally EVERY class at every level.
>>2277751just not a fan of d&d in general. lotr was my first introduction to fantasy. i don't like how there's 43 different races or 97 different classes. and more when you combine them. it just sounds so complicated and convoluted to me.but i do like ttrpgs. i like playing call of cthulu. i might give ddo a try, but i like lotr too much.
>>2277933If you do end up deciding to play DDO, be sure to add the NATURAL20 coupon code to get a bunch of good stuff. Unlocks a lot of things that would otherwise require grinding and/or payment. Coupon ends on the 24th.
>>2277751Sounds good, but if I am a casual with a lvl 4 character that might never make it to rein it seems like a hassle and big investment.Well with that considered, I might not even make it to be able to use the epic version or those boots I saw anyway.
>>2278195Just make some lvl 1 alts and get whatever you think is useful. Now you're prepared in case you ever acquire shared stash and one or more Wish of Inheritance.I got quiver, repulsor boots and sword of shadow tucked away for that exact reason. It's not like I'm ever going to use 12 of the 13 char slots anyway. Not when the game actively punishes you for rolling alts instead of reincarnating.
>>2278291Yeah, makes sense.>shared bankMan, I'm have redeemed 100 slots at some point in the past but I don't have them. I don't know where they are. Hope on a different server or something...Also got a 2024 Starter Pack on a throw away character I made a few months ago. I don't get it how, it wasn't even the first char I made or anything. Wouldn't bother me if the Huge Ingredients Bag WASN'T CHARACTER BOUND FOR SOME REASON.
>>2278300>CHARACTER BOUNDThat's what shared stash and wish of inheritance is for :^) Granted, I'm not sure how/if it works on non-equipables.
>>2278319>Huge Ingredients Bag: 595 DDO Points>Wish of Inheritance: 2995 DDO PointsGreat idea dude.
>>2265352>>2265616Always do the party favours quest at +5 the highest player level and make sure you kill all the devs. That's what determines your favour rewards.
i dont get how gearing works. i'm following that blight caster guide. how do i know what equipment is good for me?
>>2279692Wisdom, Constitution, anything that gives HP (False Life, Vitality, Profane Life), Fortification, Spell Power+Insightful Spell Power+Spell Crit for your most used spells (Impulse/Force for Thorns, Corrosion for Acid), Healing Amp, PRRFusible Sceptre of Impulse is THE level 12 weapon (or of Corrosion if Acid)
>>2280110does it matter what kind of equipment i use?like sword or axe or w/e? or are stats more important? what about armor? light, medium, heavy?
>>2279692Keep in mind most IDENTICAL mods doesn't stack. If you have +4 Enhancement bonus to INT and +5 Enhancement bonus to INT, only the +5 applies. If the +4 had been Insight bonus instead of Enhancement, they'd stack.That's why most affixes has 5+ different versions (enhance, insight, profane, artifact, sacred, etc.), and yes it's a fucking retarded system in dire need of an overhaul.
>>2280127If you're Hive form Druid, you don't want Medium or Heavy armor or any shield other than a Buckler or Small shield because you don't want to turn off your Evasion. Even for Thorn form, you're likely going to mostly be using light armor because of the no metal restrictions, unless you find a good Hide armor.For weapons, their type only matters if you actually intend to swing them, which Blightcasters shouldn't be doing except to finish off a 1 health enemy. Generally dual wielding scepters is best, since it lets you maximize damage on 2 elements but sometimes a two handed quarterstaff is worth using.
Is there any benefit in playing multiple accounts at once?
>>2278003This coupon code doesn't give you shit. It just gives you all the stuff a VIP gets for $15 dollars. You still gotta pay $500 dollars (yes really) to get all the expansion content, where 100% of all relevant/good gear is contained.
>>2281181I know you're just shitposting, but for anyone that believes this, this is false information.The free quest coupon gives you all adventure packs except the expansions. Every single expansion will cost you 23,463 DDO points. Or roughly $230USD. But you get DDO points by doing the dungeons and completing them so you can earn 4,845 DDO points. So now it costs 18,618 DDO points for the expansions if you complete every single dungeon in the game.Also they usually select two expansions and reduce the price to 99 DDO points. Let's assume it's the cheapest expansions they give a sale to, which costs 1,999 DDO points for each one. If you wait for the 99 DDO sale then it would now only cost 14,818 DDO points for all expansions.And they have double DDO point purchases regularly, like right now. They usually happen during a summer sale, Black Friday, the holidays and the anniversary. You can buy 15,750 DDO points for $99USD.So no, it does not cost $500 if you want to buy everything. At most it costs you $230USD if you don't wait for sales and buy DDO points outside the double DDO points event. Or $99USD if you are patient and play the game.Or if you wait for the sale and event but don't want to do every single dungeon in the game then it costs around ~145$USD.Or if you only wait for the double DDO points event and don't want to do the dungeons then it costs around ~$160USD.This game is expensive, but it's not $500 expensive. It can reach that and more, but that's only if you buy a lot of QoL purchases which usually isn't worth it.
I started a few days ago. I skipped the Korthos quest line because I did it years ago and I wanted to do the anniversary stuff as soon as possible. I took the 200k exp as my reward for the token. It got me to level 7. Now what should I do to get the most out of the anniversary event?
>>2277233>talk to Fredwait, is that the guy that we can take out on a date?
>>2281392Grind the 10 year anniversary quest for the teleport clicky, its good QOL and probably the best non-token thing the anniversary offers.https://ddowiki.com/page/Item:Commemorative_Stormreach_D12
>>2281313>Also they usually select two expansions and reduce the price to 99 DDO pointsI've been playing since a bit before /v/ started, and I've yet to see that. I see adventure packs for 99 regularly (there's 5 of them on sale right now) but not expansions.>>2281392>what should I do to get the most out of the anniversary event?Restart as a 32 pts lvl 4 and get the quiver, then grind the anniversary quests for xp. Even with ransack they're still stupidly good xp.The xp is the single most retarded thing you can pick, because you get xp simply by playing the game. Everything else is raid drops that requires a group and that rngsus smiles on you.
>>2282631>I've been playing since a bit before /v/ started, and I've yet to see that. I see adventure packs for 99 regularly (there's 5 of them on sale right now) but not expansions.They've done it for the last 4 years for the anniversary event. Most likely they'll do it later. I know they reduced Mist of Ravenloft and Sharn expansion for 99 DDO points last year and the year before that. I know because I bought MoR 2 years ago and Sharn last year for 99 DDO points.
>>2282631>but not expansions.As the other anon mentioned it's happened at least twice. I got Menace, Shadowfell, Sharn, Ravenloft and Feywild for 99 points each.
>>2282631>Restart as a 32 pts lvl 4 and get the quiverI have a quiver. Made a new character and just transferred it to my shared bank.>The xp is the single most retarded thing you can pick, because you get xp simply by playing the game.Everything else is level 20+ or some shit. Even if I pick something I can't use it which is why I'm sticking to my 200k exp.
Okay, I got my anniversary teleporter. Now what? I tried farming the Time Flies dungeon on Epic as a solo and I die a lot. Usually it's because I'm knocked down or feared or stunned then I they just hit me while I can't do anything. I only farmed up some gear there but I stopped. I got to level 9.Should I start farming better equipment? Where should I go? I have most of the expansions, except the last 3.
>>2284338>lvl 9>epicIf Brawnpits is kicking your ass, then try Hard instead and look at what xp/time ratio you get. And remember you don't have to kill the adds, just click the portal the moment he dies. Also take a look at the blue weapons/armor for timeline shit. There's a better version available every 4-5 lvls.
>>2284402It's multiple of them.For example, the one where I have to kill the three starting heroes, I get Feared and die.The one with the fire and wind genies. The boss turns into a tornado and runs into me and I get knocked down and die.The big ogre thing, I can't kill the boss fast enough and the tornadoes reach me, get knocked down and die.The big robot thing with the minotaurs knock me down and I die.
>>2284430One cloak from timeline gives fear immune. The pyschic ward from the bling hat should also give fear immunity. The tophat gives freedom of movement, but I'm not sure that works against the tornada knockdown.Ignore the robot. Talk to the dog and follow it. It will take you to the guy you actually need to kill. The only thing you get out of "doing it better" is some dialogue. If you spare the dragon in the dragon/mindflayer quest, you get some extra dialogue from the dragonlich in the time hub. I imagine it's the same for the other quests.
>>2284338When I was grinding out Time Flies I'd jump up 4 levels and do it on normal as opposed to elite at level, made for sub 3 minute runs so long as I didn't run into the Marilith. No clue how it affects xp though. As for gear it depends on your class, but you can grab the Mists of Ravenloft weapon now for level 10 from Tobar the Smith after the intro quest, they're always a pretty big game changer.
Which is more solo friendly, DDO or LOTRO?
>>2286018I think both are on par with each other and can be soloed as long as you're not creeping into the hardest difficulties. I haven't played LOTRO in over a decade admittedly but when I did I was mostly solo. As for DDO, if you follow the level suggestion for the dungeons generally speaking it's a cakewalk solo or with a hireling, so long as you don't do Reaper. Elite in some cases can be tough but normal and hard at level is stupidly easy.
>>2287090What if I want to do at least R1? Doable? Which classes?
>>2287861You're certainly not going to have an easy time soloing R1 as a first life noob with no knowledge of the dungeons. For one, reaper opens up an entire separate group of enhancement trees that only work in reaper but change the difficulty substantially depending on how many points you have, and the only way to get points is to run reaper dungeons. A lot. Mostly in parties for maximum gains. And reaper is capped within 3 levels, so you can't go back and do them at any level like elite. Second, your gear is going to be dogshit. Third, every single trap is probably going to one shot you. And fourth, death means you have to restart the dungeon from the beginning (unless you're in later levels with a rez hireling), and a lot of these dungeons are long as fuck.If you're still interested, look up pretty much any hardcore builds, those are all first lives with survivability in mind. Also should be noted if you're f2p you're gonna have to play the dungeon twice before reaper even unlocks, once on normal and once on hard.
Feels like I'm the only one playing this game in this thread.Anyways, is it better to 'bank' my levels when I'm going through lower level quests? I'm going through the Island of Dread quests and I just got enough exp to get to level 11. I still need to do the Normal, Hard and Elite for 8 more quests. Should I just stay at level 10 for now and at least not lose out on the exp? Is there a reason not to do this other than going through the dungeon quicker? I can kill enemies in 1-3 hits already as a Blightcaster already.
>>2290073Banking levels used to be really important back when there were less quests and levelling was harder.Currently the only level anyone really banks is 19; it's better to stay at 18 and run Sharn 2 and maybe the odd Vale/Wheloon/Grip quests to get enough exp to hit 20 than it is to take 19 and be stuck running dreck like Druid's Deep and Soul Splitter.The biggest reason to not go and level up is so you don't have to waste time running to a trainer just to run back out into the wilderness for the next quest.
Best +5 ability tome? Most likely gonna get 5k favor this life and I'm not sure which to choose, I already have +2 tomes on everything.
>>2290999Checked. STR so you can carry that weight. Then make a muscle wizard.
>>2291027Is muscle wizard an actual thing? I only know STR is good for builds that require THF.
>>2290999CON is most universally useful.INT is also valuable, because it affects your skill points when you level up.DEX has the most amount of feats governed by it, so if you want to make a ranged fighter, a two weapon fighter, or qualify for Precision/Dodge you can lean on your DEX tome to help with the feat prerequisites.WIS and CHA are the most niche of the stats, only really useful for classes who depend on them for spellcasting or specific class features.
Getting tired of playing spell casters. What're some melee classes that I can just unga bunga? Preferably something that's as defensive as a Blightcaster. If it's just as strong then great but I don't mind playing something weaker. I just want to swing a large weapon and cleave a bunch of enemies. I just want to hold my forward key and my left mouse button to swong my weapon through dungeons.
>>2291228Melee pala in the googledoc upthread is pretty much that.
>>2291313>as long as you bring a healer hireling you should be goodwhat if I don't want to bring one?
>>2291057Thanks. I still have 1.4k favor to go so I still have some time to think about it, I'll probably end up doing CON. Still seething a little bit that they didn't put supreme learning tomes +8 on sale last black friday, I was saving up for that shit and it never came. Oh well.>>2291714Those Strimtom builds are made specifically for first life newbies; the two-handed weapon build he provides doesn't even have healing as a skill. I'm guessing he suggests healing hirelings because of that, plus Paladins don't have great saves vs traps. That build -does- have UMD though so healing potions and scrolls could replace the hireling, although I'm not sure why you're so against using one. I used that build last life and absolutely loathed it until it got online at level 12 with Holy Retribution, which was really cool, but leading up to that was an absolute slog. Falcion or GS bear druid might be a good alternative, or a straight up Barbarian. Maybe Fighter Dragonlord, which is strong as fuck currently even on first lives, but is less "run forward and hold left click" and more "aoe stun + massive damage holding left click after."
>>2291228Most fun I ever had was with a paladin using a dynastic falcata as a charisma pureSingle weapon fighting goes brrt when enhancements provide the cleaves. Exalted smite and Holy retribution wipe the floor with most threats.
>>2291776>>2292032okay fine, i'll make one. reason i don't like hirelings is that i don't know how to use one. they just die in one hit. the healing ones are okay, but they have low SP because they're like level 3 and im doing a level 12 dungeon. the ones that disables traps are also shit for the same reason.
>>2291776>doesn't even have healing as a skillWhy would it, when you have hireling, cure moderate, cure serious, heal from smite and 8 lay on hands charges? I'm 26 on that build right now, and I've practically never used any of the cure spells.
>>2292053Are you using the permanent gold seal hirelings instead of the platinum-bought vendor ones?
>>2292053>they're like level 3 and im doing a level 12 dungeonwatYou do know you're supposed to discard the old ones and buy new level appropriate ones when you level... right?As for usage, the buttons are fairly self explanatory.Agressive means it'll heal you and attack whatever it sees. Defensive means it'll heal you and attack whatever attacks you. Passive means it'll do nothing unless told to. Unfortunately there isn't a "heal-only" mode, which makes favored soul healers fucking shit because they WILL go into the boss cleave despite explicitly being told to stand the fuck still in a specified spot outside cleave range. You can set them on passive to force standing still, but then you have to manually heal yourself with the hirelings spells, which defeats the entire automation purpose of using a hireling in the first place.
>>2292378>>2292389im using the ones from the starter pack. i didnt even know you can use platinum to buy them
>>2292394... Okay that makes sense. Best place to pick them up is in Stormreach Marketplace since they have them for every level past 4. You won't be able to get rogues until epics and unlike the gold seal ones you can only summon them at the entrance of a dungeon, but they'll be a thousand times more useful than one 9 levels below you.
>>2292405didnt know there was a bunch of them. anything worth using? or do i just use anything that's a cleric?
>>2292422Whatever you think you need and is your level, really. Cleric means you can facetank pretty much everything, but a dps hire makes things die faster. They're cheap because they can only be summoned for an hour per contract, so try them out or just stick with cleric. Note that hirelings are unique and party exclusive, meaning you and your friend bob can't both whip out the lvl 20 cleric if you're in the same party.
Is the random from aug vendors limited to what he sells for shards or can it be anything from that tier?I assume it's limited, but the wiki doesn't say anything either for or against.
Finally upgraded, someone was chill enough to put the last two pieces I needed on the shard exchange for a reasonable price. Fuck the scalpers taking advantage of the increased demand and upping the price by like 200%. Now to do my second one... shieeett.
>>2292783Well shit, no wonder the normal ah is dead. I expected drops like that to be bop.
>>2292789From my experience the only time the normal auction house ISNT dead is when a 20 year vet player decides to do some charity and drops something worthwhile in there. I once saw a +8 supreme con tome for like 3.5 mil but I was like a million short and it was gone quick. Still upset about missing out on that one.I think platinum is essentially worthless, though I could be wrong.
>>2292807>I think platinum is essentially worthlessIt is, since you can only hold ~4.5 million. Any wealth beyond that has to be accumulated in shards or tradeables.
>>2292789Anon you're playing a predatory p2w cash shop game. Why would you think the p2w cash shop currency auction house isn't where everything of value is sold?
>>2292825Because you need quest drops to upgrade that quiver, and quest drops are usually bop? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
>>2292783>Gift tagoh no no no no noyou can remove the gift tag with the 5 tapestry recipe
>>2292848I just checked that and it implies it'll downgrade it back to the non-upgraded version, so I guess I fucked up. But what difference does not having the tag for the quiver?
>>2292867>differenceI'll hazard a guess and say it's either purely cosmetic to hide that you didn't "earn" it, or it makes it eligible for whatever recipe it may or may not be a part of.
>hated korthos quests>hated stormreach quests>hated saltmarsh quests>hated feywild quests>hated isle of dread quests>love mist of ravenloft questsman, i honestly felt like i was slogging through the dungeons. i hated the atmosphere, the story and pretty much everything else.but then i tried MoR and i loved it. even the intro quest was nice. i love the whole spooky theme. even the first quest was nice, the first time i really got invested in the atmosphere, and story of the dungeon. kinda wish it was like that the whole game. but too bad it isn't. i think i'll take a break now. i got to level 13 and i kinda got burnt out doing dungeons i hated. not to mention i had to run it 3 times to finish elite because no VIP.
>>2292910I'd assume the same, especially since the mats required are basically freebies if you actually grind the chests and quests in Orchard. They drop in pretty much every chest.I just can't see someone feeding the quiver for any reason, or making it into an augment when it's the best slot possible already. Guess I'll have to live with the tag, which I don't care honestly, half of my stored gear still has the feywild event tags on them.>>2292918Hate to break it to you but Mists is their greatest expansion and it's not even close, so it's all downhill after that (subjectively). Menace of the Underdark is pretty good too but Mists beats it.I'm really fond of Sharn but people have mixed reactions towards it, if you don't like Noir you might not like it. But it feels like it was the last expansion to truly try something new, everything since has been a bit lazy.Definitely feel your pain regarding be locked behind normal difficulty -- it was the sole reason I never committed to this game, despite my account being from 2009. I didn't even get to level 20 until 2024. Once I got two HRs under my belt though the game became very enjoyable.
>>2292941Not as old, but yeah. I can't even get to 20 for my first reincarnation before burning out. Then trying the game later in a few years, then burning out again.It doesn't help that I'm not a big D&D fan so I don't know shit. Like, what the fuck is DC? AC? The fuck is the difference between Enhancement bonuses and Alchemical bonuses and Artifact bonuses? I don't know shit about this game so I can't really get invested in it.MoR has been a real treat for me as I've been looking for a more horror setting MMO, kinda like Requiem: Memento Mori MMO. Maybe I'll just continue playing LoTRO, but I have different problems on that, mainly the lag.
>>2292970>MoR has been a real treat for me as I've been looking for a more horror setting MMOOnly one I can think of is Secret World, but apparently it's a much different game now than when I played. Still maintains the same quests and aesthetic though, just the gameplay changed I guess? All the negative reviews are from old players who miss the old gameplay, but from what I remember the setting was top notch. Maybe check that out if you havent already.
>>2292970If you're willing to put in a little effort and follow a guide, you can get to 3rd life with ~2 days /played. Then you can skip normal/hard difficulty. Just sayian'.The second heart of wood might be a bit of a cockblock though, since I doubt you get a new free +0 when you reincarnate.
>>2293010Or he can also just be a jobber like I was and let pugs carry him through Reaper 1, then immediately heroic reincarnate once he gets enough tokens. >The second heart of wood might be a bit of a cockblock though, since I doubt you get a new free +0 when you reincarnate.Wtf do you mean by this
>>2293050You need a heart of wood to reincarnate, no? You get a free shit one when you start first life. I'd be surprised if you get a new shit one when you reincarnate.
>>2293058The lesser heart of wood has nothing to do with the heroic one. All the lesser one does is allow for a respec, it doesn't give you a heroic reincarnation.
Someone explain why slayer is a thing and why the reward is so god damn shit.Why would anyone grind out 5-15k kills for xp you could get by doing a few dungeons on elite instead.
>>2294288Soloing wilderness slayers is pointless and the sign of a true psychopath, and heroics aren't worth the time, but doing slayers at epic levels in a party is the quickest way to level from 20-30. Especially if you have a slayer potion.The kills count for everyone and they recently changed it so the enemies respawn, negating an old issue where you'd have to reset every so often. You can easily get 1-2 levels per decent wilderness area after capping kills, which is extremely fast to achieve if you have a slayer potion. And still worth doing even if you don't, though maybe not to the cap (I usually quit around 3.5k kills if I don't have a potion)
>>2294288You can do legendary level slayers in low epics, so shit like cogs and Barovia both give tremendous amounts of exp when doing epic levelling. Also the minimum group size is 4 people as that gets the max pop size density. With 4 people and a slayer potion you can hit that 7500 kill count in less than 2 hours and that's a lot of fucking experience for less than 2 hours of work.
>TFW running Magus of the eclipse on an arcane trickster because TIME STOP blows everything else out of the water.
>>2294725>he plays legendary levels
How long are "Very Long" quests exactly? Am I expected to sit there for 2-3 hours in a dungeon or something?
>>2294951Only the raid ones. Even going in blind I can't think of many that have taken me over an hour, and even those were not much over an hour and were purely because of my stupidity (getting lost, not understanding a puzzle, etc).
How the hell do people get 7k favor? I have all the content except Chill and I'm already struggling.
>>2296651literally do quests on epic
>>2296743Thanks, I had no idea.
>>2296651>1: Do raids.48 for Twilight Forge+Titan Awakes42 for Codex and the Shroud, Vault of Night+Plane of Night36 for LegVision of Destruction, Relentless, LegHound of Xoriat33 for Den of Vipers, Killing Time, LegTempest Spine, Shroud30 for Skeletons in the Closet, LegChrono, Hunt or Be Hunted, Dryad and the Demigod, LegLord of Blades, Project Nemesis, Too Hot To Handle, Curse of Strahd, Riding the Storm Out27 for Threats Old and New, Fire Over Morgrave, LegMaster Artificer, Baba's Hut, Mark of Death, Temple of the Deathwyrm, Defiler of the Just, Fire on Thunder Peak, Hound of Xoriat, Vision of Destruction24 for Fall of Truth, Caught in the Web, Tower of Despair21 for Lord of Blades, Master Artificer, Ascension Chamber18 for Reaver's Fate12 for Zawabi's RevengeThat is 1077 total. You probably already have some of the easier ones, like VoN5+6, Zawabi's Revenge, Reaver's Fate but likely 900~1000 missing favor from the rest.>2: Do challengesThere's 158 favor for fully completing every challenge (Short Cuts is bugged, otherwise you could get 162)>3: Do the level 34 free to play quests in SharnAnother 108 favor for them, and they have no heroic version so you're unlikely to have done them alreadyOther than that, just click Progress to sort by progress, then do every quest on elite that isn't already marked elite.
>>2296947Appreciate the breakdown, didn't realize how substantial of a chunk raids were and I had no idea that challenges gave favor as well. I don't think I'll do legendary though, the Illithid Invasion quests are tempting but my goal is to just hit 30 with 5k favor and then TR. It just feels like such a slog and I'm itching to start a new class in heroics, I can't see myself grinding favor to 7.5k.
>>2296998it is a massive slogaccording to the wiki, there's 8661 possible favor so if you want the +8 tome you either have to do some raids, or do literally every single quest plus some challenges.I tried counting up favor and I think there was 15 favor that the wiki says exists but I couldn't find, whether it's a quest that's just not in my journal yet or what
>>2297089Wonder if its this quest, which still exists on the map but is no longer playable and isn't in the adventure compendium: https://ddowiki.com/page/Memoirs_of_an_Illusory_Larcener
>>2292918>>2292941welp, that certainly doesn't make me want to continue leveling
Why are DDO players like this?
>>2292970Based Requiem enjoyer. I really liked that setting when we had a run-in with the game.
>>2296947>is buggedThis is annoyingly common. I've run in to bugs that have been around for years or decades even. I had to reset the Brawnpits zone like 20 times because the questline is bugged and can only be done if Brawnpits spawns in ONE(1) of several random locations. Do they never bother fixing shit?It feels like they just push out updates and if something turns out to be broken then it's just tough shit.
>>2301582>the questline is bugged and can only be done if Brawnpits spawns in ONE(1) of several random locationsthat was fixed
>>2302085Sure as shit wasn't fixed when I did it ~2 months ago.
I want to make an Inquisitive but the fact that it gels with pretty much every class gives me hardcore choice paralysis, plus I have no idea how it the tree actually works because I'm stupid.
just play lotro
>>2292450pls respond
>elite a legend revisited to ransack 3 times with djinn buff>zero jibbersreeeeHow rare is that fucking thing.
>>2304603Are you talking about the collectable turn in ones? It's limited to what they offer for shards. >>2305252>3 weeks and no jibbers... Grim. It's pretty rare for sure but nobody has an exact number, your best bet is to try and grind it out in a party and ask people for help. Maybe I'm extremely lucky but I got it on my third run and then immediately had it drop for me again on my next life while in a party, and I let someone else have it.
>>2305409>limitedAs expected. Good. I could easily see it being random just to jew us into buying shards.
>what goes up quest>straightforward, not too easy, not too hard, not incredibly long either>cool dungeon concept>5 barigilion xp reward>hardest OST in the gameIs this the best quest in DDO? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lp5jHxQfWaQ
>>2306469It was amazing I wish I had done it with the Guild at the time instead of soloing it.One of the very VERY few missions I enjoyed doing even on normals.
Sorry to the anon that I told in-game that I'll possibly be logging in to play last week. I got kinda busy IRL and I'm struggling to squeeze in Wakfu into my schedule - maybe next week.
