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
