Why I play Dungeons and Dragons Online

[silverdraggie]

Ya know when the lag clears up on Thelanis we need another ladies night in Tempest or Velah...NAKID RUN!!! =)

I thought there was a ladies night this weekend actually. At least that is what my wife told me. I think it was a shroud run though. Not certain.

 

[lerincho]

be sure if you are trying this game after reading these that you join each servers help channel.

argonnessan is help
simply type /joinchannel help
then to ask anything /1

 

[epaulet]

Errr... well, I downloaded the client but I haven't gotten to installing/playing yet because I'm busy this week. But no, I'm not a DDO player (yet?). Why would you say that? Because I read the forums for a game I am looking into?

No, I am a LOTRO player. Lerotho of the Elendilmir server.

EDIT: I can look past the no respec thing if everyone says it's not as bad as I think it will be. Now what's bugging me is the general consensus of useless casters...

Real life takes precedence. Most of us understand and respect this.

As for useless casters???? Ok, epaulet, personal opinion here but... I think it is time to stop listening to a MINOR vocal group of screamers that aren't getting it their way and try out the game yourself to come to your own conclusions.

I've played wizards and sorcs. Neither were anywhere close to useless. Quite contrary, they were highly effective. On the days I was bored and needed to get some plat, I'd grab a caster and start a killing spree for loot. I didn't grab a fighter, I didn't grab a cleric, a bard, barbarian, rogue.. I grabbed an arcane caster.

Now, those statements may be coming from the fact that current end cap stuff has great saves if not evasion, elemental resistances, and at times spell resistance. All of these things combined equals to that of a caster nightmare. So of course people are going to consider casters being "useless". Those opinions are short sighted in my opinion.

I'm still going to try it. It does worry me though. I can't think of a single time where I checked the forums before selecting a game to play, played it, and found the "vocal minority" to be wrong. Most recently was LOTRO (which I started in November). I was choosing between Burglar and Minstrel and honestly, it looked like Burglars were just the most unhappy people around who said they never got invited. Well i said sure, everyone thinks their class got the shaft and didn't pay attention, and I ended up choosing Minstrel.

Here I am, level 60, and Burglar is easily the least sought after class even after being buffed recently. The same happened in WoW and the same happened in FFXI, etc. Granted balances shift and change and they'll never be perfect, but the "vocal minority" has proven to be a good indicator of what is going on in the game. Most people don't care so much about imbalance because they are more casual so I actually ignore the majority for the most part. Not to be rude to any casual players (I'm fairly casual myself) but generally they don't know too much about a class than what the intended function is. They rarely know if they adequately fulfill that function.

 

[lerincho]

epaulet:

if you try DDO let me know, especially if on the argonnessan server.

 

[doctorwhofan]

i'm hurt DoctorWho, I make reference to your sanctuary and no comment .

Where? I see no such praise for me!!

FYI I still want "Goddess of Tempest's Spine" as a forum title on the DDO forums.

 

[doctorwhofan]

Ya know when the lag clears up on Thelanis we need another ladies night in Tempest or Velah...NAKID RUN!!! =)

I thought there was a ladies night this weekend actually. At least that is what my wife told me. I think it was a shroud run though. Not certain.

I'm running it, we have two spots left. Saterday 8 PM EST.

 

[lerincho]

Doct, my post was 77, page 3. *sigh* even my own guild doesn't read me on our own forums

 

[dirte]

epaulet:

if you try DDO let me know, especially if on the argonnessan server.

or me ill be happy to help .most my toons on arggo have "dirte" in name.Hmm, "hate too say it but endgame content is leaps and bounds beond the lower lv stuff. gl and good hunting.

Group for Buffs!

 

[lerincho]

now if only they had favor system that you could create character starting at 8th. oh what i would pay to see that. absolutely willing to help new people with lowbie content, but lord help me I am tired of running it for myself.

 

[Ddorules22]

is anyone having trouble getting on ddo for some reason i can't connect to the game or the forum?

*edit* of course the second i post this i can get on

 

[Flying-Emu]

Just started this morning, rolled a halfling rogue named Reonin Longbarrel on Thybas. Great game. The dungeons are probably the most entertaining thing I've done in an online game in years.

 

[ntomlin63]

Just started this morning, rolled a halfling rogue named Reonin Longbarrel on Thybas. Great game. The dungeons are probably the most entertaining thing I've done in an online game in years.

Welcome to DDO, I hope its the start of a long, happy and satisfying relationship

 

[doctorwhofan]

now if only they had favor system that you could create character starting at 8th. oh what i would pay to see that. absolutely willing to help new people with lowbie content, but lord help me I am tired of running it for myself.

That was Tabula Rasa's downfall. No need to replay the game. My hubby played it. It was fun he said, but he just cloned people at the level he was so if me made a mistake (in speccing), he can use the clone from a few levels back and continue. He never returned to the early levels.

 

[ghirmeshk]

Just started this morning, rolled a halfling rogue named Reonin Longbarrel on Thybas. Great game. The dungeons are probably the most entertaining thing I've done in an online game in years.

Welcome to DDO, I hope its the start of a long, happy and satisfying relationship

I second that. May the loot gods smile on you.

 

[doctorwhofan]

Hi, I'm Lerincho, and I am a recovering DDO-aholic. I play because there are so many exciting ways that you can kill your party members.... I mean, ways to complete quests. Having the halfling goddess Scarlett in 3 Barrel Cove doesn't hurt at all either.

Me, personally, never was a hack and slasher from PnP. I valued having to use the mind, to find new ways to do something, work with party members, and deceive monsters to obtain goals. So when people are in group with me and they ask me to suggest quest, my list doesn't consist of the "loot runs" or all raids; instead people get subjected to Coalescence Chamber, The Pit, Twilight Forge, Shroud, and Prove Your Worth.

Did I mention the great aspect of getting part members and guildies killed? I mean to help them get flagged or something. Using grease where everyone buffs just before charging Velah, grease on the sides of Tempest Spine (though I hate the quest, and those people deserved it for the 3 hours of begging me to help them with it), before the change the mini-beholders and grown men yelling how cute they were, seeing Velah for the first time, and completion of Shroud the first time without bankrupting the clerics.

Basically I play DDO because of the people that play this game, and add to it's collective greatness I came to DDO 4 years ago, because of the D&D logo, OFFICIALLY, not wanna-be, was being placed on this game. While I do not agree with all ruleset 3.5, the setting of Stormreach, or the exclusion of some of the absolute core within D&D as set forth by EGG in the 1970s, I will be one of the last people to ever log out of the game after even the roachs have died off.

Bad BAD!! never grease the sides of Tempest's Spine! The Goddess hates grease!

 

[ntomlin63]

Hi, I'm Lerincho, and I am a recovering DDO-aholic. I play because there are so many exciting ways that you can kill your party members.... I mean, ways to complete quests. Having the halfling goddess Scarlett in 3 Barrel Cove doesn't hurt at all either.

Me, personally, never was a hack and slasher from PnP. I valued having to use the mind, to find new ways to do something, work with party members, and deceive monsters to obtain goals. So when people are in group with me and they ask me to suggest quest, my list doesn't consist of the "loot runs" or all raids; instead people get subjected to Coalescence Chamber, The Pit, Twilight Forge, Shroud, and Prove Your Worth.

Did I mention the great aspect of getting part members and guildies killed? I mean to help them get flagged or something. Using grease where everyone buffs just before charging Velah, grease on the sides of Tempest Spine (though I hate the quest, and those people deserved it for the 3 hours of begging me to help them with it), before the change the mini-beholders and grown men yelling how cute they were, seeing Velah for the first time, and completion of Shroud the first time without bankrupting the clerics.

Basically I play DDO because of the people that play this game, and add to it's collective greatness I came to DDO 4 years ago, because of the D&D logo, OFFICIALLY, not wanna-be, was being placed on this game. While I do not agree with all ruleset 3.5, the setting of Stormreach, or the exclusion of some of the absolute core within D&D as set forth by EGG in the 1970s, I will be one of the last people to ever log out of the game after even the roachs have died off.

Bad BAD!! never grease the sides of Tempest's Spine! The Goddess hates grease!

Could be worse, could be using grease in Coalescence Chamber just for the fun of it....

 

[ghirmeshk]

Hi, I'm Lerincho, and I am a recovering DDO-aholic. I play because there are so many exciting ways that you can kill your party members.... I mean, ways to complete quests. Having the halfling goddess Scarlett in 3 Barrel Cove doesn't hurt at all either.

Me, personally, never was a hack and slasher from PnP. I valued having to use the mind, to find new ways to do something, work with party members, and deceive monsters to obtain goals. So when people are in group with me and they ask me to suggest quest, my list doesn't consist of the "loot runs" or all raids; instead people get subjected to Coalescence Chamber, The Pit, Twilight Forge, Shroud, and Prove Your Worth.

Did I mention the great aspect of getting part members and guildies killed? I mean to help them get flagged or something. Using grease where everyone buffs just before charging Velah, grease on the sides of Tempest Spine (though I hate the quest, and those people deserved it for the 3 hours of begging me to help them with it), before the change the mini-beholders and grown men yelling how cute they were, seeing Velah for the first time, and completion of Shroud the first time without bankrupting the clerics.

Basically I play DDO because of the people that play this game, and add to it's collective greatness I came to DDO 4 years ago, because of the D&D logo, OFFICIALLY, not wanna-be, was being placed on this game. While I do not agree with all ruleset 3.5, the setting of Stormreach, or the exclusion of some of the absolute core within D&D as set forth by EGG in the 1970s, I will be one of the last people to ever log out of the game after even the roachs have died off.

Bad BAD!! never grease the sides of Tempest's Spine! The Goddess hates grease!

Could be worse, could be using grease in Coalescence Chamber just for the fun of it....

That would be dizzying . . .

 

[dirte]

DDO is DnD game played online. if you like DnD you'll like DDO. i cant say it any more simple. its loosely based on 3.5 rules.char build its key,as well as working with your party.it covers all play types, from healer to pvp(solo if char is built to). Gear makes a diff depending on what you try to be.really, just find a spot you would like to fill and do best, its all we ask of are partys.you can always make a 2nd toon.gl and hope to see ya on DDO : }
Group for Buffs!

 

[thoraxe5000]

should i become a dwarven lumberjack?

 

[ntomlin63]

OH A thought occurs, if you are going to go and give DDO a try I heartily suggest investing at least a few skill points in the JUMP skill. It is amazing how many quests exist in which being able to jump well plays a fairly important role. My paladin Gaspar had no such knowledge nor advice and is terribly inadequate at jumping. Every character since then i always max out on jump which may be overkill actually but I am not taking any chances.