Dungeons and Dragons Online - Fair Codexia Dead - DDO NEWs Thread!

[roll-a-die]

Borderlands fully explored with all Rare's gotten. And I'm done doing all the quests on hard. I've hit Rank 19. Time to move on I think, and maybe level up to 4...

EDIT: Looks like next destination is 3 Barrel Cove

 

[infidel]

From researching, I'm guessing Sharn would be the best one to buy currently? At $40 is it worth it?

It's cool and has a noir fantasy detective vibe, too. But as a perennial cheapskate I'd recommend to wait for Black Friday sales before buying. Looks like Sharn and Ravenloft are usually 50% off on that. And we could see Feywild at 50% off too for the first time (?). Level-wise Sharn is 15-16. If you intend to 100% all the content and take it slow, then perhaps it's gonna be right for your char in 2 months.

 

[roll-a-die]

From researching, I'm guessing Sharn would be the best one to buy currently? At $40 is it worth it?

It's cool and has a noir fantasy detective vibe, too. But as a perennial cheapskate I'd recommend to wait for Black Friday sales before buying. Looks like Sharn and Ravenloft are usually 50% off on that. And we could see Feywild at 50% off too for the first time (?). Level-wise Sharn is 15-16. If you intend to 100% all the content and take it slow, then perhaps it's gonna be right for your char in 2 months.

Good advice, but if I buy one now, I can also justify another on black friday...

 

[Reinhardt]

Sharn is bought for equip. Sharn sets are gud. Lvl 5 - feywild set, lvl 10 - ravenloft set, lvl 15 - sharn set. That's how reincarnation wheel usually go in this gaem equip wise. Many will stay in heroic sharn up until epic sharn at 29 changing only weapons.

Also don't skip other content moving from pack to pack. Do lvl 2 harbor quests before moving to 3barrel - they are fast and easy exp. Also you will kill hundreds of kobolds. Information is the key and Kobold new ringleader are highlights.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Sharn quests are decent, not as good as Ravenloft. But there's a lot more of them if you include the wilderness area + wilderness area quests + regular sharn quests + post-sharn quests as 'Sharn', I assume they all come together?

 

[Zurat-Yarkuch]

So of the expacks, I have Underdark, Ravenloft, Shadowfell, and am looking in the next few weeks to purchase another one, just because I enjoy knowing I have the content to complete.

From researching, I'm guessing Sharn would be the best one to buy currently? At $40 is it worth it? Or should I wait for it to go on sale/be in the DDO store as just the adventures for less?

Black Friday is coming up. They should have the sharn expansion on a discount during that time, so I would wait until then. You have plenty of content now to keep you busy.

 

[Reinhardt]

I don't know what they did but game is almost unplayable for me after mimic event started. It was always laggy, but now every ~20 seconds my character freezes in place, or got teleported back to where i was few seconds ago, or freezes and THEN teleported back. Enemies teleporting around. Hits don't register. Mercs were dumb already as they were but now poor things just break from time to time and just run near you doing nothing.

 

[infidel]

So, I started my journey as dwarven swashbuckler bard, Ruckke Headbanger. Invite to guild plz.

P.S. I even forgot you can start at level 1, 4 or 7

 

[Reinhardt]

I can't send you mail invite because i'm few millions gold over my limit and so can't pay for mail... That's how dis gaem works...

Try to whisper to Hempereh when you will be in game. I'm online pretty often.

 

[Reinhardt]

Wait, i can probably make my bank character officer(yay, nepotism!) and send invite from it. Yeah, i'm still new to all this "kang" shieeeet.

 

[Reinhardt]

every ~20 seconds my character freezes in place, or got teleported back to where i was few seconds ago, or freezes and THEN teleported back.

Spies in da house is simply imposible to complete for me right now. Skipping it this life.

 

[infidel]

And Codexia is now three or maybe even four stronk.

It was always laggy, but now every ~20 seconds my character freezes in place

Didn't happen to me in the Tangleroot or sewers, was fine when I played yesterday.

 

[Zurat-Yarkuch]

Spies in da house is simply imposible to complete for me right now. Skipping it this life.

Me and my friend were doing it on epic last week and it was a nightmare trying to get up to the pipes at the start of the electric floor part. Game kept on clipping when we stepped on the air vents to shoot up and we missed the pipes. Had to try over 10 times before we finally got on those stupid pipes. They need to put a ladder at that specific section cause it always seems buggy with that jump.

Haven't played with the mimic hunt going on yet, but fingers crossed the lag won't be too bad for me.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Once you get it down you can complete Spies in the House on any difficulty in a few minutes.

 

[Reinhardt]

Once you get it down you can complete Spies in the House on any difficulty in a few minutes.

I KNOW the sequence. It doesn't matter tho because of lags. Was doing small problem yesterday, part where you jump down after sky altar. Me - jump with feather fall to brownpits camp, gaem - nah, you don't, how about you are standing directly below altar and now must run all the way to camp?
It's really bad for me now. Me - press action boost, jump from behind the corner, pew-pew mage, start pew-pew archers. Gaem - ac-ti-va-te-bo-ost... sorry what was next? oh, btw boost ended.

 

[Reinhardt]

Just went and did heroic spies in da house after all. I am not gay but 30k exp is 30k exp.

 

[infidel]

I've missed the Gatekeepers saga on my previous playthroughs but Rosemary's Ballad is straight up Secret World quest, your usual Kingsmouth stuff. And Greater Tome of Learning is indeed very nice, esp if you get it for 7$ like I did (I had 1k points, only need 600 more)

 

[Reinhardt]

Codexia many stronk! We even did raiding yesterday. Well, it was just chronoscope so it's something i usually solo but this time we did it as a guild! Sort of...
Maybe now we can try some easy raids that require more than one person to run.

 

[infidel]

I can confirm that we totally did and I didn't die even once being level 6, which is a success in my book song . I even got these noice goggles:

Spoiler

According to wiki, we've got three raids on 10, Tempest's Spine, Vault of Night and Plane of Night. The first one is f2p and even has no timer! So from the cursory glance for tempest we would need fire res, deathblock, and it's gonna be a pain to kill 2 bosses, they have ot die within 30 seconds between. You think we can do it? It sounds like a good source of gear.

Vault of Night, though, may not be possible: "You will also need at least two persons with a strength of 25 for some levers and two persons with at least a wisdom of 20. Without these required stats, you will not be able to complete this raid."

 

[Reinhardt]

So i just died to ship explosion in Blockade Buster. There was one small problem though - i was on another ship.

 

[infidel]

Ok, I've 250 hours in this game and I've only just found out that: a) when you open all exploration spots in a wilderness area, it fully opens the map ; and b) major slayer pots not only give xp bonus, they also make every wilderness mob kill count as three. I've gotten around 18k xp while spending 30 min to explore Sorrowdusk Isle (which is around the same as I get from a full medium-long length quest) and it was p chill, never been there.

 

[someone else]

Is this gaem solo friendly?

 

[Reinhardt]

Is this gaem solo friendly?

Absolutely. You only need party for few quests out of hundreds, including raids. And even half of those few you can solo with pets and mercs.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Is this gaem solo friendly?

yes, but grouping up for quests is easy though because it's done automatically and the quests scale to party size
DDO is underrated

 

[Sykar]

It is imho one of the best "traditional" MMOs out there.