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I've gotten back into playing this. They have hardcore servers now that come out every few months and it really revitalizes the gameplay experience. For a bit at least. Then you get one shot by some ice flesner you forgot about with his bullshit 300 damage polar ray at level 14 and log back...

I can remember many of our interactions through the years. At least snapshots of their personality. Moments that will always stick out in my mind. The weird shit we did. Geii shouting, 'WE HAVE DO IT!" when our guild killed the AoW for the first time. The "Kinuvan tantrum flowchart." I...

I sometimes wish I could just like...get a snapshot of what all the people I used to play with are up to. What their lives are like now. How have things gone for them? All the people I used to play with back on Cazic-Thule way back when. Sharniken. Gandien. Arbok. Silwenae. Geii...

I can only imagine the clusterfuck that would have been GoD if anybody had stuck around. By the time enough people had passed those stupid overtuned Ikkinz trials or whatever to start doing raid content, all the good players had already bailed for WoW. I know Hartsman did some good for the EQ...

Actually, now that I think about it, it was early PoP. Got it mixed up because you got the fingerbone in Kurns Tower. Originally the fingerbones were like, "Withered 2" Finger" or whatever. If you linked it, it would crash the zone. I think because of the extra quotation mark in the name of...

The one and only. Not much. Life stuff. Was talking to the girlfriend about the 'good old days' of back when I used to play EQ/WoW and how much I missed hanging out with the people I used to roll with. Realized I hadn't been here ever since I quit playing DDO. Been on a nostalgia kick and...

You're not wrong. I was pretty edgy back then. It was during WoW that I started dating a woman I met on FoHguild.org, Alcestis. She was like, "Have you tried just like...being nice to everyone?" Been my creed ever since and has served me well.

- Sold my account a few times for $$$, would wait a few days then put in a ticket claiming I was hacked and get the account back. Catch and release. After the 4th time though the GM told me my account was going to be flagged and they weren't going to restore my account anymore. - Used the 2"...

There's always the 10bux option but yeah. DDO is a good game but is so mired in 2005 era gameplay mechanics (Spell reagents....yaaaaay?) that really hinder it ever recovering from the years of mediocrity. It's got that Diablo 2-esque level of replayability and I will never get sick of running...

U39 released this week. The new dungeon is pretty cool when you don't crash loading into it. You can have a falcon as a permanent unkillable dps pet now too. All 4 of us still playing DDO are ecstatic.

Update 38 is out. New stuff: - Druid rework. Wolves and Bears now get their own talent trees. Both now can get ridiculous DPS legitimately. Still suck balls to level though. - New Artificer tree focused on being a melee/healing/tanking hybrid. It's basically a shitty version of bard but...

Ravenloft is a lot of fun. The quests are gorgeous and creepy as fuck. They really nailed it I think. Easily the best Castlevania game of the last decade so I was right in that regard. Going into Castle Ravenloft and exploring every nook and cranny is an old school dungeon crawl feel that...

Ravenloft expansion is due out in a couple weeks. Two new raids, a bunch of new quests. As you would expect it has a very Castlevania feel to it. So far it's shaping up to look pretty cool. The handful of people still working at SSG are doing a pretty good job keeping the game going and the...

I wouldn't mind the 2 lane maps so much if people weren't such idiots. It's gotten to the point where I always pick the solo laner. Too many times I've figured someone else can do it, I'll pick support or whatever idgaf, then either nobody picks a good laner, or whoever picks it just flat out...

There's a line between hopeful and expectant. I'm hopeful they put out good games. I hope anyone can put out a good game. If Brad McQuaid, Uwe Boll and Curt Schilling joined forces to create a scrabble-based MMO with a movie franchise tie in and it was a good game I'd play it. Am I...

If you're looking for a challenge, DDO isn't it. I like it because it recaptures that old EQ feel, but without all the rancid queefs that play EQ now. Everybody is super chill and on our server at least we have a Chinese guild for everybody to hate. The nice thing though is that because of...

I will never forget the thread on the VG alpha forums where they were polling to see how long it should take to kill a trash mob. There was not a single poll option for under 2 minutes. For a standard, out in the wild, run of the mill, xp trash mob. I think the highest voted option was like 8...

Reaper mode is now available in response to people crying about how ezmoad the game has become. Can select from Reaper1-10 which scales a handful of things: Mob damage goes up Mob DC's go up Crowd Control doesn't last as long Player damage goes down Player self-healing goes down "Reapers"...

You can email support and they will give you a list of your packs. It's pants on head retarded that they revamped their entire store system but didn't take the opportunity to make it better in any way, shape or form. That's DDO for you though.

I'd be wary of Vault builds as well as they usually assume you have tons of greensteal mats banked or don't mind slogging through 20 levels of a shit boring class before you are even decent. Official forum builds are 9/10 of the time out of date and/or retarded. Strimtom is probably the best...

The grouping at relatively low levels isn't as terrible as it could be. Unfortunately due to a combination to a large number of low levels being people who are on their 30th+ reincarnation and bravery bonus meaning you can really only group with people 1 or 2 levels below you it's certainly not...

DDO is my guilty pleasure. After I put the boys to bed I lose a couple games of HOTS and then log onto DDO to talk about lawn care. For what it's worth next month they are introducing 'reaper' difficulty which allows you to scale dungeons (from 1 to 10) similar to D3. Traps are fun but...

Also as a reminder, if anyone is interested in playing come join us on the Sarlona server (Bathory Hordes). There's usually 20 or so people on every night in our guild. I play nightly from about 9 pm CST to 12 pm and sporadically through the day. We raid occasionally but there's no commitment...

https://www.ddo.com/forums/showthread.php/481715-Standing-Stone-Games-A-message-from-Rob-Ciccolini#post5909095 DDO and LOTRO splitting off from WB/turbine, forming new company "Standing Stone." Daybreak will be their publisher.

I keep trying to get back into TSW. it starts out pretty neat but then I hit this first or second quest hub and get a bunch of "Go out and kill 9 things and then come back for some xp lol!" and I lose interest.

I liked the coordination involved in trying to down bosses. I just could not stand trash clearing on the way to bosses. When I found the only way to make it tolerable was to alt-tab and play some StarCraft instead I knew it was time to move on. It just wasn't fair to the rest of the guild...

I haven't played since Cataclysm release but did I just read that right? WoW is basically progressquest now?

New expansion coming 'sometime in 2017' Ravenloft.

U32 is set to be released on Sept 13th. The biggest part of the update is going to be the changes to Cannith Crafting. Some things you should know about preparing for the new system: - Save your crafting essences. They're worth more in the new system towards leveling - If you use a TP store...

One of the most genius things they did was store your addon information server side too. I had a free trial week, figured I'd give it a shot, downloaded the two mods I cared to use and all my hotkeys and layouts immediately went to where I used to have it all.

I knew the team working on it was absolutely passionate about the project. I remember we were testing raiding one night, one of the devs/programmers was with us. Darph and I wouldn't stop bitching about the lack of raid targeting. Next day the game had raid targeting (it was super crude but...

Unfortunately there's no UI scaling. The best you can really do is pick a smaller resolution and run in full screen mode. Each sphere has a destiny. When you ETR you pick the sphere and destiny. So it's 9x per sphere.

My favorite part of Rift was how toxic the alpha/beta community was. They were almost as bad as the VanGuard alpha forums. I made a post criticizing the game for being a WoW clone and the first few replies were people telling me that if I didn't like the direction the game was going it I...

I had an auto-fire joystick I programmed for some NToV fights. I remember going to Burger King during at least one of the dragons and coming back to find myself still nuking away at it. I forget which one by name. It was the one where you could stand just below the edge of the ramp and you'd...

12 epics x 3, so 36 total ETR's. I'm honestly looking forward to the new Cannith Crafting now though. It's not going to be terribly new or inventive by any means, Turbine simply doesn't have the resources for it. But after testing it out some it'll be nice to create 4 or 5 items that hit all...

I've been the good uncle. Got my neices hooked on video games. Neither of them give a shit about social media. They want nothing to do with facebook, twitter, etc... But they both have twitch accounts and watch tons of ARK streamers so I'm not sure how much better that is. Hardest part was...

We have two people in our guild that have 150+ TR's. You stop getting bonuses at what... (provided you plan it right) around 100 TR's? So I think the game may feel like it has some value even after you max out PL's. What I'd really like them to do is pull the Rift system from D3 and just use...

Yeah, I played that build a little bit. Enjoyed it but I was a little too squishy for comfort in heroics. Epic levels sure, it's a great build. But I feel it's a late bloomer kinda like tree build or any build that's going to rely on shiradi to be good (IE: most thrower builds). For example...

The new hotness is 10 warlock / 10 X (except Druid) simply due to how OP they are for heroics. Once you hit legendary difficulty their mediocre single target dps makes boss killing take forever so they become kinda meh since everyone is good at trash clearing at 30. If you're on a HTR train...

They've recently said they've gotten an influx of new people working on the game now that they are done with some other projects. DDO is probably one of the few (if only) money makers Turbine even has at this point. The last few updates haven't exactly been all that stellar (Legendary Shroud...