Epoch wrote on May 8^th, 2012 at 2:37am:


haha, i grouped with one of his alts once....real ass clown

Eladiun wrote on May 8^th, 2012 at 9:55am:


Hey remove fear clickies are almost not a total waste of inventory space, almost. Probably he only equipped it because it looks cool or something.

Azuphle wrote on May 8^th, 2012 at 10:08am:


I'm guessing he usually wears Minos Legens there, since it shows a whopping 10% fortification on the page. But still, remove fear clicky?  Odd to see that on a level 20.

Madcow430 wrote on May 8^th, 2012 at 12:23pm:


K. That is also my strategy.

Anyone run with Darkeyez? Apparently he has a habit of going AFk or dropping from groups and then apologises by saying something like: "Sorry, the cops were at my door cos there was a murder two doors down".

All I can say is either there are a lot of people living two doors down from him, or he lives near a rather sordid butcher.

JakLee wrote on May 8^th, 2012 at 5:03pm:

That is fucking amazeballs! 

Madcow430 wrote on May 8^th, 2012 at 6:57am:


IIRC (given that I've been trying to forget the experience), they were all TRs. I can totally understand being undergeared at first cap. But second? Damn.

Eladiun wrote on May 8^th, 2012 at 9:55am:


I was about to go to sleep, saw an lfm for eSnitch, and thought, "Eh, I can grab an easy epic before bed. It doesn't even matter who's in the group, how hard can it be?"

Apparently really fucking hard.

ETA: I just looked at the myDDO link. OMFG. Base Phiarlan Mirror Cloak? I am crying.

JC wrote on May 8^th, 2012 at 7:02pm:


There's a lot of folk like this about. It's particularly frustrating when you encounter a newbie with enthusiasm and energy and no idea how to play their class, you give them some help and then see they've TRed into something else 3 days later, because they've been told TR is where it's at...

Terebinthia wrote on May 8^th, 2012 at 7:06pm:


The reason most see TR'ng vs staying at CAP to gear as an option is that, one some gearing takes a lot of dedication (Shroud, Raids, Epics), two if they TR most won't notice that they lack gear until around 11th level, where many of us start pulling out all the GS Items that we have been waiting to get our hands back on.

However, Crafting has also allowed many to get by even further.

I do have to remind myself that these people are the other side of the extreme many of us went through - Being forced to play at level 10,  14,  16 and finally 20th level for long stretches.  The only thing we had was Looting and skill building and Alts to occupy our time.

Now, they have perpetual leveling at the sacrifice of actually getting gear that would help them do it better or make them viable contributions to any party.

Examples of TRs without gear would be those that were Charisma based Barbarians.  Or just those that didn't like their build and don't want to grace the rest of the "endgame" with their gimpness. /shrug

Wings at the minimum mean you made it to 20 somehow and bought a wood from the store to try the run again....

I am probably on a few more people's friends lists now. I was invited to a PUG Blockade Buster by a guy I had been running with most of the night. You would think he would've gotten an idea about how I run.

When the first two ships exploded while the rest of the group was still dickering around on the first, the guy and another pugger were apoplectic. I should've warned them! (I told them they had 60 seconds). Didn't I know that they can't get chests now! (Who the hell cares about chests in an XP run?)

They recalled and reformed around me.

sweez wrote on May 9^th, 2012 at 10:15pm:


This.

JDollar wrote on May 10^th, 2012 at 1:21am:


This is a pretty good description of khyber really

Me excluded of course I am ubber and lack enthusiasm!

Or maybe just the second part but hey