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stainer Arkat's Bitch Offline Gawna's big sexy crony! Posts: 12345 Location: gawna's nuts Joined: Jan 28^th, 2010 Gender:	Character Development Stratagy Feb 4^th, 2011 at 1:04pm	Print Post
	How do you guys manage multiple characters? Do you rotate through them on a schedule? Do you just play whatever blows your dress up at that particular time? I have several things I can be working on, but I am not organized at all. How do you handle it?

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Zippo Hooters Offline Ooooh what's this button do? Posts: 3903 Location: not hell but it's a local call Joined: Apr 29^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Character Development Stratagy Reply #1 - Feb 4^th, 2011 at 1:33pm	Print Post
	stainer wrote on Feb 4^th, 2011 at 1:04pm: How do you guys manage multiple characters? Do you rotate through them on a schedule? Do you just play whatever blows your dress up at that particular time? I have several things I can be working on, but I am not organized at all. How do you handle it? I just follow my seemingly ADD tendencies and play what ever toon blows my dress up. But then again that has lead to a sever a case of Altitis. Just me though.


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Thigmar Korthos Resident Offline I Love Drama! Posts: 17 Joined: Dec 20^th, 2010	Re: Character Development Stratagy Reply #2 - Feb 4^th, 2011 at 1:35pm	Print Post
	I developed a spreadsheet which I use to schedule my characters through the raids I run. Helps to make sure I always have someone off timer in case the group I'm with wants to run something in particular. I also have a spreadsheet that tracks all my named loot, ingedients, scrolls, seals, shards, etc. Very useful.


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Pallai Stormreaver Piker Offline Keeper of the Rangersauce Posts: 745 Joined: Aug 14^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Character Development Stratagy Reply #3 - Feb 4^th, 2011 at 1:37pm	Print Post
	What do you mean by manage? Do you mean manage as in development, or in terms of keeping raid timers straight?

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slothinator Waterworks Kobold Offline You're doing it wrong Posts: 107 Location: Rock bottom....and digging.... Joined: Jan 24^th, 2011 Gender:	Re: Character Development Stratagy Reply #4 - Feb 4^th, 2011 at 1:39pm	Print Post
	For me it's semi-scheduled. My main toon (17 Pal) gets Fri/Sat/Sun almost exclusively, unless a guild mate needs help from one of my other level appropriate toons. I have a static group on Wednesdays, so that toon (Ftr 7) gets 3 hours a week; I may run him on other nights if he's close to level/rank up. Monday and Tuesday get split up between my other two toons. I don't think I could handle more than four toons right now.

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Boatman Dragon Raider Offline Too lazy for drama Posts: 237 Location: London Joined: Jan 24^th, 2011 Gender:	Re: Character Development Stratagy Reply #5 - Feb 4^th, 2011 at 2:00pm	Print Post
	I have a few RL friends who don't play nearly as often as I do, so I've wound up being careful to maintain a character at the same level as their mains. Is it really worth making a spreadsheet to manage raid timers? Doesn't that takes quite a lot of time to keep updated?

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Flint Stormreaver Piker Offline I'm a Halfling on the EDGE! Posts: 567 Location: New Jersey or Armpit of the US Joined: Jul 20^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Character Development Stratagy Reply #6 - Feb 4^th, 2011 at 2:06pm	Print Post
	As an altaholic (36 Characters) it's mainly a what do I think I want to do during this session then once I get settled from logging in, ask in guild if anyone needs any of the army. If I get the silent treatment I stay where I logged in and go about my business if someone needed help that I can give I switch and go with them.


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drobbins Korthos Resident Offline Khyber: where it's your fault. Posts: 4 Joined: Jan 31^st, 2011	Re: Character Development Stratagy Reply #7 - Feb 4^th, 2011 at 5:49pm	Print Post
	stainer wrote on Feb 4^th, 2011 at 1:04pm: How do you guys manage multiple characters? Do you rotate through them on a schedule? Do you just play whatever blows your dress up at that particular time? I have several things I can be working on, but I am not organized at all. How do you handle it? Officially, all my other toons are just ingredient gophers for my rogue, but every now and then I actually enjoy playing them for their own fun. Anyway, I don't have a lot of capped toons (2, about to be 3, not including my main who is on TR1 right now, lvl 18) but I try to keep them on similar raid timers, but its not always possible. When they are all on timer for everything, well, that's when I usually decide to roll a new toon or finally start leveling up that Fvs who is still sitting there in the marketplace spire. I often use the DDO Crafting Planner (which I think is actually called DDO Game Guide now, IDK) to keep up with my raids (both timers and # of completions); it is one of the handy little functions in the program, in addition to crafting. I suppose once I finish TRing my rogue I'll return to my previous habit, which was typically to make sure my main was on timer then pick one of my other toons and decide what I needed to work on ... My guild leader has 2 accounts and 20 toons, if I'm not mistaken, which is just ... well, sad. ... lol, I couldn't handle it, anyway.

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Alorious Korthos Resident Offline I hate everyone Posts: 80 Location: NJ Joined: Feb 1^st, 2011 Gender:	Re: Character Development Stratagy Reply #8 - Feb 4^th, 2011 at 6:13pm	Print Post
	When I played, which has been about a year now, I had 3 capped accounts and had 2 more capped accounts perma-banned. I usually ran up and capped toons because it was so much fun to do with friends. When it came time to raid them I usually brought whatever we needed at the time. Nick usually worked on one toon until it was perfect but I wasnt anal enough to need to get shit done. I enjoyed playing the game too much to worry about getting gear NOW, I always knew I'd get everything I wanted eventually. So, the answer is, depends on how you take the game.


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Emili Shroud Slacker Offline Posts: 1241 Location: here Joined: Jun 30^th, 2009	Re: Character Development Stratagy Reply #9 - Feb 4^th, 2011 at 8:10pm	Print Post
	stainer wrote on Feb 4^th, 2011 at 1:04pm: How do you guys manage multiple characters? Do you rotate through them on a schedule? Do you just play whatever blows your dress up at that particular time? I have several things I can be working on, but I am not organized at all. How do you handle it? I used to play whatever fit party the best. For a raid if cleric would help I'd go grab mine, if an arcane would help I'd go get mine, if another melee would help I'd got get mine - timer dependent. In hey-day of shroud I used to run them back to back ... six one night six the following. I never really tracked the raiding until I decided to TR, I tossed their numbers in a spredsheet and when I did was depressing.� Leveling a character up though was different... especially when level caps were lower and the average DDO player was fanatic, I'd get so focus'd on that one character ... Ambyre (bet you did not know she was once a capped elf wiz, a capped halfling rogue, a capped drow ranger) and then elf ranger - Last reroll on her cap was only level 16, but she raid flagged, raided and favour capped at the time to 3086 = four days.� ... but the environment so totally different today. Took four weeks to level my TR grabbing favour along the way ... and she still one quest shy. The quests nothing but space and likewise the same between most player's ears.
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Saaluta Vault Mistress Offline I Love Drama! Posts: 544 Location: In an octopus' garden :) Joined: Jul 1^st, 2009 Gender:	Re: Character Development Stratagy Reply #10 - Feb 4^th, 2011 at 8:17pm	Print Post
	It all depends on what I want to do at the moment.� I have a severe case of "Bored now!!"� So will often roll characters up and then delete and reroll them.� My last one I did this with was my drow sorceress Janni who i rerolled into a light monk.� Although, if I'd known tr was coming out as the time, I would have capped her and just tr'ed as she was level 17.4 when I rerolled her.� And now she's back there � Currently, I'm just doing favor runs solo...almost have Saalutaball to 1750.� Also leveled her up to 17 doing f2p quests...the 3 eyes of stone chain quests have really helped here as well as the acid wit quest in 12 area. I also like to try out strange looking builds.� Currently have among others 18 fvs/2 rogue, 2 barb/2 ftr/16 rgr build, and 18 rgr/2 bard.� I know these aren't some of the strangest out there, but when I first created some of them, people wondered wtf I was doing Saal Only thing I don't currently have is a caster or caster build. I'm just not a good caster....Janni was first a wf witch(got to 12) then rerolled as a drow sorceress(got to 17.4) and she is now a 17.4 halfling light path monk.
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Semper Waterworks Kobold Offline I Love Drama! Posts: 173 Joined: Nov 25^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Character Development Stratagy Reply #11 - Feb 4^th, 2011 at 8:23pm	Print Post
	Well Currently i have 13 capped alts and 2 that are on there 3rd life and 4th life respectfully and I am running them up at the same time at the moment , as for managing i use the ddo game guide for raid timers and I pick 2 at a time to gear up and then I will just pick 2 more and go from there to me it is the only way to do it. So just set priority on the 1 or 2 for shroud weapons/items , epic gear , named loot etc.... for each one and go at it


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Breaken Horoluth Raider Offline Go^Yourself Posts: 2013 Location: TEXAS Joined: Jul 6^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Character Development Stratagy Reply #12 - Feb 4^th, 2011 at 9:38pm	Print Post
	I just do whatever. Tr whatever make sure i always have at least 6 or so toons that can run epics/endgame. But i dont rotate them or ne thing, you can tell my favs or Breaken Oni and Music. Fortyounce and budakis rarely see play time here recently lol

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Phreshphrute HJASTE YOURSELF Offline Posts: 330 Location: Ridiculing the 99% Joined: Jan 26^th, 2011 Gender:	Re: Character Development Stratagy Reply #13 - Feb 4^th, 2011 at 10:09pm	Print Post
	I have 1 main toon that the rest of my toons support. My main is in pursuit of completionist atm. The others I run through shroud/ToD etc. to help out guildies. I also have a 2nd account that I just recently started. I have capped a haggler on the 2nd account. A 2nd acct haggler is nice too... just leave it logged in on the boat and pass of loot to sell at the end of the night. I am currently leveling a wiz on my 2nd acct while I TR my main in order to be able to window farm and fw a lot of quests that are easier with an arcane. I will eventually build a clr on the 2nd acct for guild raids. Having 2 accounts I have found to be really helpful since my guild tends to short man a lot of content and I now have 2 toons running shroud at once. But my main focus is my main toon.


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Darkrok Shroud Slacker Offline I Love Drama! Posts: 1066 Joined: Nov 10^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Character Development Stratagy Reply #14 - Feb 5^th, 2011 at 11:30am	Print Post
	Between my kids and I we have a total of 4 accounts. One is VIP, two have all content, and one's close to f2p. On Sarlona alone we have a total of 34 characters. My kids ask me to play for them some so being the nice daddy that I am I help out some with whatever project the naturally ADD brains of 6-year-olds can come up with to do. You have to forget about having goals and just have fun. It also means that if you see a group up for something that you like you're almost certain to be able to do it on some character.

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popejubal Completionist (i.t.p.) Offline fnord Posts: 6364 Location: Argo Joined: Aug 6^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Character Development Stratagy Reply #15 - Feb 5^th, 2011 at 2:12pm	Print Post
	stainer wrote on Feb 4^th, 2011 at 1:04pm: Do you just play whatever blows your dress up at that particular time? Mostly this. If there's any kind of XP bonus going on, then I'll hop on my current TR and go nuts. If I pissed away too much on shinies from the AH or on Icy Burst kits, then I'll hop on my FvS and blow out some IQ quests in the hopes of getting a +2 tome or some nice vendor trash/AH bait. Otherwise, it's just whatever character happens to be calling out to me.

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Eladiun Completionist (i.t.p.) Offline Two Time Loser Posts: 8398 Location: Rhode Island, USA Joined: Jun 17^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Character Development Stratagy Reply #16 - Feb 7^th, 2011 at 11:51am	Print Post
	A cross between what we need to fill and what is blowing up my dress.

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Schmoe Epic Poster Offline One world, one soul Posts: 4219 Location: A chair Joined: Jun 9^th, 2010	Re: Character Development Stratagy Reply #17 - Feb 7^th, 2011 at 12:17pm	Print Post
	I have 1 capped toon, 1 alt that I'm slowly working up, 1 GIMP, and 1 PD. I normally play my capped dude. I play my alt if I'm in a mood for a change of pace or there's nothing going on at cap, and I play the GIMP and PD dudes sporadically, at best. I really just play to relax and escape for a bit, so I can't imagine organizing multiple capped toons to try to coordinate raid timers and whatnot. Play what you like.

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Asheras Completionist (i.t.p.) Offline This is why we can't have nice things. Posts: 10230 Location: Ohio Joined: Jun 9^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Character Development Stratagy Reply #18 - Feb 7^th, 2011 at 12:50pm	Print Post
	I had a bunch of toons for a while and tried all kinds of builds and classes. I found what I liked and settled into a group of about 7 or 8. But it felt like progress was slow for each of them with that number and how much play time I have, so I pared it down to 4-5. I usually have 3 of them at cap to run epics/raids and 1 or 2 in a TR process somewhere. I can usually run Raids/Epics when needed by guild or when I feel like it. Rarely is everyone on timer for the same raid. Works for me with my play time limits right now. I'd rather run fewer toons and make more progress on the goals than have lots and rarely play them.


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Tspoon Ex Member	Re: Character Development Stratagy Reply #19 - Feb 7^th, 2011 at 1:11pm	Print Post
	Hmmm... I have 13 toons and 4 mules on a ftp.� I played for a long time without any real understanding about the so-called "end game" or tactics, so some of them are rather crappy builds that sit and collect dust.� When the shroud/vod/hound were the endgame having a bunch of toons was great because you could always find one off timer for any raid and getting shroud larges was/is important.� It wasn't really a problem to divide focus and efforts across a large number of toons.� Now, with epics being so particular and toon breaking (toon devaluing) I have been trying to only focus on 3 or 4 of them which is hard enough.� I also used to like having toons spread across the level range for grouping with friends but again, because epic requires another level of gear and build I don't even bother with that thought anymore...� T
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Invelios VoD Slasher Offline Posts: 1965 Location: Houston, TX Joined: Aug 3^rd, 2010 Gender:	Re: Character Development Stratagy Reply #20 - Feb 7^th, 2011 at 1:49pm	Print Post
	I now have 2 capped and 1 tr'd toon, I personally play whatever, but I love leveling a lot more than epic content. I will swap in and out based on what raid timer is off and what is being run but I am going to try and cap off my TR, and level a cleric to 20, so I will be allowed to speak.

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stainer Arkat's Bitch Offline Gawna's big sexy crony! Posts: 12345 Location: gawna's nuts Joined: Jan 28^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Character Development Stratagy Reply #21 - Feb 7^th, 2011 at 2:02pm	Print Post
	This is what I have currently - Lvl 20 ftr twf Lvl 20 Barb thf Lvl 20 Cleric Lvl 20 Monk Lvl 12/6/2 ftr/pal/mnk Lvl 20 sorc - really meh Lvl 14 rgr/ftr TR1 Lvl 13 FvS - meh it is ok... been setting for about 5 months Lvl 13 Bard - working on this one Lvl 10 Paladin - bank toon Lvl 6 FvS - destined for a reroll Lvl 4 Barbarian - Just started and a Waar(tm) toon The sorc is going to be TR'd into a AM Wiz. The ftr/pal/mnk will be TR'd into a HO rogue. I am doing my best to keep the ftr/pal/mnk off timers so I can get him 20th completions in Shroud/ToD/Reaver/Hound and VoD, then TR. I am working on getting the Bard and my current TR to 20. Between all that I fill spots in guild raids and work on GS ingredients. I think I just need to focus on the characters I want to lvl and TR and leave the rest alone, except for shroud.

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junkyarddog Waterworks Kobold Offline I Love Drama! Posts: 158 Location: 1 brick shy of a full load Joined: Jan 5^th, 2011 Gender:	Re: Character Development Stratagy Reply #22 - Feb 7^th, 2011 at 2:20pm	Print Post
	stainer wrote on Feb 4^th, 2011 at 1:04pm: How do you guys manage multiple characters? with 11 capped toons, 3 more 15-18 it seems ive always got someone to run most any 13ish up stuff. i do keep track of raid timers/completions on each toon so i keep up with that. other then that, nothing special. i do have days when i cant run certain toons but thats another issue get that damn bard up to 20 plz!!!!!
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stainer Arkat's Bitch Offline Gawna's big sexy crony! Posts: 12345 Location: gawna's nuts Joined: Jan 28^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Character Development Stratagy Reply #23 - Feb 7^th, 2011 at 2:27pm	Print Post
	junkyarddog wrote on Feb 7^th, 2011 at 2:20pm: with 11 capped toons, 3 more 15-18 it seems ive always got someone to run most any 13ish up stuff. i do keep track of raid timers/completions on each toon so i keep up with that. other then that, nothing special. i do have days when i cant run certain toons but thats another issue get that damn bard up to 20 plz!!!!! LOL! Ok, will do. It is a WC, and I am really liking it. I solo'd wiz king yesterday, not in record time, but respectable. It is a pretty nice character.

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junkyarddog Waterworks Kobold Offline I Love Drama! Posts: 158 Location: 1 brick shy of a full load Joined: Jan 5^th, 2011 Gender:	Re: Character Development Stratagy Reply #24 - Feb 7^th, 2011 at 3:40pm	Print Post
	stainer wrote on Feb 7^th, 2011 at 2:27pm: LOL! Ok, will do. It is a WC, and I am really liking it. I solo'd wiz king yesterday, not in record time, but respectable. It is a pretty nice character. and people wonder why i have 3

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