I didn't like most of 2013's stuff, but I didn't dislike it either, really.

Enhancements - I left when the enhancement pass was on Lammania. Everything cost too much and I didn't think they'd change the pricing of enhancements, so I left. I came back, and I was wrong. They had changed it. I'm fine with the enhancement pass. Is it better? I don't know, but it's doable.

Shadowfail - This was an awful update. Especially wheloon. And I run EE wheloon, and stormhorns. Stormhorns has the worst stat inflation ever, but at least the quests are fun. Wheloon? Ugh. They're all awful, and the quadruple spawning in the slayer area is idiotic. I NEVER LAG, yet I lag constantly in the slayer and in the quests. These quests need to be nuked from orbit. Why the hell does a starving prisoner have 250,000 hp on EE? Start using logical enemies in your epic quests.

Etr - Leave the double comms as they are. I now get enough just levelling to buy a heart. If you do this, my major problem with the system is quelled. The only other thing I'll say is this: Everything an arcane wants is, rightfully, in their sphere.
On my melee? I need martial for double strike, primal for colors, and divine for PRR + Saves. All of these are awesome for melee, but it involves me running around in the worst friggin destiny ever for one (Divine Unyielding) and a destiny I don't prefer (Martial Dreanaught) as opposed to fury. I'd prefer the karma requirement to be cut in half so I can at least spend half my life in a destiny I like. So overall, I wish ETR was tweaked, but I don't hate the system itself. It's sure as hell better than the original mess they had with it bumping you 38 and then um... skipping some AP and lower levels... that was a mess.

EGH - A. Could be an A plus if you fixed the double damage from TOR giants Epic Elite. I don't like madstone on EE either, those skellies have too many hp, so I end up using my VIP skip on Madstone (Even over crucible).

Barkabout wrote on Dec 27^th, 2013 at 6:51am:


LOL, yeah. They had a profitable year, but at the expense of the future years they could have had. Like the lottery winners who take the payout in a lump sum and get half what they would have gotten if they had taken it over time

harharharhar wrote on Dec 20^th, 2013 at 11:24am:

F2P basis was not the issue with DDO.

Scrybe wrote on Dec 30^th, 2013 at 9:18am:

None of the quests take long to get to once you find the camps. Which you have to do once per life. It's not fun, I agree, but do it once before you run the chain. The whole chain, even on EE, takes under an hour minus WGU. That one alone takes almost that long on EE, which does suck.

Scrybe wrote on Dec 30^th, 2013 at 9:18am:

Agreed here.

I also like FoS' Augment System. It could really use a bunch of new augments though. Hopefully they will expand the kinds of things you can add, especially to weapons.

mystafyi wrote on Dec 31^st, 2013 at 5:16pm:


Shr plz.

Arkat wrote on Dec 21^st, 2013 at 8:45pm:



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Memnir wrote on Dec 20^th, 2013 at 11:47am:


You make the mistake of thinking of WB as one entity with one mind. 

WB is a company of around 10,000 people.  A few of whom give a fuck about DDO.  There is a junior assistant VP somewhere right above Turbine's exec staff who cares about the revenue Turbine generates and where it comes from, and maybe a few more piss-ant middle managers as well.  Mostly because their personal bonuses are based on it, amongst other things. 

Do the shareholders give one fuck?  No.

Does the board?  No.

Does the CEO or anyone in senior management? No.

But, honestly, in a company that size, the overwhelming majority of decisions about products and services are made at a level below senior management.  The decision to discontinue of DDO as a product probably wouldn't even raise to an AVP level.  The decision to invest more in it, likewise, doesn't rest there.  Whoever is making those decisions, though, does give a fuck.  Because it's their small little kingdom in the empire.  And they only raise up the chain of command if their kingdom outperforms the other kingdoms. 

Oddly, the guys who care now are probably completely different from the M&A guys who made the decision to buy Turbine in the first place.  That decision was made without consideration for DDO as a revenue stream, most likely.  So, even the guys who made the buy decision probably didn't give one fuck about DDO.  But, they are on to the next acquisition project.  Operations are not their concern.