Strakeln wrote on Jun 21^st, 2015 at 3:35pm:


What gets me is DR, I'm yet to come across another game where different weapons (beyond melee/ranged) are better for different situations.

Nothing that I actually care about in mmo's has progressed at all in the last decade.

Munkenmo wrote on Jun 21^st, 2015 at 6:41pm:

Yep, definitely something I liked about DDO. Clickies, wands, and frequent-use potions as well. There was so much skill involved in DDO - position while fighting, DR, bringing the right weapon/clickie/potion for the job (remember how devastating getting feared by a mummy once was? Do you remember people walking around with curses for days, or poison potentially being a death sentence? Being prepared was just as important as fighting well.

Weapons in other games are just stats. Preparation means bringing a couple of medshots and maybe one clickie. Position while fighting is typically meaningless.

Munkenmo wrote on Jun 21^st, 2015 at 6:41pm:

Yep. It's sad. I've been out of DDO for five years. I'm a customer ripe for the plucking but I can't find anything to captivate my interest. I want what DDO once was, but even DDO cannot be that again.

DropBear wrote on Jun 21^st, 2015 at 6:14pm:

They can't just undo it, because at the same time they've also had power creep. The powerful random loot is an attempt to mitigate the damage power creep does.

If you have very powerful named/grind out loot and it's miles ahead of random lootgen, then newer players can't group with well geared players, the new players feel isolated and they quit. They can't get the good loot without joining an experienced group, and they can't make it in an experienced group with the crap gear they have. Catch 22. Sort of like what we have now, only even worse.

They don't really play the game, so they can't tell what's the right level of power, and it doesn't look sexy on a resume anyway, so they aren't touching it.

Unfortunately, their tactic of making newer more powerful named/grind loot is exactly the wrong solution, it drives the powercreep wedge even further between the excellent and the average players, effectively driving out new blood.

I dont really know where it all started to go down.
When they became dogs of WB is my best bet.

They have so many good mechanics in ddo, its really sad to look how it all falls apart due to casuals/bad loot managment and unneeded power creep.
I still cant seem to get it into my brain that we have selfhealing barbarians nowadays that are one of best selfhealers...
IF i told that to friends that quit during motu times i bet a part of them would die

Revaulting wrote on Jun 21^st, 2015 at 8:41pm:


My verb tense was accurate. I don't want to come across another game where DR was relevant. I want to come across another game where DR is relevant.

Revaulting wrote on Jun 21^st, 2015 at 8:41pm:


I thought the problem was that lootgen was better than most named now, is it just that most named is worse than pre-feather? Forgive my ignorance, I've never had, and now never intend to have, a character above 20 so I honestly don't know, I'm not being a jerk, I just thought I remembered people saying there was no point in grinding because better stuff dropped.

Revaulting wrote on Jun 21^st, 2015 at 9:42pm:

Ah, thanks for the clarification, it's even funnier getting it weeks or months later 

Yeah, I actually like the 12-14 level stuff best. "Kill more minotaurs" never gets old, and I love Sands and Gianthold. Orchard is a mixed bag, I love the explorer area but the quests are too slow to get to and some of the mechanics are really annoying (like killing the 2 brothers at once in Perdition - seriously, what a pain).

And in addition to being quests I like, they also don't muck around with new systems as much in the Heroic levels, so I don't have as many things changing, and they are still easy enough that if things do change and I don't re-learn the new crap I can still get through. I played for 2 months without any enhancements set because I didn't want to take the time to figure out the new crap, and I did fine.

It's not great news for Turdbin, because it means I don't need to buy Iconics, or Shadowfell, or any adventure packs over 20, but I have no sympathy, they made their bed and now they can lie in it.

Meursault wrote on Jun 21^st, 2015 at 10:07pm:


For a counter position, I kinda like epic stuff. The underdark is a great wilderness setting - totally underused, but very beautiful (not the Drow city, though that's ok too). Although I like most of the epic quests, they are kind of linear and rely on poor mechanics like "you must kill all these mobs or the door won't open." Whoever came up with that should be beaten. It must be too hard to develop choice into your quests if you're retarded. So, can't really blame them since the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission forced WB to have one company staffed by mentally handicapped people.

Alex DeLarge wrote on Jun 22^nd, 2015 at 4:27am:


It's neat to look at. That's what I think they did well.

Frustrating for what it ends up being, which is only a blockade to the rest of motu.

Alex DeLarge wrote on Jun 22^nd, 2015 at 6:31am:


Yes.

Along with inventory tetris, I wish they did something about the inventory jumbling mess after swapping gear/weapons and streamlining selling yer junk loot.

The "graphics" are dated, but the style is good (tilting to realism rather than cartoony, ddo half-elves are derp though).  Honestly, new whizbang graphics don't impress me much, but I'm kind of an old fogy.  I'd rather be able to equip and see all gear, rather than just limited to helmet/armor/weapon/goggles.

That's great, thank you