Meursault wrote on Feb 23^rd, 2016 at 4:38pm:


I have to agree with you there - mostly.
Having crap gear is a disadvantage.  Having reasonable gear is all you need to play the game well.
Having best in slot is only needed if you play LE (some here would indicate otherwise - skill can make up for gear deficits) or you're competitive or like bragging.
Getting reasonable gear is doable.  Getting nice gear takes some grind or raiding.  Getting best gear takes insane amounts of patience.

As a latecomer to DDO, there is a gap to get across - agree.
If you're lucky you find a good group or guild who help bridge the gap by teaching you.
I think a lot of newbs fizzle out by level 10 if they haven't found there place in DDO by then.

Meursault wrote on Feb 22^nd, 2016 at 7:47pm:


You make a very fair point. As someone who's both dedicated and bored, I don't like the cake. Most of the people who play this game aren't in that category, and although I stand by my opinion that giving out store items again would've been the better idea, after hearing what you had to say about this I'm much more okay with it than I was initially.

I'm glad that we discussed this. 


Sailias wrote on Feb 23^rd, 2016 at 9:42am:


This is why difficulty levels are a thing. The folks at Turbine need to figure out how to change the expectation that everyone is running everything with EBB. Part of that solution might have to be removing bravery streaks and distributing the experience through the difficulty levels.

Pseudonym wrote on Feb 23^rd, 2016 at 5:55pm:

Yeah, me too. I don't think either is going to cross to the other's side, but I think we both got some things to think about, and it's great to see the Vault, for all of its dick jokes and boobie pictures, holding a more civilized and productive conversation than the motherboards ever manage.

Pseudonym wrote on Feb 23^rd, 2016 at 5:55pm:

OK, so we do have common ground. I completely agree with you on that, it would definitely help mix up the groups. It would make "hard" a more viable option, and that would give more "weak" players the confidence to join. That gives less skilled/geared players a chance to see "what they should be trying for", and it gives the more capable players a chance to bolster their ranks to replace departing players. Win-win.

One more problem for the less capable players is the problem of favor - Elite is so much harder for mediocre players that by the time they can handle it for favor, they get almost no XP. I think with champions they should count Elite quests as 3 or 4 levels above Normal. All it affects is what level you can get XP for it at, you aren't getting a BB and it doesn't lock lower level players out (which is stupid anyway, you already get a power level penalty, what's the point of a lockout?!).

The 2 ends of the spectrum don't have exactly the same needs, but there is enough common ground that if Turdbin would stop making decisions that pitted one against the other they could keep both mostly happy. I  think they promote the "class wars" to distract people from their utter incompetence, they are just drama queens 

Anyway, may your LFMs always fill, and your drop rates be above average 

Most people come to the Vault so they can let others know what they think of them without moderation.

Fran comes to the Vault so others can let him know what they think of him without moderation.

FranOhmsford wrote on Feb 23^rd, 2016 at 3:47pm:



Shitstain.

I've said before, and I'll say again: every new pack doesn't need to be 1% slightly better than what came before. I don't get excited about a new item with 1 more doublestrike or resistance or fort or whatever. Give us unique effects.

For instance, look how popular Jibber's blade is. It's a completely unique effect (well it does mimic the wizard enhancement, but that's fine by me) that everyone can use. We haven't had a new bauble effect since... forever.

Remember when people farmed the eardweller for the unique effect? Granted, that unique effect was to squeeze the maximum spell DPS out at the time, but it's not found anywhere else. Give me an item with 2 charges of sprint boost. Give me an item with a ddoor clickie. Make  it exclusive. Make another teleport clicky besides the ml 28 belt or the mask in the quest no one does. Re-hire whoever was working on the wand bracelet and give us that shit.

Cannith boots are awesome. Every single toon I have has a pair. We have what.. 2 clickies for GH? gird and the necklace from tod stuff.. Two for deathward (if you count epic dusk heart)? zero FoM clickies if you don't count the eternal flask (same for DW).

Shit they removed the fire shield clicky cloak of ice. Almost none of these items dramatically changes the so called balance of power between the haves and the have-nots.. It's a perk for farming. 

More incrementally powerful loot != exciting loot. Personally, I stopped chasing that 1% increase with each new update and slew of items released. I get stuff that is good enough and still do fine.

I care more about cosmetics than the power creep stuff. That might just be me though.

FranOhmsford wrote on Feb 23^rd, 2016 at 3:47pm:

Hey, moron. It's your fucking hardware, you god-damned, vegetable-level-IQ dipshit. You're practically the only person suffering lag in this quest. For normal people, that would be enough to tell them it's their hardware. Of course, you're too fucking stupid to figure that out. Hopefully, this post will be enough for you to figure that out - because I'm not going to bother with an engraved invitation.

Houshi wrote on Feb 24^th, 2016 at 7:52am:

That would be smart, creative, and fun. Turbine cannot do that. Against their religion.

Would be great if they placed the ED abilities or AP abilities on an item. Things like wraith form on a cloak, or grants centered on wraps if you're in cloth, or evasion on a light armor, or nerve venom on a throwing dagger, or whatever. It's what Path of Exile does with their unique items. Not all, but some have an ability that is wildly different or otherwise is a central ability to specific builds on the item. Which then spawns entire new build designs. They already implemented the range of mod rolls that can be on a specific item, just like PoE has.

Instead I get bugged out builds, like when they tried to fix MoK and fucked up warlock aura making my spells lose all caster levels and only count spell power and hamp. mainly my recons, if aura is on, they hit for 200~, when I turn aura off it goes back to 1200. Good job dicks.

Yeah, flasks were a great idea killed by Turdbin bungling. Splitting off the cooldowns would be fantastic.

would be nice to see a +1 heart in there

Rubbinns wrote on Feb 24^th, 2016 at 8:20am:


Honestly, in defense of not doing that, I actually really like preserving build diversity. If an item is released that lets us be a wraith without taking wizard levels, why would we bother with wizard levels? I like how different character builds are life by life, it's what keeps me on the TR grind.

If they were to release AP or ED things, I'd personally have them require either levels of the class or the past life feat. Just my 2c.

Houshi wrote on Feb 24^th, 2016 at 11:09am:

I wish they'd make a game based on the D20 SRD. I bet that if they did I'd never log into DDO again. They just plain get it.