FranOhmsford wrote on Jun 16^th, 2016 at 8:11am:


Hi Fran.

Do you still play on Khyber?

FranOhmsford wrote on Jun 16^th, 2016 at 8:11am:

will pay you to leave and never ever come back

Rubbinns wrote on Jun 17^th, 2016 at 9:40pm:


missed one

FranOhmsford wrote on Jun 17^th, 2016 at 12:33pm:


Now, see, when you lie to us you make us sad.  You don't 'do your best' to make that lame build viable.  You in fact pile on crappy decision after crappy decision.
1) Be a Sun Elf
2) Have 3 Cleric Past lives you earned in a useful build like a melee hybrid or light blaster
3) Have swapable gear (as in, not your armor) which has your effects for bonuses to turn numbers and dice effected.  Wear it only when you're actually turning undead, and wear actually good gear (meaning anything that isn't saddled by those turn undead effects) the other 90+% of the time
4) ???
5) Profit.  Or really, just not suck as much.

Who Cares wrote on Jun 18^th, 2016 at 3:28am:

how else would I then be able to call people those names ?

FranOhmsford wrote on Jun 18^th, 2016 at 10:42am:

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This is the lie.  Or you are clueless.  I'll accept either admission.  But here you are again saying shit like:
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Which seems to indicate that you know that you are making bad build decisions, but you 'like' to do that.  Which is you straight up lying about 'doing your best' to make your flavor builds viable.  There's a large amount of real estate between knowing you're making a bad decision and doing your best to make an already sub-par build workable.  If you want to make a semi-workable TU Cleric build you need to stop obsessing over meaningless trivia like the race the character started as, and start building something that is at least the best it can be for a fairly crappy flavor build.

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Well that is my mistake.  I was assuming that you had geared up with the crappy gear that adds a few levels to your turn undead rolls, or a few dice to the effect.  If you don't have that crap then you don't need to worry about it.  The 'swapable' gear is the stuff that you should be wearing instead of that junk.

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Here's some general advice.  Find two characters amongst your many.  Pick the one which has the most melee HPLs/IPLs/EPLs, and the one which has the most caster HPLs/IPLs/EPLs.

Then never run them as anything else.  Ever.  That way you'll end up, over time, with a fairly competent caster and a fairly competent melee.

Yeah, you'll never get Completionist on either, but that's not your goal, is it?  Your goal, as far as I can tell from your posts, is to have a character which you can run in EEs with a group and not leave you feeling like you're being carried.  Or even *gasp* to run EEs solo and beat them.  And by stacking like with like you will get there.  Go off all scatter shot, just like you do by running 50-odd characters, and you'll never get there.

So the caster goes for Wiz/FvS/Arti/Lock HPLs.  Sun Elf and Deep Gnome IPLs.  And Arcane Fluidity, Energy Crit, Power Over Life and Death, and Colors of the Queen EPLs.

The melee goes for Ftr/Barb/Monk HPls.  PDK IPLs or Bladeforged if a toaster, or both.  And Brace, Doublestrike, and Fast Healing for EPLs.

This isn't a hard and fast thing, any character can always use more Divine EPLs for the PRR, but go for the things that help your character do the things the character is supposed to be doing first.  So the melee should pick up the Divine EPLs first for the PRR since he'll be standing in melee.  Or the doublestrike if you're more DPS than tankish.  The caster goes a different route.

Even using this as a general framework will give you a plan that will take you years to fulfill, unless you start focusing on these two chars at the expense of your others.

It's all about having a plan.  Your problem seems to be that you make plans that don't lead to a goal.  "I'm always going to be a Halfling" is a stupid plan, because the goal is just to always be a Halfling.  You can make the character at 1st level, never play it, and you've succeeded in that goal.  "I want to be an effective melee character" is a much better plan.  With that as a plan you need to then play with the plan in mind, and adapt the character over time and as the game changes to continue to follow the plan.

I died laughing when he started talking about keeping his characters the same race...regardless of class...all of them; BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!

DAMN, THAT'S SOME FUNNY SHIT.

[] wrote on Jun 19^th, 2016 at 6:48pm:

Spoon wrote on Jun 20^th, 2016 at 1:39pm:



Now he only has to manage to actually mate with a human female. Problem: He can only use those money to get a mate

Solution: 10 more pages  about how incompetent Fran can be should do the trick. Carry on

If you are running the 1-20 to get completionist as quick as possible, you shouldn't be running a wiz/sorc that needs spell pen... you'll just be killing stuff very slowly if you are running through heroics as an actual wiz/sorc that needs spell pen to be good.   

And you have to get through 3 wizard past lives to get that +6 spell pen... so then it just benefits your 3 lives of sorc if you were silly enough to want to run as a pure sorc through those past lives (might help cleric or FVS, but again, those should be melee builds to get through as quick as possible).

essentially by the time you would really need to worry about stuff with spell resistance would be at levels  quest levels 16-20 and at that point you are essentially level 18 already.

+30 HP is great, but again, we are talking about heroics.  30 HP doesn't mean much in heroics even in elite content.  if you are dying/having a tough time because you are short 30 hit points at levels 2-6, then you need to re-consider if DDO is the game for you.

and if you are dying in EH traps, again, you have messed up your build.  EN and EH traps are not killers.

bob the builder wrote on Jun 21^st, 2016 at 8:40am:

I have never had problems speed running a wizard thru a life even on a first life build.  You don't need a melee build,  it sounds like you just don't know your spells.

Frank wrote on Jun 21^st, 2016 at 9:42am:

May Hordo bless your companions with backpack space.