I miss the days when you could build an effective caster for endgame content.

But you basically needed to read through/have memorized the enhancements for the entirety of the class/es you were playing to start putting points into it.

I remember the first character I got properly geared for epics was a cleric, and I was complaining about how shit Turbine's implementation of clerics was. Then MOTU hit, and I just about quit the game.

Good times.

I remember even farther back, like in '06-07 when so much of the mechanics and results determination was hidden from the UI that you were at best guessing what to do as you leveled up through the harbour. Gosh I created some seriously broken characters just trying to guess what was what. The fact that it was sort of based on 3E and so many of the feats, items, skills, etc... sounded familiar but were applied differently in the game was crazy and so much fun.

And by broken I mean broken bad, not broken OP.

Teth wrote on Nov 2^nd, 2018 at 4:54pm:

Same days as when the Monks in Air stance got pure attack speed instead of some attack speed and some doublestrike like they get today.

Bishop wrote on Nov 1^st, 2018 at 5:06pm:


I remember going over every single race enhancements/bonuses in the game before rolling my dps focused rogue. At the time Horc was the best dps. I did another rogue life to pick up the pastlife feat which was basically a requirement. So I finally cap and start slowly gearing up. I eventually posted my build on the forums but everyone was saying human was the highest dps race. I couldnt believe it. I ended up missing a small change in the Update 11 patch notes. "Human Versatility damage boost is now percentage based instead of flat damage".  Apparently the damage boost worked with sneak attack damage too. Back then leveling a rogue was brutal. Doing a legend tr was basically torture. So unfortunately I had to stay Horc.

I prefer the Pre-U19 enhancements. It was slightly clunky due to the fact you cant readily see your progress or future enhancements. You had to scroll down a long list where you could easily miss things. I never really liked the talent trees. A lot of the enhancements felt like filler. A bunch of +[W] melee abilities and other useless junk. The old enhancements never had this. You were forced sometimes to pick filler stuff but only a few points to get to the required enhancements point spent on various prestige enhancements. The old system was jam packed with so many good enhancements. It was hard to choose before you ran out.

For those who are curious about the Pre-U19 enhancements and want to play around building a couple characters I managed to find one. Props to the person who kept the site up all this time.

Pre-U19 enhancement character builder: http://www.neurovat.com/ddochargen/home.aspx


EDIT: I forgot to mention the character builder doesnt list what the enhancements do. Just lists their name. Either use an archiving site or google "classname enhancements history".

https://archive.org/

wiki history examples:


https://ddowiki.com/page/Barbarian_enhancements_(history)  <-