And yes, I'm salty as hell.  It's been like two years since I've died running EE.  I don't want EE to be challenging.  No old player in this game wants it to be challenging.  It's just part of the tedious grind to build up for the real end game.  EE is already too hard for newbs and too boring for old players.  Kicking it up a level just gives incentive for both groups to look for something better to do.

Fun right???
its kinda fun how they change the name but will aways be Turdbine. Lets make a pool about the worse change they made since the name?
My votes gona to Exp change, Sorcerer "god mode" and Inquisitive.

its not harder, its just boring. We need only run as sorcs or inquisitive to do r10. If u think it is a hard game u need raise ur game. beside the parte about u be bad at games its fine, always gona be places for ur soulstone at lava on a r10 run.

I really reckon they have a lights off date and are trying to extract every cent they can before then. In their special retarded way.
They have ramped up the rate of ridiculous power creep since the rebrand with one after another pay to acquire fotm. Keeping most of the mobo glass kickers distracted with half arsed balance threads.
A dedicated server that requires a paid sub to join.
Just waiting for them to announce what next year's xpac will be.
Meanwhile Steelstar is like a dog on heat jerking off in front of everyone who will watch about how he is so awesome that he goes left hand backhand all the time.

Skoodge wrote on Oct 15^th, 2019 at 2:17am:

Have to disagree.

If you're struggling as a melee while running epic saga missions "mostly overlevel" on EE in 2019, they are correct.

SSG hasn't nerfed melee builds in EE recently and good players on good melee builds have been able to steamroll epic saga missions for years.  If you're struggling, either your build is garbage or you have a PEBKAC problem.

Skoodge wrote on Oct 14^th, 2019 at 6:18pm:

This seems a bit of meta complaint but, whatever, we all feel like this one way or another.

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Were hire ever useful even on epic casual? Since I came back I noticed they bug out even when casting rez spells. Sometimes you have to target yourself, sometimes you don't, sometimes you have to tell them to "follow" you again to make them snap out of their self induced retarded hypnosis. I hate hires....

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Ok, you seem like a good guy as I never read a single one of your posts that made me think "wow this guy is an idiot" so I don't want you to feel I'm insulting you in any way but...it's EE. I know we have reaper know but it's goddamn fucking EE. Ok, I get it, you have maxed everything you can and you're confident in your skills and build but it's EPIC fucking ELITE. I finished the ranger archer life with pre ravenloft gear and stomped everything on EE on level but I never let my guard down cause I knew that enemies would have ripped me apart despite the fact I'm a completionist and been playing the game for years.


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So it wasn't just me! I had noticed the fucking shadowlings were hitting much harder than usual and even their reflex saves have been pumped up a lot. Totally agree on this

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I feel you. You can't even reason with them as they won't accept proof of their own stupidity but demand it anyway as Steelstar did in Discord. How in the hell are we supposed to prove how OP inquisitive is when they don't care to listen in the first place? They know they are guilty and stupid, they just don't want to be proved so in public.

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10000000000% fucking agree. The lfm are dead and for someone like me trying to get back in the raids is irritating to say the least. Wouldn't even be an economic win to use a single more powerful server instead of many dead ones?

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There might have been reason around 2 years ago when I left as people were actually bored with difficulty but, generally speaking, we only need something above EE and not a whole 10 levels of assholery that only widened the gap between newbies, normal players, skilled, very skilled and "I can fucking complete fall of truth on ee with one hp while running backward".



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True, nothing to add. It was true years ago so there's nothing to argue.

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The sad thing is seeing classes dual wielding crossbows that would have no fucking reason to even touch them. I play on argo and I swear I saw fucking favoured souls and sorcs dual wielding that shit. What in the actual fuck?

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The favoured soul had comparable dps to my fully specialized bow ranger. I soloed stormhorns on EE with him and only died in final fight (still completed) on the glacier. Let me put this in perspective. A goddman fvs with a crossbow able to match me, a motherfreaking ranger specialized with bows, using a complete thunder forged and soloing stormhorns on EE (not the greatest achievement in ddo but way out league for casuals and "normies"). Let that sink in.....

I really liked how Guild Wars 2 had the visit other server feature.  I was able to hit events that I missed on the timer for my home server.  It also allowed people to play with their friends no matter the server.  You could guest to two servers a day, guest on them all day long, had to wait till the next day to guest to a different server.

This would be a great feature for DDO, really any MMO.  I don't see why it is necessary to have a player stuck to one server.  Yea, there is a need to store data but since DDO already has instances, why do they need to really have different servers beyond storing the data.  Make a gate for players to play across servers.  They can log into DDO through their assigned server but when they hit harbor or market, they get placed in an instance and meet up with others through there.  Wasn't hard to change instances last time I played, probably broken now.

Fuck Off wrote on Oct 16^th, 2019 at 2:43am:

I haven't been following the technicalities, but I believe they've actually automated it and removed the limit. If you're in a realm with few players, they ask you if you want to move, and if you agree there is a half minute or so delay while they ship your character and you reappear in a crowded one. They even let you delay it for up to an hour. It's sweet, and works extremely well. I'll have to check if you can trigger it manually, I never thought to use it to try for events I missed or want to repeat.

But yeah, if DDO did that it would be great. It would bring a lot more to the game than a new class or a new crafting system.

Rubbinns wrote on Oct 16^th, 2019 at 9:27am:



Ok to be fair, minimal reaper points when I had minimal reaper points was easier. Now I don't technically have minimal reaper points any longer so I may have been speaking out of church.

5 Foot Step wrote on Oct 16^th, 2019 at 10:00am:


Casters no longer splash beef

Save the meta nuker, DC casters are all you need. Jack-of-all-trades characters aren't as reliable.

That change isn't to be understated; It's targetted at the DC-caster-reaper-solo community, much like how they changed the charms recently

Point being the way DC casters scale, end-game content used to be about geometry, now its also about resource management and some brains.

Artorias wrote on Oct 15^th, 2019 at 3:32pm:

Okay Skoodge, this just triggered a thought about a possible explanation for what you're ranting about.

Shadows have always seemed to hit harder than other mobs.  I always assumed it's because they're incorporeal and bypass our Ghostly item effects.

Additionally, due to shitty graphic design, it can be somewhat hard to see the champ crowns as they phase in and out, so maybe you just had the misfortune of bad RNG and got ganked by a group of multiple champion shadows?

If this is the case, it doesn't mean EE is too hard or broken.  It just means you simply had the misfortune of some really bad luck.

Distributed wrote on Oct 17^th, 2019 at 5:47pm:


Nice to know that, thank you. I'll make sure to remember this as soon as hit their level range.