Monthly Archives: October 2013

Radio Silence

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Sorry for the lack of posts last week, it was a fairly busy week plus I was ill one day so that just meant that I had one less day at work to get things done. But in addition to that I am just not having super amounts of fun right now.

My higher-level guys are not xping fast enough for me to want to be working on them all the time. My low level guys are grinding away mostly solo as Tobril leap frogs past me over and over again as people motivated to the TR grind are wanted to do. The wife is only interested in playing on the weekend when there is more then just Tobril and I playing (maybe not even together). Although last night she and I where talking and she sounded like she was for trying to play her namesake char again who is currently a pure 20ish druid. So maybe she and I will rock some easy epics again and maybe that will light a fire under my ass.

I think the real killer is I am just unhappy with how my mains, Samius and Javabot are playing. Like most wizards Samius audibled into a force arch mage to rock the double rainbow. And that was fun for a while but between the changes to the procs and just spamming different magic/chain missile spells depending on cooldown over and over again I am just tired.

Java’s dps is way lower then I remembered from the life before and I am not sure what to do about it, although I just got him back to 25 so maybe switching weapons will do the trick. If not…. I might need to find another build.

And I guess that takes me to the last thing, my spare brainpower is now thinking about magic decks and not ddo builds.

How can I shake myself out of this grand tilt? I want to look at the Eldritch Knight, it could be just the thing. If I can find away back to the melee/caster hybrid that Samius was originally it could be just the shot in the arm I need.

All that said I still enjoy playing, I just seem to find myself watching more MtG videos or playing more MtG then going and logging on to ddo…

Hell maybe I need to pug some more, that will get the blood flowing.

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Surprise, Your Dead!

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Ever wonder how the DM would sound while we are playing DDo?

I do. And most of the time I think he would be whiny that I am just bypassing his whole adventure. In my head my DM is always a guy, most of the time that stereotypical nerd man/boy with the broken glasses that has never touched a boob.

Anyway, he is always falling back to cheese dick moves to try and slow me down.

Ha, the door is magically warded to be locked unless you defeat everyone in this room.
The whole dungeon is mentally tied together to know your location, or is warded to slow you down once so many guards are alerted that you are around and about.

But the worse is when he sticks a party wipe trap for no real reason other then to kill your ass.

By the way I was running Foundation of Discord last night when I realized that my mental DDo Dm is kinda a dick.

Oh if you don’t know Giant Hold quest I might have some spoilers for you.

So in Foundation, aka the one surrounded by heads, buff including Invis for last and take off down the hall, jump down, shoot down the other hall, time the door to gather the least amount of agro, pull trash into my layered AOE spells/Sword range jump around that one corner up against the wall as to avoid the traps as much as possible…..

Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang! Giggle, roll damage you take 130 points of sonic 4 times? Surprise your dead again! It is just not your night for this quest. This is the third time I got you with these traps.

See, he is a dick. Release and try again….

Turns out the fourth time was the charm and the traps weren’t there, looks like I finally won the die roll. Once I wasn’t in danger of random death to traps I was able to quickly complete the quest and finished the rest of the loop easily enough.

I will just say that my DM was in a spite full mood as he got me a few more times last night. Once in Blockade Busterwhen a captain hits me with a Disintegrate with his first action. Where I naturally roll and 1 and die. Again in Undermine, which I will blame on lag mostly. I did put myself in a spot where a lag spike was going to kill me, but I thought Ice Storm, Body of the Sun and a BIG Regen would be good enough. Guess not. Unlagged once I was a stone, nice timing on that one. Then, Tobril jumps to 18 via stone and we do Lords of Dust where I die again to massive amounts of traps. OVER AND OVER. Tobril offers to come back for me as he is off soloing the quest I am just losing everyone xps but I can reach the shrine before the traps and I figure, either he will beat the quest and I can just release or I will make it past and fourth or fifth try I made it.

In my head the DM was crying he was giggling so hard until he said, sure you made it, why not?????

It is nights like last night that make up for the nights where all he does is pout about me bypassing everything and all I can say is what goes around comes around.

What is your DDo Dm like?

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It’s Getting Hot in Here!

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Hi guys, I know it has been awhile but work has been killer with our LDAP/php upgrade/mysql upgrade/server move. Wow that was most likely a lot of stuff I could have just called work junk and everyone would have been just as happy. Well at least the health care exchanges are not my problem… ☺

Even so I have gotten a few hours to play ddo and I want to talk a little about it. First Tobril and I rocked things to 8 last week. And then I had things to do and he jumped up (as planed) and rocked it to 20 with out me (again as planed). Then proceeded to cry that he couldn’t TR again right away. But got to TR again on Monday and I think he is moving a little slower with out me, but not a lot slower.

Basically that means that McGoggles needs to really push this week to try and hit level 16 or so about the time he stones up so to piggy back on mostly his work.

Lets talk just a little about McGoggles. Right now he is level 15 (13 druid/2 ranger) and while the dps is a little lower then I was thinking it would be it is still in solo GH range. Although I will say I have gone a little more caster then melee dps in boss fights in GH. Gear wise he is still fairly light, I found a level 14 rapier that Samius used a ton for trs and normal play back in the day and passed it over to him. The flame blades are fine for most things but as I misread the fire elemental perks thought it was up 3 down 3 for spell level. Turns out it is up 1 down 3. So I am using that rapier and my old caster melee weapon. Think I will upgrade that Threnal war blade to become my off hand caster weapon at some point, I need to see what augments I have sitting around in my bank /AH for my level.

Over all I am mostly a melee caster although I am just a feat away from manyshot and Weapons of Purity is online next level I think so some sweet manyshot action is about to happen.

Just in case you missed it:

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Okay I need to get to work,

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