Category Archives: DDo

Content?

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This week has been a strange one. First of all i haven’t been playing a ton of DDo, hence the lack of While We R Playings. I hope to record a few hours worth this weekend for new week if you one enjoying the show. Second of all I got a “conditional” offer to join the USPS aka the post office. I had to go in and fill out more paperwork to be pushed up the chain a little more then assuming that last bit of red tape is cut then i can head to training then some more training and then a little more. The weather turned some and it has been cold, windy, cold and now freezing ice aka winter in Kansas, but that is fine as i learned of and applied for a job at one of GreatPlains’s competitors in their programming department. If i can get that then i can build some real QA/tester experience for when Turbine comes calling.  Then more or less right below the job at AGCO, I found my former job listed. Lots of strange ups and downs. And to top things off i got my anniversary gift from Great Plains (they like to hand them out at the office Christmas party each year). Good times.

Well that counts as content, right? At least a little i think. Here after lunch i plan to DDo some and then maybe i will have some worth wild things to say but right now i am mostly just reading or sitting around watching different shows. Not shitty day time television don’t worry about my sanity yet. I am not watching 15 hours of Oprah or anything. I am re-watching Stargate: Atlantis and just getting into Rescue Me. First time on Rescue Me, it is real good and Callie Thorne does’t hurt the old eyes if you know what i mean.

Well time for lunch,

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U20 Loot, Like there are Other Things.

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For today’s post i want to look at the new loot in U20. With 2 quests there is not that much to examine but what the hell. To be lazy i am just going to run the link out to the wiki and then just reference as needed. http://ddowiki.com/page/Update_20_named_items

Golem’s Heart: An augment…Blue? Good start. ml 28? Boo. Proc 2% does some damage heals some damage. Think that 2% is a little low but for the most part it is cute. Not worth farming for but i would be super happy to have one in the chest.

Hunter’s Slayer: Silver Greatsword.. Wish i would have caught this before Monday’s While We R Playing as an option to eSOS, not in raw power but with the much easier ability to farm up. 3.5[2d6] 17-20×2 is a respectable damage profile atleast while farming up that SOS shard. As a all in plan it wouldn’t be bad but i think some of its properties makes it more appealing to people that are not 100% dps all the time or for those that want to add it to their golf bag vs a fairly large subset of mobs.

Cyran Guard: This is a docent right? So it is meant for arty pets? Because it doesn’t DOOOOO anything. I wouldn’t even give it to my robot dog….

Deconstructor: Another augment, this one gives 2 worth wild properties in the right slot.  ml 26? Fuck yeah! Much better.  Adamantine and 3d6 damage to constructs… So Ady is lvl 12 so 3d6 TO CONSTRUCTS IS WORTH 14 MORE LEVELS to the minimum level? wtf…. /facepalm wtf? But on the flip side it is LEVEL FUCKEN 26 which is 2 lower then the other new named augment but it is +1 than Draconic Soul Gem. Yeah makes sense.

 

Well that was fun times. Agree/Disagree? Comment Below.

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While We R Playing ep 3 (DG and NEW Content)

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Hi all. Yep time for ep 3, this time we get most of the guild on not everyone but most. We saddle up and rock one of the new quests even now i am not 100% what it’s name was… But that is all in the show. There could be spoilers but i don’t think so. Anyway show link: Here!

EDITED: Paid for the upgrade to host from here and there was much rejoicing.

Or Download: whilewerplayingep3

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Short and Hairy

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I have been dancing around this idea for a while now but after reading Geoff’s article this morning i think now is the time to stand and stay this out loud. Dwarf’s are currently the master race. And if you want to have the idea low gear leveler i think you want a dwarf rouge/X build.

That feels good to say… Hope it was super controversial. It was in my mind…

I feel like i lead the curve on things like this and then jump ship right as it becomes main stream. So i half feel like there will be a huge up swing in the fat halfling characters. I remember reading a tag some were that said something like: Will play any class or race except dwarf and rangers, they are the easy buttons of DDo.

Now i dont know about the ranger thing, but i will say 6 or so ranger levels are fairly sweet. But i totally agree that the dwarf is the master race right now knocking the plastic helfs off their throne for the foreseeable future.

I currently have 4 actively being played dwarfs or fat halflings, Samius, Butterzotch, As400 and SamiusJr. And i have to say the racial line is amazing.

  • Massive amounts of Con and HP equals staying alive power, no brainer.
  • Iron Stomach is great, drink any pot and get lots of perks.
  • MORE SWEET AXE ACTION!!!!!!
  • Bonuses to Tactics, if you are a tactics person you know how important these bonuses are.
  • The dragonmark gives SR, a forcefield and an earth grab attack… Okay so SR and forcefeild bitches!
  •  And Throw your weight around, WTF? Con give HP, Con is damage, Con is HPDPS? Yes please!

And you know that mountain line is not bad either, if you have the HP do you really need reflex saves? Just twist them in.

Also my quick 2 cents on what is the best single class to level up. Is the one that had the lowest score, yep for me it was the fighter. Namely when i was doing the tank on the cheep thing he mostly leveled to cap solo at the time. All he needed was the best AC i could muster for the least amount of work all the amp i could fit in after that and a Vamp Morningstar of PG (i think) with a guild slot… I felt unkillable most of the time on Samyus back then. His Ac was always solid so i didn’t take a lot of damage what i did take i was able to heal back with a cleave/great cleave and when it was time to fight the boss i would haste up and go as big dps as i could. 9/10 times i could get them before they got me. If i were to do it again yep he would be a dwarf… They are just too good not to play right now.

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Week 1 Unemployed, review/thoughts

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This week has been a strange one, as you know i have been reading and working through this really great book 48 days Until the Work You Love, and i have been really debating on what i want to do and for whom. And a few really clear thoughts have come to me.

First i want to be in entertainment as my vocation. Not that i want to be an entertainer directly, although if i could make enough money podcasting or twitch streaming that wouldn’t be the worse thing ever.

Second, all these ideas for books have been popping into my head. All kinds of books from little kids books to very much not for little kids books. And i think i will be working on some of these ideas in the future regardless of where i get a steady paycheck.

Third, a cover letter keeps entering my mind, a very specific letter to the people at Turbine… Part of the 48 day process is to open up and be completely true to yourself and find the thing/place where you will be happy to get up go to work and that drive allows you to excel. I have joked about working at Turbine before and i have even applied for and got fairly high in the interview process. I can’t help but wonder if now is my time? I will try, i have nothing to lose and everything to gain so that is a no brainier.

In other areas, this week has been a good one migraine wise, makes me wonder if that office setup was a big trigger. I am not pain free, but i have only had one flare up over what i would call level 6 and that is a great week! I still haven’t slept much but i feel fine wonder if there is another crash in my future?

Okay, i need to take care of some things and i want to try and get some ddo time in today before heading to the shop for FNM see you all on Monday if not sooner.

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Is Eldritch Knight going to be any good?

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So for a while now i have been leveling as400 with no real plan other then to xp with Tobril while he is rocking on his completionest run. What has happened is we TR xp until level 3-4 real live happens i get back on and he is level 18… Tobril has a few stones of xp to help with his quest, btw.. So i slowly grind the rest of the way up catching Tobril from time to time but more or less i got nothing.

A plan would help a lot if i had one. To that end i have been looking at the Eldritch Knight and hoping for a plan.

Now i love me some melee wizards. Think i might have made my name on the them in fact and i am hoping that they will be returning to a place of play ability. That said i don’t think you can do eE content as a melee Wiz and i am not sure that this PRE will help but eH? Maybe.

Stay with me but i have a hard time reading the PRE break down out of game but i am going to try…

Looks like the core enchantments are fine, not amazing and not so good that i have to take 20 levels in wizard so that is good. A small amount of double strike and 3d4 to 4d4 of an element based on a toggle? One more d4 is not so important that i have to take 18 levels even so that is good. 17/2/1 or 16/2/2..  The main question for my EK build is do i want PwK or can i live with out?

So what do i see a melee wiz looking like now? How about a dwarf 17wiz/2rog/1fighter or a 16/wiz/2rog/2pally going dual Daxes and heavy armor? Stacking up as many layers of defenses as possible while maxing out the melee potential and later in those eE quests shifting into more of the MM caster with the option to melee once a real melee has the agro.

So as i level 400 up i will be waiting and gathering gear to go this way using the +20 heart turbine gave us to “fix” our builds due to the enchantment revamp.

 

Okay think i might need to xp while i am simi-motivated only 12 levels to go to catch up with Tobril…

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Did I Rage?

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Last night I got a tweet from Phlor with a link to an article on Massively.com about players of DDo having a “sit” in to protest the TR costing changes. For those of you that (like myself) don’t really stay up to date ddo news, Turbine is removing the 20 epic tokens (sorry tokens of the twelve) to buy a heart of wood for TRing as an option. Making the buy in the store option a lot more attractive as the other in game option as I understand it will be a lot more grind then the normal populace is ready/willing to do.

My reply is many layered but simple, Turbine fucked up when it added buy a heart in game for epic tokens and I think are just now taking steps to repair it. They took a real in game personal currency (limited based on your willingness to epic and bta) more or less totally deflated its worth and then said well you can buy this thing from the store with them….

So to that end I think moving them back to the store is a valid option. I know that most of my Tp went into TRing Samius when he was on the completionist train. I might have had a life or two for free but most of his lives were done using hearts from the store (as many as I could bought when they were on sale).

Can people complain? Sure.
Can they leave or say they are leaving? Also sure.
Do I think they will? No.
There is a track record of people saying they are leaving but then don’t.

Guess my thing is I know that Turbine (and yes I know there is more to Turbine then just DDo) now has to answer to higher powers each quarter. Last I checked the ddo section of turbine didn’t have a huge push in hires to make more products to sale to cover their share of the accountability to WB. So they have to take back something that was free to cover the costs in redoing the TR system, which by all accounts (again that I hear as I am too lazy to look at things myself) is fairly good.

I for one would rather them make money off the hearts again then do like a over arching 5% higher tax on everything or reduce the number of sales or a dozen of other things they could do to make larger profits. And as I understand it is doable to farm up hearts in game, but again it is not for the lazy.

My rage (if I have any) is at them once again making a new currency and ripping the bottom totally out of an existing one vs reusing the existing currency or at least buffing the now worthless currency…

Okay I need to head to work,
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