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My eighteen-year-old self would be so totally jealous, if only he knew.


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Starting several updates ago, I think around U14, DDO started to become a real thorn in my side. Random crashing while zoning into wilderness areas that grew in frequency to a point of crashing while zoning in nearly anywhere. Crashes and general slowness especially after doing inventory maintenance while doing toon hopping. A few days […]


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Without a Dev tracker its a harder to bring you DDO news. Here’s a list of links leading to Dev latest forum posts individually. Some devs don’t have posts linked to their profile; I suspect its because of issues with the new forums. Tolero Cordovan SqueakOfDoom Vargouille KookieKobold QuartermasterX PurpleFooz Eladrin Gazebo MajMalphunktion MadFloyd Fernando [...]

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And so the survivors of the MyDDO Mourning arrived in the blogosphere of DDOGamer. The good king Geoff allowed them to form their own settlement, which they called … well they still called it DDOGamer. There they built up a small city and tried to rebuild their blogs. Many questions about the fall of MyDDO [...]


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As many of you know, despite being a long-time DDO player with just under seven years under my Belt of Thoughtful Rememberance, it wasn’t until the last year or so that i was able to reach the upper echelons of adventuring.  This was mostly due to serious alt-itis and a penchant for playing exclusively solo […]


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Due to a schedule conflict and a number of people sending in messages saying (xp weekend should be this week) plans are shifted to TR Train this weekend, aka no time for double TR Doctor Jones! *While Writing Update* DDO Bonus Days brings you +15% Heroic and Epic XP, now through Wednesday, May 22nd! #DDO … Continue reading »


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However, this fact (that one can acquire decent items cheaply) also means you cannot sell your own decent items for very much.


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Yet still, they must have some origin. Are they hatched? Spawned? Gestated? Cloned? Did they ever have mommies?


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The Neverwinter intro movie was the last thing I simply enjoyed. Everything else was annoying.


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It has come to my attention that any link to the DDO forums that I have posted in the past no longer work. Since Turbine got the bright idea to “update/upgrade” the forums all the old URL’s have changed. I will do my best to try and repair them and have them link to the...


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After completing some Vale of Twilight quests, I recalled and ended up in the Twelve. I headed back into the Vale to pick up my end reward. The entire time, the chorus to Neil Diamond’s song “Coming to America” was stuck in my head, but the lyrics were changed a bit: We’re running to Meridia, [...]


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There's plenty of gaming news to make up for the lack of DDO news. And of course, fun and funny, good times all around.


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There are also two baby Kobolds, one of which is asleep, and a teenager-sized Kobold that is ignoring everything. It seems teenagers are the same regardless of species.


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When I finally took the plunge and started a VIP subscription, I suddenly had more character slots than I knew what to do with, so I turned them into extra storage. This is the system that I set up: 1. Their first names all start with the letter Z so that they show up at the [...]


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  So, there I was, sitting on my tiny little hiney, when all of a sudden, I thunk to myself, ‘Hey Natty Nat! why dont we write a blog?!’ To which my reply was, ‘YEAH! Lets write a blog!’ So here I am, sitting on my tiny little hiney, still, now writing a blog about [...]


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I haven’t posted in a long time (nothing new there ), so now I’m going to ramble on about two topics:   1.) The Shroud – Phase 3:   I have to say, the Shroud is my favorite raid (and the first one I learned in the game). Over my past 4 lives I think [...]


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There are no great swoops, no aerobatics, no real change in posture. It seems more like being pushed through the air than of actively flying.


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One can select from a variety of blades that grow out of almost every surface on the character's head.


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All that plus a live Top Ten as well as the usual news, repartee and random hijinks: a good show, and definitely worth your time to give it a view or listen.


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All dressed up, with no booty to plunder


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So yesterday I think I learned the meaning of shit rolls down hill as my supervisor pulled me into his office for our weekly meeting let me know that we are finally expanding our web department and then proceeded to tear me a new asshole. The whole time he kept saying things that seemed to … Continue reading »


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Well, hell’s bells!

But, first a little about my playstyle…I have been playing DDO for 7 years (a little past launch) and have only capped 2 characters (extreme altaholic here), one of which is on his first TR journey.  This leaves my level 22 Artificer (Antikitherah Al’Emrys), who is sitting comfortably in Shiradi 4 with only 1 twist (Cocoon…she’s a Helf), enjoying all the oddball procs that are bundled with Double Rainbow stance

In these 7 years, I have really only PUG’d a couple of times (not too bad), soloed 97% of the time, with a little grouping with transient player-friends thrown-in for good measure.  This being said, I have not raided much (a few solo runs in Chronoscope, and more recently some solo normal runs with that bitchy red head in the desert), nor have I any real endgame loot.  In my quest to “gear-up” now that I have some free time to kill (pun implied), I’ve been running around in various Elite difficulties in the Harbor and Desert for scrolls and stuff (I’m looking at you Golden Guile).  After ransacking the Servant’s chest on EN and running Lord’s of Dust, scoring little more than a pittance of Token Fragments (hey, at least I have enough to make one Token), I decided to take on the first room of the Wizard King while waiting for my Panther summon timer to expire, so that I could continue to ransack the General’s chest for the Ring of Spell Storing.

I figured I’d get a little XP from killing the Den Mother in Elite Wizard King and perhaps find a scroll or something.  After clearing the room on EN and getting nothing more than 1 Token Fragment, I decided to up my ante and resolved to go in on EH the next time.  Although a tad more difficult, I didn’t have too many issues on EH thanks to Pin and Otto’s Whistler.  It was here that I saw my first Seal (Staff of Arcane Power, of which I don’t even have the base item) ever!  There it was in the locked chest in the first room, and I thought to myself, hmm, that’s what they look like…I was so proud of my self.

Another jaunt to the General (who of course wasn’t there) and I was back inside the Wizard King (wait, that doesn’t sound right), but on EE!!!  What can I say, I really felt like testing myself.  So, I throw-on every buff I can and head inside to discover just how quickly I would meet my demise.  I pull the first Gnoll and Pin him while backing up, ready to strike with Otto’s Whistler once he breaks free from my Pin.  This happens (he’s about 1/2 down at this point) and now I got him dancing; he doesn’t last long after that.  Now I’m thinking to myself that I can handle this, if only I can keep everything at a distance, and of course don’t waste a Pin or Otto’s Whistler with a reload animation.  At this point I am really only concerned about getting tripped by the Hyenas, which at this level is automatic if they get close.

The next couple of alcoves are cleaned-out fairly easily, with IPS and some trick-shots getting 2-3 Gnolls pinned and dancing at the same time.  Even with the pinning, dancing, and paralyzing (due to Nerve Venom), being outside of PBS range was killing my DPS, even with blasts from my Corruption of Nature (it was hard to get a full blast of 5 shots due to constantly moving).  I probably should have laid-down all of my Endless Fullisade’s, but you know what they say about hindsight.  Healing Spring and Rejuvenating Cocoon was enough to keep me mostly capped on health and only a few stuns and Greater Commands to worry about.  Now it was time to head-up the ramp and see what I could get into.  It’s here where everything went pear-shaped.

I gingerly advance up the left ramp to pull the first Gnoll and pin him.  This is accomplished, and I’m now heading down the ramp, charging my Rune Arm and volleying bolts .  I then notice that everyone else is moving around too…crapballs!  So I do my best to line as many of them up (a difficult thing to do with the elevation of the ramp) and hit Pin.  I get a few of them, but all of sudden I’m stunned…great!  Next comes a Greater Command and I’m on the floor with the whole Pound Puppy brigade heading my way.  Luckily I’m up before the next stun hits and am able to pop-off a Cocoon for an additional 150 HPs and a handful of mediocre ticks of healing.  This is enough to allow me to put some difference between me and the rabid horde.  I am able to Pin and dance a few of them, but in survival mode I’m in no position to take advantage of their Helpless states.  Unfortunately, all of the casters are now down in the middle of the room with me and I’m trying to make my way back to the hallway to bottle neck them a bit.

Needless to say, with spams of Greater Command and being Stunned and Slowed, I died.  But hey, I think I did rather well.  This being said, I was not going to give-up on that chest!  After getting a Seal on EH, I could only imagine the riches that awaited me inside an EE chest!  So I rez’d and was able to pick-off the remaining 3 Gnolls one by one (fairly easy to do when one can stay upright).  With the room cleared I headed for the chest, all the while envisioning the goodies that must be all snuggled-up inside, next to the crest.  I stop to ponder the riches…then I pop the chest and…nothing!

Oh well.  At least this little (but Epic) adventure showed me two things: 1) Seals do exist…now to get confirmation of Scrolls and Shards and 2) I can survive 20 mobs on EE, with only dying once

.myrddinman

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