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Aww, they added more synergies with wf for artificers? And here I am with all these robes. And hmm, is +damage rolls to repeaters gone*? (only seems to apply to nonrepeating crossbows now). Bows are looking great though. *Nevermind, I can't read. Slight +damage to repeaters nerf since it's not there on all crossbow options. Back to griping about what they did to my poor capstone.  And skill points in UMD  And planning a monkcher TR.edit: V I think they were viable before this, but now they are more viable without doing extensive multiclass builds? More importantly, for ranger... tempest looks better. Noricae fucked around with this message at 02:00 on Aug 20, 2013 |
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I've gained about 25-35 on most characters I've gone through. My artificer gained the most (183 to 211ish? maybe a bit more - because repeaters become spell based weapons, based on the + of the weapon). Really missing the old artificer capstone. I have a 13 cleric / 3 monk that has... a *lot* of build choices open for her and I think that synergy may result in a much higher increase. Kind of hard to fit 4-5 trees in on one character (maybe at cap). And racial toughness not there on humans! Bah. By the way, the above was all on characters that did not LR, so spellcraft is zil. Noricae fucked around with this message at 04:03 on Aug 20, 2013 |
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DemonMage posted:And yeah Monkchers have been viable every since last expansion really. It's (was?) better to do TWF until you hit 14 and get the Bow of Sinew (or Abbot bow but gently caress that), it's possible with the new changes that you can do straight bow from the start. It also seems like pure ranger arcane archers might actually be more viable now as well, or even Deepwood Snipers. So that's cool. Epic Feat make-a-wish: Greater Improved Precise Shot: "your improved precise shot now targets enemies in a 90 degree arc in front of you" And gaining hp? Yes! I noticed that too but I didn't know why because, well I didn't see racial toughness. So that's why. And I am totally dropping toughness on some future builds (some classes are so tight on feats! druid, bard multiclasses, imo). Nice. There was no way I was going to put 40 points into Arcanotechnician, so that (awesome) artificer capstone loss hurts. The focus on lightning and the dog is not great for my playstyle. I plan on a bunch of TRs on her (main), but any artificer lives may be heavily multiclassed. All rogue lives as rogue mechanic + arti multiclasses though! That looks great. So: so far the enhancement pass has been great, but I do not have a sorcerer at cap and they may have gotten hit a bit. I'm happy and I think it opens up a lot of multiclass builds again. My clonk is a mess. I really don't know what to do other than "put points everywhere and play like a melee" but I want allll the trees. But I just finished with her (16) and she's up 44 (positive) spell power (?! <3 shintao, and I only took a bit of it). Noricae fucked around with this message at 04:20 on Aug 20, 2013 |
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Aug 20, 2013 04:09
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The most useful pet in DDO has been that MoTU preorder panther (is that in the store separately?) and now maybe the owl bear pet? They survive a lot longer than my iron defender (which, to be honest, has also slowly wittled away enemies while I lay dead there at a final boss stage).
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Aug 20, 2013 10:04
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Toughness - no! Only if you want epic toughness or 23 hp or want to stack 10 of them. Dagger, maybe? Changes in the rogue trees look interesting, and one enhancement (5th level) extends crit range by +1. It also extends kukris by +1 so midnight greetings is looking good (again?). I don't know about slicing blow but I assume it's still pitiful since I've heard nothing about it.
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Aug 20, 2013 15:03
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Woden posted:edit: also of note hearts of wood no longer reset 20th lists and instead will give you just normal vendor trash. Nooo! That's horrible! Glad I got my torc.
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Aug 21, 2013 03:08
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I don't think there is, other than trying to use one and it won't let you. And yep, traps still kill you on heroic elite if you get hit a few times. In fact, stuff like Litany of the Dead's force trap parade or Crucible kills my lvl 25 arti with 44 reflex if I get hit more than a couple of times.
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Aug 21, 2013 18:52
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FvS caster looked great, but I couldn't find any motivation to make a melee FvS build anytime. The bard enhancements look super underwhelming too, and they removed a tree so I guess more stuff is planned for them (please please)? I guess I'm glad my bard is a rogue multiclass because there is lots of nice potential there (would a repeater bard be more or less gimpy than an already pretty gimpy twf bard?). And I LOVE the uncoupling feats from a lot of enhancements - notably the necro wizard uncoupling and the dragonmark reduction in feats. Also toughness. So much more room to experiment. The people on the forum were complaining about the enhancements because they looked not this good a while back, and because everyone and their mother had a sorc farming EE content and they didn't want spellpower reductions
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Aug 21, 2013 21:28
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They would make a killing in the store if they put in an item that bypasses rolling a 1=instafail
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Aug 21, 2013 22:43
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DemonMage posted:All the level 27 epic save feats do that, as do most/all of the destiny abilities to boost saves at tier 3. 
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Aug 22, 2013 00:15
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Even solo, the second or third run of something is 8000% faster. I remember that end quest in Korthos being a slog my first run through. Don't give up! But yeah grouping is much nicer. At the very least you can laugh at the guy that died in a trap.
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Chuch posted:Ability to run at full speed while charging my Rune Arm Other than wishing I had a level or two of rogue (umd, crossbow, sneak dice) the pass has been great for artificers, agreed. I can't imagine having an unloved artificer alt (?!? does not compute).edit: V damnit! Noricae fucked around with this message at 12:32 on Aug 22, 2013 |
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http://ddowiki.com/page/Nature%27s_Vengeance isn't too bad, and then Rahl's might (maybe) or just the Forgotten realms staff from turnins. And cross fingers for a Drow staff of the weaponmaster. But yeah they need to add a lot more non-mage options. My bars look just like Wodens - but I have 2 stacks on the right side and all bars out. I really need them to add more skill bars to the game. I don't have any nonessential destiny stuff up either. Noricae fucked around with this message at 13:26 on Aug 23, 2013 |
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Fenris13 posted:Even thought it isn't a traditional melee weapon, http://ddowiki.com/page/Item:Stave_of_the_Seer is pretty drat good for leveling a dex based QS build. The 1.5[2d6] is really good, and with shileagh and all the +[w] attacks in the new enhancement system, it hits like a truck for its level. Plus takes care of true seeing, and has two red slots.
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Aug 23, 2013 23:43
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Woden posted:Do other MMOs have these sort of outages or is Turbine just bad at the internet? edit: I guess NOT. Made me patch and all and no go. Noricae fucked around with this message at 19:11 on Sep 2, 2013 |
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Sep 2, 2013 18:38
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I'd love for the +2 loot thing to be extended. All I was wanting to do was farm things!
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The? The! The whattttt?! Haha. I've gotten a lot of strange errors lately (since the downtime this weekend). Entrances to quests would not load, sometimes a boss would be invisible for me and not for my party, graphical placement glitches and the like. Just me? Just the Restless Isles (what I farmed a lot)?
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Sep 4, 2013 06:49
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Sarlona's pretty much where it was a year (or two) ago - sort of middling, with what looks like a lot of LFMs up (30-40 during peak) but nearly everyone TRing, the occasional Caught in the Web or on level lower level raid, loot farming, and no one running Shroud (?!?!). edit: Everyone wants to run elite in the LFM list. Whether or not they can handle it (usually not). Noricae fucked around with this message at 23:24 on Sep 11, 2013 |
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Sep 11, 2013 19:53
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Haha, I forgot the adventure active part. That's always 40minutes in or more too. Reasons my cleric is always anonymous. As if 3 more nincompoops joining the group will make it easier.
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Richard M Nixon posted:Of course, I know it's much more unforgiving when it comes to builds, You should just play a few classes to level 5-7 if you can so you get an idea of what feats and progression is like, and take a look at the DDO character generator (has it been updated yet? Or is there an alternative)? You can usually salvage nearly any build by level 20 anyway, and if not, then reincarnate. Worth subscribing and/or unlocking most content for sure. It's not really essential for one of you to be a cleric or similar healer at all, but having one of you have trap skills makes things a LOT more fun, especially as a couple exploring quests for the first time (great game to duo, especially puzzle heavy quests). Noricae fucked around with this message at 21:09 on Sep 12, 2013 |
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Sep 12, 2013 21:06
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Richard M Nixon posted:I don't have much experience with multiclassing so I was considering going artifacer for the ability to do great damage (right?) while still being able to disarm
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Richard M Nixon posted:Didn't know arti were considered so OP, which I like. If you are happy taking aggro as an arti, you will get lots of chances to do so, but then have the other person be relatively self sufficient or carry a hireling. My first life as an artificer was spent playing with a (gimpy, 28 pt, undergeared) ranger (we were getting him to 20 to TR), so I was responsible for healing, aggro, traps, and most of the dps. I spent a few quests jumping in circles while skills recharged and scroll healing. (Said ranger could hold aggro at level 25 with Fury of the Wild capped out destiny, even half geared and whatnot, unless I unloaded a lot of things at once). So anyway, it's a lot of fun, and let me tell you, an artificer + any other class is a lot more fun to duo as an ungeared set of players than... say, a paladin and a ranger was, which was my first set of characters with my bf. Ahaha, why yes, the paladin will take a level of rogue just for traps. That was six years ago  Don't judge.The new enhancement revamp is great, by the way, and I think there are a lot of new builds and potential for experimentation out there currently. So yeah, it's a game with good design, great puzzles, run by a semi competently managed company in terms of hardware and updates (sigh). Noricae fucked around with this message at 22:47 on Sep 12, 2013 |
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DemonMage posted:[*]ML20 and 24 Eveningstar Challenge Items now cost the same number of ingredients as their ML16 counterparts. (ML20 = 1/2 as much, ML24 = 1/4 as much as before) Also, oh poo poo, I'd better get my 25s to cap now. I wonder what the drop rate is for those +6s. Or hell +5s. "Signet trader" is making me think random % chance to get them, because I'm optimistic like that. Also gently caress dailies DemonMage posted:Pfft. Six years ago that was the total hotness, at least with two levels of rogue. Back then you could evade in full plate, paladin rogue was all the rage! Everyone was so pissed when they nerfed batman builds even though it was clearly not intended and was stated as not intended in the tooltip and by the devs. Noricae fucked around with this message at 00:56 on Sep 13, 2013 |
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DemonMage posted:And they don't drop. You have to kill the spectral dragon once a day for 4 days to get 4 signets and turn it in. Is it one signet per account or character? (I assume you don't know or you would have said, so I'm just rambling and clearing my schedule for... *checks Mabar dates*) edit: From the forums: "Don't use this stupid mechanic of Neverwinter of "Daily Quests" This! So irritating. And.. have they announced a set date when it'll be back? I can't find any info on Lammania so far. Noricae fucked around with this message at 01:02 on Sep 13, 2013 |
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Oh, not sure why I read that as an upgrade tome. Upgrade tome is what they should do, since that would be the sneakiest way to sell store tomes, honestly. That sounds interesting, but daily is going to get annoying fast. The runes look interesting too.
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Sep 13, 2013 01:41
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I assume everything stays and heroic TR is separate now, but the wording for the second point was way confusing. Also now will people on the forums stop complaining that they don't get listened to? No? Ok, I thought not.
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The biggest design change (that no one asked for) was Epic XP staying permanently? Which is.. incredible. edit: Also, so I haven't touched any of the new content (haven't bought it yet) - is there a new hub city for any Shadowfell content? Or are people just not running it so much that the brokers are nearly empty in Eveningstar? Noricae fucked around with this message at 01:19 on Sep 14, 2013 |
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DemonMage posted:[*]You don't have to max a specific destiny, you just need to earn experience inside of a sphere to be able to get one of the spheres past life feats Yeah, Eveningstar is dead - more dead than it was before the update, on Sarlona. I thought there wasn't a hub but... maybe everyone is TRing bigtime. Woden posted:we found out that +4 tomes aren't dropping in ML 27 chests anymore. So no real point in doing them other than fun.
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Novasol posted:It's simpler than you think it is. Slot in Firewall or Ice Storm, round up a bunch of enemies at once, and cast it. Watch them all die horribly. Noricae fucked around with this message at 04:07 on Sep 17, 2013 |
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What is a good use for Protection from Evil (Magic Circle) especially? I carry scrolls of it on my arcane/artificer but I almost never cast it and I'm starting to wonder whether I should prune it. I also forgot that about globe of invulnerability and mindflayers - thanks! Scorching ray is one of my two skills I cycle and spam often, but I wasn't sure how much this was the standard (and it gets annoying on fire resistant/immune bosses). (The other is arcane bolt  ). So.... if I'm still an Archmage, I'm missing out? Self healing is no issue, so I skipped opening the full line of Pale Master forms, especially since I'm not pure wiz.
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DemonMage posted:[Edit] And yeah the Protection from Evil is what he said, it's not uncommon for cleric mobs to cast it and it's super cheap to prevent it. Also important to know that Protection from Evil items and the guild ship buff for it don't work like the spell/work at all last I heard. Game_Whino posted:If you didn't take anything in the pale master tree you're missing out on 2 int (1 dc), free DR/slashing, extra hit points, and whatever else is there that you might find interesting.
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I love that guide (and the 'lives of a...' series) but I can't come close to those runs timewise. Maybe on run 5 or so of the same thing in a row I will have memorized it to be fast enough, but I dawdle and feel compelled to not run into orange or higher dungeon alerts, and then there's 5-10minutes loading dungeon maps and alt-tabbing around. Real life time > just the run itself, so sometimes I will run quests that have bad time/exp ratio technically but I have memorized all the side puzzles and whatnot and spend time doing those. Like the rat maze Necro quest I'm one of those broken people that love this quest (not on melee, esp rogue, lives!). In fact levels 16+ of the couple of rogue lives I've done have been so tedious that I'm aiming for future runs to be all arti+rogue or sorc+rogue+LR, even though I like playing a capped rogue (who's staying at cap). By the way, have date(s) for Mabar been announced yet? Noricae fucked around with this message at 06:43 on Sep 22, 2013 |
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DemonMage posted:Mabar Sneak Preview tonight from 6pm-midnight Eastern. I just love six hour events with no notice. edit: Shoot, 26+ isn't it. I'm going to have to level...
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I love my runearm! It's at least a third of my damage at level 25 (force spec'd, with force gear - still not wanting to switch to acid). I didn't *use* it much at all until level 18 because it didn't do much damage at all (until you get high level force, acid or electric imo). Playstyle of arti was so different at level 4, 12 and 25, so as long as you like learning a new way to play at about those points, it's a great class 
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Oh thank god, Shadow Crypt is still intact. Vol is kind of a bummer, but the others I never really ran or would happily trade for more options at 18+ or a reason to run Partycrashers. 'Unintended constant' is hilarious (it only took us five years to find it! - turbine).
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I really like those House C quests (am I in the minority? think so), so I'm glad to see those xps buffed! Looks pretty good overall. Also nice to add a +5 tome, but 5k favor grind is pretty awful. Maybe in a year with more content...
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That's EITHER if you finished a raid OR did a TR? (Any raid? or Epic raid only)? If heroic that sounds pretty lenient. If epic, then I'd better go TR some people asap.
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Wait! Crap! My tokens of the twelve will be useless for hearts after this? About how much time does 1k+ commendations of valor represent?
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Woden posted:Comms of Valor are BTC, old Hearts from tokens are BTC and don't stack. I guess this means zero updates to the Cannith challenges since the main legacy use for them would be gone.
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Heh, I played Neverwinter until 60 and then grouped a bunch (as cleric). So you think playing DDO clerics is masochistic? Think again. It gets much much worse. It's really not a D&D game except in minor lore though. Leveling is fun in a treadmill kind of way and there are some good modules made by players (better than 90% of the other content, which is already 300% better than the other Cryptic games' content). But yeah it made me miss DDO and actual puzzles* and character decisions and builds. *which DDO is great for if you have a really poor memory and like figuring things out again and again (if you want, which I sometimes do, especially if there are any light puzzles in the quest). Neverwinter: you cannot set your starting stats and roll between 3 main ones (17 str, 18 wis and 15 int? or maybe 15 str, 15 wis and 18 int? and permutations in between, but not lower than any mentioned values) and can't really screw your build over. That says enough about the D&Dness. After DDO, uh, I'd probably go to The Secret World or back to single player D&D stuff. Noricae fucked around with this message at 05:07 on Oct 19, 2013 |
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