This story begins about 1.5 years ago.

Once upon a time in the great land of Eberron, I was a complete noob and I was obsessed with the idea of TRing (Note that I still am). Therefore, I began my journey looking for the Holy True Heart of Wood. 20 tokens would it take to find it, and 15 min would it take to get one single token.
At that time, epic big top was by far the best place to farm tokens and it would take approximatively 10-15 minutes to complete it. So every 2 days, I would run eBig top and run some other quests. I would get a heart of wood after 1 week.

A long time later in a galaxy far, far away, challenges were born, granting close to 1 token per run and for 5 minutes. You guessed it, it would take me a couple of hours to get my 20 tokens.

A lot more recently (in fact, yesterday), I was able to get 20 tokens in an hour.
From my experience, eH DA has around 80% chance to give you 2 full tokens, so you are sitting at 19.2 tokens for 50 minutes. Considering how easy eH DA is, you can easily solo it while 5 boxes pike.

(Note : also 100k plat worth of vendor trash, 2 larges, 2 shards & 3 augments).

All of a sudden, Turbine made TRing (for those that actually farm tokens for hearts of wood) very easy.

Ewilan wrote on Aug 21^st, 2012 at 8:18am:

So you're 6 boxing to get 19.2 tokens in 50 minutes?  Yeah, doesn't really count for the 99% of us.

Carpone wrote on Aug 21^st, 2012 at 8:44am:


Alright I'm gonna help you even more.

Your friends can come and help you as tokens are tradeable in chest or you can do as follows and split it up on 2 computers if your comp. can't run that many clients.

1. Copy your Turbine folder in 5 older folders (respectively Turbine1, Turbine2, Turbine3, ... , Turbine6).
2. Open Notepad.
3. Copy paste:

cd "C:\ path to Turbine1 folder"
start turbine launcher
cd "C:\ path to Turbine2 folder"
start turbine launcher
cd "C:\ path to Turbine3 folder"
start turbine launcher
exit

Note: I run 2 computers with 4 boxes on one, 2 on the other.

4. Save it as "ddobox.bat" (needs to be .bat file)
5. Run ddobox.bat on both computers and you have your 6 boxes ready to roll.

Now that's the easy part, the harder part is having trusted friends or having your own accounts (which stones of experience made super easy).

I'm just giving you an alternate path to grinding tokens. It's not hard to do and to me it seems like a great thing on the long term.

Edit: And for those that are worried about soloing, it's really easy and don't forget you have more boxes with full mana bars that can take over.

I am part of the 1%.  This is the first time for me.  I feel like peanut butter.

Epoch wrote on Aug 21^st, 2012 at 9:00am:


There's a first time for everything. It hurt me the first time as well but I promise I will be gentle.

Ewilan wrote on Aug 21^st, 2012 at 8:56am:

Yeah, because they don't want tokens too.  And I thought I had bad people skills.

Do have them friended on facebook and show private booby photos?

Bah, my PC is too weak. I can barely dualbox with it. I have another PC, but anytime I try DDO on it, it crashes. I will have to study the case in the vault some day, but not today.

I hope a dev reads that.

I was being serious smacky.  Except for the raid part.  I couldn't give a shit about anything in it except the wraps for my collection.  This is only because i obsess over having ever set of wraps in the game on my monk,

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I think I spent about 1200~1300 on my desktop.  My laptop was just a petty childhood dream of having the money to get an overpriced alienware laptop.  I had the money, so I did.  Childhood desire fulfilled.

Epoch wrote on Aug 21^st, 2012 at 10:20am:


Meh. I will try to get my other PC running with DDO, I think.
My childhood desire now is to win the lottery and never ever work again. I will unnecesarily evade taxes opening an account in Switzerland, just to be MOAR rich. When the tax officers get me, i will blame my parents.

What is the current junk in your comp?