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I understood that he posted a video that rest had previously posted and it was called Moustaches.  Does that count?

Dev tracker says servers back up from hotfix, Mabar officially open at 4PM EST and they're testing it until then.

mystafyi wrote on Oct 30^th, 2012 at 6:55pm:


In all my time in the last two years playing a ridiculous amount of DDO, I have never seen this. Yes, they take it down for maintenance, but 2-3 times a week? More like once or twice a month.

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first, how often in guild wars do you roll a d anything? second, are you bitching that they added to the weapon die descriptions? Last time I checked the dice info was still there, or is the caster item thing? The caster issue i chaulk up to converting to a 3d realtime effectively not perfect but it works. THirdly please elaborate on the d20 with all 1's comment... are you saying DDO is too easy?

mystafyi wrote on Oct 30^th, 2012 at 6:55pm:


If that had been what you'd actually written, you could have made this argument. What you did say was:

mystafyi wrote on Oct 29^th, 2012 at 6:41pm:


The 2-3 times in a week thing has happened maybe twice in the 2 years I've been playing, that I can remember. The "every other day" thing is pure hyperbole.

mystafyi wrote on Oct 30^th, 2012 at 6:55pm:


Can't comment; don't care.

mystafyi wrote on Oct 30^th, 2012 at 6:55pm:


Nope, that's quite correct, seeing as GW2 has no DnD aspirations whatsoever.

mystafyi wrote on Oct 30^th, 2012 at 6:55pm:


No.

mystafyi wrote on Oct 30^th, 2012 at 6:55pm:


Yes.

Overall, yes, there are true things in what you write. It's more the breathlessly spittle-flecked invective and hyperbole which makes you hard to take seriously.

Interesting.  I played Mabar for about 3 hours yesterday and was in the Summoning Chamber twice.  Both runs were smooth as pie.  I think we had 40 or so players in the first Summoning Chamber run. 

I did have one lag spike about 30-40 minutes in (maybe 6:30pm U.S. Eastern time) that was bad, but other than that, it was a fun night.

I ground it for the first time really. Took about 2-3 hours to get lvl 20 wraps. I'm good now.

Did 3 dragon runs total. One failed (not enough people). Other two were fine.

Lag hasn't been as bad for as I remember last time.

I will say I was too impatient to grind a lich dust, so I bought one off AH for 150k. I'm good with it.

Now, back to necro 4 grinding with 31% bonus!

Carpone wrote on Oct 31^st, 2012 at 8:06am:


Had terrible lag on the very first run of the dragon portion. Connection read fine, but spells were taking around 10 seconds to go off and everyone was complaining about it.

Every run after that was fine.

This may or may not be related but the night before last, during the hurricane, a few people from my friends list and guild all DCed pretty much simultaneously and then returned a few minutes later. Most of these people do not live near each other (one in Illinois, another in California, etc). Two of us on the west coast had no trouble.

Even though I didn't DC, from that point on I did notice increased rubberbanding and response lag, like what you get from high-latency play (not quite as bad as playing over satellite, but the same idea). That continued for the rest of the night. Normally I experience very little lag and hadn't had any trouble up until the moment my buddies DCed.

My suspicion is that the storm may have taken down lines, or power to an ISP, forcing the net to reroute around the issue using less optimal routing. If this is the case I wonder whether there may still be leftover routing problems for some people.

I gamed as usual last night (elite Shroud, flagging through IQ, etc) and then joined an LFM for a half-hour of Mabar and experienced no appreciable lag.

Purely anecdotal and speculative, but it seems plausible that the storm may be making things worse than they might otherwise be for some people.

Madcow430 wrote on Oct 31^st, 2012 at 1:42pm:

Don't worry. They're on it.
http://forums.ddo.com/showthread.php?&postid=4752181#post4752181

I've seen some complaints about drop rates being low in the 20-25 instances. Better to run lower level toons. My prediction is that they'll drop the rates there as well to correct the problem.

Carpone wrote on Nov 1^st, 2012 at 2:55pm:


I'm pretty sure Harry and Lloyd are the head programmers for DDO.

Carpone wrote on Nov 1^st, 2012 at 2:55pm:

Schmoe wrote on Nov 1^st, 2012 at 3:28pm:



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