Erm, no.  This is what we all want.  EZ epics.  Lots of XP Farming.  Each update pushing the power creep a little further...

Fun, right?

have you tried a lower difficulty setting

VON is not exactly hard though, is it? Tried anything a bit tastier yet?

(Yes, EDs made everything at 20+ easier.)

And now we have the outcry of HE ToEE for the masses to bitch about.   Can't win.

Urgh.  Mimic event blew chunks.  I'm actually all for having mimics be an actual part of questing.  Have a 1% chance of any chest be a mimic.  Because why not.  Giving fucking random-ass cards for mostly-worthless pieces of random-ass junk is like paying a hooker to give you AIDS.

Flav wrote on Jul 4^th, 2015 at 2:17pm:

champs was and is one of the stupidest things they ever did. it only punishes melee builds. ranged and casters never have to deal with fort bypass/true seeing/adrenaline.

Rubbinns wrote on Jul 4^th, 2015 at 8:06pm:


or deathblock

Rubbinns wrote on Jul 4^th, 2015 at 11:38pm:


what part of "casters never have to deal with deathblock" did not you understand ?

Champion can go fuck themselves. 95% of my deaths these days are because of some champion two-shotting me, and all they've done is reinforce the dominance that ranged/caster builds have enjoyed for far too long.

@original subject, VoN is one of the easier epics. Try ToEE or Necro 4 or something for a more challenging EE

Flav wrote on Jul 4^th, 2015 at 2:17pm:

Ah sorry I missed that!

Depends what you mean by melee.
Some champs like gargoyles, shadarkai, harpies hit really hard on 200 prr pally. Earth elly in toee 1, champ hezrous in part 2 or fire elly rare in part 1 or red named ogre commander are just retarded - how do you attack those on a rogue or lighter armour build like ranger perhaps ?
Or fort bypassing champion cr 73 toee archer.

It's not really that fun. Stupid encounters like that, I'd simply bring another character, that's it.

kum-gulp wrote on Jul 5^th, 2015 at 4:46am:


It's not uncommon to see monster champions in endgame EE content hitting for 300, 400 each on a decently-PRed character, and since they usually come in groups, you'll have to eat that damage + what everything else is throwing at you. Best solution to me seems to not have to deal with the damage, i.e. be ranged or caster, or to be a paladin because those are the only real viable endgame melee characters right now. If you're melee, your only hope is to get an absurd amount of PRR/HP/Healing... and the most efficient way to do that is paladin. And even if you are a paladin...

Wipe wrote on Jul 5^th, 2015 at 5:12am:

So yeah, even if you can survive these encounters on, say, a paladin... what about other melee builds? I know that in heroics, you can run melee rangers, rogues, ninja monks, unarmed monks, kensei THF or TWF fighters, hell TWF barbarians even, bastard sword artificers, eldritch knight fighters, and all sorts of other builds. Even if the heroic game is easy, you can't deny that it allows for greater build diversity, and that IMO is one of the shining points of DDO.

Endgame content is a turnoff for me because it fucks over what is otherwise a decent system in heroic. Very few builds are viable in the current endgame (and even less melee builds), and it's been like this for a long time now.