Reading.  I think I've read a good 20 books in the last 3 or so months I've given games in general a break.

Playing other games.  Yes, depending on the changes at the time, ddo is a great game - but it's not the greatest game ever.  It really becomes a habit.  You go through the same levels over and over so you can TR to get stronger and get better gear so you can go through the same levels over and over again - just slightly quicker/faster.  It's like those damned old anti-coke commercials. 

I've went weeks before, just TRing over and over and really hating damn near every second of it, but it really is a type of addiction.  I usually end up grateful when turbine screws us so bad I end up rage quitting.  I end up playing different games that might not be as challenging as DDO, but, over all, they're more enjoyable.

I've been playing this game for 8 years.  And I find I enjoy it most when I play more casually.  Making time for job, wife, kids, reading, house work, movies, TV, friends, sports, etc.  Sure, only have one completionist (not triple completionist) and about 24 epic past lives combined on my two main characters, but I enjoy playing when I get the chance.  I don't seem to burn out content nor do I get too worked up if something is broken. 

The only thing I don't do much of is play other games.  I have limited gaming time and I give most of it to DDO. 

Asheras wrote on Sep 9^th, 2015 at 4:56pm:


Depending on where you live not always true... MSI, Gigabyte and ASUS all have a range of gaming laptops which are far cheaper than that shit Dell release.

Alienware are just over priced fucking garbage for what they are, they over heat for toffee again due to Dell being fucking tards and not making the chassis with enough room in it for the hardware they install.

gawker wrote on Sep 9^th, 2015 at 2:54pm:



If it's so great why are you posting here? I mean seriously? yippee for you but anyone who manages their time properly could do all those things and still play end game content.

Just saying.

I haven't quit, but I've significantly reduced my playing since The Enhancement Crash. That was a 2-3 week break where I couldn't really play while I re-learned enhancements, and I found that when I was done I didn't really care. It didn't help Turdbin's cause that most of my guild took even longer than it took me. But since then I've played some other games both electronic and P&P. So here's my list

-More cash to spend on other games as I am now spending a couple hundred a year less on DDO (that's for my whole family, not just me, but I pay for them all so I count it)
-More time for other MMOs - I enjoyed Neverwinter Online, and I'm still loving Path of Exile.
-More time for P&P - Toon and Pathfinder mostly, but some boardgames too. I've written a couple of modules and introduced 4 newcomers this year alone.
-More movies, and the wife even got me to sit through True Blood, and it wasn't half bad.
-More time with my family (though I used to play DDO with the family). This summer we've been on trips canoeing, mushroom hunting, hiking picnics, and we've gone to 3 different county fairs.
-More woodworking - I designed and built several custom pieces this summer, and bought a new band saw.
-More gardening - with better attention to pruning I got a bumper crop of pears and peaches this year, and my grape vines are so loaded some are breaking. My tomatoes and cucumbers both sucked this year, but meh, can't win them all.
-Less stress about sucking in DDO - I'm pretty gimp now, but I don't care anymore. I don't care if I don't get gear that my build "needs", I don't care if I don't understand the current synergies, and I don't care if I can't handle even Heroic Elite at level. I putter through a few quests when my friends are available, and if we die or even wipe entirely we can just drop quest and play a different game. There is no point buying spell point pots or even new adventure packs or classes. We poke around a bit and log off. It's still fun, but in a much less intense way.

gawker wrote on Sep 9^th, 2015 at 2:54pm:

Give it a few months or years and you will pine for those DDO times and reminisce how good it used to be....   


How cheap that Alienware laptop is compared to jewellery, dresses, dinners, holidays etc.
Working out the real cost of having sex and realising the diminishing returns - the inverse relationship between the more $'s you invest, the less you seem to get.....
Having some say in YOUR sleep patterns.
Wishing you were allowed to wear a headset and read forums.
Forgetting what a dice looks like....

You'll see, just you wait until the honeymoon period is over.....


Good luck mate!   

I had a 7 month break, then played for 1 month, had another 7 month break and have been back now about three months.

A break from DDO is sometimes the best thing to reinvigorate DDO!

But anyway real life is cool too....

Why I don't have to quit DDO to improve anything:

- Didn't play DDO more than one to two evenings a week, so it is still fun to me.
- I didn't grind anything ever (but two torches and that was fun) Duped everything I needed and don't care for the rest.
- Got a good guild and don't run much outside the guild
- I have ten toons, but I only play whatever got boosted by Turbine recently. No need to get mad about my lackluster cleric atm. No need for "buff me" and "nerf them" threats either.
- DDO kind of saves money for me because an evening with DDO is cheaper than most other things I do when I have some time and need to relax.
- My wife is fine with DDO. When I play she can watch StarTreck on the widescreen or sing karaoke with her girls, thanks god for gamer headphones.

gawker wrote on Sep 9^th, 2015 at 2:54pm:


I understand your post to mean that you are fully hooked on DDO and currently playing, albeit in state of denial.

Also that you are having no sex whatsoever.

I am sitting the house of my parents in law this weekend in the Westerwald, that is kind of Germanys Scotland. People speak with strange accent and it's raining cats and dogs. Nothing to do here all day long but plundering the huge fridge, watching netflix and playing DDO. I am still quite happy with it. And the free beer helps with cove and the bitching about a unneeded class. With mechanic and a bunch of good other TWF options around who needs a fucking (pure) ranger anyway? For their survival skills? Hide and seek? The wilderness areas?