Ah Pook wrote on Feb 15^th, 2017 at 3:37pm:


It's no use.  I tried a few times, I really did.

He complained that his CC skill was only good for level 21 items on his level 30 char, and at zero on his level 21 char.  Then he blamed me for mixing the two up even though it was he who dragged the second one into the thread for some idiot reason.  And then he focuses on my "conflating" them while avoiding the point, as if it was somehow my fault he'd done it backwards, and/or refused to have a crafting character on each server.

Now we've seen 3 idiot characters of his, and you need to remember that he plays another couple dozen of these across all the servers.

A long time ago, in a thread far, far away I counseled him to pick 3 or 4 characters and focus one on casting, running all the heroic PLs on it and picking all the casting EPLs, focus one on melee and do the same, and etc. for whatever else he wanted, like ranged or whatever.  And to stop being a prat and refusing to run a character as any other race than the one he started it on, because "flavor."  Thee IPLs in Sun Elf are good for any Lock, and then return to the flavor race in the end.  Play a fucking Half-Orc Warlock, no one cares, it's just 1 DC for the CHA penalty.  Just don't gimp your idiot flavor build completely by refusing to take advantages where you can for that idiot flavor build.

But he is perpetually helpless.  He just loves to throw his hands up in the air and proclaim that things are too hard for him.  He fails to see that he himself is the largest roadblock in the way of his ever advancing, in anything.

Having been given great, useful and actionable advice from a variety of sources please put as much of it as possible into action given the physical, financial and mental deficiencies you've laid out.

Seriously bro, people are really trying to help you which is unexpected here. Your response is the equivalent of a lifeboat from the Titanic manning machine guns to repel a nearby ship. Your indifference to the facts about why your builds, play style and game mechanics intersect in a way that's incompatible with consistent success is the common denominator.

Failing your willingness to self reflect upon why the consensus is that you're a complete fucking buffoon, other actions could include:
1) Time travel a few decades back to Nobodyfuckingcaresshire to pass out condoms at the Institute for Recessive Genes where you were conceived,
2) Cutting back on eating lead paint,
3) Continuing to humiliate yourself in the gormless manner you've cornered the market on, or
4) Learning to shut the fuck up and just humiliate yourself in private.

Please do not breed.

This thread is so full of win.  So many vaulties trying to be helpful when it would
clearly have been more productive to just put your dick in a vice and be done
with it.  Thanks for the vids though Fran - you should make more.

Perhaps a 'Challenge Fran' thread would be in order?

FranOhmsford wrote on Feb 13^th, 2017 at 8:14pm:


Can't believe I watched that video what was I thinking? For a player that claiming to have played for a while now, you still have so much to learn playing DDO. If you can't finish Servants at 18 on elite with a warlock on, you should re roll that lock of yours and figure out what went wrong!

PS Go get yourself a jibbers and a hireling on a warlock? You put warlock users to shame 

Digimonk wrote on Apr 6^th, 2017 at 5:36pm:


Hey, now!  Ditch digger is an honorable profession, do not besmirch this valuable societal role.  Fran can not work.

bob the builder wrote on Apr 7^th, 2017 at 3:01pm:


It's not like you need to manually aim in this game. You get the best of both worlds with RMB.