m4lacka wrote on Mar 17^th, 2017 at 2:32am:


Ya, been steady since last year.

When I did mine it was only because I was bored and wanted to try new builds.
The people who do it for the benefits always rage quit faster. You're not wrong at all.

Asheras wrote on Mar 17^th, 2017 at 9:48am:


Maybe get DDO to build a wall, and make the ugly races pay for it?

Or maybe just a travel ban, so they don't show up in the Market with the Decent Folks.

#makeDDOgreatagain

Metal-Beast wrote on Mar 17^th, 2017 at 9:54am:


Check with Putin first.  Make sure the big boss is OK with it. 

Fools and their money.

Asheras wrote on Mar 17^th, 2017 at 9:59am:

I need to dig out my first college ID. I worked summers as a roofer, and let's just say it showed. There has never been a more tan Irishman in the history of the world. In fact, I'm not sure there had ever been a tan Irishman before that, period.

m4lacka wrote on Mar 17^th, 2017 at 2:32am:

The TR treadmill is DDO's end-game, not level 30 content. DDO is a game for flower sniffers.

It seems like a lot of people don't realize this.  Look at the amount of level-appropriate content available at 30 versus 1-20 or 1-25.  It should be obvious.

With the way DDO has been designed (right or wrong), if you don't just autopilot zerg it, the journey to level cap has more content and is more fun than sitting at 30 and doing the same 5-10 missions/raids over and over.

I'm close to completionist.  Once that's done, I'll work on finishing up epic completionist and then pick up any of the second and third PL bonuses that are moderately useful while playing some flavor builds I've thought would be cool.

The PL bonuses should help offset some of the suckage that the flavor builds come with and make them viable even if they won't be stupidly overpowered like the meta builds.  As a bonus, it might make the heroic content mildly challenging although I guess Reaper can do that now.

Even while working towards completionist, I've taken the time to play each class using it's particular strengths rather than use a Pastlifenmo style template.  It's been fun and I've learned the ins and outs of various builds and classes that I would have otherwise missed if I had zerged through them with a template.

Digimonk wrote on Mar 17^th, 2017 at 11:14am:


To be fair, the cap has only been at 30 for about a year and 2016 was the worst year for content, possibly ever.  It always takes 18-24 months to build up an inventory of content when the cap moves up.  Was true from 16-20, from 20-25, from 25-28, and it is true now.  That's a big part of the reason why I would prefer they not move the cap again.  A true end game can form, if they stop moving the goal posts back every time they get a decent amount of content at the current end point. 

If they do an expansion this fall, they will have 6 raids at cap, 3 raids at 28 (near cap) for 9 total "end game" raids.  Plus Slavers and about 25-30 other 6 man quests level 29+.  That would be the start of an end game that is interesting. 

Strake wrote on Mar 17^th, 2017 at 11:45am:


OK.  Not that bad.  July 2008-Sept 2009 with ZERO content was the worst stretch ever.  But, technically, 2008 had Shroud (and the 4 flaggers and devil assault) in Feb and in July had Reavers Reach with 4 quests and VoD and Hound.  2009 had all of the Eberron Unlimited/F2P release.  Followed quickly by IQ. 

So, 2016 was the worst calendar year for content.  Not the worst 12 months stretch.

Digimonk wrote on Mar 17^th, 2017 at 11:14am:


^THIS^

Its brilliant. The entire game becomes the endgame. Its a vast improvement over endgame consisting of "these three raids, until we raise the level cap".

Now, if the current batch of developers would simply catch up with this concept and focus on releasing more TR "twink" gear, we'd be in great shape. Its weird, the addition of racial PLs shows they clearly "get" the concept, yet what does the most recent raid over? A bunch of bullshit ML29 gear.

Compare to OG Shroud, Dreaming Dark, etc; systems designed to give you very powerful items to use on your next TR. When was the last time we got one of those? Hell, the old Shard/Seal/Scroll system of epics came back around and turned into ETR Twink Gear. Granted, not much of it was any good, but some was nice.

Quote:

Your story is falling apart, Asheras. Two races? Crafting systems? Events?

If what Alpha types is true, there is simply no comparison of the past year to the Vast and Mysterious SOOOOOON period of time.

Strake wrote on Mar 17^th, 2017 at 10:14am:

Just the Black & Tan.

5 Foot Step wrote on Mar 17^th, 2017 at 3:24pm:

Not far off, really.