Asheras wrote on Apr 9
th, 2017 at 6:55pm:
I agree with everything you said except one word.
It's a problem. Serious is a bit much. The amount of "OMG this is a travesty" displayed by Daggertooth is embarrassing for him. I don't agree with it either, but it's not that big a deal. Nobody was running level 18 or 19 quests all that much under the BB system because you ran 2 levels under and held 18. Which meant you used the vale to cap. Now you are actually more likely to run them at level 18 or 19. I've run more level 18 and 19 quests in the last month than I did in the prior 2 years. But, I still agree that a level 20 should be able to run level 19 content on reaper. But it's not in my top 10 things I don't like. Not even close.
Well obviously its not an end of the world issue, but I was severely pissed when I started the thread. When I invite people to a party I consider myself the host of that party and I ensure that I choose a quest and difficulty that will guarantee when people leave, they are saying "this is why I play DDO.. a truly satisfying experience"
Now when we were forced into doing Elite, it became a complete flop and was so utterly ridiculous and boring, it was like running something on casual. I am not great friends with the people I invite, they are just people I have played with over the years and I see them in the LFM list and I hit them up for some quests. I wanted to run Palace of Stone on reaper, we were forced into Elite which was a flop... basically they were all flops and it was a terrible time for all.
Whats more I don't "get through lives'... I look forward to reaching certain stages of each life and then running the quests at the right difficulty level and having a good time, hopefully with my various comrades etc on the server. Having the entire stock of 18's and 19's taken out of the fold *did* severely aggravate me as it so happened I dropped a big chunk of change respeccing my character and now its impossible to even find anyone to grp with because I'm now 20 and we can't do reaper. Had I known this to be the case I would have just TR'ed.