Then the servers go dark.

Clearly from here you start obsessively collecting every rare item in the game.

noamineo wrote on Sep 3^rd, 2017 at 1:05pm:


This. And if you happened to destroy your Starter Rags somewhere down the line, then you must delete your character, start over, and collect those rags again since you ain't ever getting a new pair.

...Seriously though, do people actually have the unending patience/bottomless wallets necessary to get 3 Iconic, 3 Racial, 3 Heroic, and 3 of every Epic life? If I did the math correctly (and assuming that for every Iconic PL, you also get a Heroic PL), then that's a little bit more than 100 past lives. That's either thousands of hours wasted or thousands of dollars wasted just for this single game.

I like the TR system precisely because it's something of a pipe dream to get 3 of every single life, and thus DDO becomes effectively a never-ending game that I can return to whenever (not that I would really want to these days though). To actually attain that goal of 3 of every life either requires some autistic-levels of obsession with the game or addictive spending habits devoted to this game. I couldn't imagine doing that, but I'd imagine that if I ever completed that, then I'd just quit DDO or at least take a hiatus until Turbine releases other systems in the game to focus on.

Jelly_Muffin wrote on Sep 3^rd, 2017 at 7:08pm:


Are you referring to thousands of dollars, or thousands of hours? Because I will dispute anyone who argues that getting triple everything doesn't require thousands of hours of playtime.

Even assuming you're some TAS-speedrunning wizkid at DDO, that's still going to take you thousands of hours of playtime if you're not abusing Otto's boxes.

Clean your banktoons with outdated items.
Farm some ings for next classreleases.
Wait for le shroudruns...
Thats what im doing in 3 weeks 

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I was talking dollars ...... playing DDO for years is obviously going to add up to thousands of hours and those thousands of hours will equal triple this that and whatever

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The TR system rolled out...almost 8 years ago? There are now 108 lives to run. If you averaged them out, it's almost a month per life. That's a pretty leisurely pace to do it completely above board.

I don't expect anyone has bought 108 lives, but many people have bought a few and you're also ignoring the fact that some people have augmented their xp under the table.

Nobody needs all those PL's.  Please.  The obsessive part is the part where you decide you need to spend 7 years of your life collecting every possible PL the game offers.  When half of them add no value to your character.  Or extremely nominal value not worth the time investment.

I've enjoyed this game for 9 years because A) I take breaks.  B) I don't need or want every PL on every character  C) I spend long stretches of time at cap and raiding and doing other things besides PL's. 

Oh.  and D) I have some really cool people I hang out with when I do play.  Great folks that are fun to spend time with.