Carpone wrote on Dec 21^st, 2017 at 10:20am:


I agree.  Ran the raid last night.  Really enjoyed it overalll.  But didn't need the second run through the puzzles.  Would have been better as:

1)  Initial Beat down outside.

2)  Puzzle Run

3)  Gem Room

4)  Back outside for final conflict.

That extra - Puzzle Run + Gem Room was unnecessary and not fun.  It just makes the quest take an extra 10 min or so that it doesn't need.  If the Puzzle Run part was different, then fine.  But a Groundhog day of the same thing is just a time sink. 

But that's really my only opposition to the raid.  Otherwise, it was a solid raid.

Alex DeLarge wrote on Dec 21^st, 2017 at 11:15am:

I don't mind doing each of the puzzles once in Old Baba's Hut.  Having locked tiles and a monster that can spin tiles is innovative, fun and a good reuse of existing design assets.  I also like the fact that the raid is split in two, and requires teamwork.  But it's a fucking nightmare in a PUG, especially with idiots that kill the giant scarecrows or try to single target kill the little scarecrows.  I don't have hope that will change over time.  Look at Shroud, and how that still fails b/c people don't/won't coordinate killing mobs simultaneously, or refuse to understand puzzle mechanics.

I’ve got to get thru some other content before I tackle the 2nd and 3rd heroic arcs, but here are my thoughts so far.

General purchase:
- If the Racial AP tomes become available in the store, then buy the $40 package.  Without them, the $130 pack doesn't have enough stuff to justify the cost.

Overall Quests:
- The quest atmosphere is. straight. up. amazing!  While you can see small things from other places in DDO, the whole area feels unique.
- While I love the non-linear quest designs, I hate that many of the completion objectives are so damn obscure.
   For example:
   Is the painting fight in “Invitation to Dinner” meant to be the boss fight for the quest, or just that room?  Is the chest at the bottom of the north stairs the end chest or not?

Into the Mists:
- Pros: Short.
- Cons: Kinda wish there was more warning that “Scarecrow Assault” is needed to get the named item chest to drop.

Death House:
- Pros: Looks like we finally have a quest where Inflict Mass Damage is a useful spell.  (Scarecrows and animated objects tend to get massed together.)  The zombie arms are hilarious.
- Cons: Zombie arms shouldn't spawn if the undead is insta killed.  Nor should they run around at normal mob speed.

Fresh Baked Dreams:
- Pros:  Unique boss fight in the hut.
- Cons:  This may be a Reaper difficulty issue, but having half the map aggro on you when you kill one thing that's out of visual range is fucking annoying.  Also, what the fuck is with the persistent earth elementals at the end?

An Invitation to Dinner
- Pros: Mixes the best parts of Haunted Halls and the Pit.
- Cons: Mixes the worst parts of Haunted Halls and the Pit.  Suffers from problems surrounding vague objectives.

Sarcasm aside, the DDO map is unable to handle multi level maps.  If the maps allowed me to have a better sense of location, I would have enjoyed this quest more.

QuantumFX wrote on Dec 21^st, 2017 at 1:47pm:


Google is your friend ... If you don't own the PnP book.

And 90% of the quests have the old Blitz bug, where you zone through a door and you lose all of your Blitz. It is infuriating to me, especially for content that I paid $130 to play.

I should add that I thoroughly enjoy the content. The artwork is top notch, the story is decent,  good variety of mob types while still making sense.  Overall cool feel and good experience. 

But if you know about a bug for YEARS, and have removed it from many situations in the past, how can you release a new paid expansion with bugs like that all over the damn place?  Because Turbine.  Or SSG, same shit. 

I just TRed into a different build that doesn't use Blitz.  We'll see how it goes when I get back up to that level range in a month...

Flav wrote on Dec 22^nd, 2017 at 2:41am:

Still too hard.. fuck that shit..