Wipe wrote on Jul 21^st, 2019 at 6:15pm:


exactly the point, I'd say it is even easier than old days because what I see is just a guy hitting some helpless trash and clicking a heal to full button once in a while. It seems that this is what Grand didn't perceive and that's why he thinks the guy is cheating. Heals and CC, that is all it takes to complete reaper and this is why bard is actually one of the best classes for soloing it, unlike people are suggesting that it is more difficult

Wipe wrote on Jul 21^st, 2019 at 6:15pm:


True that you can contribute with a fresh character with few investiment and you don't need the pls and reaper xp, but when talking about top tier it is whole another story, now makes a dramatic difference that undeniably did not exist previously. Now I find it really funny that there are some people and guilds full of broken builds with wings/racial etc but still struggle to complete raids on difficulties that were long ago beaten without any of that

ILoveExploits wrote on Jul 21^st, 2019 at 6:09pm:


Point is that twitching don't make all that difference with swf like it does for thf, in any case that isn't a factor that is changing the possibility to complete a task on a build or not.

Didn't one shot before epic vale update, and from it until the release of reaper that happened only in raid, but the healing and cc limitations made the thing harder. With 3300 hp I'm not seeing anything that can one shot there, not even close to cut half bar, except that boss that has a particular reputation.

Since they released lays with aasimar, soloing high skulls became very standart. In the future r10 will become. They should have released r11+ diff that debuffs reaper trees as people were suggesting years ago since reaper was released.

He's great. But there are not "shiradi" casters in that quests, if you are seeing the same video I am, I suppose you're talking about the 8:00 moment, those hits were from carnages, each doing about 900 as you can see in the combat chat he let open, the only champ in that pack of mobs was a heroes soul one

edit: btw this is twitch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWwZ8s6IOlU. I think it's great to the game because it is something that is actually hard to do and it pays you back, it is beautiful to see and the guy from this channel is master in that

You move and stop at right moments to break the thf animation in order to get single target dps. Just moving and attacking =/= twitch, and it doesn't help with non-thf styles

Rubbinns wrote on Jul 22^nd, 2019 at 6:20pm:

(Without precise measurement) as far as I can tell, they do. It benefits anything where breaking the attack anim yields quicker hits than waiting on the full attack anim, which includes Monks. Or did last I tried.

Gunga wrote on Jul 23^rd, 2019 at 7:05pm:

we used knitted pin cushions

Rubbinns wrote on Jul 22^nd, 2019 at 2:08pm:


So I showed this thread to an old friend who's quitted DDO but was one of the best melee players in the game in his time and he told me there is no such thing as "taking away the mobs attack range by not being in their line of attack"
(He explained it's called LOS, line of sight)
He characterized the above quoted text as a terrible explanation.

There is tho something else which is propably what Rubinns meant, that you can evade mob attacks by moving out of their attack-animation right before their hit lands. That can be done by moving left-right whilst attacking, which to many people looks like twitching and with some melee forms like SWF it actually also improved your attack speed.

He says it's very hard to intentionally dodge mob attacks on every mob, because there is no "warning/indicator" to when a mob will perform an attack-animation. So instead you can simply do what Vincino showed in his video, aka the "SWF twitching" and you're most likely going to dodge a lot of hits and also boost your dps.

Abusing/exploiting LOS is apparently another thing and works great with a tank in the team when the tank positions the mobs correctly in a corner and then the tank positions himself on one side of the corner with the mobs aggroed to him and the rest of the group flanks the mobs on the other side of the cornern.
Apparently it was rarely used because dungeon alert was fucked up back then, tanks weren't so popular till reaper came out and LOS tactics worked much better in other MMOs.

Also laughed his ass off when he read the last part about superior movement and tactics and incredible strategic melee player. This trick is old and used to be common knowledge to most pro-melee players. "There is no incredible strategy", it's just player skills, build strength and getting the hang of melee playstyle.

teeuser wrote on Jul 26^th, 2019 at 1:50pm:


So, in other words, Rubs described what your boyfriend used to do. Go away dumdum.

Wow. Sometimes not being interested in DDO has its detriments.

I was wondering why I was getting PMs about Rubby

Shinyshoes wrote on Jul 29^th, 2019 at 7:32pm:

Well, these were PMs about Rubby having PMS, see.

Rubbinns wrote on Jul 30^th, 2019 at 3:53pm:

No surprise there with all these socks trying to jam themselves into it.  Used to be the vault was filled with dumbshits and retards but there was an equal or larger population of reasonable people and the retards didn't hide... I guess it's sort of the same now, 5 dumbshits with 40 sock accounts and about 5 reasonable people.  True story bro, the names have be changed to protect something, probably parent's basements...