On most builds I create, I can solo most post-harbor content on R3-R4 (duo w/hireling in worst cases). It's just I'd rather run Elite because it's more fun and it's faster. And because it means I'm spending less time with elitist asswipes like you, who only care about cap and epitomize everything wrong with the game.

Aside from this, nothing you mentioned in ANY WAY addressed any substantial points I made, so I'm not going to bother saying anything more, beyond: get over yourself, nimrod.

God, DDO's community is garbage of the highest order. It continues to hemorrhage the actually good players. Most of the players who remain are insufferable braggarts who look down on anyone who plays differently from them. To people such as yourself, everyone who plays anything else aside from R10 cap is a "flower sniffing shitter."


No thanks, I'm already on my way out. Probably finishing this life and then taking yet another indefinite hiatus. FYI though, yes, I would gladly sacrifice all of my level 20+ gear, reaper points, and racial/epic lives if it meant restoring the game to 2010/2012/etc. Because DDO was objectively far better back then, whether you'd like to admit it or not.

It's sad. The Vault used to be a good place to find valid complaints about SSG's asshattery. These days, it feels like most of people who visit here want to just run apologetics for SSG/Turdbine. Despite the lack of boobs/donut jokes these days, somehow the forum's gotten dumber than it ever was.

Shit ain't worth it anymore.

1. Ravenloft ( it's light years above the rest )
2. MOTU
3. Sharn
4. Saltmarsh
5. Feywild
6. Isle of Dread ( I haven't taken enough time to go through it the right way )
?. Shadowfail ( sorry, but the headache inducing purple haze is a killer for me )

You have a good point that MotU was the beginning of a lot of shit design decisions, but it is still by far the best expansion in terms of the amount of effort Turbine/SSG put into it. It truly extended/changed the game. It was an actual expansion. Unlike all the others that came after it which have really been little more than larger than usual adventure packs.

They over incentivized grinding heroic lives when they introduced racials. TR, favor reset, free points.
If they were smart (which is like asking water to be dry) they would have made it so you could do an epic life to get a racial PL. No favor reset, no free points.

Nobody needs to buy points for adventure packs anymore since you get 1000+ points from a trip from 1-30.

When they did the first mini expansion it was the death knell of the adventure pack, I said something along the lines of we'll probably get maybe one adv pack per year now and that seems about right. The rest, paid expansions.

Expansions, HC, ottos boxes are the profits now.

But another reason for people TRing and resetting favor more is that endgame isnt as important to most players now. You can skip endgame if you dont need saga XP to farm epic past lives, you have all the endgame gear you want and you have sufficient reaper points to fill out two trees. Instead of spending a couple of weeks at endgame running sagas, raids, etc, theres a huge incentive to just TR ASAP to farm lives faster. It feels unbalanced.