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I got really burned out a short while back on DDO; due largely to the combined impacts of the huge time-sink/progression ratio per character, and the ever less "D&D feel" of the game play itself....

Now if SSG could just figure out how to make DDO into more than just a series of hack & slash modules, they could really be on to something much more D&Dish then the recent years' offerings.

I figure most folks are just reading through it, seeing the NwN and just mentally translating it as Neverwinter, given the context of discussion. I was super stoked when I first heard of the...

The "how it went down" is super simple: you used to have to pay-to-play Warforged when the game was all pay-to-play, and now that it's "free-to-play" with pay-to-play options, Warforged is one of...

Seriously? Fighters - a non-Blue bar Class - need ways to heal others?

As I see it:

~1/3 of the problem is saying "Melee" needs help/improvement when "Melee" encompasses everything from the OPest FotM like the recently nerfed Duality Monks to someone's S&B Assassin...

Not to deny the reasoning behind support for a Paladin, but I actually have recomended a different build platform to new F2Pers before with good results: 1 Rogue, rest in Ranger. Always I suggest...

Before proceeding:

• Is this 28pt new player intending to start on Normal, and learn/develop their way up the difficulties?

• Are they planning to play Solo, PuG, or join some established...

Youre right of course, that my generalizations of behavior aren't "well founded." Rather than attempt to dig up some empirical data from someone who did a study somewhere, I simply rely on my ~4...

Like listing "the odds" would do anything more than meet a legal requirement. The US government approved Power Ball lottery has terrible odds of winning, and publishes those odds; yet people gobble...

During the U38 Balance Change Discussions, Steelstar commented directly that THF was "going to be looked at {@ some unspecified time in the future}." Having seen how their Baseline Test Build...

Just what humanity needs: another set of laws to protect people from their own stupid.

"Loot Box" type schemes are only successful (read as: profitable) because of players who look at them and say...

Can't speak for the attack animation part, but a good chunk of the damage discrepancy between Handwraps vs other Melee options is the +Ws from Monk level increases that only apply to Handwraps.

I agree that sounds likely to be what happened. And I find it sad that when Dev#1 went into the code to "improve the ability;" they unimproved it by 40% instead of thinking "Oh wow, it's working @45%...

Forgot to read past that one sentence, or thanks for the giggles? Yeah, I bought a Game Shark back in the day - that's abou the earliest P2W I can recal for single player type stuff. I bought some of...

The thing I don't understand is, what is the winning people are paying for?

I mean, the concept in general isn't lost me - its applying the concept to DDO that I get lost. There's no {meaningful}...

Why not just short cut the whole thing all together? Stop making raids, just sell raid loot!

Its concerns like these that make me glad I've kept my old Pro 1.1 from 2k6. Still runs every game I enjoy from DDO to Fortnight and can't remember the last time I had a compatibility issue. Still,...

Talk about déj?* vu. It's like Raid Timer Bypasses all over again.

I love that open minded approach you have towards folks with different play preferences than your own (for example, playing @ cap off the hamster wheel) being able to enjoy the same game called DDO....

That issue resides solely on said customer. Elixer states rather plainly "+% chance to get named loot" and does not state "+% chance to get the specific named loot you are looking for." I haven't...

On one hand, kinda agree. On the other, I wonder if things like this are their response to complaints about powercreep. If sets were made from items with no overlaps and only stuff that "made sense,"...

Nicely illustrates one of the major areas where DDOvelopment went wrong for me. When Reincarnation benefits (thinking pre-MotU/Cap 20 era) were so much smaller and more front loaded, an Alt was...

I've been riding the Devs pretty hard lately, particularly with regards to their decision making. And then I saw this thread, Flimsy's posts... and some faith has been restored.

Mr. Firewood,
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"The current plan..."

Yeah, wonder how long before "the current plan" is replaced by "the new plan?"