What did you do to prepare for Tues (mod 9)?

[Dcloak]

1) I organized all my toons inventory.
2) Made sure each toon has a Voice of the Master. Ran Deleras last night in 20 mins with 2 guildies.
3) Parked my capped toons at the entrance to Threnal.
4) Cleaned hard drive and defragged.
5) I set my alarm to wake up at 7 a.m. to check server status.

[Sweyn]

I did absolutly nothing

[Hendrik]

Read up.

[Dcloak]

Ah yes,

6) Made a copy of ddo.keymap just in case.

[Twerpp]

Read up.

LMAO. Glad they took the extra time they needed to release a quality mod instead of rushing it

[Philam]

I checked my work schedule to see what time I work.

[Aranticus]

[MAP1974]

i have been undertaking a strict diet and weights regime, with lots of cardio work included for the last 6 months. i also had my eyes lasered to sharpen my vision and tried some electro-shock therapy - purported to improve reflexes (this is still in the early experimental stage). on the whole, i am in peak condition.

i have also locked my wife and young son away in the basement with rations to last for at least a week, maybe 10 days if they are frugal.

the telephone has been disconnected and i have boarded up all doors and windows to the house, and installed a diesel generator in case power were to drop out.

i have a mountain of assorted crisps behind me, and the coffee machine is now installed beside me. i flirted with the idea of a colostomy bag and catheter, but simply settled for switching my regular chair for a portable toilet.

i am good to go!

[Oreg]

1) I organized all my toons inventory.
2) Made sure each toon has a Voice of the Master. Ran Deleras last night in 20 mins with 2 guildies.
3) Parked my capped toons at the entrance to Threnal.
4) Cleaned hard drive and defragged.
5) I set my alarm to wake up at 7 a.m. to check server status.

Regarding #3 - Ouch - That's a fair bit away from any actual xp spot for a capped character

I organized banks a few weeks ago so I worked on different slayers to get 1-2 pts away on everyone. They are spread out though - some in reaver's, some in the vale, some even in GH.

I thought about Delera's but in the end only 2 characters didn't have one already so I said screw it.

[Dcloak]

Regarding #3 - Ouch - That's a fair bit away from any actual xp spot for a capped character

I organized banks a few weeks ago so I worked on different slayers to get 1-2 pts away on everyone. They are spread out though - some in reaver's, some in the vale, some even in GH.

I thought about Delera's but in the end only 2 characters didn't have one already so I said screw it.

Not really, you go into Threnal and kill the first few giants for optional xp and bam, you're level 17. I did this on the test server. Takes like 10 seconds.

[Gorstag]

I did nothing, and to be honest, I will be removing voice of the master from my toons. I am almost 100% sure we will have atleast a year to level our toons. Though I am 95% sure that we will not ever see another level increase. Leveling a toon is one of the things that actually makes me play a toon. Once at endgame, once again, there will be VERY little to do in the game. Hell, I've been playing other mmo's for the last five months or so anyway.

[Alshatar]

1. Moved all inventory in banks to the first 2 slots, leaving last slot open (from the bug where not all bank items showed.. that way if i need to bank something I work from the back to the front)
2. LOCKED DOWN EVERYTHING .. even components and wands
3. Took out all mail (even on the lowbies) and auctions.. locked those down too
4. Parked all toons in Restless isles (for easy xp gaining)
5. Changed MotD in guild to say "Welcome to Mod 9" with a whole bunch of +~+~** icons
6. with 30 seconds till server meltdown, I made a toon.. I briefly saw the name on my toon selection screen before getting booted.. YAY named saved
7. Set alarm on my phone for 4am pst
8. Took minos legions off ALL of my toons so HP bug doesn't affect them
9. Gave all my toons toughness that were using the helm for the feat (and realised some of my toons had USELESS feats that I was glad to take out)


I'm sure I'm missing something.. but all of that took me roughly 1.5 hours last night after completing the last abbot of the season..

[Aeneas]

I spent two hours rifling through inventories and bank spaces and sending soon to be crappy half decent junk i'd been holding on to for 2 years or more to my hagglebot for disposal - made 180kpp last night at the vendor, absolutely swamped that sucker.


After that i rearranged weapon sets and made sure every toon had full stacks of potions and scrolls, and all my casters had full stacks of components. Rogues received 2 fresh sets of +5 tools, and my rangers got a few fresh stacks of arrows from house D.

After everybody had what they needed i advised the guild to do the same and made sure i had no outstanding mail floating around, then logged for the end of mod 8 and crossed my fingers for mod 9.

[Riorik]

I did nothing, and to be honest, I will be removing voice of the master from my toons. I am almost 100% sure we will have atleast a year to level our toons. Though I am 95% sure that we will not ever see another level increase. Leveling a toon is one of the things that actually makes me play a toon. Once at endgame, once again, there will be VERY little to do in the game. Hell, I've been playing other mmo's for the last five months or so anyway.

Buy another slot with your free Turbine Points and roll up a new character.

[Oreg]

Not really, you go into Threnal and kill the first few giants for optional xp and bam, you're level 17. I did this on the test server. Takes like 10 seconds.

My mistake. I was under the impression that threnal was changed to sub level 16 xp.

[vyvy3369]

Not really, you go into Threnal and kill the first few giants for optional xp and bam, you're level 17. I did this on the test server. Takes like 10 seconds.

I also attempted this on the test server and at least in the last version that was available it's 0 xp for a level 16 character. There's also a thread from a few weeks ago about it here.

[Oreg]

I also attempted this on the test server and at least in the last version that was available it's 0 xp for a level 16 character. There's also a thread from a few weeks ago about it here.

nub make me angry!

[Barumar]

I also attempted this on the test server and at least in the last version that was available it's 0 xp for a level 16 character. There's also a thread from a few weeks ago about it here.

I did not play much on the BETA server (prefer to wait for live) but I DID level my Sorcy to 17 in Threnal.

It used to be you could just kill that first Giant chasing humans towards entrance, now you have to run in a bit and kill the Giants and Wolves at the Camp fire for a bit of XP.

Remember, you only need 1 xp to ding 17 on a capped character...

Barumar

[Dcloak]

I also attempted this on the test server and at least in the last version that was available it's 0 xp for a level 16 character. There's also a thread from a few weeks ago about it here.

Hmm well I guess I need to make a plan B if this is the case. I tried it when beta server first opened up.

[Barumar]

1) I organized all my toons inventory.
2) Made sure each toon has a Voice of the Master. Ran Deleras last night in 20 mins with 2 guildies.
3) Parked my capped toons at the entrance to Threnal.
4) Cleaned hard drive and defragged.
5) I set my alarm to wake up at 7 a.m. to check server status.

1 - Always log with my Inventory organized .

2 - That was a fun run - Haste + Firewall/DBF sure is fun in there!

3 - ditto with two, but as you know have my Sorcy standing above (Subterrean) first of six explorer areas he needs to visit to fulfill my quest to hit level 18 in 8 minutes or less...

4 - not a bad idea, but I have time (see below).

5 - Gotta work, but am jealous of all you with the day off! I do truly hope all goes well tomorrow and you all get to play all day!

Barumar