u r lvl 11 n u got 625 ddo points, what would u buy?

[gorgorothsixsixsix]

also u r;

1. dwarf tempest ranger
2. more interested in loot than exp.
3. in orien server (kind of hard to find party here let alone p2p content)
4. u already got chaosgarde, +5 mithral fp, duskheart. and since u r going to use power attack, u want +5 weapons, not +1 vorpal or whatever... tho i guess u can auction it and buy whatever u want probably.

suggestions ?

[Sinni]

first of all get some more points, easiest way would be to get to 100 fav on 2 or 3 other servers.

then you have 3 options:
either grind to lvl 13 somehow and then buy the vale adventure pack. with the shroud there is an immense supply of loot you can "configure" to your liking. usually shroud items are considered to be the best items in the game. additionally most quests are great and often run

or you buy gianthold. there are tons of good and often run quests, but not much unique loot to find. tough you can craft the dragon scale armors and there might be something in the reaver raid for you.

or you buy the desert. there is some nice loot (bloodstone, ring of spell storing, firestorm greaves) but these are in the explorable area and not iniside quests. and there might be some interesting loot in the queen raid, don't know about rangers tough.
additionally the quests in the desert aren't run that often compared to gianthold and vale.


btw: power attack or not doesn't change that vorpal is better if the mob has enough hitpoints.

[Krag]

then you have 3 options:
either grind to lvl 13 somehow and then buy the vale adventure pack. with the shroud there is an immense supply of loot you can "configure" to your liking. usually shroud items are considered to be the best items in the game. additionally most quests are great and often run

This.
Shroud alone gives you twice or thrice better equipment than any other single AP.

[HBene]

Sinni already gave you great choices though if I had no adventure packs bought yet, my priority would be The Vale.

[Sinni]

yeah, i'd also do the shroud option. tough i don't know how hard it is to get to lvl 13 without any adventure packs. i guess they new quests make that much easier. btw i recommend lvl 13 because the vale quests are lvl 16 so you can make 13-16 groups. additionally the vale should allow you to level quite a bit.

i added the other options mainy because lvl 11 just isn't fit for the vale, so you have ideas what you could do otherwise. and there i'd prefer the gianthold option. although there is less named loot than in the desert the quests in gianthold are more fun, which is the main reason why we play DDO, isn't it? on top of that there is much more xp to find in gianthold.

[gorgorothsixsixsix]

thanks sinni. now i remember that i download some application about shroud crafting and whatever, gonna wait n buy that 1.

[blitzschlag]

thanks sinni. now i remember that i download some application about shroud crafting and whatever, gonna wait n buy that 1.

you might wanna roll up 3 more chars. as shroud is all about limited component grinding. the more chars the more components...

with just your ranger it will prolly take you 2-3 months of chain shroud completions to get a really usefull weaponary (aka mineral II or mintu)

[SirAggravator]

On topic : What Sinni said

Off -topic:

It hurts my brain trying to read it.
Abbreviations in game are ok (for me personally not really but thats my problem)
but on a forum theres no reason to type in chatroom speak.

I'm going to repost this which I got from this forum - the thread was lost in the forum purge a long time ago.

Shorthand has gotten out of hand. From now on all thoughts, insults, and impulses will be typed clearly and concisely to prevent further degradation of brain cells.

"brb bio" henceforth is to be replaced with "One moment while I pause for urination/defecation."

"lol" is to be replaced with "That was quite entertaining."

Any three to four letter word regarding life partner preference will be replaced by "Your methods cause me to question your sexual preference."

Other annoying phrases that will not be tolerated are: toons, teh, zomg, leet, ding, glowie, suxxorz, roxxorz. Where am I kindergarten?

The youth of today is frankly already lack witted enough without teaching them that things such as words and grammar are an unnecessary burden. That is all carry on.

*This message has been brought to you by the puppets of Seasame Street who cry themselves to sleep at night wondering where they went wrong. Oh and Bobby Boucher's mother wanted to add "Computers are the Devil!"*

Complaints/Defenses for bad English may be forwarded to:

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-Setzer

[Danmor]

Also be prepared to discard all the stuff you're using right now once you hit the higher levels.
There really isn't that much point at spending massive amounts of money on gear right now, unless you're getting disruptors, banishers or vorpals. Everything else will be outleveled sooner or later.
(also metalline of pure good might be a good choice ^^)

[Greydeath]

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[TheDjinnFor]

I will suggest saving up for Gianthold, because you'll never grind to level 20 without it, despite the fact that you like gear > XP. I wouldn't recommend Shroud at lvl 13 for a new player, but if you really don't care about grinding forever go ahead with Shroud since you'll get your gear easier that way.

[Tarrant]

All participants in this thread may want to re-read the forum guidelines.

[Gunga]

All participants in this thread may want to re-read the forum guidelines.

I don't get it...do you have a specific place within the guidelines that you'd like us to brush up on?

Not that we all couldn't use another read of that snappy journal...just sayin.

[ahpook]

All participants in this thread may want to re-read the forum guidelines.

I don't see any thing here that would be a problem.

Don't tell me that someone made snide references to the OPs lack of English skills??? Kids these days.