Is it my opinion? Or am I stereo typing.

[NaturalHazard]

I have an Aussie in my guild, which I'm sure you can look through my posting history to see me mentioning before. At level 15, his Wizard had 0% fort, not CON item, and a massive (sic) 150hp. We actually went through, farmed out a Minos for him, and one guildy bought him a +6 CON belt off the AH, which got him to nearly 220 or so. Given his refusal to pug, I doubt he'll break 300hp at cap, maybe if we can get him into a GFL item as well, but he hates swapping items, and thus employs the brilliant strategy of never wearing CON items or Fort, and keeping Featherfall boots on constantly. As well as casting Mage Armor in order to ensure his incredible AC remains high enough to count (Most likely less than 20).

I helped him with his Bard awhile back, in a session that finally had me ask what that one's CON was. 10. Thankfully, I've since outleveled that particular train wreck with my FvS, so I only have to raise his Wizard. I haven't played with his Rogue, but a guildy told me that it can't find traps, much less disarm them.

So no, I can't say I've seen the same situation. He is fun to play with, but not the best player in the world for a game like DDO.

Then, my early mornings are at work, so maybe I'll see some of the good ones come vacation in a week or so, and can get up at 2:30am for no reason other than to hopefully find some good groups.

Is he from western australia or tasmania? or northern territories? or worse ACT? I heard they like dogs over there in canberra.

[der_kluge]

I had a Kiwi in Ghola Fan a couple of weeks ago. He was a double-TR'd monk. He literally solo'd one side of the quest while the other 5 of us did the other side. And he was done with his side first.

(In case you've never done this quest, it's kind of a mirror image thing where you have to go through kill stuff, and get a crest to open a central doorway. Both sides are basically equivalent in terms of difficulty.)

Midway, we nearly wiped at a trapped stairwell. He came back and got all our stones so we could res. At the final room, we wiped, except for him. And he managed to face off against at least 20 ogres by himself, get our stones, and help us get raised. He did end up dying once, but we were lucky enough to finish the quest after that anyway.


We even commented on how awesome he was, but despite the fact that he was a double-TR, he admitted to just being very skilled at the game itself. So, he knew how to avoid damage altogether. He probably would have done just as well on a gimp character as he did with that one, at least as far as his survivability was concerned.

[MikeyMang]

I think they're forced to. Im playing at kiwi/ozzie times so someone in my party has to have some kind of skill.

[Anzanel]

I never even thought about this until now...I don't recall ever being in a crappy group when there was an Aussie/Kiwi in it. Only one thing bugs me sometimes, though: if their accent is thick, I'll miss 70-90% of what they're saying

I didn't realize people's accents/voices had this much of an impact. It's kind of unnerving, actually, since I have one of those voices where A) it's hard to tell if I'm a guy or a girl, B) I sound about 15 years younger than I really am, and C) anything I say over the mic/phone comes out in a flat, impolite-sounding tone, no matter how happy I am. So, ehh...I'm probably not very popular *LOL*

[issiana]

I think they're forced to. Im playing at kiwi/ozzie times so someone in my party has to have some kind of skill.

and you are correct. I'd love to be able to do some of the raids in game with a large pool of players to choose from. but thats not a luxuray i can enjoy being from New Zealand and playing at the "odd" hours. So i just learnt what i need to know and go do stuff, you join my groups and all you need do is pike and we are still gonna win

I never even thought about this until now...I don't recall ever being in a crappy group when there was an Aussie/Kiwi in it. Only one thing bugs me sometimes, though: if their accent is thick, I'll miss 70-90% of what they're saying

I didn't realize people's accents/voices had this much of an impact. It's kind of unnerving, actually, since I have one of those voices where A) it's hard to tell if I'm a guy or a girl, B) I sound about 15 years younger than I really am, and C) anything I say over the mic/phone comes out in a flat, impolite-sounding tone, no matter how happy I am. So, ehh...I'm probably not very popular *LOL*

you say *WE* have an accent..heheheh every tried listening to yourself That said I laugh when ever a north american calls me british - we sound so different from brits.

its also one reason i dont use the mic much if ever these days, it gets very tireing having to repeat yourself so many times.

[azrael4h]

Is he from western australia or tasmania? or northern territories? or worse ACT? I heard they like dogs over there in canberra.

I have no idea. I think he mentioned something about having a vacation house out near Gold Coast, but that doesn't really tell me anything as to where he lives. About the only real thing I know of where he's at, is that he lives down the street from Cleve Blackmore, who has been promising the cRPG Grimoire to be coming soon, for 14 years now. I even got a beta, and it was basically complete, except that the operating systems and hardware have long long since left it behind. It needs work to run in Win7, but worked fine in XP.