Man do I miss the old days.

[Disavowed]

I remember a time when if you saw an LFM and hit join and knew you were in for a fun run and the chances of failing were slim. Even if you did fail it wasn't a big deal since you were still running with good players and good people.

Todays DDO is entirely different. When you join a group you have no clue what your walking into. It may be a bunch of tards, or it may be the leader is a tard and is going to make you prove yourself before you can join. Keep in mind it's a quest that you know you can solo, you just felt like running with some company instead of soloing it.

I remember when all I would do is put up an LFM and know it was going to be fun. I would never solo. Now I don't even bother with an LFM. If I don't see anybody I know online. I just grab a pocket whatever and go run it by myself. It's sad where things have gone.

[mws2970]

Back in the old days, did you have to run uphill, backwards, both ways in 3ft of snow with no boots to reach the quests? :P LOL

Danged kids! Git off mah lawn!

[hityawithastick]

I like the chaos. It keeps things fresh. Would a real mercenary know whether his/her team was going to be competent or just a bunch of grass-green village kids? No. Moreover, it's always a nice surprise when 5 TR'd vets join up and help you murder a quest 2 levels above the party.

[Skani]

Now I don't even bother with an LFM. If I don't see anybody I know online.

It's called: Pugophobia. I know the pain.

-Hi, my name is Skan and I have pugophobia.
-Hi Skan, welcome.
<clap clap>

[Disavowed]

back In The Old Days, Did You Have To Run Uphill, Backwards, Both Ways In 3ft Of Snow With No Boots To Reach The Quests? Lol

Danged Kids! Git Off Mah Lawn!

+1

[KraahgDaAxe]

Maybe Turbine's pre-Epic reboot way to make quests harder was to make the game free and allow t00ls to play.

Kraahg

[Disavowed]

It's called: Pugophobia. I know the pain.

-Hi, my name is Skan and I have pugophobia.
-Hi Skan, welcome.
<clap clap>

Nice I like that 1.

+1 for the laugh.

[Loromir]

I remember a time when if you saw an LFM and hit join and knew you were in for a fun run and the chances of failing were slim. Even if you did fail it wasn't a big deal since you were still running with good players and good people.

Todays DDO is entirely different. When you join a group you have no clue what your walking into. It may be a bunch of tards, or it may be the leader is a tard and is going to make you prove yourself before you can join. Keep in mind it's a quest that you know you can solo you just felt like running with some company instead of soloing it.

I remember when all I would do is put up an LFM and know it was going to be fun. I would never solo. Now I don't even bother with an LFM. If I don't see anybody I know online. I just grab a pocket whatever and go run it by myself. It's sad where things have gone.

SO you don't mind failing with people who know what they are doing, but hate failing with people who don't know what they are doing? HMMMMM??????

[Disavowed]

Maybe Turbine's pre-Epic reboot way to make quests harder was to make the game free and allow t00ls to play.

Kraahg

Good point I never thought about that.

[Yajerman01]

I remember a time when if you saw an LFM and hit join and knew you were in for a fun run and the chances of failing were slim. Even if you did fail it wasn't a big deal since you were still running with good players and good people.

Todays DDO is entirely different. When you join a group you have no clue what your walking into. It may be a bunch of tards, or it may be the leader is a tard and is going to make you prove yourself before you can join. Keep in mind it's a quest that you know you can solo you just felt like running with some company instead of soloing it.

I remember when all I would do is put up an LFM and know it was going to be fun. I would never solo. Now I don't even bother with an LFM. If I don't see anybody I know online. I just grab a pocket whatever and go run it by myself. It's sad where things have gone.

back in the day, i was a little rogue who found happytime in any quest. I recall you only having 1 toon as well as your wife. In fact I recall playing hooky one work day and running with you all day farming xoriat cypher (sic). and I pulled two planar girds back to back... yep still got em! lol, never pulled any after that.

[Eladiun]

Yeah, I miss the old days too.

3 LFM's total in the LFM window. Servers totally empty looking like a ghost town. Waiting for the day when you hit log in and find out they finally shutdown the the servers.

Those old days were great.

[Disavowed]

SO you don't mind failing with people who know what they are doing, but hate failing with people who don't know what they are doing? HMMMMM??????

No. The difference is as I said, we RARELY failed and if we did by the way, it wasn't from doing a quest at level. It was from pushing the envelope. Back then we got extra XP for doing a quest that was above our level. So we would run quests like Stormcleave at level 4 for the big bump in XP (es that's level 4 not a typo). You see groups now days doing it with level 12's and still wiping. So if we failed it was because we pushed ourself to the edge and that's ok and acceptable. It's not ok to fail that quest at level or above level. there's a huge difference.

Now pugs fail on a regular basis when they are above the level of the quest. It happens so much that it's acceptable to fail. It's the norm not the exception. It was the exact opposite in the past. And as I said we pretty much only failed when we pushed the envelope and still we RARELY failed.

[Disavowed]

back in the day, i was a little rogue who found happytime in any quest. I recall you only having 1 toon as well as your wife. In fact I recall playing hooky one work day and running with you all day farming xoriat cypher (sic). and I pulled two planar girds back to back... yep still got em! lol, never pulled any after that.

I was just thinking last night how I need to start farming for some girds again. But that brought back memories for sure.

[flynnjsw]

It's because you aren't playing when I'm on Beerman.

[Yajerman01]

I was just thinking last night how I need to start farming for some girds again. But that brought back memories for sure.

and you made a valid point above. We were running that at level 7, I was the only level 8 (being a squishy rogue)

[Disavowed]

It's because you aren't playing when I'm on Beerman.

We're going to fix that Friday night though.

[Quarterling]

Back in the old days where a rogue literally could not beat the tutorial level. Unless you had insane luck...

[t0r012]

I remember a time when if you saw an LFM and hit join and knew you were in for a fun run and the chances of failing were slim. Even if you did fail it wasn't a big deal since you were still running with good players and good people.

Todays DDO is entirely different. When you join a group you have no clue what your walking into. It may be a bunch of tards, or it may be the leader is a tard and is going to make you prove yourself before you can join. Keep in mind it's a quest that you know you can solo you just felt like running with some company instead of soloing it.

I remember when all I would do is put up an LFM and know it was going to be fun. I would never solo. Now I don't even bother with an LFM. If I don't see anybody I know online. I just grab a pocket whatever and go run it by myself. It's sad where things have gone.

so what you mean is you liked it back in the old days when you were getting carried through the quests but now that you are doing the carrying it isn't fun anymore?

[stainer]

so what you mean is you liked it back in the old days when you were getting carried through the quests but now that you are doing the carrying it isn't fun anymore?

You haven't run with him I take it.

[Disavowed]

so what you mean is you liked it back in the old days when you were getting carried through the quests but now that you are doing the carrying it isn't fun anymore?

Ask anyone when I've had to be carried thru a quest. Maybe I didn't know a quest and joined a group that did know it, but I wasn't and haven't been carried thru a quest. I will and always have contributed in a quest. And just to school you Mr July 2009 join date (1.5 years playing and you syill are a noob with that comment).

I'm not in any guilds nor have I ever been in any guilds and up until recently I always pugged and 99.9% of the time I was the person putting up the LFMs. It's very rare that I joined an LFM.

Also I'm very well known for teaching new people how to run a quest. That's teaching them not carrying them. Join one of my Shrouds. I'm not doing the puzzle for you. I'm going to teach you how to do it.

Again nobody has ever carried me thru a quest noob.