After watching several youtube videos of ToD raids

[grayham]

I'm sorry, Half-Orc is CLEARLY the wrong race for that situation, and your HP is a little on the lowish side. Also, you should be using Falchion instead of Greataxe...



+1 - got a good chuckle out of that

Yes, been working on the HP, but that greataxe there is pretty sweet. Look at the detailed rendering, the blurry edges...Glad it's given folks a few laughs! I like it.

[macubrae]

+1.... (+2 if I could, lol).

I needed a good laugh.

[pSINNa]

I upgraded from a quad core with an 8800gt in dx9 and ddr2 memory recently.

I went to the craziest i7 / ddr3 memory and dual gtx 560 ti's sli'd setup with win7 64 and ddo only installed on the new ssd (try saying that in one breath!), i could build, (and watercooled everything just for funsies! xD) just over a month ago, and omgbbqhax!

Dx10/11 is sooo nice, and everything is so much better - collision detection, immersion during quests, sound, everything made a mega-leap in quality.

The rig is way, way overpowered for DDo, but struth! It's such a pretty game if you can run her at absolute max everything.

Just saying.

[Propane]

When I first started playing DDO - I couldn't figure out how anyone could do the puzzles

Then I got my new PC.

After the upgrade I could see that those blabs of color were actualy symbols!

[Jastron]

I remember that, Propane! It used to be nearly impossible to solve puzzles on the lowest video settings.

I run with most everything on in advanced graphics except for Environment Stencil Shadows. That one option has always caused me lag in certain locations such as the Subterrane on all of my PC's so I always recommend folks keep that off.

[Chauncey1]

Yes, been working on the HP, but that greataxe there is pretty sweet. Look at the detailed rendering, the blurry edges...Glad it's given folks a few laughs! I like it.

Totally shopped! I can tell by the pixels, etc.

[Lorichie]

one of my first computers i played ddo on, was an e-machine type from wal-mart, back when game first came out. I was a computer idiot (still am mostly), so making my own was out of the question, and i didn't really understand that like a car, the clock starts ticking on your computer as soon as you plug it in.

for the next few years i'd buy a computer (same type) every year and wonder to myself how folks got their screenshots so good (you tube was unfamiliar to me i think for the most part back then). i'd play on the one just above very low or some such and think that was great, i was completely ignorant.

One year, year three i think, mebbe four, i went out and bought a 1500 dollar computer from best buy...i didn't really know what i was buying, or what 8800 gt meant, or quad something or other meant, but enough folks assured me that it would play ddo very well, and would pretty much last forever, as far as what i wanted it for, (they lied lol).

i think it was durks secret, the first quest i went thru, just happened to be so, and when i went into the last kobalds room, and of course i was drooling and wetting myself the whole time i was in there, i screamed out something like" there's smoke in the fire!!!"...or some such...

The wife comes running in the room to see if i was ok, (i most certainly was) and i made sure i pointed out to her that the flame from the fires had smoke at the top...

Well, i spent the whole weekend, running and jumping everywhere, re-looking at every quest to find more things that i had been missing...

For those that think that the graphics are outdated, be sure to just once find a way to be able to play at it's highest settings, as i think it is really intended to be...a friends house, whatever. It may not have Crysis level clarity etc, but it sure is far and above what most folks (well, i guess i can only speak for myself) think it looks like.

R

[Tyrande]

one of my first computers i played ddo on, was an e-machine [...]

My advice: never buy an e-machine for anything.

One year, year three i think, mebbe four, i went out and bought a 1500 dollar computer from best buy...i didn't really know what i was buying, or what 8800 gt meant, or quad something[...]

8800GT is kind of out dated now. It is at least 7 generations behind the latest NVIDIA GTX 6xx series... prime time is GTX 560 or higher.

[...] i screamed out something like" there's smoke in the fire!!!"...or some such...

If you like smoke, try the quests with big bangs like "Irestone Inlet", "Undermine", "Blown to Bits". Who said there are no PVP when your team mates can blown you to bits using explosives?!

At Irestone Inlet, try to stay close to the ship when it blows up... It emits a fog like view across the map half a mile in radius. Oh yeah, BTW, you cannot experience the view if you're a soul stone (dead)...

[Alrik_Fassbauer]

At Irestone Inlet, try to stay close to the ship when it blows up... It emits a fog like view across the map half a mile in radius.

Yes, that is ..., impressive. At least for the very first time. Everything's blown up. I had honestly thought my character would instantly turn into a soul-stone ...