Is It Time To Return?

[Ykt]

But with the Diablo 3 expansion that just released 2 days ago ... I can tell you I am not playing DDO at the moment.

Same here.

[MalkavianX]

I always forget to mention that I'm vip for some reason. I didn't even bother to cancel it while on hiatus so at the very least I should have 1500-2000 tp sitting there. (On top of however many more I had before my time off). I have the next four days off after working ten straight, so it might be good to unwind smacking some critters around. Going to have to solo for the first little while at least, it'll probably take some time to get over my diablo-itis. You know, the "smack those evil barrels till they cry for mercy" thing.

[Buffyanne]

The big change is that there is a real reason to stay at level cap right now. There are two new outstanding raids, a mines of moria type explorer zone and the best quest in the game, Haunted Halls of Eveningstar. There is a new weapon construction system and a daily collectable card game. A new ED is about to be rolled out in the Divine sphere as well.

[QuickSlick79]

1.Dungeons
2.And
3.Dragons

[Fedora1]

Yeah most updates are like that, you buy them and then you have to play them :/

You might need to wait for u24 when the cap goes up to 30. This way you can buy it and then pay more to skip over it.

Why? Doesn't look like there will be anything else for you to Pay to win for rest of the year.

Give the guy a break, he gave full disclosure in his thread on how he did what he did. Now he's going to play D3. He's not on the forums griefing people and side-railing their threads.

[Atremus]

You'll need a character at Level 24 or higher to run Haunted Halls and a Character Level 26 or Higher to run both of the new raids.

This update was the best update since Attack on Stormreach (My opinion) but I missed the House C Raid Train. Haunted Halls is the best quest in the game.

I'd be logging in right now if I wasn't on the Forum.

[TheLegendOfAra]

1.Dungeons
2.And
3.Dragons

This.

Also:

1. Rangers.
2. Ranger splashes.
3. Ranger Supremacy.
And I'll add one more for free
4. That sexy, sexy Ranger Icon.

[arkonas]

Akamia's netsession does not really seem to do anything but sit there, there is an initial send off from each login to Akamai server with some blah blah blah(user name, directory, OS, yada yada yada) in it. You can kill it after each session, but if you play DDO again it will download again. And you will have to read and approve the EULA again. I do it all the time.

New part is a cool reflecting mirror/laser puzzle. TWO red dragons at the same time, and they chase you.

This year's Birthday cards are an amazing giveaway. This birthday card event is tons better than Festivult.

If you enjoyed it before, you will still enjoy it.

to be honest i love both festivault and the bday cards. both are quite fun and i use all of the items from both of them

[iRexxar]

Hello.

I don't know how the game is at the moment. What i can say is that i didn't like it when i tryed to play again ( i tryed again just at the realse of epic GH).

The game has a bad end game since the fist expansion, normaly every update they make, they destroy all the old content ... Look when i used to play before the first expansion pack , the end game bosses were : eChrono, eVoN6, eEDQ , eLoB, TOD, eMA, and you can also add Shorud, VoD and hox to this list . Not to mention the savarth quests and house p , d, k and e redfens quests, House C quests... i mean u had ALOT OF STUFF TO DO..... now u only have 2 raids... pfft ridiculous. The limited 13 hours intance for every quest was cool, made you enjoy alot more of the content of the game in order to farm more epic tokens , game is boring atm.

edit ps: Oh ya , forgot to mention that the new system sucks, epic hard is pathetic, you can solo quests with hire at hard dificulty, not many people goes for elite quests since its too hard for them , they prefer to do ez quests, so ridiculous... every team work u had to have in order to farm stuff was taken off the game, tanks are uselss, healers doesnt need to have any skills , casters /ranged are the only thing that works ok in EE.... so thats why the game sucks atm.

[TheLegendOfAra]

Hello.

I don't know how the game is at the moment. What i can say is that i didn't like it when i tryed to play again ( i tryed again just at the realse of epic GH).

The game has a bad end game since the fist expansion, normaly every update they make, they destroy all the old content ... Look when i used to play before the first expansion pack , the end game bosses were : eChrono, eVoN6, eEDQ , eLoB, TOD, eMA, and you can also add Shorud, VoD and hox to this list . Not to mention the savarth quests and house p , d, k and e redfens quests, House C quests... i mean u had ALOT OF STUFF TO DO..... now u only have 2 raids... pfft ridiculous. The limited 13 hours intance for every quest was cool, made you enjoy alot more of the content of the game in order to farm more epic tokens , game is boring atm.

edit ps: Oh ya , forgot to mention that the new system sucks, epic hard is pathetic, you can solo quests with hire at hard dificulty, not many people goes for elite quests since its too hard for them , they prefer to do ez quests, so ridiculous... every team work u had to have in order to farm stuff was taken off the game, tanks are uselss, healers doesnt need to have any skills , casters /ranged are the only thing that works ok in EE.... so thats why the game sucks atm.

Basically, ignore everything this guy just said.

Raids that are run on a regular/semi regular basis right now:

1. FOT
2. CITW
3. Temple of the DeathWyrm
4. Fire on Thunder Peak
5. VON5&6

and though you don't see LFM's for them as much you can still get a group together for a Shroud or LOB.

Packs that are run on a regular/semi regular basis right nowAlmost always on EE. I haven't ran an EH quest since... U15?)

1. All MOTU and U13 quests (19 quests)
2. A bunch of the Shadowfell stuff (13 quests)
3. Haunted Halls
4. High Road (U16?)
5. Epic GiantHold (12 quests)

While these lists vary and not all the quests in a given pack will be run, a lot of people are farming Sagas right now which means they are running a lot of the above. And chances are if you don't see what you want to run up, if you put your own LFM up you'll get some takers.

Sometimes I wish people who have left the game for good would also leave the forums for good. Spreading information that is old and outdated around is bad. Not to mention, half of what gets spread wasn't even the case when they left.

[Satyriasys]

1.Dungeons
2.And
3.Dragons

This

and also Haunted Halls is awesome and narrated by legendary Ed Greenwood. You would be doing yourself a disservice by missing it.

The New explorer area is also beautiful and lots of fun with incentives to farm there. The new raids are good too and have a new crafting system.

Don't worry about the Akamai spyware. After the next update you'll be able to uninstall it.

[iRexxar]

Basically, ignore everything this guy just said.

Raids that are run on a regular/semi regular basis right now:

1. FOT
2. CITW
3. Temple of the DeathWyrm
4. Fire on Thunder Peak
5. VON5&6

and though you don't see LFM's for them as much you can still get a group together for a Shroud or LOB.

Packs that are run on a regular/semi regular basis right nowAlmost always on EE. I haven't ran an EH quest since... U15?)

1. All MOTU and U13 quests (19 quests)
2. A bunch of the Shadowfell stuff (13 quests)
3. Haunted Halls
4. High Road (U16?)
5. Epic GiantHold (12 quests)

While these lists vary and not all the quests in a given pack will be run, a lot of people are farming Sagas right now which means they are running a lot of the above. And chances are if you don't see what you want to run up, if you put your own LFM up you'll get some takers.

Sometimes I wish people who have left the game for good would also leave the forums for good. Spreading information that is old and outdated around is bad. Not to mention, half of what gets spread wasn't even the case when they left.

u just forgot the part i said i tryed it when epic gh was about to release and the part that said i dont know how is it atm.

btw , you confirm that its alot easyer than before right? also you agreed witththe part there there isnt as much Pubs as before too..

game is ez atm. too ez

[TheLegendOfAra]

u just forgot the part i said i tryed it when epic gh was about to release and the part that said i dont know how is it atm.

btw , you confirm that its alot easyer than before right? also you agreed with the part there there isn't as much Pubs as before too...

game is ez atm. too ez

No, I didn't forget. But I stand by my belief that if you're not playing now, and haven't played since EGH was released then you should not be telling other players how the game is, how bad it sucks, and that they shouldn't come back.

This is basically what your post was advocating: "It sucked(for you) last time I played so it must still suck. Don't play."

What is easier? Epic in general? Yes, epic normal and epic hard are easier than the old epic was.
Epic Elite however is much harder than the old epic was. I see EE's run more often than anything else in game, the exception being (PUG)raids.

I do not however find that newer content that has been built and balanced(turbine style) around Epic levels and ED's is any easier or harder than the old content. I find a lot of it much the same in difficulty, things just hit harder and take longer to kill.

Do I agree there is not as many PUGS? I'd guess that that is true, but I don't know tbh, I used guild/channels for most raids/end game quests that I don't lead, and I start my own PUGS. Regardless I still PUG my way through TR's without a problem at all.

Again, I don't think you have any right to comment on the state of the game(Whether it's easy or not) if you're not actively playing it right now, and are not active in the end game scene. The truth of the matter is you have no idea how hard or easy the game is.

[iRexxar]

i do agree that EE is harder than older elite, its just that EH is WAY TOO EASY, the reason pugs are low is that many people can just get an hire and go solo EH quests and ee pugs are normaly fails because a lot of people got used to easy content ( EH ) and forgot how to play their character in a properly way


i didn't tell him to not play, i just told him how the game was like 6months and it would probably not change since they announced level 28 new expansion right after eGH and thats why i quit the game again.

i was in an end game guild at sarlona we did a lot of raids , wheni came back they still did, but i just had zero problem healing.. its not even comparable to old eLoBs or eMAs we usedto do, way too easy. I dont know wich server you are from but in Sarlona we had some very good PUGS, where people selected only known decent/good players into it, so we used to have a lot of echrono, von and edq pugs arround, and good ones btw :P . only pugs i didnt see were eMA and eLoB and when i saw it it was lf good known dps or healers... i dont see it anymore (at least not at the time i tryed a come back )


ps: btw if u have the new end game gear , EE is a lot easyer than old epics

ps2: the only reason i'm posting here its becasue i was thinking into a come back and want to know how game is atm, but many people told me its the same ..

[TheLegendOfAra]

i do agree that EE is harder than older elite, its just that EH is WAY TOO EASY, the reason pugs are low is that many people can just get an hire and go solo EH quests and ee pugs are normaly fails because a lot of people got used to easy content ( EH ) and forgot how to play their character in a properly


i didn't tell him to not play, i just told him how the game was like 6months and it would probably not change since they announced level 28 new expansion right after eGH and thats why i quit the game again.

i was in an end game guild at sarlona we did a lot of raids , wheni came back they still did, but i just had zero problem healing.. its not even comparable to old eLoBs or eMAs we usedto do, way too easy.

Most PUGS I join for EE's complete. This isn't always true, and occasionally something goes wrong and a wipe happens but I'd say 95% of EE PUGs I join are completed. Obviously if I run an EE in house with guild or channels it's smooth and nothing goes wrong, but PUGs are no where near as bad as you seem to think.

When you talk about how bad the game is, how poor PUGS are, and how there is no end game at all because EH is ez... Well if I was a new player, or a returning player it would put me off the game. IE. even if you don't say the words "Don't play." everything about what you have posted screams "This is a bad game, don't waste your time!"

Well, I'm sorry you had an easy time healing EH quests and raids. But maybe it was so easy because you were knowingly running on the easy setting?

[iRexxar]

when eGH was up i did every single elite quests there i actuayl made ALOT of plat... i was happy with eGH, i didnt like the lvl 28 announce , when the game was ABOUT to get new content, i mean.. *** work out more of the old content? thats why ii think that at level 30 cap they might work again old content... alot of potential there

[DUMBOW]

The new stuffs fun for about a week. if your at lv 25 - 28. and have the pionts to spend or something like $20 dallors. The 2 raids get the Lag monster, think Mabar from time to time . Also logging has gotten to be a real PITA again. And ESo is come out on the 30th of this month . so up to you . There are greener pastures out there. Plus new Dioblo pack

[Elation]

Hello.

I don't know how the game is at the moment. What i can say is that i didn't like it when i tryed to play again ( i tryed again just at the realse of epic GH).

The game has a bad end game since the fist expansion, normaly every update they make, they destroy all the old content ... Look when i used to play before the first expansion pack , the end game bosses were : eChrono, eVoN6, eEDQ , eLoB, TOD, eMA, and you can also add Shorud, VoD and hox to this list . Not to mention the savarth quests and house p , d, k and e redfens quests, House C quests... i mean u had ALOT OF STUFF TO DO..... now u only have 2 raids... pfft ridiculous. The limited 13 hours intance for every quest was cool, made you enjoy alot more of the content of the game in order to farm more epic tokens , game is boring atm.

edit ps: Oh ya , forgot to mention that the new system sucks, epic hard is pathetic, you can solo quests with hire at hard dificulty, not many people goes for elite quests since its too hard for them , they prefer to do ez quests, so ridiculous... every team work u had to have in order to farm stuff was taken off the game, tanks are uselss, healers doesnt need to have any skills , casters /ranged are the only thing that works ok in EE.... so thats why the game sucks atm.

If you do not know the game at this moment what was the point of your reply?

There is a lot of fun to be had if you choose to never hurts to give it a try.

[Icywave]

Why? Doesn't look like there will be anything else for you to Pay to win for rest of the year.

I find it sad that people like you attack me in someone else's thread, for something that has been gone over several times elsewhere.

We also have a different definition of " winning " I believe, as for me levels and past lives aren't " winning ". It has to do with beating content, a thing which I have done, and many many others before me, without a bunch of past lives.

And for now, game lacks content. U21 brought very little, sadly.

[Icywave]

Diablo III: fun for a few but lets be honest, its NOT the game we've been waiting 10+ years for. I was diehard DI and II player. Its a totally different game. AND its got the REAL MONEY TRANSFER Auction House. Hell to the GT*O!

Auction House was closed and the changes they made are great.

Now, I am curious about one thing though, ANY games you've been waiting 10+ years for? I don't know of any...