Monster Champion Feedback

[Braegan]

Yar. Me 2. I saw Elite in DDO before I ever saw the Harbor.

I just don't buy these completionist vets coming here saying they stuck to Normal exclusively for months and months when they were new.

Hijinks, i say.

For me and all the people I learned the game with, Normal, Hard and Elite were all run often.

Normal run with repetition at level, which then was actually at level meaning run a level 4 quest at level 4 and we always come back one level later for the Hard and Elite run.

Seeing as people now run Elite two levels over for the easiest BB completion, we were running Elite a level earlier than people run it now.

People need to stop all this play acting about how it was when they started.

You wanna say we should change the game to make Hard and Elite more prohibitive for new people, fine. We can debate that.

But don't tell me we aren't changing the game to be more prohibitive then when we all started because we clearly are.

Well, weather you buy it or not it is true. In my case I absolutely stuck to normal for a long time. I capped (level 10 at the time) on normal with many quests I didn't run yet. I did run normal because I was learning the game and the game was much more difficult back then (2006).

Since the games launch a truckload of buffs, changes, gear options have made the game much easier and new player friendly. This one addition of adding champs into heroics doesn't come close to canceling out the absurd levels of power characters have now versus what they had back then. So no, I don't feel this is excluding new players as much as folks would like to think it is. New players are still in a much better off position than the old timers were.

Since the old timer completionist vets first leveled up things that were added/changed to make the game easier:

- Ship Buffs (Elemental Resists are huge in lowbie land)
- Much better equipment
- A twice over revamped enhancement system (The first one had a cap of FOUR total enhancements you could have).
- Content tweaked to make things easier.
- Revamped XP
- BB
- Favor Reward system
- Dungeon Scaling
- Hirelings
- A Wealth of information via here and the wiki
- DDO Store and all that brings to the table
- Much more I am forgetting right now

Things added to the game to make a challenge:

- Champions on Hard and Elite.

Yeah, I don't feel bad. Game is still much easier now.