Returning Player, Looking for Mature Guild and Help

[SmartForce]

Hey Folks,

Played for quite a long time up until around the time the first expansion was released. I was with Storm Lords until they fell apart and without my regular group I kind of drifted away from DDO. I logged in today and was pretty overwhelmed with a lot of the changes and new systems and such. I'm not sure if I want to stay premium and just use my 25,000 TP to buy all the content packs, or if I'll go back to subscribing by the year and pick up the most recent expansion (presumably I'll want the collector's edition?).

I'm looking for a guild consisting of adults and mature younger folks. I'm always happy to help when I can, but constant begging tends to grate on me after awhile. I've currently got a 20 Favored Soul that I was pretty good at healing in raids with back when I was still playing, and I have a TR1 Artificer at 16, with a smattering of other characters.

I'd love a guild with a good airship (and am willing to contribute on that end), that does raids, and with some folks who are willing to help bring me up to speed on all the new stuff since I last played. I've never played any of the Forgotten Realms stuff, nor any of the Epic level stuff. A lot of what I saw in the interface when I logged in today was pretty confusing, but I suspect it won't take very long to get back up to speed.

I've got a nice headset and am willing to use a third party voice solution, assuming the in game voice is still kind of hit or miss.

I guess drop me a PM or a reply if your guild could use another experienced old timer coming back, and you would be willing to help me get my bearings and catch up with all the new stuff.

Thanks in Advance,

[UurlockYgmeov]

first - welcome back!

2nd - stay premium until you know you want to stay. Give it a month - am confident you will like it.

have fun storming the ummm, castles!

[SmartForce]

Yeah ... I really just need to find a good group, and someone who is willing to bring me up to speed. So much of the UI is different and there are lots of windows and things which don't make a lot of sense to me. I don't know anything about post-20 progression, and a lot of my feats/enhancements don't work anymore. Plus some of my gear requires a guild, so there's that.

I'm also interested in crafting. When Storm Lords died, I was just starting out on a TR project to take a character through every class, and I've been reading and it looks like I should max my crafting to help with that.

So yeah ... looking for a place with people to play with. I tend to enjoy healing, have experience with the old raids (including the black abbot which was I think the hardest one at the time), am dependable and friendly. I'm going to have a lot of questions and such up front but once I get a grasp on all the changes, I tend to min/max and go out of my way to be helpful and pay it forward.

[axel15810]

If you have questions feel free to message me in game, character name Akksol. I can't answer crafting questions since I never really bothered to craft, but I can bring you up to speed on a lot of things.

[SmartForce]

I will do mate. I've spent the last couple days reading up and it seems that a lot of stuff got nerfed while I was away. I've got a load of questions. My prior experience was that a good group made things a lot more smooth (especially in the 9-16 level range), so still looking for a guild that will have me. I'm certainly going to have a ton of questions at first, but once I pay the year subscription, I'll be reliably active, come to raids, and once I'm up to speed on all the changes, I'll be a sure asset.

I think I'm worth the minor annoyance cost of helping me re-learn the game, heh.

[UurlockYgmeov]

best way to find a good guild is to PUG - since you get to run with people and see what they are like.

and ddowiki.com plus release notes can be your best returning friend.

[acdccod]

Hey Folks,

Played for quite a long time up until around the time the first expansion was released. I was with Storm Lords until they fell apart and without my regular group I kind of drifted away from DDO. I logged in today and was pretty overwhelmed with a lot of the changes and new systems and such. I'm not sure if I want to stay premium and just use my 25,000 TP to buy all the content packs, or if I'll go back to subscribing by the year and pick up the most recent expansion (presumably I'll want the collector's edition?).

I'm looking for a guild consisting of adults and mature younger folks. I'm always happy to help when I can, but constant begging tends to grate on me after awhile. I've currently got a 20 Favored Soul that I was pretty good at healing in raids with back when I was still playing, and I have a TR1 Artificer at 16, with a smattering of other characters.

I'd love a guild with a good airship (and am willing to contribute on that end), that does raids, and with some folks who are willing to help bring me up to speed on all the new stuff since I last played. I've never played any of the Forgotten Realms stuff, nor any of the Epic level stuff. A lot of what I saw in the interface when I logged in today was pretty confusing, but I suspect it won't take very long to get back up to speed.

I've got a nice headset and am willing to use a third party voice solution, assuming the in game voice is still kind of hit or miss.

I guess drop me a PM or a reply if your guild could use another experienced old timer coming back, and you would be willing to help me get my bearings and catch up with all the new stuff.

Thanks in Advance,

Welcome back!