Are there actually ANY GM's on Cannith?

[Bob_of_QF]

So I wanted to try out Reaper. I had never bothered with it previously, so I went to an old standby dungeon, with a relatively low level toon.
Quest: Recovering the Lost Tome (from the Harbor).

Elite is Level 4, Reaper 1 is also Level 4.

I took a lvl 6 toon (arti 5, ranger 1), with my 5th level dog, and a 6th Cleric hire.

The first half went swimmingly-- you talk to the NPC, he points to the book (meanwhile, disarm the first room trap--behind the pole).

Once you "do" the bookshelf (book), that unlocks the door lever-- "do" the lever, proceed into the first half.

Long hall, splits into two rooms, one small, the other long with lightning traps (high INT check disables). After killing the last trap, a Skele spawns. There was some odd-looking thingy, which I killed. THEN the Skele archer spawns as usual. Killed that too. There was a "Magic Gem" underneath the odd monster? Was that a reaper? (kinda weak, IMO). I hit the gem, got 20sp back. Okay. One spell's worth... glad I wasn't using any magic on it...

Next, back to the main room, through the door you had to lever open-- what the FORK? It is now CLOSED?

It is NOT supposed to auto-close! There is no lever on the dungeon side! What are you supposed to do-- park ANOTHER hire on that side of the door?

I've played this one literally dozens of times, and it is NOT supposed to auto-close....

FAIL. So I enter a Help Ticket-- at 8:15 my time (it reads 9:15 in the ticket, I guess they don't use Daylight Savings Time?) While waiting for a response, I tried the /STUCK command-- nope. It moved me BACK down the dungeon, not to the other side of the door.

Tried to add some comments to the [no]Help ticket-- but it's now locked-down-- no more comments until the GM (an apparently non-extant entity) "comments".

I see the NOHELP/IGNORE system is working as intended... to 100%, too!

[Bob_of_QF]

So, it's been 45 minutes....

The IGNORE/NOHELP is working perfectly.

[Bob_of_QF]

Nothing from the apparently non-existent "game masters"....

[Bob_of_QF]

Exited the game. No help whatsoever. No response from the "GM".

[Mindos]

Exited the game. No help whatsoever. No response from the "GM".

I'm sorry you had a bad experience. Now a days, it's usually better to AVOID asking for a GM unless something horrible has happened. Defining horrible as toon deletion, loss of epic XP/destinies when TR'ing, etc.


With the long, sometimes forever wait time, and the sometimes closing of your ticket without a response, it's just better to start over.


Standing Stone Games is going thru a transition right now. This is their first big release since breaking away from Turbine. The basics are the foundation for success, but they are a little dizzy from their adventure. I am sorry you didn't get a GM. But I would try to enjoy the game as much as possible regardless. If I was a betting man, I would wager that DDO sadly gets transported to another plane of existance by a VIOLET prismatic ray. Probably around the end of 2018.

[Bob_of_QF]

I am sorry too.

I'm a VIP since 2012. This is my last year, due to bad/no GM, unfixed aggro* and other issues.

I will *not* renew in August of this year, unless *something* improves.

So far? It's getting worse-- not better...


* yes-- I ran around in 3bC before this fiasco, and the aggro bug is NOT fixed-- not even a little bit.

Worse: the hit-point bars are now nerfed beyond all utility-- you must specifically target each monster to see the bar, and the targeting is ALSO nerfed as well... it won't remain locked (random shifts between mobs)...

[Bob_of_QF]

Standing Stone Games is going thru a transition right now.

Sadly, it looks like they are going to have to transition without me, or my annual VIP payment...