New folks and Orien as default

[TitusOvid]

Welcome all new players to DDO.
If you just started out and chose the default server you spawned on Orien. Congratulations, you are in a very fine place to start out.

Orien is one of the smallest servers in this game. It has advantages and disadvantages. I'd like to try to make it easier for you to start on my home server.
The biggest disadvantage is the low population and since you are expecting this to be an MMO you might be disappointed because you don't see much folk to group with.
Don't be discouraged. Make your pace and you will meet great people on your way because we actually have a nice community on Orien, especially for beginners.

All in all Orien is pretty PuG friendly, we need to do things cross-guild wise because of our low pop. And since we are helpful, as well don't be shy to join lfms without knowing people. Just tell them you are new and most will give you a hand in figuring out what's going on.

How to meet people?
There is the lfm window of course and the general chat.
Lfms show mostly quests on reaper difficulty. It can be intimidating at the start but it should work out if you run with a group. Apply to the group and say that you might need help in reaper and all is good.

The general chat is NOT a global chat. Lots of people don't know that and are wondering why no one answers there.
Therefor Orien has it's own established global chats. The most popular and helpful one is the Titan channel. It is THE best place to be ingame, if you want to dive into the community. You will find advice - good or bad -, trade, trivia fun and nerd talk of course.
There are other global chats like EEraids for example to organize Orien's raids. Have a look at post #2 on how to join those chats.

Another good place to be is the Orien (Raiding) Discord or short ORD. I used brackets around Raiding because the discord grew to so much more. It is a great place to be on- and offline, meet people, organize things, use the voicechannels (since the ingame voice and chat is lacking in function), trade, nerd talk, fool around. It is practically a merge from the ingame channels Titan and EEraids.

Most players join guilds. While it is not a must it certainly can be a good idea. We have a handful of guilds that always take on new players. Ask in the Titan channel or in ORD for an invite and someone will contact you in a short while. If you are looking for something specific, I personally might be able to help out since I like to know the guilds on Orien and have a good overview.

Orien got a lot of EU based players but we have a healthy US-time scene, as well. Now that hardcore is up all this is somewhat distorted. But there is a great tool out there to check if Orien is good and right for your time-zone: https://www.ddoaudit.com/servers/orien

I'd say our raid scene is healthy and some people even push raid difficulties but it certainly could use more people who like this kind of thing. We are not reaching the difficulty levels other servers do in general. Maybe the majority is more chillaxed or not as competitive. Don't take me wrong, we do have ambitious and genius players but we could always use more.
When you take your time to get to know the people on the server you will be able to connect to the right ones that suit your playstyle.

Last but not least what kind of community is Orien? I asked around and the majority agrees:
- friendly
- helpful
- informally
- chill
- generous
- close-knit
- lots of potential

Too much? Believe me, this is Orien. We might be small but we are mighty fine folks. Help us grow!

Cheers,
Titus

PS: Please do comment on this, even criticize. Don't be shy. We can take it.
PSS: If you contact me here, ingame or over various discords I will help you out as best as I can. Please don't hesitate to do so.

[TitusOvid]

I recommend creating a new chat window for this.
1) Right click on a chat window tab and chose create. You can rename that chat wndow to your liking.
2) Type /joinchannel titan in your chat window ingame (General works).
3) On that same tab menu you can adjust your in- and outgoing messages to that new userchat, as well. It is most likely userchat-1. You get a message in your general chat which userchannel you joined.
4) Say Hi.

To join EEraids just change step 2 to /joinchannel eeraids endgame

Cheers,
Titus.

[Katalissa]

Welcome any new players to Orien.

I just want to add - Orien is not THAT small - you'll still find plenty of activity going on most of the time. XD

Take Titus's advice and join the /titan channel, and the Discord, and don't be afraid to ask questions. Also don't expect you need to achieve everything today, or even tomorrow.

Take your time, enjoy playing the game, and one day you'll be joining end-game raids with the best of us. (And perhaps the rest of us too.)

[nondesu]

orien good

[Micki]

Welcome to Orien!

We are a friendly and helpful server and if you have any questions, feel free to ask. I recommend joining Orien Raiding Discord, that way you can connect with players both in game and outside of the game. And, note that both new players and vets have questions - since this game is versatile and also constantly changing.

[Seph1roth5]

Orien's definitely friendly, just know that with hardcore season going on that it (and all servers) will be less busy than normal because people are playing on hardcore for a month or 2.

[Weemadarthur]

Gratz to those that call Orien home for finally being made the default server. To any new players I will add that although I don't play there myself I did spend a couple of weeks there about a year ago to grab my 400 favor (I had already run 100 there when I started) and ended up staying long enough to grab 2k favor. The playerbase from all I saw were very friendly and welcoming and several players went out of their way to open quests for me (even if they didn't need to run them themselves).

I hope they keep you as the default server for a decent while as I think from my experience that it would be an ideal place for new players to start out.

[Cranjis]

i can give you a guild if you need a guild. my guild is really awesome.

[voxson5]

Good people here, come join us and have some fun

[drex81]

Don't be afraid to ask questions or join pugs. Its been my experience most people will help you out. I (Eoin) tend to go on autopilot in quests, but will slow down and try to pass what knowledge I have (I'm probably b tier though). Just let me know ahead of time. Currently mostly busy dying to traps in HC, probably for another week or so.

[bkcho]

+8 GMT timezone here, if you are playing from asia side. I am usually in at night. Good to have some new players to play and farm tpgether

[krimsonrane]

[TitusOvid]

Care to elaborate?


Cheers,
Titus.

[Martininice]

I dare newcomers check your posting history and decide for themselves if that is a Orien problem or a you problem...

[krimsonrane]

I dare newcomers check your posting history and decide for themselves if that is a Orien problem or a you problem...

I could have sworn the OP said "PS: Please do comment on this, even criticize. Don't be shy. We can take it."
I guess they just got proved wrong huh?

[NemesisAlien]

+8 GMT timezone here, if you are playing from asia side. I am usually in at night. Good to have some new players to play and farm tpgether

I thought I was the only one around lol.

[NemesisAlien]

i can give you a guild if you need a guild. my guild is really awesome.

Give, not join, we demand it gift wrapped.

[NemesisAlien]

I recommend creating a new chat window for this.
1) Right click on a chat window tab and chose create. You can rename that chat wndow to your liking.
2) Type /joinchannel titan in your chat window ingame (General works).
3) On that same tab menu you can adjust your in- and outgoing messages to that new userchat, as well. It is most likely userchat-1. You get a message in your general chat which userchannel you joined.
4) Say Hi.

To join EEraids just change step 2 to /joinchannel eeraids endgame

Cheers,
Titus.

New players, need more details, not just /joinchannel titan or eeraids. Example change outgoing to userchannel 1, etc, probably need a few screenshots since just typing wont make sense anyway from a new person point of view.

[kmoustakas]

Don't listen to them!

Come to Sarlona instead. We have ... cookies?

[TitusOvid]

I could have sworn the OP said "PS: Please do comment on this, even criticize. Don't be shy. We can take it."
I guess they just got proved wrong huh?

Since you didn't elaborate, people need to find out themselves. Having a look at your posting history might help.

Cheers,
Titus.