Chain flagging is one of the worst aspects of DDO

[Uska]

Agreed flagging should die. I've hated it in every MMO I've ever played.

They should start with ****ing Threnal though. Start with the hardest one to deal with, that'll demonstrate you mean it.

its easy to mess up threnal so that one I can agree with

[Oliphant]

Finding groups in this game is sad enough right now. Making us do stuff... nah. I'm just staying logged out right now in all honestly. I might log back in some time but I think the moment I hit some stupid flag wall will be my meh point and I'm out again.

[SoVeryBelgian]

We have little enough immersion as it is keep flagging for 1st life characters maybe remove it for a 2nd life.

Aye it's a question of Immersion VS Practicality


On one hand, I hate losing out on XP cuz I missed P1. On the other hand, Jumping into P7 without the rest FEELS wrong.


THAT SAID, I play thru Saltmarsh in unrelated order and frankly... I don't care much.


So you really only need the narrative 1 time.


At the end of flagging you should be bequeathed an item like the Necro 4 Litany Sigil that allows auto-flag for any quest in the chain. Or auto-flag thru TR by talking to an NPC about a past life of something that unlocks all quests at a given level.


i.e. NPC 'Maerenis the Cosmic Traveler' who you click, and get prompts like 'Do you wish to recall?' and then you choose 'Yes, recall a past from level 8' or whatever and then all level 8 quests become flagged.

[Saekee]

hey you guys really think that the devs who have new players show up confused as to whether or not they are some abstract thing called sunny side or snowy side, shutting them out of some LFMs, will do something about this?


That said, what about they way they handled the Litany flagging? How about creating that mechanic again in some way? The sagas have replaced flagging in many ways so I agree with the OP.

[capsela]

Full group slavelords on hardcore. 1 dropped on pt2. Nobody could join because flagging.

[systemshaker1941]

Having to constantly reflag quest like Ravenloft and Sharn is just infuriating. There are few enough LFMs these days and not being able to join a group because they are on the second quest in a chain seems at minimum counter productive. Can anyone make a good case for chain flagging, why is it even a thing? If you want to get the full flavor of a quest chain you have the choice of running them in order. Removing the flagging requirements, or better yet, not putting them there in the first place seems to make sense to me.

Hard agree.

It is physically impossible for me to agree with you any more.