Farming DDO Store points to get the 99 point Xpacs

[ianflaer]

Mists of Ravenloft, Masterminds of Sharn, Shadowfell conspiracy, and Menace of the Underdark are all on sale until Apr 23 for 99 store points. This is a great opportunity for people who are new to the game.

If you are a person who has just opened up a new DDO account all you need to do is earn 5 favor on each of the 8 servers. your first 5 favor on a new server gets you 50 DDO store points. you can earn 2 favor by playing each of the level 1 Korthos village quests on normal. playing the first three quests: Heyton's Rest, Storehouse Secret, and Cannith Crystal will get you 6 favor and your 50 DDO store points for that server. If you are VIP or can find a friendly player to party up with you and open any ONE of these quests on elite (and complete it of course) then you will get 6 favor right away. If you do this on each server you will have earned 400 points and can buy all four of the 99point packs.

If you are a veteran player and you want to help grow the community and help retain new players you can be that friendly veteran hanging out in Korthos opening Storehouse Secret on Elite and helping new players to complete it.

as far as I know it is not against terms of service to join a party with and help other players complete quests or even to personally own more than one account. what you MUST NOT do is let other people have access to your account in any way. no sharing passwords or play time, or selling accounts.

so DO help new players complete Elite Korthos quests so they can get the sale packs. DO tell new players about the Dungeongcrawl code so they can upgrade their account. DO NOT allow others to play your account, DO NOT sell your account, DO NOT give others your account access information.

if any of my above information is incorrect I welcome education and I WILL comply with terms of serve, EULA, et al.

[Stradivarius]

Mists of Ravenloft, Masterminds of Sharn, Shadowfell conspiracy, and Menace of the Underdark are all on sale until Apr 23 for 99 store points. This is a great opportunity for people who are new to the game.

If you are a person who has just opened up a new DDO account all you need to do is earn 5 favor on each of the 8 servers. your first 5 favor on a new server gets you 50 DDO store points. you can earn 2 favor by playing each of the level 1 Korthos village quests on normal. playing the first three quests: Heyton's Rest, Storehouse Secret, and Cannith Crystal will get you 6 favor and your 50 DDO store points for that server. If you are VIP or can find a friendly player to party up with you and open any ONE of these quests on elite (and complete it of course) then you will get 6 favor right away. If you do this on each server you will have earned 400 points and can buy all four of the 99point packs.

If you are a veteran player and you want to help grow the community and help retain new players you can be that friendly veteran hanging out in Korthos opening Storehouse Secret on Elite and helping new players to complete it.

as far as I know it is not against terms of service to join a party with and help other players complete quests or even to personally own more than one account. what you MUST NOT do is let other people have access to your account in any way. no sharing passwords or play time, or selling accounts.

so DO help new players complete Elite Korthos quests so they can get the sale packs. DO tell new players about the Dungeongcrawl code so they can upgrade their account. DO NOT allow others to play your account, DO NOT sell your account, DO NOT give others your account access information.

if any of my above information is incorrect I welcome education and I WILL comply with terms of serve, EULA, et al.

What class race combo would be best to run through a korthos elite quest? , and which korthos elite quest is fastest?

[ianflaer]

I had fastest time in storehouse secret with barbarian, what works best for others may vary

[ShifterThePirate]

What class race combo would be best to run through a korthos elite quest? , and which korthos elite quest is fastest?

Anything with big 2 hander weapon and a lot of strenght breezes through Korthos. Paladin is great because you also get a heal. The lvl 1 Barbarian hireling pretty much solo everything too if you don't want to be a 2HF character.
If you want to be fast Tabaxi with Feline Agility is the way to go (if you have that unlocked)

[rimble]

I had fastest time in storehouse secret with barbarian, what works best for others may vary

Yeah, just Barbarian, max Strength, rest in Dex/Con, and just do Storehouse N/H/E. The other two take a couple minutes longer...crypt running around, and crystal waiting for spawns.

[boredGamer]

There is already plenty of grind in this game. Just pay a few bucks and don't burn yourself out grinding things that don't matter on characters that don't matter on servers you'll never play on.

If you really don't want to pay any money, sure, go ahead.

[ShifterThePirate]

There is already plenty of grind in this game. Just pay a few bucks and don't burn yourself out grinding things that don't matter on characters that don't matter on servers you'll never play on.

If you really don't want to pay any money, sure, go ahead.

99 DDO points isn't that much of a grind. Especially if there are servers where you haven't played yet. With first time favor bonus you'll have it by the time you finish all Korthos quests on Elite or add some hardbor quests like Haverdasher.

[boredGamer]

99 DDO points isn't that much of a grind. Especially if there are servers where you haven't played yet. With first time favor bonus you'll have it by the time you finish all Korthos quests on Elite or add some hardbor quests like Haverdasher.

I get it, but why even bother?

Just pay $10 and play the game without some worthless korthos grind.

Again, to each their own, but I see no reason to create chars on every server and grind out some favor.

[Stradivarius]

$10 over 10 accounts is $100. That's like a night out for 4 to the new D&D movie.

[boredGamer]

$10 over 10 accounts is $100. That's like a night out for 4 to the new D&D movie.

Grinding 100 points on 10 accounts is a worthless waste of a Saturday that I'd much rather pay $100 for. Also, 10 accounts?

[slarden]

I get it, but why even bother?

Just pay $10 and play the game without some worthless korthos grind.

Again, to each their own, but I see no reason to create chars on every server and grind out some favor.

At least from my perspective creating a character on all servers to run 3 korthos quests on normal isn't exactly what I would call a grind - very far from it! It's a few hours at most - probably more like 1 hour.

That's a pretty good time investment to get an account with all non-raid content except one pack and 4 xpacs. You can always throw money at it when there is a point sale if you want to do that.

I'm not sure why people want 10 or 100 accounts. My personal limit for dual boxing is 3 accounts total and I'll only bring more when farming for an item. At least from my viewpoint everyone that solos, whether or exclusively or even 20% of the time should strongly consider making an alt-account buffing bard with sustaining song. Especially on reaper mode. It's well worth the one hour "grind".

[Nandos]

Buying even the lowest amount of DDO points, converts your account from free-to-play to Premium. This is absolutely HUGE if you are new and plan on playing this game for any length of time.

[slarden]

Buying even the lowest amount of DDO points, converts your account from free-to-play to Premium. This is absolutely HUGE if you are new and plan on playing this game for any length of time.

I did this after earning wings on a completely ftp character with no store purchases or hand-me-downs from other accounts at all and I regret it. It was kind of fun having one character that was totally ftp still crushing content. Since going premium I can no longer call it a ftp character or account.

From a challenge perspective I really wish I kept it 100% ftp.

[Stradivarius]

Be your own raid!

[Bjond]

At least from my perspective creating a character on all servers to run 3 korthos quests on normal isn't exactly what I would call a grind - very far from it! It's a few hours at most - probably more like 1 hour.

It took me about 10m per server using my main account as an elite opener. Main creates iconic (bard spellsinger path, AP all for runspeed). DUNGEONCRAWLer creates barbarian (for runspeed). Run to Haverdasher. Step in, finish, done. About 3-4 servers in I wondered if the run to Haverdasher wasn't longer than actually doing a quest on the Isle, but kept at it -- figured stopping to wonder more would end up costing more time than I ever managed to save. Same wonderment about using an opener v running N+H+E on Haverdasher directly (saves creating & running the bard).

If you're a brand new player without an opener, my bet is it will take you 2~3H minimum -- more likely all day. Most of your time will be spent figuring things out, which is perfectly OK and to be expected. Streamlined play for this endeavor is probably found among those currently doing Racial PL'ing. They're the ones with optimized lowbie plans all wired & ready.

[Eantarus]

Grinding 100 points on 10 accounts is a worthless waste of a Saturday that I'd much rather pay $100 for. Also, 10 accounts?

With a beefy PC and AwesomeAF it doesn't need to take so long. But yeah, like you I'd rather just spend a couple bucks than grind favor endlessly.