[ddo] Next 2 weeks

[Leigh Murphy]

Hi Guys,

Dalt, grand, no worries. I have to admit I wouldn't go back to WoW either
just for the opportunity of talking with my buddies.

We'll remove you from the DDO list then so you're not inundated with junk.

As for the rest of us we need another person, perferably 2. We're slumming
it now clearing out the lower level quests, fine. I have one left and then
I'm done in the Harbour area.

We need to move to the market and start some increased difficulty quests.
New and fun adventures!!

Conor is gone next week, are there suggestions? CLW potions at 58 gp a pop
are getting ridiculous if you use 5-10 a quest (and I popped over 20 last
Tuesday). Can we get Diarm started? A Paladin maybe?

I do feel as we advance slowly that we're going to need more people, we've
been getting by with 4 for now but as I said above we are slumming it on
lower level quests. What about Ade and Paula? They not interested? Who else
from the old crew might be able to commit to one night a week? We need them
soon as we're all level 3 now and the further we advance the more catching
up they have to do.

Other than that I think we need to slow down as well. We got fireballed by
that muppet recently as we charged up the hill because

1) We didn't scout - I need more time and a tad more patience to fulfill
that role

2) We didn't see his CR - that would have been a good indication fireball
was a possibility - we need to use the utility spells a little more, I mean
when was the last DND game you went into battle unbuffed?

I realise waiting for my report back can be a tad tedious but it will save
lives later and now the death penalty is getting larger each time. We need
to use tactics more, protect the mage, he goes down the firepower dies with
him, wait to fire those first arrows until we find out how many muppets are
around the corner, and I don't know what to say to Conor as the Cleric class
is far different from what I'm used to - pure healer or part tank? We need
both until we get a full tank.

We need to carry masterwork healer kits, and of course spell components :p

Maybe we can talk some of these things over before we run off to do a quest
next week, if we are on.

Leigh

at work but not really here :-)


On 4/20/06, Joe Vaughan <joev at jarhedz.com> wrote:
>
>
>   There's a lot of reasons I don't like the game and I'm not going to go
> into them again (or Joe might start a mini-flame war! :>)
>
>
>
>  See you say that but then you say...
>
>  but suffice to say imo wow is a far superior game in almost every way.
>
>
>
>
> The major difference, and this is fundamentally the reason you love it and
> I loath it, is that WoW is "mechanistic" game playing. This suits your
> personality to a tee... you love to work out the mathematics and figure out
> exactly how many points of damage you will do per hit... we know this of you
> of old (it's the same reason you were the always best at Empire :>). In this
> way, fundamentally, WoW "fits" you as a player perfectly.
>
>
> DDO is different... I'm not going to say it's better or worse, (although
> so far I've enjoyed just about every game from about 10 games (4 hour
> evenings) of DDO a thousand times more than a *year* of WoW)  - in that it
> is designed around the idea of gaming as a social pursuit (without a need to
> be a mechanist unless you want to) as is DnD itself. For that reason above
> all it suits me as a game.
>
>
> The equation for me (i.e. as suits me) boils down to this:
>
>
> Wow = great UI (as provided by the community), nice cartoony graphics,
> lousy repetitive boring game in exactly the same mold as all other
> mechanistic MMO's I've played(EQ, EQ2, DAoC, EO etc).
>
>
> DDO = lousy UI (as provided by the devs with no opportunity for community
> improvement), pretty semi-realistic graphics (which I always put at 1/2 way
> between the twee of WoW and the real of EQ2) with fun quests and above all a
> focus on social gaming atmosphere which I've never seen in any other MMO.
>
>
> I chose the latter cos it suits my personality :)
>
>
> Joe
>
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