[ddo] Next 2 weeks

Tue Apr 25 08:47:54 IST 2006

We all on for this evening? Is Diarm on this list?
19:00 BST ok with People? Or if you're earlier I probably won't be on until
19:30 ish..
Could try waterworks or just some of the more fun lower level quests on hard
to get D up to speed.

Leigh

On 4/23/06, Cliffy <cliffy at iol.ie> wrote:
>
>  sorry I had to leg it - I was invited to my neighbours for some
> traditional romanian/orthodox easter desert,
>
> those poeple really need to discover cadbury's cream eggs :)
>
>
>  ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Cliffy <cliffy at iol.ie>
> *To:* ddo at dspsrv.com
>  *Sent:* Sunday, April 23, 2006 10:54 AM
> *Subject:* Re: [ddo] Next 2 weeks
>
>
> > 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.
>
> I'm not really sure yet either :) I have a lvl 1.4 tank and the cleric is
> defo not a tank in that calibre - but at the same time by our party standard
> I am the one wrapped in the most pig iron ... where it gets risky is when I
> can't get spells off, no probs healing if I'm far back or maybe facing
> one-two enemies, but more that than and the healing won't happen.
>
> So basically decent AC, very little DEX (ie none), massive WIS (20),
> firmly believes that you guys should be carrying 10 healing pots each
> minimum going into a dungeon - I do!
> I deal out feic all damage. Have just got some reasonable aoe spells - but
> of my lvl 2 offensive spells I can't really afford to take that many (maybe
> one) of them.
>
> 7BST would be better for me tonight, but maybe leave it at 6 with the
> assumption that I might be late - I still have a crapload of work to do
> before flying tomorrow, and am excpecting company a few times today. I may
> even have to drop out for 30mins or so tonight during the game - hopefully
> not.
>
> C.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Leigh Murphy <murphy.leigh at gmail.com>
> *To:* ddo at dspsrv.com
> *Sent:* Friday, April 21, 2006 8:06 AM
> *Subject:* Re: [ddo] Next 2 weeks
>
>
>
> 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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