[ddo] ddo

Tue Apr 25 09:10:22 IST 2006

Sounds good to me, made lvl 2 last night, a whole 44 hp's now, maybe 
I'll stay standing a bit longer now... 8-)

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
     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
         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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