[ddo] Next 2 weeks
Joe Vaughan
joev at jarhedz.com
Tue Apr 25 15:46:54 IST 2006
look for me on TS :)
Joe
On 25 Apr 2006, at 14:24, Leigh Murphy wrote:
> Course cancelled, I'm on from 18 BST and even earlier if anyone
> wants to do some early stuff,
>
> Leigh
>
>
> On 4/25/06, Mike Kelly <mike.j.kelly at gmail.com> wrote:
> I dunno, call me chicken but even on hard we got cursed by those
> bloody kobold shamans, –4 penalty on attack rolls, saves, ability
> checks, and skill checks is kind of a death sentence for us. :)
>
> I'd like to do the library/lighthouse on hard though. I reckon
> those people could do with a good ass-whooping! And the quest can
> be done by Leigh on his own while we rest in the library with a
> cigar and some brandy. :)
>
> If we're doing the waterworks I might bring my cleric along (level
> 3 now) for some healing powah if people think that's a good idea?
> Pheer my leet healzorzing1!
>
>
> On 25/04/06, Leigh Murphy <murphy.leigh at gmail.com > wrote:
> 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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> Newmarket-on-Fergus,
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> Newmarket-on-Fergus,
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