[ddo] Tonight?

[Joe Vaughan]

On Wed, 3 Jan 2007 at 09:16:48, Leigh Murphy wrote:

> Wow, seems like I missed a real doozy of a session. Conor, sorry to hear
> you're leaving but I can understand your frustrations and ours. I haven't
> been as available as before guys, sorry, Exams, sick family, sick me, but I
> am looking forward to the new year.

No worries Leigh... we've been powering ahead and you're now left behind to play
with my level 1 arse-scratcher :)

> I think we've all lost sight of the main idea behind this arrangement.
> Initially we planned to play as if it was a PNP night, with the same
> dedication and ground rules.

Agreed and this has been, as you know Leigh, a huge part of my own frustration
in recent times when our play style has shifted to something very similar to
"WoW-Blitzkreig". Unlike Mike, I'm not very good at hiding this frustration so I
guess everyone knows how I feel :)

> It did go a tad pear shaped when the people who could play more, did and a
> lot at that. I still treat it as a PNP thing, I love the sessions where we
> do it slow (oh baby), and I couldn't give a rats ass about the XP or Rep,
> besides them being a necessary evil to advance.

I still want to advance my character, but if I have extra time and can play I
generally play one of my alts to (a) ensure I'm not pulling too far ahead and
(b) not getting bored playing the same character. 

I am looking forward to level 9 cos that's kind of the real sweet spot for
Wizard in PnP and therefore holds all kinds of nice connotations for me
regardless of how good/bad it is in DDO reality. :) But equally I don't want to
be level 9 when someone else is only level 7... I'm not rushing to it. If I do
some quests with XP without everyone then generally they're low enough XP to be
about as significant as a drop in the ocean e.g after Tuesday night, when I was
apparently XP grinding my way away from the lowbies, my XP bar moved a 1/2
centimeter into Rank 37... hardly rushing ahead I would contend. 

> I don't want to log in and feel like it's a job, which is why I quit WoW, I
> don't like to grind.

Same here. I'd like to add also, that I've no interest in doing the same 3
keypresses every combat, every night... I'm going to start completely varying my
spell layouts to experiment with different spell tactics instead of always doing
the same... it gets boring for me.. and allows us no scope for finding any other
new tactics/tricks. I'm sure this holds true for everyone else for their skill
sets too. This is the key benefit of the DDO game system over WoW, the fact that
you don't have to adhere to a specific role always... you can be various in your
approach to situations... by falling into the WoW trap of always doing the same
thing in the same way, we kind of lose that. I'm anxious to regain it. 

> It seems we all want different things so, cool, lets stay in touch.

My thoughts exactly. 

> Unless Sus, our friend who has promised to visit this week sometime
> depending on her schedule visits this evening, I can play tonight.

I don't know if PG will go for a 3rd evening in a row of me in front of the
computer... but I can ask.. :)

> A cool trap dungeon eh? :-)) Well, I did build a trap monkey in the blissful
> ignorance that that would be important for the group.

I think it is important... we just have to stop assuming we can just run through
all traps and live... in later dungeons I am fairly sure we'll meet some "fail
then die" traps...
 
> Leigh.