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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>sorry I had to leg it - I was invited to my
neighbours for some traditional romanian/orthodox easter desert,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>those poeple really need to discover cadbury's
cream eggs :)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=cliffy@iol.ie href="mailto:cliffy@iol.ie">Cliffy</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=ddo@dspsrv.com
href="mailto:ddo@dspsrv.com">ddo@dspsrv.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, April 23, 2006 10:54
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [ddo] Next 2 weeks</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>> <FONT face="Times New Roman">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.
</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>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.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>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!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>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.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>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.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>C.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=murphy.leigh@gmail.com href="mailto:murphy.leigh@gmail.com">Leigh
Murphy</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=ddo@dspsrv.com
href="mailto:ddo@dspsrv.com">ddo@dspsrv.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, April 21, 2006 8:06
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [ddo] Next 2 weeks</DIV>
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<P>Hi Guys,</P>
<P>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.</P>
<P>We'll remove you from the DDO list then so you're not inundated with
junk.</P>
<P>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. </P>
<P>We need to move to the market and start some increased difficulty quests.
New and fun adventures!!</P>
<P>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?</P>
<P>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. </P>
<P>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 </P>
<P>1) We didn't scout - I need more time and a tad more patience to fulfill
that role</P>
<P>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?</P>
<P>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. </P>
<P>We need to carry masterwork healer kits, and of course spell components
:p</P>
<P>Maybe we can talk some of these things over before we run off to do a
quest next week, if we are on.</P>
<P>Leigh</P>
<P>at work but not really here :-)</P></FONT><BR><BR>
<DIV><SPAN class=gmail_quote>On 4/20/06, <B class=gmail_sendername>Joe
Vaughan</B> <<A href="mailto:joev@jarhedz.com">joev@jarhedz.com</A>>
wrote:</SPAN>
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size=2>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! :>)
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<DIV>See you say that but then you say...</DIV></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>but
suffice to say imo wow is a far superior game in almost every
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<DIV>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. </DIV>
<DIV><BR> </DIV>
<DIV>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. </DIV>
<DIV><BR> </DIV>
<DIV>The equation for me (i.e. as suits me) boils down to
this: </DIV>
<DIV><BR> </DIV>
<DIV>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).</DIV>
<DIV><BR> </DIV>
<DIV>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. </DIV>
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<DIV>I chose the latter cos it suits my personality :)</DIV></DIV>
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