New char: Twinkyzerger

So I've named my Turbine Point farmer "Twinkyzerger" in hopes of attracting vet TRs who want to escape Korthos ASAP. If nothing else, it will scare away the noobs who hate me and my 60,000 plat worth of twinky gear:

+1 Pure Good greataxe of flames. Only a tiny bit better than the starter axe.

+2 Adamantium Full Plate. This is great because so much Korthos stuff only hits for 3 points of damage but still interupts opening doors and pulling levers.

+3 returning throwing axe. For slimes. I don't want those grey oozes anywhere near my gear.

70 cure light wounds. I don't use them that often on the Korthos stuff, but I often get sidetracked by some group doing a higher level quest that I fondly remember and need heals for.

The Epic content in DDO is on sale.

So I've been enjoying running around as a level 20 ranger with a two level fighter dip, but I've got no Epic content. I've been finishing off the last couple of points of favor to buy Vale of Night when suddenly... there's a sale on VoN!!!

Now my only hope of snagging that sweet sweet 25% discount is somehow getting the last 75 turbine points before the sale ends. I've been speed-running Korthos for TP, but I don't think I can make it at this rate. The other option is to grind four points of favor on my Wizard, but whenever I log in Sarlona is dead dead dead, and anyway that character has already done leet for everything in sight.

It's gonna be realy close either way.

Free to play and Level 20

My free to play character is level 20 and lovin it! :D

He's a Dwarf Tempest III Ranger 18 / Fighter 2 specializing in Dwarf Axes and heavy armor. Currently I'm wearing Plate of the Defender from VoD. It's mithral and a perfect fit for my current Dex. Soon I hope to get Tharne's Bracers and then I'll use fighter and dwarf enhancements to accomidate the extra AC.

Anyway, I'd like to say thanks to Turbine and the Defenders Guild. This is some of the best Videogaming Ive ever had. :D

New character! :)

I've installed the high resolution DDO pack. Everything looks the same, except better! I notice it most in the buffs.

Anyway, this new character is my fifth rogue. First one I didn't enjoy playing. Second one had an awesome randomly generated face but didn't qualify for Tempest . The next two had sub-awesome faces. But the fifth time is the charm!

I'm enjoying the playstyle. The ability to wand-whip and fight reminds me of my paladin. Oh! And the ability to shoot stuff at long range is quite the eye-opener. It's fun to run towards my target shooting my bow and killing the target before I get there. :)

Long term plan is to take rogue all the way and enjoy being a jack of all trades master of none.

Buggy enhancements kill character :(

UPDATE: It was the fault of the Turbine Updater. Turbine fixed the bug. All is well :)

My character is bugged. I've stopped playing him until Turbine fixes the bug.

The problem is that the Spellsinger enhancement class isn't available. Not that I haven't met a prereq or something. Spellsinger doesn't exist as far as my character is concerned. The other bard prestige classes (virtuoso and warchanter) show up on the list as unavailable but the Spellsinger prestige class is missing completely. :(

I've submitted some bug reports but I doubt that Turbine will ever fix it. DDO seems like a good game but one where the bugs are fixed infrequently (if ever!) I mean, I do enjoy DDO but I've never played a buggier game and this latest update has made the game less stable for me. I get crashes from solid fog now (a bug since day one) and there's lag in the harbor. The ice games got closed for bugs, and so on.

I hope that it's just Turbine getting back into the swing of things but to be honest it's shaken my long term hopes for DDO.

[Gwylan's Blade] Too fragile

So, I don't know what the deal is with the G-Blade but it always gets damaged. I bound it to char to spare myself the heartbreak of permadamage. But seriously, it's annoying to have it be the only thing in my inventory to be all busted up whenever I finish a quest. I'm looking into doing an adamantine ritual to make it durable. From what I can tell, Ademantine ore is found in the stormsomething mines in the anvil fire inn in house D. I tried soloing it but trying to fight all the monarch scorpions. Do-able but not in a fun way. I'll be back with my peeps.

My first time: *THE PIT*

I heard THE PIT is an impossibly difficult cluster-flumph of a dungeon -- the sort of thing that only inmates running an asylum would cook up.
And yeah, I died twice. Both times it was an impossibly long fall into a deep chasm. (I don't know if I've mentioned it on this blog but DDO has the best use of vertical spaces ever. Try diving to the base of the water tower in the third part of STK and tell me that isn't creepy!) Anyway, I died twice by falling the farthest I've ever fallen in any game AND landing in hot lava AND ALSO huge oozes.
But both times I got rescued, and I was able to help out by charming the super-trogs and casting feather fall and detect door at opportune moments.
Anyway, I had a blast. I'm definitely looking forward to running THE PIT again. And this time I'm not leaving without my MuckDOOM.