DDO

Hey Fp , DDO went semi-free recently, so Sauce started playing it, and then got me to play it. We are on the server that starts with a T ( the only one that does). Is it a great game? no, is it a fun run around and beat up monsters game, yes, and it's pretty much free, so that adds even more to it.

 

The semi-free thing works like this, you open a free account, and only get 2 character slots, there's a couple of races and classes you don't have access to , you are limited to lvl 4 only, and there's alot of places you can't quest. Doesn't sound like anything great, right? Well as you play the game, and do dungeons on harder difficulties ( solo / normal/ hard / elite) you get in game points , with these points you go to the in game store and can buy all sorts of things ; armor , weapons, hirelings, potions , and the main one, lvling sigils which raise you lvl cap. You can also buy new area's to lvl in. For the most part from what I've heard, on a free account you can see something like 90% of the game.

 

This game follows D&D 3rd edition pretty well, so if you like that style I think you will like this a lot. It runs like a hack and slash pretty much, you run in, kill shit, leave. Outside of towns you go into your own little instance ( that your party goes into also if you are in one) so you don't have to worry about tons of people being around.

 

My main complaint so far, is you don't get loot from monsters really, and you don't get XP per kill, it's tallied all up at the end of a dungeon when you finish the quest involved.

 

The game is free to download, and runs pretty well even at higher settings. www.DDO.com

 

 

My character name in game is Dragonlgnd, so just add me to your friends list.

I think you should upgrade your name to DragonLegend. Vowels FTW!

That coming from a guy with only a part time vowel in his name.

I think he got it on the cheap Gar, best he could afford at the time.

INCORRECT. You are NOT limited to level 4. You can get to the max level without ever spending a dime, the only problem is it's REALLY hard to get that far due to the nature of the grind. The copper sigils will drop from random quests in the second zone (stormreach) and the copper sigils allow you to get to the next cap, which is level 8. I dunno where the silver sigil is, but it's there some where!

I got to admit Dragon, the game seems interesting after playing for a couple of hours. I do like being able to set the quests to Solo but I'm a little disappointed it doesn't appear to have Prestige Classes.

Yea, considering the pen and paper has about a bajillion classes/prestige classes I thought the online version would atleast have alot of classes, but it really doesn't. Maybe as time goes on they will add more.

There's a lot as to why they didn't release a lot of classes. The biggest problem was group balance, and multi-classing. All the classes have a role to play in the group for example there's certain things you will NEVER get without a rogue. There's content you will never clear without a certain type of tank, and a healer. There's mobs apparently that make themselves completely immnune to melee dps/spell dps later. The game becomes VERY group dependent, and all their classes play roles, that other classes simply can't. DDO to make up for the fact that you can't have every class allowed you to multiclass. So that you can try to bring everything in less people obviously you won't be as effective at either class this way, but most well palyed multi-classes end up putting out more DPS then their pure class counterparts. For example one of the strongest Melee builds comes from Rogue/Ranger/Monk, and Rogue is generally considered a lack luster DPS class.

 

 

DDO's PvE balance is honestly some of the best I've seen since FFXI. It's updates don't really change anything about the game as a whole it's just graphic tweeks or instance scaling. It's quite impressive to be honest. I'm sure they will add more classes as time goes by, but I can't promise anything.