ha its all so true

Originally posted by trojan99

Originally posted by Rokurgepta  

Are you the OP of the rather play with an NPC thread by the way?

 

no, just in agreement with him. i dont post in the ddo forums, just use them as reference.

Originally posted by Dr.Rock

My favourite character is a WF Monk, how are you finding it?

mine too, bcz of the reasons i supplied in previous replies...namely i dont have to care if there is a healer around or if he is competent. be nice if there were gs wraps, meh the new wraps released in update strike me as underwhelming.

Yeah wraps are a bit lacking although I find weighted wraps and the number of hits possible with two weapon fighting means it fires enough to give a nice edge to whatever other effect is on them. Now they have fixed Wholeness of Body so WF don't resist the healing, if I can survive the current fight I don't generally need a healer (although I do keep a pocket healer when soloing just in case). The speed of movement and the ability to break from combat as needed works well.

Finishing moves could do with an extension to them, tend to find myself just spamming healing on a mob when fighting. If the others durations were reasonable (5 mins or so) I would probably keep several boosts up and running.

Other than that I love the feeling of close up combat with the need to keep moving and thinking.

I did try to like DDO ... really I did.  I played AD&D all those years ago, and play MMOs, so I really thought DDO would be fun.

Alas DDO is a subset of D&D called "melee" ... Besides the token healer nothing else really matters.

Ranged combat - laughable to the point of being offensive to fellow combatants.  Arcane casters - best used as healers for Warforged melee.  CC - continues to be nerfed, not that it is needed anyway.

Just grab a big stick and swing until the baddies drop.

Gets boring very quickly.

EDIT: and when I said "melee" I should have said TWF.  Two-handed is used only when dictated by feats/enhancement limitations; and sword and board is nowadays a rarity.  In fact so many feats/enhancement lines have been gimped into obscurity while a small few dominate the population.

UPDATE:

As was mentioned earlier in the thread, Turbine has decided to indefinitely postpone the implementation of heroic surge.  This is good news for DDO and its players.  It looks like someone at Turbine came to his or her senses and realized that pigeonholing all gameplay into DPS is a bad idea.

Good.  I can say that this does, indeed,  give me a good impression.

More good news:  It looks like archery-based rangers are getting some love.  It's too bad that it only helps the ranger class, but, oh well, something is better than nothing.  I still think that ranged attack speed should be increased across the board for all classes, not just rangers.  In pen & paper, you could make a ranged-focused fighter that was every bit as good of an archer as a ranger.

as to finding parties I have always had to turn down multiple blind invites.  you can't sign on to this game and hang around for a hour before someone tries to party up.  don't get me wrong the grouping is one of my fav points of this game but sometimes you just want to solo out a couple of quickies and be done.

Originally posted by trojan99

im sorry you havent played long enough to figure this stuff out yet. ur right, it did only take me a month. read the story in the ddo forums about 'why id rather party with a hireling than you'

 

LMAO!!! So, true! As dumb as hirelings are, they aren't nearly as dumb as players.

Originally posted by brostyn

Originally posted by trojan99

im sorry you havent played long enough to figure this stuff out yet. ur right, it did only take me a month. read the story in the ddo forums about 'why id rather party with a hireling than you'

 

 

LMAO!!! So, true! As dumb as hirelings are, they aren't nearly as dumb as players.

Yeah, but that's what happens when you have a game where most grouping is random PUG. That one guy in WoW that pulls everything on your group is now in DDO running out to a bunch of hobs prematurely and getting leveled. The barbarian I once hired was completely useless in combat as he'd run in circles and hit nothing, but he wouldn't do kamikaze runs at higher level mobs.