TR’ing Again

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I’m off work this week, I was looking forward to a quiet week off, just tootling around…

But while out & about this afternoon, my partner decided she wanted to TR her battle cleric into a clonk. She’s had me run through the character builder with her and everything!

Except that means I also have to TR so she has someone to run around with 🙂 shucks what a shame! So, my unloved Favoured Soul has been transformed to a Horc fighter.

Which means I’m currently running two 3rd lifers around Stormreach – lots of fun 🙂

And, just for Samius…

Random

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I’m tired so todays blog will consist of random thoughts 🙂

My dark monk, Dimichaerii, has gone a slightly different route on his point spend in Grandmaster of Flowers in comparison to how I spent them on my light monk. I got the Drifting Lotus feat the other nght and I love it 🙂 Knocks bad guys on their arse, does great damage (on the mobs I’ve tried it against) and looks cool!

I’m listening to old episodes of DDOCast, currently at episode 133. I am taking bets with myself on how long it takes for Jerry to pronounce Samius’ name correctly. So far I’ve lost the bet twice 🙂

Episode 132 (I think) had a great segment by Xylosent (I’ve probably spelled that incorrectly!) about his love of DDO and what it means to him. This was recorded just before DDO went free to play, when it seems the now VIP’s were worried about how it would affect the game. But I think everything he said still holds true now. Check it out.

3rd life TR is going slow, but mainly because one of the guild is working late at the moment so we’re hanging on for him. Not that I mind – it means I get some epic runs in, or play with some of my less played characters. But the quest for the elusive Shard of the Envenomed Blade is still ongoing while running the U13 epics {sigh}

See you around!

A quick round up for last week

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This week in DDO….

The TR’ing continues. It’s been a bit slow as we TR’d last weekend because we were bored, but one of our guild was away doing family stuff so he missed our mad dash from levels 1 -5. So we created 3 halfling monks and a dwarf cleric and ran around with him this week catching him up.

This is my first halfling character. I’ve never really been interested in playing them before (apologies to Samius & geoffhanna) but wow – they are fast little buggers aren’t they?! I fully intend for this character to become a bank character, but I may consider a halfling monk in a future TR build….

This weekend, one of our other guild mates was off doing real life stuff so I broke out a character I haven’t played for a while, my khopesh wielding barbarian. Boy have I neglected him! He needs gear (I appear to be still wearing the goggles you pick up from Korthos island!) I got him up to level 18 just running IQ on normal with my partners artificer. It was a nice easy set of missions, perfect for a Sunday. And as they are both 1st lifers we don’t have the ‘urgency’ to run on elite with these characters.

One of the nice things about getting to 18 was he could now wear the Elocators Habiliment. The bad thing about getting to 18 is that he is now wearing the Elocators Habiliment! I mean – have you seen it?!? lol But the displacement clickie is nice, my AC goes up, and due to the lack of attention I have given him it’s the best he’s got. Now, do I think about running some Siber Atoll for Dragontouched armour, or wait until level 20 and get him the Druid set from Eveningstar with PDK helmet & gauntlets…?

Meanwhile, things got back on track with the TR train yesterday afternoon. We’re now all at level 6 with level 7 banked. Splinterskull is out of the way – and even though it was fairly quick to run with us all I’m really hoping we can avoid repeating it for XP needs. I’ve got another Visor of the Flesh Render – I don’t need to run it again just yet thanks 🙂

However, we did run the Sharn Syndicate quests – when did they change the sound effects?? If you don’t know what I mean, I suggest you go kill a female halfling in there (Binders is a good mission for them). They sound…er…well… a bit rude we think! Are they channeling succubi? 🙂

And just for the record, the current TR group is (and their previous lives):-

  • Hymm – half-orc barbarian (human monk/human monk)
  • Cedarian – human paladin (half-orc barbarian/human fighter)
  • Antaka – half-elf ronk/mogue whatever 🙂 (half-elf monk/halfling monk)
  • Korvisa – elf artificer (elf ranger/elf ranger)
  • Ventenar – elf favoured soul (half-elf favoured soul)

Um.. I might have got some of that list wrong 🙂 I’m sure my guildies will let me know if I have!

The Last Week in DDO

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Apologies for the delay between blogs. Real life is unfortunately being a bit of a pain at the moment and making me do other stuff 😦

However, I have managed to get some quality game time in. Last week our current guild grouping hit level 20 (I was going to say capped but I guess that doesn’t apply anymore!) Which has made me really happy because it means I have a high level dark monk character I can play while I work on my multiple TR’s for my light monk. Although I did start playing around with the idea of TR’ing the dark monk build and including a splash of another class to see if there was a way to incorporate more feats… Damn I should have bought more Hearts while they were on sale!

Anyway, since the 5 of us have hit 20 together we decided to start the Eveningstar quests again. And it was great! It was like playing them as new (apart having a good idea of tactics this time round) and we all really enjoyed them again. Mind you, I do think they are some of the more fun quests in the game anyway 🙂 My dark monk now has his Ancient Gemstone docent and Grave Wrappings. I’m just working on building up commendations. I think the healing amp on the Purple Dragon Knight Gauntlets will come in very handy for him. Also, his current equipment appears to be kind of sucky…

Also, we have dragged our 5th guildie kicking & screaming through the Shroud with us. Ok maybe not so much kicking and screaming, but he did have to get himself flagged. So we are now running 5 man Shrouds every 3 days and the extra DPS is cutting the run time down to about 40-45 minutes.

Most excitingly, yesterday we attempted our first VoD. Only on normal, again only 4 of us, but it went surprisigly smooth. And I got the Enlightened Vestments (bonus – they actually look nice)! It took longer to find the entrance and get that middle button pressed! Which ended up being lit completely by accident when a tiefling ran across it while trying to get to one of us on the far side. I’ve read that a summon monster should work, but we haven’t been able to work out how you get the monster to spawn on the switch – none of us could target the switch. So if any of you guys & gals have a reliable way of hitting it – could you let me know?

Well, I guess that’s my ramblings done with. Hope you’re all having fun and I’m looking forward to todays Update 15 🙂

See you around!

Third Life TR Talk

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In our guild, we tend to try and TR together to make it easier for levelling up. Overall, it’s a lot easier to get through missions when there a few of you, plus it’s always a laugh 🙂

We are now looking to start on our third life TR’s. The problem I had is that I have a choice of two characters:-

Fyrne, currently a warforged Favoured Soul. This guy is my intended completionist, although I’m not sure I’ll complete with every class 3 times, or just the once (does that even class as completionist?). Anyway, I’ll be honest – I don’t like playing this character at the moment. The favoured soul class is doing nothing for me. Which does make this guy an ideal candidate to TR into something else to try. However, I also have…

Hymm, currently a human light monk. This is his second monk life and I love this character. To be fair, I love the monk class anyway. I have a dark monk build that is about to hit level 20 that I also really like playing and he can fulfil my need to punch things while Hymm TR’s. My plan for him (or Hymm :-D) is to try and get 3 x barbarian, 3 x paladin & 3 x fighter lives. Whether or not I manage that many lives is yet to be seen….

After careful consideration I’ve decided to TR Hymm. Because when it gets right down to it, I like characters that can hit things 🙂 Fyrne is going to have to do a sorceror, wizard, cleric & bard life at some point…. and I’m not sure I’m ready to handle that just yet (even though I have a wizard, bard and cleric in my alts) lol

Decision made, the next steps are:-

  • Use this checklist!!
  • Make sure I’m stocked up on House Cannith marks
  • Get some low level armour & weapons crafted (Hymm also happens to be my crafter)

Just for giggles, the rest of the group are:-

  • Antaka (light monk) who is TR’ing into a paladin
  • Willowing (rogue) who is TR’ing into a rogue ( my partner does like her rogues 😀 )
  • Korvisa (archer) who is TR’ing into an artificer
  • Ventenar (favoured soul) who is TR’ing into a favoured soul

A nice mix there I think. Now we just have to coordinate the actual step of TR’ing.

See you around!

Quick Update

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Just a quick update as I’ve not written anything for a few days.

Three of us have now hit level 25, though we’re still sitting at level 23 as we’re not entirely sure the bugs for taking level 24 have been fixed yet. We’ll see what happens when this weeks (?) patch goes live.

We had another attempt at getting a shard of the envenomed blade for my partners rogue by running Servants of the Overlord on Epic Hard, doing all the optionals. We got a few scrolls, but still no shard. She is now starting to think the shard doesn’t exist….

For a laugh on Sunday, four of us ran VoN5 on Epic Hard. It’s a good job two of us are monks with Abundant Step 🙂 And it was a very welcome 92K xp. However, VoN6 on Epic Hard didn’t go quite so well… lol well it was worth a try.

And I’m still loving the new stuff. I think I might try and spend some time roving around the Underdark this week if I get a chance. Although I seem to have a list of things I need to do (finish Underdark explorations, get the last of Elminsters messages, get a few Epic Cannith challenge items now that my monk has had to re-jig his equipment) and not enough time to do them 😦

I’m also thinking of TR’ing again. I just cannot decide whether to start on my monk (who I want to have 3 x barbarian, 3 x paladin, 3 x fighter) or my Favoured Soul, who I’m just bored with and is intended to be my completionist… arrgh!

Wow, I rambled on more than I intended to then. That’s me done for now. Hope everyone is still enjoying the expansion and the bugs are not bugging you too much 🙂

See you around!

Second Life Capped

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We’ve just capped. Well three of us did. One of our TR group doesn’t play as often so he’s still on 18. But the rest of us are there, and the elite streak ended up at 198. So, we didn’t quite manage to get it to 200, but maybe on our next TR with these characters 🙂

More TR Progress

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We got quite a bit of gaming in this weekend. A few runs of Gianthold Tor, Orchard finished, most of U9 finished and we’re at 18 with an elite streak of 186. Wondering if we can manage to get that to 200…..

However, it wasn’t all TR questing. Myself and another guild mate have signed up for Tobrils Abbot Raid training next Saturday. Being in the UK it’s hard to get into the mid week runs that he’s put together (I just can’t stay up that late on a work night anymore!) so I’m really chuffed he’s put a midday weekend one together. This will be my first Abbot raid and I’m really looking forward to it 🙂 So, Hymm spent a few hours getting the rest of those sigils and getting the pre raid done. It’s the first time I’ve run the pre raid, and I always enjoy running quests I’ve not done before – so good times 🙂

Dreaming Dark Dreams

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This weekend, the guild decided to hit the Inspired Quarter with our capped characters to try and do some grinding for loot and ioun stones.

It was good to be back playing my monk. I haven’t played him for a while and I really enjoyed beating the !$&@ out of the Devourer of Dreams 🙂

It appears we weren’t the only ones to spend the weekend doing this. I don’t think I’ve ever seen quite so many people in the Inspired Quarter or on the Isle of Forgotten Dreams. So, hope you all got the loot you were after if you were out there too!

On a quick TR update, we’ve finished Gianthold Tor, elite streak now at 176 and starting the Orchard of the Macabre this week 🙂

What a load of content…

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So, the TR group has now hit 157 on it’s bravery streak.

Lets just take a moment to think about that. 157 missions. All different (well, OK Splinterskull is kind of repetitive). And we’ve skipped some missions. We haven’t done any raids. We’ve just finished the last of the Sands missions, so we still have Gianthold, Orchard, Vale, Amrath to mention a few…

You have to give Turbine props – that’s a lot of content, all those different stories and tales to be told. No wonder we love this game 🙂