Like Chthulu, I spring from my watery offlineness and devour 1d4 investigators! I’ve got my computer back, my game back and MyDDO back. So how was it back in game?Session 1: I was holding my little 10 month old and rocking her to sleep while onehandgam…

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With all the drama involving MyDDO’s passing, I thought it would be fun to talk about gaming from a different perspective. I’m been on an anime-watching kick for some time now. One show caught my eye and then my rapt attention. Pretend it’s about 10 years from now. There’s still PC gaming, but the interfaces […]

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Level 25 Lawful Good Dwarf Male
(20 Fighter 5 Epic)
Hit Points: 482
Spell Points: 0
BAB: 2020253030
Fortitude: 17
Reflex: 9
Will: 7

                      Starting             Ending         Feat/Enhancement
Abilities        Base Stats         Base Stats         Modified Stats
(28 Point)       (Level 1)          (Level 25)           (Level 25)
Strength             16                 25                   28
Dexterity            14                 16                   16
Constitution        16                 18                   20
Intelligence         14                 16                   16
Wisdom               8                 10                   10
Charisma             6                   8                     8

Tomes Used
+2 Tome of Strength used at level 8
+2 Tome of Dexterity used at level 8
+2 Tome of Constitution used at level 8
+2 Tome of Intelligence used at level 8
+2 Tome of Wisdom used at level 8
+2 Tome of Charisma used at level 8

                 Starting          Feat/Enhancement
                 Base Skills         Modified Skills
Skills           (Level 1)            (Level 25)
Balance               3.5                  23.5
Bluff                  -2                      4
Concentration      3                     10
Diplomacy          -2                      4
Disable Device     n/a                   n/a
Haggle                -2                      5.5
Heal                   -1                      5
Hide                    2                      8
Intimidate             2                    42
Jump                   7                    37
Listen                 -1                     5
Move Silently       2                     8
Open Lock          n/a                   n/a
Perform              n/a                   n/a
Repair                 2                     8
Search                 2                   10
Spot                   -1                     5
Swim                   3                   14
Tumble                3                     9
UMD                  -0.5                15.5

Notable (worn Regularly) Equipment
Supreme Tyrant Green Steel Goggles of Negative
Purple Dragon Armor
Purple Dragon Helm
Purple Dragon Gauntlets
Epic Rock Boots (Tier II)
Cloak of Night (Level 24)
Fabricators Bracers
Signet of the Shining Sun
Epic Ring of the Buccaneer (Tier II)
Elite Spider Cult Mask
Templar’s Justice
Epic Swashbuckler (Tier II)

 Level 1 (Fighter)
Feat: (Selected) Toughness
Feat: (Fighter Bonus) Weapon Focus: Slashing Weapons
Enhancement: Dwarven Armor Mastery I
Enhancement: Fighter Item Defense I
Enhancement: Fighter Toughness I

Level 2 (Fighter)
Feat: (Fighter Bonus) Combat Expertise
Enhancement: Fighter Armor Class Boost I
Enhancement: Fighter Haste Boost I
Enhancement: Fighter Strength I

Level 3 (Fighter)
Feat: (Selected) Bullheaded
Enhancement: Dwarven Constitution I
Enhancement: Racial Toughness I

Level 4 (Fighter)
Feat: (Fighter Bonus) Weapon Specialization: Slashing Weapons
Enhancement: Fighter Armor Class Boost II
Enhancement: Fighter Toughness II

Level 5 (Fighter)
Enhancement: Fighter Armor Mastery I
Enhancement: Fighter Item Defense II

Level 6 (Fighter)
Feat: (Fighter Bonus) Dodge
Feat: (Selected) Skill Focus: Intimidate
Enhancement: Fighter Strength II

Level 7 (Fighter)
Enhancement: Fighter Armor Class Boost III
Enhancement: Fighter Haste Boost II

Level 8 (Fighter)
Feat: (Fighter Bonus) Improved Critical: Slashing Weapons
Enhancement: Improved Intimidate I
Enhancement: Improved Intimidate II

Level 9 (Fighter)
Feat: (Selected) Stunning Blow
Enhancement: Fighter Stalwart Defender I
Enhancement: Fighter Greataxe Specialization I
Enhancement: Improved Intimidate III

Level 10 (Fighter)
Feat: (Fighter Bonus) Greater Weapon Focus: Slashing Weapons
Enhancement: Dwarven Shield Mastery I
Enhancement: Dwarven Shield Mastery II

Level 11 (Fighter)
Enhancement: Dwarven Constitution II

Level 12 (Fighter)
Feat: (Fighter Bonus) Greater Weapon Specialization: Slashing Weapons
Feat: (Selected) Two Handed Fighting
Enhancement: Fighter Stalwart Defender II
Enhancement: Racial Toughness II
Enhancement: Improved Intimidate IV

Level 13 (Fighter)

Level 14 (Fighter)
Feat: (Fighter Bonus) Power Attack
Enhancement: Fighter Strength III

Level 15 (Fighter)
Feat: (Selected) Improved Two Handed Fighting
Enhancement: Dwarven Shield Mastery III

Level 16 (Fighter)
Feat: (Fighter Bonus) Greater Two Handed Fighting

Level 17 (Fighter)
Enhancement: Fighter Toughness III

Level 18 (Fighter)
Feat: (Fighter Bonus) Shield Mastery
Feat: (Selected) Superior Weapon Focus: Slashing Weapons

Level 19 (Fighter)
Enhancement: Fighter Stalwart Defender III
Enhancement: Fighter Greataxe Specialization II
Enhancement: Fighter Toughness IV

Level 20 (Fighter)
Feat: (Fighter Bonus) Improved Shield Mastery
Enhancement: Fighter Weapon Alacrity
Enhancement: Dwarven Spell Defense I
Enhancement: Fighter Armor Mastery II
Enhancement: Fighter Tower Shield Mastery I
Enhancement: Fighter Dwarven Waraxe Specialization I
Enhancement: Fighter Dwarven Waraxe Specialization II

Level 21 (Fighter)
Feat: (Selected) Great Strength

Level 22 (Fighter)

Level 23 (Fighter)

Level 24 (Fighter)

Level 25 (Fighter)

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Character Plan by DDO Character Planner Version 03.16.01
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Level 25 Lawful Good Dwarf Male
(20 Fighter \ 5 Epic)
Hit Points: 482
Spell Points: 0
BAB: 20\20\25\30\30
Fortitude: 17
Reflex: 9
Will: 7

                      Starting             Ending         Feat/Enhancement
Abilities        Base Stats         Base Stats         Modified Stats
(28 Point)       (Level 1)          (Level 25)           (Level 25)
Strength             16                 25                   28
Dexterity            14                 16                   16
Constitution        16                 18                   20
Intelligence         14                 16                   16
Wisdom               8                 10                   10
Charisma             6                   8                     8

Tomes Used
+2 Tome of Strength used at level 8
+2 Tome of Dexterity used at level 8
+2 Tome of Constitution used at level 8
+2 Tome of Intelligence used at level 8
+2 Tome of Wisdom used at level 8
+2 Tome of Charisma used at level 8

                 Starting          Feat/Enhancement
                 Base Skills         Modified Skills
Skills           (Level 1)            (Level 25)
Balance               3.5                  23.5
Bluff                  -2                      4
Concentration      3                     10
Diplomacy          -2                      4
Disable Device     n/a                   n/a
Haggle                -2                      5.5
Heal                   -1                      5
Hide                    2                      8
Intimidate             2                    42
Jump                   7                    37
Listen                 -1                     5
Move Silently       2                     8
Open Lock          n/a                   n/a
Perform              n/a                   n/a
Repair                 2                     8
Search                 2                   10
Spot                   -1                     5
Swim                   3                   14
Tumble                3                     9
UMD                  -0.5                15.5

Notable (worn Regularly) Equipment
Supreme Tyrant Green Steel Goggles of Negative
Purple Dragon Armor
Purple Dragon Helm
Purple Dragon Gauntlets
Epic Rock Boots (Tier II)
Cloak of Night (Level 24)
Fabricators Bracers
Signet of the Shining Sun
Epic Ring of the Buccaneer (Tier II)
Elite Spider Cult Mask
Templar’s Justice
Epic Swashbuckler (Tier II)

 Level 1 (Fighter)
Feat: (Selected) Toughness
Feat: (Fighter Bonus) Weapon Focus: Slashing Weapons
Enhancement: Dwarven Armor Mastery I
Enhancement: Fighter Item Defense I
Enhancement: Fighter Toughness I

Level 2 (Fighter)
Feat: (Fighter Bonus) Combat Expertise
Enhancement: Fighter Armor Class Boost I
Enhancement: Fighter Haste Boost I
Enhancement: Fighter Strength I

Level 3 (Fighter)
Feat: (Selected) Bullheaded
Enhancement: Dwarven Constitution I
Enhancement: Racial Toughness I

Level 4 (Fighter)
Feat: (Fighter Bonus) Weapon Specialization: Slashing Weapons
Enhancement: Fighter Armor Class Boost II
Enhancement: Fighter Toughness II

Level 5 (Fighter)
Enhancement: Fighter Armor Mastery I
Enhancement: Fighter Item Defense II

Level 6 (Fighter)
Feat: (Fighter Bonus) Dodge
Feat: (Selected) Skill Focus: Intimidate
Enhancement: Fighter Strength II

Level 7 (Fighter)
Enhancement: Fighter Armor Class Boost III
Enhancement: Fighter Haste Boost II

Level 8 (Fighter)
Feat: (Fighter Bonus) Improved Critical: Slashing Weapons
Enhancement: Improved Intimidate I
Enhancement: Improved Intimidate II

Level 9 (Fighter)
Feat: (Selected) Stunning Blow
Enhancement: Fighter Stalwart Defender I
Enhancement: Fighter Greataxe Specialization I
Enhancement: Improved Intimidate III

Level 10 (Fighter)
Feat: (Fighter Bonus) Greater Weapon Focus: Slashing Weapons
Enhancement: Dwarven Shield Mastery I
Enhancement: Dwarven Shield Mastery II

Level 11 (Fighter)
Enhancement: Dwarven Constitution II

Level 12 (Fighter)
Feat: (Fighter Bonus) Greater Weapon Specialization: Slashing Weapons
Feat: (Selected) Two Handed Fighting
Enhancement: Fighter Stalwart Defender II
Enhancement: Racial Toughness II
Enhancement: Improved Intimidate IV

Level 13 (Fighter)

Level 14 (Fighter)
Feat: (Fighter Bonus) Power Attack
Enhancement: Fighter Strength III

Level 15 (Fighter)
Feat: (Selected) Improved Two Handed Fighting
Enhancement: Dwarven Shield Mastery III

Level 16 (Fighter)
Feat: (Fighter Bonus) Greater Two Handed Fighting

Level 17 (Fighter)
Enhancement: Fighter Toughness III

Level 18 (Fighter)
Feat: (Fighter Bonus) Shield Mastery
Feat: (Selected) Superior Weapon Focus: Slashing Weapons

Level 19 (Fighter)
Enhancement: Fighter Stalwart Defender III
Enhancement: Fighter Greataxe Specialization II
Enhancement: Fighter Toughness IV

Level 20 (Fighter)
Feat: (Fighter Bonus) Improved Shield Mastery
Enhancement: Fighter Weapon Alacrity
Enhancement: Dwarven Spell Defense I
Enhancement: Fighter Armor Mastery II
Enhancement: Fighter Tower Shield Mastery I
Enhancement: Fighter Dwarven Waraxe Specialization I
Enhancement: Fighter Dwarven Waraxe Specialization II

Level 21 (Fighter)
Feat: (Selected) Great Strength

Level 22 (Fighter)

Level 23 (Fighter)

Level 24 (Fighter)

Level 25 (Fighter)

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Due to popular demand, I will not be retiring my blog. However, this will be the first blog hosted on DDOGamer(I hope) and the final blog I post on MyDDO. When(if) this blog gets posted on DDOGamer, Ive made a special banner thing for what is going to be over each blogs paragraph. So, please at least look at it once and tell me if you like it. I worked kinda hard on it. Kinda.

Of Comics

So, as Im sure many thousand of you read, Comic made a well thought out, well written farewell blog on MyDDO. It literally sums up the general DDO blogging communities thoughts and feelings on MyDDO being shut down with no replacement in sight. Lucky for all of us, while Turbine “looks for alternatives”, two people have stepped up to do something about it, Evennote and Geoff Hanna. But thats a different topic.

This is in particular about his farewells at the end of the blog. I mean, did you see what he said about me? Did you? I mean, *really* Comic? Im crazy? I have to say, I thought you knew me better than that. I mean, I am NOT crazy. Im friggin INSANE!! Get it right man! Seriously! INSANE!

One Little Girl, Two Big Axes

So, on Friday, I started a new character project. This time based off an already existant build. She is going to be based off of Mr. Geoff Hannas Knicker Tam character. My only problem, that I can see, is that Im not much of a crafter. So, its gonna be a long time before she can have starter rags that are even remotley nice, let alone the dual weilded Dwarven Axes.

Shes managed to avoid death, thus far. She has taken some nasty hits though. Doesnt do alot of damage, yet, but Im hoping that once she gets Power Attack that itll go up by some large amount.

Right at the moment, shes sitting at level three(2 Rogue, 1 Barbarian). Has taken the Two Weapon Fighting and Exotic Weapons: Dwarven War Axe. Since I only had one rage enhancement I could pick, I put the rest of the points into Rogueish ones. The Rogue Skill Boost, Disable Traps, Search, Acid Resist and I think Trap Lore. A few others too. But for now she only has the +1 to will while in rage and Barbarian Damage Boost I.

On Friday I hit Stealthy Repossesion. She did pretty good. Felt robbed of some XP at the end though. I grabbed the eye, my hire was still alive but in the early negatives. But for some reason the XP log said that they were dead, so I lost out on some XP which made me just ever so slightly angry. But, I won. Got the Red Name Kobold Shaman. Got my loots and was happy. Also managed to get Flower Sniffers up to level 7.

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I don’t know how you got to this site. You may have stumbled across me from a Google search, or from another blog site. Or you are one of the refugees that have been turned out of the MyDDO site, the blogging facility for DDO (Dungeons & Dragons Online) that is being closed down by […]

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Since this is my first post originating entirely on my shiny new WordPress blog rather than on MyDDO, I thought I’d do a filk that pretty much sums me up. I’m not really a huge fan of Nirvana, and this is the first song I’ve done that I don’t know all that well. But I […]

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Goodbye, MyDDO. We hardly knew ye!

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Goodbye, MyDDO. We hardly knew ye!

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I can’t help it, but I need a canvas for my rants. I’m not a perfect blogger per say. Sometimes I don’t write something for months. But when I do, I blog a lot. Yes – it is a play on that beer commercial. But since this is not DDO, I won’t keep it exclusively […]

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http://forums.ddo.com/showthread.php?&postid=4961696#post4961696 I’m done. I didn’t see it. But it is happening. What was living with Ugla really about? Once in a bazillion years my wife created a dwarf and then she kind of sorta never played it again. Its name was Ugla. Now she plays other chars – when she plays. I could’ve changed the […]

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Its funny to me. Sometimes popping onto the forums to see a new thread asking the question: Which is better? Greatswords or Greataxes? If I even bothered to open and reply to those threads, my answer would be less informative and more of a ‘Who cares? …

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Here’s the new game trailer for DDO. The old one was nice but it’s good to have an updated one.

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Of Mizzing Outfits

Well, as everyone knows, on DDO alot of outfits went missing. Okay, more like every outfit on every character that logged onto DDO. Good times, right? Well, Im proud to say that when the problem popped up, I was the first person to post about it on the forums! Yay me! Some time later, Turbine goes out and says that they have begun the process of returning outfits to players. Some more time passes, people are all over talking about how theyre recieving outfits. Im still not. Some more time passes, still no outfits in my mailbox. So, I go onto twitter to whine about it(I really wanted my outfit back) and learn from Cordovan that the giving back outfits thing was finished and that I should submit a ticket.

This sounded familiar. Remember that blog post about my TP not being given to me over on LotRO when they said it was completed? Yeah. They passed over me not once, BUT TWICE! At least on LotRO they gave me my points though, so on that issue, I forgave them and put it behind me.

So today I log onto DDO instead of LotRO to do as Cordovan said and submit a ticket. I sit an hour then I get the exclamation point and the thing that says my ticket has been updated! I check the chat box, no green letters. I check my character bar thing, no mail. So, knowing what I was gonna see, I open my tickets and see that its been closed. Not even a ‘Im not going to help you’. So, I grumble. I open a second ticket(this was an important issue for me) and its closed within 10 minutes. Again, not even a reply. So, I open a THIRD damn ticket. After another hour it actually gets replied to! My spirits soared high! I was gonna get my outfit back! So excited I was!

Me and the person start talking. Long story short, in the end I got NO outfit returned. Not getting it back wasnt the worst part though. The worst part was them trying to pin the blame on me by trying to claim that I ‘Must have missed the mail’. That pissed me off because I had already told them that every day since they started handing out outfits Id been logging on, so theres no way in hell I could have missed that mail. So pretty much, I dont get my outfit back and its my fault that I “missed” a mail I never recieved. OH JOY!

Now, I dont want anyone to get me wrong on something. I love DDO. I love LotRO. I think Turbine has done a wonderful job thus far on both games. I can honestly say that I see myself playing both games for a very long time. However, Ive now had more negative experiences submiting tickets than positive. Maybe they dont look to hard for quality GMs. Maybe the GMs dont get paid enough to really care. Regardless what the problem is, Im now of the feeling that Turbine needs to do something about the crop of GMs they have before I start laughing whenever someone tells me to submit a ticket for a problem Im having.

Of Living Comics

Moving on from that, this last weekend, as I do most weekends, I ran with Comic for what I believe was the first time in a month. And I gotta say, even though we ran only two and a half quests, it was alot of fun.

For those of you who read his (rare) blogs, you already know which quest we ran the first day. For those who dont, we ran that one Necro 2 quest. I forget what its called. Whatever its called, we ran it and we won it. With shocking ease. The first time we ran it, it was both painful and slow. Then the worst thing imaginable happened! Comic DIED! See, this wouldnt have worried me too much if it wasnt for the fact that both our Cleric hirelings were pretty much out of mana, I was surrounded by enemies, enemies were respawning and I was in panic mode. well, he(or more like his ghost) leads me back to the shrines. Somehow we made it. Well, *I* made it since I was the only one standing(besides the hirelings). We extinguish the last fire. Lead the mummy to the light room place and all hell broke loose. We and our hires had about 2-3 deaths each in that room. In the end, we couldnt do it. We retreated out tried(and failed) another Necro 2 quest then I went to bed.

However, Comic(as he pointed out) had taken level 9. Now, I dont know if this is what truly helped or not. But regardless, running through the quest was a breeze. No deaths. The damn mummy died like a good boy(or girl(or creature)). We won! What I do know for certain though is that the Heavy Repeater, which was made possible by both Shinny and Comic(thank you both very much) helped quite a bit. I was doin LOTSA damage to the undeads!

After we had finished out, I alerted Comic to the fact I was so tired I was about to pass out at my computer. So we called it a day and I crawled under my desk and napped. It was a good nap.

On Sunday, we were back in Necro 2 to finish up the lvl 8s of it. Last was the quest where he had managed to get us TRAPPED one day long time ago(glares at Comic). This time around though, we managed to make it through without getting trapped. As usual, Comic character, Timp, almost died. I mean, I thought it was the end. The door in front of us opened. Comic ran through. It slammed shut behind him cutting off me and both our hirelings. He was alone. And in combat! His health started to rapidly drop. I was completly helpless. Then its down to -5 and Im just waiting for the ding when his hire teleports to the other side of the door, heals him then they, together, lay to waste to whatever enemies were there. I was just SO happy!

We finished Sunday with a bummer of a failure in Faithfully Departed. Ive gotta say, in video games, theres no bigger disapointment than reaching that final room in a quest and suddenly having it end in failure. But we went in, took our best shot and next time, we’ll be more careful in trying to preserve the hostile mummies. To be honest, I think I can say I very well might have been at fault for at least two of them dying. With the enemies all going in circles with each other, its real hard to get a good clean shot at the ones you want to kill and not the ones you DONT want to kill. But Ill do better next time!

One of the other things that happened was I finally took level 10 on Mizzaroo, my Elven Artificer on Cannith(who has been doing the Comical runs). She managed to get her banked XP maxed so I saw no point in holding off leveling up any longer and asked Comic if he was cool with me doing so (he was) and did it.

Lord Of The Runes

As you all may remember from one of my last two blogs (I forget which), I got a bunch of LotRO quest packs. Well, after they gave me my 250 TP, I managed to get one more: Forochel. To be honest, of the quest packs I bought, Im most excited about when I finally reach Misty Mountains. the reason? The screenshot has SNOW! I know this is gonna sound weird, but I LOVE snow. When it happens in video games, I become an excited little girl. You think thats crazy? You should have seen my reaction to the Smurfs on Solsthiem Island in Elderscrolls 3! Not only was the whole island snowy, it had friggin Smurfs! Evil Smurfs, but SMURFS!!!

Of note, I went through my characters and retired every single one of them. Headed onto Crickhollow and made a brand new Rune Keeper and decided Im going to focus solely on him. So far, hes doing pretty dang good. I think in the long run, Im going to have him use the lightning spells as they seem to do alot better than the fire spells in terms of damage. Oh! Hes a Dwarf. I know people keep saying ‘If you make a Rune Keeper, make sure to make him/her an Elf!’. Could be why I made him a Dwarf.

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