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died to some real weird shit just now. game just disabled everything for me in the middle of final boss fight in quest. couldn't move, every active skill became grayed as if i respecced my enhancements, tomes, equip, set bonus - everything. had to alt+f4 and for ~15 minutes after i couldn't get in game at all.
even after finally relogging i had to unequip and equip again every item and replace skills on panels with working ones.
despite dying equip didn't suffer durability loss btw as if it was really not equipped at all.
died to some real weird shit just now. game just disabled everything for me in the middle of final boss fight in quest. couldn't move, every active skill became grayed as if i respecced my enhancements, tomes, equip, set bonus - everything. had to alt+f4 and for ~15 minutes after i couldn't get in game at all.
even after finally relogging i had to unequip and equip again every item and replace skills on panels with working ones.
despite dying equip didn't suffer durability loss btw as if it was really not equipped at all.
Talking about reincarnation, is possible to do a epic reincarnation and go to lv 20 in a class that I hate before doing the normal reincarnation essentially skipping a class that I don't want to play for the past live feats?
Talking about reincarnation, is possible to do a epic reincarnation and go to lv 20 in a class that I hate before doing the normal reincarnation essentially skipping a class that I don't want to play for the past live feats?
Nope. I want past life druid. I already have 3 lives as wiz and some as sorc. +2/+4/+6 for my minions stats would be great. Dark Apostate past life also would be great. But I don't want to play as a WIS character.
Talking about reincarnation, is possible to do a epic reincarnation and go to lv 20 in a class that I hate before doing the normal reincarnation essentially skipping a class that I don't want to play for the past live feats?
buy +20 heart.
epic is not full reincarnation. only racial or class are considered full and let you remake character from zero. so when you do epic you must pick exactly same class levels you had before. if you are lvl 20 wiz you can only reincarnate into lvl 20 wiz until you do full reincarnation.
well, iconic is full too, but this way you go straight from 30+ to 1 gaining class+iconic lives in process.
nah, fuck it. today shit just randomly stops working for no reason at all. i notice because i have master's gift slotted in trinket and learning tomes and half of the time i'm not getting bonus exp from monster manuals or quests.
Talking about reincarnation, is possible to do a epic reincarnation and go to lv 20 in a class that I hate before doing the normal reincarnation essentially skipping a class that I don't want to play for the past live feats?
buy +20 heart.
epic is not full reincarnation. only racial or class are considered full and let you remake character from zero. so when you do epic you must pick exactly same class levels you had before. if you are lvl 20 wiz you can only reincarnate into lvl 20 wiz until you do full reincarnation.
well, iconic is full too, but this way you go straight from 30+ to 1 gaining class+iconic lives in process.
Speaking of reincarnations. Those otto boxes that they sometimes make available. When do they usually make them available and how far can they level you up from lvl 1?
Is it worth using them?
For the people who like to play on melee. How do you guys deal with Ballistas in Storm the beaches? I ask because I deal with them by just casting polar ray. IDK how to even complete similar quests without very long range spells.
For the people who like to play on melee. How do you guys deal with Ballistas in Storm the beaches? I ask because I deal with them by just casting polar ray. IDK how to even complete similar quests without very long range spells.
I'm a monk and put some points into henshin mistic, that gives you 2 ranged spells you can cast, a ki ball and a wave of ki that's decent damage. Cooldown isn't too bad either.
So you just whack it melee until low hp and then blast it with ki wave/ball.
I always keep a shuriken in my inventory, but don't actually use it except only for those lever ranged puzzles.
as monk you don't need this shit. nigga is very fast and ballistas are squishy. just smack them in melee. killing everyone so there is no one to operate them is a valid option too.
just skipping this quest is an option too. there are lots of better quests for tokens. only spies in da house worth doing in deneith on epic levels to be honest.
Reincarnated, played as an nonlifer this weekend, got to lv 10, was doing a reaper quest and at close to the ending a huge lag. My char wouldn't move. Nothing works, I force quit the game, try to launch and now is stuck in "installing pre-requisites". Seriously, I think that the greatest problem of this game is the poor quality of servers.
Reincarnated, played as an nonlifer this weekend, got to lv 10, was doing a reaper quest and at close to the ending a huge lag. My char wouldn't move. Nothing works, I force quit the game, try to launch and now is stuck in "installing pre-requisites". Seriously, I think that the greatest problem of this game is the poor quality of servers.
Yeah. That is the top issue. They are trying to fix it but I'm wondering if it is possible with the fact the game is coming up 18 years old. Code not designed to utilize modern hardware and networks.
Yeah. That is the top issue. They are trying to fix it but I'm wondering if it is possible with the fact the game is coming up 18 years old. Code not designed to utilize modern hardware and networks.
Other legacy mmos don't have the same problem. I mean, classic wow in private servers doing reverse engineer works fine.
One thing that I love about DDO is that the game is not THAT gear dependent. Mainly if compared to wow and other mainstream mmos. I mean, I can solo Reaper quests naked.
This is my 4th life as an wizard. The first was an normal Pale Master focused necromancer. I really hated deathward which not only gives immunity vs OHK in game but also against negative energy and casting it is much faster than any dispell magic even with quicken metamagic. The second life was a illusionist. The third a force evoker. And now, as you can see in video bellow, I'm playing as a FORCE necromancer.
With my two sorc past lives, I have +2 evocation DC. Lets see if it will work. So far, I'm having a lot of fun and is quite strong. I have the self heals of a Pale Master and Arcane Blast is scaling with necromancy hence enemies rarely make the save.
The unique downside of this spec in relation to normal pale master is the slower self healing from force damage and some mobs with Mantle of Invulnerability. It negates any spell bellow 4th tier. Arcane Blast SLA counts as a 4th tier SLA. Necrotic blast count as 5th tier hence you can for eg, use the unholy avatar to negate negative heal from King Raiyum and kill him with SLA. You can't do the same with Arcane Blast. But deathward is much more common than Mantle of Invulnerability and you can still use force damage from spells against such enemies. In other words, it worth the cost.
Yeah. That is the top issue. They are trying to fix it but I'm wondering if it is possible with the fact the game is coming up 18 years old. Code not designed to utilize modern hardware and networks.
Other legacy mmos don't have the same problem. I mean, classic wow in private servers doing reverse engineer works fine.
One thing that I love about DDO is that the game is not THAT gear dependent. Mainly if compared to wow and other mainstream mmos. I mean, I can solo Reaper quests naked.
This is my 4th life as an wizard. The first was an normal Pale Master focused necromancer. I really hated deathward which not only gives immunity vs OHK in game but also against negative energy and casting it is much faster than any dispell magic even with quicken metamagic. The second life was a illusionist. The third a force evoker. And now, as you can see in video bellow, I'm playing as a FORCE necromancer.
With my two sorc past lives, I have +2 evocation DC. Lets see if it will work. So far, I'm having a lot of fun and is quite strong. I have the self heals of a Pale Master and Arcane Blast is scaling with necromancy hence enemies rarely make the save.
The unique downside of this spec in relation to normal pale master is the slower self healing from force damage and some mobs with Mantle of Invulnerability. It negates any spell bellow 4th tier. Arcane Blast SLA counts as a 4th tier SLA. Necrotic blast count as 5th tier hence you can for eg, use the unholy avatar to negate negative heal from King Raiyum and kill him with SLA. You can't do the same with Arcane Blast. But deathward is much more common than Mantle of Invulnerability and you can still use force damage from spells against such enemies. In other words, it worth the cost.
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About gear dependency for Wizards, at epic levels, you are much more gear dependent. At lv 3, you can pick the maximize and empower feat and fire two magic missiles with +225 spellpower for a very spammable spell and merely 2 sp cost with one point in archamge tree. At lv 5 as an wizard, picking the metamagic talents to reduce the cost, you can spam acid blast left and right(much better than fireball imo as is less resisted and do the same damage), but in epic levels, the bonuses from gear are much bigger than the bonuses from all trees, feats and metamagic combined. Essentially a naked wizard at low level is like at around 80%~90% of the power of a good geared wizard. at mid level, is around 60%~70% and at high level and epic, around 40%~50%.
Beating reaper 1 kotb(Keep of the Borderlands), HEROIC naked is easy. Beating reaper 1 kotb, EPIC naked is extremely hard. I know cuz I did both(didn't recorded).
Note that in that video, I have sorc and wiz past lives to give bonus to DC, spell penetration and a +8 int tome. If you try to beat the same reaper quest naked as a first time or without such past lives and tomes, a lot of enemies will make the save. And some of them have evasion and improved evasion, meaning no damage from your spells and forget using OHK spells. They would only serve to waste your very limited mana.
Beating reaper 1 kotb(Keep of the Borderlands), HEROIC naked is easy. Beating reaper 1 kotb, EPIC naked is extremely hard. I know cuz I did both(didn't recorded).
Beating reaper 1 kotb(Keep of the Borderlands), HEROIC naked is easy. Beating reaper 1 kotb, EPIC naked is extremely hard. I know cuz I did both(didn't recorded).
