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It's hard to tell if drops are skewed in some way towards or away from appropriate drops. Maybe 10-15% of drops will work for any given build so if I'm having a low effective drop rate, well that could easily be just because I play only one or two archetypes regularly. My main has a huge...

The way to deal with drop manipulation is just not to care. The only item I have actively farmed over the last two years is Jibber's Blade. If something drops for me that's fine and if it doesn't that's fine too. At the levels I play there is already a million times more power in the game...

It's not really DDO's style but it would be kind of cool to put out really OP Blackguard mobs (Lawful Evil) and have lesser versions available as the Duergar Iconic (Lawful Neutral).

If we hadn't already gotten Dhampir, Dark Apostate, Dark Bargainer, Acolyte of the Skin and Shadar-Kai I'd be with you on this. I think Blackguard is the most iconic Duergar and I wouldn't be surprised to see them as the choice. A fallen Blackguard, which exist in D&D lore, could have any...

Loot is a pot thing right now. You'll pull rares rarely and chase items almost never. Chug some pots though that'll help. Deprecated rares at lower levels drop much more freely. Once all the loot quality pots came out it became clear where the money pressure was shifting.

Making cosmetics off of the Thunder-forged always works for me when I want a black cosmetic weapon. Things look really sharp too.

As I recall things were slow at the time. F2P was successful however DDO was not a tier 1 MMO. This was my second big purchase of points following the purchase I made when I bought all the of the adventure packs in the store in early 2010. As I was making it I thought there was a good chance...

Triple points is the sign of the apocalypse. I remember buying when the sale went up and thinking I might just have wasted a lot of money given my pattern of sitting on points forever.

Iconics feel like they are setup to sell +1 hearts. The Morninglord is the clearest example of this. A Wis/Cha class pairing with +Int racials. Single attribute Int racials. Not even Dex/Int/Cha which is what you'd expect from an Elf.

Level 27-28 are like a ghost town.

It's unfair to introduce gods into a superhero game because the superheros always win. The biggest flaw of the MMORPG meta is that gods were introduced by EQ as slaughterable pinatas. Gods should always be there with their primary minions being the targets. Adds consistency to the story line.

Can you still park hires? They made some kind of change awhile back that prevents you from pinning hires at the entrance and calling them. Something like a short interval at which point they despawn.

Housing tends to be done poorly. Zones for housing are not the same thing as owning a door key in the city or countryside. Living in a pre-constructed house that looks the same as all the other houses in it's class is as boring in a game as it is in real life. EQ2 went overboard on housing...

The big breaks are the things like PRR/MRR that allow characters to avoid damage even of types that are supposed to be problematic for the archetype in question. Then you have Dodge, which is not governed by any spendable resource, which allows some builds to avoid damage entirely at the...

The biggest takeaway I would give a new crafter is that Cannith Crafting is a slow process unless you want to buy mats in the store. It's probably several hundred dollars to buy the mats you'd need to just start running with it. If you're a vet player who has crunched a lot of cannith essences...

Then there's having Legal look it over assuming upper management is onboard. This is after it goes through initial approval from Darkpaw and EG7.

If you like playing DDO odds are pretty good you'll miss it when it's gone because there's nothing quite like it out there in terms of Lego-ability of characters. If you don't like playing DDO why are you still here? No offense intended but I see a lot of people on the boards who seem to be...

The problem with psionics is that the system will either be meh or wildly OP. If it's meh it will add more depth and agency to the game although probably not produce the immediate returns that SSG is hoping for. If it is wildly OP it will just heavily shift the meta again and at this point I...

Once ED's came in to play DDO became a superhero game. Sentient weapons ended the debate. Not going to say more because I've forgone most of the stuff that makes it a superhero game and end game players could rightly say that they're playing their superhero game and I'm playing something else...

20th Anniversary coming up. 822?