Uska
Founder
wow I'm impressed
Celebrate 2025 with Free Access to DDO’s Cormyr Server for a limited time!
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Lagin3
Well-known member
Uska, you should join us in chainmail of cormyr.
Uska
Founder
not exactly but did say there were no plans to allow transfers there
Uska
Founder
might be a good time
According to the link in the first post of this thread, as of today the Year of the Dragon catch up on Cormyr for this week should be the gift of the silver dragon. The gift of the silver dragon is listed as a free adventure pack with a bonus of daily gold rolls for VIPs. I'm logged into Cormyr and it looks to me like the daily gold rolls have not been activated.
Natashaelle
Time Bandit
Half a dozen or so -- which is a lot lower than average over on G-Land previously in a similar time frame.
Natashaelle
Time Bandit
I seem to be unable to acquire this reward on Cormyr : Draconic Raider's Reward Box 1/Server
rabidfox
The People's Champion
Did you previously unlock it on 32-bit worlds? Or you unlocking that reward for the 1st time on Cormyr?
Natashaelle
Time Bandit
Yes on the old worlds.
I cannot see why I should have no possibility to grab this 1/server box on Cormyr during this week when it is available there.
rabidfox
The People's Champion
iirc, that box gets given to the first character that logs on to each server (after it was unlocked). So check you inventory on your characters.
Natashaelle
Time Bandit
Of course I did, and it isn't there.
rabidfox
The People's Champion
It was working before on there, so I wonder if they broke something with the re-hash going on.
Natashaelle
Time Bandit
Found it !! Phew ...
cdbd3rd
Well-known member
The LOTRO drama and way too many IRL things needing dealt with pushed me to curb my lantern at 1605.
Will there be any continuance of this in the future or shall I just yeet the thing?
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Sophie The Cat Burglar
Exotic Items Recovery Specialist
My feedback on Lanterns in the Mist:
Having started on March 23 with the intention of earning a He Man Battle Cat on one account, I finished Lanterns in the Mist last night.
Total time played was 7,137 minutes over 17 days. That equates to 118 hours, 57 minutes.
Average play time per day was 420 minutes or 7 hours. I am rather horrified, both by my determination and time investment.
Average time per quest was 19.08 minutes. That includes time spent at the auction house, breaking down items, rearming, repairing, and in wilderness areas--everything.
All time spent breaking down items for crafting was wasted. I made a Underwater Action of Swim ring at level 4. All crafting did was leave me without enough money to purchase sufficient Resist potions until level 17 or so.
My character, a Rogue Mechanic with no access to Horizon Walker or Inquisitive, was a w f u l. Playing a 2013 character in 2025 severely ramps up the difficulty.
Playing on Normal difficulty, I found three pieces of usable named equipment by random drop.
I spent a lot of time in the Demon Sand collecting Antique Bronze Tokens and eventually acquired 3 named items that way--Gloves of the Falcon, Spiked Turbin, and Tourney Armor.
Other named items were a Voice of the Master, Morninglord's Great Crossbow, Mantle of the Worldshaper, Nightforge Gorget, Epic Sworn Silver Great Crossbow, Epic Etheral Great Crossbow, Normal Heroic Jeweled Cloak, Heroic Dynamistic Quiver, and Epic Magnifying Lens. The latter three items were my lucky drops.
My character unlocked one extra bag. She never unlocked any additional vault space. She never found a Portable Hole.
Early on, I found two random loot Great Crossbows and used them until level 10. After that, Great Crossbows disappeared from random loot, only to appear once more in Epic levels.
Random loot is awful, both from chests and end rewards. It is full of unusable armors and weapons. Clothing and jewelry items are painfully rare.
After level 7, most of my character's equipment came from the Auction House.
I saw The Head of the Beast 5 times. All meetings required a hasty exit from the quest. On one occasion, it was necessary to run from a Silith Oracle. All told, this wasted about one hour.
Average Lantern Durability per quest was 5.3 units. I encountered a few Mist Stalkers in wilderness areas. Wilderness meetings counter balanced quests without a Mist Stalker.
I ran the entire event without a mount. My character made extensive use of a Least Dragonmark of Passage. She only gained a +29% speed item at Level 23. Ransacking every chest in the Epic Borderlands, my character never found a Horseshoe.
Due to the way lanterns work, even though I completed the event from level 1 without dying, without a hire dying, I only received the normal grade He Man Battle Cat. I recommend reducing the number of lanterns from 10 to 5. If a character dies, his or her lantern should crack. A completed Cracked Lantern should give a normal grade reward. A completed Pristine Lantern should give both a normal grade and a hardcore grade reward.
The writing in the introductory quest needs polishing and leaves many questions unanswered, but hints at a very interesting and serious story. That is great! The font used for quest dialogs is very difficult to read.
Memories are much better than the introductory story. They hint at an interesting enemy. The problem is, there is no plot. There is no progress to the story. Something bad is going on but the player character never makes any progress towards understanding or resolution. It is a hazy campaign idea without the campaign.
At the end of the event, the player's character is trapped on an unusable server.
Silith monsters are pretty good. It was genuinely fun to fight many of them for the first few times. Some were very dangerous, even on Normal difficulty.
The event dragged on...and on...and on. Please keep in mind, I only filled one Lantern. A nice crop of new monsters appeared in Epic levels. I liked that.
On a fair number of occasions, I defeated one of the difficult Silith monsters but did not gain any Lantern credit. That was really disheartening because the battles were not easy.
In current form, the best way to play the event (from my experience) is to be level 24 and run super quick Borderlands quests to exhaustion. Then be level 25 and run super quick Catacombs quests to exhaustion. That needs fixing. Coming up from level 1 with no money, no support network, no Guild, no anything, is a massive undertaking and deserves a much better reward than giggle smashing a handful of easy quests.
I am burned out on DDO for a while. This was too much. I started the event very late, investing every moment of free time for almost three weeks. I leveled from 1 to 20 in 11 days, my fastest effort to date by a huge margin. This will never happen again. The time investment really is horrifying.
To me, this is a year long event. If given a year, I might earn He Man Battle Cat on two or three more accounts.
In the end, earning He Man Battle Cat was nice, but putting in all that effort for an incomplete story and stranded character is disappointing. I will never experience the raid.
I know this event was designed to include people such as myself. Thank you for the gracious gesture and effort. Thank you for opening up the server to Premium players like myself. Thank you for making an event mount award available to less skilled players like myself. The story holds genuine promise.
He Man Battle Cat: Oh no! A Head of the Beast! We should run away! Hey. Where did Sophie go?
Having started on March 23 with the intention of earning a He Man Battle Cat on one account, I finished Lanterns in the Mist last night.
Total time played was 7,137 minutes over 17 days. That equates to 118 hours, 57 minutes.
Average play time per day was 420 minutes or 7 hours. I am rather horrified, both by my determination and time investment.
Average time per quest was 19.08 minutes. That includes time spent at the auction house, breaking down items, rearming, repairing, and in wilderness areas--everything.
All time spent breaking down items for crafting was wasted. I made a Underwater Action of Swim ring at level 4. All crafting did was leave me without enough money to purchase sufficient Resist potions until level 17 or so.
My character, a Rogue Mechanic with no access to Horizon Walker or Inquisitive, was a w f u l. Playing a 2013 character in 2025 severely ramps up the difficulty.
Playing on Normal difficulty, I found three pieces of usable named equipment by random drop.
I spent a lot of time in the Demon Sand collecting Antique Bronze Tokens and eventually acquired 3 named items that way--Gloves of the Falcon, Spiked Turbin, and Tourney Armor.
Other named items were a Voice of the Master, Morninglord's Great Crossbow, Mantle of the Worldshaper, Nightforge Gorget, Epic Sworn Silver Great Crossbow, Epic Etheral Great Crossbow, Normal Heroic Jeweled Cloak, Heroic Dynamistic Quiver, and Epic Magnifying Lens. The latter three items were my lucky drops.
My character unlocked one extra bag. She never unlocked any additional vault space. She never found a Portable Hole.
Early on, I found two random loot Great Crossbows and used them until level 10. After that, Great Crossbows disappeared from random loot, only to appear once more in Epic levels.
Random loot is awful, both from chests and end rewards. It is full of unusable armors and weapons. Clothing and jewelry items are painfully rare.
After level 7, most of my character's equipment came from the Auction House.
I saw The Head of the Beast 5 times. All meetings required a hasty exit from the quest. On one occasion, it was necessary to run from a Silith Oracle. All told, this wasted about one hour.
Average Lantern Durability per quest was 5.3 units. I encountered a few Mist Stalkers in wilderness areas. Wilderness meetings counter balanced quests without a Mist Stalker.
I ran the entire event without a mount. My character made extensive use of a Least Dragonmark of Passage. She only gained a +29% speed item at Level 23. Ransacking every chest in the Epic Borderlands, my character never found a Horseshoe.
Due to the way lanterns work, even though I completed the event from level 1 without dying, without a hire dying, I only received the normal grade He Man Battle Cat. I recommend reducing the number of lanterns from 10 to 5. If a character dies, his or her lantern should crack. A completed Cracked Lantern should give a normal grade reward. A completed Pristine Lantern should give both a normal grade and a hardcore grade reward.
The writing in the introductory quest needs polishing and leaves many questions unanswered, but hints at a very interesting and serious story. That is great! The font used for quest dialogs is very difficult to read.
Memories are much better than the introductory story. They hint at an interesting enemy. The problem is, there is no plot. There is no progress to the story. Something bad is going on but the player character never makes any progress towards understanding or resolution. It is a hazy campaign idea without the campaign.
At the end of the event, the player's character is trapped on an unusable server.
Silith monsters are pretty good. It was genuinely fun to fight many of them for the first few times. Some were very dangerous, even on Normal difficulty.
The event dragged on...and on...and on. Please keep in mind, I only filled one Lantern. A nice crop of new monsters appeared in Epic levels. I liked that.
On a fair number of occasions, I defeated one of the difficult Silith monsters but did not gain any Lantern credit. That was really disheartening because the battles were not easy.
In current form, the best way to play the event (from my experience) is to be level 24 and run super quick Borderlands quests to exhaustion. Then be level 25 and run super quick Catacombs quests to exhaustion. That needs fixing. Coming up from level 1 with no money, no support network, no Guild, no anything, is a massive undertaking and deserves a much better reward than giggle smashing a handful of easy quests.
I am burned out on DDO for a while. This was too much. I started the event very late, investing every moment of free time for almost three weeks. I leveled from 1 to 20 in 11 days, my fastest effort to date by a huge margin. This will never happen again. The time investment really is horrifying.
To me, this is a year long event. If given a year, I might earn He Man Battle Cat on two or three more accounts.
In the end, earning He Man Battle Cat was nice, but putting in all that effort for an incomplete story and stranded character is disappointing. I will never experience the raid.
I know this event was designed to include people such as myself. Thank you for the gracious gesture and effort. Thank you for opening up the server to Premium players like myself. Thank you for making an event mount award available to less skilled players like myself. The story holds genuine promise.
He Man Battle Cat: Oh no! A Head of the Beast! We should run away! Hey. Where did Sophie go?
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Mindos
CHAOTIC EVIL
This is absolutely great feedback, thank you!
Natashaelle
Time Bandit
That is a great suggestion.
DDO Gaming
Well-known member
Excellent feedback and precisely why I refused to invest any major time on Cormry: gear tetris is difficult. I am already unhappy my newly created lvl4 rogue [on my primary account] failed to disable the trap on dirty laundry@elite so I wasn't particularly tempted to startover gear tetris on cormyr too.
HunterRayder93
Extraplanar Adventurer & Horizon Walker Enthusiast
Ok I think we had a different experience of this event then...I believe the event is over...and the way I believe you "approached" it was wrong.Having started on March 23 with the intention of earning a He Man Battle Cat on one account, I finished Lanterns in the Mist last night.
Total time played was 7,137 minutes over 17 days. That equates to 118 hours, 57 minutes.
Average play time per day was 420 minutes or 7 hours. I am rather horrified, both by my determination and time investment.
Average time per quest was 19.08 minutes. That includes time spent at the auction house, breaking down items, rearming, repairing, and in wilderness areas--everything.
All time spent breaking down items for crafting was wasted. I made a Underwater Action of Swim ring at level 4. All crafting did was leave me without enough money to purchase sufficient Resist potions until level 17 or so.
here....this was your first mistake...you started by going to a new server and playing as if you were on your own "IT'S WRONG!", I agree that starting with nothing can be frustrating and it's one of the reasons why this game creating new characters is traumatic especially when you're in your first lives, in fact I did the exact opposite I "informed myself" and went on the forum to look for "new builds suitable for the event", and I also took advantage of the situation to see what had changed in the game considering that I hadn't played for 2 years.In addition I think your second mistake was playing alone... I'm sorry you can say what you want and insist that right now DDO is a game that can be played alone but it is not, it always remains at its core a group game and an event like this encourages you to play alone and "cooperate" to achieve your goal.
I'm speechless and you're telling me that you spent more time on the auction than playing? and I believe you struggled my dear... I repeat, I don't want to put you down but in my opinion you approached the event in the wrong way, ok I admit it, I started a little earlier than and and when there was also at a certain point the double durability points event so doing the lantern was easier for me but I've always played in a group and I was also lucky enough to meet some very kind people who also gave me a hand in farming items or passing me useful named for my class.I think farming named items in borderlands can be ok but a waste of time if you are doing the event.
This is why people need to educate themselves before trying to do an event, unfortunately I understand that many do not like to read as in a recent video I saw of a girl on another game "I love to read but when I want to play I want to play", I do not know if you know but unlike the HC lanterns (and it is something that I then understood in my 2nd reincarnation you can have more than one and increase the durability at the same time in case a lantern that you are trying to fill has reached the maximum cap of that current level, unlike the HC lanterns that you must necessarily take them at level 1 and if you die you lose it, one of the reasons why I liked this event and made me want to play DDO again, one of the reasons why I never liked the HC League is that playing alone without friends or a guild to cooperate with can be frustrating DDO in 10 years I have always found it a frustrating and beautiful game at the same time ... but I never liked the HC League because if you got caught in a group of Zerg or Grefer that once you reach a high level you die trying to keep up with the group can become frustrating...and then in my opinion the HC in an MMO is too frustrating...constantly fighting with the Lag is a problem...for this reason I focused on the "Soft Core" antennas because I was interested in the reward and not the challenge...and then for what the HC antennas give, I find the comfort useless and then what to have? a miserable variant with a skull on top and that's it? what a useless thing and a waste of time.
No...sorry but no here I don't agree...I don't know if you know (and the story then continues with the Raid of the Den of Vipers) it will all be part of what will be the new expansion of Ravenloft coming this summer, speaking of the intro itself I liked it and it was very explanatory...I don't know if the other HC events had an introduction but in my opinion SSG did a great job with the necessary adjustments the new events could become interesting.
So...you liked the event...but you had trouble making the lantern?...how is that possible...
...Ok I understand the problem you have I think you made a mistake in doing the borderlands to finish the lantern ... playing the event thinking of doing the lantern and that's it creates too much distraction ... I simply played and that's it, then when I got to 30-34 I started doing the quest "Into the myst" and I farmed the quest in R1 + because I don't know if you know this too (and unfortunately no one will have told you) even if you finish the quest immediately there is a minimum time of 5m because a Stalker can spawn, so the reason why everyone did "Into the myst" was for this reason, in fact I managed to get the large cloak, the mount and the pet in 2 life, and it took me a month, simply playing "normally" and farming to the cap in the quest I mentioned the durability.
Yes it's true and it's a long event but not impossible... as I explained, approaching the event as if you were playing with your main was wrong and playing alone penalized you... then I don't know if you were in a guild or not... but these are "Community Events" and in a community you should help each other... I think this concept has been lost over time in MMOs and a bit here on DDO (and also LOTRO maybe unfortunately), I'm still happy you liked it but... in itself the event doesn't need drastic changes.. the only thing I would change at least for the HC rewards is to have a more visible distinction with the non-HC versions of the rewards... maybe having changed the color of the items would have been something, I understand that maybe SSG didn't have time to think about it because this year their focus is very much on 64bit servers and this is sacrificing the development on other aspects of the game... but apart from the rewards the event is very fun and accessible.To me, this is a year long event. If given a year, I might earn He Man Battle Cat on two or three more accounts.
In the end, earning He Man Battle Cat was nice, but putting in all that effort for an incomplete story and stranded character is disappointing. I will never experience the raid.
I know this event was designed to include people such as myself. Thank you for the gracious gesture and effort. Thank you for opening up the server to Premium players like myself. Thank you for making an event mount award available to less skilled players like myself. The story holds genuine promise.