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Kyzel

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I see a lot of great builds with amazing gear when playing. I myself have none of that. I am a simple cleric / fighter with very little named gear. If I have any, it is from pure luck. I do not run any difficulty other than normal for the past 6 months or so. Decided to take it easy and enjoy the journey, no matter how long it takes. There are so many quests, you do not need to maximize your XP. I am currently level 10, almost 11, and just started running level 8 quest. For me it is about the quest and the story, not the gear nor how fast I can max out my level. You could say my playing style resembles a lazy Sunday afternoon drive in the country... lol

Are there any other "lazy" players out there? I am just curious if I am in a category all by myself.... 😁
 
Solarpower

Solarpower

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Kyzel said:
Are there any other "lazy" players out there? I am just curious if I am in a category all by myself.... 😁
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There are plenty of different players in the game. But you won't probably find them on this forum. The forum is occupied by Elitist R10 Solo Zergers that spend their time here whining. However, sometimes their complaints are justified.
 
kmoustakas

kmoustakas

Scourge of Xaos
Kyzel said:
I see a lot of great builds with amazing gear when playing. I myself have none of that. I am a simple cleric / fighter with very little named gear. If I have any, it is from pure luck. I do not run any difficulty other than normal for the past 6 months or so. Decided to take it easy and enjoy the journey, no matter how long it takes. There are so many quests, you do not need to maximize your XP. I am currently level 10, almost 11, and just started running level 8 quest. For me it is about the quest and the story, not the gear nor how fast I can max out my level. You could say my playing style resembles a lazy Sunday afternoon drive in the country... lol Are there any other "lazy" players out there? I am just curious if I am in a category all by myself.... 😁
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The real problem with playerbases of old games like DDO and path of exile is that there are people who have been playing for over 10 years and have forgotten more things than new players will know. Thus the experience playing is vastly different.
I understand this because I started path of exile last year and as a first timer it was incredibly fun, no matter how it seemed I was doing everything wrong, including having fun wrong :D

edit: Coffee and slayers is the best "lazy sunday afternoon" but that's mostly on epic, you'll get there one day and you'll remember me <3
 
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Lacci

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Kyzel said:
Are there any other "lazy" players out there? I am just curious if I am in a category all by myself.... 😁
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Nah, you´re not alone. I generally don´t care about optimized builds or XP/minute, I just play whatever I feel like. I still struggle to complete some quests on elite, but I´m also OK with running stuff on hard.
I started my last life in september and only got to lvl 19 so far...
 
unbongwah

unbongwah

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TBH I'm not playing much DDO anymore and when I do, I'm usually a filthy casual soloer. I just don't have the time nor patience to catch up to all the power creep over the last several years. Also my game time is frequently interrupted IRL and it would be rude to other players to go AFK for several minutes in the middle of a quest.

So no raids, no Reapers unless I'm bored on Elite, hardly any TRs anymore. I just like messing around with my hare-brained build ideas to see how far I can push them.
 
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Contessor

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unbongwah said:
TBH I'm not playing much DDO anymore and when I do, I'm usually a filthy casual soloer. I just don't have the time nor patience to catch up to all the power creep over the last several years. Also my game time is frequently interrupted IRL and it would be rude to other players to go AFK for several minutes in the middle of a quest.

So no raids, no Reapers unless I'm bored on Elite, hardly any TRs anymore. I just like messing around with my hare-brained build ideas to see how far I can push them.
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Builds are the appeal to me as well.

I like trying other peoples as well building my own.

Some builds I just find a playstyle I prefer. I have been playing since shortly after beta launch (although it feels like we are still in Beta) and even though I usually do reapers, I really hate reaper difficulty as whole. It makes no sense to make reaper easier than elite, if you have enough rXP. I kind of miss the old difficulties, casual, normal, hard, elite and epic (although only certain quests).
 
unbongwah

unbongwah

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Contessor said:
It makes no sense to make reaper easier than elite, if you have enough rXP.
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Unsolicited hot take: the Reaper trees were a mistake IMO. Once they were added, Reapers went from an optional challenge mode you ran for fun and better loot drops into another levelling treadmill you had to run just to keep up with the rest of the community.

Plus bragging that you can beat Reaper 10 would carry more weight if we didn't have all the extra power creep from the trees. :cool:
 
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Contessor

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unbongwah said:
Unsolicited hot take: the Reaper trees were a mistake IMO. Once they were added, Reapers went from an optional challenge mode you ran for fun and better loot drops into another levelling treadmill you had to run just to keep up with the rest of the community.

Plus bragging that you can beat Reaper 10 would carry more weight if we didn't have all the extra power creep from the trees. :cool:
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Agree. Reaper without the trees...I would feel differently. Doing R1s on HC is drastically different from Elite, even in heroics. But LE 34 R1s without any rXP is truly challenging for a first lifer, even with a good build.

I think this is why my game time increases substantially during HC, over non-HC. It is not really the permadeath, but starting over anew and loving the challenge, rather than the endless grind. Even with 3 almost complete characters now, starting an alt, just knowing he will need to grind to be competitive is now becoming a daunting notion.
 
kmoustakas

kmoustakas

Scourge of Xaos
unbongwah said:
Unsolicited hot take: the Reaper trees were a mistake IMO. Once they were added, Reapers went from an optional challenge mode you ran for fun and better loot drops into another levelling treadmill you had to run just to keep up with the rest of the community.

Plus bragging that you can beat Reaper 10 would carry more weight if we didn't have all the extra power creep from the trees. :cool:
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Worse than the actual powercreep, running in reaper gives more regular XP so r1 is automatic for almost everyone who has been playing a while.
 
Pardoner

Pardoner

Grand Panjandrum
I can happily avoid reaper unless there are folks running at a level where I am likely not to die the moment a reaper just glances at me. I have none of the most up to date kit because I like to relax and play the game not work at a different job to the one I do daily. To those who can run R10, GRATZ, seriously, but there are a people who dont. I'm one. So following the logic that has been applied earlier I am not an elitist. I may be an exception as a non elitist lurking around the forum though. Peace.
 
Br4d

Br4d

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One of the problems with Reaper is that SSG sees it as an endgame and for most of us it is no-game instead. It's hard to get out of that trap, where casuals think you just don't give a crap about them and the endgame crowd thins and also thinks you don't give a damn.

It'd be nice if it became clear that Reaper was sunsetted and something different was around the corner. Not sure how the current endgame crowd would react but casuals would get a new lease on play opportunity.

It wouldn't be hard to run the numbers for DDO and figure out what the impact of Reaper is.
 
Coffey

Coffey

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Its not about being lazy its about being in control of the parameters you want to play within without feeling your stuck in a continuous time trap or over your head in difficulty.
 
Vox

Vox

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Br4d said:
One of the problems with Reaper is that SSG sees it as an endgame and for most of us it is no-game instead. It's hard to get out of that trap, where casuals think you just don't give a crap about them and the endgame crowd thins and also thinks you don't give a damn.

It'd be nice if it became clear that Reaper was sunsetted and something different was around the corner. Not sure how the current endgame crowd would react but casuals would get a new lease on play opportunity.

It wouldn't be hard to run the numbers for DDO and figure out what the impact of Reaper is.
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Looking at the LFM panel across servers does not reflect your views.
 
TrinityTurtle

TrinityTurtle

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Ddo is the same as everything else, different people will feel differently about it, and do the activity in a different way. its' a game, there is no univesral objective 'right' way to enjoy it, just the right way for you when you are playing. :)
 
AlimonyJFMSU

AlimonyJFMSU

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Kyzel said:
I see a lot of great builds with amazing gear when playing. I myself have none of that. I am a simple cleric / fighter with very little named gear. If I have any, it is from pure luck. I do not run any difficulty other than normal for the past 6 months or so. Decided to take it easy and enjoy the journey, no matter how long it takes. There are so many quests, you do not need to maximize your XP. I am currently level 10, almost 11, and just started running level 8 quest. For me it is about the quest and the story, not the gear nor how fast I can max out my level. You could say my playing style resembles a lazy Sunday afternoon drive in the country... lol

Are there any other "lazy" players out there? I am just curious if I am in a category all by myself.... 😁
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Unfathomably based. Admittedly, I have a half and half approach. I'm totally half-assing gear until I get to the late game, and then I'm gonna start farming for specific stuff. No point grinding for gear that'll get replaced in a few levels anyway.
 
Throbulator

Throbulator

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Casual and lazy gaming is a whole different thing with a character that's over ten years old and has all the past lives and the bells and the whistles, but I definitely consider myself a lazy casual gamer. I spend like 75% of game time playing with some friends while yapping over Discord, and that's half the fun. The other half is playing around with wonky builds and whatever else the Rule of Fun leads me toward.
 
AlimonyJFMSU

AlimonyJFMSU

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Buddha5440 said:
As I've said many times...IT"S JUST A FREAKIN GAME!!! Have fun with it or do something else.
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Amen, brother. I watch my buddies play games sometimes, and they'll start like shouting at the TV, and I'm thinking...if you're getting mad at the game like this, then obviously the game has failed in the primary purpose of a game, which is to say being fun. Also I feel like a lot of people lose sight of the fact that nobody cares that you're the record holder for fastest R10 Ascension Chamber.
 
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