12:19 am, April 20, 2018
How much should your total skill be in spot and
search to catch most secret doors ?
If you need too much investment in those skills, why
not use a rogue hireling ?
Is ten total modifier in those s [..]
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12:19 am, April 17, 2018
Hi,
I've been playing DDO for over 10 years now and for the past 5 years at least I've specialised myself by pretty much exclusively playing an Articifer. Although I enjoy playing in a group, my main [..]
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12:19 pm, April 5, 2018
I wish to make it clear before I start that this isn't a definitive guide for running ****. This guide is to build on existing guides for **** and assumes you know the basics of the raid, its progress [..]
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12:19 am, April 5, 2018
One of my favorite things is taking screenshots, especially dynamic scenes. Well, I had been struggling to hide the UI fast enough to get my pictures.
So, I decided to key map my hide UI and my take [..]
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12:19 am, March 28, 2018
This only happens randomly, sometimes never, sometimes often, but it is especially a problem when soloing quests and having to start completely over because by the time I reboot and relog into the gam [..]
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11:19 pm, March 2, 2018
Edit: I realized that the title might be wrong. I don't mean level cap but XP cap...
Disclaimer: I haven't played for a while, but I am still a fan of this game.
I'm running a Cleric17/Fighter3/Epic1 [..]
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11:19 am, December 29, 2017
Came back to the game a couple months ago, been enjoying it a lot so far! I even managed to get a character up to max level and reincarnate her, something I've never actually done before. However, I'v [..]
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11:19 pm, December 21, 2017
There are several decent TR'ing quest guides out there but so far all of them have shared the requirement that you down Sov pots non-stop, they run with a perma-group or they're wicked out of date mak [..]
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11:19 am, December 16, 2017
I am having issues with Ice flenser's polar rays at mid levels at the moment. I barely scraped through invaders and the first archon quest, but am now having trouble with demon assault. They do so muc [..]
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11:19 pm, November 15, 2017
Hello
I am currently on a repeater life and have all scrolls, shards and seals needed for making an epic version. Currently i have only one silver slinger - my brother was kind enough to give one to [..]
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11:19 pm, November 1, 2017
Hello everyone, and welcome to Movember 2017! This is now the fifth year that I've raised money publicly for men's health through the Movember Foundation in the Dungeons & Dragons Online comm [..]
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12:19 am, October 13, 2017
Give up 2 lvls of Ranger for Monk to gain feats DODGE and DEFLECT ARROWS?
From other posts; https://www.ddo.com/forums/showthrea...-heart-of-woodhttps://www.ddo.com/forums/showthrea...-ability-score
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12:19 am, October 3, 2017
Hi all,
I have been playing DDO as a human and half-elf, mainly because I admire their versatility to play as any class. No matter what class(es) you pick, both races can do it well.
So now, I have be [..]
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12:19 am, September 27, 2017
The short version:
What can I do to increase my chances of surviving an encounter with a "Super Monster Champion"? By "Super Monster Champion", I mean the 1 in 50 Monster Champio [..]
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12:19 am, September 10, 2017
If you are new to the game, first - welcome! Now if you are done soloing and have decided to group up you might look at the LFM panel and wonder what is R1/Reaper. Reaper is the hardest difficulty mod [..]
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12:19 pm, June 27, 2017
Hi all!
Im currently running a 2nd life pure wizard (currently level 13 Archmage with Necromancy and Enchantment focus) after a long break from this game (years) and im struggling to stay alive and [..]
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12:19 pm, June 13, 2017
Hi!
I've finally reached a high enough level to craft myself a ML20 equipment with cannith crafting. However, I thought I'd ask your advice on which enchantments to seek. I'm currently a fire sorcer [..]
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12:19 am, June 6, 2017
To level-up, or not to level-up, a character that is the question I would like to get feed-back on. The details; I have about 1.5 years or more of DDO experience running many character classes on se [..]
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12:19 am, May 27, 2017
Have been away for a while... left just after Epic levels were introduced. So the new Enhancement trees, Epic Destinies and the majority of the Epic content is new to me.
Some questions:
1. What st [..]
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12:19 pm, May 20, 2017
I played this game a little bit, long ago. I left primarily because, as a free player, I didn't have many quests to choose from. I didn't like having to play through the same few quests quite so man [..]
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12:19 pm, May 9, 2017
Anyone else noticed that grease spell affects you (your party) more than enemies? By that I mean that enemies seem to effortlessly run quickly through Greases area of effect when they did their save b [..]
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12:19 pm, April 18, 2017
i5 7600k, rx480, 8gig ddr4 3200
game runs amazing, but every so often ill get a stutter here and there. have seen numerous posts about some high end machines having issues like this. anyone have the [..]
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12:19 pm, April 9, 2017
32 pt build, 1 past life (rge).
I haven't been very fortunate with tomes, only a +2 CON and +1 CHA at them moment. I do not want to buy any in DDO store, saving to buy packages when VIP runs out.
I [..]
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12:19 am, April 4, 2017
Hello
Tomorrow i am gonna introduce a friend to ddo. If we are lucky we will get past korthos in one evening. He ones said that DDO was too "square" for him and the graphics wasn't good eno [..]
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11:19 pm, March 19, 2017
I am not a new player, but 'new player guidance' feels the right sort of place to ask this question.
I like VON 5/6, classic quest, run it enough times to be familiar, but not so many to be bored. Ho [..]
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11:19 pm, February 27, 2017
So I've got a friend that it's gonna give DDO a try, he's used once the Anniversary cake on a newly created character, and has reached iirc level 5, which is cool but I daresay still insufficient in o [..]
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11:19 pm, February 4, 2017
Hi,
I played DDO from beta until sometime before the first expansion hit and have been in other games since then. Now I decided to come back and experience what I have missed :)
Logging in and seein [..]
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11:19 pm, January 24, 2017
I'm a noob. I played just to lv20 once, years ago, so the basics are familiar and I'm looking at the wiki.
I hate the undead. I don't want to be a rogue, but I hate locked doors... Thinking about a H [..]
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11:19 pm, January 23, 2017
So it's come to this. The so-called "ticket system" is a complete joke. Be warned that Turbine completely abandoned this game back when they discontinued phone support and so far it doesn' [..]
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11:19 am, January 8, 2017
Just thinking of crafting my level 30 first life fighter some gear, not sure what to put on his gloves, insightful stunning 8, or do I go for insightful devotion? as well I use mainly cocoon for heali [..]
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11:19 pm, December 23, 2016
I'll preface this by saying i'm an old man with limited IT skills ....
I stopped playing DDO a while back when the lag monster ate everything in site. I'm under the understanding that the situation i [..]
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11:19 pm, December 21, 2016
I am tired of feeling dumb about this. On a build I am following, the equipment listed has neck as "LGS Opposition/Material Fire" I don't know what this actually means. That is, what are [..]
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11:19 am, December 20, 2016
Hello,
I just got a new MacBook Air and my other PC failed, so this is the only one I have right now. I played a quest the other day and the laptop was hotter than I'd like. It has been cool except [..]
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11:19 am, December 9, 2016
I have 46k essences saved up I want to make the most of the boost to crafting xp and the 25% off crafting xp and success boosters which should I buy and what should I craft? Im at 170ish crafting leve [..]
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11:19 am, November 27, 2016
So I'm currently running as a duo with my boyfriend. He's brand-new to the game, while I've played very, very sporadically for a long while with another duo partner (highest level I've achieved is 12) [..]
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11:19 pm, November 1, 2016
Hello everyone, and welcome to Movember 2016! This is now the fourth year that I've raised money publicly for men's health through the Movember Foundation in the Dungeons & Dragons Online com [..]
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12:19 am, October 13, 2016
As an experiment I've enabled the ability of everyone to post polls to the forums. We're curious to see how it is put to use, and whether the community likes to have the ability to do this.
HOWEVER, t [..]
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12:19 am, October 6, 2016
Hello
I’ve been doing The Jungle of Khyber, The Druid's Deep chain, The High Road chain, The Lords of Dust and Servants of the Overlord now almost on a daily basis to get me from level 24 t [..]
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12:19 am, September 27, 2016
Hye, guys. So, I'm not exactly new to the game, but I am way behind when compared to the elites and I have ever a question that's more about options than straight forward "which way should I go&q [..]
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12:19 pm, September 23, 2016
I stopped playing this game like 6 years ago so I am way out of touch. You get max BB after 5 elite runs correct? So I've done like 75 elite runs in a row is that necessary or not? So right now I a [..]
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12:19 am, September 20, 2016
So this happened during the weekend when I tried to ETR..
1) Trigger ETR
2) Logout and click ETR in character menu
3) Stuck on screen for ~10-20 minutes, **** process
4) Cannot log in anymore, receivi [..]
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12:19 am, September 15, 2016
Dumb question, but last time I LRd the level cap was 20!
If you are level 20+, for example level 25, if you use a lesser heart like a +20 heart, do you still have enough xp to get back to 25 or do y [..]
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12:19 am, September 14, 2016
Is there enough Forgotten Realms content to get from level 1-20+?
I seem to recall it was originally linked to a story arc from Eberron.... that bridged you over at around level 15-16 ish if Im not [..]
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12:19 am, September 5, 2016
I see this literally every day in in-game chat:"Looking for Active Guild"
But what does "Active" mean to you?
To DDO/Turbine and pertaining to Guilds it means this account has logg [..]
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12:19 am, August 27, 2016
I haven't played in years until recently (and didn't play long back then)https://www.ddo.com/forums/showthrea...=1#post2799105
I was following this build and it was added to the thread in 2011 then he [..]
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12:19 pm, August 24, 2016
Hi everyone, I am using a small laptop which definitely has enough space and the capacity to run ddo but for some reason, the launcher will give me an error message (the title). I have tried reinstall [..]
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12:19 am, August 16, 2016
Hello, I am seeking advice around questions;1. As you level-up a Rogue, are you ever given the opportunity to choose feat exotic weapon kama? If yes, at what level?
2. As you level-up a Druid, are y [..]
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12:19 am, June 27, 2016
DDO Free to Play Guide (minimal grind method)Intro
It is certainly possible to play DDO completely for free. You may want to do this for budgetary reasons, but since cheap offers come around frequentl [..]
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12:19 pm, June 26, 2016
Hello,
I just read on ddo wiki that ability stats points applied by enhancements trees do not count towards the pre-reqs for feats. Example, character needs STR of 13+ to be able to pick feat &quo [..]
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12:19 am, June 24, 2016
Hello all
I have an idea for a build and could use some feedback. The idea is to use a repeater and AA while using the warlock aura. I am not sure it will work so therefore some feedback is needed.
[..]
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12:19 am, June 22, 2016
Heya
I keep bumping into players who have not thought about this awesome skill. And when I thought back I don't think I realised what this strange thing at the bottom of the skills table was until so [..]
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12:19 am, June 18, 2016
It seems there's some issues with the cost of DDO that may be putting new players off sticking with the game.
A lot of this comes from new players not knowing what is a good buy for their first TP ear [..]
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12:19 am, June 17, 2016
Hello! We're writing today to give you a heads-up on a change to the in-game mail system that will improve game performance.
We've been tackling cases of "stacking enhancements", optimizing [..]
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12:19 am, June 14, 2016
Reincarnation (first installment)
• This game allows you to reincarnate after you reach level 20 on heroic life or level 30 on iconic life. Reincarnation (or True Reincarnation) is starting [..]
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12:19 pm, June 7, 2016
Unable to stay connected for more then 2 or 3 minutes then i loose connection occasionally i will be able to stay long enough to do 1 maybe 2 quest but not very often did a msconfig and unchecked ever [..]
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12:19 am, May 22, 2016
What kind of gear would YOU have on YOUR pure Arty @ lvl 19? Where would you get THAT particular item? What stats should you have @ that lvl?
This Arty has a good UMD and can trap well enough to ge [..]
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12:19 am, May 17, 2016
I have a question about an auction item I just purchased. BRacers +8 constitution. I am level 12 fighter., the bracers say minimum level 28, absolute minimum level 12. Which I am, but when I try t [..]
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12:19 am, May 14, 2016
Please excuse me, im a little bit frustrated right now and it is getting late for me, i will try to give as much informations as i can till i have to go to sleep because of late hours here in EU (need [..]
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12:19 am, April 7, 2016
Hi All,
I'm embarassed to say how many toons I have, but I do have oodles of Quivers of Alacrity now that I want to upgrade. I had just enough shield fragments to upgrade one for the 30% striding. Of [..]
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12:19 am, April 4, 2016
I am at +70 and I don't think I miss on anything other than natural 1s, but I really don't pay close attention either. I have a item which provides +21 to hit and I'm wondering if it's worth equipping [..]
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11:19 pm, March 26, 2016
I am currently a 9th level Wizard with enough xp to level to 10 and thinking about multi-classing to Rogue (probably Wizard 18/Rogue 2). I know when building a Wizard/Rogue it is best to take Rogue at [..]
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11:19 pm, March 23, 2016
It's hard to know straight off the bat which Guild is for you and one of the reasons {ONE OF} for this is that Newbies don't know yet at what level a Guild has enough bonuses for that particular newbi [..]
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11:19 am, March 12, 2016
Hello everyone.
So, I have a weird situation. Sometimes while playing DDO my computer will shut down in the middle of the game with no warning. This does not happen at any other time except when I am [..]
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11:19 am, March 9, 2016
Hi,
Im on Argo, and as of 6pm yesterday I reach the character selection screen choose a character and the load screen will sit any where from 4-9 minutes until the load bar fills and the game world [..]
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11:19 pm, March 6, 2016
To receive all the benefit from an epic destiny, does getting it to lvl 5 enough, or do you need to max the xp in lvl 5 destiny? To get the fate point, or any other benefit. Wiki didnt really explain [..]
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11:19 am, March 5, 2016
The title says it all. This started happening after the most recent update after having no issues prior to. This is highly annoying as I just got enough credits saved for being a VIP to purchase Favor [..]
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11:19 pm, February 27, 2016
Undead soul gems.
I'm a new player, first life, and have leveled my crafting enough to make undead bane shards but I haven't had any luck buying undead soul gems. I've checked the AH and shard excha [..]
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11:19 am, February 27, 2016
I've been toying around with a build I started a couple years ago. I wanted to make a ranged cleric that can do moderate damage for soloing and such but have enough healing and buffing to play support [..]
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11:19 pm, February 26, 2016
Hi
I would like to make my next life a wizard, but i can't figure out how to do it. I have been thinking about a art 3 warlock 4/5 wiz 13/12 repeater build, but it just doesn't seem right. I would li [..]
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11:19 am, February 25, 2016
I'm sure there is not a lot of support when it comes to controllers for this game so I'll make this short.
When I plug and map out the buttons for my X Box Elite Controller DDO Freezes, Drop's connec [..]
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11:19 pm, February 11, 2016
I was rerunning the quests for Zawabi this morning, having forgotten about the raid timer (sue me, that's why I am posting in the new player forum) thinking that maybe I had to repeat all the quests.
[..]
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11:19 pm, January 22, 2016
Okay, I've spent a couple of hours with Google, and have not found a definitive answer as yet.
As of the latest update (U29), there are new types of bonuses, named "insightful ***" where ** [..]
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11:19 am, January 11, 2016
I don't necessarily want to take the express route to power and riches but it can't hurt to know what the options are.
I understand that TR (at least the first use) is something done at level 20 that [..]
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11:19 pm, January 4, 2016
So my first confusion is with hireling I have a permanent one and she is a cleric the wikipedia says permanent level 3 cleric does that mean she will forever be level 3?
Second how long does it tak [..]
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11:19 pm, January 4, 2016
I have already done one life as a 18 Sorcerer/2 Rogue
I am now lvl 16 on my second life, and when I hit 20 , I am going to TR again, then use a Stone of Experience to get the 2 million xp, and TR ( [..]
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11:19 pm, December 17, 2015
Hi all, noob here, sorry to bother.
I recently looted a couple of item which my party member said where good to put on AH, but I never did that, nor I know if they are actually good enough to put the [..]
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11:19 pm, November 20, 2015
Hi all!
I have been gone for a few years, but am very interested in coming back now that my son is old enough to join me. I remember really enjoying the game. However the reason that I left was that e [..]
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12:19 am, October 4, 2015
Hi. I've been playing this game on and off over the last 4-5 years and I've decided to give it a shot once again(Last time I played was summer 2014). However I've never been very good at the mechanics [..]
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12:19 am, September 24, 2015
Greetings,
I was under impression that monster's don't have any euipment, nor use any metamagic feats. Is this still true? Was there some recent change? (Well, i'm very casual player, recent may be i [..]
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12:19 pm, September 9, 2015
First of all i would like to thank every one who helped me from the first day that i started playing the game.
Couldn't have done it with out your advice.
Now i'm level 21 Paladin S&B Vangua [..]
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12:19 pm, September 6, 2015
So let's annoy the board again....but don't think i'm just chatty because i actually use this information "level 19 only 1 rank to 20...Yay:o"
So i'm following the build in this thread by [..]
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12:19 pm, September 6, 2015
Foolish me, I upgraded to Windows 10 from 7 about a week after launch and have had nothing but problems with DDO (and nothing else) since. Immediately after updating, I started experiencing extremely [..]
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12:19 am, September 1, 2015
Hi my saphire 4850 took a poo and now I have to buy a new card. Thing is I dont want to pay 200 bucks for the high end ones. Im looking at an PNY GT 730 but Im unsure if that is high enough for the [..]
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12:19 pm, August 30, 2015
DDO offers two embedded features that players can use to maximize their free-to-play (FTP) experience. By leveraging these two features it is possible to avoid spending real money on DDO.
First, DDO [..]
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12:19 am, August 26, 2015
OK new player, learning the game and it seems to be fun.
Couple questions I want to ask before I get too far in to re-roll a char.
1. Are all servers equal population? It seems no one is playing in [..]
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12:19 am, August 26, 2015
Hello
Has anyone else been having the problem that the camera shoots directly up or down when you are moving? It happens sometimes, but often enough that it is annoying. I have died several times whe [..]
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12:19 am, August 13, 2015
Hi guys ! I need you because I dunno what to do next.
I just hit 20 and I'm thinking about next life. I'll have 2 pally past life and +4 supreme tome. I own everything but warforged, monk, artificer [..]
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12:19 pm, August 10, 2015
Anyone can help me again?
I am playing with my old main character in team-up with my girlfriend. But we have very different working periods at the moment.
So to avoid that our characters differ to [..]
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12:19 pm, August 10, 2015
Great Job by everyone in the group.
We were super close to finish this raid on elite in few attempts during the last week but we had some terrible bad luck.
This time we finally did it.
We will work [..]
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12:19 am, August 9, 2015
I was wondering if someone can help me - the option to switch to DX11 is grayed out in game. I'm stuck on DX9, and no idea why.
This is a laptop with a GTX 960, so the hardware specs are more than [..]
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12:19 am, August 8, 2015
I've previously only run sword and board, but I'd like to go with TWF for my next life. I have a few questions.
1) Is there a preferred weapon type for TWF? I really don't think I'll have the feat [..]
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12:19 pm, August 5, 2015
I've returned again to playing DDO, picking up the human acrobat I left last time I ran out of stuff at 12. I still don't have any new stuff but it's been months so the old stuff will probably seem ne [..]
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12:19 pm, August 5, 2015
I've spent around 30 minutes reading stuff on increasing bag space. The game is unenjoyable now because of all the items I have to juggle around, especially since taking up crafting. Anyway, I need mo [..]
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12:19 pm, July 31, 2015
Problem:
After approximately 1.5 hours of play, my character will start moving very slowly upon entering a quest and remain slow in any quest I enter until I redo my ship buffs. Up until that point, [..]
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12:19 pm, July 3, 2015
Hello all: I am almost ready to TR to my next character. This will be my first serious TR and I'm quite nervous. I'm a lvl 21 dex based twf rogue. I bought a ddo surpreme tome for 1000TP as it was on [..]
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12:19 pm, June 24, 2015
Finally got an install of DDO to work on my Laptop, so I can play wherever. The problem now is the screen layouts do not match.
My home set up is using a 2560x1600 30" screen with enough space [..]
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12:19 am, June 18, 2015
Hello,
I have a 1st life wizard and the challenge Ive set out for myself it to see how powerful I can get it without resorting to TRing. Why? I have a LOT of toons, and only one that I TR, the rest a [..]
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12:19 pm, June 5, 2015
Hi guys, my current Lenovo Thinkpad T400s have been failing DDO for almost a year (over heat every 30-60 min of play), and so I have missed the game for many months. Now finally I am making up my mind [..]
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12:19 am, May 19, 2015
Casual, oft-returning player here. I've been off and on DDO since 2006, but generally restart my characters every time I start playing again. As a result, my highest-level dude is a Level 15 Sorcerer [..]
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12:19 pm, May 16, 2015
This week, I reached the level cap for the first time with two characters. The DDO Wiki describes reincarnation in great detail, but I find myself with lingering questions and so come here for help. [..]
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