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Balth's 2018 DDO New Player's Guide

12:19 pm, April 1, 2018 Dungeons and Dragons Online is a 12-year old MMO set in the plane of Eberron (although other places have been added over time). It is based on the 3.5 Dungeons and Dragons ruleset. As a longtime Dun [..] View

Ravenloft quests and DCs

11:19 pm, January 25, 2018 Hi, taking advantage of the downtime, I thought I'd ask about an issue that has been on my mind. Namely, what are the dcs for secret doors in the ravenloft quests? I ask because last week, before u [..] View

1-20 Quest guide for efficient TR'ing (No Sov pots edition)

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all of them have shared the requirement that you down Sov pots non-stop, they run with a perma-group or they're wicked out of date mak [..] View

Is this the game, or my connection?

11:19 am, December 21, 2017 I've been having a problem for about two months now where my connection seems to freeze in game, but only for uploaded information. I can see everything moving around me, I can get damaged, on my cle [..] View

So, does this arti build pass the smoke test?

11:19 am, December 14, 2017 So, I'm getting bored with my main BF paladin, and I wanted to try an artificer. I'm not playing much right now, and there are still a few things to wrap up before the TR, but with the current veteran [..] View

Random Freezes / lock ups

11:19 am, December 8, 2017 So whilst playing the game I get random freezes of anywhere between 2-8secs. This happens mainly on entering new areas, or whenever im below 30% health and there are enemies around :D Joke, its comp [..] View

Sound weirdness, please help.

11:19 pm, November 25, 2017 All of a sudden all sounds my character makes (footsteps, combat, spellcasting, etc.) disappeared. I can still hear other players making them. All other sounds seem to work normally as well. Reboot [..] View

Best voice chat for DDO?

11:19 pm, November 17, 2017 Normally my buddies and I just call each other on the phone while we play and end up with 5 hour calls. It's not ideal. What is the preferred (?) recommended (?) most common (?) voice chat system that [..] View

How do i grind for the silver slinger?

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 [..] View

Sigiil Pieces for Black Abbot Flag

11:19 pm, November 12, 2017 Years ago I ran Temple of Vol 50 or more times from casual to hard (Heroic & Elite) trying to get the various rewards - finally got Epic Boots of the Innocent. In all my runs, I do not think I [..] View

Quest Compendium Spreadsheet

11:19 am, November 9, 2017 A while back, someone had posted a spreadsheet that had all of the quests listed out that included some nice details for tracking progress. I took that sheet & built upon it, adding in some ad [..] View

Whats more important?

11:19 pm, November 4, 2017 Just curious what other melee classes think about this. If as a paladin, warrior, barbarian, etc had to choose between a feat that gave you 33 hp (Eipic Toughness @ lvl 30) & a feat that gave [..] View

FPS Stuttering

11:19 pm, November 1, 2017 I've been experiencing quite a lot of FPS issues since I've started playing again in the past 2 weeks. Using a Nvidia GTX 970, I was getting around 40 FPS max, on low graphic settings, but a consisten [..] View

The Ultimate TR Levelling Guide!

12:19 pm, October 14, 2017 Howdy all. Have you ever gotten tired struggling with trying to get to Level 20 for TR? Are you always finding a lack of Groups on the LFM that run the right quests for a max load of XP? Well look no [..] View

Ideas for running favor farmers

12:19 am, October 14, 2017 I thought I would share some experiences from some recent runs I did while getting 100 favor in the servers I have never played on. One of the reasons I did this was a I got a little bored trying to [..] View

In Game Movement

12:19 am, October 4, 2017 Is there any way at all to move FORWARD with the mouse? This is how I normal move forward (by pressing the left mouse button), the WASD keys are very awkward for me :( The key mapping does NOT allow [..] View

4K display issue

12:19 am, October 3, 2017 I have a 4K display for my computer. Prior to Update 36 Patch 2 the highest resolution one could set the game to using the in-game options was 1920x1080. It worked fine that way. Since the patch on Se [..] View

U36 Patch 2 caused shrinking UI elements

12:19 am, September 29, 2017 This Wednesday, minutes before the server was brought down for the patch, I logged on to check auctions and such. Everything was normal. Later in the day I downloaded the update and logged in. Initial [..] View

Am I ready.....

12:19 pm, September 14, 2017 This is getting a thread started for new players to help them decide if they are ready for the difficulty casual/normal - I only recommend this if everyone in group is completely new. (it may also be [..] View

What quest difficulty is more efficient?

12:19 am, September 9, 2017 Hello, My character is currently level 10. I was wondering what difficulty has the most efficient experience per hour? Would it be a level 10 quest on normal, a level 9 quest on hard (recommended lev [..] View

dndclient crash; Game not loading

12:19 am, August 19, 2017 Hello all, I'm looking for some assistance on a recent problem. The issue started at the last server downtime and I can't seem to be able to log into the game. I can run dndclient normally, log into [..] View

ddo dont start after i set up the world to lauch - help

12:19 am, August 6, 2017 Hi. Since last week i cant enter the game. everything goes normal until i put the password and set up the world , when i press play (and normally the ddo screen shows up) i get a black screen like is [..] View

this is odd experience

12:19 am, July 16, 2017 so last night July 14, 2017 I played DDO and then went to bed....I get up this morning, did some house chores & breakfast and start my Computer....everything is oky-doky and I click my DDO Ico [..] View

Build - for completion of all quests in the game

12:19 am, June 18, 2017 Hi All, I am wondering what you would build to play EVERY SINGLE QUEST in game [probably on casual/normal]. I guess it would have to be solo build as not many people want to do this I am sure - but i [..] View

Saga spreadsheet

12:19 am, June 17, 2017 I've been meaning to post this for a while now. EllisDee37's https://www.ddo.com/forums/showthrea...ompendium-Lite and the talk of adding a saga planner to it is what finally got me moving. I already [..] View

Does "scales with xyz% spell power" mean a multiplier or a cap?

12:19 pm, June 2, 2017 Hi folks, I'm hoping someone who definitively knows can confirm the meaning of a common mechanic I see. I'm referring to any situation like the following when an effect "scales with xyz% spell [..] View

Riding the Storm Out - Spoiler Warning

11:19 am, March 22, 2017 Warning: Spoilers! Credits to my guildies Tone, Tes, Eth and all the others who helped with feedback. This is just a refreshed guide that we had from Lamannia. Hope you all enjoy it and help you under [..] View

Timing out connection

11:19 am, March 14, 2017 Been playing for most of the night as normal. I had iTR'd last night and was set to be doing a whole host of solo elite running, with some music in the background.. and probably eventually get grabbed [..] View

Make my Favorite Build Less Squishy

11:19 pm, March 9, 2017 I'm out of ideas, so I've come to plead for ideas to improve my one-and-only character. First, I'm a bit of a flower-sniffer and I'm quite content running slightly under-level HN to have some fun. S [..] View

All Worlds have been down for days...

11:19 am, March 4, 2017 Well, at least according to my launcher, every single world has been down every time I've checked over the past 4 days. Each check more than 3 hours apart and only ONE of the checks actually had notic [..] View

Game freezes computer

11:19 am, March 3, 2017 I don't even know if this is a ddo specific issue, but it's been happening more than normally the last few days. Once in a while when I'm playing ddo, the game lags for half a second and my computer f [..] View

The Max Anything At All Levels Reference Guide (DCs, Skills, PRR, HP, etc.)

11:19 am, February 26, 2017 -----THINGS I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHICH IS WHY THEY'RE AT THE TOP (SCREENSHOTS/LINKS REQUIRED)-----Does +4 Insightful DC item exist for Necromancy, Transmutation, and/or Illusion? Do +8 Insightful sta [..] View

Returning Player - Should I?

11:19 pm, February 21, 2017 Hello everyone, I have been off DDO for about 2 years now or so (I can't really remember). Last I was very active, level cap was fresh 28 and The ShadowConspiracy expansion was out for a few months. [..] View

Premium Account Doubt

11:19 pm, January 21, 2017 I have a question, if I purchase the MotU expansion by the steam store my account should become premium? Because I acquired the expansion and did not become premium. This is normal? PS: Sorry for the [..] View

AutoHotKey HotBar Manager

11:19 am, January 13, 2017 The following is a script that is written to work with AutoHotKey, software which allows you to target inputs from the user from the keyboard, mouse, or otherwise and cause other things to happen as a [..] View

Newish duo advice : WF Healing

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) [..] View

Shield MRR

11:19 am, November 19, 2016 So the DDO wiki has some information regarding shields and MRR that is a little bit confusing. It says that heavy and tower shields have a multiplier for your MRR against attacks that allow a reflex [..] View

Premium Account Question

11:19 pm, November 11, 2016 As I understood it, any purchase with real money upgraded a f2p to premium, either from Market or points bundles from store, is this no longer true? I purchased the starter pack from the DDO Market, [..] View

Another Bravery Bonus question

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 [..] View

Add to Monk what; 1 lvl of Rogue or 1 lvl of Artificer?

12:19 am, September 20, 2016 Add to 4th lvl Monk what; 1 lvl of Rogue or 1 lvl of Artificer to deal with traps and locks? Returned to my second made character in DDO and found I can drive a Monk a little better than before after [..] View

Questions About Building an Iconic Toon

12:19 am, September 16, 2016 So I am considering doing a bladeforged 2 monk/18 fighter build, and I have a few questions -- 1) How does this process work? What I have read is that I need to go through the normal process to 15, [..] View

Wizard Questions

12:19 pm, September 10, 2016 My situation: One of my two main characters is a Human Wizard (Pure) Arch-mage and I intend to keep her so. As of today she has 4 Epic Past Life Feats, one in each sphere, and she will soon acquire [..] View

General Guidance Needed... I'm a bit lost.

12:19 am, August 27, 2016 My son and I found some decent builds... We're making good progress. I have some general questions: Backpack: I recall with faction you used to get a reward that expanded pack or bank slots. Can s [..] View

Shard of (Great/Supreme) Power

12:19 am, August 27, 2016 When I play DDO I run Devil Assault (Epic Normal) almost every day. As a result, I accumulate a fair number of these shards. Since they do not go into Ingredient Bags or Collectible Bags they quickl [..] View

regular crashing

12:19 am, August 25, 2016 Every 2 hours roughly, occasionally more frequently then that. my game crashes. no errors or any notifications appear. it normally happens in a load screen. but has happened just running around town a [..] View

DDO fails after server selection

12:19 pm, August 8, 2016 Hi all. I have 2 other computers running the game that are working fine. I'm trying to get a third up and running. This one is an older machine, 3GB memory and an Athlon 4450e 2.3ghz processor and [..] View

Epic Utility Vest

12:19 pm, July 3, 2016 Can you really get a Seal of Utility Vest in The Snitch (House P, Phiarlan Carnival Adventure Pack)? I must of did it 20 times on Epic Normal and sometimes even re-rolling the end Epic chest? Is there [..] View

Snitch Quest Problem Token of Twelve fragment disappeared from epic normal end chest

12:19 pm, June 30, 2016 I was farming "Token of twelve fragments" from the Snitch quest House P last Sunday. It reached a point where the epic chest at the end of the quest stopped giving out token of twelve fragm [..] View

Question on purple Epic XP bar

12:19 am, June 30, 2016 Hi guys. I have 3 alts at epic level (Lvl 28 Rgr/Rog/Ftr) (lvl 22 Purple Dragon Knight - Ftr) & (lvl 20 Paladin) The trouble is my purple XP bar on the PDK does not fill up. My other 2 alt [..] View

DDO Free to Play Guide (minimal grind method)

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 [..] View

It's worth checking out UMD (Use Magic Device)

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 [..] View

Summons full damage

12:19 am, June 21, 2016 I have run my first toon fully investing in summons, this included augument, improved augument, sion of elysiun, 3 druid lives, magister grand summoner and harper. My toon was mage enchanter, [..] View

Heroic Elite: What's it take?

12:19 pm, June 18, 2016 I'm not really a new player but I only have one TR and I've never done any raiding or joined a guild. I usually solo or find pick up groups. Some players I meet in groups are so impressive, tearing [..] View

Question: Improved Critical feat and special weapons

12:19 pm, June 15, 2016 Hello. I just came back after a long while of not playing ddo. i'm a bit rusty when it comes to thia kind of things. So I understand what the Improved Critical do to normal weapons but for example a [..] View

Cyclical Latency Issues

12:19 am, May 16, 2016 I’ve noticed some new, strange behavior in DDO over the past few days. Basically, I’ll experience (normal for me) latency of 50-80ms and then without explanation, DDO latency will [..] View

Launcher closes but game doesnt start

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 [..] View

Failed to launch client

12:19 am, May 11, 2016 This morning I could play with only the normal problems(lag). Are the servers still down or did something mess up? Because every time i enter my password I get "Failed to launch client: failed [..] View

Free-to-Play Accounts and Bravery Streak

12:19 am, April 28, 2016 Greetings! So a friend and I randomly decided to give this game another go recently. I personally haven't played since the game very first switched over to free-to-play (I originally played when the [..] View

Ruins of Thernal Question

12:19 pm, April 17, 2016 Im not VIP so dont have full access to difficulties until i beat prior ones.. NOrmal-->hard etc Ive completed all 4 of the quests in the ruins of thernal heroic Normal. But I don't have an op [..] View

Epic Saga Spreadsheet

12:19 am, March 31, 2016 Note: This is hosted on Google Sheets. You will need to copy it to your own account for full functionality. Hi All, A simple, one page sheet to keep track of your Epic Sagas and help you maximise yo [..] View

Difference in loot (chests/rewards) when running Normal/Hard/Elite

11:19 am, March 15, 2016 Hi all! New player here, been on for roughly a week. I'm facing a bit of a dilemma. I've been running all my quests on elite, and at around level 6, I started leveling up at a terrific pace (am at le [..] View

Floor tile puzzles

11:19 pm, March 12, 2016 Not new, but I wonder if someone might have some insight. Sometimes in quests with floor tile puzzles, the tiles are intensely bright on my screen, while other times they are "normal" brigh [..] View

Port Forwarding update and changes - Important

11:19 pm, March 8, 2016 After today's maintenance to relocate DDO to the new data center, the game will be using more ports with which to connect and communicate. If you previously setup port forwarding (or port triggering) [..] View

Screen goes all black after entering login credentials

11:19 am, March 4, 2016 So after update 30, I can no longer get in the game. The launcher shows up as normal, but after I enter my login credentials and select my server the screen goes to full screen and remains all black a [..] View

The reason behind this latest patch game freezes.

11:19 am, March 3, 2016 It's video graphic driver failing that causes it. Currently with this latest update, there seem to be a bug in their coding that causes GPU to overheat dramatically. Mine goes up to 83 celcius and the [..] View

Help with my wizard life

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 [..] View

Guest Passes and Favor

11:19 am, February 15, 2016 Its been a long time since i last played this game (2010 actually). Can you get favor from quests you complete from a guest pass if you're a f2p? I'd assume so, just because you don't normally have th [..] View

Client will not load

11:19 am, February 15, 2016 I have been playing fine till I tried to get in today. My rig has a core i7, 16 gigs of ram, nvidia dedicated card, a 1TB HDD and runs Windows 10 (which has had no problems with ddo till today). I hav [..] View

Graphics problem

11:19 pm, February 4, 2016 Hi, I hope someone can help, I normally play DDO in windowed mode. I haven't been able to play for quite some times as I have had issue after issue with the game. Anyway, my latest issue is this. I ca [..] View

Very slow character log on - Windows 10

11:19 pm, January 26, 2016 I have a very annoying issue. The first character I log on with after launching the game takes a very long time to load. Splash screen takes a fair bit of time before the progress bar moves and then t [..] View

Doomsphear found on Orchard

11:19 am, January 17, 2016 Hello, after 30 Runs over the "Orchard of the Macabre" i found something wierd. There where 2 Silver Flame priests that call me an lycantrophe. Then they start to attack me together wit [..] View

DDO Damage Simulator

11:19 am, January 12, 2016 Information: This is a tool designed to calculate the damage done over time by almost any non-caster build. Once you enter in all the information for your build, the tool should be able to calculate [..] View

Repeating quest

11:19 pm, December 24, 2015 I have been repeating the Tavern Brawl quest to try to get one of the rare drop combos (bracers and ship kickers) and I expected the XP reward to go down, but it seems the chest level goes down as wel [..] View

Returning player,shop deals

11:19 am, December 23, 2015 Hello there forum dwellers! I think will start out with mentioning that I started playing when the Orien server was the default and welp,I'm back... I really enjoyed the game when I had tiem and looki [..] View

TR/reroll question

11:19 pm, December 17, 2015 Hey all, got a kinda weird question. I played years ago, just coming back this past month and went VIP after a week back. One of my characters is a level 3 dwarf barbarian. Since being back I've made [..] View

How do I unload "bind to character" equipment / aim shurikens / re-accept quest?

11:19 am, December 2, 2015 How do I remove from my inventory equipment/gear/loot that is "Binds to character on acquire permanently"? I am new to DDO (maybe 12 hours play time to date), and by ignorance and/or mistake [..] View

Weave in the Fade: Limited-use Assassin Technique

11:19 pm, November 22, 2015 The basics: Stay permanently invisible and in Shadow WalkScrolls are good (SD's shadow walk only lasts one minute whereas scrolled shadowwalk lasts about 8ish minutes; scrolled invis is good for 3min) [..] View

Green Steel

12:19 pm, October 10, 2015 I made a Shavarath Stone and gave it to the Shroud guy. I have done the Shroud 5 times, and want to make something. To mae a blank it requires a Shavarath Stone. Does that mean I need to do those ques [..] View

client_gamelogic.dat not found

12:19 am, October 10, 2015 DDO was working up until last night on my PC, then it just stopped dead. I run a: Since January, I have offset any additional RAM requirements by the use of virtual memory - since a 32 bit system ca [..] View

Weird noises when logging in (win7 and 10)

12:19 pm, September 25, 2015 I get weird noises. It wouldn't let me post the info, so I will just say since getting a new machine, I get weird noises on the initial loading screens, to the character select screen. After selecti [..] View

Windows 10 compatibility issues

12:19 am, September 20, 2015 I don't have the definitive problem nailed down, but there are certainly early symptoms of "something" not quite right with the DDO Client operating on Windows 10. Here's a couple things so [..] View

Help choosing amongst what quest packs remain...

12:19 pm, September 9, 2015 When I started playing DDO I went the Premium route and purchased most available quest packs. I have since played through almost everything I own and now wish to take advantage of the current quest p [..] View

Maximizing your free-to-play experience

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 [..] View

Can't play the game.

12:19 pm, August 28, 2015 Hey guys I'm back with another technical issue. So if I run the game normally the game won't save my keybinds when I log out but the game runs fine normally. If I run the game in Administrator mode th [..] View

In what order to do quests to gain max xp?

12:19 am, August 19, 2015 I've been wondering how do you do the quests to gain max XP, So i'm a new player and this is how i do them. Quest like A Small Problem i do it 3 times on normal had then elite. Then i start Party c [..] View

Crash to Desktop (CTD)

12:19 am, August 19, 2015 So I recently got a new laptop and was having issues during the install of the game. The first two times I did the normal install then play option and both times when it said the install had been comp [..] View

A new problem for me

12:19 am, August 16, 2015 I upgraded to Win10, had a couple issues but got them sorted out. Now I'm having a new issue. I can log in to the game, select a server, select a character. it takes forever to load (it has for a w [..] View

Athlon 5150 (APU Radeon 8400) 2gb ram - keep freezing and crashing after 30 min

12:19 pm, August 6, 2015 My old pc died 2 weeks ago... then i bought a new (very cheap) one : CPU Athlon 5150 with Radeon 8400 integrated Ram 2 gb (but i just ordered another 2gb, it should be at my home in 5 days) SSD 120 [..] View

Returning player with a couple questions (bard build + what to do at level 15)

12:19 am, July 29, 2015 It has been a couple(few?) years since I played this game and I'd like to start playing again but the changes have been pretty huge. I have a level 15 bard/rogue and a couple hearts of wood on that c [..] View

Remove 1 class from char among otherthings

12:19 am, July 26, 2015 Hello, im wondering if it is possible to remove 1 class off my char without using a reincarnation stone if that is not possible, what reincarnation stone do i need to use to remove 1 class but still [..] View

Searching for logon server (Cannith problems)

12:19 am, July 22, 2015 I cant connect to Cannith server where my main chars are, although i can easily connect to other servers. When trying Cannith - i get the 20 tries of msg - "Searching for logon server" then [..] View

What should my next life be?

12:19 am, July 20, 2015 I just finished my second life as a druid and have one as ranger as well. I am not sure what my next life should be. I have my heart set on a rogue 5 druid 1 splash. Using staff of the seer. The pro [..] View

Red break screen on login

12:19 am, July 1, 2015 Hey, looking for some help. Every day when I boot up my computer (yes I shut it down each night), the first time I log in to DDO, after selecting my character it loads into a red break screen. I can [..] View

System freezing for 8-10 seconds

12:19 am, June 29, 2015 I have an i7 980 CPU - i.e. 12 cores. If I close down everything that I can, when I run DDO I always get one core (the specific one varies each time I run DDO) running at close to 100%. Every so often [..] View

PLEASE HELP! - Can't log in, and have tried everything... :-(

12:19 am, June 20, 2015 Greetings all, I'm having a slight dilemma since the latest patch. I recently came back to the game after a short hiatus, and have been enjoying my time back for the last two weeks. However, since [..] View

Help! Major screen problem.

12:19 pm, June 15, 2015 Hope someone can help, this is not fun. This just happened a few hours ago while I was actually playing the game...my screen suddenly started, and still is, flickering and jumping like crazy, constant [..] View

Sound crackling

12:19 pm, June 6, 2015 Hello, Thing morning, I run DDO as normal on Windows 7 64 bit, Intel Core i7-3770K CPU 3.6 GHz, 16Gb RAM. I hit the character screen, my sound starts to crackle, it slows my framerate and eventually [..] View

201 Error on new Windows 10 installtion

12:19 pm, May 29, 2015 I just upgraded my Windows 8.1 computer to Windows 10 Preview and was wanting to install DDO on it. I had played it on this computer when it was Windows 8 but it was the Happy Cloud version. I saw whe [..] View

Tome of Untold Legends Help

12:19 am, May 5, 2015 I've spent so much time in the Orchard of the Macabre, that I think I have become one of the undead. In all this time, tapestry pieces seem endless. I have only found the shield pieces (don't care) an [..] View

Question about Normal/Hard/Elite weapons

12:19 am, May 5, 2015 Hi, I just finished up the Weloon Prison quest series (all 5 quests on "hard") but when I went to claim my final reward all of the item options are the "Normal" variations. Shouldn [..] View

Forums

Normal Hard and Elite

Feb 10, 2015, 7:45 am I was going to run a dungeon the other day ago and I set it for Elite. A member in my party told me I should run it on Hard first then repeat it on Elite for a bonus. Is there an advantage to doing [..] View

Gear Items Marked Normal - Hard - Elite

Dec 9, 2014, 4:30 am Okay... I'm really getting into DDO finally thanks to the help of these boards and the community. Next weekend I will probably make it to my first TR - so this will be the last post considering mys[..] View

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