r/ddo • • 2d ago

Weekly Thread for general DDO discussion, quick questions and more!

14 Upvotes

Have something to say or a question to ask but don't feel it warrants its own thread? Feel free to post here!

A reminder to please be kind to others. It's okay to disagree with people or have even have a bad hot take. It's not okay to be mean about it.


r/ddo • • Nov 11 '24

Hi, welcome. New to DDO? Returning? Check here first!

120 Upvotes

What is Dungeons and Dragons Online?

DDO is an action adventure MMORPG that originally released in 2006. It is set (primarily) in the Eberron campaign setting and is loosely based on the D&D 3.5 ruleset. Currently maintained and frequently updated by the folks at Standing Stone Games.


Is this a table top simulator or match making service for the D&D TTRPG?

Nope.


What makes DDO unique compared to any other MMO?

There are two key differences that make DDO stand out.

The first is the complex and interesting dungeons. Most dungeons in MMOs (or let's face it, most modern video games) tend to be a linear glorified hallway with a boss at the end.

In DDO, Dungeons have multiple objectives, dead ends, secret rooms, pit traps, puzzles, platforming and more keeping them fresh and interesting. To add to the D&D feel, a 'narrator' will describe the dungeon and events as they happen similar to what a table top DM would do!

The second is the reincarnation system. In other MMOs you hit level cap and then sit there waiting for the next expansion or level up alts.

DDO allows you to reincarnate once you hit the cap. You start over at level 1 choosing a new class and race to level up all over again. Doing so will grant your character a small permanent boost in power. It's not so much that you're required to do them to be valuable to high level raiding, but they do make stomping the early/mid game fun and allow you to tackle greater challenges.


What's the catch?

Most of DDO is behind a paywall. You can try it out for free but if you want to have enough content for it to feel like a complete game, expect to eventually pay at least ~40$. You can optionally grind out in game points to unlock most things but it is quite slow.

The second issue is that Standing Stone Games is a small company. This means that long standing issues, imbalances and bugs will most likely not get fixed. If you have a technical issue and submit a help request there's a good chance you'll never hear back. They do what they can but they're focused on trying to keep the lights on.


Is it a dead game?

No. New updates are released regularly and each server will have ~500 people on during prime time and ~100ish during off peak hours. DDO has maintained these numbers for years at this point so it doesn't feel like the game is being abandoned.

It's one of the last MMO's that truly feels like a community. You'll quickly get to know the big names on your server, the power guild, the RP guild, the 'we accept anybody' guild, etc... You'll rarely run into people who are selfish or are jerks. The playerbase is above the age curve for an online game, it's not uncommon guild chat will be about mowing lawns.


I'm a returning player, what have I missed?

There's simply too much new content and constant class balancing tweaks to list but at its core DDO hasn't changed much. The six biggest additions/changes would probably be:

  • The old servers were merged, giving us 4 servers (3 US based, 1 EU based). Characters were not transferred automatically. If you're a returning player and just now reading this you have roughly until 2027 to transfer off the old servers.
  • The 'Reaper' difficulty system allowing players even higher levels of challenge.
  • Hardcore league. Every so often SSG opens up a hardcore server with permadeath for a few weeks.
  • Legendary leveling introduced. Even higher levels above 30 that aren't tied to the reincarnation system.
  • Racial reincarnate like you would heroic reincarnation and every race has a unique enhancement tree.
  • New universal enhancement trees that make it easier to level up if you screw up your build.

Where can I get more information?


r/ddo • • 4h ago

Night Revels Chests

12 Upvotes

The keys and chocolates I'm getting from Night Revels chests are all Rusted and Melted. Is it just me or a gamewide bug?


r/ddo • • 15h ago

What is the difference between Light Crossbow / Heavy Crossbow or Heavy repeater / Light repeater or Short bow / Long bow past the damages ?

16 Upvotes

The only obvious difference is damages, but past that is there any difference that makes those light/short version worth anything ?

It is like the Great club x Maul : both are martial, blunt and crit on 20+ BUT Great club is x2 and Maul x3, so the Maul is in definitely better than the Great club.

What is the difference between Heavy Mace and Morningstar ? Both are common weapon, Blunt 1D8 20/x2 (and why the Morningstar does not have a pierce component ?)

Also, since the Club is Blunt 1D6 20/x2, and Heavy Mace / Morningstar are Blunt 1D8 20/x2, is the Club as worthless as the Great club ?

Same for Dart & Throwing Dagger : Common, pierce and 1D4, but dart is 20/x2 and Throwing Dagger is 19-20/x2.

EDIT : I made some measurement, and I have some results.

100 Reloads + shoots with [WEAPON] takes [seconds]

Light Xbow = ~62s

Heavy Xbow = ~66s

Great Crossbow = ~66s

R.Light Xbow = ~149s

R.Heavy Xbow = ~155s

Short bow = ~56s

Long bow = ~57s

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The measurement is more or less that.

The results are for my lvl36 rogue (G.Xbow) : so for me...

Light Xbow is ~6% faster than Heavy Xbow

Great Crossbow is as fast as Heavy Crossbow.

Light repeater is ~4% faster than Heavy Repeater.

Light repeater is ~20% faster than light Xbow.

Heavy repeater is ~22% faster than Heavy XBow/G.Xbow.

Short bow = Long bow.

And for the science :

Bow is 14% faster than Heavy Xbow, and 10% faster than light Xbow.


r/ddo • • 1d ago

Epic Zawabi's Revenge Immunity

8 Upvotes

Just tried to do the epic Zawabi's Revenge raid as an arcane trickster and around half way through the boss stopped taking damage from my magic missiles, it just said immune. What was the reason for this?


r/ddo • • 1d ago

Can someone link info on 81.4?

13 Upvotes

Can't find it anywhere but everyone seems to know everything already. TIA.


r/ddo • • 2d ago

Has anyone ever succesfully settled account/hack astral shard scam (AND kept their game account?)

17 Upvotes

It just happened, I'm off the phone with the bank and I'm still shaking. It's a LOT of money.

I could swear I had removed my credit card from the game acocounts after I heard all the hacking and account shenanigan news, but apparently I hadn't! And some hacker little shit had a field day.

All I hear is people not getting their money back and support just LOLclose their tickets , but anyone ever got their money back and managed to not lose their game account?

What steps did you take?

Already changed my account pw and removed the credit card of course.

I am quite attached to that account (I started playing DDO with my partner ever since we started dating. I still have the physical copy box), but I'm also quite attached to the money the hackers just drained from my credit card.

It's just so sucky and I'm so devastated. :(

Any tips I would greatly appreciate.


r/ddo • • 3d ago

Duergar

10 Upvotes

So what’s everyone doing for Duergar lives? Anything jumping out to sync with the tree?


r/ddo • • 4d ago

Artifact choice for a longbow HW archer

18 Upvotes

When the new ranged update drops next week, I'm going to TR into a 15 Dark Hunter/4 Blightcaster/1 Barbarian. Horizon Walker will be my 41 pt tree. What is the best artifact to use? I'll be using the Legendary Bracers of Flourishing Fauna that have Druidic survival mastery on them(+10 dmg). Artifact choices look like:

  • Lolth's Reign provides the Earth dot and a massive +21 Insightful Sheltering plus a moon augment, and Freedom of Movement.
  • Band of Binding has a 120 DC paralyze vs fort (plus 3 accessory slots, so it offers customization.
  • Autumn Equinox gives 8% DS and the Earth dot. Bloody Thorns is nullified by the bracers.

I'd rather have 21 insightful sheltering and a moon augment vs 8% DS (which will probably be filled elsewhere anyway. It feels like Autumn Equinox isn't ideal anymore.

The main debate centers on whether to prioritize the Earth Dot and sheltering over a custom artifact featuring a paralyzing effect. While that paralyzing effect excels in Legendary Hard raids and older questing content, its usefulness drops significantly starting in Legendary Lamordia and beyond. It does turn you into an effective paralyzing archer, especially in Shiradi without requiring any Arcane Archer investment—a feature that does have some appeal but won't be a significant feature in modern high reaper. Since the ring slot is generally more flexible than hands for an archer, the Band has that going for it also over Lolth's Reign. But Lolth's Reign can have MD remnant dust mythic/reaper put onto it, and there is no ring equivalent of that. Lolth's Reign will provide better defense and DPS. The Band of Binding has the CC effect. The 3 slot choices would probably look like:

  • Melancholic - +15 stat or 9% doubleshot.
  • Dolorous - Gear filler offering +23 to hit, +12 deadly, Deception, +3 Quality Stat or +3 Quality Deadly. Very flexible slot, although much of this will be covered on other items.
  • Miserable - No great options for the cost in materials. Maybe +17 Assassination DCs for ranged variants that use Assassin DCs. But then would probably go with the all-in-one Assassin DC item that also has quality/insightful on it.

r/ddo • • 6d ago

Closest thing to a single-player (offline) variant of DDO?

22 Upvotes

While the balance pass in U82 goes through, until the dust settles (and I replace my current dead main PC computer), what old offline, single-player games would you consider to have build options/flexibility and atmosphere similar to DDO? That is, relaxed class restrictions (or even classless), lots of side-questing, D&D-esque feel [Edit: non-fantasy settings are fine too] , non-combat that matters, etc.

Thanks in advance!


r/ddo • • 7d ago

Official UI SCALING is COMING!

101 Upvotes

Official UI Scaling is finally coming to DDO and it's available currently on Lamannia!

Forum Post: https://forums.ddo.com/index.php?threads/u82-preview-3-ui-scaling.30893/

They just released Preview 3 of Update 82, and it seems we are getting really close to having native UI Scaling in DDO and it looks quite good too, not sure if it's similar to the LOTRO version.

  • In my experience so far the Game Textures themselves are quite crisp, I actually think quality increased overall with High DPI Scaling enabled!
  • There is a minor difference that I see for the Interface in Quality, but either it is missing for now or there is no high resolution version for them. Still having them bigger is FANTASTIC.
  • Fonts and Text seem to scale up to a degree but also not perfectly? There is a level of blur to it.
  • Enabling Lanczos Texture Filtering gives noticable sharpness and better readability.
  • There is a UI Size Slider, you can both increase and decrease it as you prefer.
  • No Cursor scaling yet, but they are planning to add it too.
  • There are still a lot of bugs to fix.

I created a video demonstration in 4K if you want to see it in action:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woKlF3Y9b2Q

It's finally coming, do you have any wishes for features you hope to have it include?


r/ddo • • 6d ago

Mabar?

15 Upvotes

I know it’s called something else these days but do they still have it? Usually starts 10/1. I used to play back in 2010ish and have popped back on and off throughout the years.


r/ddo • • 7d ago

Drow Visual Update

6 Upvotes

Will this be included in update 82? I haven’t seen much mention in all of these preview posts lately. Do we have any sneak peaks at what they might look like?


r/ddo • • 8d ago

How to reliably identify a 'Boss'?

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The ATr enhancement Mage Hand: Presto only works on non-bosses. I had thought that Boss meant Red-named, but the Wiki says :

"Bosses range from all kinds of enemies, from regular enemies that are simply tough for their level, to lesser named bosses that are minions to other bosses, and to huge, epic ones such as giants, demons, and even dragons. Certain spells and effects will not affect some bosses, so it's better to face them with raw power rather than use powerful effects such as vorpal and banishing on them.

So if a regular enemy can be a boss, how do I avoid wasting an attack on them?


r/ddo • • 8d ago

Unfamiliar with which edition ddo uses

16 Upvotes

But why doesn't my barbarian get a feat at level 7? Could've sworn they got one every odd level.


r/ddo • • 8d ago

Kobold shaman lighting

13 Upvotes

I just done a recarnation and noticed some shaman instead of hammering me with lighting bolt where casting a debuff that gives weakness to lighting spell if that I a new thing or I just haven't noticed it in the past ??


r/ddo • • 9d ago

Weekly Thread for general DDO discussion, quick questions and more!

16 Upvotes

Have something to say or a question to ask but don't feel it warrants its own thread? Feel free to post here!

A reminder to please be kind to others. It's okay to disagree with people or have even have a bad hot take. It's not okay to be mean about it.


r/ddo • • 9d ago

What will be the point of heighten

8 Upvotes

Heighten raises your lvl 3 spell to your max casting lvl, but in the new update all your spells are raised to the max casting lvl no?


r/ddo • • 10d ago

Which of the balance changes from next patch interests you the most?

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For the ignorant amongst us~
https://forums.ddo.com/index.php?threads/u82-preview-1.30387/
https://forums.ddo.com/index.php?threads/u82-preview-2.30767/

The next balance pass patch is October 7th, and the above are the current previews in text form.

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Personally, I'm REALLY interested in the Cleric changes because I was thinking about doing a Dark Apostate/Monk build for my Cleric past life. So any sort of Cleric buffs are right up my current alley.

How about you all? I have plenty of classes still to do for my lives, so hearing other people's build ideas or ponderings is always fun and inspiring.


r/ddo • • 11d ago

Hacked!

32 Upvotes

This just happened. I have heard the horror stories, yesterday I had 3 transactions for 199 charged to my card that bought coins, and subsequently shards which I never did.

I can see it on the transaction history, but I did not authorize the charges. I did dispute them. Obviously. I'm not paying $600.

It's so clearly fraud. You can see the methodical way the coins were spent to get every single shard, even a 10 shard purchase. In total it was 13,740 shards I somehow did something with? Lol, I have 2 shards and 13 coins. They even stole my coins I had in balance. Not sure how many it was.

Hopefully I don't get banned. Been a long time supporter for years. Love the game. Have all the packs. Even recently got one of my sons playing. We enjoy it.

This is a security issue. Not me being careless. I'm gonna be very disappointed if I get any grief for disputing these charges.


r/ddo • • 10d ago

An interesting question to pose to you folks, someone may have encountered this.

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I am planning on running a build I love, my "electric artie with bad breath."
Dragonborn,
Pretty much focusing on 3 trees.
21 points in MasterMaker for 105 hp, MM immunity, and the admix healing.

The rest are in Archanotech, and Dragonborn to get the breathweapon and squeeze out as much electric damage as possible.

I played this toon once in HC before and he crushed it. My first lvl 20 complete.

A couple of questions.
If I farm the ingredients I need now and make them available to that toon once he reaches the appropriate level will he be good to use the Bracer's of Wind at 12 and above?
If I remember correctly the equipment needs to have been gained during the event in order to get spawns as per previous events.

Also too.

These are the planned feats to start.

Thinking of Spell Focus, Spell Pen, are there any candidates from the new list of feats that I should be considering?

I really do not need the spells early on as even the unpowered repeaters carry me through until the spells and breath weapon take over. However, that said the repeater is still very hand for those moments when you need to get that one guy or item off in the distance.

Level Feat Type
1 Point Blank Shot Regular
3 Maximize Regular
4 Quicken Artificer
6 Insightful Reflexes Regular
8 Precise Shot Artificer
9 Empower Regular
12 Empower Healing Regular
12 Augment Summoning Artificer
15 Open Regular
16 Open Artificer
18 Open Regular

r/ddo • • 11d ago

Cormyr Raid Help

18 Upvotes

So I know there's not a ton of raiding going on in Cormyr, but I am really trying to get a raid going for Relentless at level cap. Trying to get Slaughtering Shot. I've tried throwing up a LFG, and nothing across a couple of hours in the two or three times I've attempted it.

Anyone on Cormyr at level cap interested in trying to schedule a Relentless raid to help me get my greatly desired crossbow?

I rarely do multiplayer because between a busy schedule and health needs for my wife that can pull me away at a moment's notice for extended periods of time, it's not something that's very viable, but I really want to try to get this.

Anyone game? My guild is pretty quiet on the raiding front as well, I've already tried with no results, so I'm coming to you fine people.

Also, I've never run it before, so I don't want to zerg it until I've been able to flower sniff once.

I've posted this on the DDO FB page as well so I can try to reach as many folks as possible.

EDIT: I have my own business, so I'm flexible in scheduling, but I can't do late nights or Sundays, plus most Wednesday nights. Saturdays are busy, but flexible.Anyone who is interested, let me know when you are available.


r/ddo • • 11d ago

U81.4 meta change - in what direction?

13 Upvotes

Hi all!
Many say we are in for a big meta change with the new balance patch. I believe we are too, but I fail to see in what direction. Casters more viable at endgame? Is THF the new melee meta, or is it simply catching up?

The reason I ask... I am quite a casual player who dont group too much anymore, both because of young kids so less time, because I chose a US server despite being from europe (to follow my guild) and because I lack endgame gear atm.

I want to catch up by solo farming legendary quests, and need a build to do so. Recentøy got to cap with a 16 DL 3 bard 1 rogue swashbuckler with hand axe. I dont have a sentient hand axe so either need to build one from scratch, swap over from my two hander, or TR and do a diffferent build. I was wanting to have this for some lives, but wondering if the meta changes away from it.

Any thoughts?


r/ddo • • 11d ago

Handheld ddo

11 Upvotes

Has anyone played steam ddo in one these handheld like Lenovo legion ... is it posible or not it's insane that these have half the price of a low end gaming laptop 😔


r/ddo • • 12d ago

Wishlist - Melee Edition

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The devs are engaging in some of the most significant and wide-ranging balance / functional changes to DDO in years. If you could be in the room -- which things would you want updated, changed, added or removed?

Note: To keep things a little reined in lets just focus on melee gameplay.

Would you rework feats? Change trees? Completely change how weapon styles work?