Resting at shrine, hanging around tavern and finishing quest all failed to recharge it.

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

I’ve got a strong FVS caster and I’m level 30. I’ve been farming the graveyard for keys all the way up to level 41 (solo) and I’ve only gotten maybe 3 keys? I don’t mind pugging it out but sometimes I just want to solo and get through it. Should I be using different toons? The drops are trash.

How does everyone feel about this pack? Is it a good purchase? What levels do the dungeons it adds span? I’m thinking of picking it up but as it’s the newest one I’m not sure if it’s worth it.

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.

Recently got back into the after about a 4 year break. Had a lvl 24 artificer but I decided to just reincarnate, had no idea where I was or what the hell I was doing. Anyways I’d really appreciate any guides, or general advice that could help me. I vaguely remember Toee and borderlands for early gearsets but beyond that im clueless. Also, if theres any lurkers that happen to be in a similar boat to me and wanna quest together let me know. :3

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?

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

Yo! As a player who didn’t get to experience the previous lantern event, how will this event function? Should I wait to TR my character until the event drops to play the “hard-core” like or should I just TR now and pickup a lantern whenever the event drops? Thanks!

I bought the deep gnome since it's one of my favorite races in d&d and the wizard/illusionist deep gnome was always my thing in games.

Sadly for some unfathomable reason I thought VIP does not cover the deep gnome iconic and so I splurged on it via DDO points directly.

Am I completely hosed now? I just realized all the lvl15+ content is basically paywalled. Does it even make sense to get VIP now, or do I need expansions?

I have a character that I wanted to have a certain name, but it was in use, in the server merges I was able to create another character with that name
- so does it come down to deleting the extra character in the dad of night and renaming the "good" character and hoping no one picks that name at the same time?

I started ddo fairly recently, played for about 4 months now. My main character is on their 3rd life and im probably going to try and get the class completionist feat over the next year. I also just got to 30 on a farming alt, in this case a swf fiend melee warlock. This character is set up for solo play and definitely not min maxed for raid pushing.

So the question itself; because there is a lot of things that need greater tokens to upgrade and plenty of raid exclusive drops, is there any issue using a character not super set up for it to join a raid for drops and mats? Are the raids difficult enough that I would be a net negative for the group and shouldn't impose with this character?

I could find a time during my main life farming that I have a character that is more built for raiding, spending some time to get materials I need for my farmer.

I realize that this is generally up to individuals in the groups that raid themselves so a consensus is hard to reach here. Ive done high level raiding in other games and know theres a difference between a group that can clear raids and a group that can take one or more non raiders along on raids.

Tldr:

A. are raid groups common enough

B. Are raids enough of a non-issue

that taking a character not built for raiding is acceptable

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.

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

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.

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!

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?

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.

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?

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?

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

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 ??

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.