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• • I quit WoW, came to DDO and love it

  • the term "e sports" made me fall out of my chair laughing.

     

     

    People need to go outside more.

  • Posted: 6/07/08 7:11 AM
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• • Why this game is still an abysmal failure...

  • Originally posted by AgtSmith
    

     

    
    

    I did not say that you don't have things to do in combat - I said at the upper levels the DECIDING factor is far too often the dice rols, teh saves for or against, gear, character attributes - the static things not controlled by a play or MOB in combat.  Big differance between stats and gear and such influencing outcome of player action and stats and gear and dice rolls overiding or outweighing player action/inaction in combat. 

     

    I'm sorry, but this complaint seems a bit ridiculous.  With DDO's active combat, player "skill" in blocking, dodging, tumbling, etc. is more important than in any other MMO I've played to date...and that includes AoC.  The only style of game that it doesn't surpass is a first person shooter.

  • Posted: 5/27/08 5:49 PM
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• • Why this game is still an abysmal failure...

  • Originally posted by Gabrion2
    

    The other problem with beholders in general is that the antimagic should suppress magical effects, not dispel them as it currently does. 

    While I will fully acknowledge the variance from the rules on this, and the issue some have with it...I just don't have a problem with it.  I think beholders ended up (as is) being exactly the right level of challenge that they should, which to me is ultimately what's important.

  • Posted: 5/25/08 6:10 PM
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• • Why this game is still an abysmal failure...

  • His complaint about beholders is pseudo valid, in that they should be using an anti-magic ray, I believe, instead of a zone.  Regardless, the zone makes a beholder encounter much more challenging (as a beholder should be), and a ray would be pretty easy to exploit the AI and make every beholder a breeze.

  • Posted: 5/25/08 6:32 AM
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• • I quit WoW, came to DDO and love it

  • For me, it was really quite simple...

     

    DDO: I loved the combat engine.  I loved how personalized my character was.  I loved the experience of instanced PVE questing.  I loved grouping for the first time in an MMO.

     

    WoW:  I hated the combat engine.  I hated that my character felt cookie cutter.  I hated levelling through ratting.  I didn't find a group or want a group.

     

    I haven't played another MMO to date that offered me what I found in DDO that I loved...so in my opinion, DDO is the best MMO on the market today.

  • Posted: 5/25/08 6:30 AM
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