Tried DDO Eberron Unlimited?

tazarconan

I was doing the casual dailies in wow,daily heroic ,got saved in toc 25 and since there was nothing else to do i downloaded ddo eberron unlimetided since its free nowdays. I logged in made a human Barbarian and a Elf ranger as i always do in d&d games ( ;P ).

I made it to lvl 3 with both and here is what i noticed from the new ddo compared  (i played it on launch 1 full month then quited)

1.Animations were nice anwy but now they are even better ,apparently they got polished even more.

2.Starting area is diferrent ..there is a huge island to explore now before u go to stormreach .

3.The dungeons still kick ash making the best and most addictive pve expirience including wow whch i play 5 years now. Few nights ago  i logged in in 00:30 midnight and thoguht to play 1 hour but i found 2 guys and played 5-6 dungeons +adventuring around the Korthos island and when i looked at the clock it was 05:30 in the morning and didnt realised that. The addiction and loss of time is somethign i havent expirinced for a long long long time.

4.I heard they improved it i didntnoticed much but anwy combatsystem in ddo with all those options and tactical choises u have with the huge depth of dungeons and dragons character anc combat system is the best  combat  in the mmorpg market including aoc and wow.

My main complain in ddo combat from my aspect was that the combat speed doesnt give you time to watch the rolls when a 1st lvl character can attack 2 times per second. That in my opinio needs fixing.There is a reason why for example Baldur's gate battles ,Nwn battles were so fascinating.When every attack occurs every 3 secs you have the time to watch the attack rolls save rolls,makes the combat more tactical and far more addictive. Some players that are used to spam attacks maybe will disaggree but since there are options here for tactical combat by making the combat so fast paced you taking away the tactical part.

Anwy despice that i cant deny im addicted now and playing both wow and ddo,ijust wished they could slow down the attacks per sec and maybe add the attack of opportunity element in the near future so this ridiculous run arund mindlesely and spam atatcks wouldcoem to an end.

Nebless

I played earlier in the year and then came back when it went F2P.  It is an addictive game and have had many a 'where did the time go moment' just like you described.  I'd have to say it's one of the funnier games out there and with F2P, stopping for a week, month or whatever isn't a problem since it's FREE!

Just a few comments on your post:

Graphic's:  The Kothos Island starter area got a LOT of polish and really benifited from the latest graphics avaliable when it came out.  Once you leave the island and go to Stormreach you will see a slight lessening on the graphic's.  It's still nice, but you'll notice the difference.

Combat speed: I'm not sure about a total slowdown, but having different attack speeds for the weapons would be nice.  A big 2H sword shouldn't move as fast as a dagger. 

That said I'm kind of glad it does as I went back, turned all my graphics down and did the 'Kill the 200 kobolds attacking our outpost' mission last night.  What a blast!  Waves of the suckers and I was leaping, twisting and swinging for all I was worth! 

Have a good time.