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5 things you might not know about DDO.
neuronomad
Member Posts: 1,276
1) Unlike most MMOs, chest in DDO have unique loot tables for each and every party member. One can't Ninja chest or drops in DDO. If your buddy gets a "Sword of a Thousand Truths" so to speak from a chest, it isn't because he rolled Need on it when he didn't need it. It was just his lucky day.
2) Unlike most MMOs where you have to spam the chat channels looking for a group to join, DDO makes it simple. With a nice little thing called the Social Panel you can visually see what all parties are looking for other players, what quest they are doing, a small party leader description, what players are currently in the group (including their name, race, level and of course class). You can set a LFG tag that group creators often search for members via. This search allows them to narrow down exactly what they are looking for. Unlike other games where you have to spam channels for sometimes well over thirty minutes in DDO you can almost always find a group within ten to twenty minutes at most.
3) While it is true that you do not get individual XP from killing mobs in DDO, a good portion of the mobs that you kill will be a part of an encounter which you will get some XP for. And you get bonus XP for killing named mobs as well as a named mob chest dropping.
4) While there is a solo option for a good portion of the lower quest lines, most players should have little problems tackling them on Normal.
5) Unlike a lot of MMOs starting stats are actually important even in the long run. If you do not understand DnD 3.5 rules, or if this is your first DDO character you really may want to let the computer set your stats.
2) Unlike most MMOs where you have to spam the chat channels looking for a group to join, DDO makes it simple. With a nice little thing called the Social Panel you can visually see what all parties are looking for other players, what quest they are doing, a small party leader description, what players are currently in the group (including their name, race, level and of course class). You can set a LFG tag that group creators often search for members via. This search allows them to narrow down exactly what they are looking for. Unlike other games where you have to spam channels for sometimes well over thirty minutes in DDO you can almost always find a group within ten to twenty minutes at most.
3) While it is true that you do not get individual XP from killing mobs in DDO, a good portion of the mobs that you kill will be a part of an encounter which you will get some XP for. And you get bonus XP for killing named mobs as well as a named mob chest dropping.
4) While there is a solo option for a good portion of the lower quest lines, most players should have little problems tackling them on Normal.
5) Unlike a lot of MMOs starting stats are actually important even in the long run. If you do not understand DnD 3.5 rules, or if this is your first DDO character you really may want to let the computer set your stats.
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Here is a guide to back up what Neuro said above about soloing, (he will recognise them from Viglin on the US forums!)
http://www.ddo.com/forums/showthread.php?p=624017#post624017
Unlike other games where you have very limited choice with your character builds, DDO is EXTREMELY flexible, some examples
http://www.ddo.com/forums/showthread.php?t=70571
The game has built in voice chat, even if you don't have a microphone, you can still listen to the rest of your party! (Being on Euro servers as I am, funny to hear lots of accents!)
There is a HUGE variety of monsters to kill, not the same old creatures from lvl 1 to end game.
The community really is fantastic.
Is extremely casual friendly, no 40 man or even 25 man raiding, the maximum is 12, so you will not end up being Cleric No.6 or Sorcerer No.5.
You must not leave until you free Arlos and have gathered your party safely in this hallway.
I would play this game again if they found ways to slow groups down so as to encourage social interaction. The rate at which people blitz instances is insane. Voicechat was a bad move as it only helped to make dungeons faster, now people dont even stop to give instructions on what to do where when.
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You must not leave until you free Arlos and have gathered your party safely in this hallway.