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Mrchompy
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Compared to LotRO?
I love LotRO, and since DDO is a Turbine product as well I am curious how DDO stacks up to it.
A quick run down of world size, how your char is built, ect. would be helpful. Housing, crafting,ect.?
Thanks much!
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DDO is much different than your traditional style MMOs out there, LotR included. DDO is much like DnD in spirit. Everyone meets up in a town, tavern or outpost. They find a needy NPC and get an adventure.
Character Creation:
Character creation can be as simple as picking a race and making a look you like and a class that sounds fun and then letting the game take care of the details.
With some research into DnD or reading the DDO class boards you can make well educated decisions on stats, feats, skills and enhancements.
Adventuring:
You will be doing dungeon crawls for the most part, all instanced for you party or two parties for a raid. In quests, you only get experience for completing quest goals. Not for individual mobs.
There are some outside adventures but they are still instanced.
Some outside adventure zones have dungeon entrances within them and even give rewards for killing creatures and exploring the area.
There are Normal, Hard and Elite settings to change the difficulty of each quest for more or less challenge. There is also a Solo setting available on many adventures.
There is no player housing as of yet. Although there is some crafting it is a bit of a grind and is for making items for yourself, not other players. The world size is geographically medium I would say, on the map at least. This however is deceiving because there are dozens and dozens of dungeons lying beneath the surface or in some other plane etc.
I played with a group of people on Mon and Tues nights from 8-11pm. The style of gameplay lends itself perfeclty to our game nights. Try the trial, you should know within that time if it is the type of game for you. I personally still call it one of my favorites. I hope this helps some.