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Hardcore Season 3

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This year we are getting Free-to-play players joining us on the hardcore server.

“Season 3: Saving Grace” starts in about an hour, and I am very happy to be able to play with the rest of my guild, who are mostly free to play.

My Hardcore Build

I will be using the Bladeforged Paladin for my favorite toon this time around. Indomitable-2.

STR: 14, Dex: 10, CON: 18, INT: 10, WIS: 12, CHA: 12.

Skills: Concentration, Intimidate, Jump, and Balance.

Weapons: Warhammer (Barovian) and the Tower Shield (Mirrorplate).

Enhancements: Sacred Defender (27AP), Vanguard (11AP), Racial (11AP), KotC (22AP), Harper (1AP): Total: 80+2 Racial and Universal Tomes.

Feats: (1) Adamantine Body, (3) Shield Mastery, (6) Improved Shield Bash, (9) Tower Shield Proficiency, (12) Improved Shield Mastery, (15) Improved Critical: Bludgeon, (18) Shield Deflection, (21) Construct Exemplar.

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Game Guide: Rise of Kingdoms

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This offer took 14 days to complete. I had Google Play credits from doing Google Opinion Surveys. I used a dollar to get the special starter Japanese hero (Sanada Yukimura) and some boosts.

I’m actually watching a show about Sanada Yukimura currently, so this is kind of cool.

The tutorial gets you through basic movement around the map and the construction of your city center. Make sure you join an active alliance and preferably one that is not combat-focused.

Those Help requests will really do you good on the construction timers. For starting Nation, you should take France and then later on switch to China.

Things went well till maybe the 10th day, when this fool leading our alliance decided to attack the biggest alliance on the map.

I had seen them destroy another team earlier from a public posting. They had over 3 million troops split among 6 alliances.

Anyways, he woke the sleeping beast, and we got overrun. I teleported away and quit the group; I went solo to finish my mission.

In other news, I did some debit card deals with Varo and Aspiration, and those got me up to Amethyst rank at Swagbucks. So I’ve made over $100 in points to date.

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Miscalculation

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I messed up big time, and I have run out of time to fix the problem.

I skipped too much content and quests, and now I cannot reach the 5000 Favor to get the skeleton mount in Hardcore Season 2.

It is a disappointment, but at least I got the sash and the hat.

Currently, I am running my alt account through much of the content I don’t normally have access to during the special VIP for all event.

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Update

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Been so busy I haven’t had time to make a proper post.

Offers

I signed up for the Current debit card. You can get 55k points by signing up through the Drop app.

I was also able to open a Blockfi account to transfer the Ethereum I earned from the Long Game debit card account I previously enrolled in. Blockfi earns you interest on crypto held in the account.

DDO

In DDO, my favor guy is just past 2600 favor. I am worried I may have skipped too much and will miss the 5k mark come level 19. My reaper toons are still alive, though I have many close calls due to all the lag on the Hardcore Server.

Lastly, I have got a bunch of stars from the Starbucks game currently running.

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Doing good, so far

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I am running two reaper toons right now. A Sorcerer and a Cleric/Rogue/Wiz. Just in case a death occurs, I won’t have to start over from the beginning.

My cleric is up to 7 banking 8 with 3 reaper points [11k], the sorcerer has 2 reaper points and is going a little slower. I was running with the top player on the server earlier. Ion is an Aasimar Sorcerer who has TR’d twice and has close to 200k Reaper exp. I had seen Ionie die back in February, so I was surprised to see ’em this far ahead.

My favor guy, Ananzi, is level 10, sitting at 1k favor, and I am debating whether or not to try the level 6s out in The Twelve. I have seen a large number of death notices for those quests, especially the prison break one.

As to my trip to England, I remain hopeful that COVID-19 will go away by June. I am waiting to see if Delta or Norwegian Air decides to cancel my flights.

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I died…again

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I was doing a quick quest before the server went down for a restart this morning.

I got myself killed in Storming the Beaches over in house D.

A balista shot me for 652 damage after 40 was blocked by energy resistance. I failed my save and took a critical hit to the face.

Instant death.

That was on my reaper toon, Gozoh, who was level 22 and had 4 reaper points. I had 16 Tokens of the Twelve and just needed a few more to reincarnate.

This is the Hardcore server, so permadeath applies. I’ve got to start all over again on Korthos Island.

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Hardcore progress

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I have moved into Epics on the hardcore server. I am just bumping around Borderlands right now.

I stayed in the Heroics yesterday while I farmed Dreaming Dark for one of those Vibrant Purple Ioun stones. It took 18 runs to finally get it to show up. I almost completed my Quori monster manual deed in the process. I now have an Unsuppressed Vibrant and a Pale for the 50 charges of Absorb Magic.

Additionally, I reached my 1750 Favor reward and got the Bone Skull Helmet. It looks kinda silly on the Dragonborn, sort of reminds me of a cow skull on the hood of a car. After taking 20, I also received my Season 2 Sash, which is gray and features a skull with the numeral 2 at the bottom.

My favorite toon is all set to go at level 7. I have the full Red Fens gear set on him, and I have decided to level to 12 as a Sorcerer. That’ll get me my Chain Lightning, and then I can take 2 levels of Rogue for evasion and 4 levels of Paladin for the improved Saving throws, which will utilize my high Charisma score. With those splashed in at later levels, I can contend with the rising difficulty of the Elite dungeons, where I may not 1-shot all my targets.

For Gozoh, my Reaper toon, I intend to stay in epics until I have completed the Magister Epic Destiny. Although I do not intend to do an Epic reincarnation this time around. This will just give me time to farm tokens of The Twelve and grab some more gear for the Favor guy, for when he gets to Epics himself.

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No rush

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It looks like someone has already claimed the top spot on Reaper exp and Favor, so I don’t feel rushed now to compete. I can take my time and safely get the rewards.

https://www.ddo.com/forums/showthread.php/512854-Season-2-Server-First-5k-Favor!-(With-Pics!)

Seeing as how the pure Sorcerers are so favored, I may decide to make one for the favor grind instead of the earlier cleric/fvs/rogue build I had in mind.

I think they are running as Aasimar for the healing hands and natural resistances.

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Progress

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I have made it to level 13 and am attempting to do Red Fens on Reaper mode.

It is difficult to handle all the mobs and keep the NPC in Last Stand alive. Twice now, he (the NPC) has been killed, once by a reaper. Certainly better he die than me, but I don’t get exp for that.

I fiddled around with some alts and have settled on a Favored Soul with 2 levels of Rogue (Evasion) and Cleric (Turn Undead).

This character is named Tira Miron, in reference to the Silver Flame. I will use the alt character to get to that 5000 favor goal.

Currently, I am using the alt to get Qaal tokens for a mount. I had zero feathers drop when I ran the Borderlands chain on Reaper mode with Gozoh.

Gozoh is hitting rare’s in the desert for the Coronation shield, and it is really slow without a horse.

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Back online

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I still managed to die within the first hour of being back online…

It was an easy fix for the technician to patch up my line. He worked in the snow and even got my internet to go through a better line of cable.

My speed has increased quite a bit. I had thought that Spectrum was throttling my Internet, but it was actually just old cable slowing it down.

I got caught in an arched doorway being attacked by a dog. I had a Carnage Reaper on one side and a famine on the other.

DOOM.

It was fated to be so, as I had just withdrawn all of my savings and had all the good gear I had farmed on my person. The gold seal hireling, which I had out leveled and kept thinking I should put in the bank. All gone.

My new reaper toon is Gozoh.

A Dragonborn Sorcerer/Paladin using the Eldritch Knight tree and the shocking touch from Air Savant. I have Maximize and Empower to take out shamans and reapers fairly easily at close range.

I am using the nice shield I had crafted, running sword + board. I will get Chain Lightning at level 16 so I can nuke everything in the level 12 quests.

I have made it to level 7 and have 2 reaper points again. A slight improvement over the last life, likely due to various hardships making me step up to the challenge.