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This popular PC Game came out in 2006 shortly after World of Warcraft and other memorable MMORPGs.

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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.

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When it rains it…

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Normally, it would pour, although in my case, it has snowed. I don’t think they’ll be able to put in a new Internet line with half a foot of snow on the ground.

So, more than likely, I won’t be playing DDO today.

This is a bad time to be missing from the hardcore server. But the biggest loss is the Gold rolls on my daily dice from buying the season pass.

Every roll has a chance to be a stat tome or a cuddly pet, or a super cool mount.

On the bright side, I still have my phone and plenty of data. I also did good buying and selling US Steel ($X), so I’ve got some cash to burn once I get past this conundrum.

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Bedtime

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16 hours of Hardcore mode. I logged in at 11:40am yesterday, and it’s now 3:49am. I am still wired from all the coffee, but it will pass, I’m sure.

I made two characters, but only played on one today. Lusongee joined the Death Smile guild and reached level 8. I have done almost everything up to level 4.

I did skip Shan-to-Kor and Tangleroot. I will run the Sharn Syndicate tomorrow and the Depths chain in-house, Denieth.

I had a close call in Two-Toed Tobias with a pair of reapers and one of the new champions. I saw the hirelings had aggro and decided to use my bottle of mist from Ravenloft. Well, I accidentally moved and reset the cooldown just as the hires were turned to paste.

I freaked out and hit ALT-F4.

It was a timely move, and I was pleased to see when I logged back in later that I wasn’t dead.

There are all of these new Champions for Hardcore mode, and they are totally beastly. I feel like I spent half the day running away from stuff.

I was online when the highest-level player died.

They were level 12 when he died, racing to 20 to TR. I believe their name was Wesside, a Sorcerer / Bard build. That player was up to level 5 in the first 22 minutes of the game, crazy.

I have a little over 6k Reaper experience points, 433 Favor, and my crafting is level 42. I made a nice +2 fortification, a 55 mithril large shield of solar guard for my Favor guy.

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Hardcore League 2

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The second season of Hardcore League is approaching. Tomorrow’s update will bring the Hardcore server back with the permadeath feature.

I have two days off from work, which will get me started. I am temporarily ceasing my Pokémon Go gaming to focus on the Hardcore event. The server runs through May, so I will be able to claim a spot before flying out to England in June.

The Anniversary Event is also running, which might have been a distraction. Sensing a possible conflict, I just spent 4.5 hours grinding to get all the gear and the sentient kobold gem I needed for my second account.

I have my builds worked out for both a Favor toon and a Reaper mode toon. I will be reusing the same names as last year’s event. My reaper toon will be Lusongee, and the Favor toon is Ananzi.

Lusongee will be 3 Wiz, 3 Arti, and 14 Cleric.

Ananzi will be 2 Cleric, 3 Wiz, and 15 Paladin.

Both will use Sun Elf for race and will be mixes of familiar classes and have Animal Domain for turning purposes. 

Lusongee will need the arti levels for trapping, as I will likely play solo on her for most of the game, like last year. Ananzi will play sword’n’board, going for heavy defense and using spellsword to fill out his DPS.

I am still debating whether or not to buy an INT tome early on to boost my skill points. I’ll have to give it more thought for now.

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Turn Undead

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I’d say this is my favorite ability in Dungeons and Dragons Online. I certainly do seem to play Cleric and Paladin often.

My ‘Banishing Flame’ build uses 3 levels of Cleric and 2 levels of Paladin. The Knight of the Chalice and Radiant Servant enhancement tree bonuses can be stacked to really put Turn Undead over the top.

The build gets better by choosing Animal Domain at level 2 of Cleric. Animals and Magical Beasts added to the list of turnable targets can be immense in the early game.

The problem with Turn Undead is that once you reach Epic quests past level 20, the Hit Dice and Levels of creatures go up tremendously.

Your basic cleric or paladin just doesn’t have the power or level range to affect something of that size. Even with my Banishing Flame build, you can only target 1 or 2 creatures per use of Turn Undead.

It has been one of my goals while playing Dungeons and Dragons Online to make Turn Undead effective at Epic (20) and Legendary (30) levels.

The recent Hardcore server event gave me a chance to play the Morning Lord (Sun Elf) iconic class starting from level 1. I found the effectiveness of Turn Undead was intense with the racial enhancement Bane of the Restless. This adds 6 to your effective level for turning purposes, 6 to the number of hit dice, and does 18d6 light damage per use.

The enhancement does not increase the Maximum Hit Dice, though. Even so, being able to turn at level 7 effectively and do 18-108 light damage at character level 1 was crazy.

My main character for Turn Undead is named Wahida. Playing on Cannith server, I have 3 past lives of cleric and recently TR’d to Sun Elf.

Her build is 3 Artificer/4 Paladin/13 Cleric, using the Inquisitive tree for normal combat and trapping. She is a bit short on Action Points, so I may decide to do some racial reincarnation later on.

10 AP into Radiant Servant tree and 11 AP in Knight of the Chalice, 4 AP in the racial tree. 34 AP into Inquisitive, with the remaining action points going to either Renegade Master-maker in Artificer tree or Sacred Defender in the Paladin tree.

I have the +1 Racial AP and Universal AP tomes.

The points into Renegade Master-maker are optional. 6 AP to get the second core ability, providing protection against magic missiles and a +4 to AC.

The shield spell can be used from a wand as an alternative, though recasting every 5 minutes can be tedious. The points in Sacred Defender give a defensive stance with +25 to PRR/MRR. Ideally, I would have 17 AP in Sacred Defender to get the sacred bonus to run speed and +6 to constitution.

I can’t get everything I want. Taking AP away from Inquisitive would compromise my ability to fight everything else.

Well, that’s probably enough for today. I will go over my actual Turning stats in a later post.