More DDO

As I (slowly) advance in DDO, currently Level 4, I’m still enjoying the game quite a bit.  I was a little worried the first time I went into a dungeon solo that didn’t allow “solo” as one of the difficulty settings, starting instead on the “normal” setting.  But my dual-wielding Ranger didn’t really have any issues other than running out of arrows once in a while.  I’m very much looking forward to when she’s levelled enough to be an “Arcane Archer” so I don’t have to keep loading up on arrows.  Either … Continue reading

Still Dungeon Crawling

I’m re-writing this after “rage-quitting” yesterday when WordPress unceremoniously deleted the entire post when I hit the “Publish” button… Most of this week I’ve been spending my game-time in DDO Unlimited.  I’ve really been enjoying the game A LOT more than I did way back when it first came out. I’ve also had the opportunity to make a few micro-transactions, and it was extremely smooth and efficient.  I already had some “Turbine Points” to spend from various task completions etc, when I decided to make my first use of the in-game … Continue reading

A weekend in DDO Unlimited (F2P)

So over the weekend I spent most of my game-time in the now “free” version of DDO – and I didn’t even buy any micro-transaction stuff, nor feel the need for it…yet.  Casting classes are still quite challenging to solo with, but with the addition of hirelings, it’s at least sort of doable, although my cleric henchman did die a few times in a couple of the “newbie island” dungeons – usually from standing for prolonged periods in streams of steam, acid, or arctic blasts, so the hireling AI could probably use a little work there.  So … Continue reading

DDO F2P . . . (sort of)

With the new “Free To Play” (F2P) release of Dungeons & Dragons Online (DDO) I thought I’d check it out last night, and actually it was a bit of fun.  It had been so long since I’d logged into the game though, that my old characters were gone.  Not that I ever played them for very long anyways, but it might’ve been nice not to have to trapse through the tutorials.  Although it was probably a good idea for me to go through them again to re-familiarize myself with the … Continue reading

Labor Day post-op

I had a nice gaming Labor Day.  I started the weekend out with some Champions Online, and I think I’ve scratched that itch as much as I care to for now.  Don’t get me wrong, it IS is good game, but I’ve never really glommed onto the super-hero meme.  I mean, my favorite super-hero when I was a kid was Dr. Strange, and he’s really more like a mage than a super-hero.  I’ll probably re-visit the game very irregularly, like I used to do with CoX, and I’ll probably drop … Continue reading