Dungeons and Dragons Online - 7 Day Trial

Dal-KoE · Post by **Dal-KoE** » April 26, 2006, 12:17 pm

Right now Turbine is offering a 7 day free trial of DDO.

http://trial.ddo.com/

The game from what I have seen (all of 4 hours) is not a bad game and has some nice features and some pretty cool stuff. A free game (trial) IMO is not a bad thing. Not sure if I will buy it yet ... but I like getting a "free" test drive for any game.

Post by **Sylvus** » April 26, 2006, 2:33 pm

7 free days is about all you need.

I bought it and played for a weekend and then forgot I even owned it for about a month. Oblivion is a lot more fun, just get that!

Kilmoll the Sexy · Post by **Kilmoll the Sexy** » April 26, 2006, 6:44 pm

The thing with DDO is: you need a steady group of people or you are not going to make it a month of playing.

If you have a steady group it can be a lot of fun.

kyoukan · Post by **kyoukan** » April 26, 2006, 9:24 pm

that and you have to like killing kobolds

A LOT.

I MEAN A LOT OF KOBOLDS

Boogahz · Post by **Boogahz** » April 26, 2006, 11:37 pm

And you must join CT to roll on dem Kobolds!

Kylere · Post by **Kylere** » April 27, 2006, 8:44 am

Only kobolds I kill is when I am gimping. Compared to EQ/WW/DAOC/AO/UO it is a heaven of non grinding.

Aabidano · Post by **Aabidano** » April 27, 2006, 9:05 am

Farted around with it for a bit yesterday. Kind of cool, don't know that it'll hold my interest though.

Dal-KoE · Post by **Dal-KoE** » April 27, 2006, 11:01 am

Aabidano wrote:Farted around with it for a bit yesterday. Kind of cool, don't know that it'll hold my interest though.

Same here... I doubt I will actually buy it and the $15/month sub price is a bit steep for the amount of content avaialable. Overall it has some nice things and will probably have a niche following. If your into soloing or like hard core playing/grinding, it is probably not for you. DDO does require (force) you to do most content in a group and if you approach games with the mindset of playing 12 hours a day and "winning... you will be pretty much finished in about a week. But hey .. its a free trial..

kyoukan · Post by **kyoukan** » April 27, 2006, 10:14 pm

Kylere wrote:Only kobolds I kill is when I am gimping.

Exactly. A LOT.

Kylere · Post by **Kylere** » April 27, 2006, 11:50 pm

Umm I think DDO must have been too hard for Kyoukan, hell she could not do hate without camping out on the walls after a real guild had broken the zone in.

Canelek · Post by **Canelek** » April 28, 2006, 1:37 am

WOW MAN NICE COMEBACK

kyoukan · Post by **kyoukan** » April 28, 2006, 2:21 am

kylere is too busy forming epic pet tanking stratz for Tunare encounter to come up with a funnier comeback.

Kilmoll the Sexy · Post by **Kilmoll the Sexy** » April 28, 2006, 9:12 am

I have seen no dungeons past level 4 or 5 CR ratings that have many kobolds in them. hell, I can probably only name 3 or 4 that have ANY kobolds in them past CR 5.

Grats you on not knowing what you are talking about. Again.

Morgrym · Post by **Morgrym** » April 28, 2006, 9:19 am

Doing the trial. So far, it's decent. It will begin to suck as soon as the content is not duoable. Never been much for random p/u groups.

Kylere · Post by **Kylere** » April 28, 2006, 11:56 am

I was not attempting to slam Kookie, merely pointing out facts.

Xanupox · Post by **Xanupox** » April 28, 2006, 12:15 pm

You can Duo 90% of the game if you have the right classes.

Battle Cleric and Trap Rogue.

Party size is 6, but I think the game is really balanced for groups of 4. If you have 6 it is really overkill on Normal difficulty. Once you finish a quest you can repeat it, with the option of pushing the difficulty to Hard, I would reccomend taking a group of 6 then, as all the monsters in the quest get a significant CR boost in level and abilities.

If you finish a quest the 2nd time around, you have the final option of pushing it up to Elite difficulty... this does not scale like Normal to Hard. Elite is like Normal to Hard... to WTF. Monsters usually gain 3-4 CR ranks and things are really rough. Maybe not too rough at the lower level quests but when you bump a Level 10 Quest up to level 12, the mobs go from CR15 to CR24, thats a big jump.

Anyway, the game has around 2-3 months worth of content, if you take your time and do the quests for all they have to offer. If you rush, just focusing on leveling and XP, then I would say you could max and be "finished" in a month or so.

Turbine has yet to offer any real word on expanding the content of the game, but something needs to happen sooner than later.

Dal-KoE · Post by **Dal-KoE** » April 28, 2006, 12:45 pm

Going to see how far the kids and I can get this weekend (before the 7 days are up) with a group of three newbie toons.. daughter on a Cleric (1.1) and son on a rogue (1.1) and me playing a Fighter (1.4).

Kilmoll the Sexy · Post by **Kilmoll the Sexy** » April 28, 2006, 12:47 pm

Second module is being previewed at E3 in early May. Release for it should be early June. If they keep putting out modules every 3 months, it would keep giving people the content to continue playing.

My guess is they are introducing the Monk class with the next module. I know they have already said new monsters will be in it.

Morgrym · Post by **Morgrym** » April 28, 2006, 12:53 pm

Might pick this game up as a filler until Vanguard comes out. Went back to the EQ thing and find it ultra boring. Figure DDO can hold my interest for about 6 months or whatever. Wish I could just roll into monthly payments after the trial instead of being cornholed into spending $50 on something I already have installed.

Kylere · Post by **Kylere** » April 28, 2006, 1:57 pm

If you want to play, feel free to try Argonessen, any prominent VV'er can send me a tell (Kylere, kailere, kylire) when I am on for any help or info you need. Except Midnyte and Kookie of course, I do not have that much time, or Xzion because I do not have that much patience.

kyoukan · Post by **kyoukan** » April 28, 2006, 10:16 pm

I think after reading your posts in the CT forum (that everyone on veeshan had hilariously free and easy access to), nobody is going to ask you for any fucking advice beyond best place to get a $5 blowjob in Flint.

And no, neither myself nor my mother live in Flint, so you will have to dig deeper into your intellectual reserves for a witty comeback.

Sartori · Post by **Sartori** » April 28, 2006, 10:44 pm

Kylere wrote:I do not have that much time, or Xzion because I do not have that much patience.

Like we didn't gather that back when CT was steamrolling guilds in EQ?

Zamtuk · Post by **Zamtuk** » April 29, 2006, 12:18 am

kyoukan wrote:nobody is going to ask you for any fucking advice beyond best place to get a $5 blowjob in Flint.

damn, i thought he got married to her so she wouldn't charge him 5 dollars.

tough break man.

Kilmoll the Sexy · Post by **Kilmoll the Sexy** » April 29, 2006, 12:41 pm

kyoukan wrote:And no, neither myself nor my mother live in Flint, so you will have to dig deeper into your intellectual reserves for a witty comeback.

At least we know that Flint Michigan is safe from soul stealing demon whores.

Kylere · Post by **Kylere** » April 29, 2006, 12:44 pm

Ahh Kookie that Hate thing still really does make you mad, I am sorry that it hurt your feeligns that much, and I hope you seek treatment soon.

Kylere · Post by **Kylere** » April 29, 2006, 12:44 pm

Zamtuk wrote:
kyoukan wrote:nobody is going to ask you for any fucking advice beyond best place to get a $5 blowjob in Flint.
damn, i thought he got married to her so she wouldn't charge him 5 dollars.

tough break man.

Zamtuk, I think we both know you are my bitch, so keep on flapping your pussy lips.