House Jorasco mostly, 1 House Phiarlan. White Plume Mountain and Other Tales. Sorrowdusk Isle. House Deneith. Devil Assault. The Temple of Elemental Evil. Sentinels of Stormreach. The Necropolis Part 2. The Ruins of Threnal. The Vault of Night. House Kundarak. Against the Slave Lords. Dragonblood Prophecy. Agents of Argonnessen. The Restless Isles. Demon Sands. The Free Agents mostly, 1 House Phiarlan. Mists of Ravenloft. Keepers of the Feather. The Necropolis Part 3.
Peril of the Planar Eyes. Morgrave University. Attack on Stormreach. Ruins of Gianthold. Trials of the Archons. The Devil's Gambit. Disciples of Rage.
House Jorasco. The Necropolis Part 4. Harbinger of Madness. Disciples of Shadow 2. Purple Dragon Knights. Even just playing around for a bit and trying to get into the MMO aspect is something I'd recommend trying. That could be a fun and effective way of approaching this. I'm a bit rusty but, I for one wouldn't mind helping new players along. Hell, I used to do that by opening LFM s for new players for fun.
GW2 is a lot more dynamic, since you don't have to party-up before entering instances well, dungeons aside. I definitely love that part about GW2. Definitely make sure to claim that coupon while it's active, even if you don't play the game anytime soon though I'd definitely try and make enough time to get enough premium currency drops from gameplay to unlock the two on-sale expansions while they're on [ Steep! Their poor community handling has destroyed the game even for the most hardcore fans.
I used to play for years and saw many of my friends getting unfairly banned. Their "community manager", Cordoban, is the biggest idiot I've ever seen in an online game. He was the reason I've decided to quit after so many years playing that game. From my experience in the past and from Beta, then rotate from playing 1 year, to time off for 2, repeat.
Casual players usually have fun up until level 8 thru 12 on each character as the bad builds can be forgiving. That can easily be several months of fun. So create a character, run it up until you're hitting a wall, create another and use the assets of the 1st to support it and run higher. Then the 3rd character, you'll want to look at builds with stat points and party roles if you want to have fun in the higher levels.
Or if you enjoy spreadsheet planning, dive into point builds before even creating your second character. I preferred the run up to get the hang of the DDO ruleset, then build. And the content is pretty extensive, and "grinding" more content as others have said is too easy right now. Until this is over in August, you can unlock more stuff without even thinking about it. OK, I have thus spent an hour trying to find out how to redeem this coupon and found nothing.
I do not know why this information is so well hidden, but it is. Web searches turn up nothing except information about various coupon codes. No information is given regarding how to redeem said codes. If the game is also this difficult and unfriendly to users, I can see why it is having issues with retaining players. I have spent an hour I think updating the game I expected it to be almost? About redeeming the code, I happened upon this page - I haven't tried it yet, because I don't have an account yet I expect I need to make an account once the game is ready to be played.
I finally managed to get help from an experienced player. Coupons are redeemed in-game through the DDO Store. How does one access the DDO Store in-game? By clicking on the appropriate button in the Main Menu, of course. Ah, but how does one open the Main Menu? There are no hotkeys or shortcuts available for accessing the Main Menu. Instead, you must find the "large" red button hiding in the bottom left of your playing screen and click on that.
I considered adding those details to the OP, to start with, but since they're standard for most every game with an in-game store, I left the description simply as "there doesn't appear to be a way of activating codes out-of-game".
Seems like every time I avoid over-detailing, it bites me. And yeah, forgot they changed how the menu worked with the UI overhaul some years back. It took a bit to get used to even for players familiar with the game, as I recall. Probably a bit of a hassle for those not overly familiar with the game. As far as the retaining players, the main issue is that they ran off old players and expanded the level range. The combination of which made it incredibly hard for new players to find groups at any given level range- nevermind that even if they made it to end-game, they'd be too undergeared to even group up then.
All other issues in the game are secondary to that. Please explain this in detail for someone unfamiliar with the game. I am interested in "unlocking" all of the expansions, even if I never get around to playing through all of them. Only two old expansions Menace of the Underdark and Shadowfell Conspiracy are available for this promotion. I already own them so I can't see where exactly in the store they are as the store only displays things you don't own, so just look for them.
Kobold almost liked you. Then this happened. Oh well. Maybe trap get you next time. Thanks for the heads up. The main problem I had, as I recall, was that it didn't have much free content. Seems like it may be worth trying it again.
Edit: I think that was around the time the it went free to play. I also remember trying it at launch and not liking it. I chose to not install the high resolution textures, so the download is about 9GB. It would indeed be 12GB with them. Edit: Looks like that's the base download. The installer seems to be downloading more stuff after having downloaded that though not a huge amount of stuff. This is after updating everything. Heh, my folder is I didn't check folder size before starting the launcher, and didn't sit around to wait for it to finish, so I don't know how much it downloaded or how long it took but more than an hour!
Oh, and hi-res is still disabled in the settings; dunno if it downloaded it anyways and just doesn't apply it Edit: I enabled hi-res, the client restarted but didn't download anything else. Guess it just downloaded everything from the start.
Apparently they made hi-res a forced default. You apparently can still manually adjust it, if desired:. The other day i decided to reinstall DDO and give the default textures a try. So i uninstalled the game and set about reinstalling. When it started i awaited the option to choose to install the high res textures and it just went straight into downloading and installing the game.
So i tried to search out an answer and found nothing. The answer was in the Documents folder. Dungeons and Dragons Online folder. I looked in the folder and found the file UserPreferences. So i deleted the DDO folder completely and started the install again and got the option to select high res textures and chose no this time. Presumably, setting that to false will skip the indicated prompt and directly adjust the setting to low-res.
Either adjustment should theoretically be able to be made during the step that is after having downloaded the base files from Steam and before loading the game's launcher. Not sure if that'd avoid downloading the hi-res textures entirely or not, but it may be worth a shot for those who want to try minimizing their download size putting aside the fact that one's computer'd need to be both old [like, pre] and low-end to have issues with the game's HD graphics to begin with, graphic settings can still be adjusted within the game itself if necessary; As such, the additional storage space used would likely be the only loss as far as downloading the HD textures would go.
That's certainly my sentiment towards it. But then, I believe it was also literally the only game I played across 5 consecutive years, so.. The experience is definitely NOT like in the "old days. The game itself is F2P to begin with, with a pretty generous in-game premium currency drop that allows you to purchase new content [adventures, races, classes] as they come out.
Honestly, it's the most generous unlock system I've seen in a paid MMO to date. The current coupon code will permanently unlock the past decade and a half of premium adventure content to your account [excepting expansion packs, though half of those are at an extreme discount in the in-game store atm, so you can pick those up easily as well with just a bit of playtime].
In short, you get all but a tiny bit of the game's paid content for free, permanently. The coupon code needs to be activated in the in-game store, so you'll need to install the game and stick the code in, but that also gives you a good chance to try the game out and buy the on-sale expansion packs while they'e on-sale.
Thanks for posting this. I never would have known otherwise. Game is deserving of some attention. I can't see myself dusting off any more accounts. I'm done with trying to relive old mmo dreams. Craving something new. I mean, worth installiing it just to activate the code, maybe? If it'd be a bothersome use of time and energy to arrange the install then sure, avoid it, but if it's something you can fit in, that's a pretty phenomenal offer they've got going on and you never really know if those things'll be one offs, repeats, an indication of a future shift in policy, or something else altogether.
I'm staying faaar away from such places. I become a sad sack of moisture. It truly is difficult to figure what is the bare minimum. It really depends on personal factors. Generally though, I would start with this Heroic Reincarnation requires lvl 20 can easily get here free.
Epic and Iconic Reincarnation require the max level of 30 very difficult to reach free. Above level 20, having access to Epic Destinies is really a must. Not only do they act as the enhancment trees for levels but maxing the ED trees also gives you access to additional feats at 26, 28, and The first expansion: Menace of the Underdark, has always had the Epic Destinies packaged with it because they were released together.
I think the only other way to get Epic Destinies is separately from the DDO store, for close to the same dollar amount of points as the expansion would cost. So Menace of the Underdark is a great place to start. It provides enough content to get you from lvl 20 to 25 without having to repeat things much if at all. Personally, I really enjoy the second expansion: Shadowfell Conspiracy. But there are many who would probably tell you if you need to save money that you can leave it out. Keep in mind that you will earn DDO points by playing all the quests, so when spending money these two expansions might be the best value.
I can't speak much on the third expansion: Mists of Ravenloft, because I don't have it yet. But the standard version is also available from the DDO store for points. The higher cost bundles for the expansions don't have anything that is necessary or that would be considered bare minimum, but they absolutely can be worth the money if you don't already have the things they provide.
As for Quest Packs: When considering value to need, there are fewer free quests the higher level you go. So it's best to start with packs that contain Epic difficulty. Although for Necropolis it's cheaper to get necro as a bundle. With 2 holiday seasons coming up, I'm sure lots of things will be on sale :.
If you go to the Official forums or just google ddo adventure pack review you'll find a good write up of all the adventure packs rated by cost vs xp gain vs favor gain vs loot vs how many quests you get to help you decide.
You'll see and hear alot about 'Must Have' packs.
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