Min/Max Forum: Storm Shelter

I don't really see why you're so against my organization.

Huh?

But like I said, I'm using a short more compacted version that clears up ambiguity. Work with what works for you and adjust as needed.

Pretty sure I just recommended for you to use yours because it works for what you're wanting.

If I have to be against someone's organization, is Trump's an option?

And yeah, like Os said, we love splitting the party too much but there's just TOO MUCH TO DO and multitasking by splitting up is too good to not do, consequences be damned!

Well Ano/Mao is interrogating a clone, Kuro/Hugo is interrogating kidnappers, Lost/Baha is interrogating the original of the clone, RD/Amat needs a few hours to turn into a golem with some needed successful skill checks (hire mooks for aid other!), and Ket/Kath just wants to go shopping. This broke things up a bit, Baha & Kat are the only ones together with an open hook if Osl wants to do or skip the shopping part.

Behind the scenes, I know I had a couple followers of mine doing stuff too, like Kenny was helping with the monolith Mao wants to check in on and Baldy was keeping an eye out some possible traitors because much of the plot is a giant mystery that involves time travel based explanations. And I wish I could grab the last page of the IC too because that was one of Osl's latest plot reveals.

What's the plot and overall direction of the game? Can I get any information on the other PCs (enough to not be playing the same thing on accident). Also what level did the game originally start?

1. It's like Phantasy Star from what I understand but a little different. Sort of like it's like D&D, but a little different. Bonus points if your character is somehow involved with scantly clad anime girls or is one.

2. Characters.
Ketaro (real pilot // moon vanguard): I really don't know too much about it.
RD (titanic animal of legend warblade // super pilot): One of the massive nuclear dragon twins, wants to remake.
Lost (nuclear dancing dragon // arcane pilot): The other massive nuclear dragon twin but likes magic.
Kuro (shadowcraft wizard / super pilot?): Uses spell disks as photon torpedoes while trying to get a date.
Andomander (lots-of-text android golem // real super boss machine): Invincible & campaign-important robot that gets lots of solo-play.

3. Level 12, supposed to be fast level and we technically have, but the campaign runs super slow like most phbs.

I think that supermode is enough to solo everything we've actually encountered so far. Assuming that is, in fact, the super mode stats and not all the time.

Oh yeah there is some fine text to things. As is, assuming 14 Cha, it lasts 32 rounds per day (3mins & 12secs) and requires a Swift Action to enter so anything winning Initiative gets to ignore those for a round. It won't be flying around or really even tanking traps like that.

Anyway your level 3 character's damage from 2014 is technically a bit higher, 1d8+5 & 1d6+5 produces an average of 18 vs it's 17.5 and 16.5 (@base 14 str). But yeah defensively it's DR/Resist is really solid and that comes back to those extra Upgrade Points but then again who makes defensive stuff anyway so I'm curious how it plays out. Oh, and another fine print thing is Ph's healing is halved on it's hp pool which is why I mentioned probably picking up some more hp since it'll probably have to last the entire day too.

What we had when we left off was my semi-gimpy vitalist healer, two melee fighter types, and... whatever Nanshork is playing... We hardly saw him. He'd just joined.

And like that I have a character concept.

I'll try to get a chunk of it's details up tomorrow for Sol to check out and see if he's up for it.

Huh, FlamingCows made a Taint-based character, with a Template, and 3rd party resources, that claimed it had access to 4th level Spells at level one so it could have two levels of Shadowcraft Mage by level three and I assume it was OK'ed since he made it into the character thread instead of the campaign's pre-discussion thread. Interesting.

If you guys have openings, I'd love to test out my Magitech Knight in game. Probably using the Imperium ACF since I think it might get a little too many extra points and refluffed to be like a Super Saiyen mode.

What exactly do you mean by "saving" the quests?

Because of how the mechanics work, you need to do quests at and just below your level several times. Skipping ahead works out to a penalty in the long time because throwing potential xp gains away when you have a limited amount of packs lowers the ceiling you can reach.

Like you're level 14 in the first quest the Lords of Dust and we'll count Aggression (+10%) & Ransack (+15%) in things too.
On Normal the base xp is 5,100, optionals (excluding rare spawn) are 510xp, 765xp, & 510xp, total 6,885xp.
On Hard the base xp is 5,300, optionals (excluding rare spawn) are 530xp, 795xp, 530xp, total 7,155xp.
On Elite the base xp is 5,500, optionals (excluding rare spawn) are 550xp, 825xp, 550xp, total 7,425xp.
First run ever is Normal you'll get +25% for Normal & say +20% for Daily for +11,704xp then immediately running Hard next will give you a +40% for Hard & -25% for Level Difference for +10,017xp. The two runs were worth 21,721xp.

But if you waited until you were level 15, Hard would have given +11,805xp (or +13,236xp if you also waited a day to rerun) for an "extra" three thousand xp by just playing the game as intended. It's not much, but Dust gives the lowest amount of xp out of all of them and you ran six quests too soon. I suspect your losses are somewhere around 25,000xp, maybe 30k (excluding running them 'right').

so I kind of rushed through them a bit just to see what was so special about FR in the game.

FR was the first expansion for DDO, everything else was updates, and it was a pretty large drop on the community.

Fan bonuses included stuff like access to FR, Eliminster, and so on. Mechanically, besides all the typical fixes, the entire range of content was sold as an expansion which cheaper than buying the separate components through the DDO store. In all you get fifteen new quests, technically four explorers and one of which used a new Encounter system to replace the old standard of simply using red named monsters. Four new Challenges were added as well. Epic Progression was a huge focus as well, the level cap changed from 20 to 25, quests previously simply had a "Epic" difficulty level gained a Epic Normal/Hard/Elite scale, and Epic Destinations were added. And the Druid Class was added too.

I don't know how other classes wind up, but my Ranger feels really strong, and always has since pretty close to the beginning (maybe level 4 or so). I calculated that I'm doing somewhere between 150 and 200 DPS with my bow, and I haven't included the effects of things like Sniper Shot, Merciful Shot, Manyshot, multi-target from Improved Precise Shot, etc. in there.

Bow-focused Rangers have a ton of survivability and the damage seems utterly amazing if you play in a vacuum.

I'm not too sure what to say on how to expand your expectations, how about I've seen five digit numbers on a couple different characters of mine?

I broke down and bought (with real $) the Delara's Graveyard set of quests,

The +5% xp drop there is nice, but the final quest is also good for farming if you have a party that can split up and handle both wings but you have to window farm* it.

*Have all but one recall out, then have someone grab the quest window. Final guy recalls out forcing the instance to reset. Anyone with the currently active window will get booted into a new instance even if they could not normally open the quest again.

but now I'm kind of bored with the game... lol.

It's why I cycle in and out of it. I'm not the best at MMO repetition, or like today all I did was hold left click and move the mouse around while getting distracted in real and since it took like 10 mins a run is wasn't the best quest.

My 9 year old son saw me playing and started playing some with me. I made another cleric to run around with his rogue/ranger. They're level 3 so far, but we don't play much, and when we do I think I'd rather it just be he and I, at least for now...

Awww you're such a good parent. Well protective at least, I got a feeling mine will invent new curse words when they play. >.>

Hey, I didn't even know you were on. Can you PM me your name in game?

And lv16~17 quests? You should have saved them but it sounds like you probably completed Spinner so did you already go over to Eveningstar and cleared Wheloon's pre-quests too? You're kind of at the end of free, there is a lv18 in the Inspired Quarter but you should have saved up your Turbine Points and picked up something like the Vale, GH, or Necro4. A single, 1st-server, character can collect up to 1,350 Turbine Points for free (but some of those are form epic quests) and while GH I think runs for 850 (plus sale/coupon discounts!). You just have to avoid the urge to trivially spend TP on stuff.

There are about 7,919,900 phone numbers in the US and through phone number portability it's really hard to pin down what's a cell or not so just send a mass text to all of them.

I figured we could use a thread on this given the first DLC pack comes out next Friday.

Reminder of what's coming in the "The Master Trials" release.
* Trial of the Sword: naked island part 2 - the dungeon, unlocks a "glowing mastersword".
* Hero's Path Mode: an already builtin feature is unlocked allowing you to see where you've ran.
* Hard Mode: "gold" tier enemies and floating rafts to shoot people, just in time for the arrow farm nerf.
* New Save Slot, yep it's been confirmed through your auto-save slots will be reduced.
* Travel Medallion: set your own teleport to waypoint at your feet.
* Majora's Mask: 1 defensed, certain enemies can't see you as well but unconfirmed which.
* Midna's Helmet: 7 defense & guardian resist.
* Tingle's Outfit: three pieces, each has a base of 2 defense.
* Phantom Armor: 8 defense, attack up. If enhanceable it's teir 4 bonus will be 44/each or 132 total.
* Korok Mask: 1 defense, controller vibrates near korok seeds.
DLC pack 2, named "Champions' Ballad", is supposed to contain a new dungeon and comes out in December this year.

Also as a reminder. Do not play the flipper's game and buy an overpriced Amiibo no matter how much you want the Fierce Deity Armor or w/e. NFC cards & stickers are pretty cheap, apps to program them are free, and google is a pathway to data codes if you catch my drift. Wait for them to be marked down before buying them for your mantle.