Axelcast #10 - DDO 2024 Year in Review

[@r8chlletters]

So glad you got this group together one of your more cohesive gatherings and congrats on having Mary join, he is so great! I hope the devs are listening to what you all had to say 🤍 Merry Christmas Axel!

[@TheWayManREAL]

Still don't play because of lag... Edit: I understand not everyone lags, which is weird to me. But it is talked about and as long as we talk about it, they are aware of it, and are working on it. Ty again for the comments.

[@AxelAlexK]

Well we did talk a lot about lag in this podcast! And yeah it's been a big problem for DDO lately unfortunately.

[@magmahawk583]

Don’t play it on steam, for whatever reason that’s way worse. I play from the website download and it runs fine for me

[@villefere6968]

I never get lag in this game

[@r8chlletters]

It’s mostly resolved in the new server. You should check it out.

[@Evil_Tileman]

I didn't experience any tonight on Argo, and we ran a chain that has been notorious for having a ton of lag.

[@villefere6968]

Awesome sweater

[@AxelAlexK]

@@villefere6968 Thank you! Don't know if all of it got in the shot at any point but it's Santa riding on his Isle of Dread dino mount!

[@blairnelson2149]

Axel's content convinced me to try'n Dragon Load and have had a blast with it.

[@AxelAlexK]

It's soooo goooood.

[@micaelelandi1827]

very nice job these shows- would be better still, if you put them into a podcast agrevator like applepodcast and spotify?

[@AxelAlexK]

You are the first person that has asked. I thought about potentially doing that but I didn't know if the interest is there, and I don't know how to do it, I need to look into it.

[@davidprice6002]

I did like myth drannor overall including the wilderness area, the mobs, the music, etc. I agree it would have added something to be able to go inside at least some of the buildings, maybe for some mini quests. And agree, the raid was just multiple bags of hit points to beat on

[@ambeegaming76]

I was VIP back in the day. The fact VIP doesn't get ALL the content anymore makes' it only appealing for the open on elite to me and the price is too high for that. I didn't play the game for like 12 years and the VIP loyalty program is 99% trash to me. I can't imagine anyone that's played the game all this time would find any of it FOMO enough to keep VIP. Give me a $5 a month pack that only unlocks Elite nothing else and I'll pay that but I'm not paying $20 (CAD) for VIP anymore unless they get expansions too.

[@aaroncov]

Agreed

[@humblecanadian4206]

Ill listen to a 3 hour podcast for a game i never played while playinf vampire survivors im down

[@AxelAlexK]

The KZbin algorithm has blessed me today I see :D - DDO is super good though you should try it!

[@villefere6968]

You should try it

[@Ungermax84]

Personally I think they put Night Brigade in the Forgotten Realms side because, even though they could add to other places, they have more or less done Eberron to death at this point, and want to bring more people over to Faerun earlier. Myth Drannor is level 13, now we have a level 4 set there... Faerun is wide open to new content. I'd much rather they open the road to Planescape but regardless, can you imagine if the next big storyline was something like Rime of the Frostmaiden?

[@aaroncov]

More forgotten realms for sure

[@DustyLeeSledge]

Level 17 to 20 used to be rough... Especially for TRs. So more 16 to 19 quest is a good thing. *I want a lvl 10 TR* I prefer those levels based on the expansions.

[@Evil_Tileman]

It would really help the game if SSG would watch these great ideas and critiques from all of you. Thank you all for taking time to do this. You hit on every point I have thought about. There is one thing I wish I had in the game though.....a Taken hireling or pet 😂. I think they're hilariously unsettling. Oh.....Team Mary btw!

[@AxelAlexK]

That would be awesome, taken are one of my favorite monsters. The one pet I'd want more is...well...look at my KZbin logo.

[@aaroncov]

There is a 'trinket' that gives you 4 choices until it dies. 1 is a taken Is there a Christmas cookie that changes your character into a taken?

[@Evil_Tileman]

@aaroncov I got the cookie the other day. I've never seen the trinket though. Gonna have to go look it up.

[@aaroncov]

@Evil_Tileman the trinket summons either a taken beholder and 2 others.

[@Evil_Tileman]

@@aaroncov Farmed it last night. I just hate that it's random. Still hasn't give me my Taken 😭😭

[@davidprice6002]

You guys should rename this podcast to "10 things Mary hates about DDO and 100 ideas to fix them"

[@DerykRobosson]

Pull things out of the reincarnation cache? Not frequently. I ran the Myth Drannor quests at both levels just for the favor. I've not been back since. I didn't bother with Night Revels this year because they didn't extend the gear levels to cap.

[@nickshulz8551]

Lol I'm salty i need to support those people.

[@DanceSC2]

They need a filigree recycler that turns 3 filigrees into 1 random one

[@AxelAlexK]

We do need something to do with all the unused filigree in the game (which is like 90% of them).

[@aaroncov]

As a 'casual' TR'er. I'm more concerned with achieving level 20 than level 17-20 quests. TR 1million 2 million 3 million. I could relax and enjoy late heroric quests. Don't make players grind so much. Let them.relax

[@vinoewhines]

They need a Lesser Racial Reincarnation Heart of Wood. Allowing you to change Race but not count as a True Reincarnation. When are they going to fix Shadow Dancer? Oh great splash tree bs.

[@AxelAlexK]

They've been asked for a way to change race without TR'ing before. It's a technical hurdle for them, they've talked before about race on a coding level being difficult to change without a TR. If they could offer it easily I'm sure they would.

[@vinoewhines]

@@AxelAlexK Thanks for the reply, it's too bad as I would of like to have changed my permanent First Lifer to another race. I would hope the do revisit Epic Destinies, more so Shadow Dancer, as it seems to be a splash tree for many, and as a Rogue, stealth player, it lost soo much of it's identity(Shadow Manipulation, Executioner Shot/Strike, even Consume could of been the alt choice of Weird, and the lopping of Meld into a Strike when it never was suppose to be, could of been brought down to 35-50% Dodge.)

[@aaroncov]

​@vinoewhines . The increase in XP needed each tr is terrible. Make it 1 million. 2 million . 3 million. DDO is an old game . Make is easier. 64 bit server needs new players. I'm glad this is a way to remove so many 'players' that will never play again. I'm not VIP a tight wad. $120 a year. I don't have time to play enough to pay monthly. I have been vip in the oast when zi had more time.

[@aaroncov]

Stop BTC. BTA is fine. Just stop it. STOP raid inc. 1 reason I don't play more. My other characters have just bcome bta bank toons. Phew. Sort it out DDO.