The big problem I've found with The Vale of Twilight is getting a group for the Shard itself. I've not had anyone willing to take on a new raider, and I've not got a character powerful enough to run the Shard solo: I've tried with my level 30 and just can't make it past the first stage. I don't know that a month and change will allow a lot of players the opportunity to succeed at crafting multiple greensteel items, but I admit that it is possible, especially if the players are self-quarantined and choose to spend a lot of hours making the long slog through the chain of quests. Epic Devil Assault will give a couple of ingredients on the average run, which can help add to the crafting stock. That has been my main way of acquiring bits and pieces for crafting. Since the most essential ingredients, the shards, are BtC one cannot have a higher level character grind them for lower level characters. Alas.
This is fair, grouping for shroud is harder these days. Though the stuff I recommended is heroic so you can run it way overlevel easily with just a small group of people. And you don't have to complete and deal with the timer if going for just tier 2 clicky stuff. People are also usually pretty willing to pass or trade stuff in the early chests.
@@AxelAlexK: I've never had much luck finding a group for it over the eight years I've been eligible to go. Maybe my play schedule is just too erratic, which is a reasonable reason, or whatever else it may be, but I just can't find a group that will let a "noob" join up. I've watched several solo Shard videos trying to get some hints and tips, but just not having much luck replicating them because I can't deal the mega-massive damage I see them dealing. My best hope is to get drops through Devil Assault to put together some basic items, but even that is an uphill battle. Phew! Anyhow, I appreciate the reply and I appreciate your vids for keeping this casual DDO gamer up to date. Considering running some Sharn bits while they're free just to see what there is, so extra thanks for your vids on that!
I been playing for a few years as a premium player but i had no idea about the Voice of The Master. I got mine last might after watching this! Thanks a lot Axel!!!
10) Favor! Run everything you can on elite for favor, often people will help that can open if you are first or 2nd life. This gives access to Drow race, +2 stat tome, Favored Soul class, +5 stat tome if you can get to 5k favor. At the same time you will get access to all the favor rewards from specific groups that unlock for your character. Including skill trees for Inquisitor, Harper, Vistani knife fighter, and if you are lucky Falconry. Also Artificer class. The game has tons of content that you will never normally see because the exp is not worth while, the difficulty for reward is not good, or there are no drops, this is the opportunity to try everything in the game for free. Lastly on favor, you get 25 ddo points for every 100 favor, so when at the end of april you lose access to everything you will have lots of ddo points to spend on the things you want the most. 9) Gear for your class! Take a moment to consider your character, what is the most important stat/s for that character? Go to google ddo and stat and find a page that shows all the gear with that stat on it. Find out what is best available to your level and go farm that. 8) Gear for next life! Reincarnation is the easiest, and slowest way to improve your character. But it lets you fix your mistakes you made the first time around. Plan ahead and google and then farm the equipment you will need. Your gear is saved in a reincarnation withdrawal bank and you can just grab it as you level up your new life. 7) Experience! The long term players have figured out the fastest quests to run for the most experience, often these are the only pugs (pick up groups) that are looking for people to join, and most of these are in packs that are not free to play. Now is your chance to level up as fast as possible. 6) Sharn! As axel stated, this is the best gear in the game. If you are new you don't know what you find the most fun to play, maybe your paladin seems boring compared to all the sorcerers around you. Go grab this equipment and save it for trying new things. 5) Barovia! Same as Sharn but easier to get drops and easier content to solo. 4) Slavers! This pack is hard but you get crafting materials. Often when you got that best sharn or barovia gear, it is missing something that you need. Slavers allows you to craft really good gear with just the stuff you need. This isn't necessarily worth spending money or ddo points on when so many other things are more important, so grab it now while it is free. 3) Vale! Same as Axel stated. 2) Voice of the Master (delaras tomb)! Super useful for all leveling, and the pack isn't worth spending points or money on so get it now, super easy and super important. As a secondary, Mantle of the Worldshaper from Threnal Pack, same exp bonus, get a set bonus when wearing both voice and mantle, and with more farming for Epic Tokens of the Twelve, you can merge them into an augment that you can put into any equipment you want for that sweet exp bonus. 1) FUN! Farming implies the drudgery of doing the same thing over and over. Don't do that. Think about what you would enjoy doing the most, and go do that. This is an amazing game. You do you.
@@foji-video I considered falconry unlock on my list and this is partially why I didn't include it. Too long a grind (700 favor) and requires the restless isles raid which nobody runs so it's not feasible to get by April for newer players IMO.
@@Uhlbelk I am not talking about the raid being impossible to complete. It is simply impossible to create a group for that, you basically would need to do it solo (not very feasible, for the little I know this raid). Restless isles are a pain even just to get to the quests to flag, and in general the whole pack is poorly designed. I wish I had never bought that pack
Always really liked your content good sir! This quarantine situation is a mess but it’s great to see more frequent content, stay well and keep up the good work my friend ✌️
Thanks, there will probably be more this week if I can think of some ideas as my state is currently under a stay at home order so I can't leave my place for anything except to go to the grocery store, basically. And am working my 9-5 job from home. So I have more time in the evenings right now, needless to say, lol.
Axel's DDO Channel there are only a couple of good DDO you tubers, something that I’ve never seen I’ve always wished for was something of a gear guide! I find myself running a lot of older content and a named item will drop and I get excited because I’ve never heard of it or seen it. Something to the ends optimizing Gear farming for specific roles through leveling. I know ravenloft and Sharn wares are the best for the most part, but I’ll never forget the guy I saw calling lightning with melee... ravenloft ain’t got no gloves like that 😅
Nice list, the sidebars for new players is great as this game can be quite daunting to start. One thing I'd mention about the mount farm: Pick a character that has speed (items, haste, w/e) to start. Get a path around the wilderness area you are comfortable with. Don't forget to use recall to shorten travel time (Perhaps hitting farm to north from zone, then hermit, recall, back out without reset and head for south loop). Once you have 15 tokens, get a mount for that character. Now that character can farm mounts way faster since you can use it in the wilderness. The tokens are account bound, mounts are not. So get a bunch of tokens, drop in shared bank, and all your alts can get mounts as well. Just be sure to take 15 tokens from stash on each character and turn in before the end of access if you don't have the pack! The mount turn in NPC can only be accessed via the pack itself, not in a free public area.
As a new player, I think it would be helpful to mention the levels of the quests, since I’m not sure if I can even do the free content. Just some food for thought, thanks for the video.
Yeah, you're right, I should have. Though I did mention some of them. Anyways, Keep on the borderlands is level 1, house K is level 5-9ish, delera's is 7-10ish, heroic ravenloft starts at level 10 - so I'd start with those as a new player once you've get to them. Keep on the borderlands you can play immediately at level 1 and get a mount.
Update: Content now free through August 31st! With a code available through then to keep it permanently, minus expansions. Minor correction: Getting a mount requires you to collect 15 feathers from Keep on the Borderlands wilderness area chests, not 10 as I said in the video. Still not that long of a farm.
@@grassgrazer22091 Yes, I believe tr resets favor. however I dont know if thats the same with the rewards such as inventory spaces. I think it resets the character and everything whole. You just get to keep the items gathered in that life
@@Jackoboy33 if you TR all your stuff gets put in a separate inventory called TR cache. You can leave things there indefinetly, up until when you need to TR again. But yes, you lose *FAVOR BASED* bank slot/intentory tabs
I'm going to mention that if one reaches Epic levels, Thunderholme/Thunderforged are a must. Just getting the Tier 1 Thunderforged weapons you'd need blows pretty much anything in the same level range and is a LOT less of a hassle to grind for than Greensteel. With Thunderholme slayer groups often cycling everyday, you can get all the dwarven ingots you'll need for TR/ETR later on.
Several good things suggested. I think that my wife and I will have to go collect some items. I really want those boots to free up the need of my feather fall ring.
They are minimum level 18 though. I wouldn't wear them, but only use them as clicky when needed and instead go for the epic voice of master min level 20. You can pick it as reward for heroic, it has the 30% movement speed as well and comes with a yellow, green AND blue augment slot, for the yellow one an NPC in the market place sells a topaz of feather falling for 9 atral shards. Another 9 and you can slot water breathing in the in the green slot and you still have a blue slot and +5% xp on everything plus you can free up the spaces for ring AND boots. :) For 30% movement speed in heroic I picked the quiver of alacrity as anniversary gift to upgrade, no min level!
The Barovian Weapon is an easy farm and the weapons are really good. Into The Mists is a very short quest that can be run on any difficulty but Elite isn't that difficult to be fair - I would suggest reducing your graphics settings before going in though as it's a particularly laggy quest. The weapon trader is in the explorer zone when you leave the quest next to the road into Barovia Village so you really can't miss him.
I'd also suggest running Tangleroot Gorge for House P Favour {75 gets you the option to have an NPC buff you with 30 minute +2 Stat buffs, Resist Fire/Acid/Elec/Cold/Sonic and Jump - All of which are mega useful buffs to have.} and The Visor of the Flesh Render Guards from the End Chain reward list. You may have to run the chain three times to get the Visor to drop but if you're Free to Play that's N/H/E which will get you the full favour while you're at it. Not sure if "Fragrant Drowshoods" are still important collectables but they have a decent drop rate in these quests too - Basically click on any mushrooms you see :} TIP: If you don't mind fighting oozes there's 2 mushrooms near the start of the quest in the later parts of the chain, just turn right when you hit the first T-Junction.
new player here. got the bank space, literally currently grinding out voice of the masters. took a break and thought id just check out some yt ddo content, lol. white plume mountain is also my personal favorite pack (sharn is really great too tho) ive played through so far. the quest are all pretty different and puzzle/platformy, without being like, obnoxious, and entertaining whilst also still giving amazing rewards. also the mount is suuuuper useful for getting around, and while you are farming the chest, you can work on the Slayer there as well, which gives some nice xp, and/or decent loot for low lvl alts. i will say however, if you have access to a guild, WITH the public run speed buff, i dont think a mount is really needed if you have a speed up spell/clickie, unless you just want one. if the mount was actually instant casted, id say its worth on any account, but its slow as hell imo. i am however glad to know me loving clickies will make my life easier. two of my favorites are simple ones from korthos. the braces of aid for the temp hp and the bless goggles, since it applies to everyone, i even use this on my cleric so i can slot a different spell. both are just extremely useful, specifically when i wouldn't otherwise be able to do that. for example, being able to cast aid on lars heyton as a non healer to do that quest without him dying. thats like small potatoes example, but i can just imagine it only getting more useful as i learn more and get more clickies/more useful clickies? (expedious run clickies are MUST haves for me now on toons that cant get a movement spell too.) thank you
also just had an idea since people wanted more top 10s. how about top 10 (or more lol) most useful clickies and where to farm those, and why they are useful!
The WPM drops the item ONLY on Epic. VOT is accessible from guild ship (if high enough level guild) without going there via the Twelve: talk to captain; page2; Meridia.
- Falconry tree unlock for 700 free agents favor - Pendant of Combat from Keep on Borderlands pack, The Bugbear Bandits quest - great epic leveling item for melee characters
add: the turn in sets from eveningstar, the turn-in weapons from borderlands ( really easy to get ) Remove: Greensteel. Greensteel is great but it has been ages since I've seen any one do the raid and since it's fairly difficult to solo.\ Questionable: The drop rate of Jack Jibbers blade is not just low. It's abysmally low.
Only need to run the first 3 parts to farm for heroic clickies, no need to complete raid. . Can solo or run with 1 other even at lvl 30. Super easy so long as you understand mechanics in part 2 and 3.
I like the staff in 3bc with gust of wind, I find it effective when I have one. Not sure if you mentioned Coin lords favor. Kind of skipped through some.
Hey Axel, thanks for the video! Just getting back into DDO after an almost 7 year hiatus. This video gave me and my buddies who picked up the game a great starting point for grabbing gear that I never had the chance to get previously as I was, and will most likely continue to be, a free-to-play cheapskate. Love DDO, but I have picked it up and put it down many times because of pay walls. The free month opened up a floodgate of content and I had no clue where to start with it. Thanks so much for the guidance! I'm not sure if you (or anyone else reading this) ever play spellcasters, but I'm on a first life sorc. Which area in the game has the best gear drops for evocation based sorcerors? I've played the crap out of Ravenloft, made it part way through gianthold and found gear lacking in power compared to ravenloft. Just finished the first 8 quests of Sharn and haven't found a single named loot piece. So far, Ravenloft is the best gear spot I've found hands down. However, the bonuses are starting to age since I'm lvl 16-17 now. Any tips?
@@AxelAlexK there are a lot of people like me who is struggling because they just end up in game and there are tons of content. So building characters, choosing equipment is really pain for us. I am currently try to make my first (pale trapper) life character. Planning to do double reancarnation (lvl 25 now). For my second life i am grinding your suggestions to make my work little bit easy in next life. I would highly appreciate if you can include leveling gear for wizards ( casters )
@@ElvinQulamzade I know, I do make newer player videos for that reason and I've made a few recently. I'm not an expert enough on wizard gear to make the video you're asking and that's a bit too niche for the types of videos I do but I have made a lot of newer player focused videos and will do more in the future.
Thanks for this video. So picking up on the new player loop... I am in Korthos and stalled on a quest NPC there (To Stormreach) Rinnar D'thuranni on the pier which tells me to talk to him about passage to stormreach however the NPC who has a green check over his head does nothing but shows dialogue of him saying his 'crew will not depart due to the dragon etc.". The green check over head has allowed me to complete and advance quests until now? BUT not with this guy. So how do I get to your Mount drop quest if they stop me in my tracks there? He also has a quest 'The Salavation of Korthos' which has stalled there as well for some reason. Is this about FTP benefits which is why I can not advance or am I missing something? I have joined the DDO Wiki page which works well for LOTRO but its not nearly as UI friendly and clear on the DDO Page? Hope its not a FTP issue otherwise back to LOTRO for me. That would be far to early to steer away players do storyline content being unavailable to progress so soon. If theres a site you can point me to that has these answers I can stop bugging you. Lol. Tks.
Sounds like you need to do the quest Misery's Peak, that's the final Korthos quest and where you deal with the dragon. Though you have the option to skip and go to the Harbor anyway. All of Korthos is free to play. You may also have not done some of the other quests before Misery's Peak. There's several you enter from the Korthos slayer zone. If you want to join my discord me and other people there can help you out. And maybe play with you depending on what server you're on. Join link in my linktree here: linktr.ee/axelalexk
Thanks for the link. I have not used discord in years. So I had already completed the Misery Peaks and have been trying to level to level 4? Would that be what holds me back? Also trying to complete the Slayer deed on Korthos Island. I have all complete but a few mobs to get to 400? Is that the area you mean by slayer zone? I think my server is called Thelas? This Rinar NPC is still lit up with gren check. One other thing that might help you figure it out is the ship in the harbor is all still in one piece? Isn't it supposed to be in pieces? I watched a video that showed starters getting on a ship to begin? Is that AFTER you complete 1 toon complete in Korthos starter area? None of it makes snese. But I am usually the guy people come to in LOTRO for answers and know what its like. LOL.@@AxelAlexK
@@PURPLEPILLED Did you group? Maybe you did the quest before talking to the NPC, which can happen if someone else in your group had the quest. Or maybe you didn't turn something in to an NPC. Look for green check marks on the map. I'm not sure what you missed but in any case it doesn't really matter because if you finished Misery's Peak you are done with Korthos. One of the NPC across from the cannith crystal quest in the village will teleport you to the Harbor. There are lots of low level quests there and in the Marketplace you can start doing.
Do you think I need level 4 to get that NPC to complete quest and remove green check? I was concerend about getting that mount you showed in this region as a good drop?@@AxelAlexK
I was scrolling through comments hoping someone would mention slave lords crafting. Personally, it is my favorite. Special events like pirate cove and mabar (halloween) festivals are also good in my opinion.
You might want to do a re-do video for which adventure packs to buy so that it looks something like this: 1. Gianthold 2. VoN 3. Mists of Ravenloft (you can technically buy it for TP, and every TR does the chain at least once every life)* 4. Sharn (TR trains always do this, also in epics) 5. Sentinals of Stormreach (I see LFMs for this a lot more than Vale, for example) 6. Delera's Tomb (exclusively for VotM since the reward list got butchered) 7. Catacombs** 8. Keep on the Borderlands (for OP lvl 21 loot, nothing else)*** 9. Thunderholme
10. Nec 4 1-7 for heroics, 8-10 for epics. The first two are run way more than Vale ever will be. Also, all of Vale's raids (raids in general) are dead, so it loses its value there (w/o GS, which is impossible to farm up otherwise/still outclassed by RL gear except for on a few levels). Gianthold is always run, VoN, too. And they don't have worthless raids de-valuing them. The only thing Vale has going for it is its level range, but with Sharn out (and the fact that they are first-lifers), that doesn't mean much anyways. The glory days of the Shroud are definitely gone. (which is sad) (i.e. if they learn to bank xp, play at one level above instead of just getting packs that have quests at their level, they can still hit 20 easily) -Sands is pretty worthless too nowadays because the only quest in it that's ever run in a LFM is Wiz-king. Have fun farming up a Torc/Ring yourself in two months... -MotU is also never (emphasis on "never") run, buying it only to get ED's isn't all that practical. (good luck to the newbie trying to complete all 3 chains on his own). The raid is dead. -Tangleroot LFMs are less common... (non-existent, plus hires give DW for free) -Delera's is pretty (always) lacking in LFMs nowadays, and the reward list got cut. But VotM is still there, and epic, too. *Mists pretty much trumps every other pack in the list save GH and VoN for the fact that the gear is just too powerful. Sands, VoT raid loot... you name it. Conveniently, it costs more than double the best packs in-game. The raids are getting pretty dusty, though. **Thoughts on Catacombs: I see R1 LFMs going up way more than Tangleroot or anything else at its level (except for maybe WW, which is free anyways). So if newbs want to feel like they're actually playing a multiplayer game, then they should get catacombs (good loot is marginally important at low levels anyways, xp for a first lifer already covered). Also, it's epic now. ***LFMs for this one are going to decline pretty soon, though there do seem to be plenty of people in the public space. (in comparison to when Vale first came out, it's definitely not worth the price) Maybe you were picking from fun, loot, and xp for your original AP video, but especially today, there's a big gap between what's "fun" and what's "loot/xp". Most people are in the "loot/xp" group, but there are others still. Making two videos (one for fun packs, the other for loot/xp) would probably benefit new players today the best, given the game's atmosphere nowadays. But that is imo. This is speaking from experience on Thelanis (your server), just fyi.
I think an update video for that would be better off waiting for feywild to drop so it doesn't go out of date so quickly. But yeah, that video needs an update badly.
I've run that quest SO many times over multiple characters and never gotten the blade drop. Luckily I never run it for that specific item, I hardly ever even think of it even though I have been aware of it through the DDO wiki.
Tbh, I don't know if Green Steel cost-benefit is worth at all. To get as "That Patrick Guy" said, the problem is getting a group. Despise my guild buddies are all nice and probably would help me on GS items, I'm not much fond of raids. I have a few Green Steel itens myself (2 Great-Axes for Barbarians, 1 Goggle who I crafted wrong and it became nearly useless). But I never used it too much after the first surge of Cannith Crafting. I have many raids I never played, as House C ones. I think I love Masterminds of Sharn because I was never required to play a raid to have a nice set. (Ravenloft have it too, but my gear was set in such way it was unlikely I would be able to enjoy any set bonus).
Maybe, not a bad idea. I doubt I will anytime soon though, a lot of my upcoming videos I already planned out. Check the ddowiki though there's a good explanation over there.
Been watching more of your videos maybe i was too harsh about the donation thing that was my first video i watched i apologize but good video liked and subbed
It is not must do first time on elite. If solo'ing the first time through, normal is what I like doing. It's what I tend to do on my first ever runs just so I can learn and flower sniff the quests without any risk of dying. You don't have to do them on elite, though XP and drop rates are better on elite. As are saga rewards. Though for Ravenloft they're complex quests for a lot of them so running them on normal first time solo is not a bad idea. After I learn them on normal I tend to then run them on reaper or whatever in groups. It's really up to you though and depends a lot on how strong your character is at solo'ing.
@@AxelAlexK Thanks for the reply. I just feel like because of the bravery bonus, I am missing out if I don't jack up the difficulty. But for sharn I am only in it for the loot. (already level 20)
@@Arcalite Bravery bonus was changed fairly recently in U42.4, so you don't need to worry about elite streak anymore. You will get the extra elite xp anyway whenever you end up running elite :)
This game needs some kind of setup for a "realm" pvp and rewards in a zone or battlegroup. Law vs chaos vs neutral or good v evil v pve. I enjoy the pve but it's missing something..
I would, but I just quit playing. My VIP expired while I was hospitalized, and with a long road ahead of me, I can't see affording VIP again anytime in the near future, In the mean time, all the shared bank spaces I have bought are lost and my toon is frozen because he's an Alchemist which as VIP, you don't have the option to get and now I can't get it. They have basically left years of hard work unreachable by me. I don't have it in me to start over so I guess I'm done .
I saw your post on the general forum about this. Yeah, sorry about your situation, but that's the way it has always worked. If you don't own the shared bank you can't access the bank upgrades even though you bought them, because you don't own base shared bank itself. Same goes to characters you made with classes you don't own if VIP lapses. They obviously can't let people access them because if it worked otherwise everyone could pay for VIP for 1 month to get around ever buying any content.
I was VIP and lost a lot of content, but I had ddo points stored up, so I bought the necessities with DDO points. I lost access to half a dozen characters because I didn't have their race, or class anymore. The game right now has all the content available. If you got on for free, and put even a little time in, you could level up, do the quests in Cannith and get the artificer class for free. You could probably save up enough points to also get your shared bank back. I don't like the company that holds this game hostage, and are milking every scrap of money they can from it, so I haven't spent a dime on it since I lost VIP 4 years ago. I have most of the important stuff in the game, I saved enough ddo points from just leveling and reincarnating to buy the big packs, and I wait around and get stuff when they offer it on sale. I just got warforged race around christmas time.
you still can farm TP: on a server you've not all slot filled start a vet4 or 7(but 4 will be more easy to group in harbor an d quest are quicker there) and get to 400 favor(which give extra bonus) then delete. Being premium make available 1 more slot(though by years it has be gone at some time, i just buy another stuff with real money around 5$ and it make it available again, i even bought boxed game way before DDO came unlimited). Slot of characters are not really expensive either, races and class are but you can get to drow and fvs by only getting favor. I understanding how your feelings but while VIP you should have save some TP and in the meantime that system allow to acess most of the content free by just playing even if it take age sometimes(got RV by farming 1 month and had nearly all the other quests packs opened, i'm sure i'm not the only one doing this way). @Axel's DDO Channel: you ought to add GiantHold for it's a good pack(ToR got some really good chests rewars too) and end reward for whole give Portable Hole who add another bag slot + let unlock higher favor(so the +2 stat tome) and collapsed portable hole are no more so easy to drop in quest, i think it's even harder to drop than tome in random chests now(i do drop usually 2-3 tomes until i've some hole). Nice review anyway and mostly the essential for a good start, although i'm too lazy to farm on all my toons feather in borderlands.
I've done a bunch of different guides, check out the "guides" playlist on my youtube homepage. As far as specifically for free to play, not really, but you may find what I have made useful.
Hi I need your help so I just started playing Dungeons and dragons online and I just finished the main quest and now I started a new quest in borderlands and my character is stuck in the corner and I can't move him or use any thing to get out and it started lagging and I don't know what to do can you pls help me.
In a quest? Try typing in /stuck to teleport out of a stuck spot. Can also try relogging your character but that will boot you out of the quest most likely.
Dude. I have been watching your videos for nearly a year. I have just been too... shy? to say/ask this. Can you please stop "swallowing" in your talking? This is pre-recorded. You can do better. I know. Personal experience. It's just, I know it's my own problem, but I know my obsession and personal fixation on your swallowing (which you do in EVERY VIDEO, EVER, which is why for over a YEAR I have never spoke, I am too shy) but god damnit, it fucking breaks it for me, ever time.
And sorry if I came off as overly harsh. When you are pre-recording these things, you can notice that. How you haven't done multiple re-takes to do it to cancel it out, or at worst, you were editing, and noticed it, and did a retake, I just can't figure it out. I won't compare it to voice work I've done, it's unfair, but... it has always been something I have noticed in every video, and in every one of them, it's always what makes me mute/block/stop the video. That swallowing between takes. 1:06. Why? Was it that hard to speak that all?
I remember someone commenting something similar recently, guessing that was you? lol. When I pause like that what I'm usually doing is collecting my thoughts. I don't script 99% of my videos. The only exceptions really are the ddo storylines and short story narrations I did years ago where I did try and speak as perfectly as possible because I was trying to do a more dramatic narration. But otherwise, that's just how I talk, don't know what else to tell ya. And like you aluded to, I'm just a youtuber doing videos in my spare time by myself. I get paid almost nothing from doing these videos so there is a limit to how much time I can spend editing and retaking. And I learned a long time ago I can't be overly picky with myself or else I'll never get stuff uploaded on a regular basis.
@@AxelAlexK Oh my god. You have no clue how much I had to adapt to that mindset myself. When I did voice work, initially I was REALLY over-picky with myself and I would do 7-12 retakes of single lines, day in and day out, and be late delivering things to folks (even if it was FREE work!) and I hated myself for it. Eventually, I just learned to accept some of my vocal foibles and just go on through it, and people still loved my voice work... so... hah! I was my own worst critic. Sorry I was mean in my initial post, I wanted it to be a "positive critique" but ya know... bleh.
The big problem I've found with The Vale of Twilight is getting a group for the Shard itself. I've not had anyone willing to take on a new raider, and I've not got a character powerful enough to run the Shard solo: I've tried with my level 30 and just can't make it past the first stage. I don't know that a month and change will allow a lot of players the opportunity to succeed at crafting multiple greensteel items, but I admit that it is possible, especially if the players are self-quarantined and choose to spend a lot of hours making the long slog through the chain of quests.
Epic Devil Assault will give a couple of ingredients on the average run, which can help add to the crafting stock. That has been my main way of acquiring bits and pieces for crafting. Since the most essential ingredients, the shards, are BtC one cannot have a higher level character grind them for lower level characters. Alas.
This is fair, grouping for shroud is harder these days. Though the stuff I recommended is heroic so you can run it way overlevel easily with just a small group of people. And you don't have to complete and deal with the timer if going for just tier 2 clicky stuff. People are also usually pretty willing to pass or trade stuff in the early chests.
@@AxelAlexK: I've never had much luck finding a group for it over the eight years I've been eligible to go. Maybe my play schedule is just too erratic, which is a reasonable reason, or whatever else it may be, but I just can't find a group that will let a "noob" join up.
I've watched several solo Shard videos trying to get some hints and tips, but just not having much luck replicating them because I can't deal the mega-massive damage I see them dealing. My best hope is to get drops through Devil Assault to put together some basic items, but even that is an uphill battle. Phew!
Anyhow, I appreciate the reply and I appreciate your vids for keeping this casual DDO gamer up to date. Considering running some Sharn bits while they're free just to see what there is, so extra thanks for your vids on that!
I been playing for a few years as a premium player but i had no idea about the Voice of The Master. I got mine last might after watching this! Thanks a lot Axel!!!
Get the epic version too. Lvl 20
@@findingmysoulagain1738 Once i get a character to lvl 20 i sure will!
10) Favor! Run everything you can on elite for favor, often people will help that can open if you are first or 2nd life. This gives access to Drow race, +2 stat tome, Favored Soul class, +5 stat tome if you can get to 5k favor. At the same time you will get access to all the favor rewards from specific groups that unlock for your character. Including skill trees for Inquisitor, Harper, Vistani knife fighter, and if you are lucky Falconry. Also Artificer class. The game has tons of content that you will never normally see because the exp is not worth while, the difficulty for reward is not good, or there are no drops, this is the opportunity to try everything in the game for free. Lastly on favor, you get 25 ddo points for every 100 favor, so when at the end of april you lose access to everything you will have lots of ddo points to spend on the things you want the most.
9) Gear for your class! Take a moment to consider your character, what is the most important stat/s for that character? Go to google ddo and stat and find a page that shows all the gear with that stat on it. Find out what is best available to your level and go farm that.
8) Gear for next life! Reincarnation is the easiest, and slowest way to improve your character. But it lets you fix your mistakes you made the first time around. Plan ahead and google and then farm the equipment you will need. Your gear is saved in a reincarnation withdrawal bank and you can just grab it as you level up your new life.
7) Experience! The long term players have figured out the fastest quests to run for the most experience, often these are the only pugs (pick up groups) that are looking for people to join, and most of these are in packs that are not free to play. Now is your chance to level up as fast as possible.
6) Sharn! As axel stated, this is the best gear in the game. If you are new you don't know what you find the most fun to play, maybe your paladin seems boring compared to all the sorcerers around you. Go grab this equipment and save it for trying new things.
5) Barovia! Same as Sharn but easier to get drops and easier content to solo.
4) Slavers! This pack is hard but you get crafting materials. Often when you got that best sharn or barovia gear, it is missing something that you need. Slavers allows you to craft really good gear with just the stuff you need. This isn't necessarily worth spending money or ddo points on when so many other things are more important, so grab it now while it is free.
3) Vale! Same as Axel stated.
2) Voice of the Master (delaras tomb)! Super useful for all leveling, and the pack isn't worth spending points or money on so get it now, super easy and super important. As a secondary, Mantle of the Worldshaper from Threnal Pack, same exp bonus, get a set bonus when wearing both voice and mantle, and with more farming for Epic Tokens of the Twelve, you can merge them into an augment that you can put into any equipment you want for that sweet exp bonus.
1) FUN! Farming implies the drudgery of doing the same thing over and over. Don't do that. Think about what you would enjoy doing the most, and go do that. This is an amazing game. You do you.
falconry requires twilight forge raid. That is not very feasible
@@foji-video Thought it got fixed? I believe the final boss fight is not necessary if you do every other quest possible.
@@foji-video I considered falconry unlock on my list and this is partially why I didn't include it. Too long a grind (700 favor) and requires the restless isles raid which nobody runs so it's not feasible to get by April for newer players IMO.
@@Uhlbelk I am not talking about the raid being impossible to complete. It is simply impossible to create a group for that, you basically would need to do it solo (not very feasible, for the little I know this raid).
Restless isles are a pain even just to get to the quests to flag, and in general the whole pack is poorly designed.
I wish I had never bought that pack
@@foji-video Just did it today to get my falconry tree :D, on one of my characters...i think that makes 2 out of 5 that have the tree now.
Always really liked your content good sir! This quarantine situation is a mess but it’s great to see more frequent content, stay well and keep up the good work my friend ✌️
Thanks, there will probably be more this week if I can think of some ideas as my state is currently under a stay at home order so I can't leave my place for anything except to go to the grocery store, basically. And am working my 9-5 job from home. So I have more time in the evenings right now, needless to say, lol.
Axel's DDO Channel there are only a couple of good DDO you tubers, something that I’ve never seen I’ve always wished for was something of a gear guide! I find myself running a lot of older content and a named item will drop and I get excited because I’ve never heard of it or seen it. Something to the ends optimizing Gear farming for specific roles through leveling. I know ravenloft and Sharn wares are the best for the most part, but I’ll never forget the guy I saw calling lightning with melee... ravenloft ain’t got no gloves like that 😅
Nice list, the sidebars for new players is great as this game can be quite daunting to start. One thing I'd mention about the mount farm: Pick a character that has speed (items, haste, w/e) to start. Get a path around the wilderness area you are comfortable with. Don't forget to use recall to shorten travel time (Perhaps hitting farm to north from zone, then hermit, recall, back out without reset and head for south loop). Once you have 15 tokens, get a mount for that character. Now that character can farm mounts way faster since you can use it in the wilderness. The tokens are account bound, mounts are not. So get a bunch of tokens, drop in shared bank, and all your alts can get mounts as well. Just be sure to take 15 tokens from stash on each character and turn in before the end of access if you don't have the pack! The mount turn in NPC can only be accessed via the pack itself, not in a free public area.
As a new player, I think it would be helpful to mention the levels of the quests, since I’m not sure if I can even do the free content. Just some food for thought, thanks for the video.
Yeah, you're right, I should have. Though I did mention some of them. Anyways, Keep on the borderlands is level 1, house K is level 5-9ish, delera's is 7-10ish, heroic ravenloft starts at level 10 - so I'd start with those as a new player once you've get to them. Keep on the borderlands you can play immediately at level 1 and get a mount.
Axel's DDO Channel Thank you sir, this is very helpful. Just hit level 8 and have the mount farmed. Now to work on the rest of the list 😂
Do more top 10s! 😁
Maybe!
@@AxelAlexK Yeah! I loved the video.
Update: Content now free through August 31st! With a code available through then to keep it permanently, minus expansions.
Minor correction: Getting a mount requires you to collect 15 feathers from Keep on the Borderlands wilderness area chests, not 10 as I said in the video. Still not that long of a farm.
If you tr can you do the house k favor and get 40 more spaces including the previous ones from favor
@@grassgrazer22091 Yes, I believe tr resets favor. however I dont know if thats the same with the rewards such as inventory spaces. I think it resets the character and everything whole. You just get to keep the items gathered in that life
@@Jackoboy33 if you TR all your stuff gets put in a separate inventory called TR cache. You can leave things there indefinetly, up until when you need to TR again. But yes, you lose *FAVOR BASED* bank slot/intentory tabs
I'm going to mention that if one reaches Epic levels, Thunderholme/Thunderforged are a must. Just getting the Tier 1 Thunderforged weapons you'd need blows pretty much anything in the same level range and is a LOT less of a hassle to grind for than Greensteel. With Thunderholme slayer groups often cycling everyday, you can get all the dwarven ingots you'll need for TR/ETR later on.
Several good things suggested. I think that my wife and I will have to go collect some items. I really want those boots to free up the need of my feather fall ring.
They are minimum level 18 though. I wouldn't wear them, but only use them as clicky when needed and instead go for the epic voice of master min level 20. You can pick it as reward for heroic, it has the 30% movement speed as well and comes with a yellow, green AND blue augment slot, for the yellow one an NPC in the market place sells a topaz of feather falling for 9 atral shards. Another 9 and you can slot water breathing in the in the green slot and you still have a blue slot and +5% xp on everything plus you can free up the spaces for ring AND boots. :)
For 30% movement speed in heroic I picked the quiver of alacrity as anniversary gift to upgrade, no min level!
The Barovian Weapon is an easy farm and the weapons are really good.
Into The Mists is a very short quest that can be run on any difficulty but Elite isn't that difficult to be fair - I would suggest reducing your graphics settings before going in though as it's a particularly laggy quest.
The weapon trader is in the explorer zone when you leave the quest next to the road into Barovia Village so you really can't miss him.
I'd also suggest running Tangleroot Gorge for House P Favour {75 gets you the option to have an NPC buff you with 30 minute +2 Stat buffs, Resist Fire/Acid/Elec/Cold/Sonic and Jump - All of which are mega useful buffs to have.} and The Visor of the Flesh Render Guards from the End Chain reward list.
You may have to run the chain three times to get the Visor to drop but if you're Free to Play that's N/H/E which will get you the full favour while you're at it.
Not sure if "Fragrant Drowshoods" are still important collectables but they have a decent drop rate in these quests too - Basically click on any mushrooms you see :} TIP: If you don't mind fighting oozes there's 2 mushrooms near the start of the quest in the later parts of the chain, just turn right when you hit the first T-Junction.
new player here. got the bank space, literally currently grinding out voice of the masters. took a break and thought id just check out some yt ddo content, lol. white plume mountain is also my personal favorite pack (sharn is really great too tho) ive played through so far. the quest are all pretty different and puzzle/platformy, without being like, obnoxious, and entertaining whilst also still giving amazing rewards. also the mount is suuuuper useful for getting around, and while you are farming the chest, you can work on the Slayer there as well, which gives some nice xp, and/or decent loot for low lvl alts. i will say however, if you have access to a guild, WITH the public run speed buff, i dont think a mount is really needed if you have a speed up spell/clickie, unless you just want one. if the mount was actually instant casted, id say its worth on any account, but its slow as hell imo.
i am however glad to know me loving clickies will make my life easier. two of my favorites are simple ones from korthos. the braces of aid for the temp hp and the bless goggles, since it applies to everyone, i even use this on my cleric so i can slot a different spell. both are just extremely useful, specifically when i wouldn't otherwise be able to do that. for example, being able to cast aid on lars heyton as a non healer to do that quest without him dying. thats like small potatoes example, but i can just imagine it only getting more useful as i learn more and get more clickies/more useful clickies? (expedious run clickies are MUST haves for me now on toons that cant get a movement spell too.)
thank you
also just had an idea since people wanted more top 10s. how about top 10 (or more lol) most useful clickies and where to farm those, and why they are useful!
The WPM drops the item ONLY on Epic. VOT is accessible from guild ship (if high enough level guild) without going there via the Twelve: talk to captain; page2; Meridia.
Would love to see this form of video based on classes
- Falconry tree unlock for 700 free agents favor
- Pendant of Combat from Keep on Borderlands pack, The Bugbear Bandits quest - great epic leveling item for melee characters
Planar Shards. You can get a free large collectables bag just for kiling monsters in The Subterrane, Marketplace. 150 planar Shards.
add: the turn in sets from eveningstar, the turn-in weapons from borderlands ( really easy to get )
Remove: Greensteel. Greensteel is great but it has been ages since I've seen any one do the raid and since it's fairly difficult to solo.\
Questionable: The drop rate of Jack Jibbers blade is not just low. It's abysmally low.
Only need to run the first 3 parts to farm for heroic clickies, no need to complete raid. . Can solo or run with 1 other even at lvl 30. Super easy so long as you understand mechanics in part 2 and 3.
I like the staff in 3bc with gust of wind, I find it effective when I have one.
Not sure if you mentioned Coin lords favor. Kind of skipped through some.
Need a update for faywild but overall great video man
We need a top 10 of FOTM builds over the years
Hey Axel, thanks for the video! Just getting back into DDO after an almost 7 year hiatus. This video gave me and my buddies who picked up the game a great starting point for grabbing gear that I never had the chance to get previously as I was, and will most likely continue to be, a free-to-play cheapskate. Love DDO, but I have picked it up and put it down many times because of pay walls. The free month opened up a floodgate of content and I had no clue where to start with it. Thanks so much for the guidance!
I'm not sure if you (or anyone else reading this) ever play spellcasters, but I'm on a first life sorc. Which area in the game has the best gear drops for evocation based sorcerors? I've played the crap out of Ravenloft, made it part way through gianthold and found gear lacking in power compared to ravenloft. Just finished the first 8 quests of Sharn and haven't found a single named loot piece. So far, Ravenloft is the best gear spot I've found hands down. However, the bonuses are starting to age since I'm lvl 16-17 now. Any tips?
New feywild quests great caster gear
A good list, thanks for the video.
Pale Lavender Ioun Stone and Eternal Flask of Freedom Movement both great items for soloing heroic reaper
Should add mantle of the world shaper. Cloak that pairs with voice of the master. 2 piece set gives true sight.
will there be part 2 ?
maybe best sets for each class. best leveling gear and so.
I should. I was surprised at how much people liked this video.
@@AxelAlexK there are a lot of people like me who is struggling because they just end up in game and there are tons of content. So building characters, choosing equipment is really pain for us. I am currently try to make my first (pale trapper) life character. Planning to do double reancarnation (lvl 25 now). For my second life i am grinding your suggestions to make my work little bit easy in next life. I would highly appreciate if you can include leveling gear for wizards ( casters )
@@ElvinQulamzade I know, I do make newer player videos for that reason and I've made a few recently. I'm not an expert enough on wizard gear to make the video you're asking and that's a bit too niche for the types of videos I do but I have made a lot of newer player focused videos and will do more in the future.
Thanks for this video. So picking up on the new player loop... I am in Korthos and stalled on a quest NPC there (To Stormreach) Rinnar D'thuranni on the pier which tells me to talk to him about passage to stormreach however the NPC who has a green check over his head does nothing but shows dialogue of him saying his 'crew will not depart due to the dragon etc.". The green check over head has allowed me to complete and advance quests until now? BUT not with this guy. So how do I get to your Mount drop quest if they stop me in my tracks there? He also has a quest 'The Salavation of Korthos' which has stalled there as well for some reason. Is this about FTP benefits which is why I can not advance or am I missing something? I have joined the DDO Wiki page which works well for LOTRO but its not nearly as UI friendly and clear on the DDO Page? Hope its not a FTP issue otherwise back to LOTRO for me. That would be far to early to steer away players do storyline content being unavailable to progress so soon. If theres a site you can point me to that has these answers I can stop bugging you. Lol. Tks.
Sounds like you need to do the quest Misery's Peak, that's the final Korthos quest and where you deal with the dragon. Though you have the option to skip and go to the Harbor anyway. All of Korthos is free to play. You may also have not done some of the other quests before Misery's Peak. There's several you enter from the Korthos slayer zone. If you want to join my discord me and other people there can help you out. And maybe play with you depending on what server you're on. Join link in my linktree here: linktr.ee/axelalexk
Thanks for the link. I have not used discord in years. So I had already completed the Misery Peaks and have been trying to level to level 4? Would that be what holds me back? Also trying to complete the Slayer deed on Korthos Island. I have all complete but a few mobs to get to 400? Is that the area you mean by slayer zone? I think my server is called Thelas? This Rinar NPC is still lit up with gren check. One other thing that might help you figure it out is the ship in the harbor is all still in one piece? Isn't it supposed to be in pieces? I watched a video that showed starters getting on a ship to begin? Is that AFTER you complete 1 toon complete in Korthos starter area? None of it makes snese. But I am usually the guy people come to in LOTRO for answers and know what its like. LOL.@@AxelAlexK
@@PURPLEPILLED Did you group? Maybe you did the quest before talking to the NPC, which can happen if someone else in your group had the quest. Or maybe you didn't turn something in to an NPC. Look for green check marks on the map. I'm not sure what you missed but in any case it doesn't really matter because if you finished Misery's Peak you are done with Korthos. One of the NPC across from the cannith crystal quest in the village will teleport you to the Harbor. There are lots of low level quests there and in the Marketplace you can start doing.
yeah.... no did not group. Freakin perplexed. Covered everything I can see.@@AxelAlexK
Do you think I need level 4 to get that NPC to complete quest and remove green check? I was concerend about getting that mount you showed in this region as a good drop?@@AxelAlexK
I'd say slave lords, good heroic items that can be built very versatile/customized and they lowered the cost to make items so not too hard to farm now
I almost put slave lords on here, probably would have been my #11 if I were to add 1 more.
I was scrolling through comments hoping someone would mention slave lords crafting. Personally, it is my favorite.
Special events like pirate cove and mabar (halloween) festivals are also good in my opinion.
Jibbers drop rate is crap, though. Useful, but be prepared for multiple, MULTIPLE tries.
You might want to do a re-do video for which adventure packs to buy so that it looks something like this:
1. Gianthold
2. VoN
3. Mists of Ravenloft (you can technically buy it for TP, and every TR does the chain at least once every life)*
4. Sharn (TR trains always do this, also in epics)
5. Sentinals of Stormreach (I see LFMs for this a lot more than Vale, for example)
6. Delera's Tomb (exclusively for VotM since the reward list got butchered)
7. Catacombs**
8. Keep on the Borderlands (for OP lvl 21 loot, nothing else)***
9. Thunderholme
10. Nec 4
1-7 for heroics, 8-10 for epics.
The first two are run way more than Vale ever will be. Also, all of Vale's raids (raids in general) are dead, so it loses its value there (w/o GS, which is impossible to farm up otherwise/still outclassed by RL gear except for on a few levels). Gianthold is always run, VoN, too. And they don't have worthless raids de-valuing them. The only thing Vale has going for it is its level range, but with Sharn out (and the fact that they are first-lifers), that doesn't mean much anyways. The glory days of the Shroud are definitely gone. (which is sad)
(i.e. if they learn to bank xp, play at one level above instead of just getting packs that have quests at their level, they can still hit 20 easily)
-Sands is pretty worthless too nowadays because the only quest in it that's ever run in a LFM is Wiz-king. Have fun farming up a Torc/Ring yourself in two months...
-MotU is also never (emphasis on "never") run, buying it only to get ED's isn't all that practical. (good luck to the newbie trying to complete all 3 chains on his own). The raid is dead.
-Tangleroot LFMs are less common... (non-existent, plus hires give DW for free)
-Delera's is pretty (always) lacking in LFMs nowadays, and the reward list got cut. But VotM is still there, and epic, too.
*Mists pretty much trumps every other pack in the list save GH and VoN for the fact that the gear is just too powerful. Sands, VoT raid loot... you name it. Conveniently, it costs more than double the best packs in-game. The raids are getting pretty dusty, though.
**Thoughts on Catacombs: I see R1 LFMs going up way more than Tangleroot or anything else at its level (except for maybe WW, which is free anyways). So if newbs want to feel like they're actually playing a multiplayer game, then they should get catacombs (good loot is marginally important at low levels anyways, xp for a first lifer already covered). Also, it's epic now.
***LFMs for this one are going to decline pretty soon, though there do seem to be plenty of people in the public space. (in comparison to when Vale first came out, it's definitely not worth the price)
Maybe you were picking from fun, loot, and xp for your original AP video, but especially today, there's a big gap between what's "fun" and what's "loot/xp". Most people are in the "loot/xp" group, but there are others still. Making two videos (one for fun packs, the other for loot/xp) would probably benefit new players today the best, given the game's atmosphere nowadays. But that is imo.
This is speaking from experience on Thelanis (your server), just fyi.
I think an update video for that would be better off waiting for feywild to drop so it doesn't go out of date so quickly. But yeah, that video needs an update badly.
just a little correction, jibber’s blade can drop in heroics too, but only in the locked chest :)
Really? The ddowiki says it's epic only as I thought it was. But hmmm thanks for the info/correction :)
I've run that quest SO many times over multiple characters and never gotten the blade drop.
Luckily I never run it for that specific item, I hardly ever even think of it even though I have been aware of it through the DDO wiki.
amazed at how many people cant afford $15 a month for VIP. you are supporting the devs and gives you access to a lot.
Our guild we just do the $99 for the year. Even cheaper. :)
Tbh, I don't know if Green Steel cost-benefit is worth at all. To get as "That Patrick Guy" said, the problem is getting a group. Despise my guild buddies are all nice and probably would help me on GS items, I'm not much fond of raids. I have a few Green Steel itens myself (2 Great-Axes for Barbarians, 1 Goggle who I crafted wrong and it became nearly useless). But I never used it too much after the first surge of Cannith Crafting. I have many raids I never played, as House C ones.
I think I love Masterminds of Sharn because I was never required to play a raid to have a nice set. (Ravenloft have it too, but my gear was set in such way it was unlikely I would be able to enjoy any set bonus).
Hey, I'm pretty new in DDO, can you do a video about augments? Idk who it works
Maybe, not a bad idea. I doubt I will anytime soon though, a lot of my upcoming videos I already planned out. Check the ddowiki though there's a good explanation over there.
When you say a certain pack has great gear or great sets you should give examples. More convincing/engaging that way.
Dont forget heroic Abbot raid! Find high players to easily destroy it and get the gloves and more.
Been watching more of your videos maybe i was too harsh about the donation thing that was my first video i watched i apologize but good video liked and subbed
It's ok, no problem, appreciate the sub
i would add eveningstar favor for the key to the ES, unlocking fvs, art favor and sadly unobtainable quiver of alacrity
It's a pick for the 15th anniversary token now! :D
checking every rare for the horse feathers, i managed 4 or 5 feather tokens per clear, took about an hour total.
Yeah it's not too bad. I did it in around 90 minutes iirc.
Axel, do you recommend clearing the raven or sharn expansions on normal difficulty solo, or is it a must to do it on elite first try?
It is not must do first time on elite. If solo'ing the first time through, normal is what I like doing. It's what I tend to do on my first ever runs just so I can learn and flower sniff the quests without any risk of dying. You don't have to do them on elite, though XP and drop rates are better on elite. As are saga rewards. Though for Ravenloft they're complex quests for a lot of them so running them on normal first time solo is not a bad idea. After I learn them on normal I tend to then run them on reaper or whatever in groups. It's really up to you though and depends a lot on how strong your character is at solo'ing.
@@AxelAlexK Thanks for the reply. I just feel like because of the bravery bonus, I am missing out if I don't jack up the difficulty. But for sharn I am only in it for the loot. (already level 20)
@@Arcalite Bravery bonus was changed fairly recently in U42.4, so you don't need to worry about elite streak anymore. You will get the extra elite xp anyway whenever you end up running elite :)
@@AxelAlexK oh that's great. Thanks!
This game needs some kind of setup for a "realm" pvp and rewards in a zone or battlegroup. Law vs chaos vs neutral or good v evil v pve. I enjoy the pve but it's missing something..
yeah definitely get that ravenloft and sharn gear if you dont own it
I would, but I just quit playing. My VIP expired while I was hospitalized, and with a long road ahead of me, I can't see affording VIP again anytime in the near future, In the mean time, all the shared bank spaces I have bought are lost and my toon is frozen because he's an Alchemist which as VIP, you don't have the option to get and now I can't get it. They have basically left years of hard work unreachable by me. I don't have it in me to start over so I guess I'm done .
I saw your post on the general forum about this. Yeah, sorry about your situation, but that's the way it has always worked. If you don't own the shared bank you can't access the bank upgrades even though you bought them, because you don't own base shared bank itself. Same goes to characters you made with classes you don't own if VIP lapses. They obviously can't let people access them because if it worked otherwise everyone could pay for VIP for 1 month to get around ever buying any content.
@@AxelAlexK I disagree. They should be able to access them, just not run them in quests.
I was VIP and lost a lot of content, but I had ddo points stored up, so I bought the necessities with DDO points. I lost access to half a dozen characters because I didn't have their race, or class anymore. The game right now has all the content available. If you got on for free, and put even a little time in, you could level up, do the quests in Cannith and get the artificer class for free. You could probably save up enough points to also get your shared bank back. I don't like the company that holds this game hostage, and are milking every scrap of money they can from it, so I haven't spent a dime on it since I lost VIP 4 years ago. I have most of the important stuff in the game, I saved enough ddo points from just leveling and reincarnating to buy the big packs, and I wait around and get stuff when they offer it on sale. I just got warforged race around christmas time.
you still can farm TP: on a server you've not all slot filled start a vet4 or 7(but 4 will be more easy to group in harbor an d quest are quicker there) and get to 400 favor(which give extra bonus) then delete. Being premium make available 1 more slot(though by years it has be gone at some time, i just buy another stuff with real money around 5$ and it make it available again, i even bought boxed game way before DDO came unlimited). Slot of characters are not really expensive either, races and class are but you can get to drow and fvs by only getting favor. I understanding how your feelings but while VIP you should have save some TP and in the meantime that system allow to acess most of the content free by just playing even if it take age sometimes(got RV by farming 1 month and had nearly all the other quests packs opened, i'm sure i'm not the only one doing this way).
@Axel's DDO Channel: you ought to add GiantHold for it's a good pack(ToR got some really good chests rewars too) and end reward for whole give Portable Hole who add another bag slot + let unlock higher favor(so the +2 stat tome) and collapsed portable hole are no more so easy to drop in quest, i think it's even harder to drop than tome in random chests now(i do drop usually 2-3 tomes until i've some hole). Nice review anyway and mostly the essential for a good start, although i'm too lazy to farm on all my toons feather in borderlands.
so is there a guide for new players that want to stay in free 2 play getting and improving gear and gold or in game currencies
I've done a bunch of different guides, check out the "guides" playlist on my youtube homepage. As far as specifically for free to play, not really, but you may find what I have made useful.
watching this video on May 1st.
Don't worry, SSG extended the free period until June 1st :)
I miss this game
The game is still going strong, you can still play :-)
@@AxelAlexK not strong at all in my timezone unfortunately.
Hi I need your help so I just started playing Dungeons and dragons online and I just finished the main quest and now I started a new quest in borderlands and my character is stuck in the corner and I can't move him or use any thing to get out and it started lagging and I don't know what to do can you pls help me.
In a quest? Try typing in /stuck to teleport out of a stuck spot. Can also try relogging your character but that will boot you out of the quest most likely.
@@AxelAlexK thanks a lot.
You cant buy a mount btw
Dude. I have been watching your videos for nearly a year. I have just been too... shy? to say/ask this. Can you please stop "swallowing" in your talking? This is pre-recorded. You can do better. I know. Personal experience. It's just, I know it's my own problem, but I know my obsession and personal fixation on your swallowing (which you do in EVERY VIDEO, EVER, which is why for over a YEAR I have never spoke, I am too shy) but god damnit, it fucking breaks it for me, ever time.
And sorry if I came off as overly harsh. When you are pre-recording these things, you can notice that. How you haven't done multiple re-takes to do it to cancel it out, or at worst, you were editing, and noticed it, and did a retake, I just can't figure it out. I won't compare it to voice work I've done, it's unfair, but... it has always been something I have noticed in every video, and in every one of them, it's always what makes me mute/block/stop the video. That swallowing between takes. 1:06. Why? Was it that hard to speak that all?
I remember someone commenting something similar recently, guessing that was you? lol. When I pause like that what I'm usually doing is collecting my thoughts. I don't script 99% of my videos. The only exceptions really are the ddo storylines and short story narrations I did years ago where I did try and speak as perfectly as possible because I was trying to do a more dramatic narration. But otherwise, that's just how I talk, don't know what else to tell ya. And like you aluded to, I'm just a youtuber doing videos in my spare time by myself. I get paid almost nothing from doing these videos so there is a limit to how much time I can spend editing and retaking. And I learned a long time ago I can't be overly picky with myself or else I'll never get stuff uploaded on a regular basis.
@@AxelAlexK Oh my god. You have no clue how much I had to adapt to that mindset myself. When I did voice work, initially I was REALLY over-picky with myself and I would do 7-12 retakes of single lines, day in and day out, and be late delivering things to folks (even if it was FREE work!) and I hated myself for it.
Eventually, I just learned to accept some of my vocal foibles and just go on through it, and people still loved my voice work... so... hah! I was my own worst critic. Sorry I was mean in my initial post, I wanted it to be a "positive critique" but ya know... bleh.
Trying so hard to sale expansions for a game that is DEAD. Dont waste your time on ddo. The only ppl that play are staff. Just go back to WoW.