My hands are still shaking as I type this entry! I had see the pictures when Sublime entered the Subterrain and pulled some phat loot (vorpal, smiter, and plus 2 tome from the SAME chest!), but this time I was going WITH them to the Island of Really Hawt Drow {read: The Island of Forgotten Dreams}. It was really really COOL!

The funniest part for me was when we got to the arena where some dream wraith-thingies are talking smack to us in the Livewood Theatre. They didn’t have that much to say….

Perhaps NEXT Time we will explain to them that we were all level 18-20 Permadeathers that have never ever touched a resurection shrine!  Maybe THEN those Dream Stealers will show some respect!

(See the Accomplishments Thread to get that remark!)

http://forums.ddo.com/showthread.php?t=235619

I have been having more fun than should be legally allowed on Khyber lately with the Friday Night Noob Club. I am not a noob you say? I beg to differ! I can be as clueless as the next person! (Read: I try my best not to spoil!)

I think the funnest thing for me has got to be teaching my guildmates about DDO! I have created at least one Auction House Monster as well as helped people craft their armor and upgrade weapons! My favorite is to watch them figure things out. I love it when people approach things from a fresh perspective.

Van Hemlock’s Noobs Defeat Tempest Spine!
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Lessah of Sarlona has seen her first black screen at level 17….

“Your Party Member Lessah has died” 

She had a Bloodstone…. she had plus 5 Mithral FP that was crafted to give her an extra plus 1 to AC…
She was an Improved crit slasher who used Kopeshes very effectively, could raise dead 4 times per rest… and even took extend to make Zeal and Angelskin and the like more use to her…

Other things she had that she found useful included the voice, the mantle of the world shaper which gave her true seeing when she needed it most, Minos Legions Helm, a very nicely crafted Kopesh…. you may not think much of these things, but she spent three years getting to where she is now.  Earning her way…. 

Alas… poor Lessah.. we knew her well… . sometimes you have to die where you stand. This is WHY we play PD. The High Highs… go hand in hand with low lows…
I admit it is really hard to fall so far down.

See… this is why they are called ETREME EXPLORERS and not. .MEDIOCRE  EXPLORERS…..  

*sigh

/cry

/click here to play Mass Effect 1

I really worked hard for this thing and I hope it is no accident that all these damages go together and ARE SO AWESOME!!!! How happy am I? Oh.. I dunno… THIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIS happy!

This started out as a plus 4 Flaming, Adamantine Heavy pickof Pure Good. I upgraded it during the Ice Games to add Icy Burst and then added a crafting ritual that put an additional point of force damage per hit on it.

Behold… Jenny’s Uber leets!!!

Jenny the Dink has made the final crafting upgrade on her weapon!

Jenny Rules the Menechtarun

So… that stupid Jack Frost finally gave me what I wanted on Orien in the build guild!!! I made my leet (well at least for me) weapon!!!!

Only three more servers to go!!!!!

Morah's new toy!

Edit*****

Lessah of Sarlona has HER new toy!!!!

*Edit!!!!!
Jenny the Dink Has a brand new toy too!!!!!  Man that Jack Frost is STINGY!!!!

I am still waiting on the crafting items I need to make this one truely special!!!!! When it is all over… THIS weapon will do an extra point of force damage on every hit!

WARNING:  The following blog post is my opinion only and is not meant to be offensive to any other player!

 

The long and… the very short of it is….

Lessah is off the reservation! 

Morah is large (figuratively) and in charge! I cannot believe how MUCH fun this build is to play!!!  She can fight!  She buffs/ heals/ hastes/ and displaces herself!  She is my little warchanter… and she ROCKS the house!  Granted… she started on a new server so she is a 28 point build.  However, I DID drop the DDO Points for a plus 2 CON Tome for her and a plus one STR Tome.  I cannot imagine WHY I did not try this build sooner! 

I LOVE LOVE LOVE IT!!!!! :D  

Here is the thing that bothers me… not about my bard/ intimatank/ killing machine, but…. the fact that the build guild is supposed to be a place for people to try out new builds without judgement.  I got what I felt like was serious flak from another player over my choice of build.  I should not have to defend my choices especially since I made them with my eyes wide open.  That aside… I did what I did for THREE reasons: 

1.)  Morah is a role-player.  Ask anyone who has grouped with her.  She is all halfling and I can barely control her!  That being said…. Morah can only ever be a halfling!  PERIOD! 

2.)  Because it is FUNNY!  Don’t people ever do things anymore because they are funny?  Tell me a halfling… female… barbarian/ intimitank does not sound funny?  It says:  “I do not take myself too seriously and neither should anyone else!”  Give me the guy who greased the traps in the Titain Raid and videoed his party wiping any day over the average leetist killjoy. 

3.)  I have a theory that solid tactics and gameplay style has a ton more to do with completing a quest than having the very best gear/ build.  It is a theory I am still experimenting with. 

 

So I have been spending loads of time working on my DDO Cast Build Guild Character.  (Say that 5 times fast!) 

MORAH… the Bard-Barian! Behold!!!!

Kalland hit level 20 today! 
(Version 3.0)

 

Thanks very much for all the people who helped get me here along the way! 

As soon as we figured out we were not just good enough.. but better then the high level content… we rocked it!  Gianthold Eltie?  No Problem!  I remember when we first did POP and Trial by Fire.  We thought we were in for it.  No… No we were not. We have had closer calls fighting Landslide in the Depths. 

At the end of the day, it is not about the rules that you followed to get there… but WHO you got there with!  The people in my guild have really made the diff in my PD Experience.  The fact is, when you hit the higher levels.. if you are still alive, you KNOW your party.   It makes you stronger.  We did not get here alone.  I don’t solo as a cleric.  I certainly did not get here alone. 

I would like to thank ALL of my Permadeath Brothers and Sisters for helping me reach a place.. well… I thought I never would.  No one… thought we would be here.
Yet… 

Ok.. .rambled enough for now! 

thank you thank you thank you!

*sheds a tear*

 :D:D:D

Ok.. so let’s recap the last week or so for me…. 

1.) Leveled Permadeath Paladin on Sarlona to 13.

            a.  Pulled Banishing Longbow, Paralyzing Handaxe, and Plus 5 Mithral FP for said Paladin.

2.)  Leveled Permadeath Rogue on Thelanis to 12.

            a.  Pulled Ring of Shadows for said rogue. 

3.)  Level 19 Permadeath Cleric on Thelanis is 13K from level 20. 

           a.  BU-YAH!!!

 

Ok…. So I admit I MAY have a problem.  I should not play so much DDO.  After all, there are things to do other than game.. right?  Like outside things.  Like…  TV?  Like….  no… I really can’t think of anything else and do not really want to until Kalland hits 20! 

After that I can quit any time…. right?

So I have been playing with the Extreme Explorers as of late… no I mean really late.  There is a guy and a girl from Austraila and New Zealand respectively who I have been running around with.  No one told them that some of these high level quests are HARD and that the end fights can be nasty.  They just skip through everything like it’s a picnic!  Laughing, smiling… etc etc. 

So I have been a meat shield for them in the Giant Hold.  It’s how my 11 permadeath paladin (Lessah of Sarlona) made level 12!  She is pretty close to 13 now too, I will post a link! 

Here is my girl! She is not the greatest build but she is very hardy and has a very nice aura (plus 4 to your AC and saves) and can raise the dead! 

 But HERE is the icing on the cake of my whole week!

Kudesnik (he’s Russian), joined us for some Maze of Madness goodness and pulled a plus 5 Mithral FP!  He could not use it so he gave it to me…. AFTER I pointed out that Issiana did not have girl parts IRL.  (It was a joke, but Kud handed it right over!) 
Anyway, I felt just aweful… (well ok, not aweful ENOUGH to give up the FUll Plate)… you know I offered other stuff, he said no thanks, something about my fashion sense being off and all that.   So we went to Orchard for some Rare and slayer Action! 
Guess what!  The FIRST rare we kill and the first chest we open drops this wicked-looking plus 4 mith Full plate of…somthing (I forget what else it does) and it goes to Issiana!  YAY!!! That is two peices of really sweet loot in one night!!! Everyone went home happy!  
 Oh… I almost forgot… I pulled a banashing longbow, min level ten, as an end reward for Troll Lair!  I still don’t like it as much as my returning slowburst dart.  (Don’t ask me WHY I love that little dart, I just do!)

My Rogue in Permadeath is ready to enter the Gianthold Tor.  Today at level 11 he did the swim in the Crucible and passed it with flying colors! 

*edit  My husband pointed out to me that I did not mention his name… oops.

His Name Is Nathzar, He is a drow who was raised by a dwarven woodcarver somwhere on the other side of the Thunder Sea. 

I am having a great time playing him!  I hope I can keep him alive a bit longer! At least long rnough to do some of the more *epic things in the game.  He is a far superior rogue to my first one, Lessah the Halfling rogue who hardly gets plyed anymore.  It’s sad but true…. I may re-roll her. 

 

LINK to Larger Loot Pic

The cool thing about this guy is the fact that I have not spent a lot of time *shopping for him.   He is ONE lucky drow!  He has seven named items on his person that he has personally looted out of chests!  Oh yeah… and he has also pulled an Int Tome!  Or maybe someone else did and passed it over… in any case, he won the roll off! 

He currently has a Ring of Shadows (hide and move silently plus 10 and 10% miss chance all the time!!) that he pulled his first time out of the box from the vamp room in Prison of the Planes.  He wears a Spiked Turbine (Protection and resistance plus 3) that he got in the desert from doing rares.  He wears both the named items that give you permanent true seeing.  The Mantle and the Voice.  I like those a great deal!  He also wears a Ring of Feathers that he pulled when he was just a little rogue, level 4 I think?  I am currently considering giving up his bracers for something else.  Advice?  He wears bracers of the Hunter that gives him plus 2 to reflex saves and sneak attack bonus plus 2, but the plus 5 to has been taken over by the ring of shadows!  I have the Trap Blast Goggles that I got as an STK end reward (plus 4 to reflex saves) that would be better.  My question is, does the sneak attack bonus stack with what I already have?  If not, my bracers might be going bye bye! 

In any case…he is my little good luck charm!  I love it! Now if I could jut pull a paralyzer….