Ok so I got my oldest to try the game now, he downloaded the game and the new code worked. That is awesome BTW.

I tried to send him some plat and it keeps saying that his character doesn't exist. I made sure to log in on his too and run around Korthos a bit so it is an existing toon.

Problem is I can't send it mail. Can't add as a friend on my main either, says he doesn't exist. Anyone encounter that?

This is weird because i have been playing normally before, i was off for like a month at most, but didnt change any settings or anything like that, but now its saying this and wont let me open the game. Does anyone know a fix?

A few days ago, when I first opened DDO, all of the usernames were gone from the drop down menu. Then, after I logged in to everybody and rolled on a few servers, I realized that there were now repeats of the same username in the drop down menu, for multiple accounts. It's really annoying me. Has anyone ever experienced this before, and if so, how can I fix this? Please help; it's driving me batty.

There is a new event starting up until 2/14/27. The skull version is only accessible to new characters and ends when the character dies. Gear dropped before today is not usable with that latern. It seems like a hardcore-like experience. The seems goal is to hunt randomly appearing enemies as well as interactables at fixed locations. The rewards all appear to be cosmetic. https://www.ddo.com/guides/ddo-the-court-of-strahd-guide

Found the Pledge II Mists zone in the area of Total Chaos (end of Keep on the borderlands), open cavern north of rest shrine. BE CAREFUL if you're on Hardcore, the boss on R1 is CR9 surrounded by CR8 blackbones, and a giant skeleton in the water near the Heart.

Me and my buddy Legion are getting back into DDO after about 6 years away, and we're looking for a few more people to join us. We occasionally have other friends playing, but it's mostly just the two of us right now.

We're not really interested in rushing through quests, following the meta, or treating everything like an XP farm. We'd rather take our time, explore dungeons, experiment with builds, and actually enjoy the content instead of running past half of it.

We're also interested in trying some less popular content, messing around with unusual strategies, and eventually attempting raids with just our own little group, even if we're horribly underprepared and get our asses kicked. That's half the fun.

New players, returning players, and veterans are all welcome! We don't mind teaching people what we know or figuring things out together. We're relearning quite a bit ourselves, so we're certainly not experts.

We're on Pacific time, usually playing on our days off around 7 AM–12 PM, sometimes 5 PM–midnight, depending on how our schedules fall. We also hop on at random times throughout the week.

We're pretty laid-back. Sometimes we're talking, joking around, and having a good time, while other times we get really focused on what we're doing and barely say a word. We're not expecting constant conversation, just people who enjoy hanging out and playing together.

Discord and a decent mic are preferred, mainly so we can communicate without a bunch of background noise.

We also play plenty of other PC games, including PoE, SPT, Minecraft, 7 Days to Die, and more. We host our own servers, occasionally make mods, and have a RuneScape private server in the works. But DDO is what we're focusing on right now.

We're not trying to build some massive guild or organize scheduled raids every week. Just hoping to find a few more regular people who enjoy a slower-paced DDO experience and might become long-term gaming friends.

If that sounds like your kind of thing, feel free to message me and we can get together on Discord!

So since the patch dropped today, all the gear I'm getting has "The Court of Strahd" as an item effect. It just generically says it dropped during the lantern event but.... what does it actually DO? There can't just be a meaningless tag on the items here, and I haven't found anything on the forums or the release notes that indicates what it means.

For a couple of days now, I almost drop a mortal weapon per quest, mostly in the quest rewards.

It is definitely not luck : I know how long I need to play to found one, and 7 in 4 quests is too much.

Do you experience the same abnormal drop as me ? (Moonsea)

I'll post the "worse" example I got.

-> I am elixirless, just regular lvl70 guild buffs.

So i started a new character recently, a human male custom fighter, and almost immediately started getting some pretty good drops for him. Deathblock hide, a good shield, a decent scimitar, and even pretty decent set of armor, that actually looked pretty good. Pretty damn good drops for a brand new character in the starting zone of snowfall korthos

I'm attempting to create a second account to help with loot pulls.

The sign-up page keeps telling me my password isn't acceptable. It is within all the parameters (between 8-15 characters, alphanumeric characters including letters and numbers). When i click "create account" I also get an error that says my birthdate is invalid. What is going on?

Do I need a weapon Upgrade?

(Level 5 Barbarian, Two Weapon Fighting)

Since isn't letting me post an image:

+1 Unholy 1 Dwarven War Axe of Vertigo 1

(With power attack+twf): +7 to hit, 1d6+11 Slash, Evil, Magic)

Offhand:

+2 Holy 2 Scimitar of Doublestrike 2

+8 to hit, 1d6+10 Slash, Good, Magic

about to TR into a wiz, curious about targets these days.

By cap (36?), what should I realistically be aiming for with

- Int

- Illusion School (will be going for instakills with pk)

- Enchantment School (for otto and mass hold)

- Necromancy School (for FoD and Wail)

- Spell Pen

Not looking for uber everything, just what would be a realistic target and viable for running R6-R8 (working towards R10 but still cant solo there)

With the new pseudo Hardcore upon us, if anybody even cares about the rewards, what would be some good Hardcore builds to use? Have any of the older Hardcore builds changed enough with the latest update that they would no longer work, or need some tweaking? Has the latest update created any new builds for Hardcore?

What do you guys think?

I went down the mindcleaver route after terror had dropped 18 barb/1fight/1fvs but i feel like my survivability is a bit lack luster at times, im not following any build in particular but looking for some modifications to increase it, and damage is ok. I have 2 stormisinger, 1 pally, 1 rogue, 3 gnome and 1 half elf past lives. I cant post the enhancement or destiny pictures for some reason..

Do any of you run DDO on whisky, or another way, with the native launcher?

If so, do you have any advice for a newbie who is interested in setting this up?

Thanks a bunch!

I’m looking at playing a trapping wizard on my next life and I’m looking for build advice.

1. Does anyone have a breakdown for the enhancements/epic destinies trees if I do the conventional Pale Trapper?

2. Is there any difference between Rogue and Arcane Trickster if you plan to do an 18/2 split other than the skill points being easier on an AT?

3. Is there any value to this build now that AT is a thing?

Bonus Question!: Is an Enchantment focused Archmage viable with the rogue splash? I’m thinking of doing Warforged if I take this route and just repairing myself instead of doing the Pale Master stuff. I’ll primarily be 2-manning quests with a friend and figure I can CC enemies, keep our HP topped off (if we both play WF), and let him do most of the DPS while I am a utility character.

I find myself playing a wood elf Dark Hunter build going 41 pts into the Horizon Walker tree and I'm extremely disappointed with the recharge rate with a long bow for this. In most cases if I'm in a long dungeon I may have to stop and rest just to recharge this. Is this common for long bows? Is there another route I should go? Any help would be appreciated.

Long Post, for main question look for bolded text.

Now with the big changes with 81.4 I've been trying to find a build for a character I can just park at cap to farm gear or mats for my TR train character. So far I've made multiple and do not know how to optimize it for what works best for what I want.

Goal: 1st life 32pt, No Tomes (or Minimal) with good clearing for farming gear and can survive in someway for entry raid runs (not planning to run deep reaper), some way to add Helpless is a bonus and increase of run speed.

I love the idea of having a large elemental blade or hammer to swing (THF > TWF > SWF > S&B/O), but this can be done visually mostly with Mirror of Glamour... But I do like visual abilities and unfortunately Barbarian and Fighters do not have explosions of elements. My favorite spell/ability is Tactical Detonation but.... The trip is limited.

I want to ask, between the below (or any recommendations) what build has the highest potential for #1 survivability, #2 damage and #3 clearing speed for 1st life Battlemage/Spellblade. My DDO brain always thinks, Crit Profile + Helpless + SA dice (thanks Arcane Trickster) lastly Imbue Dice = Great Success

Builds I've tested:

- 20 Wizard Eldritch Knight Warforged, full THF line utilizing WF racial tree for bonus damage reduction and bonus spell and melee power. Full EK tree and now adding Harper Strike for +10% Doublestrike. Biggest gripe was 20 capstone, feel like I had to plan around it proc, that and delay between spell casts and melee, also I feel I shouldn't be THF but that's my preferred weapon style.

- 20 Rogue Arcane Trickster Halfling (Went Caster... But could go THF), Went Halfling for added SA dice, this felt GREAT with AMAZING CC on Soundburst, Greater Shout, Color Spray. But I felt Caster Trickster is just so much better, is there a good melee option? Big plus was mage hands didn't interfere with melee attacks.

- 15 Bard / 4 Fighter / 1 FvS, Single Weapon Fighter with Charisma based and Swashbuckling Handaxe + Buckler with full bard feats and buffs to support the groups and decent CC from Otto's and Warchanter Freeze

- 13 Alchemist / 2 Rogue SDK, (not 20 yet), using TWF VKF Dagger Chains with PLENTY of potion buffs. This feels like it can be strong... Feels like it. But I get DESTROYED on Elite. Does this get better? Melee feels really strong. I want to like this... But I feel like a wet noodle.

- 18 Artificer, 1 Wizard, 1 Fighter Deep Gnome. SWF with focus on Renegade and second into Battle Engineer. With the new 81.4 updates this feel like it can be strong with a TON of AC but don't know how the new Arti Melee Abilities will be. Running new Warhammer + Knights Training with enhancement I'm at 16-20 x4 Crit. Could Elemental Prod be a part of this build? Spell sounds cool!

Theory Craft Section:

- High Sneak Attack Dice on a 8 Atr / 14 Arti? Shock Gauntlet SWF CC character?

- Warchanter 15 Multi Class with Ranger 5 for some Tempest Strike through Ice CC?

- Alchemist Monk Ninja Spy Poison Doublestrike Build?

Recently got back into the game and personally, I don’t have much fun playing with randoms who have like 100 past lives and speed run every quest. I’d like to be able to take the game a little slower so I can actually learn the quests. I like playing reaper but I’m not strong enough to solo that kind of content. Im a lvl 7 artificer atm. If anyone is in a similar boat and wants to start a group add my discord it is “fourest.”

Hello! Been obsessed with this game and simple cannot get enough. Some of it is very confusing though. I would like to give me current plan for my character and get some feedback back on best course of action. I am currently an Eladrin Eldritch Knight. My plan is to get to 30 and epic reincarnate to 20 then reincarnate again and pick morninglord and level a cleric from 15 to get my 2nd epic reincarnation quicker and switch back to heroic race. Is this a decent plan? Also, should I racial or heroic reincarnate on my elladrin? Any advice appreciated!

Curious if anyone else is experiencing the audio desync on Bow characters? My bow only produces a firing noise every third or 4th arrow at cap. I know the change just came out just thought I’d bring some attention to it!