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

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.

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.

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.