

Not exactly ideal when I want to play with others – adventures are nice to share, after all – but not a total buzzkill, especially since I’ve been making money hand over fist to this point. I entered every instance I was running, including this one, at normal difficulty and open to any old person to join me, and I had one person try to join… and then immediately cancel the request because it was apparently a “misclick.”īasically, this meant that I was reliant on the healbot hireling, which I understand can be temporarily hired for in-game cash or bought from the cash shop. It further reminded me of one of the bigger problems of DDO that I was running in to: This game is not exactly great to find others playing at lower levels. Which, as a paladin, hasn’t really lead to my doom terribly often except for this specific instance. Honestly, I’m pretty sure I was doing something meant for a group solely by myself. For the most part I was able to press forward on my lonesome purely because I was given a cleric hireling to follow me around and be my healbot, but at a certain point I ran afoul of a particularly nasty trap and my hireling’s time ran out. It also kind of introduced me to the fact that I was probably just a bit out of my depth. The missions I had taken up prior to that point were all just sewer-based delves, and this one started similarly, but it slowly unfolded into mushroom-filled caverns, a whole underground city, and a little classic subterranean dungeon. The one instance I did select during that stream, though, ended up being a whole lot more involved than I expected, though, involving stopping kobolds, then a bunch of kobolds, and finding an item of some importance deeper in the subterranean areas of the city I was currently located. I simply walked up to some NPCs that were nearby (and in a list of quest starters in an in-game UI element), talked to them, and headed to a nearby instance. Play DDO for freeI had returned to the game during a stream a couple of weeks ago and was pretty much reminded live on camera of the things this game does right in terms of gameplay beats.
