DDO: In which Cannith is full, and refuses entry to even one wafer-thin wizard.

My DDO server, Cannith, today seems to have become something of a victim of its own success, with players being greeted with the following:

Even the loading screen looks impatient.

According to the forum, even VIP subscribers, who have priority over premium folks like myself, can’t get in. It’s possible that the error message is itself erroneous, and the servers are not actually full, but something else is stopping us from being able to log in. The other […]

DDO: Gerard Dryden’s Mace

The end rewards for the Catacombs quest-line got a revamp in Module 5, with many of the end-reward weapons getting an improvement.

Blade of Inquisition: Gained Lesser Undead Bane. Dagger of Inquisition: Gained Lesser Undead Bane. Eternal Rest: Gained Lesser Undead Bane. Guidance: Gained Holy. Morningstar of the Heretic: Gained Bodyfeeder. Pillar of Light: Gained Radiance II.

But what Osgard, d’Kundarak engineer, is after today is Gerard Dryden’s Mace. It’s found in a chest behind a locked door in the […]

World of Warcraft: My thoughts on the RealID debate.

I don’t tend to write a lot about World of Warcraft, only having played it for a month or so in its first year. Still, as the biggest MMO by far, what happens over there matters, as you’ll generally see it happening 6 months later everywhere else. So it is with WoW’s new RealID.

Essentially, your real name (or at any rate, the real name you gave when you signed up years ago, having no idea that it would later […]

Charmin Ultra: An incredibly tone-deaf commercial.

I saw this for the first time earlier while watching some MSNBC online, which likes to give me US advertising, and felt compelled to track it down to show you.

Nice timing on your advert, Charmin Ultra. If there’s anything that America needs to see more of at the moment, it is fish flopping around in brown muck. Who needs wetlands anyway?

Maybe you could donate a few tonnes of your amazingly absorbent tissue to clean up the blasted […]

DDO: How to make money in Dungeons and Dragons Online.

Because I was asked, here’s a little guide on how to make money in DDO:

Like anywhere else, becoming rich in Dungeons and Dragons Online involves two things; maximising your income, and minimising your expenses.

Some basics

When shopping for new gear it is best to check the brokers, as well as the auction house. While most of the best random gear does end up for auction, free players can only have one auction at a time, and many other […]

DDO Update 5 Hotfix to rectify Guild Renown lag bug

The US DDO servers are currently down for a hotfix, which began at 1 pm EST, and is due to finish at 5 pm EST.

This is primarily to fix a serious problem that was introduced with yesterday’s Update. The new guild renown system was causing serious and unexpected lag across the servers, and had to be disabled after a couple hours of the servers coming up yesterday. It was a little frustrating for guilds who were fired up and […]

DDO: Update 5 preview patch notes

It’s a major update incoming for Dungeons and Dragons Online tomorrow, as the Carnival of Shadows rolls into Stormreach.

Aside from the new lowish-level adventure series, I’m particularly looking forward to seeing the new guild system in action. I’ll be lending a hand with OnedAwesome’s levelling, and will report on our lovely new flying ship next week.

Clerics and Monks gain new Prestige enhancement lines, and I’ll be aiming my monk at the Daelkyr-fighting Shintao path. The only Wizard Prestige […]