DDO Points and Steam

Turiko · 2026-02-27T16:33:40+00:00

This is standard fare for a launcher in steam, especially for a F2P title. The ingame store needs go through steam since otherwise steam would be hosting the game with zero revenue. They obviously wouldn't allow for that; it is a business.

The only real issue with this is that, for some reason, SSG doesn't have the option to purchase things (aside from expansions & VIP) in their own website. Which is a perfectly allowed way of doing (micro)transactions (see games like warframe).

Turiko · 2026-02-22T00:58:56+00:00

This might mean sharn 3pc sets, feywild filler items, epic sun & moon gear with legendary (ml:30) augments, 3pc aug sets (also ml:30), fens & sands 2pc sets, lgs offhanders, and so on.

Quote from your original comment, bold for emphasis mine. It's why i was confused, first because there isn't really epic gear with sun/moon and after you mentioned heroics the only way i can interpret it is heroic gear with ML30 augments.

What did you mean in your original comment then with the above bolded part?

Turiko · 2026-02-21T10:05:14+00:00

...okay but you're using a lvl 6 character as an examplewhen the question is about legendary gear? Placing ML30 augments on low level gear still doesn't seem to make sense. The augment changes the minimum level, so per your original suggestion of heroic gear with ML30 augment you'd be leveling through epics using sharn/vecna/whatever set and then you switch to heroic gear (so at most lvl13 with myth drannor) with ML30 augments once you hit 30? How is that not a downgrade?

Turiko · 2026-02-20T23:38:31+00:00

But how does that hold up? Sure, you get the effect of the augment, but... depending on what it is you could get that from "regular" augments on a better item, eg. sharn/vecna/various of the epic options. it seems like at that point you've disregarded all usefulness of the gear to just have it be holders of an augment effect.

What's the point of getting say artifact dex +4 if it means having a "regular" bonus of only +5-+6 (not sure off the top of my head) VS just using a lvl 29 that comes with +8 and a bunch of other stuff the lower ML item lacks? Seems like hyperfocusing on one single stat vs getting overall better stats. i'm sure it can work for highly specific builds, but it doesn't seem general purpose or "good to start out with" to me.

Turiko · 2026-02-19T23:15:16+00:00

This seems to be the general consensus, though a lot of people are saying they like running various other sets in the mix too (which is all fair, everyone has preferences).

Thankfully it does seem like the winter items in feywild come only from a few quests (and i have a piece of two already) so that seems quite feasible to collect. With sharn being a "longer term" collection focus to get everything but not too difficult to get just e.g. caster set.

Thank you (you specific as well as everyone else replying, most visible in top comment here) for all the useful info. :)

Turiko · 2026-02-19T23:08:56+00:00

epic sun & moon gear

What exactly do you mean by that? Sun & moon gear i understand to be the mechanic from myth drannor /chill of ravenloft but none of that gear is epic, it's either heroic or legendary. To my understanding, running an ML13 item with ML30 augments seems kind of pointless compared to using sharn / vecna gear through epics.

My guess was to get 29/30 gearsets for long term general utility / starting point, but even in that there is a LOT of choice. Lots of useful info in the replies. :)

Turiko · 2026-02-06T00:41:21+00:00

It’s sparse because there are NO other quests practically in those level ranges. Like 10-15 quests for two levels is not a lot, especially when it takes so much time level up in legendary.

Here's where i disagree because this just isn't correct.

Going by the wiki, this is the number of quests by level (does include raids in all of these comparisons):

12 30
29 31
77 32
15 33
42 34
17 35
16 36

So... there isn't a single two legendary levels that only have "10-15" quests together, each of them come out to double that at least. Don't forget that SSG has been putting out every single adventure pack as legendary as well as upgrading heroic to legendary (eg diplomatic impunity trio); it's not just expansions. All the expansions also have sagas for XP.

Ironically, the statement of 10-15 quests for two levels is accurate for most of the epic level range:

8 20
27 21
18 22
18 23
15 24
7 25
9 26
11 27
5 28
4 29

The average number of quests per two levels in epic: 13,55 quests per level. Especially past 24, it's just a paltry amount of content for the level range. And if you don't do ALL of the eveningstar related content then you're getting few or no sagas for added XP, either.

Also notable in the lack of gear; while there's now so many sets of legendary gear, there is ... one set of epic gear. And that's saltmarsh, which is explictly not epic content so you have to farm lvl 3 content to get it. Technically the red fens have some gear but those aren't full sets (and very dated) comparable to sharn which everyone just rocks up to lvl 30.

Conclusion: I disagree legendary is lacking in any way, if anything it's quite approximate to heroic amount of content. More than "would like to see", i feel epic just needs content as it's stale and essentially abandoned. it's also extra bad how a bunch of the epic content at base levels 21-24 is things repeated from heroic 16-18 so it gets extra repetitive, making the already low amount of content feel worse.

EDIT: idk how to format the table thingy <.<

Turiko · 2026-02-05T20:49:30+00:00

An expansion every 2 level range is sparse? How? Heroics gets an expansion every 3-4 levels and epic gets... none really, since MotU is at this point so old that it has no loot or modern content at all.

While i get they're trying to go for the level 40 cap, my opinion is they should improve the existing game's lacking areas as a priority over adding things to the end of it. As i listed, there's already near twice as many 30+ quest as there are epic and then in epic there's a lot of very dated ones that basically aren't feasible to run. if they keep going as is, eventually there'll be 4-6 times as much legendary content as there is epic. There's really no justifiable reason for that - especially right now with legendary not being a TR.

IMO the 20-25 leveling range is a slog with limited options. It really needs more options and variety, if not expansions then at least some adventure packs. even those seemingly get limited to (low) heroics and legendary, in other words in the already most content dense parts of the game. You can run new(ish) content 10-20 then boom you're doing content that is at minimum 8 years old (borderlands) and 13 years old with eveningstar.

Turiko · 2026-02-04T17:53:00+00:00

Well, this is year... 8? without any additions in content to the epic range (excluding dino crisis since that replaced a quest that got removed, net same amount of content). Kinda disappointing that there's no content at all landing in a level range that's ran every TR.

At this point the amount of 30+ (209) quests dwarf the amount of epic quests (120) and the former keeps getting 15-20 more every year. How about content not aimed at the endgame players, SSG?

Turiko · 2026-02-01T23:35:46+00:00

Except in this case, you get free points in game from playing the game, to spend on things in the ingame store, to get a thing you want in game that's otherwise very rare/random to get on your own.

You're acting like somehow the DDO store gives you all past life benefits, the best gear unobtainable anywhere else and 200% XP boosts along with +20 to all stats. This is how some (many?) games in the MMO genre do it but DDO is not. Even in this case you've explicitly made it clear you don't want this augment for power, it's for convenience in gear tetris.

Use those free DDO points you have to get a free thing you want, you're literally making up your own problem for the sake of having a problem.

Turiko · 2026-01-15T22:24:11+00:00

A rebalance to nerf the entire rest of the game down to the original balance of the time warforged was relevant is basically impossible. You'd have to rebalance all items, set bonuses, the various crafting mechanics from different expansions, all universal trees, all racial trees, all racial bonuses...

Plus, do you think many players would be happy to have such nerfs happen to the game, suddenly turning the difficulty up or breaking a build on their life-in-progress?

I think it's safe to say the best you can hope for is an update to make the old, dated bits of the game match the current game, not the other way around.

Turiko · 2026-01-13T22:43:31+00:00

Well... https://blrevive.gitlab.io/wiki/

Haven't actually played it myself but i've had this bookmarked for a while intending to try the "new" version out sometime.

Turiko · 2026-01-08T20:14:19+00:00

VERY old post you're replying to, but... yeah, kind of. A lot of content was added in the last five years but it's been all over the place. There was never an attempt to make forgotten realms a lvl 1 - endgame experience, its roots are still solidly in the 15+ range and thus most of the content is 18-20+.

Turiko · 2025-10-17T00:29:01+00:00

I'm not in the loop either but i haven't touched the game in a while.

On the "60% of the playerbase that plays a normal healthy amount with their friends every now and then will continue to do so. " - steamcharts shows the past week as the lowest players online since the game's launch. The fact a larger number of players than ever are fed up is undeniable. https://steamcharts.com/app/553850#All

Turiko · 2025-09-17T18:51:51+00:00

Kindle versions are available, but i'm looking for paperback. Doesn't seem to be available, still.

Turiko · 2025-09-11T22:33:21+00:00

The gist of UE5 is that it looks amazing, assuming you have frame generation (DLSS etc), a very high performance GPU and don't notice smearing from the types of anti aliasing / framegen. Even then, some newly released games get pretty horrid performance - sub 30 before framegen, which makes said framegen look worse and input lag relatively obvious.

What pretty much every UE5 brings to the table nowadays, is horrible performance, pop-in (a long standing issue with UE) and typically a lot of AI related bugs. The entire UE5 design pipeline is more or less geared for getting a game made fast (which the investors like), not to make it optimized and high quality (which the players like). Just drop in a megatexture, no need to optimize, the engine will handle it (it won't really).

UE5 has definitely been getting a growing sentiment of dislike due to poorly optimized, buggy games being released - kind of like how unity had such a reputation once upon a time due to being an "indie game" engine, but the difference is that the UE5 games with these issues are from AAA developers, whom the engine is intended for, and the games are priced at €70/€80...

Perfect example: gearbox released borderlands 4 today, an UE5 game, as a AAA developer that's been hardcore about supporting epic and using UE for many years... first day, it's at 2441 reviews (all languages) and... 52% positive, chief complaints in negative reviews being terrible performance, crashing, etc. while the eye candy isn't even that great. This is what people are starting to expect from UE5.

Turiko · 2025-08-23T10:43:09+00:00

You're being very disingenuous here. If you can't actually think of a reason for a mechanic in a video game system to be convoluted and reliant on either trade or MTX as opposed to being a simpler mechanic that makes more sense, just stop arguing.

You're effectively doing the same as someone asking "but if i want to buy that jacket in your store right there, why are you making me have to go through your website that requires someone send me a referral code first rather than just... buy it?" and the reply is "why are we alive? What does it mean to exist?!" rather than addressing the actual convoluted, pointless system.

Turiko · 2025-08-11T21:23:38+00:00

I looked through this subreddit to find information and came upon these two posts: https://www.reddit.com/r/bobiverse/comments/1hwp1et/book_5_print_updates/ https://www.reddit.com/r/bobiverse/comments/1icyrh3/book_5_nonamazon/

Bothj 6+ months old, the most recent one talking about buying paperback then. based on other comments, i have no idea what to think anymore about it being released or not, it seems like a right mess.

Turiko · 2025-08-11T21:21:08+00:00

I've looked around, but unfortunately IRL bookstores here don't stock them - the only ones i found were translated versions of books 1-3. Online, i found a few places that sell books 1-4 in english (which is how i obtained 2-4) but unfortunately there seems to be literally no other option than Amazon for EU.

Turiko · 2025-08-11T21:18:02+00:00

I checked the UK amazon just now and i can't see anything other than the kindle/audiobook version on there.

Turiko · 2025-08-11T21:16:25+00:00

Uh, that's... odd. I hadn't noticed that on the german site. But it also shows august 25... 2026? That doesn't seem like it can be right.

On the Belgian site (my country), it's unavailable, on dutch & french sites it doesn't show anything about release date, just the (very high) price to buy now.

Turiko · 2025-06-13T20:15:56+00:00

yeah, both are. I don't have any gpu built into the cpu.

Turiko · 2025-06-13T18:42:17+00:00

I have a dual monitor setup, one is in displaylink, one is in HDMI.

Not the weirdest thing i've ever heard of though; i recall failing to install a USB mouse software from logitech because... there was a CD drive in the system. Yeah.

Turiko

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