Comments on: Ignoring the Approaching Diku Gate

By: Illthirst

Illthirst — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:21:46 +0000

Very true. I feel sorry for people who only hit Carn Dum, Urugarth and The Rift in their 60s, basically rushing through these wonderful instances for class loot..

We went to The Rift last weekend and I still see those beautfifully designed rooms in my mind, the perfect pace of the action, the bitter anger and hate of the Balrog in chains.. not to mention the door to that chamber is a masterpiece in itself, the cloak of the elf maiden.. ahh.. they should have kept the team responsible for that immortal work of art; whenever I see a post-SoA video I just find it ugly..

Go there in your fifties if you have a chance.

By: Feycat

Feycat — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:40:57 +0000

I meant the morale upgrades going from the crafted guild stuff (which is really nice stuff btw, and only a little below the +10 set) to the +10 set. And it’s also a number I just pulled out of my ass, so.

Just implying that gear upgrades never do you any harm, even if it’s a few points.

By: Pendan

Pendan — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:04:26 +0000

I had done trade skills on my alt characters but had ignored them except for harvesting on my main character. With the best items for the 4th relic slot in SoM not being tradable I have been spending my limited play time working on tailoring. Slightly miffed by that because I do have a supreme tailor on a low level.

By: Tesh

Tesh — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:45:42 +0000

Ah, the nature of a treadmill game design.

It’s nice to actually *finish* games now and then.

(He says as he goes off to try to get to another ending with Disgaea DS’ New Game Plus feature…)

By: Suzina

Suzina — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:46:52 +0000

I think any time we play any game, we know it will all be for nothing… eventually. That new 4 gold ring will serve you well during the rest of October and all of November.

Eventually, we’ll run out of things to do and get bored. We’ll quit the game and then everything will be for nothing… but for right now, there’s gearing up for that last 2%, and then after that there’s Mirkwood to do it again.

By: Essi

Essi — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:36:04 +0000

Everybody in my kin knows that SoM is coming, with a new raid, but we still run DN weekly. After MoM came out we still ran the Rift weekly for a few months while people were slowly levelling up to 60. It’s about playing together and having fun, and the challenge of beating content, than the rewards.

If you play any MMO anywhere, without even any expansions, sooner or later I hope everybody realizes that none of it really matters and it should be just about doing it for fun. I try to approach my gaming with the idea that the servers are going to be permanently closed in a month and everything I’ve ever done will be lost forever. With that in mind, do I really want to spend my time doing activity X or not? And only do those things I feel like doing.

By: Ravious

Ravious — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:27:08 +0000

Very true, I keep hearing how powerful the Watcher set is even compared to DN. So it might last a good couple of levels in to Mirkwood.

And I thought they were changing radiance so it no longer gave morale?

By: Ravious

Ravious — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:26:17 +0000

Well I guess it depends on your style of play. My playstyle requires that I kind of “plan” my course of action. For people that play 20+ hours / week, the influx of time and money might necessitate spending. :)

By: Feycat

Feycat — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 05:49:46 +0000

It’s not like that radiance gear won’t have use. The +10 set is still superior to everything else you can get until DN. If you’re outfitting a non-raiding character to go through Mirkwood with the most success, it makes sense to try and get the +10 set. It isn’t as if the rad instances are hard, or as if groups don’t run them every day.

And if you’re a raider, come Gol Dulgur, we’ll need either the three-piece Mirkwood set + the three-piece Moria set, or the full DN set, in order to have enough radiance to enter the newest raid.

So really, there’s no reason NOT to continue to upgrade our gear, if upgrades exist. It’s not like that extra +40 morale is going to do you any harm, and really, what else is there to do in the game while we wait?

By: Hess

Hess — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 03:55:54 +0000

We constantly had the Rift gate-locked on farm status for the hope bonus off completing the final quest for the Balrog’s chain.

We’d run the rift, get the bonus then do the Watcher…good fun.