This might be better off in a DDO discussion forum, but rogues aren't the lame damage-machines they are in every other game. They're very hard to play, so if you're new, don't bother with one.
To be honest, complaining that the game differs too much from the pen-and-paper game is idiocy. People seem to forget that the most recent edition of the rules is version 3.5. D&D 3.5 / 3.0 / 2.0 / AD&D are NOTHING at all like the original rules written up by Gary Gygax and friends thirty years ago.
Since when does turning a game into a chore constitute fun? Would you drive nails through your own dick for a laugh? The boats? The corpse runs? They were nothing but time sinks. It'd be akin to taking FEAR, making player movement speed based on how often you can alternatively mash two different keys, and then call the extra time it takes to move around anywhere 'content'.
Very well said. It's depressing to think that so many of us as gamers are trapped into a single-track mindset that 'WoW is good - this is not WoW - Therefore it's not good'. As someone posted over on the DDO forums, the review written here sounds exactly like this:
"It's pretty, but it's not World of Warcraft. I like World of Warcraft, and am accustomed to how World of Warcraft plays. The parts of this which are like World of Warcraft are good, but the parts which are different (from World of Warcraft) are obviously bad decisions. I'm going to go back to playing World of Warcraft, and if you like World of Warcraft like I like World of Warcraft, you should just keep on playing World of Warcraft instead of this game, which is not World of Warcraft."
This idiotic mindset is prevelant in other games too. Dystopia, the mod for HL2, has had people complain that it's not enough like Counter-Strike or Unreal Tournament. God forbid we get a game that isn't another clone.
What's especially interesting is that people are quick to complain about 'clone' games without taking a good look at their own favorite games - World of Warcraft - I played for a year. I quit because I realized I began to hate it. Now that I look back on it, WoW is just an EQ clone. I'm not saying that as an EQ fanboy, but it's simple fact. The grinding. The loot-based gameplay. The raid content. All of those are fundamentals of EQ rebundled.
Now that people want more of WoW, they're complaining that there aren't more WoW clones?
RT41-BU routers are ALSO affected by this, WHETHER OR NOT YOU ARE USING NORTON.
I was unable to figure out why I was being dumped by this, even though I had nothing Norton on my system whatsoever. After some trial and error, I was able to workaround the problem by simply plugging directly into my cable modem. When I switched back through the router, I began to get dumped by it again.
The router version is RT41-BU - It is a Linksys brand that is typically sold in Best Buy simply as "Wired Broadband Router". Despite the fact that I set myself as DMZ host and did my best to disable all the router's security systems, it STILL was dumping me from this exploit.
An easy way to know if you have an RT41-BU is simply by the IP you connect to the router. As far as I know, RT41-BUs are the only routers that use the IP "192.168.15.1".
I hear rumors that Netgear routers are also affected by this, but cannot test nor confirm them.
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This might be better off in a DDO discussion forum, but rogues aren't the lame damage-machines they are in every other game. They're very hard to play, so if you're new, don't bother with one.
To be honest, complaining that the game differs too much from the pen-and-paper game is idiocy. People seem to forget that the most recent edition of the rules is version 3.5. D&D 3.5 / 3.0 / 2.0 / AD&D are NOTHING at all like the original rules written up by Gary Gygax and friends thirty years ago.
Since when does turning a game into a chore constitute fun? Would you drive nails through your own dick for a laugh? The boats? The corpse runs? They were nothing but time sinks. It'd be akin to taking FEAR, making player movement speed based on how often you can alternatively mash two different keys, and then call the extra time it takes to move around anywhere 'content'.
Very well said. It's depressing to think that so many of us as gamers are trapped into a single-track mindset that 'WoW is good - this is not WoW - Therefore it's not good'. As someone posted over on the DDO forums, the review written here sounds exactly like this:
"It's pretty, but it's not World of Warcraft. I like World of Warcraft, and am accustomed to how World of Warcraft plays. The parts of this which are like World of Warcraft are good, but the parts which are different (from World of Warcraft) are obviously bad decisions. I'm going to go back to playing World of Warcraft, and if you like World of Warcraft like I like World of Warcraft, you should just keep on playing World of Warcraft instead of this game, which is not World of Warcraft."
This idiotic mindset is prevelant in other games too. Dystopia, the mod for HL2, has had people complain that it's not enough like Counter-Strike or Unreal Tournament. God forbid we get a game that isn't another clone.
What's especially interesting is that people are quick to complain about 'clone' games without taking a good look at their own favorite games - World of Warcraft - I played for a year. I quit because I realized I began to hate it. Now that I look back on it, WoW is just an EQ clone. I'm not saying that as an EQ fanboy, but it's simple fact. The grinding. The loot-based gameplay. The raid content. All of those are fundamentals of EQ rebundled.
Now that people want more of WoW, they're complaining that there aren't more WoW clones?
I was unable to figure out why I was being dumped by this, even though I had nothing Norton on my system whatsoever. After some trial and error, I was able to workaround the problem by simply plugging directly into my cable modem. When I switched back through the router, I began to get dumped by it again.
The router version is RT41-BU - It is a Linksys brand that is typically sold in Best Buy simply as "Wired Broadband Router". Despite the fact that I set myself as DMZ host and did my best to disable all the router's security systems, it STILL was dumping me from this exploit.
An easy way to know if you have an RT41-BU is simply by the IP you connect to the router. As far as I know, RT41-BUs are the only routers that use the IP "192.168.15.1".
I hear rumors that Netgear routers are also affected by this, but cannot test nor confirm them.