Our efforts to get all the Flower Sniffers flagged for all the things continued with this past weekend’s livestream, when Citi, Rayne, and Even (who was already flagged, but likes the area) headed out to Thunderholme to get flagged for Fire on Thunder Peak and Temple of the Deathwyrm.
Naturally, I got lost and ended up leading them to Sarva first when we’d intended to start with Dagan. Along the way, there was much laughter, a sprinkling of DPS, and far more bad 80’s songs than one usually finds during late-night groups. And we ran, we ran so far away, we just ran, we ran all night and day-ay-ay… couldn’t get away from the Song That Never Ends, yes it went on and on my friends, one night we started singing it even knowing what it was…
You get the idea. LOL
Also this past weekend, I was Patrick‘s guest on DDOCast #439, New Player Tips, along with the lovely BonnieBew and Propane. There was some really excellent advice for new-ish players handed out – it’s well worth a listen!
And it got me to thinking. As excellent as the advice was, a lot of it would have been completely over my head when I first started. So I started pondering the idea of doing a second livestream each week, with accompanying blog, aimed at the really, truly new and inexperienced player. Talked it over with Keava, who was totally supportive, and then, purely by coincidence, Citi made a great post about rolling up your first character.
Probably should figure out what else I need to do to get on the official stream list first – already had to bump my start time an hour later to accomodate another stream that IS on the list and wants to bump its time forward an hour, which would lead to an overlap with the start time I’ve been using for the past few months – but what the heck, I’m gonna be streaming whether I’m on the list or not.
So, plan is, pick a night – probably somewhere between Monday and Thursday – and a time – probably midnight – roll up a brand-spankin’-new 28-point free-to-play (something). Probably a rogue, ’cause Citi’s making a paladin, and despite his assurances that his paladin will be fully capable of finding traps via face, it’d be nice to be able to disarm them. No twink gear, no loans from other toons – 100% newbie compatible. Start with the character creation screen and go from there. Should be fun!
In other news, you might have noticed that OurDDO has been UPDATED! Tried to streamline it a bit, and the blogroll should be pretty current. Removed a couple of blogs that no longer exist or violated the rules. AFAIK, other than blogs in violation, it now has every DDO blog in existence.
Streamin’ with Even is live every Sunday night at 11 pm MIDNIGHT Eastern time. I’m usually on Thelanis, usually on Evennote, and usually have room, so feel free to send me a tell if you’d like to join! I’m also definitely open to suggestions on what to run next. You can send ingame mail to Evennote on Thelanis, or email me at evennote (at) gmail dot com. Thanks for reading and/or watching! 🙂
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Yeah, much of the advice on the cast was too deep for a brand new player imo. Also I’d chime in that the class paths actually are not too bad. I’ve tried several of them as experiments and was surprised at some of the useful choices it makes.
Looking forward to seeing how your new player stream goes!
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I would like to point out that my post was not purely by coincidence. It was alllll part of my plan. My EVIL plan to bring new players into the fold of DDO! MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA… *ahem* also, my plan is not evil, but inspired by the fact that someone important to me started playing DDO not all that long ago, and with this I hope to help them. I would help them in game, save for the fact that I no longer get to see them much anymore due to irl scheduling. Also: I am awesome [insert sarcasm here]. 😉 Thanks for including both my blog and that particular post in your post. I shall have to remember to do that with yours as soon as I figure out how!
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