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I haven't tried DOS 2, but a buddy of mine swears by it as a much more interactive game. Maybe I need to give that a shot. Either way, thank you very much for watching!

That is a fun fact! You and a buddy of mine really ought to get together - you think of the most incredible strategies that fly right above my head lol. If it weren't for the incredible modding community, I'd be right on testing this, but I might just be having too much fun with Mind Weaver and Artificer atm :)

Precisely! The feat is defeated (he he) by the game itself. Absolutely, though, thank you for watching! I have much more positive content on the channel if you wanna take a look - I swear I'm not always so darn negative :)

metagamers always take the fun out of games once everything is tierlisted and stuff it sucks

@@yomama3458 Drat! If only there were something we could do about these pesky metagamers. Let's cancel them. I'll help you - just lead the way :)

Absolutely true. I wish the animal forms were a bit more competitive with the other fighting styles. Honestly, I've always had an immediate, visceral affinity with druid in every RPG I've played which, invariably, quickly fades. They've disappointed me pretty much every time, but I did kinda like how Wolf form works in Dungeons & Dragons Online back in the day. Still, I'll keep trying. Someone's bound to get it right!

Thank you, glad you liked! I do a lot of D&D, so one of these days, I'll be a roadrunner build and this feat'll be on the list! One day very soon...

Absolutely! I can't say I use a caster often, but they can get pretty silly with DW

You encouraged me to look this up! After checking into it, MAM is what MI: Cleric seems to give, but not the proficiency. I'm just gonna go out on a limb and say they didn't intend for that to happen :) With that in mind, MI: Cleric might make it into a build soon, but there's still the option of respeccing or just making Life Cleric. Sadly, I'd probably still never take either feat. You've convinced me, though; if I'm gonna grab one of the two, it'll never be MAM!

@@scrubleetacademy oh yes, my bad, got those feats backwards. I'd be quite happy if they never patched MA:C tho. Got a shield dwarf tav mage looking fashionable in the flame enamel set, which that feat synergizes well with. Given they're also abusing the secret, glitched level 9 enchantment spell, I know my fun's probably over come patch 7 😅

​@scrubleetacademy Good video, but having half the list be different magic initiats is kinda boring. I would have put them all into one spot so you can talk about more Interesting feats 🫡

@@Hazzbazz But then it wouldn't be a Top 10, Top 11 list :D Thank you for watching tho! Absolutely get where you're coming from, but I like to discuss the key spells provided by each one in their own categories, and it helps break down the feats for viewers as well. Blocks of information without chapters can be a real drag. Also, when we got to the true sludge, the number of feats just sorta worked itself out. Nothing like four self-contained vids to cover all the feats (roughly) equally!

Thank you! Always great to see a friendly face :)

Thank you so much, and glad to see how much thought you put into it! I was preparing to put a "how to make these feats better" video, and I whole-heartedly agree with pretty much everything here. I think the Lightly Armored can be awesome with the right armor, but it takes so long to get online (elegant is in A3) and almost everyone has access to it. The feat's just never necessary for me personally, and someone else can use the elegant while my wiz/sor use the Shield spell :) Heavily Armored is the most difficult to balance, but BG3 is not a difficult game to win, so I can see how your estimation is fitting. I'd have to look into that one a bit. Awesome analysis tho. Everything you say is absolutely true and it's great how much thought you put into it!

That's fair. It's definitely a fun game, but there's always a comparison from then to now. I find that, even playing it now, the power is just far too much for my enjoyment - but that's in no way saying the game is bad. It's just not made for me anymore, gameplay-wise. A good second example is either the Witcher, BG3, or Bioshock - they're great games, but it's too easy to break them, so it takes me away somewhat. It's cool, though, and I'm glad to see you're having fun!

A bit more DDO stuff :) Been quite busy these past few weeks, sadly couldn't get this out as quickly as I'd hoped!

always glad to see you posting content when you can

And absolutely you can to secure that extra ~30 damage (iirc). On this run, I managed to beat him without the need, but I love using the tank more nowadays since it all-but-guarantees success. Good catch, tho!

Not only do I agree with the sentiment, but I've actually watched Hayes' assessment. One of the best TH-camrs I've ever had the pleasure of watching! I do have to admit, modern DDO is in no way appealing to me the way previous renditions were, but I'll always have the nostalgia and maybe there's a future DDO2 for us all :)

Absolutely true! Especially with the adeptness with which Ravenloft was handled. "Into the Mists" and "Death House" were phenomenally handled, if short, because they nailed the aesthetic. Sharn, by comparison, has a great story with a finally interesting villain, but it's so bogged down in narrative and paint-by-numbers business culture that it feels on a cursory glance to be a rant by an upset worker, and Feywild's all just appearance over substance. Beautiful, but devoid. After Fey, I just didn't care for any of the story or characters. Vecna might be the worst villain in DDO, and hey, maybe I'll have to do a video about that stuff!

It's been some time, hasn't it? Remind me, I've gotta make you a batch of chocolate chip cookies for keeping the floors swept while dust gathered in my absence :)

@@scrubleetacademy scrubtastic!

What is so garbage about FvS nuking also is that it takes 10 years for stuff to land, and with cooldowns of 8 years. Idk what the other guy is smoking. Sorc is the OG nuker powerhouse with glasscannon style. Alchemist now outshines sorc because they have better numbers and cheap kiting potential (backward throw and sprint for days) and stupid self heal Druid also has higher numbers than Sorc and also because everything is lingering in the end it ends up doing more damage.

Druid bad needs buffs

Absolutely, and this game still holds a spot for me. It seems a little cheesy, but I did build great memories with this game, and I'm a rabbit who'll stand by his word on this one. Its dungeon designs could be revolutionary for other MMOs if they adopt similar styles. As far as tabletop, I certainly prefer Eberron to Forgotten Realms. It feels closer to what a world of magic should be like. No more are the days where everyone's either a peasant farmer with no comprehension of magic or a wizard-god supreme. Everyone and everything in Eberron is steeped in magic and technology. They adopt, reject, infuse themselves with or worship both. Even more, the archaeological element of Xen'drik is absolutely fascinating to me. I think Keith Baker's model deserves tremendously more attention than it has currently. If you really want inspiration, though (no pun intended), read through the Inspiration Quarter quests and come up with some weird Quori reality-bending story for your players. Incept them through layers of dream and reality, twisting their conceptualization of what is and isn't. Then, introduce insanity rolls and make them decide how best to tackle the fringe Quori mind-warps you created for them. Just a thought from a super-nerd... rabbit :)

I currently play on a motel wifi with my phone tethered to my pc which has no wireless capability. Lag is minimal for me. When I'm on proper internet connection I get an occasional spike but other than that I frequently hear dudes asking about lag in guild chat and I got none.

I agree! It was weird to mention this, considering I came from WoW and those dungeons are just... bad :) DDO dungeons are still better than most games, but there was a Golden Age we missed somewhere along the way and we're not getting that kind of content much anymore.

I completely agree, it's holding on very well. My personal reason for leaving isn't something I'll begrudge anyone else for enjoying, and I hope it's working out. I'm not completely done with it, and I still theorize with my buddies about it, but my passion for content creation in DDO might just need a bit of time to resurge :)

I think the best thing to play is definitely BOTH! I've been grinding through WoW, and despite enjoying achievement hunting, it's not something I'm willing to stream or make gameplay videos on. Retail's a bit much, but Classic doesn't seem bad. I think for those, I'll get a bit creative :) As far as the entirely different, I'll leave that as a surprise. It won't be exactly like DDO, but weirdly, DDO isn't the kind of game I would play by myself all that often, regardless of the nearly 130 videos I've done on it now XD. Honestly, I think I'll go for something a bit more explosive than an MMO first tho...

The absolute-best kind of "tacular" :)

Oh, sorry I couldn't get to ya in time! For next time, it's under "Religious Feats" in your Character Sheet, Feats tab. If you're human, for example, it should default you to Sovereign Host (imo, arguably the best path for a paladin, as I mention in this video). The best way to figure out what each "Follower of" feat leads to is to use this link below: ddowiki.com/page/Deity_feats The DDO Wiki is the go-to place for DDO info (and that sounds like an advertisement, but it's really just a QoL kind of thing lol). There's a nifty chart and everything, so it'll guide you through the whole thing. Hope this helps!

@@scrubleetacademy Thanks, I’ll look into this. And don’t worry about not replying right away, I didn’t even expect a reply at all, 20 minutes is extremely fast, if I had any patience figuring it out you would have gotten me on time.

A straight nerf to the number of hit points you can recover via Vampirism effects. It happened during the numbers squish on U50, though Vamp was never really all that good. Still, for theme builds, it could be awesome to try; PLs aside, a paladin twisted vampire 15/5 or 14/6 could be a blast, but I've never really sat down and delved into the actual optimization of it (as much as I'd love to).

I like the perspective. Since this is all hypothetical, if this system were introduced, what do you think would work for reincarnation? I intentionally left that aspect out of it, because I had no idea what would both entice releveling crafting and conform to DDO's unique reincarnation cycle. However, in games like WoW (at least, well into WoD, but I quit like everyone else during WoD), you'd lose everything when you dropped a primary profession, so I doubt the same would force mass rejection. Thankfully, other than Gathering professions, there is value to most items through my other professions, meaning leveling would not omit certain recipes in favor of others. I'll try to have some more of them out in the coming days to show you what I mean.

@@scrubleetacademy there's enough grind in the game as is so the secondary profession should just unlock different tier abilities at 1, 5, 10 and then fully at 15. Then u skip the grind, customise your profession and test skill with mini game and try different professions each life without feeling punished for tr'ing

Thank you! I've been sitting on this vid for a while, not sure where I wanted to take it. Glad to see it turned out!

That's fine; not all features have to appeal to all players. But to me, a game only improves with more features that bolster the experience for some, do not detriment others, and genuinely expand the scope of the universe they're set in (as finding the results of Xen'drik's mining operations do - part of what makes Relic of a Sovereign Past so special being the adamantine mining operation happening in the background). Simple is fine, but it gets old quick; this is a theorization practice to see if professions would be a good idea - a theorization I really need to get back to, but uploading has been quite the task this last while!

Just the opposite, my dude! It's fine to disagree sometimes. It's true, reaper trees give incredible, game-breaking levels of hit points, but one of the metrics Robo and I used in this video was how long it took for something to come online. If Ninja Spy's the worst tree in part due to that, then these reaper trees have got to take a hit too. I definitely think they give a lot, but the impact to a new player is a bit pathetic. Ninja doesn't come online until 20; Dread Adversary, for example, won't come online until well into 30s content if you're a DPS; Grim Barricade if you're anybody; Dire Thaumaturge for several lives even if you are a caster. They are in addition to everything else, but "impact-wise," you can't disagree that they're just not all that prominent to a new player, and reaper mode is the s*ittiest mode in the game, including the Hardcore Lag event. It's never my recommendation for newbies to even bother with reaper until they can ease their way into it. If you wanna grind your way to the top, they don't have an easy to reach ceiling like other trees (capped at X Enhancement Points) and stack, but until you've got >20 points in a tree, they're not exceedingly powerful compared to regular enhancement trees that offer more than just a handful of melee power, a deadly line, and ~160 hit points pre-mod.

@@scrubleetacademy true you need to invest in them cuz if you dont have like 50+ points them will not give much if you split. But if you use them like i use so for mage 41 in mage reaper tree (i dont remember name of them) and rest in tank you can get a lot of "free hp" and soulstone is not making dmg as my guildmate say

Thank you!

Absolutely true! An "Achievements" system would do much the same, giving players something other than reincarnation to grind out.

Thanks!

Absolutely. Haven't gotten to a blighty life yet, but of the three, it's the only one that really feels thematic to the class while justifiably being an archetype. ranger should already have all the stuff DH has, pets are (sadly) terrible, and nothing about it feels dark at all lmao. The lock, on the other hand, is fiend pact recycled. That couldn't have been the only thing they could think to do with it... IMO, Beastmaster from WoW is a great template they could have used for a ranger archetype, but you know, that would have been fun? :)

You're correct! And I must apologize for my indiscretion... I said it was streamlined, but it's an even worse system. It's monk-lined. You know I had a friend who quit the game after trying monk, because he didn't understand how to make it work? Just some food for thought while we imagine what a newer player's experience is without understanding the multiclass system :) You can like it if you want, but I'm not entirely wrong. The only thing I should have said is that it's even more convoluted for new players, but you're watching SCRUBLEET Academy; did you think I was talking about the veteran experience?

It's possible, but there's nothing like being an actual demon that makes you feel like an actual demon :)

Sadly, agreed. I only checked these out in the final preview, and I was unpleasantly surprised that there was a game-breaking bug with Thorn Lance and no identity for 2 of the archys. Still, I said it best: Blightcaster's great!

I think Dark Hunter "may" mesh well with inquisitive, I won't know till I try.

@@Cytl-bu3nq Yeah, but tbh everything meshes well with Inquis, it's the best :)

@@Cytl-bu3nq at that point why not going rogue? or maybe 14 rogue 6 Dh.. mmm

@@Dulkh4n dh does get good heals

Thank you!

honest opinion: best quest in the series aesthetically. never hear me say the art is lacking for what they have to work with

I love the wolf too, but caster's gonna be a wonderful new experience, and the theme oozes out of that tree!

Thanks for watching as always!

Thank you!