Hail *NOR/! Hardcore SeasonVIII is in full swing, and players have just under one month to fulfill their goals to get to 1750 favor, level 20, 10 or 20 reaper points, and/or 7 or 13 dragon’s hoard items. Each of these accomplishments will grant players unique Hardcore server-only rewards. After the season is over, *NOR/bies…
Hail *NOR/! Wednesday, May 17th marks the opening day of DDO’s Hardcore Season VIII – The Dragon’s Hoard. As it stands now, Season VIII will be a two-month season duration, ending on July 18th, 2023. Between now and then, players will have an opportunity to acquire patron favor; reaper action points; and lost pieces of…
Hail *NOR/! Behold the Daedalean Kraken, the flagship of *NOR/DDO’s branch on Ghallanda! This massive guild ship consists of four floors and a cargo hold, each filled with wonders from all over the continent of Xen’drik. Please join me for a tour of our guild ship’s holdings. On the first lower deck is the Cannith…
Hail *NOR/! Get out your party helmets, as Dungeons & Dragons Online is celebrating its 17th anniversary for a few more days, now extended until Sunday, March 19th! During this time, you can participate in the festivities by running the quest “The Anniversary Party” located in the northwest area of House Phiarlan. You’ll strive to…
Hail *NOR/! Hardcore Season 7 will end in two weeks on February 7th, 2023. As stated in the last newsletter, this season was a recycled version of Season 2, with the exact same rewards, but only two months to achieve them and lower favor thresholds in order to receive them. Hopefully some folks were able…
Hail *NOR/! It is always difficult for me to be critical of the game that I absolutely love; in this article, I will be doing precisely that. With a week’s notice, the folks at Dungeons & Dragons Online announced that there will be a NEW Hardcore Season Seven starting on Wednesday, December 7th after the…
*Hail *NOR/! Hardcore Season VI draws to a close next Monday, October 24th. In reflection, this season was a bit of a mixed bag for a large portion of the Hardcore community, and a lot of folks found the season to be challenging in the sense that the methods that the developers used to make…
“It was all a lie. The world was full of monsters, and they were all allowed to bite the innocent and the unwary.” – Stephen King, Cujo Hail*NOR/ With a month left to play, Hardcore Season 6 has been by far the most challenging season to date. The Fey Hunt Hounds have a voracious appetite, individually inflict…
“That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die.” The Nameless City -H.P. Lovecraft Hail*NOR/ Come one, come all, to brave the Hardcore server, where with every misstep, the Land of the Lost Souls becons you. Bring your best build, play cautiously and carefully, and be willing to take risks…
Hail *NOR/! Dungeons & Dragons Online is currently hyping its pre-purchase offers for its new expansion: Isle of Dread, a DDO adaptation of the 1981 X1 Module originally offered in the D&D Expert Set and written by Stephen Marsh and David Cook. For those of you like me who got their start in the Basic,…