User:LrdSlvrhnd



About Me
My handle comes from my first AOL account, lo so many moons ago - it's "Lord Silverhand" without the vowels. THAT came from AOL's then-10 character limit, and "Silverhand" being taken - which came from my standard BBS handle. And Silverhand came from Celtic mythology, Nuada Silverhand - the king of the Tuatha de Danaan (I was real big into Irish myth when I first found the joys of onlinedom. This is the result.)

I like to take my time in quests. I'll go through and break everything and kill everything and collect everything and loot everything I can possibly find. If it takes me an hour to do a quest somebody else can do in 15 minutes... well, so be it. This makes it rather easy to update the quest article right here, which is just an added bonus! It also helps that I don't mind questing alone. I'm sure this will be a problem later on, but for now, I'm having fun, and that's all I care about!

I'm vaguely allergic to paying a monthly fee for a game, 'cause I don't want to be paying for something and then realize that I haven't PLAYED in the past 2 months, 'cause I got distracted by something else for a while. So my experience with MMORPGs was more or less limited to RuneScape before I heard about DDO. And found out it was FREE. I haven't looked back since... I don't mind paying for stuff, but when I do, I want to KEEP it, y'know? DDO has a brilliant strategy, and I've taken advantage of every sale I can (I don't buy ANYTHING if it's not on sale! And I don't buy TP if they're not on sale!  I'll stretch my buck 'til it SNAPS, dammit!)

I started in on Khyber, and have several characters there from when I was, briefly, a VIP (Double TP months, yay! Plus it gave me an idea of what I wanted to buy, at least low-levelish.)  Some of those characters include a 28-point dwarf; a 32-point clone of him with tweaks (after buying the 32-point thingie on sale), and a haggle-bard. I'm pretty sure I also have a WF FvS and a Drow cleric or something there. I dunno. I then moved over to Thelanis for no particular reason that I can think of, other than possibly wanting a fresh start for questing.

My "main" character is a Rogue 1/Ranger 12 Dwarf. He's sneaky, stealthy, and Tempesty. There's nothing more fun than sneaking up behind an enemy and Gibbs-slapping him with a pair of dwarven axes... As a dwarf, he likes to play with axes. Paired Holy DAxes of PG; couple of acid/shock DAxes of PG for those pesky non-evil mobs; couple of Muck's Dooms; Couple of acid DAxes of Everbright for those rusties (and possibly oozes. Splitting, pshaw.  Just means more targets, right?  Spin around waving weapons - aka the River Tam Method - will take care of 'em soon enough.  Although MDs do more damage, so so far I'm sticking with 'em.)  Couple of Ghost Touch DAxes of PG and acid/shock DAxes of Greater Undead Bane. And a Dorfen Tosser for ranged. Bows, pshaw. Gotta keep track of ammo and stuff. Also starting to play with/look for Disruption & Smiting DAxes (preferably with GT for the former) and wishing Banishing came on slicey-type weapons... Yeah, way too many axes. Need to streamline 'em. Maybe I *will* dump the MDs after all. And as soon as I get some GT of GUB/Disruption, that'll let me dump one set of weapons. And honestly, the Everbright axes stay in the bank. So it's not really all THAT bad... is it? IS IT?! And after not really playing him for months, I probably shouldn't call him my main, but... I'm still fond of the little bugger! I'm just trying to figure out how I want to do his split.

I also have a Hagglebard which I managed to get up to level 20, making her my first capped character! WHOO! I have a lot of fun with her, even as gimpy as she is. I'd like to make a real bard sometime. I'd also like to play with half-elves sometime. Perhaps the two shall happen at the same time at some point... my second AD&D character (the first isn't worth mentioning, other than to laugh at how easily she died) was a half-elven bard, and I have rather fond memories of him. She's also my designated crafter, and so five of her eight slots are taken up by technically useless feats (Negotiator, Skill Focus: Haggle, and three Marks of Making). She was also my first character flagged for Shroud, as well as my first character who actually went through it. And she got more kills than the monk! *g* Amazingly, she also managed to not die. I joke that my playstyle with her largely consists of singing, buffing, then hiding in a corner and trying not to die. Which isn't actually that far from the truth, but she does often get in there, whapping baddies upside the head with her paralyzing longsword.

The character I really *should* classify as my main is a dwarf monk I rolled up after purchasing Monk and Veteran Status... and I'm having an absolute BLAST. Total antithesis to my usual playing style, just running up and kicking butt, almost no sneaking around. I started out putting points in Hide & Move Silently, but I stopped that and started putting them in Balance & Jump instead. She's now capped and Shrouded (although not as successfully as Maraga, having died in Part 4. I blame the blades... just a sheer forest of them popped up with no warning... caught a couple of others by surprise also, I only realized it when I heard a couple of party members *ding*.)  Now that Mabar's come and gone, she's highly enjoying her new L16 Mabar cloak and wraps... now it's time to wait for NEXT Mabar to upgrade 'em to 20 *sigh*.

Next up is a dwarven barbarian (... I'm really not all that particularly enamored of dwarves, honest. They just seem to work well for me...) who I play when I just want to go mindless beat-the-crap-out-of-stuff. Level 12, banking 13, probably needs to level up in the VERY near future. He's currently drooling over that Elemental Greataxe of Fire from the Challenges.

My last character (well, not counting my bank character and the rogue I've literally never played, I just wanted to check something out real quick) is a warforged wizard... who I haven't really played much. I'm already getting confused with all the spells, and I'm still at a point where spamming his Eternal Acid Wand is an extremely viable option, so I'm pretty sure I won't go very far with him. Punchy punchy, smashy smashy, hitty hitty, that seems to be more my style. Though if I ever do play with that rogue, he's gonna be Mechanic and ranged.