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 hagglebard. 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 8 Dwarf (who at the time of this typing is currently about 40K away from being forced to level up). 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...

I also have a Hagglebard which I used various "DDO XP Bonus Days!" to get up to level 8. I had 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.

My most recent character is a dwarf monk (... I'm really not all that particularly enamored of dwarves, honest. They just seem to work well for me...) 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've decided not to waste any more points in Hide/Move Silently, but I'm not quite sure what I'll put them in instead. But whatever it is, I suspect I'm gonna have FUN.

Quest stuff

 * Bonus XP
 * Aggression bonus: X monsters killed
 * Onslaught bonus: X monsters killed
 * Conquest bonus: X monsters killed
 * Tamper bonus: X traps disarmed
 * Neutralization bonus: X traps disarmed
 * Ingenious Debilitation bonus: X traps disarmed
 * Observance bonus: X secret doors discovered
 * Perception bonus: X secret doors discovered
 * Vigilant Sight bonus: X secret doors discovered
 * Mischief bonus: X breakables smashed
 * Vandal bonus: X breakables smashed
 * Ransack bonus: X breakables smashed
 * collectable=

My Packs

 * Attack on Stormreach
 * Catacombs - quick and fun, with some decent loot
 * Delera's Tomb
 * Demon Sands
 * Devil Assault - I only ever see people wanting to do Chronoscope when I'm planning on getting off the computer in 15 minutes. WHY IS THIS?!  WHY?!  I WANT THAT TRINKET THINGIE, DAMMIT! *ahem*  Sorry...
 * Necropolis 1
 * Necropolis 2
 * Necropolis 3
 * Phiarlan Carnival - Most recently-discovered. LOTS of fun! (Well, I could maybe do without A Small Problem, but the other three are excellent!  And ASP is pretty fun, too.  Just not AS fun.  But I love the dialogue.)
 * Restless Isles
 * Ruins of Gianthold
 * Ruins of Threnal
 * Sentinels of Stormreach
 * Shan-To-Kor - Rather fun, decent loot, looks great. I like it!
 * The Red Fens
 * The Sharn Syndicate - I have absolutely WAY too much fun with this one. And the Nicked Weapons are to die for!  (Well, to kill for...)  They just need Nicked Dwarven Axes and Nicked Handwraps, and I'll be a very, very happy man.  Short, quick, and to the point... and I just have a blast with Stand Your Ground.  I keep hoping I'll snag a bound FF ring on Thelanis, like I did my second time through on Khyber... I had so much fun with this pack, I bought it as soon as I got off VIP without even waiting for a sale.  Totally worth it.
 * Sorrowdusk Isle
 * Tangleroot Gorge - Repetitive. Great music, but the quest itself is SOOO repetitive.  Probably doesn't help that I'm allergic to just zerging through and finishing the Outer Fortress quests, noooo, I just have to go kill and break and loot everything... EVERY time!
 * Three-Barrel Cove - Whee, pirates! And the quests are fun, too!  I've come to the conclusion that my favorite packs are the ones where it's not just a straight chain (like STK, Catacombs, & Tangleroot), but can do the quests whenever, like this and Sharn and Phiarlan.
 * Vault of Night