Talk:More Noob Questions

Round Two
Great help! I read about and have been grinding for Muckbane, have only seen Muck twice out of 10-12 runs, still no glass club! I know it's probably chance, but how many times might I expect to do this quest before I get the treasured Muckbane? Do you have to do it at Hard or Elite to even have a chance at Muck?

Also, I am glad you brought up Defending Haverdasher, because I had seen other references to that but could not find it in game. The in-game name for that quest is just "Haverdasher".

How about Haggle? Is it something you do automatically? I have a +3 Haggle necklace and I seem to get somewhat better prices when I put it on before approaching a vendor. Is that all there is to it?

My main so far is a 4th level Ranger who is close to leveling. If I am going to keep flying solo, what quests should I be working at this point?

the only place to get a rogue hireling that i know of is from the DDO store and you can get one at lvl 4 for 30 turbine points

Leave the path?
Yoko seemed to be pretty handy with the editing skills, I threw that Haverdasher correction out there thinking Yoko might have the knowledge and the permissions necessary to do corrections at the page name level.

I'm glad to hear that Muck is available at Solo. I have been doing it at Hard all the time because I didn't see Muck at the lower levels, and those shamans are much more capable at Hard!

I will likely start a rogue. If I add a level of rogue to my ranger, is that "leaving the path"? I don't even remember which path I picked. Clearly not Arcane Archer, as I ended up with an INT of 8! How big of a deal are the paths? During char creation they made it sound like there's a lot of bennies to picking a path and staying on it, but in the forums it seems to be all about customization and multi-classing.

You guys are great! I really appreciate the quick and detailed responses I have been getting.

Splitting Favor
I finally got Muckbane! What a pain in the watusi! I must have run through there at least 25 times. I was just starting to think that tying up several inventory slots with disposable clubs wasn't so bad. With them selling for 75-100gp at the AH, I'd like to get 2 or 3 of them, but I was starting to get sick of the game running the same dungeon for no XP over and over. I'm not a farmer at heart.

Anyway, I'm level 5 and I still have not grouped at all. I tried going back to Korthos and doing some of the low-level quests on elite, and I am finding that I still can't do some of them. For example, Redemption. I can keep from getting killed myself, but I can't keep Lars from getting killed on Elite or even consistently at Hard. This is supposed to be a Level 1 quest, and I can't do it solo Elite at Level 5. What level do you need to be to reasonably expect success? If I group to do it, does everyone get the same level of Favor?

Hotkeys and Macros
I'm back with more questions! I used to play Evercrack several years back, and in that game you could automate just about anything and assign it to a hotkey. I cannot figure out how to do that or find anyone talking about it anywhere ("anywhere" being on this site and the DDO.com site).

For example, when I was the meat shield, my druid buddy had a hotkey that would target me by name and cast a heal. Once he had that set up, all he had to do was hit "3" or whatever and I was healed. he didn't have to try to target me while I was in the middle of a fight. I want to do exactly that. I want to do Redemption on Elite with my 4th level cleric, and I think I could pull it off if I could consistently target Lars, but I found this very dicey at Hard, lost count of how many heals I wasted before I got a successful heal on lars, but it was at least 5. That won't cut it on Elite based on previous experience with another character.

The weaponset hotkey setup is slick. Surely more can be done with the hotkeys in DDO. Where is the documentation?

ADD: I just found this: According to this post, you can create all sorts of "aliases" that you can then type in the chat window, but you can't map them to the hotkeys. :-(

Tell me it ain't so!