Do you play solo? Would you like to share experiences with other solo players? Then this is for you
General Challenge Rules
- You must roll a new character for this challenge
- Your character can never party with another player character
- Your character must be "untwinked". You cannot give items to your tournament character from any of your other characters. You cannot take items out of your account bank. Your character cannot accept any item mailed to him/her. You can buy items from the AH or from strangers - no purchases from friends unless you can buyout the same item at the same price on the AH
- Your character must start at level 1 - no veteran characters
- No TR's
- No purchases from the DDO store can go into the inventory or be equiped by the tournament character. Exception: cosmetic items
- Hirelings you buy with plat are fine. No gold seal hirelings
- No participating in in-game lotteries
Specific Tournament Rules
- Each quest can be done once on Normal, once on Hard and once on Elite
- Quests are not to be done on Casual
- Don't set out to kill Rares in explorer areas more than once. If you happen to bump into Rare en route to somewhere else, it is fine to kill it
- It is recommended that you join the challenge guild on Khyber, but it is not required. If you don't join the challenge guild, then you can only use guild benefits from your guild that are available from the challenge guild
- It is recommended that you do all of the optionals available and go for the Ransack and Conquest bonuses for each quest
- You can play any race, any class, etc.
- No equipment restrictions
I hope that is all clear. Let me know if you have any questions
Joining the Challenge
If you want to join the challenge, reply to the post with the latest player list and add your name to the bottom of the list.
Collective DiaryCode:Forum Name Character Name Rank Lvl Race Build GuntherBovine Sundree Bovine 1 1 Elf 19 Rng/1 Rog Arcane Archer
The point of this thread is to build a sense of community among solo players. So please periodically post about your character's progress, describing any noteworthy challenges, near death moments (NDM's) and/or finds. Also, update your entry in the latest character list to show your current rank and level. Move your entry so that the tournament list is sorted in descending rank order. Post the character list in your update.
Resources
* Impaqt's Soloing 101 - a Beginners Guide to Soloing
* Thanimal's Axesinger build
* A WF W18/R2 PM build
* A Drow Rgr12/Pal6/Rog2 build
* Chimeran's Bear Shaman build
* A thread discussing solo builds
* My solo journal (but not for this tournament)
* augie's Journal of an Experienced Newbie
* Goldeneye's Guide to Choosing Your Best End Reward
* Kaidar's New Players Journey
* Impaqt's A New Players Guide to Getting Ahead in Stormreach
* The many, many people contributing and organizing the Definitive Static Rewards and Unique Loot
* MrCow's Diaries of a True Reincarnate (Melee)
* Steiner-Davion's Definitive Collectables List
* Aranticus' Clickies, The Route To Self Sufficiency
* DDO Wiki!!
Mockduck's DDO Cast
* Ollathir's All-In-One links thread: ***DDO Links***
11/29/10 Edit: Removed the rule about not participating in festivals and corrected a spelling error
01/14/11 Edit: Changed the rule about killing rares
02/23/11 Edit: Changed the guild location to Khyber