Post edited 9:49 am – December 7, 2010 by Procyon

As we al must admit, many of the furs, including myself, are on a budget so spending money for a DDO subscription is out of the question.  I suggested DDO as LAN game of choice because of the "free" price tag.  However, it has been pointed out by some that the free content feel quickly depleted and thier feeling like they need to buy more turbine points (commonly referred to as TP's) to remain intrested.  Should they?

My answer is long because I want to explore how to get the biggest bang for buck (or not spending any if you can avoid it)

First off, learn the first 4 Korthos quest by heart. These are Heytons crypt, the storehouse, the cannith crystal, and then finish with collaborator. 2nd, learn to build a solid starting character (Melee, Ranger or war cleric is recommended) and do these quest in each character slot on every server, not just Kyber.  Why? At the end of the Collaborator quest you get a one time 25 TP bonus per character slot/server for finishing collaborator.   Although this does not seem like much, you can do these first 4 quest in an hour with some practice.  In about 2 days time, you will have 300-600 turbine points, depending if you have a free or premium account.  Now you can only do this trick once, but it will likly be enouph for you first expansion pack.

From here feel free to learn how to do the Korthos 100, also known as favor grinding.   It is common for groups to form doing all of korthos on elite with a high level character opening elite and doing most of the damage while the rest just kinda fallow along.  You may find the lead character's level so high that your getting little to no experience, but that is ok as XP is not the point. The objective is that by completing all of Korthos on elite can be done in about 2 hours, and apon finishing misery's peak you are at 76 favor.  Most groups will do a few harbor quests (usually information is key, durk's got a secret, and ringleader) to get the remaining 24 points to get 100 favor.  At 100 favor, you get 25 turbine points.  Although this method is slow (takes about 3 hours) it does provide TP indefinitly for free. Want another 25 and are bored, delete you "Alt" character and do a korthos 100.  I've recieved most of my TP this way.  Many of you have meet "tourguide", even though the character has been built and deleted over 2 dozen times.

Lastly, if you do just buy points, do it cheap.  Wait for a sale when Turbine is selling a bundle of points for cheap.   If you want to do it sooner or not in a habit at looking at Turbine store frequently, ask me. Discovered recently Target sells the Turbine cards and with my discount I can get 750 TP for 9$,  not the cheapest point per dollar spent but is by far the most efficient than the other "low cost" methodes from the Turbine store outside a sale.  If you are looking to spend a minimum amount of money but still spend the money so you are entitled to a premium account setting (this allows for 4 characters per server, as apossed to 2) and still have more than enougph points to buy an expansion pack or 2, i suggest chatting to me next meet.

I'll check on the 25$ card, i saw only a 10$ DDO card but they may label the 25$ card for LOTR online, which i did not look closly at.  More info by meet.  Also to all those waiting for it Delara's 50% of Sunday, if you don't got it, get it, best purchase ever and at 375 points a steal.