Dungeons and Dragons Online released Update 3 Tuesday, sending players in all directions to check out the new content once the servers went back up.
One of those directions was up, in the form of a ski jump in the suddenly frostbitten area of Stormreach Market. Welcome to the Risia Ice Games, a winter festival handily timed to coordinate with the 2010 Winter Games. While Update 3 hit some snags (which, for the most part, were quickly taken care of by Turbine) the Ice Games went off without a hitch.
Well, mostly. For the first few hours, cries of "What are these ice tokens?", "How do I get ice skates?", and "Why am I falling directly into the water at the end of the ski jump?" echoed across General Chat as players struggled to figure out what was going on. As with anything new, time and patience were the keywords in working it all out.
If you're still stumped and can't figure out where this half-pipe is that you keep hearing about, Dungeons and Dragons Online has provided a handy rundown to all of the events here. You'll find a list of where events and NPCs are, as well as different ways to acquire ice tokens, and what you can do with them once you have them.
Reader Comments (3)
Posted: Feb 6th 2010 6:21AM (Unverified) said
Thanks Massively, this will be useful information to a lot of people. Keep up the good work.
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Posted: Feb 6th 2010 11:26AM aurickle said
After a couple previous attempts with DDO -- open beta/launch and then again about a year later -- I've recently come back to see what all the hoopla is about now that Unlimited has had time to settle in a bit. I'm seriously impressed. There's so much more content now that I've been forced to skip quests. The new dungeons that I've played have also been extremely innovative and FUN; they've really mastered the capabilities of the toolkit.
There are also lots of quality of life elements have also made the experience more enjoyable. One example is that the game tries to target intuitively (sort of like how Mass Effect 2 does). Another is how there are now bulletin boards in the city districts that point you toward content that's appropriate to your level. It's so nice to not finish a quest and then feel frustrated because you can only find stuff for two levels higher than you. Which isn't to say that there's not even more content to stumble across. There is, and a lot of it! But the sign posts get you pointed in the right direction.
As for this winter event, it's pretty cool. There's no doubt that it's a lot like a variant of Sonic the Hedgehog, but it also pretty neat to see this kind of platforming in an MMO as a diversion. It takes some real skill to get those purple coins!
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There are also lots of quality of life elements have also made the experience more enjoyable. One example is that the game tries to target intuitively (sort of like how Mass Effect 2 does). Another is how there are now bulletin boards in the city districts that point you toward content that's appropriate to your level. It's so nice to not finish a quest and then feel frustrated because you can only find stuff for two levels higher than you. Which isn't to say that there's not even more content to stumble across. There is, and a lot of it! But the sign posts get you pointed in the right direction.
As for this winter event, it's pretty cool. There's no doubt that it's a lot like a variant of Sonic the Hedgehog, but it also pretty neat to see this kind of platforming in an MMO as a diversion. It takes some real skill to get those purple coins!
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