DDOCentral

I’m generally not a fan of soloing, as I enjoy the company of other players.. so unless I’m multiboxing, I tend to lfm for the quests I want to do. But with the addition of reaper difficulty and the limitations of it, getting people to join my lfm has been getting harder. Getting joiners for EE was already difficult at times, but reaper has become a challenge. I don’t like waiting around too long for people to join my lfm, so most of the time I’ll pick a difficulty I can (with some difficulty) solo and hope that someone joins me in progress.

Something that crossed my mind recently, and feel like I should probably post about.

Occasionally, there will be some idiots in my party who expect everyone to have voice chat enabled, and don’t even check to see whether the rest of the party can actually hear them. Yes, there is a way to check this.

See that nice, green, speaker-shaped icon that is either present or absent from your party icon? If you didn’t know what it does, then now you have no excuse for not knowing. That icon indicates whether the party member in question has voice chat enabled. If the green icon is absent, then there’s zero chance whatsoever that the person can hear what you are saying (unless, of course, you know that person in real life and are actually playing in the same room as one another). But even when that green icon is there, it…