U17 Patch 2

[silence383]

Ok this has two purposes. To poke a bit of fun and to get your points across and relieve some anger. Not sure how this will go but here it is lol.

The idea is to post something sarcastic you expect to see in the next patch notes :P

Update 17 Patch 2

Fixed an issue where some quests/raids could not be completed due to lag. We have fixed this so all quests/raids can not be completed equally.

Just a fun post :) Maybe even open some eyes seeing it from our point of view...Have at it folks ;)

Will add this from another post which gave me the idea lol

Release notes Update 17 patch 2 : Fixed an issue where invisibility guard was working properly to make it as relatively ineffective as the invisibility spell.

[HatsuharuZ]

Patch 17.2: New Enhancements UI!

New Known Issues:
-Bards, Paladins and Rangers are in serious need of an update.

[Meretrix]

Patch 17.2

A squirrel in the King's Forest has been moved slightly.

[silence383]

patch 17.2

a squirrel in the king's forest has been moved slightly.

lmao...

Kinda like the cow now being called an ox...

[MnaSidhe]

Update 17 patch 2: fixed a bug that allowed people using a stone of experience to get to higher levels than the intended 16 by simply having XP bonus effects active. The erroneously granted XP has been removed retrospectively.

[FlameDiablo]

New useless companions implemented, but to do that there is a new little bug: yu cannot attack or cast spells

[lhidda]

the return of 2 random bugs, which already have been fixed in e.g. Update 15 or 12.3, like game crashes when you try to zone with a hireling or a bug with collectibles/ingredients bag or epic scrolls droping in fens slayer area. I hope gems are dropping at higher rate again. but lets see.

[Rian]

Fixed an issue that caused players to receive no loot at all from various chests.

Chests now require Astral Shards to loot.


3 for Bronze loot roll - Vendor Trash loot tables
5 for Silver loot roll - Standard loot tables
10 for Gold loot roll - Premium loot tables


Fred will no longer allow you to exchange feats, only get rid of them. This is WAI.
Halflings may now be properly be used as throwing weapons.
Dwarves may now properly be used as throwing weapons, with a 30 strength or higher.
Warforged now come with a glove compartment.
Wail of the Banshee now targets correctly. (Now targets party members!)
Bardic music is now more in-tune. It should no longer sound like various works from Metallica.
Many grammatical issues has been fixed!

[Rasczak]

Patch 17.2:

Fixed a bug that was causing Astral Shard Item Tax to not work properly. Now whenever players take damage they should be given the choice to pay 5 Astral Shards or randomly lose a piece of equipment.

[Stanley_Nicholas]

We heard the overwhelming feedback that collectible turn-in requirements were too high. To address this concern we have temporarily doubled the required number for each turn-in. With the release of Update 18 we will reduce costs by 50%, thereby addressing the original complaint. Previous experience suggests a small but highly vocal segment of the forum population will be completely satisfied by this outcome, and they will shout about their satisfaction until all others give up complaining about it.

We are pleased to announce that for the upcoming paid expansion this summer, you may now pre-order the Super Collector's Edition available for the low price of $299.95. For those true fans who purchase the exclusive Super Collector's Edition, they will receive all benefits of the Standard Edition pre-order package ($49.95), plus all collectible turn-in rates will be restored to pre-U17.1 levels.

[EllisDee37]

Wail was not working properly, generally doing nothing half the time. Earthquake, blade barrier, sneak attack, monk finishing moves, manyshot, cleave, great cleave, and rage all also now do nothing half the time for balance issues. We tried to bork something for pallies, but nobody noticed.

[Persiflage]

Fixed an issue which meant that some players could not buy points from the in-game store while point bundles were on sale. Now no players can buy points from the in-game store while point bundles are on sale.
Fixed an issue where Verisgante no longer offers certain items to in-form Pale Masters: Pale Master forms have been disabled until the enhancement pass.
Fixed a bug outstanding since the change from Gold to Platinum base currency, where plat costs for purchases from Bartenders have been 1/1000th of the intended price.

New feature: You can now spend Astral Shards with the Bartender!


2 Astral Shards for accelerated healing/sp recovery up to ML 8 items
4 Astral Shards for accelerated healing/sp recovery ML 8 - 16 items
8 Astral Shards for accelerated healing/sp recovery ML >16 items
Items can now be repaired in tavern areas for 1 Astral Shard per 100pp value of damage



Known Issues: Due to a technical constraint, it was not possible to increase the platinum price of consumables from the Bartender without also increasing the cost of item repair by the same amount. This issue also affects repair costs at Vendors.



Due to player feedback, we have removed the ability to repair items in quests and public areas by spending Astral Shards. All repairs must once more be made via Vendors and Bartenders.

Bound-to-Character on Acquire items can now be sold on the ASAH! Posting fee is 5 shards and the cut taken is 60%
Halflings may now be used in Yellow augment slots.
In response to player feedback, Arcane Spell Coding Crayons have been taken away from Honey Boo Boo, and Mass Hold Monster now uses its proper animation.


Known Issues: All spells affecting multiple targets (including all those with "Mass" in the title) currently have a DC = 10 + half spell level. This is not modified by casting stats, race or class enhancements, feats, bard abilities or ship buffs.

A bug which resulted in some players failing to receive loot from the end chest of Fall of Truth has been removed, as has the chest.
The Invisibility spell has had its text amended to reflect its intended functionality; the "Description" field has been deleted.
To improve consistency, all Bard songs have been changed to grant Enhancement modifiers where applicable to stats and casting DC's, Competence modifiers where applicable to skills and Resistance bonuses where applicable to saves.
New Store Item! Augment Bags: Keep all your augment crystals in one handy inventory slot. Binds to Character on Acquire. 500-2495TP
In response to player feedback on VIP rewards, VIP's will now receive 20 Astral Shards per month, awarded on the monthly subscription date. VIP's will no longer receive Turbine Points as part of their subscription.
The Toughness feat now grants a number of hit points equal to 1/10th of your Astral Shard total. The number of hit points granted may in future be modified (downwards) for game balance. Race and Class toughness enhancements will also grant hit points based on a proportion of your Astral Shard total.
To address concerns about the cost of collectable turn-ins from traders, collectable drop rates have been increased ten-fold.
New Store Item! Humongous Collectables Bag: Stores up to 2,000 types of collectable in stacks of up to 10,000. Binds to Character on Acquire. 4,995TP
Due to a lack of demand and as part of our on-going activity to remove unnecessary items from the DDO Store, Large and Huge Collectables bags will no longer be purchasable. Our statistics show that 97.5% of players hardly ever buy more than one of these, like, ever.

[shortylegs]

In patch 2, we will continue to:

Introduce lots of fabricated money into the realm. Although this will sound good, it's purpose is to deflate everything you have to the point of worthlessness. On average, this will please the new generation, and infuriate the old. We will also continue to reduce the value of the content you already have, by making any new rewards more powerful.

We will call this, the Bernanke Effect.

After all, it doesn't matter in a game.

[alvarego]

Wail was not working properly, generally doing nothing half the time. Earthquake, blade barrier, sneak attack, monk finishing moves, manyshot, cleave, great cleave, and rage all also now do nothing half the time for balance issues. We tried to bork something for pallies, but nobody noticed.

Lay on hands?

[blerkington]

Hi,

OP, good idea for a thread.

Like your work, Persiflage.

Thanks.

[alvarego]

Halflings may now be used in Yellow augment slots.


This and the "dark side" ... simply epic :D

[nikos1313]

Halflings may now be used in Yellow augment slots.


u made me log in just to give u a +1!!

[FuzzyDuck81]

new feature: killing rabbits within the kings forest explorer area will cause the song "bright eyes" to be played. Rabbits remember kings forest!

sorry, i've just been listening to watership down at work :)

[Silex_Molior]

* Typo fixed on 3 NPC dialogs in the Harbor. (Note: this accidentally caused all player characters to be deleted.)

[Razor_Wit]

* Fixed an issue where raid parties were enjoying The Fall of Truth, and developers were incorrectly receiving positive feedback.
*Simultaneously fixed an issue where the raid Caught in the Web was being utilized less. Completion rates have begun to increase again.

[fco-karatekid]

In patch 2, we will continue to:

Introduce lots of fabricated money into the realm. Although this will sound good, it's purpose is to deflate everything you have to the point of worthlessness. On average, this will please the new generation, and infuriate the old. We will also continue to reduce the value of the content you already have, by making any new rewards more powerful.

We will call this, the Bernanke Effect.

After all, it doesn't matter in a game.

I'd +2 if I could!

[HelvanderSeries6]

Update 17 patch 2: We have finalized the deal to merge with Blizzard Entertainment.

[fco-karatekid]

- Fixed 3 bugs that have been on live for over a year
-- Introduced 5 new and improved bugs
-- Returned 7 new bugs that previously existed
-- Made 4 changes that were unneeded and for which noone asked

- Introduced new items that generate with random mods, ML 20 and up
-- Adjusted rate of spawn for useful effects like Cosmic reduced to infinitesimal; that for effects like Bane on hit is at ~98%
-- Ensured one of the random mods is punitive in nature in all cases

- Implemented an improvement to Lammania so that all feedback is /dev/null'ed vs simply ignored

- Monsters that were unresponsive have been fixed. They will now aggro you in town before you enter the quest and all have True Seeing.
- Invis, hide, and MS were fixed in response to the item above - they will now only work in town

- Walls were OP. They have all been removed, as per original intent ~U13 timeframe.

[Marewood]

Patch 17.2

Nail-Polish added to the DDO-Store

[bhgiant]

Commendations of Heroism now have a rare chance of dropping in random loot-gen chests (about as often as Astral Diamonds)
Commendations of Heroism now available in the DDO Store! (since it's no longer raid loot)

[PuppiesAndRainbows]

new crew added - engineer to repair airship - uses crew spot
engineer automatically uses astral shards to repair ship

[madmaxhunter]

New race: Gnomes! Available with 800 favor from the Yugoloth, or from the DDO Store 2,995 TP. free to VIPs! (with favor unlock, new Yugoloth quests will be added in 2014)

Note: Gnomes are currently glitched and tend to spin in place, this is not WAI and will be addressed in a future patch.

[Vint]

Introducing xp/gear insurance.Have you ever lost gear or xp during a TR or through any other means? DDO Insurance is for you. We will replace and gear or xp within 6-7 months*. If you do not purchase insurance, sorry you are sol and will need to regrind what you lost. Only 4,000 tp per character!

While you wait for your gear/xp to be replaced; please have a look at the new Astral Craps, Blackjack and Keno tables.




This may take longer, and we do not guarantee actually replacing everything

[aeroplanefly]

Changes to teleport scroll:
Failure (Oops!) rolls on teleport scrolls will no longer cause you to drop from airship height into marketplace. Instead, failure rolls will cause you to drop from the Plane of Night all the way down.

[Zzevel]

The Band Creed are now the official DDO spokesmen, all bard songs will have their songs adjusted to Creed songs.
Implemented yet another crafting type system AND for your excitement! We decided to add 4000 more items for your bags rather than using what is unused in the game.
A new expansion is coming, with 4 new raids! All raids require a 15 AS entry per run, but there is no 3 day waiting period between runs!
We *will be implementing a new way to report bugs and suggest improvements to the game, what we will actually read and rank priority! (*we reserve the right to ignore we ever made this statement)

[Bzzzt]

-All raid loot now drops in the same manner as the Xachosian Eardweller, it is recommend that all party members roll on potential loot before the raid chest is opened.
-For the convenience of the upcoming Giant player race, all chests have been magically lifted up to eye level for those characters. Players are encouraged to buy the Giant race upon release for 950TP if they wish to access loot.
-All loot now binds to other players in party upon acquire.

[Persiflage]

Hi,

OP, good idea for a thread.

Like your work, Persiflage.

Thanks.


This and the "dark side" ... simply epic :D


u made me log in just to give u a +1!!

Aw, thanks folks :) I'm sure I must have missed a few things though...

I love the gear insurance idea. How about "protection money"? 1 AS per day, per toon, and you won't have any trouble. Fail to pay up, and... well, those robes you're wearing look a bit flammable, know what I'm saying?

[Luxgolg]

U17.2 - Includes a 6 month subscription to LOTRO to show us how bad we really got it

[gordgray]

Update 17 patch 2: Your hireling now control's your Avatar and tell's you what to do!

[Arnhelm]

Items

As an additional option to item repairs, all repair vendors now have a barter interface which allows use of Astral Shards to repair equipment instead of platinum pieces.

[fco-karatekid]

Update 17.2

Forum Posts

- All posts to official forum, release notes, etc., past (i.e. forum folk being less than n% of base), present, or future, from Turbine are henceforth to be considered inaccurate or conflicting with actual guidance or facts.
-- including this one

[Elaril]

Ok this has two purposes. To poke a bit of fun and to get your points across and relieve some anger. Not sure how this will go but here it is lol.

The idea is to post something sarcastic you expect to see in the next patch notes :P

Update 17 Patch 2

Fixed an issue where some quests/raids could not be completed due to lag. We have fixed this so all quests/raids can not be completed equally.

Just a fun post :) Maybe even open some eyes seeing it from our point of view...Have at it folks ;)

Will add this from another post which gave me the idea lol

Release notes Update 17 patch 2 : Fixed an issue where invisibility guard was working properly to make it as relatively ineffective as the invisibility spell.

Developer: Are you sure what you are seeing is lag and not an intended behavior of the quest? I have tried to reproduce this "lag" on my local build and have not seen any of it. I'd rather not try to reproduce it on a live client as the diagnostic tools I have will effect all users on the server, causing their clients to work much slower, rubber band, behave in a more choppy manner and, occasionally, freeze up.

Oh, they're already doing that? Shoot.

[Elaril]

Update 17 patch 2:

- All ladders are now targetable, and their in game description now reads: "Ladders may be difficult to climb, the rungs are slippery and can cause you to fall."

- Characters now take fall damage when they "miss a rung" on a ladder and "slip" back down to the bottom.

[LightBear]

Update 17.2: In most Video Game Content Rating Systems the game is now listed one step higher due to the recently added gambling to the game. This means we have to say goodbye to a lot of players, we hope to see them back once they are old enough.

[LightBear]

Update 17.2:

We've added cupcake specials to the game, just because we can.

http://imagesus.homeaway.com/mda01/ffed5439-c8d5-485f-b9b5-8f476e01d81b.1.12

What they do? Boost your manhood of course!

[fco-karatekid]

Update 17.2:

We've added cupcake specials to the game, just because we can.

http://media.dumpert.nl/foto/0ce24581_cV6Vpt6.jpg

What they do? Boost your manhood of course!

Update 17.2 hotfix 1, however, will repair an issue that caused the resultant effect to affect only female characters. Warforged of either gender will be fine.

[Eth]

They will fix all the lag:

- The spell "Time Stop" is now available!
"Time Stop" cannot be cast by players, but by ALL monsters at any time.
"Time Stop" lasts for 10 seconds up to 60 minutes.
While "Time Stop" is active monsters can freely move / attack / cast spells.
Players cannot perform any actions during "Time Stop".

Sometimes an extremely powerful version of "Time Stop" will be cast that banishes all players off the world of Dungeons and Dragons for 1 hour up to 5 days.

[silence383]

lol these are cracking me up....so many good one's..so little rep points to give :(

[DanteEnFuego]

NEW ***FREE*** Cosmetic Pets!

Twilight
Rainbow Dash
Pinkie Pie

That is all...

[Aussir]

NEW ***FREE*** Cosmetic Pets!

Twilight
Rainbow Dash
Pinkie Pie

That is all...
You forgot Edward, Bella and Bieber.

Pets' special feature:
- Irate the monsters so much from just seeing them that you get an instant Super Red alert and they insta kill you from just looking at you.
- As a bonus, anywhere you go with any of those pets, other players will be compelled to attack you and your pets due to "Irrational Rage" (you lose control of your character while in "Irrational Rage" mode). This is WAI.

[Aashrym]

17.2 Patch Notes

removed math from various subsystems due to player feedback

changed resist cold to be a competence bonus while other resist elements will be enhancement bonuses; this is done for stacking purposes regardless of intuitiveness or consistency. the updates that make these changes relevant were delayed while our development team was redirected to something that made us moar money; it will be released in a future update thoon

removed a bug causing giant kobolds to appear in the harbor

added a new feature allowing giant kobolds to appear in the harbor

due to popular demand shears of fate have been added back to the ddo store for a limited time only. due to a back end adjustment the price needed to be increased to 45000 TP. our back ends feel much better now that WB is no longer adjusting them.

corrected a minor grammatical error in the titan raid. this would have been corrected earlier but there was a shortage of players providing relevant feedback. QA tested the grammatical error extensively, however, and we assure you that it is no longer incorrect

in an effort to increase interactive stealth in the game we have added glitterdust spell traps that cannot be avoided, detected, or disabled for multiple quests in which players have incentive to use stealth

we are introducing a new premium store item, the cloak of the dollah sign, which allows players to bypass spell traps as a convenience item. know issue, the cloak of the dollah sign also grants +35% movement and +15% xp bonus. this had been added to the known issues list and is slated for a low priority hotfix in a future patch

[fco-karatekid]

NEW ***FREE*** Cosmetic Pets!

Twilight
Rainbow Dash
Pinkie Pie

That is all...

have to wait 24 hours!

[fco-karatekid]

Anyone betting THIS one doesn't make hall of fame?

[Rian]

Anyone betting THIS one doesn't make hall of fame?

That depends on whether or not Turbine has a good sense of humor

I'd be more worried about whether or not they turn this into a to-do list :p

[silence383]

That depends on whether or not Turbine has a good sense of humor

I'd be more worried about whether or not they turn this into a to-do list :p

lol.

[Meetch1972]

Ladders:
Previously some attempts to grab onto and climb some ladder were met with rubber-banding back down. Fixed so that all ladders now cause 3d4 iterations of this glitch.
Gelatinous cube cosmetic pets can now "roll" up them properly.

[Drona]

Update 17 Patch 2:

- In continuance with our class balancing features, we have tweaked the pale-masters PrE.
Pale Master I: You are master of Negative energy. Whenever you cast spell, stand still, move, summon pets, you will take a -5 penalty to all stats. This stacks every 2 seconds until all stats become 0.
Pale Master II: You are master of Negative energy. Whenever you cast spell, stand still, move, summon pets, you will take a -10 penalty to all stats. This stacks every 2 seconds until all stats become 0.
Pale Master III: You are master of Negative energy. Whenever you cast spell, stand still, move, summon pets, you will take a -20 penalty to all stats. This stacks every 2 seconds until all stats become 0.

Shroud of the Lich: You are no longer be healed by negative energy in addition to heal spells. You will take 400% more damage from every hit and spell cast at you. This damage stacks every time for 2 seconds for 24 hours, peaking at 40000000% damage.

New feature:

Summon True Hearts of Wood: In shroud of lich form, you can summon a True Hearts of wood. When used, you will be True re-incarnated into a Sorceror. You can blast mobs with with unlimited SP*. You dont need brains or be intelligent or tactics to play this God-mode class. If you migrated from World of Warcraft you will get 100% more damage for all offensive spells used. Default Epic Destiny will be Shiradi Champion when you are able to unlock Epic Destinies.

*SP pots can be acquired in-game or bought in DDO store. There is no limit on how many pots you can have.

[CoasterHops]

Update 17, Patch 2:

Fixed an issue that was causing several in game and in real life issues: All actual female voices have been digitally deepened to sound like that of a male, it is expected that this change will result in less in game stalking and mum spending less money on tissue boxes.

[Tenchi]

Quest & Adventure Area Changes

Korthos

A stuck spot has been fixed.

Caught in the Web

Anna's should provide audible grunts to cue players she is being attacked.
Elminster will join you for the entire quest as hireling, and not just show up at the end.

Fall of Truth

Now with more Air Elementals!
Fixed a typo on the Dragon dialogue.
This Raid is fixed!

Ascension Chamber
The water now freezes players when they touch it, aside from doing damage.
Made the water pools deeper.


Astral Shards
You can now complete a quest using Astral Shards!
+ When doing so, you will be teleported to the final chest, with all objectives completed and all monsters removed from the dungeon

[silence383]

Deleted.

[Orratti]

Fixed an issue where hirelings could be bought with plat. They are now payable in the much preferred currency of astral shards. Prices vary by user preference.

[Luxgolg]

U17.2 - You get an in game bonus for using advice you asked about on the forums.
- 30% more xp for "Liking" the Facebook page
- 10% discount in the store for subscribing to DDO on YouTube
- 5% discount in the store for following DDO on twitter @DDOUnlimited

[Persiflage]

* Fixed an issue where raid parties were enjoying The Fall of Truth, and developers were incorrectly receiving positive feedback.


BAHAHAHAHA! I lol'd, even though that should have been in the release notes for 17.1. +1 :D

[fco-karatekid]

U17.2 - You get an in game bonus for using advice you asked about on the forums.
- 30% more xp for "Liking" the Facebook page
- 10% discount in the store for subscribing to DDO on YouTube
- 5% discount in the store for following DDO on twitter @DDOUnlimited

Is there a penalty for participating in any other forums?

[psykopeta]

u 17.2

added gs handwraps

known issue: the blank gs handwraps can't be selected in the list: if you put the right ingredients it won't appear, if you use the searh option it won't appear, if you scroll over all the blanks it won't appear, will be fixed in u 17.3

u 17.3

removed the not-added yet gs handwraps because they were causing the outstaning lag, bugs in ladders, etc etc

non-sense? hey it's turbine, what did you expect? lol

[Persiflage]

New Epic Destiny: Astral Deva ... Harness the might of Astral Shards and confound your foes with this powerful new destiny!

Some sample abilities from the new destiny include:


Tier 1 - Swing When You're Winning: Gain an increase to your base weapon damage, based on your current Astral Shard balance, +1[w] to +5[w]
Tier 2 - Money Can Buy Me Love: You acquire DR [x]/-, where [x] = 1/500th / 1/250th / 1/100th of your Astral Shard account balance. Damage which overcomes your DR will deduct 3/2/1 shards from your account.
Tier 3 - Get Out of Jail Expensively: Any effect which would render you immobile and/or helpless (paralysis, tripping, stunning, etc.) is automatically negated, at a cost of 1 shard per second of the effect's full possible duration
Tier 4 - Elemental Shardshield: For the duration of one quest or raid, your target gains an innate bonus to a single elemental damage type equal to 1/100th / 1/50th / 1/20th of your Astral Shard balance, at a shard cost equal to the bonus granted. Lasts through rests, negated on death. Elemental Shardshields of different element types can be applied simultaneously.
Tier 5 - The Power of Cash Compels You: For 60 seconds, all incoming damage and negative effects are redirected to the party member with the lowest number of Astral Shards. If you are not in a group, a random Halfling from any other instance will be targeted instead. Does not include hirelings or pets.

[Luxgolg]

Is there a penalty for participating in any other forums?

No one wants to know about your permadeath halfling guild forums.

Also you get a -2 to all stats, DC, CHA modifier, credibility, rep points, and are not taken seriously thereafter.

[Daemoneyes]

Update 17.2
#
Trading windows: Multiple Trade-ins!
New bug: Multiple Trade-ins are limited to 1, trying to enter higher values may corrupt your installation.
#
Fall of truth again casual friendly!
The Stormreaver will no longer Blitzbomb your Raidgroup.
Unfortunatly the ability seems to have slipped and now every Kobold can Blitzbomb.
This may be fixed in a future update, or not.
#
New Location (House Cannith) added to Teleport spell!
It seems something slipped us and now every location bring you into the Red Fens, you will have to click there a special Mushroom to return to your previous location.
#
House Cannith expanded and added an Airship Portal!
Several minor errors remain and will maybe fixed, someday, if i find time, or find someone who has time, or i am bored but more likely they remain.
Please refrain from sending Airship invites, this will cause the player to port his char into World of Worfcraft - Age of Klingon. (paid re-transfers now aviable)
#
DNTSTRINGTABLECLOTHERROR fixed!
uhh, there may have slipped a minor bug.
All Dialogs in Eveningstar are now Dialogs from 70s Pornos.
Sahuagen think they are Bart Simpson and will jump from the Water with a Cawabunga, this made us lol so it is now WAI.

[fco-karatekid]

No one wants to know about your permadeath halfling guild forums.

Also you get a -2 to all stats, DC, CHA modifier, credibility, rep points, and are not taken seriously thereafter.

but... but... tractors!

[frugal10191]

Update 17 Patch 2:

Bug Fixes

Issues with being able to climb up ladders have now been fixed. It should now be possible to climb up all ladders, however it is no longer possible to climb down them
An additional feature "snakes" has been introduced in order to get back down.


New Quest:

Snakes and Ladders: The players assist Elminster entertain his grandchildren by racing them up and down a series of ladders and snakes. The first player to the top gets to open the prize chest. In this quest movement for all characters is d6 per turn.

Known issue: The d6 movement per turn affects all in-quest movement. The developers felt it was important to get this quest released and a fix for movement will be delivered as part of the enhancement pass.

[Luxgolg]

but... but... tractors!

What are you yabbering about? There will be no tractors in U17.2

[WangChi]

New Epic Destiny: Astral Deva ... Harness the might of Astral Shards and confound your foes with this powerful new destiny!

Some sample abilities from the new destiny include:


Tier 1 - Swing When You're Winning: Gain an increase to your base weapon damage, based on your current Astral Shard balance, +1[w] to +5[w]
Tier 2 - Money Can Buy Me Love: You acquire DR [x]/-, where [x] = 1/500th / 1/250th / 1/100th of your Astral Shard account balance. Damage which overcomes your DR will deduct 3/2/1 shards from your account.
Tier 3 - Get Out of Jail Expensively: Any effect which would render you immobile and/or helpless (paralysis, tripping, stunning, etc.) is automatically negated, at a cost of 1 shard per second of the effect's full possible duration
Tier 4 - Elemental Shardshield: For the duration of one quest or raid, your target gains an innate bonus to a single elemental damage type equal to 1/100th / 1/50th / 1/20th of your Astral Shard balance, at a shard cost equal to the bonus granted. Lasts through rests, negated on death. Elemental Shardshields of different element types can be applied simultaneously.
Tier 5 - The Power of Cash Compels You: For 60 seconds, all incoming damage and negative effects are redirected to the party member with the lowest number of Astral Shards. If you are not in a group, a random Halfling from any other instance will be targeted instead. Does not include hirelings or pets.




You must stop this thread now before it's to late, I foresee the dev's reading this, laughing, and then bringing it up in a meeting where some suit says, "That's a good idea."

Please stop.

[Grosbeak07]

Update 17.2
#
Trading windows: Multiple Trade-ins!
New bug: Multiple Trade-ins are limited to 1, trying to enter higher values may corrupt your installation.
#
Fall of truth again casual friendly!
The Stormreaver will no longer Blitzbomb your Raidgroup.
Unfortunatly the ability seems to have slipped and now every Kobold can Blitzbomb.
This may be fixed in a future update, or not.
#
New Location (House Cannith) added to Teleport spell!
It seems something slipped us and now every location bring you into the Red Fens, you will have to click there a special Mushroom to return to your previous location.
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House Cannith expanded and added an Airship Portal!
Several minor errors remain and will maybe fixed, someday, if i find time, or find someone who has time, or i am bored but more likely they remain.
Please refrain from sending Airship invites, this will cause the player to port his char into World of Worfcraft - Age of Klingon. (paid re-transfers now aviable)
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DNTSTRINGTABLECLOTHERROR fixed!
uhh, there may have slipped a minor bug.
All Dialogs in Eveningstar are now Dialogs from 70s Pornos.
Sahuagen think they are Bart Simpson and will jump from the Water with a Cawabunga, this made us lol so it is now WAI.

Known Issue:

The Mushroom is rare and random on the map, there is no other method out of the Red Fens other than a full character delete. Once the character is deleted you can use the DDO premium services to undelete the character for $19.99 or 2500 Turbine Points or 1000 Astral Shards.

[Persiflage]

Update 17 Patch 2:

New Quest:

Snakes and Ladders: The players assist Elminster entertain his grandchildren by racing them up and down a series of ladders and snakes. The first player to the top gets to open the prize chest. In this quest movement for all characters is d6 per turn.

Known issue: The d6 movement per turn affects all in-quest movement. The developers felt it was important to get this quest released and a fix for movement will be delivered as part of the enhancement pass.



Aaaaaahahahahahaha! :D

Yes. +1

[fco-karatekid]

New Epic Destiny: Astral Deva ... Harness the might of Astral Shards and confound your foes with this powerful new destiny!

Some sample abilities from the new destiny include:


Tier 1 - Swing When You're Winning: Gain an increase to your base weapon damage, based on your current Astral Shard balance, +1[w] to +5[w]
Tier 2 - Money Can Buy Me Love: You acquire DR [x]/-, where [x] = 1/500th / 1/250th / 1/100th of your Astral Shard account balance. Damage which overcomes your DR will deduct 3/2/1 shards from your account.
Tier 3 - Get Out of Jail Expensively: Any effect which would render you immobile and/or helpless (paralysis, tripping, stunning, etc.) is automatically negated, at a cost of 1 shard per second of the effect's full possible duration
Tier 4 - Elemental Shardshield: For the duration of one quest or raid, your target gains an innate bonus to a single elemental damage type equal to 1/100th / 1/50th / 1/20th of your Astral Shard balance, at a shard cost equal to the bonus granted. Lasts through rests, negated on death. Elemental Shardshields of different element types can be applied simultaneously.
Tier 5 - The Power of Cash Compels You: For 60 seconds, all incoming damage and negative effects are redirected to the party member with the lowest number of Astral Shards. If you are not in a group, a random Halfling from any other instance will be targeted instead. Does not include hirelings or pets.




+1 for the titles alone! I thought that was proposed DDO Store adverts at first.

[Persiflage]

+1 for the titles alone! I thought that was proposed DDO Store adverts at first.

Hah, cheers :D

I like this thread. It's satire heaven.

[xenobias]

We at turbine noticed the sun blade is a pretty popular weapon and seems to be WAI. Players seem to love this weapon. So we buffed it!

Now it only does 1d2 damage and can only be lifted by a character with more than 40 str and will cause a perma death and delete to any warforged that even looks at it.

We have also increased the usability of the ASAH. You now can sell you BTA items through it but the house percentage for those sales has been set at 110%. A buyers fee for these transactions has also been added and set at 110%.

[silence383]

New Epic Destiny: Astral Deva ... Harness the might of Astral Shards and confound your foes with this powerful new destiny!

Some sample abilities from the new destiny include:


Tier 1 - Swing When You're Winning: Gain an increase to your base weapon damage, based on your current Astral Shard balance, +1[w] to +5[w]
Tier 2 - Money Can Buy Me Love: You acquire DR [x]/-, where [x] = 1/500th / 1/250th / 1/100th of your Astral Shard account balance. Damage which overcomes your DR will deduct 3/2/1 shards from your account.
Tier 3 - Get Out of Jail Expensively: Any effect which would render you immobile and/or helpless (paralysis, tripping, stunning, etc.) is automatically negated, at a cost of 1 shard per second of the effect's full possible duration
Tier 4 - Elemental Shardshield: For the duration of one quest or raid, your target gains an innate bonus to a single elemental damage type equal to 1/100th / 1/50th / 1/20th of your Astral Shard balance, at a shard cost equal to the bonus granted. Lasts through rests, negated on death. Elemental Shardshields of different element types can be applied simultaneously.
Tier 5 - The Power of Cash Compels You: For 60 seconds, all incoming damage and negative effects are redirected to the party member with the lowest number of Astral Shards. If you are not in a group, a random Halfling from any other instance will be targeted instead. Does not include hirelings or pets.




Another +1..love the effort :) You all have made me laugh so much such great posts

[gphysalis]

Bound to Account on Acquire items are now auctionable on the Shard Exchange. The posting fee is 10 AS, with a minimum bid of 40 AS, and a Shard Exchange Fee of 60%.
Bound to Character on Acquire items are also auctionable, the posting fee is 25 AS, the minimum bid is 150AS, and the Shard Exchange Cut is 80%

In addition, Astral shards will gain several additional uses:
Astral shards can be used to purchace new enhanced augment crystals, only avaliable through astral shards. These enhanced augment crystals are ML25. These can be purchaced in game from Elminster:

300AS: Yellow Augment crystal of Striding 35%
400AS: Blue Augment Crystal of Fortification 125%
500AS: Red Augment Crystal of +1[W] Damage
700AS: Red Augment Crystal of Potency 120
1500AS: Blue Augment Crystal of 200HP
4000AS: Yellow Augment Crystal of 1000SP

During Quests, Hirelings can be summoned for an additional price:
Directly summoning Hirelings, in both quests and raids. The hireling summoned will be randomly chosen of the available hirelings at your level.

Astral Shards can be used to Level. Speak to the trainer of your choice, choose the option to advance to the next level, and the trainer will prompt you to spend astral shards to level if you do not have enough experience.

Lastly, Astral Shards can be used for actual GM support. A fee of 100 Astral shards will be removed from your inventory, and a guaranteed helpful GM will assist you with closing your ticket.

[silence383]

Epic summons will now be able to be empowered. Your CR12 EPIC summon will now be able to be enhanced with shards.
2 AS will increase your summon 1 CR up to 25.

Empower YOUR summon TODAY!!!!*


* Limited time only the shard price will increase to 10 AS per CR after a time of WB's choosing. ;)


(for all the casters out there like me)

[kwyjibo_lol]

New to update 17.2
Tome of sovereign dungeon scaling 4995TP: Due to feedback from con-dumpstat fleshy archmages, all quests will scale to your build, and all traps are now invoke positive healing aura.
Known issue: radiant servant ii healing aura debuffs all party members without a Tome of sovereign dungeon scaling.

Fixed: Arcane spellcasters no longer get "Out of Range" when casting AoE spells that do not require a target.
Known Issue: Palemasters and Archmages will have an increased likelihood of receiving the "Out of Range" messages. Our developers are aware of this and encourage all wizards to re-roll as a fleshy wizard.

Tome of sovereign necromantic recollection 9995TP: Tired of your 58dc necro spells being near useless in endgame EE quests. Consuming the tome gains you +2 necromancy dc's (stacks up to three times).

[fco-karatekid]

New to update 17.2
Tome of sovereign dungeon scaling 4995TP: Due to feedback from con-dumpstat fleshy archmages, all quests will scale to your build, and all traps are now invoke positive healing aura.
Known issue: radiant servant ii healing aura debuffs all party members without a Tome of sovereign dungeon scaling.

Fixed: Arcane spellcasters no longer get "No Target" when casting AoE spells that do not require a target.
Known Issue: Palemasters and Archmages will have an increased likelihood of receiving the "No Target" messages. Our developers are aware of this and encourage all wizards to re-roll as a fleshy wizard.

Tome of sovereign necromantic recollection 9995TP: Tired of your 58dc necro spells being near useless in endgame EE quests. Consuming the tome gains you +2 necromancy dc's (stacks up to three times).



Is there a way to apply the nerf-for-AS to crystals?

[Aelonwy]

Update 17 Patch 2:

New to the DDO Store:

Jewel of Bragging Rights: Doubles the drop rate of named loot for 3 hrs. 995TP each (Not usable in Raids)
Jewel of Greater Bragging Rights: Doubles the drop rate of named loot for 6 hrs. 1495TP each (Not usable in Raids)
Jewel of Excellent Bragging Rights: Triples the drop rate of named loot for 3 hrs. 1995TP each (Not usable in Raids)
Jewel of Fantastic Bragging Rights: Triples the drop rate of named loot for 6 hrs. 2495TP each (Not usable in Raids)
Jewel of Elite Bragging Rights: Doubles the drop rate of Raid Loot for 3 hrs. 4995TP each
Jewel of Superior Bragging Rights: Triples the drop rate of Raid Loot for 3 hrs. 5995TP each


Gameplay

To balance the increased drop rate of named loot through store methods the actual un-aided drop rate of all named loot has been lowered to the lowest possible setting to ensure maximum sales of jewels if anyone wants to loot any named items from this point forward.



Known issue: Some regular and raid chests will randomly glitch out and no one, no matter what jewels they are using will get any named loot whatsover. This will be fixed soonish.

[LightBear]

You must stop this thread now before it's to late, I foresee the dev's reading this, laughing, and then bringing it up in a meeting where some suit says, "That's a good idea."

Please stop.

Forum moderator: "Look at what they brought up right there, this is great stuff!"
Suit: "How many likes did the astral shard epic destiny post get?"
Def: "About a hundred, Sir!"
Suit: "Let's give the players what they want."
Forum moderator: "... Err"

[Persiflage]

Forum moderator: "Look at what they brought up right there, this is great stuff!"
Suit: "How many likes did the astral shard epic destiny post get?"
Def: "About a hundred, Sir!"
Suit: "Let's give the players what they want."
Forum moderator: "... Err"

I started laughing... and then I thought "But, just maybe..."

*gulp*

:D

Very funny, +1


PS: It was about six, actually. ;)

[Ancient]

The new ASAH has been enhanced so that if the item you want is not listed, then you can obtain the item for a flat price of 1000 shards times the number of canith challenge xp nerds in the last six months.

The house C challenge has had zero xp removed. The zero was taken from the right side of the base xp. For example a 20 minute quest worth 200 xp is now worth 20.

Raid quests now support an ASAH tab so that players may buy raid loot using astral shards and claim they pulled it from a chest. A convience surcharge of 10 shards applies to these transactions.

A new powerup call gem of chest cursing is available in the store. When used on another player, the next chest that they loot will have all named items replaced with random loot-gen gems.

A new forum contest is now a accepting ideas on ways to nerf challenges. Bonus points for ideas that can also apply to raids that are too popular.

BYOH has been added to the list of words censored by the game's profanity filter.

[Chai]

lmao...

Kinda like the cow now being called an ox...

And I thought that solved the dilema of where all this milk we were drinking to get mana back was coming from. :p

[Chai]

Fixed a 7 year old issue that caused players to actually have to play the game in order to gear their toons.

Ranged physics checks have been found to cause the most in game lag. Attack rate has been adjusted accordingly.

Added multiple new quest encounters that spawn enough mobs to go directly to red dungeon alert.

Rebalanced the TR xp system. It now takes twice as much xp to level from 17-20.

[Auralana7214]

Fixed an issue where Clerics actually thought healing was free. All auras now cost in SP what they give out in healing. They were just having too much fun.

[silence383]

And I thought that solved the dilema of where all this milk we were drinking to get mana back was coming from. :p

lol..don't drink the ox milk though it has the reverse effect :)

[Banshee_Kate]

News & Notes

Of Special Note:

New Items coming! such as:

http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m80/BansheeKate/BreakingWindBracers_01e.jpg


.........I think I smell something funny........

[Rian]

Teleport now has a chance to teleport your character to an instance in a game other than Dungeons and Dragons: Online. This is will be fixed soon (http://cdn.memegenerator.net/instances/400x/24395328.jpg). You may request a character transfer request for $20.

[silence383]

News & Notes

Of Special Note:

New Items coming! such as:

http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m80/BansheeKate/BreakingWindBracers_01e.jpg


.........I think I smell something funny........

OMG Nice artwork about spit beer everywhere lol....+1 that truely is epic :)

*NEW* Enhancement line..Lloth Worshipper..lol

[silence383]

Teleport now has a chance to teleport your character to an instance in a game other than Dungeons and Dragons: Online. This is will be fixed soon (http://cdn.memegenerator.net/instances/400x/24395328.jpg). You may request a character transfer request for $20.

Whistles..hmmm wonder where? LoTRO perhaps :P

[Yokido]

We have consulted someone who has an adult's comprehension of grammar and he stated, "Yes there's a reel problem here", and so we're going to fix the cash-reeling this update as per this wise master's request.

[silence383]

Your High End daily dice rewards (greater xp,slayer and guild renown) will no longer be bound to character so they are worth something if you toss the dice when on your main character.

(I finally get a good roll for the lottery and the slayer boost is bound..and I was on my main..DOH thought it would be bound to account :()

[fco-karatekid]

Your High End daily dice rewards (greater xp,slayer and guild renown) will no longer be bound to character so they are worth something if you toss the dice when on your main character.

(I finally get a good roll for the lottery and the slayer boost is bound..and I was on my main..DOH thought it would be bound to account :()


Hold onto it - they're going to fix that , allegedly

[silence383]

Not holding my breath but figured it would have been bound to account lol..My legend doesn't need a slayer boost but my others wouldn't mind :) Guess we learn something new everyday :)

And yea holding onto it..no reason to use it ;) I am sure it will be fixed with wail, implosion and stuff hehe

[silence383]

Added a button. A DM in 30 minutes or less or an item of your choosing for free.

*Update servers will be brought down tomorrow from 6-10 am eastern time to remove above said addition since 3 employees called in sick.

;)

[silence383]

Fixed an issue where augment crystals were taking up inventory space. Now Augment Bags for 395 tp .

X10 For each bag upgrade.

[silence383]

Apparently the joke is on me..does not look like patch 2 is even coming..sighs