Scheduled Downtime & Maintenance. Monday June 24, 2013

[Tolero]

UPDATE: Game servers and the DDO Store are now available! Thanks for your patience and we'll see you in game!

On Monday June 24 the game servers will be down for an update. Release Notes will be made available during the downtime. We will also be performing global system maintenance. During this update and maintenance window services will be unavailable as follows:

All DDO Game worlds, websites, and forums will be unavailable from 5:00 AM Eastern - 10:30 AM Eastern (-4 GMT)
The myaccount.turbine.com site, the DDO Store, and the DDO Steam Store will be unavailable from 5:00 AM Eastern to 2:30 PM Eastern (-4 GMT)

Thanks for your patience!

[Nestroy]

Sounds like U18-2. Any preliminary information if finally the kobolds in Boudry´s and the flame eaters in Spinner´s got tamed?

[Gratch]

Sounds like U18-2. Any preliminary information if finally the kobolds in Boudry´s and the flame eaters in Spinner´s got tamed?

The Lama notes say they've fixed Spinner "Overpowered" Bug. Didn't see anything about kobold box breaker union appeasement for Baudry. There was a report from someone on Lama that Wail works well again.

https://www.ddo.com/forums/showthread.php/376774-Lamannia-Release-Notes-%28Last-Updated-6-19-2013%29

[Illiamfryn]

IT will be a patch right? I mean not really an update like lets say the new content, or quest xp changes or enhancements right? Just asking cause i am confused with the meaning of the patch and update in DDO.

[TheNameIwasntB4]

Hoping for the best, but I understand.

[Cordovan]

This will be for Update 18 Patch 2.

[Dj_Fisty]

Might be a fix, might be a nerf. nothing we can do :(

i Hope Fixes Only and not nerfs.

[Hathorian]

The Lama notes say they've fixed Spinner "Overpowered" Bug. Didn't see anything about kobold box breaker union appeasement for Baudry. There was a report from someone on Lama that Wail works well again.

https://www.ddo.com/forums/showthread.php/376774-Lamannia-Release-Notes-%28Last-Updated-6-19-2013%29

does anyone know if spell crits are fixed? (ie are lore items working again) it trying to play low level arcanes has been even more horrible than normal lately.

[LilyOphelia]

I really don't know anything about the update, but the latest Lama release notes are here, I think: http://www.ddo.com/forums/showthread.php/376774-Lamannia-Release-Notes-%28Last-Updated-6-19-2013%29

I'm guessing that's some of the stuff they've been working on. I'd wait for the official notes before getting too excited over any specific changes though.

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Totally unrelated, I can't wait for the Arcanotechnician Artificer enhancement tree; I keep looking over the beta stuff excitedly. Shadowfell, hurry up and get here! <3

[barecm]

I know it won't happen, but they need to get the enhancement pass out already. Too many irons in the fire if you ask me with the expansion, the new TR system they all of the sudden prioritized and the normal rush to fix anything that gives players an advantage, and the slow to non-moving fixes for things that give players a disadvantage. I would appreciate it if they addressed at least one of the bigger issues that people have been discussing for years and years.... However, there is no money in that I guess so... more cosmetic pets and costumes!!!! Realize we have had 2 quests and 1 pre-paid expansion preview quest since Epic Gianthold... which was 1 new raid and Epic update to old content. The last really NEW content was the Highroad stuff.... no surprise my server, Sarlona, seems a bit less populated these days.

[Kik96]

Maybe hey will fix forum names that are still broken. I know the one for my main subscription has been broken since they changed the forums and it has bee over a month since I last heard anything about it being fixed. Also, they could reset character copy for Lamannia while they are at it. However that won't matter much to me if I can't copy the characters I want from main subscription. I created a temporary forum name for it but it just points to characters associated with this forum name.

[Ron]

I really don't know anything about the update, but the latest Lama release notes are here, I think: http://www.ddo.com/forums/showthread.php/376774-Lamannia-Release-Notes-%28Last-Updated-6-19-2013%29

I'm guessing that's some of the stuff they've been working on. I'd wait for the official notes before getting too excited over any specific changes though.

Those are pretty short notes. And none of them address any of the issues I'm hoping they fix in the near future. Hopefully some of those get added in, or are stealth fixed. In all honesty, I'm going to be kind of irritated if they still haven't fixed Baudry's in this patch.

[PermaBanned]

Release Notes will be made available during the downtime... During this update and maintenance... All DDO Game worlds, websites, and forums will be unavailable from 5:00 AM Eastern - 10:30 AM Eastern... Thanks for your patience!

Is anybody else wondering where & how the release notes will be made available during the downtime if all websites and forums will be down?

More copy & paste/lack of attention to details, kind of like calling a patch an update?

[PermaBanned]

Forum issue double post

[Krelar]

Is anybody else wondering where & how the release notes will be made available during the downtime if all websites and forums will be down?

More copy & paste/lack of attention to details, kind of like calling a patch an update?

facebook? ;)

[Cordovan]

The DDO Store is now available. Thanks!

[afroblue]

Hello

I have been trying to launch DDO but it keeps failing, some guildies experience the same problem: we see "turbine invoker" appear and disapper from windows processes, and it's stuck. Restarting the computer a couple of time was useless.
Thanks in advance if you can help us.

[-Zephyr-]

Hello

I have been trying to launch DDO but it keeps failing, some guildies experience the same problem: we see "turbine invoker" appear and disapper from windows processes, and it's stuck. Restarting the computer a couple of time was useless.
Thanks in advance if you can help us.

Just quit using the official launcher and look for the unofficial-yet-much-more-functionnal launcher already.

[SirValentine]

I found the following in the Release Notes:



Spell Critical Enhancements for chance and damage multipliers should be both displaying the correct text and functioning correctly for all classes.


Yet in-game, my enhancements are still saying I'm only getting +3% spell critical chance for 6 Action Points spent. Previously, +3% spell critical chance only cost 1 Action Point.

Am I to understand the Release Notes as meaning this major nerf is working as intended?

[Hoiii]

Cleric Prayer of Smiting I,II and III are still 1% per rank instead of 3%.

Also after casting spells weapons are not displayed again until a weapon swing is made. Only spell Ive found so far that this does not happen is Rejuv Cocoon.

And still no fix for lore items.

[fourrumtest]

so how long before you really fix spell crits turbine? would have filed a report on lama land, but everything i have ever bug reported went live anyway. i just use lama to see what will be broken next now.

also bug reporting tool is broken again.

[LupusVai]

I found the following in the Release Notes:



Yet in-game, my enhancements are still saying I'm only getting +3% spell critical chance for 6 Action Points spent. Previously, +3% spell critical chance only cost 1 Action Point.

Am I to understand the Release Notes as meaning this major nerf is working as intended?

You know these days i'm actually more surprised when they fix something than when they release bugged patches and mess something up.

[fourrumtest]

You know these days i'm actually more surprised when they fix something than when they release bugged patches and mess something up.

this.

[ArcherBarry]

No 'fix' for the issue with collectiors edition preorders getting less than standard, namely a bladeforged cosmetic?
Thought this was going to be fixed in this update.

[Cordovan]

No 'fix' for the issue with collectiors edition preorders getting less than standard, namely a bladeforged cosmetic?
Thought this was going to be fixed in this update.

Unfortunately, this fix didn't make it into the patch, and bladeforged are still not getting their Gold Cosmetic Outfit. We anticipate this being in a patch in July, and do apologize for not getting it into Update 18 Patch 2.

[SirShen]

Unfortunately, this fix didn't make it into the patch, and bladeforged are still not getting their Gold Cosmetic Outfit. We anticipate this being in a patch in July, and do apologize for not getting it into Update 18 Patch 2.

Have to say this is bad form and really those that paid for this item should get something extra for the long wait to get something that we should have got when we first bought it.

[GermanicusMaximus]

Cleric Prayer of Smiting I,II and III are still 1% per rank instead of 3%.

Also after casting spells weapons are not displayed again until a weapon swing is made. Only spell Ive found so far that this does not happen is Rejuv Cocoon.

And still no fix for lore items.

Hmmm, so they broke instant recall, and didn't bother fixing my cleric.

Odds of expansion purchase are steadily declining.

How about this Turbine? Why don't you just remove divine casters from the game? At least that would honestly portray what your intentions are.

I can't wait to see what they have done for the cleric redesign promised after the alpha enhancement pass disaster.

Turbine, anytime you want to surprise me on the upside, that would be a nice change of pace.

[djl]

Haven't you guys figured it out yet? The "release notes" are a list of tasks the devs HOPED to accomplish during that patch, not necessarily things they DID accomplish :P

[HungarianRhapsody]

Unfortunately, this fix didn't make it into the patch,

Neither did this one:



Enhancements

Spell Critical Enhancements for chance and damage multipliers should be both displaying the correct text and functioning correctly for all classes.

[Thrudh]

Odds of expansion purchase are steadily declining.

LOL.. If YOU ever give Turbine a dime, then you will confirm that everything you've written for the past 3 years on these boards was complete and utter B.S.

[HungarianRhapsody]

LOL.. If YOU ever give Turbine a dime, then you will confirm that everything you've written for the past 3 years on these boards was complete and utter B.S.

That's a good point. It's much more important to beat up other forum posters than to ask Turbine to either A) fix the things that they say are fixed in their release notes or B) check the things that they say are fixed in the release notes and take those things out of the release notes that didn't actually end up fixed.

At this point, I'd happily settle for B.

[DDOForumAccount]

so how long before you really fix spell crits turbine? would have filed a report on lama land, but everything i have ever bug reported went live anyway. i just use lama to see what will be broken next now.


Clearly it's working as intended. Turbine says: fixed. Reality: not fixed.

Killing 200 kobolds in Kobold Assault resulted in 19 spell criticals, 9.5% is close to 9% gained from enchants. Looks like the 12% item isn't helping at all.

Crit damage remains at roughly 2x normal damage, which is way off base. Base crit +50%, deadly enchants +125%, item +50%, equals +225% damage on crits, or a multiplier of 3.25. I'm sure I'm forgetting something, I haven't touched my casters since U18, getting fuzzy on the caster details.

Epic level sorcerer stays banked, and melee tr-toons get played. Remind me, was the goal to keep us from playing epic content?