What are you hoping to see for Mabar 2019?

[SoVeryBelgian]

I'm just posting here in anticipation of Mabar, since most F2P / Favor Hunting Players aint' noodlin' on the Hardcore server (and looking forward to U43)

Mostly, I just want to see the skull hat as a permanent cosmetic. It was so cool as a thrower, just like the Pumpkin Hat, but years went by and nothing! It really deserves to be added.

https://ddowiki.com/images/Skull_Head_shown.png << Relevant Link

Also I feel the Mabarian Head Spider needs to be enlarged a bit, because it sits on the hair and is VERY small in some cases, making it a difficult hat to show off. Same for Varg Wings, make em a little bigger.



As for the Upgradable Loot this year, having added Daggers / Throwing Daggers for Vistani in 2018, along with that Awesome Ghost Touch Runearm (great) which has synergy with any class that chooses arti splash, I really feel like we need A Light Xbow with Light Damage (Inquis), a Dart with Poison / Paralysis effects (Alchemist), a Heavy Club (TWF Meta) and a Longsword (New LS feat).

Stat Examples would be:

Blinded by the Light (Light Xbow) 4-8-12-16-20-24-28 I'd make this one like like the Alchemical Light Xbow but with a Gold-White motif.

Good Damage (scaled)
Light Damage (scaled)
Sunburst (scales to Greater and Sovereign Sunburst)
Unnatural Bane (scaled)
Red Augment Slot


Ghast-Maker (Dart) 4-8-12-16-20-24-28 I'd make this one look like a bony finger.

Poison Damage (scaled)
Piercing Damage (scaled Crit)
Befouling (scaled CHA damage)
Ghast Touch (Vorpal Poison DC Scaled, on a failed save target is held in place unable to move as if from a Ghast's touch, on a successful save they still take Poison+Bane Damage)
Red Augment Slot


Bodybreaker (Heavy Club 1-H) 4-8-12-16-20-24-28 I'd make this one look like a Skull on a spine a la Deathnip without the spike.

Bludgeoning Damage (scaled)
Ribcracker (scaled for crit)
Swing Wide (scaled Trip effect DC 17, 25, 33, 50, 70, 100)
Humanoid Bane (scaled)
Red Augment Slot


Tombkeeper's Baselard (Longsword 1-H) 4-8-12-16-20-24-28 You know those small cross-shaped daggers the Hobgoblin mobs sometimes have? Yeah that.

Slashing Damage (scaled)
Maiming (scaled for Crit)
Bleed Them Out (scaled Bleed Damage)
Limbchopper with scaled DC
Red Augment Slot


and Lastly I'd like to see some Goggles called "The Crypt Watcher" only available for level 20. They add Ghost Touch, Accuracy, Insight Accuracy, Fort Bypass and a Green Slot.


Also, a new SPOOOOKY DUNGEON remake would be nice. I can think of a few short quests ripe for Scaaary Treatment. Like Toxic Treatment. Call it Trap or Treat. Drow Zombie Mobs and Rage Disciples.

or maybe Where There's Smoke? "Where There's Howling" with Werewolves harassing a farm.

That's my two cents. Or Three.

[Nebless]

I'm hoping one of the entrance options is the old open graveyard instance like it was before they turned it into a challenge quest (like Crystal Cove still is).

[MistaMagic]

The missing +2 stat Auguments

[droid327]

Same Old Song would make for a nice haunted house reskin

[HungarianRhapsody]

I’d like to see a raid that doesn’t cripple the rest of the server

id like to see chest ransack turned off for the week

I’d like to see Keanu Reeves cameo as a cyber dracolich.

[HungarianRhapsody]

An ML 20 non-repeating 19-20/x3 crit profile light crossbow with blunted ammunition and Ghostbane. Or better yet, slashing ammunition.

[HungarianRhapsody]

A spooky server merge.

[vyvy3369]

I'm hoping for no Mabar event.

[AbyssalMage]

Also, a new SPOOOOKY DUNGEON remake would be nice. I can think of a few short quests ripe for Scaaary Treatment. Like Toxic Treatment. Call it Trap or Treat. Drow Zombie Mobs and Rage Disciples.

or maybe Where There's Smoke? "Where There's Howling" with Werewolves harassing a farm.

That's my two cents. Or Three.
I like this one to reskin. Wish they would do more "reskinning" instead of copy/paste lol

[byzantinebob]

A sentient jewel that is a raspy undead voice taking pleasure in all the killing we do.

[Yokido]

I'd like an epic wand comparable with the epic wands that already exist. Since it's f2p I'd understand if the charges regenned slower, or if it held fewer charges, or if it was just plain hard to get... I want a bigger wand collection!!!

[BigErkyKid]

A spooky server merge.

This and, please, a different kind of event.

Please, please, pleaaaaaseeeeee! Reduce the grind.

DO NOT MAKE US REPEAT THE SAME EASY LOOPS 300 TIMES!

Give us the option of tougher quests for better rewards, but in a way that makes sense.

Night revels was atrociously grindy when I got my augments.

[LightBear]

Spectre's Groundwork
Type: Big Shield (+ scaling on level)


Determination: Your consiuos range is greatly expanded. (Spooky Spell Resistance Scaling + Spooky Health Scaling)
Hidious laughter: You smile on death and persist where others do not, you continue to be able to take action while in your unconsious range.
Aegis: Spooky Uncounsious Scaling
Contigent: Spooky Luck Scaling


You question what to do with this solitary door and while there doesn't seem to be anybody around you can clearly hear kids laughter from the other side.
Perhaps you should try to open and simply step through it?


Material: Wight


Appears as a big door but solely made from ghostly skulls. (Barovian Mist Aura?)


https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/e6df9fe3-215c-426e-ac0a-95ca3919c7dd

[stubby68]

I just wish that the mats we farmed for the event didn't expire.

It is incredibly frusterating to look at your bags eight months later and see a bunch of spoiled chocolates,caramels,apples,nuts,etc.

Night Revels is the ONLY event where this happens.

Devs please fix this. I would like to think ths would be easy as it should only require removing a few lines of code.
(or at least resetting a couple of values)

This will not stop me from enjoying the event as this is my FAVORITE festival!!!

edit:{ All of my programing experience is based on programing on Apple II + and Commodore 64; its been a while. }
I'm sure things have changed considerably over the last 35 years :^)

[axel15810]

I want the public slayer instance of the graveyard back, if I had to pick 1 thing. The private instances, while I understand they did this due to lag issues, just lose the community feel the event had in the past. Wish they could find a way to make it work without having to resort to private instances.

[Livmo]

For people to stop calling The Night Revels event, Mabar.

https://ddowiki.com/page/Mabar_Endless_Night_Festival

"We will be replacing the Mabar Festival of Endless Night with a new event, ..."



https://ddowiki.com/page/The_Night_Revels

Signals to me when folks use Mabar that they dwell in the past and suffer from depression. Or trying to be cool : ) )

[stubby68]

[QUOTE=Livmo;6247554]For people to stop calling The Night Revels event, Mabar.



My guildies and myself always refer to the event as this.
We have been here for a while, and look back fondly at Mabar.

Yes, even the horrific lag wipeouts. We looked at the lag as a feature and didn't take the game too seriously.(Still don't. Just having fun with it.)

Stay Shiney

[scut207]

I want the public slayer instance of the graveyard back, if I had to pick 1 thing. The private instances, while I understand they did this due to lag issues, just lose the community feel the event had in the past. Wish they could find a way to make it work without having to resort to private instances.

Turn it into a PVP zone where you get more loot but can beat the snot out of all the little questers and steal their candy!

I keed mostly...

[Alrik_Fassbauer]

I wasn't active during the last years - has it really changed that much ?
(I think I need to take a look at the Wiki ...)

I do remember how much fun the public slayer instance was - much like Smuggler's Rest is during the Crystal Cove event ...

Edit : The Wiki ewven has a date for 2019 :


October 3rd to November 4th

[stubby68]

I wasn't active during the last years - has it really changed that much ?
(I think I need to take a look at the Wiki ...)

I do remember how much fun the public slayer instance was - much like Smuggler's Rest is during the Crystal Cove event ...

Edit : The Wiki ewven has a date for 2019 :

I like the extra days available+++

It was always a bummer having the whole shebang close down on Nov. 1 first thing in the morning.

+1 Rep coming your way

[Memnir]

I'm a simple man: less lag than that from other years' is all I want.

I'm a realistic man: I won't get what I want. :)

[Wizard1406]

More festive bonus augments, esp. festive charisma (charisma Casters need love too ;-) ) , wouldn't mind festive STR DEX CON either obviously.

[Nebless]

I wasn't active during the last years - has it really changed that much ?

Total change over. The Public Instances based on a set level range is gone. Now it's more like a quest / challenge; you still pick a level range you want to compete in but once in it's either only you or your group in the instance.

The MOB's are set in different places around the graveyard (i.e. a group just inside to the right front past the pond). Usually there's 5 or 6 in each group and you just go from one group to the next killing them.

Once you've finished all the MOB's there's a final boss to beat and then you get a key and xp.

The key you get (and farm from the MOB's) let's you enter different 'spooky' dungeons that are located in one of the crypts in the graveyard (you can also go directly to the crypt from outside the main gate).

It's no longer a community event like Smuggler's Rest / Crystal Cove.

[Aelonwy]

Well in addition to this:

https://www.ddo.com/forums/showthread.php/500181-Night-Revels-2019-Suggestions

Hmmm...

I still think Night Revels would be the best place for a Succubus style sentient gem because according to Eberron lore succubi come from the plane of Mabar. I'm sure its too late for this year but I have mentioned the idea before. Of course I still want a pirate sentient gem to show up in CC, voiced as close to Hatchet-face Ned as possible.

[The_Human_Cypher]

Maybe there should be a special item to commemorate the first (of hopefully many) Hardcore League event, somehow related to death or permadeath.

[Dragavon]

A new sentient gem based on some undead creature would be awesome.

[locus]

A spooky server merge.
With half the players' stuff disappearing. That truly would be scary.

[Cantor]

I want the public slayer instance of the graveyard back, if I had to pick 1 thing. The private instances, while I understand they did this due to lag issues, just lose the community feel the event had in the past. Wish they could find a way to make it work without having to resort to private instances.

While I enjoyed getting a raid group together and having fun in a big group, it's not worth the griefing. Nothing shows the worst in players more than public areas competing for spawns. I love the instanced option. I would be fine if there were both and take your choice.

[SuperNiCd]

While I enjoyed getting a raid group together and having fun in a big group, it's not worth the griefing. Nothing shows the worst in players more than public areas competing for spawns. I love the instanced option. I would be fine if there were both and take your choice.

Agreed. And the lag we used to encounter in NR public instance was some of the longest lasting lag I’ve ever encountered. You could be lag-locked for like 10 minutes straight sometimes. Not worth it.

[NemesisAlien]

The dragon name to get inside my monster manual.

[Saekee]

A sentient jewel that is a raspy undead voice taking pleasure in all the killing we do.

omg yes signed please please (skecksie voice) PLEASE


A new sentient gem based on some undead creature would be awesome.

[The_Human_Cypher]

A spooky sentient gem would actually be great. Maybe the voice of Count Chocula egging us on while we fight the undead.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMjgDjEZfa0

[Tyrande]

An ML 20 non-repeating 19-20/x3 crit profile light crossbow with blunted ammunition and Ghostbane. Or better yet, slashing ammunition.

Actually, why not make this item into a quiver? i.e. a quiver that gives Incorporeal Bane blunted ammunitions. That way, it does not only benefit inquisitives.

[thedip]

A new dungeon based on Arachnophobia (with the same failure conditions) - watch those AoE hogs and machine gunners cry!

Or "Korthos Revisited" - a necromancer has once again taken over Heyton's Rest. With a mini-boss in each of the crest rooms and a big boss in the final room.

[Alrik_Fassbauer]

Total change over. The Public Instances based on a set level range is gone. Now it's more like a quest / challenge; you still pick a level range you want to compete in but once in it's either only you or your group in the instance.

The MOB's are set in different places around the graveyard (i.e. a group just inside to the right front past the pond). Usually there's 5 or 6 in each group and you just go from one group to the next killing them.

Once you've finished all the MOB's there's a final boss to beat and then you get a key and xp.

The key you get (and farm from the MOB's) let's you enter different 'spooky' dungeons that are located in one of the crypts in the graveyard (you can also go directly to the crypt from outside the main gate).

It's no longer a community event like Smuggler's Rest / Crystal Cove.

Thanks. It will be interesting for me to see that for the very first time ...


While I enjoyed getting a raid group together and having fun in a big group, it's not worth the griefing. Nothing shows the worst in players more than public areas competing for spawns. I love the instanced option. I would be fine if there were both and take your choice.

I agree. I often had that nagging feeling of "kill-stealing" back then ...


A new dungeon based on Arachnophobia (with the same failure conditions) - watch those AoE hogs and machine gunners cry!

Or "Korthos Revisited" - a necromancer has once again taken over Heyton's Rest. With a mini-boss in each of the crest rooms and a big boss in the final room.

I like those ideas ! :)

[Arkat]

The missing +2 stat Auguments

+2 Charisma augment for sure!

[Eryhn]

more festive augments

return of at least 1 +5tome per server per acc, ideally per char like it used to be. we are at +8 now so whats the big deal?!

[Fenrisulven7]

edit: sorry wrong thread, I thought it meant in general


Kobolds as a player race.

Gnome sized, with rogue and artificer perks

New Sewer Enhancement Tree. "This poo smells like Hobgoblin, +1 to spot"


With DDO audio tracks you can hotbar

"Kobold not even supposed to be here today"

"This torch smells funny"

"Ohhhh. Kobold smell a trap!"

etc.

[vicowan]

When does it start? I enjoyed it last year. I like that you can do a variety of different quests for different candies. I do agree that a more open graveyard for keys would be good though. So basically, I like a combo of the old and the new.

[Anuulified]

The missing +2 stat Auguments

+4 stat augs

[HungarianRhapsody]

I’m looking forward to exactly what we had last year. That was good. Nice bonus XP and some augments and candies. That’s all I want.

[Arkat]

When does it start? I enjoyed it last year. I like that you can do a variety of different quests for different candies. I do agree that a more open graveyard for keys would be good though. So basically, I like a combo of the old and the new.

Steelstar said early October to early November. I think that was on the DDO Discord server.

[cave_diver]

Would like to see a Festival +2 Cha augment

[Oliphant]

Special Event Adherent of the Mists set trinket, something slightly weaker than RL raid trinkets, as an RL teaser for the F2P. A little inflation on RL set power acquisition rate only helps the latecomers, always a good thing.

[cave_diver]

Special Event Adherent of the Mists set trinket, something slightly weaker than RL raid trinkets, as an RL teaser for the F2P. A little inflation on RL set power acquisition rate only helps the latecomers, always a good thing.


Or better a craftable trinket with slots

[HastyPudding]

Purple reaper armor/helmet/cloak!!!!!

What about lich cosmetic armor?

[Josielynn]

Purple reaper armor/helmet/cloak!!!!!...

YES!!! See Aelonwy's suggestion post with pictures.

[Inanout]

Is not most exp in mabar optional?
If so maybe they can lift the ransack penalty they recently imposed.
In the past I have used this event to level some of my multi box toons aswell as my mains.

Either way I will grind to replace my spoiled candy and hopefully a new item.

[mistress_minx]

For people to stop calling The Night Revels event, Mabar.

https://ddowiki.com/page/Mabar_Endless_Night_Festival

"We will be replacing the Mabar Festival of Endless Night with a new event, ..."



https://ddowiki.com/page/The_Night_Revels

Signals to me when folks use Mabar that they dwell in the past and suffer from depression. Or trying to be cool : ) )

I was actually about to comment the exact same thing. Drives me nuts when people call it Mabar, and it confuses the heck out of newer players. Mabar only lasted 2 yrs. 2014 there was no event. It's been Night Revels since 2015, so this is the 5th year of it being called that. How many yrs of there being a Night Revels event will it take until people stop calling it by the name of the older, short lived, event ?

[J1NG]

Was hoping for a Reaper Armour that's got a Yellow Hue to it... ;)

J1NG

[J1NG]

I was actually about to comment the exact same thing. Drives me nuts when people call it Mabar, and it confuses the heck out of newer players. Mabar only lasted 2 yrs. 2014 there was no event. It's been Night Revels since 2015, so this is the 5th year of it being called that. How many yrs of there being a Night Revels event will it take until people stop calling it by the name of the older, short lived, event ?

The thing is, Mabar is said all around the place. It's also the more famous event (where many of us got banned even though we didn't even take part in it, so it's fairly ingrained in the community mind). So despite the new name of "Night Revels", it simply isn't as memorable as simply "Mabar".

So, how long (many years) before players stop calling it Mabar?

I would say: "Never".

J1NG

[Nonesuch2008]

I was actually about to comment the exact same thing. Drives me nuts when people call it Mabar, and it confuses the heck out of newer players. Mabar only lasted 2 yrs. 2014 there was no event. It's been Night Revels since 2015, so this is the 5th year of it being called that. How many yrs of there being a Night Revels event will it take until people stop calling it by the name of the older, short lived, event ?

It's a bit more ingrained than two years. Mabar launched circa Update 7 (Release Notes posted Wednesday, October 20, 2010), and ran for at least 4 years through 2013.

The Night Revels launched in 2015 just after Update 28, which also gives it a life span of 4 years, with this year's festival marking the 5th incarnation.

Call it what you will, but when I reach that demarc point in House J that announces the manifestation zone for the plane of Mabar, I smile. Lots of good memories there, and some unique flavor to the game which has yet to be recaptured (although I have not given up hope). Night Revels has it's own unique features and it gets a little better every year, but at the core it is still Mabar to a lot of folks.

Now if you're still determined to go after people who tend to mislabel things, why not focus on those that insist on calling it 'Marbar'? *facepalms

[K_9]

Need to have a think re the usual named items or fun cosmetics.

However could we have a new dungeon to explore with a haunted house theme? A new raid would also be awesome, perhaps we could re-use haunted halls of eveningstar or a study in stable?