U45 to be released tomorrow Wednesday 12th

[MaeveTuohy]

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Release notes here;

https://www.ddo.com/en/update-45-release-notes

[HungarianRhapsody]

Go fill a bank toon with Elemental resist shrines tonight!

[ValariusK]

Go fill a bank toon with Elemental resist shrines tonight!


Just one?
If you want the hobgoblin, the kundarak battlemaster and all 5 resists, a standard new toon will hold @8 weeks of each, and you can add 3 more if you also use their 20 bank slots.

[Mindos]

Just one?
If you want the hobgoblin, the kundarak battlemaster and all 5 resists, a standard new toon will hold @8 weeks of each, and you can add 3 more if you also use their 20 bank slots.

I thought they were changing it so you couldn't even place them if you had them? IDK

[ValariusK]

I thought they were changing it so you couldn't even place them if you had them? IDK


I asked that they do precisely that, but heard a deafening silence and nothing like that is in the patch notes. It would require specific work to remove the ability to post them, as they use the same hookpoints as things they're continuing to sell.

[0ldschool]

Scion of the Ethereal Plane is now: You have Lesser Displacement and Ghost Touch, along with +6d6 Sneak Attack Dice, +5 Melee and Ranged Power, +4 to all Skills, and a permanent Invisible Guard as per the effect.

LD is a nice improvement, but it appears that they've gone even further in gutting the sneak attack damage bonus. First proposed: 1.5 x 23 ranks of Hide = +34.5 damage, which was already a nerf to most; now +6d6 = +21 damage (average). +5 melee/ranged power thrown in but that will not offset the loss. Am I missing something? I don't hate the SA die addition, but it is too low. should be +12d6 with no MP/RP boost, to keep the flavor of the scion.

[math92]

dayum the realease note long as hell. ssg been working hard

one thing i dont quite get is



Strikethrough - While wielding a Two-Handed Weapon, or while wielding a Bastard Sword or Dwarven Axe in your main hand and a Shield, Orb, Rune Arm, or nothing in your offhand, your attacks can Strikethrough.

it seems only 2 one handed melee weapons have the chance of strikethrough. bastard sword and dwarven axe. if i can strikethrough with one handed bastard sword why cant i use other one handed melee weapons to strikethrough such as longsword and others? :confused:

[Reesi]

dayum the realease note long as hell. ssg been working hard

one thing i dont quite get is




it seems only 2 one handed melee weapons have the chance of strikethrough. bastard sword and dwarven axe. if i can strikethrough with one handed bastard sword why cant i use other one handed melee weapons to strikethrough such as longsword and others? :confused:

They are extra large "Hand and a Half" weapons and used to get glancing blows. Since they removed glancing blows, they needed to adjust for these Exotic weapons - otherwise why would you spend a feat point on them. Think of it this way, the weapon needs to be large enough that you could potentially strike more than one opponent within the arc of your weapon.

[droid327]

Scion of the Ethereal Plane is now: You have Lesser Displacement and Ghost Touch, along with +6d6 Sneak Attack Dice, +5 Melee and Ranged Power, +4 to all Skills, and a permanent Invisible Guard as per the effect.

LD is a nice improvement, but it appears that they've gone even further in gutting the sneak attack damage bonus. First proposed: 1.5 x 23 ranks of Hide = +34.5 damage, which was already a nerf to most; now +6d6 = +21 damage (average). +5 melee/ranged power thrown in but that will not offset the loss. Am I missing something? I don't hate the SA die addition, but it is too low. should be +12d6 with no MP/RP boost, to keep the flavor of the scion.

The problem was the old way let it scale too high. They weren't trying to recreate the same OP level, they were trying to make it comparable to Arborea.

[Yamani]

dayum the realease note long as hell. ssg been working hard

one thing i dont quite get is




it seems only 2 one handed melee weapons have the chance of strikethrough. bastard sword and dwarven axe. if i can strikethrough with one handed bastard sword why cant i use other one handed melee weapons to strikethrough such as longsword and others? :confused:

Because those aren't 1 handed weapons they are 1.5 handed weapons.

[HungarianRhapsody]

I asked that they do precisely that, but heard a deafening silence and nothing like that is in the patch notes. It would require specific work to remove the ability to post them, as they use the same hookpoints as things they're continuing to sell.

Because they don't care if the buffs are available on the current servers. This is all about making sure they're not available to Hardcore.

[Memnir]

U45 to be released tomorrowhttps://i.imgur.com/XHAGziU.gif

[FlavoredSoul]

The problem was the old way let it scale too high. They weren't trying to recreate the same OP level, they were trying to make it comparable to Arborea.

Arborea was just better than ethereal unless you were stacking a boatload of hide (I.E. Dex based rogue with hide gear), even INT rogues were better off taking the melee power & ignoring hide. You only took Ethereal if you could stack that hide really high (don't recall the breakpoint but it was somewhere around 140ish IIRC).


Ethereal wasn't nerfed because it was overpowered now, this was a preventative nerf so when feywild expansion drops later this year and they have some +40 Hide +25 Dex +14 insightful dex improved deception it doesn't become overpowered.

I don't necessarily hate that they changed it, but it could probably have gotten a little less shafted.

[fatherpirate]

If it was me, and it is not, I would have just
'turned off' that resist shrine seller when HC started.
Then turn him back on after it is done.

Say he was on vacation.

That is just me.

[slarden]

Have face tp face board games all afternoon - I will be late the U45 party as usual.

[Fenrisulven7]

I would have just 'turned off' that resist shrine seller when HC started.

I would have just turned off Guild ships. Hard Core doens't need those buffs.

I also would have sent all the pot and wand vendors on extended vacation :cool:

[Kinerd]

the deity feats are a nice touch