Whats the anniversary gift this year?

[smokejumper89]

any word on it? Hopefully something cool and useful? Or are we getting another useless cosmetic?

[Jerevth]

I think it's the item that won the "What do kobolds give one another on their birthday" question in last week's Chronicle.

[HungarianRhapsody]

any word on it? Hopefully something cool and useful? Or are we getting another useless cosmetic?

The Inquisitive nerf was the anniversary gift this year.

Don't you like it? It can't be returned.

[Livmo]

any word on it? Hopefully something cool and useful? Or are we getting another useless cosmetic?

The cosmetic cloaks were a boon for me. I can now have Fesitval Fire Resist 10 on my hat, Festival Cold Resist 10 cosmetic armor, and Festival Cold Spell Power on those cloaks from last year scaled up to 120. I'm almost done with 3 accounts.

The Cold Spell Power buff on the cloak is great for off-spells (air savant atm).

[Cocomajobo]

There is a birthday gift coming. It has not yet been announced. =]

[smokejumper89]

There is a birthday gift coming. It has not yet been announced. =]

Yes we know there's a gift coming. We just want to know: will it be something useful? or are robbing us of another inventory slot?

[Noir]

Yes we know there's a gift coming. We just want to know: will it be something useful? or are robbing us of another inventory slot?

How were you robbed of an inventory spot for 13 cosmetic items that were completely optional to acquire?
If you didn't want them. You didn't have to bother inputting the code.
If you did want them. And since no mass storage of cosmetics are currently available.
What is your legitimate gripe?

[Livmo]

There is a birthday gift coming. It has not yet been announced. =]

I'm hoping for a D3 DD clickie with 1 use per today :D

(3 sided die/Dimension Door to go with my D12 to Market)

Or Fresh Rat for Dinner. A Kobobld Fresh Rat clickie that summons a very eager and rabid rat summon.

[AlsoWondering]

Yes we know there's a gift coming. We just want to know: will it be something useful? or are robbing us of another inventory slot?

It will be useful for everyone but you. For you if will take up an backpack space, it can't be deleted nor can it be transferred to your bank nor another player nor mailed. When you TR it will already be loaded in your inventory instead of your TR bank. :>)

[smokejumper89]

It will be useful for everyone but you. For you if will take up an backpack space, it can't be deleted nor can it be transferred to your bank nor another player nor mailed. When you TR it will already be loaded in your inventory instead of your TR bank. :>)

lol, yep, that sounds about right :P

[Redtalktree]

lol, yep, that sounds about right :P

Unnerfed ratcatcher?

[droid327]

The Inquisitive nerf was the anniversary gift this year.

Don't you like it? It can't be returned.

Third prize is YOU'RE FIRED

[Josielynn]

Unnerfed ratcatcher?

I couldn't find the exact date, but it looks like Threnal was released in 2009? So they nerf something over 10 years old... because of HCL. I just don't get why they want to p*ss us off.

[smokejumper89]

I couldn't find the exact date, but it looks like Threnal was released in 2009? So they nerf something over 10 years old... because of HCL. I just don't get why they want to p*ss us off.

Coming up next: nerf for ESOS.

[Matuse]

I couldn't find the exact date, but it looks like Threnal was released in 2009? So they nerf something over 10 years old... because of HCL. I just don't get why they want to p*ss us off.

Hardcore had nothing to do with it. It was RIDICULOUSLY overpowered in the hands of an Inquisitive. It needed to be changed.

[TitusOvid]

Dear SSG,
what about "No Worries"? Will it get another change/unnerf? Cause right now you nerfed it into garbage.

https://www.ddo.com/forums/showthread.php/503014-No-Worries-Nerf

Cheers,
Titus

[ShifterThePirate]

Hopefully another raid item <3
Or finally have the Half Orc pack from the DDO Market on sale for once :rolleyes: Would be awesome with the new Strikethrough update

[zwiebelring]

There is a birthday gift coming. It has not yet been announced. =]

How about a Key to Eveningstar without 30 min cooldown? more like, 10s cooldown, if at all. Stuff like that is what people like.

[Oliphant]

Hardcore had nothing to do with it. It was RIDICULOUSLY overpowered in the hands of an Inquisitive.

Not any more folks. Not anymore. [greazy scumbag voice]

[ilhares]

Hopefully another raid item <3
Or finally have the Half Orc pack from the DDO Market on sale for once :rolleyes: Would be awesome with the new Strikethrough update
The Half-orc pack has been on sale several times, which I only took note of because i remember buying it right away only to then see the sales pop up later. I'm poor, I notice these things.

As for the raid item idea - I do hope they consider that again. Somehow out of over a dozen characters between two servers I've only got one who still has the quiver of alacrity intact. I have no idea what happened to the others I should have on alts, but it's a hair frustrating to note them all otherwise missing. A chance to give it to one or two more would be sufficient.

I've still got some who've never even opened the raider's reward boxes yet, until I can start getting the comms/certs from the barely-run raids.

[0ldschool]

Third prize is YOU'RE FIRED

Always rep for GGGR reference. :)

[Jerevth]

DDO's Anniversary Gift:

"Squalling Infant" clicky.
It weighs eight pounds, eats random consumables (with random effects as a result; hide the omni-dust).
This is a cursed item.
Once per day it can be clicked to cast an instantaneous Mordenkainen's Magnificent Mansion, but will then commence crying for the next 8 in-game hours. https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Mordenkainen%27s_magnificent_mansion

Shelter:
-Ten minute duration, provides a shelter in any instance allowing the party members to enter or leave as they wish.
-3.5 spell benefits are conveyed. (Figure summon shrine with a good meal and shelter from the quest mobs)


Because the clicky is cursed, the resultant catterwaul also populates in all chatboxes (1 line of "Waaaaaaah" every five seconds.) This affects the party chat box, too, for all members of the party.

[ilhares]

DDO's Anniversary Gift:
"Squalling Infant" clicky.
I love that entire idea.

[smokejumper89]

DDO's Anniversary Gift:

"Squalling Infant" clicky.
It weighs eight pounds, eats random consumables (with random effects as a result; hide the omni-dust).
This is a cursed item.
Once per day it can be clicked to cast an instantaneous Mordenkainen's Magnificent Mansion, but will then commence crying for the next 8 in-game hours. https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Mordenkainen%27s_magnificent_mansion

Shelter:
-Ten minute duration, provides a shelter in any instance allowing the party members to enter or leave as they wish.
-3.5 spell benefits are conveyed. (Figure summon shrine with a good meal and shelter from the quest mobs)


Because the clicky is cursed, the resultant catterwaul also populates in all chatboxes (1 line of "Waaaaaaah" every five seconds.) This affects the party chat box, too, for all members of the party.

Still better than a cosmetic.

[Qeistalan]

DDO's Anniversary Gift: "Squalling Infant" clicky.


As long as the item can be fed for Sentient XP ... OK below.

[DRoark]

All Non-Inquisitor ranged got a free proctology exam. By an Ogre.

[fatherpirate]

Broccoli mount

[salmag]

Hardcore had nothing to do with it. It was RIDICULOUSLY overpowered in the hands of an Inquisitive. It needed to be changed.

More proof that the Inquisitive tree was the problem, not IPS or even Ratcatcher. A 10 year old item gets nerfed due to an overpowered Universal splash tree. Let's just take a chainsaw and fix the problem a scalpel could have.

A proper anniversary gift would be to rethink their mistake, reverse this update with regard to Range combat and try again.

[Stravix]

More proof that the Inquisitive tree was the problem, not IPS or even Ratcatcher. A 10 year old item gets nerfed due to an overpowered Universal splash tree. Let's just take a chainsaw and fix the problem a scalpel could have.

A proper anniversary gift would be to rethink their mistake, reverse this update with regard to Range combat and try again.

No, by having an OP ranged option exist, it highlighted issues that would make balancing ranged at all in the future impossible. When individual factors increase your damage to that extent, it significantly hampers your ability to balance without first bringing that item in line. This is the exact reason why divine might was changed. People *****ed that DM was the only thing holding divine melee up at all and that by nerfing it you would kill divine melees, but it was clearly a crutch that disallowed the devs from being able to buff anything else on these characters, otherwise characters who splashed them would get all of this extra strength despite not actually being a divine melee. IPS made is so that there was no good way to let ranged have any considerable single target damage without simultaneously making them have better AoE damage than they should.

[Thar]

This year's anniversary gift will be a box providing the option to get any of the rare weapons that ddo has nerf'd to uselessness in the past.

wounding of puncturing rapier.
ratcatcher
banishing anything
smiting anything
vorpal insta killer (pre 1000 hp garbage. what has 1000 hps nowadays?)
etc...

[Thar]

No, by having an OP ranged option exist, it highlighted issues that would make balancing ranged at all in the future impossible. When individual factors increase your damage to that extent, it significantly hampers your ability to balance without first bringing that item in line. This is the exact reason why divine might was changed. People *****ed that DM was the only thing holding divine melee up at all and that by nerfing it you would kill divine melees, but it was clearly a crutch that disallowed the devs from being able to buff anything else on these characters, otherwise characters who splashed them would get all of this extra strength despite not actually being a divine melee. IPS made is so that there was no good way to let ranged have any considerable single target damage without simultaneously making them have better AoE damage than they should.

there is nothing wrong with ips as it requires more feats and stats and bab than other melee multi mob hit feats. especially in light of the other changes. it's techinally not AOE damage it's situational damage IF you can line mobs up which takes time, skill and probably a lack of dps getting them into position. you apparently haven't played a range build.

[Dark_Lord_Mary]

To my knowledge we got nothing at all, which considering we players are excited about 14 years you'd think SSG would be too.

[smokejumper89]

This year's anniversary gift will be a box providing the option to get any of the rare weapons that ddo has nerf'd to uselessness in the past.

wounding of puncturing rapier.
ratcatcher
banishing anything
smiting anything
vorpal insta killer (pre 1000 hp garbage. what has 1000 hps nowadays?)
etc...

...still better than a cosmetic.

[Thar]

More proof that the Inquisitive tree was the problem, not IPS or even Ratcatcher. A 10 year old item gets nerfed due to an overpowered Universal splash tree. Let's just take a chainsaw and fix the problem a scalpel could have.

A proper anniversary gift would be to rethink their mistake, reverse this update with regard to Range combat and try again.

ratcatcher with no useful buff except for vermin had one use, base dps. The problem was that no other named weapons existed afterwards to fill the gap until borderlands which provided a lvl 20 weapon that could replace it and provide situationally better damage. Barovian hxbow was better vs undead. putting out a new combat style with no access to gear to compliment it was a fail to start. Crossbows should have gotten a pass at the same time just like runearms were implemented.

the ranged pass is a huge fail. the thf pass is a fail as it does nothing to keep melees alive via defensive capability. the game just slowed to a grind and what i'm hearing in guild chat is people aren't happy with doing any class TR's as dps is garbage across the board with almost all classes now. will this encourage larger groups and cooperation, maybe but that only works so far with time and schedules. overall not a good update for the game.

[Thar]

...still better than a cosmetic.

lol agreed.

[Stravix]

there is nothing wrong with ips as it requires more feats and stats and bab than other melee multi mob hit feats. especially in light of the other changes. it's techinally not AOE damage it's situational damage IF you can line mobs up which takes time, skill and probably a lack of dps getting them into position. you apparently haven't played a range build.

The end line feat that allows melee to hit multiple people at one time is also a 3 feat line that requires 11 BAB, now grated, it only requires 17 Str to IPS's 19 dex, so that is a valid point. And yes, it allows you to hit multiple people at the same time in an area of effect. It just happens to be rectangular area not a circular one. If there is no damage difference in a single target spec'd range build and an AoE one, why would you ever not be in AoE spec? Unlike the THF feats which lock you into a combat style which has lower single target damage, IPS is a stance. Because you are given an opportunity to change stances based on what you are fighting, it only makes sense that is doesn't do as much single target damage as when you change to the stance focused on that. Should stances swap faster? Yes, but that is a separate issue.

[Dark_Lord_Mary]

I think some of the above posts are a stellar example of how the anniversary gift was a cleverly spun giant nerf to the game.

Unlike LOTRO, which really sets the mark for festivals and events, over here in DDO we just get crapped on. Oh and didn't you know there's a new class just in time for Hardcore league where you can spend all your free time grinding for 5000 favor on a server where you cannot die, and nothing you do counts towards your actual guild on your home server, oh and no one cares that you have a cloak that says II on it?

Yeah, no thanks - look I'm happy SSG made a score with the Hardcore League One, I spend a lot of my money to set up and run a giant guild there, but the reaction - the aftermath - has left an extremely bad taste in my mouth.

No anniversary reward for being committed to and playing this game since 2006? Just a bunch of nerfs?

I stand by my decision to boycott Hardcore Season 2 - My guild ship cargo hold on Sarlona looks like a deserted DMV, my inquisitive is now a useless storage character, and there's a birthday party where I can run to the same tired loot from last year.

Friends of mine who used to play this game, asked, 'what did they do for the anniversary?' I said 'Well, we got a new class and a bunch of nerfs to everything, oh and they made catacombs epic, but I think they'd have done that anyway.'

They responded - 'glad I left.'

[DRoark]

there is nothing wrong with ips as it requires more feats and stats and bab than other melee multi mob hit feats. especially in light of the other changes. it's techinally not AOE damage it's situational damage IF you can line mobs up which takes time, skill and probably a lack of dps getting them into position. you apparently haven't played a range build.


True. The only people that whine about a ranged nerf being needed, were melee. The problem is, IPS was never an issue, and wasn't one for over a decade. Inquisitor was a horrible
tree that an IPS nerf STILL didn't fix, the only thing is did was kill most of the ranged builds. My BARD does more damage than our IPS ranger, and it's an actual cone. The only chance
the ranger has, is when we're fighting in a huge room, and even then I usually just walk up and blast it before he's finished. He has to rely on them standing in a line. I don't. It's even
worse with our Wizard and Sorcerer..../NUKE... Gee, they all died.

Next up, a Flower Picking Tree, so the Ranger has something to do.

Kobold say, "Really? Really??"

[Stravix]

True. The only people that whine about a ranged nerf being needed, were melee. The problem is, IPS was never an issue, and wasn't one for over a decade. Inquisitor was a horrible
tree that an IPS nerf STILL didn't fix, the only thing is did was kill most of the ranged builds. My BARD does more damage than our IPS ranger, and it's an actual cone. The only chance
the ranger has, is when we're fighting in a huge room, and even then I usually just walk up and blast it before he's finished. He has to rely on them standing in a line. I don't. It's even
worse with our Wizard and Sorcerer..../NUKE... Gee, they all died.

Next up, a Flower Picking Tree, so the Ranger has something to do.

Kobold say, "Really? Really??"

So, question. Would you like there to never be a high single target ranged build to ever exist? When your AoE damage is identical to your single target damage for an entire archetype of play, because it is never worth it to change stances, is that ok? I am not saying that ranged was OP, divine melees were not OP yet the divine might change needed to happen. This is the same thing.

[DRoark]

Unlike the THF feats which lock you into a combat style which has lower single target damage, IPS is a stance. Because you are given an opportunity to change stances based on what you are fighting, it only makes sense that is doesn't do as much single target damage as when you change to the stance focused on that. Should stances swap faster? Yes, but that is a separate issue.

Make all melee fighting styles a stance, so you can train multiple styles. You can't melee multiple mobs without taking a -20% damage cut. Balance solved.
Make all spells in the game Lesser/Greater. Greater is a stance. All spells in the game take a 20% damage hit if they effect more than one Kobold. Balance solved.
Make all CC in the game single target. Take a 20% cut to your spell DC if you cast the "area" version. Balance solved.

"It only makes sense..." as you said.

Watch the forums burn down, when everyone realizes THEY took the same hit for "balance", following the "we're happy where ranged is at" dumpster-fire, that didn't actually fix anything.

[DRoark]

So, question. Would you like there to never be a high single target ranged build to ever exist? When your AoE damage is identical to your single target damage for an entire archetype of play, because it is never worth it to change stances, is that ok? I am not saying that ranged was OP, divine melees were not OP yet the divine might change needed to happen. This is the same thing.

On my melee, my single target damage IS the same, I'm not seeing an actual point there. Why can't ranged do it, with the huge feat tax they have to pay?
On our ranged casters, if my spell hits one target or 72, my damage doesn't change. Should it? According to this idea, it should.
STR Divine builds lost so much our FvS can't even pull levers now, what change in there was "needed"? He lost around 25 STR. Sure, damage is similar, but functionality isn't.

If the idea that IPS has existed for over a decade, only just NOW gets people's panties in a knot, is a concern... Drop it entirely, and make a series of THF-style ranged feats, for Shoot-through.

No prereqs, just the same.... 4 feats. Would replace dodge, precision, etc etc, and totally take the place of the current setup people seem to be whining over.
Similar end result, goes through X number of mobs. No toggle, no (hey a ranger can shoot rhough 47 monsters lying BS people keep spouting). Just a "ranged cleave".

[smokejumper89]

I think some of the above posts are a stellar example of how the anniversary gift was a cleverly spun giant nerf to the game.

Technically they haven't told us what the "gift" IS yet, just smugly confirmed that "there will be one" because SSG likes to troll the community instead of getting us excited. That said I definitely agree with everything you're saying.



Unlike LOTRO, which really sets the mark for festivals and events, over here in DDO we just get crapped on.

Yeah I'd say thats pretty accurate. Most of our events are just massive grind-fests where only the privileged few who play DDO as a full-time job get good rewards. The Anniversary party event is the highlight of the year, where dozens of hours of grinding can earn you... stuff that's worse than lootgen. The two items from it that were remotely useful have been nerfed into oblivion, and while some of the stuff was moderately good for gearing iconics fresh out the gate, it's been completely supplanted by Sharn.



No anniversary reward for being committed to and playing this game since 2006? Just a bunch of nerfs?

The reward will, in all likelihood, be another cosmetic. And the fact is, no matter how pretty you make that cosmetic, its still completely useless. In a game with as massive and glaring of inventory problems as DDO has, that's the same as nothing. Other games give out USEFUL rewards. DDO used to give out sueful rewards. Lately? We get nothing.

I'd say lower your expectations, but the Kola Superdeep Borehole only made it to 7.619 miles down.




I stand by my decision to boycott Hardcore Season 2 - My guild ship cargo hold on Sarlona looks like a deserted DMV, my inquisitive is now a useless storage character, and there's a birthday party where I can run to the same tired loot from last year.

I skipped HCL1 due to complete lack of interest, but I support your boycott of season 2. Granted, I wasn't going to set foot on that server in the first place, its another example of my above grip where only the super-grinders get anything worthwhile AND the whole concept is a cruel mockery of this thing called "fun".




Friends of mine who used to play this game, asked, 'what did they do for the anniversary?' I said 'Well, we got a new class and a bunch of nerfs to everything, oh and they made catacombs epic, but I think they'd have done that anyway.'

They responded - 'glad I left.'

Yep.

People rage-quit every day. But the devs keep being smug [community guidelines violation]'s.

[salmag]

So, question. Would you like there to never be a high single target ranged build to ever exist? When your AoE damage is identical to your single target damage for an entire archetype of play, because it is never worth it to change stances, is that ok? I am not saying that ranged was OP, divine melees were not OP yet the divine might change needed to happen. This is the same thing.

The problem with the argument you're implying is that you are making the assumption all the mobs just line up waiting for the Archer to take them all down. This doesn't happen. Majority of the time, you will get 2-3 mobs before they start their side jumps out of the way or just never line up to begin with.

What happens when you take down the last mob before the ones in front? You have to re-target. By that time, the enemy is on top of you and you have to kite. This upsets the melee characters you are running with more than just killing them.

Back on topic:

The best anniversary gift should be scrapping the Range combat changes, then work on the broken Inquisitive tree only.



This year's anniversary gift will be a box providing the option to get any of the rare weapons that ddo has nerf'd to uselessness in the past.

wounding of puncturing rapier.
ratcatcher
banishing anything
smiting anything
vorpal insta killer (pre 1000 hp garbage. what has 1000 hps nowadays?)
etc..

Imagine what the game would be like today if they brought back the original mechanics for Wounding of Puncturing, Banishing, Smiting and Vorpal. Melee might be happy...

[Stravix]

On my melee, my single target damage IS the same, I'm not seeing an actual point there. Why can't ranged do it, with the huge feat tax they have to pay?
On our ranged casters, if my spell hits one target or 72, my damage doesn't change. Should it? According to this idea, it should.
STR Divine builds lost so much our FvS can't even pull levers now, what change in there was "needed"? He lost around 25 STR. Sure, damage is similar, but functionality isn't.

If the idea that IPS has existed for over a decade, only just NOW gets people's panties in a knot, is a concern... Drop it entirely, and make a series of THF-style ranged feats, for Shoot-through.

No prereqs, just the same.... 4 feats. Would replace dodge, precision, etc etc, and totally take the place of the current setup people seem to be whining over.
Similar end result, goes through X number of mobs. No toggle, no (hey a ranger can shoot rhough 47 monsters lying BS people keep spouting). Just a "ranged cleave".

So, you think THF build do the exact same single target DPS as TWH builds? That is surprising and would love to see your absolutely bonkers secret THF build that achieves this. Also, how did you make your AoE spells deal the same damage as spells like iceberg or thunderstroke?

[DRoark]

So, you think THF build do the exact same single target DPS as TWH builds? That is surprising and would love to see your absolutely bonkers secret THF build that achieves this. Also, how did you make your AoE spells deal the same damage as spells like iceberg or thunderstroke?

Didn't mention TWF at all, why would you assume I trained multiple melee styles? Reading is hard. Bows have one damage, not "regular arrow", and "big-freakin-arrow".

I also didn't compare different spells, which is an irrelevent argument. I stated whether or not I hit one target or 72, my damage doesn't drop (which is true for all AOE spells),
no more than IPS damage drops if it hits more than one target. IPS has always been the same way, rangers are paying a feat tax to get the ability to do an LOE attack.

If the IPS-nerf logic was applied to everything, every SPELL would have two versions, "Tiny Fireball" for regular single target damage, and a toggle for "AOE Fireball" (-20%) damage,
and casters would have to spend multiple feats to BUY the skill to hit more than one target, or else their spell would pass through a group and only fireball the guy they were aiming at.

I'd actually find that funny.

[Stravix]

Didn't mention TWF at all, why would you assume I trained multiple melee styles? Reading is hard.

TWF is the predominant single target melee style. Bows have multiple combat style stances. You stated you could auto attack multiple people as a melee with no loss of damage. Therefore, the only fighting style which can hit multiple people at once clearly must not lose any single target damage when compared to other styles.


Bows have one damage, not "regular arrow", and "big-freakin-arrow".

Except they do. ranged combat is broken down based on active stance. With each ranged combat stance focusing on a single damage type. The problem is that the THF equivalent, IPS, had no noticeable damage loss when compared to the TWF equivalent, Archer's Focus. There is currently no stance which is equivalent to SWF, something that could help either side, clear and bossing, without being as good as the specialized form which is something that should change, but that is another topic.


I also didn't compare different spells, which is an irrelevent argument. I stated whether or not I hit one target or 72, my damage doesn't drop (which is true for all AOE spells),
no more than IPS damage drops if it hits more than one target. IPS has always been the same way, rangers are paying a feat tax to get the ability to do an LOE attack.

If the IPS-nerf logic was applied to everything, every SPELL would have two versions, "Tiny Fireball" for regular single target damage, and a toggle for "AOE Fireball" (-20%) damage,
and casters would have to spend multiple feats to BUY the skill to hit more than one target, or else their spell would pass through a group and only fireball the guy they were aiming at.

I'd actually find that funny.

Currently, there are AoE spells and Single target spells, why compare an AoE spell damage to the same spell's damage in single target? By that metric, when you hit a boss in your IPS you are still taking that damage penalty because you are using the wrong thing, just like how a spellcaster would. Imagine if there was a feat that could make your single target spells affect an area with only a 20% damage penalty that could be toggled out of whenever you needed to do single target damage. Fireball would be obsolete immediately and would only be used to open doors.

[lyrecono]

any word on it? Hopefully something cool and useful? Or are we getting another useless cosmetic?

A free ratcatcher. XD

[DRoark]

Currently, there are AoE spells and Single target spells, why compare an AoE spell damage to the same spell's damage in single target? By that metric, when you hit a boss in your IPS you are still taking that damage penalty because you are using the wrong thing, just like how a spellcaster would. Imagine if there was a feat that could make your single target spells affect an area with only a 20% damage penalty that could be toggled out of whenever you needed to do single target damage. Fireball would be obsolete immediately and would only be used to open doors.


THF changed. There's literally no difference in my single target and multi-target anymore. I'm guessing you don't play one.

My main spell on my current toon is a cone. It's my highest damage spell, and as I said before, there's ZERO difference. Not everyone has Iceburg, or really high single-target anything.
Ranged attacks generally do less damage than even an average AOE spell. Our caster is a prime example, we're not even CLOSE to the damage one fireball pops out, even in "single target mode".

I will fully support any petition you want to make, to allow Iceburg to pass through multiple targets, if you want to pay a 4-feat tax. Then you can deal with lining up mobs as well.
IPS has never been an AOE, it's an LOE. If you want that mechanic on spells, I will gladly hand it to you with a smile and actually cheer you on casting Iceburgs (and laughing watching you run
in circles to line anything up).

I'd like exploding arrows though, for 0 feat cost, so I don't have to line up anything, and get full damage.

[Stravix]

THF changed. There's literally no difference in my single target and multi-target anymore. I'm guessing you don't play one.

Comparing all of the ranged styles to a single melee style is disingenuous.

IPS vs new THF

-Both can hit multiple enemies if you line it up right
-They both have the same damage when hitting 1 person or 3

Ranged vs Melee

-Both can hit multiple enemies if you line it up right and grab the feats dedicated to it,but...
-Melee cannot change fighting styles mid-combat, meaning that their single target damage suffers if they choose to gain AoE, relative to the other melee fighting style options.

This allows melee builds to specialize in either single target (TWF), AoE (THF) or a mix (SWF)

Ranged has similar ability to specialize, however this CAN be done on the fly, but was completely ignored due to a negligible difference in damage difference between the two stances. The IPS change introduced an actual reason to actively change stances based on what you are doing.


My main spell on my current toon is a cone. It's my highest damage spell, and as I said before, there's ZERO difference. Not everyone has Iceburg, or really high single-target anything.
Ranged attacks generally do less damage than even an average AOE spell. Our caster is a prime example, we're not even CLOSE to the damage one fireball pops out, even in "single target mode".

In this case you specifically chose to specialize in AoE damage. The fact that you chose to not have an single target skill is a choice you made, similar to how THF builds have to chose to have subpar single target damage. Also, yes, casters do more damage of all types compared to ranged or melee. You must first balance the styles within a school of play (caster, melee and ranged) before you attempt to balance them against each other. The changes in U45 did not appear to address school of play balance, but to set some subshools in a good spot relative to the other subschools in that school.

[salmag]

I will fully support any petition you want to make, to allow Iceburg to pass through multiple targets, if you want to pay a 4-feat tax. Then you can deal with lining up mobs as well.
IPS has never been an AOE, it's an LOE. If you want that mechanic on spells, I will gladly hand it to you with a smile and actually cheer you on casting Iceburgs (and laughing watching you run
in circles to line anything up).

I'd like exploding arrows though, for 0 feat cost, so I don't have to line up anything, and get full damage.

There already are several LOE spells that do just that. I don't want to mention them because they'll get the same nerf as IPS...

It's funny to watch the mobs dodge my caster the same way the mobs dodge my Archer... :rolleyes:

[Draxis]

Eh, at least the IPS nerf freed up a feat slot that was previously occupied by a MUST HAVE feat for ranged classes. Actually, it eliminated two if you don't bother taking PS either. I'm really not a fan of MUST HAVE feats. Kills build diversity.

[smokejumper89]

Eh, at least the IPS nerf freed up a feat slot that was previously occupied by a MUST HAVE feat for ranged classes. Actually, it eliminated two if you don't bother taking PS either. I'm really not a fan of MUST HAVE feats. Kills build diversity.

Actually I never had IPS on any of my ranged builds before. In fact I only speced into it when I heard it was getting nerfed, just to see what all the fuss was about. Granted, that's not claiming any of my ranged characters were GOOD........

[Draxis]

Actually I never had IPS on any of my ranged builds before. In fact I only speced into it when I heard it was getting nerfed, just to see what all the fuss was about. Granted, that's not claiming any of my ranged characters were GOOD........

Same. I run mostly ranged builds and never really spec'd for IPS until last year when a guildie insisted it was a MUST HAVE. It definitely made clearing trash faster (And still does to an extent) and I stuck with it after trying it. But giving up those feat slots for it has always been kind of painful and getting them back again without feeling like I'm missing out is nice.

[Cordovan]

We do have a free anniversary gift set for this year, and hopefully people will like it. Expect it as we get closer to the anniversary date of February 28th.

[smokejumper89]

Same. I run mostly ranged builds and never really spec'd for IPS until last year when a guildie insisted it was a MUST HAVE. It definitely made clearing trash faster (And still does to an extent) and I stuck with it after trying it. But giving up those feat slots for it has always been kind of painful and getting them back again without feeling like I'm missing out is nice.

Same experience. Cleared trash faster, but didn't see an over-all spike in DPS. Since 80% of my game play is insistently farming for loot, that's helpful - except I can clear trash a hundred times faster on my fire sorc, so why break out the ranged guy?

[smokejumper89]

We do have a free anniversary gift set for this year, and hopefully people will like it. Expect it as we get closer to the anniversary date of February 28th.

The general consensus seems to be "people will like it if it's anything other than another cosmetic". Save, of course, for the segment of the player base to whom you could give a swift kick to the face and they would still say it was the best thing ever.

[Cordovan]

The general consensus seems to be "people will like it if it's anything other than another cosmetic". Save, of course, for the segment of the player base to whom you could give a swift kick to the face and they would still say it was the best thing ever.

Does it help or make it worse if I say that I think it's really cool?

[Draxis]

The general consensus seems to be "people will like it if it's anything other than another cosmetic". Save, of course, for the segment of the player base to whom you could give a swift kick to the face and they would still say it was the best thing ever.

I'm guessing by the use of the word "set" that it's likely going to be a set of matching cosmetics. The problem with giving everyone cosmetics is that everyone has them, so no one feels unique using them. Still, I save mine. Maybe in a few years it'll be cool to sport them after everyone's forgotten about them.

[rabidfox]

Does it help or make it worse if I say that I think it's really cool?

Is it a mini-Cordovan non-combat pet?

[smokejumper89]

Is it a mini-Cordovan non-combat pet?

Even this would be better than another cosmetic :P

[smokejumper89]

Does it help or make it worse if I say that I think it's really cool?

Ok, I figured it out: imma go back in time 100 million years, take all of my expectations, and put them in a subduction zone. That way, when I return to the present, they'll be deep within the mantle and should then be "low" enough that I won't be disappointed when it invariably turns out to be another cosmetic.

[Gniewomir]

I'm guessing by the use of the word "set" that it's likely going to be a set of matching cosmetics.

If thats going to happen... please, don't make it autogranted.

[droid327]

Does it help or make it worse if I say that I think it's really cool?

Well you're not saying its not a cosmetic, so....

[droid327]

Ok, I figured it out: imma go back in time 100 million years, take all of my expectations, and put them in a subduction zone. That way, when I return to the present, they'll be deep within the mantle and should then be "low" enough that I won't be disappointed when it invariably turns out to be another cosmetic.

Uh oh - your expectations got mixed into a body of partial melt, ascended to an andesitic volcanic arc, and ejected through a Plinian eruption into the stratosphere :)

[smokejumper89]

Uh oh - your expectations got mixed into a body of partial melt, ascended to an andesitic volcanic arc, and ejected through a Plinian eruption into the stratosphere :)

Noooooo!!! I'm looking forward to it and will be massively dissapointed!!!!!

[FuzzyDuck81]

Does it help or make it worse if I say that I think it's really cool?

We've got horse animations now so... is it a tiny unicorn pet? If so, i'm making a halfling greatclub-wielding barbarian, because some things just have to be done.

[DRoark]

I'd like some good ones, not just a recolored junk skin like they did with executioner and reaper.
The old ones back in the day were actually well designed, like Phoenix, Red Dragon etc. Now... meh.

[Ulfo]

Does it help or make it worse if I say that I think it's really cool?

Quiver of Alacrity (https://ddowiki.com/page/Item:Quiver_of_Alacrity)? 8)

[DRoark]

In this case you specifically chose to specialize in AoE damage. The fact that you chose to not have an single target skill is a choice you made...

Some people, like our Bard, don't have a single target spell higher DPS than their AOE. Top choice is a cone, or a DoT. It's not a case of "specializing". But please, continue.

-Melee cannot change fighting styles mid-combat, meaning that their single target damage suffers if they choose to gain AoE.
---Wow, you can't change styles? I guess every cleave in the game is broken for you, too. That's a bummer. I'll have to notify our fighter he's been too OP swopping between THF and S/B.

There's a fundamental differance in every class and school. You quite literally CAN'T balance them all unless you make the weakest one equal to the strongest one across the board.
The day an assassin throws a dagger and implodes a room, or a wizard adrenal daggers for 150k, you may as well pull the plug. All the IPS thing did, was make ranged classes overall
weaker, and didn't fix the only actual issue (per Coco).

There's different classes for a reason. If you have some weird fixation on classes you don't play, try one. You may actually learn something.

[smokejumper89]

Quiver of Alacrity (https://ddowiki.com/page/Item:Quiver_of_Alacrity)? 8)

If they brought back the tenth anniversary gifts I would be ecstatic.

The only people who complained at 10th anniversary were the ones who thought it was unfair to them to let other people have quivers of alacrity and such :P

[Dendrix]

Does it help or make it worse if I say that I think it's really cool?

yes

[DRoark]

Does it help or make it worse if I say that I think it's really cool?

A rollback to Tuesday, so rangers can get their dignity back? ) Kidding. Sort of.

Not really an item, but a tab for mounts, like pets.... would be awesome, so they didn't take up inventory space and we could hotbar them. Click... /gone.
The mount bag was just a weird idea, it's like we have a coinpurse full of ponies in our jacket. Bag space is already at a premium, and we got another bag.

[smokejumper89]

Bag space is already at a premium, and we got another bag.

They do seem not overly concerned with the CRIPPLING inventory problems this game has... second only to lag.

[KoobTheProud]

Does it help or make it worse if I say that I think it's really cool?

Do you think a kobold cosmetic outfit that makes anybody look like a kobold is really cool?

plz...

[Merfyn]

Assuming they won't ever give the old raid items again (buh-bye Quiver of Alacrity, I scarcely knew thee)... I've always wondered why there's a stubborn refusal to do the anniversary collecting card thing again?

Sure, many pooches were screwed when those tornado grenades got duped, but I thought the cards were actually somewhat enjoyable.

[Stoner81]

Assuming they won't ever give the old raid items again (buh-bye Quiver of Alacrity, I scarcely knew thee)... I've always wondered why there's a stubborn refusal to do the anniversary collecting card thing again?

Sure, many pooches were screwed when those tornado grenades got duped, but I thought the cards were actually somewhat enjoyable.

Answered your own question. Duping. The entire system got ripped out ages ago, you stand more chance of platting dragon wee than you do that coming back.

Stoner81.

[TheFowlerRobert]

Does it help or make it worse if I say that I think it's really cool?

Probably not. Now had you said it was "cool, cool" well, that would be a different beast.

[Josielynn]

Putting the grey horse, shown in the stables, on the vendor so we can have it as one of the choices would be nice.

[Josielynn]

Probably not. Now had you said it was "cool, cool" well, that would be a different beast.

Haha!

I like the gingerbread guys better than the broccoli dudes. There's a bug with the sled things. While on it, I was being pushed into walls/corners like there was a strong "current" (but it didn't do that to my friend). It made it hard to fight and to pick up the collectibles, so now I just skip the sleds and run over to fight on the circular stone.

[fatherpirate]

What I think would be a cool gift?

Pandora's Key
Given to the character that opens Pandora's Box (Box - 1 per account, BTA The key is BTC, no exceptions ...one character only)

Pandora's Key opens any dungeon a player would normally have access to
It only opens - Reaper level 1 Just Reaper 1, no hard or elite
If you would naturally already have access to that (VIP, Season pass whatever) it will give
that player an extra 10% exp for Reaper 1 only.
Pandora's Key is eternal for the one character that has it.

Pandora's Key is both a blessing and a curse.
It will lead to great riches and suffering in equal measure.

Now THAT would be a cool gift.

[ilhares]

Does it help or make it worse if I say that I think it's really cool? Is it a cosmetic dragon helm that color-matches your (regular or cosmetic) worn dragon armor?

[AlmGhandi]

We do have a free anniversary gift set for this year, and hopefully people will like it. Expect it as we get closer to the anniversary date of February 28th.

We are now closer to the date.

Any info?

[Alrik_Fassbauer]

We are not that much closer to it, I fear ... My sheer guess is that it will be announced no sooner than February, 28th ...

[Aelonwy]

I'm thinking it might be a mount. Or maybe they figured out some way to add cosmetic barding to the regular mounts.

[smokejumper89]

We are now closer to the date.

Any info?

Well we're also on a Saturday.

But no, despite SSG having decided on the gift months ago, its all but a guaranteed they wont do anything besides smugly hint that "it exists" until day-of at the earliest.

Of course I'd love to be wrong.

[Captain_Wizbang]

Most of the Birthday gifts were given out in the 3rd week of the month......

As for a guess? I hope it's not anything to do with mounts.

If it's a cosmetic, maybe some authentic looking chainmail armor, that would tie into Keep @ Borderlands.

But my best guess is a weapon cosmetic to choose from.

[John3000]

Dear SSG,
what about "No Worries"? Will it get another change/unnerf? Cause right now you nerfed it into garbage.

https://www.ddo.com/forums/showthread.php/503014-No-Worries-Nerf

Cheers,
Titus

lol.... Yeah they should have renamed that armor from 'No worries' to 'Panic - a tin can protects more than your heavy armor'.

This year's anniversary gift should be :

The Nerf(TM) Crossbow
The perfect weapon for sadists and masochists. The weapon destroys any source of fun it encounters.
Random nerfs will affect you and your party members through all your game play. This includes random stat and save penalties, random effects such as DOTs, paralysis, slow, weapon damage inverts (you now heal mobs you touch for the next 30 seconds), permanent random feat swaps just to mess up your builds, and more hidden effects such as the dreaded '2 hour Lol' effect : "Any raid about to be completed in less than 2 hours has a 66% chance of auto-failing. A dreaded laughing sound can be heard before kicking you and your party members out of the raid instance. Raids over 2 hours still have a 33% chance of auto failing. Raid loot drop rates are also reduced to match Sands rates." You can relish in the pain and suffering of your team members and yourself, wasting precious hours of your life. Long live the nerfs !!! :p:p:p


cheers

[JonD]

...cosmetic barding...
They look good in the music video, but don't sing well...?

(...sorry...)

JonD

[LightBear]

Its going to be a new shared bank tab just for cosmetics, first 10 are free anyway but the gift this year is ten extra.

[DRoark]

Its going to be a new shared bank tab just for cosmetics, first 10 are free anyway but the gift this year is ten extra.

I'd just like a tab for mounts (like pets have), so they don't suck up inventory space. What brain-surgeon thought a HORSE BAG was a good idea?

Kobold say, "Really? Really??"

[Amorais]

Being able to sheathe weapons like you can on the character creation screen...please :)

Failing that, a gem that triples the amount of inventory/shared bank space in order to slightly alleviate the insane problem with tiny inventories :D

[Jerevth]

Cursed items would be interesting. Probably too challenging to balance mechanics to keep it cursed/balanced vs keeping it playable, though.

But...

Quiver of alacrity from way-back when is an item I'd love to see again. (I didn't realize the value of the quiver as I started playing on/around that anniversary and that toon was since deleted. Ah the precious innocence of youth. And folly, thinking it would make another appearance.)

Come on Cordo; it's just wrong not to do it again- think of all those players who started since then and never had a chance to get it. To do otherwise wouldn't be fair to them.

(Did my alignment just shift toward NG from LG...? Nahhhhhh)

Sockettable Quivers?
Scroll Pouches for the quiver slot?
Component pouches for the quiver slot?
Houses! ( You get a house, and you get a house, and you get a house!

(*Ding* Chaotic Good.)

[Jaxtan]

It will be something very cool and very useful, and even a little op. But it slowly self-nerfs itself over time until it is near useless. Then you will be able to buy something similar to it after 6 to 12 months.

[Equatis]

Quiver of alacrity from way-back when is an item I'd love to see again. (I didn't realize the value of the quiver as I started playing on/around that anniversary and that toon was since deleted. Ah the precious innocence of youth. And folly, thinking it would make another appearance.)

Come on Cordo; it's just wrong not to do it again- think of all those players who started since then and never had a chance to get it. To do otherwise wouldn't be fair to them.

All you or any one who started after the 10th Anniversary event need do is run the raid Ascension Chamber and hope the loot gods look favorably upon you to get a Quiver of Alacrity.

[smokejumper89]

All you or any one who started after the 10th Anniversary event need do is run the raid Ascension Chamber and hope the loot gods look favorably upon you to get a Quiver of Alacrity.

Ah yes. Just spend several days flagging, then park at 30 and spend several months grinding that single raid(since you're going to need the better part of a day to find enough other flagged people to complete it), resetting 20th reward lists, etc.

You should have one by the end of the year.

That's far and away a better answer than asking SSG to repeat the giveaway or create some kind of comparable item that's a teensy bit easier to obtain.

[Jerevth]

Ah yes. Just spend several days flagging, then park at 30 and spend several months grinding that single raid(since you're going to need the better part of a day to find enough other flagged people to complete it), resetting 20th reward lists, etc.

You should have one by the end of the year.

That's far and away a better answer than asking SSG to repeat the giveaway or create some kind of comparable item that's a teensy bit easier to obtain.


Heh. That's pretty much it.
I came, I flagged, I failed to get the quiver last life.
It was a once in many lifetimes event: I don't think I'll try again anytime soon...


All you or any one who started after the 10th Anniversary event need do is run the raid Ascension Chamber and hope the loot gods look favorably upon you to get a Quiver of Alacrity.

I'm aware of the possibility of how to obtain it in the game mechanics.
I just used that request to springboard other ideas from anyway.
As for the Saints of Unseen Loot, they turned their backs on me a long while back- once in a while I get something I wanted (2 out of three parts of the "Part of the Family" so far- several treasure finding pots gave their contents to that cause.) - but for the most part it's typically a randgen item, a stack of coins, a gem or two and scrolls I won't bother to use before they are destroyed by a fireball, acid blast, etc. (Along with so many Raise dead scrolls...).

If they (SSG) do, awesome.
If they don't, meh. I'm not here for the anniversary freebies.

... or am I...? :rolleyes:

[Alrik_Fassbauer]

lol.... Yeah they should have renamed that armor from 'No worries' to 'Panic - a tin can protects more than your heavy armor'.

Then that NPC in the Anniversary Party needs to be renamed as well ...

[smokejumper89]

As for the Saints of Unseen Loot, they turned their backs on me a long while back- once in a while I get something I wanted (2 out of three parts of the "Part of the Family" so far- several treasure finding pots gave their contents to that cause.)

I very firmly believe there is some kind of bug in the loot mechanics that cause certain players to have higher drop-rates than others.

There's considerable circumstantial evidence: and time you have a conversation about drop rates, someone(like Jerevth) will relate an experience like the above, needing many runs and expensive boosters to see a comparatively minor return. I myself have a similar problem, frequently ransacking dungeons on multiple characters and not seeing a single named item on Elite.

And then in the same thread you get a few other people who can ransack a quest and get every item that drops inside of 7 runs. I routinely see people walking around dual-wielding Soulrazors; I've been on 100+ Reaper runs and havent seen a single blackrazor drop. This would seem to indicate either an inordinate number of people are extremely lucky, or there is something "off".

Then of course there's invariably the guy who took a statistics class and tells you its impossible to run a quest 32 times on 4 characters and not see a single named item. Unfortunately, listing out probabilities doesn't help me complete my sharn sets. I wonder if we could organize some kind of experiment to empirically measure the drop rates and determine if it is indeed higher or lower for some people?

[Livmo]

I very firmly believe there is some kind of bug in the loot mechanics that cause certain players to have higher drop-rates than others.

There's considerable circumstantial evidence: and time you have a conversation about drop rates, someone(like Jerevth) will relate an experience like the above, needing many runs and expensive boosters to see a comparatively minor return. I myself have a similar problem, frequently ransacking dungeons on multiple characters and not seeing a single named item on Elite.

And then in the same thread you get a few other people who can ransack a quest and get every item that drops inside of 7 runs. I routinely see people walking around dual-wielding Soulrazors; I've been on 100+ Reaper runs and havent seen a single blackrazor drop. This would seem to indicate either an inordinate number of people are extremely lucky, or there is something "off".

Then of course there's invariably the guy who took a statistics class and tells you its impossible to run a quest 32 times on 4 characters and not see a single named item. Unfortunately, listing out probabilities doesn't help me complete my sharn sets. I wonder if we could organize some kind of experiment to empirically measure the drop rates and determine if it is indeed higher or lower for some people?

It's noticable accross accounts. Does not seem server specific.

I run 13 accounts. Some accounts (about 3) are allot luckier than others when it comes to loot drops. Several also appear to live in the same basement in terms of loot drops (not very good).

[Ausdoerrt]

Is it a cosmetic dragon helm that color-matches your (regular or cosmetic) worn dragon armor?

You mean like the Boundless?

[smokejumper89]

It's noticable accross accounts. Does not seem server specific.

I run 13 accounts. Some accounts (about 3) are allot luckier than others when it comes to loot drops. Several also appear to live in the same basement in terms of loot drops (not very good).

Observed any correlation on characters within an account?

I also run 2 accounts and my other account certainly seems "luckier".

[Livmo]

Observed any correlation on characters within an account?

I also run 2 accounts and my other account certainly seems "luckier".

No, I've only noticed at the account level.

My work around is to multibox 4 accounts and pass the loot in chest where I can. One of the lucky ones in each group of 4. Thats 3 sets. The 13th account is random for good time funz and nothing specific.

[smokejumper89]

Got any special tips for multi-boxing? :P I've tried using Picture-in-picture on my big screen and KVM but its still a PITA.

[carsonfball]

Its going to be a new shared bank tab just for cosmetics, first 10 are free anyway but the gift this year is ten extra.

That would be awesome! Devs, if you are reading, please do this at some point. I highly doubt this will be implemented though, given the technical difficulties that they have brought up in the past.

[0ldschool]

Its going to be a new shared bank tab just for cosmetics, first 10 are free anyway but the gift this year is ten extra.

We can dream. As it is, I have two types of cosmetics: the ones that I'm wearing and the ones that I've destroyed. I have zero bank space to spare for cosmetics, thanks to the obnoxious way in which inventory space is monetized. I was sad to destroy them at first, but I'm now completely numb to it. That being said, I don't mind if the anniversary gift is cosmetics, I know many here enjoy them. It just means that I personally won't have any use for the gift. Perhaps I'll take one just to destroy it, like the cloaks last year :)

EDIT: If I could choose my gift, it would be 15 CoH to upgrade my Agony. Good candidates for us newer players are items that are now impossible to acquire, as they are firewalled behind content that can't be soloed & (almost) no one runs any more. I only have Agony thanks to the raid box gift for the extended downtime last March. It is dear to me, being easily BiS and likely unobtainable for me otherwise. Now that was a gift! Another box so that I can have a Celestia would also be extremely welcome ;)

[smokejumper89]

We can dream. As it is, I have two types of cosmetics: the ones that I'm wearing and the ones that I've destroyed.


I'm pretty much in the same boat. Most the cosmetics I use are freebies from buying expansions, which fortunately were made BtA so if I ever want more, I can just make a new character. Fortunately I also run a ton of guys, so I actually do get to wear a fair number of them.

That being said, I would like the gift to be "something" not "nothing" which is the same thing as a cosmetic I won't claim. A single sunflask would make a better gift, assuming I can hawk it for plat.



EDIT: If I could choose my gift, it would be 15 CoH to upgrade my Agony. Good candidates for us newer players are items that are now impossible to acquire, as they are firewalled behind content that can't be soloed & (almost) no one runs any more. I only have Agony thanks to the raid box gift for the extended downtime last March. It is dear to me, being easily BiS and likely unobtainable for me otherwise. Now that was a gift! Another box so that I can have a Celestia would also be extremely welcome ;)

You will have heaping buyers remorse if you get a Celestia, it is broken 16 different ways and unusable by basically any build.

But yeah, i'd love another raiders box, they were fantastic. Or for them to remove the flagging requirements for CitW. I'd run that raid constantly if that were the case. A whole lot of the "firewalled" content you speak of would be blown wide open if they dropped the flagging requirements. I really do not think it would break the game if we could run CitW and Abbot without flagging.

[Livmo]

Got any special tips for multi-boxing? :P I've tried using Picture-in-picture on my big screen and KVM but its still a PITA.

Yes I use foot pedals and a stand up workstation. I prefer the Kinesis 2 (https://www.amazon.com/Kinesis-Savant-Elite2-Programmable-FP30A/dp/B00R1OOP0Y/ref=sr_1_12?keywords=kinesis+2+foot+pedal&qid=1582137385&sr=8-12). I have my keyboards stacked and all my mice to the right. 3 montiors are side-by-side and the laptop screen sits in the middle below the 3 monitors.

This is not my set-up, but on the extreme end:

http://i.stack.imgur.com/w4eAe.jpg



And desktop yoga for the win :D

[smokejumper89]

Oh yeah, I've seen that guy, the one-man raid group :P That's actually not terribly dissimilar from my setup. I have 1 large central screen flanked by 5 smaller ones.

I do already have 2 keyboards(one on desk one in tray) might also look at the foot pedals.

[Livmo]

Oh yeah, I've seen that guy, the one-man raid group :P That's actually not terribly dissimilar from my setup. I have 1 large central screen flanked by 5 smaller ones.

I do already have 2 keyboards(one on desk one in tray) might also look at the foot pedals.

If you don't want to spend cash on a foot pedal and want to try it out, I've used a 2nd programable keyboard and set it on the floor and tapped the space bar with my foot to fire ammo or spells.

[The_Human_Cypher]

the inquisitive nerf was the anniversary gift this year.

Don't you like it? It can't be returned.

:d

[smokejumper89]

If you don't want to spend cash on a foot pedal and want to try it out, I've used a 2nd programable keyboard and set it on the floor and tapped the space bar with my foot to fire ammo or spells.

the real challenge for me is movement. Do you actually have a way to move both characters around at once, or is there a main and then the others just get to "catch up"?

[KoobTheProud]

the real challenge for me is movement. Do you actually have a way to move both characters around at once, or is there a main and then the others just get to "catch up"?

For me multi-boxing consists of a second account rogue "hireling" and a third account cleric buffer/top off healer "hireling". I have 4 accounts I can play simultaneously however only the main account is actually active most of the time. When I do play the extra accounts the rest of the party sits at waypoints with a couple of real hirelings set to defend them until I can get around to actively defending them when an unexpected encounter happens. The 4th account is a bard to buff the rogue when I need a hard DC overcome and to defend the party when I need to bounce back and do that.

I run the whole party from chest to chest in stages, picking up remnants, collectables and other goodies as I do. Quests take about twice as long as they otherwise would but I get +3x the guild reknown and collectables and incidentally level the extra account characters in the process. I also get to do multi-account (non-raid) content much more easily than I would otherwise.

The SSG points I get on the alt accounts go into buying new content alongside the purchases that I make on them when sales occur. I probably spent about $50 an account on the three alt accounts during the December sales. I spend maybe $100 a year on each of them alongside the VIP main account.

[AbyssalMage]

Hardcore had nothing to do with it. It was RIDICULOUSLY overpowered in the hands of an Inquisitive. It needed to be changed.
You mean like (E)SoS is in the hands of melee?
The only difference being the "gating" on how you acquire said items. The only thing RIDICULOUS about U45 is the fact that people in the community applaud grieving other players.

[smokejumper89]

For me multi-boxing consists of a second account rogue "hireling" and a third account cleric buffer/top off healer "hireling". I have 4 accounts I can play simultaneously however only the main account is actually active most of the time. When I do play the extra accounts the rest of the party sits at waypoints with a couple of real hirelings set to defend them until I can get around to actively defending them when an unexpected encounter happens. The 4th account is a bard to buff the rogue when I need a hard DC overcome and to defend the party when I need to bounce back and do that.

I run the whole party from chest to chest in stages, picking up remnants, collectables and other goodies as I do. Quests take about twice as long as they otherwise would but I get +3x the guild reknown and collectables and incidentally level the extra account characters in the process. I also get to do multi-account (non-raid) content much more easily than I would otherwise.

The SSG points I get on the alt accounts go into buying new content alongside the purchases that I make on them when sales occur. I probably spent about $50 an account on the three alt accounts during the December sales. I spend maybe $100 a year on each of them alongside the VIP main account.

Yeah, I've tried that approach, particularly when farming. I used to have 3 working alt accounts in the MOTU-era that had the expansion, so i could farm for shards and seals easily. Unfortunately 1 account broke/was hacked, in any case I can no longer access it. Since then the only things I want are from ravenloft/sharn, and am not buying the expansion several more times.

[Livmo]

the real challenge for me is movement. Do you actually have a way to move both characters around at once, or is there a main and then the others just get to "catch up"?

I play the keyboards like Yanni and can move mutiple toons at the same time. Usually no more than 2.

For strategery you can set up kill zones and lure the baddies into it and lay down devestating fire and send out mass hjeals. Spam the keyboards! For the Hjeals target your tank or main battle toon and the mass hjeals will overlap some of the other toons.

These are all me:

https://i.imgur.com/Dx8N9Tx.jpg



EDIT ~ All my mice on the right are different, so I can tell by feel which toon I'm using by touch.

[smokejumper89]

You mean like (E)SoS is in the hands of melee?
The only difference being the "gating" on how you acquire said items. The only thing RIDICULOUS about U45 is the fact that people in the community applaud grieving other players.

ESOS is gated behind an INSANELY LOW drop-rate. Its not even a matter of "if you weren't playing back then..." its flat out "people who've played the game obsessively since launch and run the raid 10,000 times still haven't gotten one" - and that is exactly the sort of BS that needs a fix five years ago.

[smokejumper89]

I play the keyboards like Yanni and can move mutiple toons at the same time. Usually no more than 2.

For strategery you can set up kill zones and lure the baddies into it and lay down devestating fire and send out mass hjeals. Spam the keyboards! For the Hjeals target your tank or main battle toon and the mass hjeals will overlap some of the other toons.

These are all me:

https://i.imgur.com/Dx8N9Tx.jpg



EDIT ~ All my mice on the right are different, so I can tell by feel which toon I'm using by touch.

Love the uniform :P thanks for the advice, I've been experimenting with using just movement keys lately instead of mouse-look. Might be worth some practice.

[Livmo]

Love the uniform :P thanks for the advice, I've been experimenting with using just movement keys lately instead of mouse-look. Might be worth some practice.

Also I've used versions of these in the past if you don't want to go full keyboards:

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71hg5Fz-60L._AC_SL1500_.jpg




If you went full party of 6 with 5 alts, you can array these in a star pattern and do drummer movements or keyboards movements to try and move the party in concert.

[Livmo]

Last Halloween trophy shot with new hats. I alt-tabbed the 7th and 8th accounts to take the screenie. Livmo is sitting in the middle.

https://i.imgur.com/kwveX1K.jpg

[smokejumper89]

I actually do have a programable keypad, now that you mention it. I don't like hitting "shift" to cast my wizard's nine thousand spells, so i set one up to the left and programmed hot bars to it. I still have 2 unused rows of 8 keys I could program for WSAD and various other tasks; then just sent my keyboard/mouse to a different PC with the KVM. This is promising.

[fatherpirate]

lol, I like use...one guy at a time :-P
but that is cool.

Thought of the perfect gift....

1 BTA >Quarter<
usable in HCL
reference "Ready Player One"

:-P

[smokejumper89]

usable in HCL


...it occurs to me with HCL started back up the odds of us getting a remotely useful gift have just dropped to 0.

I'm definitely with the people who think HCL is killing the game.

[Alrik_Fassbauer]

How embarassing ! I just noticed that I had moxed Sprout with Trout !

(Brussels Trout Beater ... - English isn't my first language ... *sigh*)

Now I want a French Trout Beater By Unhygienix / Epidemix for next year's Anniversary !

[Justicesfury]

any word on it? Hopefully something cool and useful? Or are we getting another useless cosmetic?

This year you are not getting 8 games codes for 8 ugly cloaks you aren't going to ever wear, but felt obligated to keep on a bank toon taking up space since it was free.

In a sense, you are getting 8 open slots on your bank toon.

[psykopeta]

I actually do have a programable keypad, now that you mention it. I don't like hitting "shift" to cast my wizard's nine thousand spells, so i set one up to the left and programmed hot bars to it. I still have 2 unused rows of 8 keys I could program for WSAD and various other tasks; then just sent my keyboard/mouse to a different PC with the KVM. This is promising.

Multiboxers in DDO are scary lol when i was multiboxing in wow IIRC i was using autohotkey (or was another software? In that era i was playing idle games so maybe mixing here) Which allowed me to replicate the keys pressed in the main instance to the minimized alts (there's no need to see what's the other toon seeing atm), you could also replicate the keys pressed to games in lan-connected pc

Ofc the dps rotation in wow was much easier thanks to the /castsequence macro, but you can imitate it too (or just leave autoattack if inquis)

IIRC i leveled my 2 alt accounts to 20 that way (and never used them anymore lol)

[Captain_Wizbang]

What are you people blabbing about? The thread is about thoughts on B-Day gifts.

https://media.giphy.com/media/1hMhlrWWfXU77iYnBB/giphy.gif

[Annihilyght]

What are you people blabbing about? The thread is about thoughts on B-Day gifts.

https://media.giphy.com/media/1hMhlrWWfXU77iYnBB/giphy.gif

Lol

[smokejumper89]

This year you are not getting 8 games codes for 8 ugly cloaks you aren't going to ever wear, but felt obligated to keep on a bank toon taking up space since it was free.

In a sense, you are getting 8 open slots on your bank toon.

Ha! Jokes on you, last year it was 13 ugly cloaks I never used but felt obliged...

Oh. I made myself sad again.

[Alisonique]

The best birthday gift we received was the eternal heroic potion, mind I have a lot of characters that werent around then so that would be a nice rerun.

[Josielynn]

I like the gingerbread guys better than the broccoli dudes. There's a bug with the sled things. While on it, I was being pushed into walls/corners like there was a strong "current" (but it didn't do that to my friend). It made it hard to fight and to pick up the collectibles, so now I just skip the sleds and run over to fight on the circular stone.

It's not a bug, it's the Stone Shoes. I forgot I was wearing them.

[ShifterThePirate]

Soooo still no Anniversary gift? :rolleyes:

[zwiebelring]

Soooo still no Anniversary gift? :rolleyes:

Stop it, we have anniversary gifts at home.

[KoobTheProud]

Wednesday Live Stream will be interesting. That's like a day off the actual anniversary date and my guess is Cordo will have a lot of viewers. :)

[fatherpirate]

I still like the new no worries armor

now I don't feel obligated to grind for it.

No worries armor = No need to bother armor
Keep on the borderlands drops better,
as for docent..ALOT better

just saying

[Cordovan]

The Anniversary Gift should arrive later this week in the form of a code that will be redeemed through the Store in-game. A Tormented Ginseng

[Arkat]

A Tormented Ginseng

One of these?

https://i.imgur.com/nWgcEGW.jpg

[LightBear]

One of these?

https://i.imgur.com/nWgcEGW.jpg

Did a search as well and came across this:
https://www.slideshare.net/MewChan/dd-adventures-standing-stone-46987432
Page 3, "The theme of Standing Stone is misdirection."

How fitting.

[smokejumper89]

Page 3, "The theme of Standing Stone is misdirection."

How fitting.

Yeah, that tracks.

[Memnir]

A Tormented Ginsenghttps://i.imgur.com/tspDUEZ.gif - ???

[smokejumper89]

https://i.imgur.com/tspDUEZ.gif - ???

...still better than a cosmetic.

[LightBear]

https://i.imgur.com/tspDUEZ.gif - ???

My scape goat is a bit rusty but I think he says "Groot" in a rather large matter.
(If you speak Dutch you'd get the joke.)

[Alrik_Fassbauer]

Meanwhile, the Real Life Ginseng that's growing in the wild is threatened by extinction, because people believe that wild ones are better than cultivated ones.
Reminds me of wild animals of Africa ...

[Aelonwy]

The Anniversary Gift should arrive later this week in the form of a code that will be redeemed through the Store in-game. A Tormented Ginseng

Is that a clue to the code or the gift? A plant cosmetic pet? A plant-like perma hire? Something to do with druids and the new druid's grove? Google search reveals a band with Ginseng in their name and a song from that band with "tortured" in its title. Is this a play on words like the quest titles in Vale?

Inquiring minds want to know more.

[Eelpout]

Is that a clue to the code or the gift? A plant cosmetic pet? A plant-like perma hire? Something to do with druids and the new druid's grove? Google search reveals a band with Ginseng in their name and a song from that band with "tortured" in its title. Is this a play on words like the quest titles in Vale?

Inquiring minds want to know more.

Perhaps it is an anagram? Denigrate men tongs, not looking forward to that one. Or Meandering Tents Go, obviously a follow-up to the Baba Yaga raid. But the most likely is Gangrened Motes Tin, which alludes to the cosmetic case we will get to hold all our expired Night Revel Motes...However, I don't think we can rule out Engaged Rent Inmost, which is without question their plan to raise the price of VIP, due to HCL of course!

[smokejumper89]

It sounds like its going to be a cosmetic pet. Which is... still better than a cosmetic item.

[Alrik_Fassbauer]

Perhaps a face palm ? ;)

[Valerianus]

i think that since hcl and anniversary are weirdly overlapping, it will be a cosmetic or pet.

[CeltEireson]

i think that since hcl and anniversary are weirdly overlapping, it will be a cosmetic or pet.

Please, no more cosmetics, a choice of something useful would be nice.

[smokejumper89]

Please, no more cosmetics, a choice of something useful would be nice.

Unfortunately we are unlikely to get "something useful" since that might give people an edge on HCL, and its very important to the devs that HCL ruin the game for everyone else. Must punish everyone who doesn't like HCL at all costs.

[Cordovan]

Perhaps it is an anagram? Denigrate men tongs, not looking forward to that one. Or Meandering Tents Go, obviously a follow-up to the Baba Yaga raid. But the most likely is Gangrened Motes Tin, which alludes to the cosmetic case we will get to hold all our expired Night Revel Motes...However, I don't think we can rule out Engaged Rent Inmost, which is without question their plan to raise the price of VIP, due to HCL of course!

Or as my friend Ana calls it: Derangement Ingots

[smokejumper89]

Or as my friend Ana calls it: Derangement Ingots

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!!

[Eelpout]

Or as my friend Ana calls it: Derangement Ingots

Confirmation of a new crafting system! You all heard it here.:p

[ahpook]

Unfortunately we are unlikely to get "something useful" since that might give people an edge on HCL, and its very important to the devs that HCL ruin the game for everyone else. Must punish everyone who doesn't like HCL at all costs.

It is entirely possible that they could simply not distribute them on HCL. But I still think it will be cosmetic.

[smokejumper89]

It is entirely possible that they could simply not distribute them on HCL.

Completely possible, just extremely unlikely.


But I still think it will be cosmetic.

The implication seems to be that its a cosmetic pet, which would be enough better than another wepon/armor cosmetic to stop me complaining.

[FuzzyDuck81]

it'll be a special filigree, it's only effect will be to add celebratory confetti a la scion of limbo on vorpal hits

...yeah, i'd actually go for that & if it isn't that, any devs that are listening.. could it be made into a thing? :D

[rfachini]

Mint Entree Gods.

Food, the gift is food.

Ambrosia?

Soylent Green...is PEOPLE!

[rfachini]

Great Nine Tome.

Looking forward to my +9 tome this week. :D

[janave]

Nah.

It is probably one Sun Flask.

[Acrisius]

A Tormented Ginseng...
Some possible words from this that might be relevant: ENGINE (a new graphics engine? Not likely), GARMENT (yet *another* cosmetic? Possible), STORAGE (Finally, cosmetic storage??? One can only dream).

Unfortunately, none of those leaves anything intelligible from the remaining letters that I can see. Time will tell. Probably not even an anagram. ;)

[Loromir]

147,059 possible anagrams....I bet one of them might make sense.

[smokejumper89]

Nah.

It is probably one Sun Flask.

...still better than another cosmetic.

[MaeveTuohy]

...still better than another cosmetic.

Hear hear.

[0ldschool]

147,059 possible anagrams....I bet one of them might make sense.

remnant design
garment design

not complete anagrams, maybe someone can make something complete out of those

[Sir_Noob]

For me it would be cool to have a cosmetic to change the horse look my steed has on my Halfings / Gnomes into actually looking like ponies instead of small looking horses.

That is if you are going the cosmetic route.

[smokejumper89]

For me it would be cool to have a cosmetic to change the horse look my steed has on my Halfings / Gnomes into actually looking like ponies instead of small looking horses.

I'd prefer one to make my halfling ride a regular sized horse instead of a scaled-down one, but wouldn't mind a pony either. Its not going to be "a cosmetic item" if it affects the horse, though; its going to be another horse. They aren't doing anything to let you customize existing mounts, just making available additional mounts.

And while it would be nice, I think we can say with a fair degree of confidence that the anniversary gift, sadly, will not be a mount of any sort, because then it would give people on HCL an advantage.

I'd love to be wrong, though.

[Cordovan]

The DDO forums is so good at deciphering hints and clues I tried to make it harder under the hope it'd keep overnight. Looks like I might have overshot, though, given the large number of possibilities. Here's a hint:

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

_ _ _ _ _ _

_ _ _


Expect to get the coupon code within the next couple of days.

[Cordovan]

Meanderings Gotten

[apocaladle]

meanderings gotten
sentient dragon gem

GOT IT

[GoldyGopher]

The DDO forums is so good at deciphering hints and clues I tried to make it harder under the hope it'd keep overnight. Looks like I might have overshot, though, given the large number of possibilities. Here's a hint:

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

_ _ _ _ _ _

_ _ _


Expect to get the coupon code within the next couple of days.

Last word I would guess is GEM
nonrated Tiger's Gem?

[Aelonwy]

I've got:
Gemstone garden tin
Dragonne ettins gem
Gamester ending not

Yeah I think I'm way off.

[smokejumper89]

The DDO forums is so good at deciphering hints and clues I tried to make it harder under the hope it'd keep overnight. Looks like I might have overshot, though, given the large number of possibilities. Here's a hint:

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

_ _ _ _ _ _

_ _ _


Expect to get the coupon code within the next couple of days.



Meanderings Gotten



Sentient

Dragon

Gem



...ok if I actually cracked that and I'm right I'm going to be extremely happy on very many levels.

[Gniewomir]

Are you refferring to sentient jewels? Cause if yes those are jewels, not gems, i dont remember seeing any things called "sentient gems" in game. :P

[Cordovan]

sentient dragon gem

GOT IT


Sentient

Dragon

Gem



...ok if I actually cracked that and I'm right I'm going to be extremely happy on very many levels.

We have winners! :) Expect the code for it within the next 24-48 hours.

[Oliphant]

So if I feed a certain Inquisitive fellow that happens to also be a gem to this dragon sentience, then this dragon sentience will get his xp, up to 60k?

[Yamani]

We have winners! :) Expect the code for it within the next 24-48 hours.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TSP_FxCe3E

Please have something similar to that phrase!

[smokejumper89]

We have winners! :) Expect the code for it within the next 24-48 hours.

Wooohooo!!!!

Ok, this year I am officially excited about the anniversary gift!!!

[Lokeal_The_Flame]

We have winners! :) Expect the code for it within the next 24-48 hours.

Uuuuh, one per account or per character?

Please tell me there will be a way to get this sentient jewel on multiple characters on the same account?

[Graskitch]

We have winners! :) Expect the code for it within the next 24-48 hours.

wow.

you actually got benedict cumberbatch to voice this sentient jewel?

[Vooduspyce]

We have winners! :) Expect the code for it within the next 24-48 hours.

wow that's cool. Nice job code breakers :-)

[LightBear]

wow.

you actually got benedict cumberbatch to voice this sentient jewel?

No effing way!

That would rock so much balls I'll be sporting no jocks for a week... scrap that... for a month!

[Komradkillingmachine]

We have winners! :) Expect the code for it within the next 24-48 hours.

So, nothing that would interest players like me. Good Job!

[PpalP]

just a silly question: if I have several sentient jewels, what use I could put in the new one? different personality/voice I know, but any other thing I don't know?

[Saekee]

Kobolds say already make sentient dragon gem

[CeltEireson]

Would be useful to know if it was one per account or one per character (if its from store most likely one per account) and also is it bound to character or bound to account.

Just so folk don't accidentally redeem it on the wrong character thinking they can pass it on.

[J1NG]

just a silly question: if I have several sentient jewels, what use I could put in the new one? different personality/voice I know, but any other thing I don't know?

Fairly certain just different personality and voice only.


Would be useful to know if it was one per account or one per character (if its from store most likely one per account) and also is it bound to character or bound to account.

Just so folk don't accidentally redeem it on the wrong character thinking they can pass it on.

I would assume it is BTA much like the existing Jewels. BTC would be a very strange situation to implement it under, since it means that the Jewel becomes rarer and rarer from lack of being able to be re-used over time (especially if the toon that received it becomes obsolete). And that seems a strange situation to put a Sentient Jewel under, especially for an Anniversary gift. Especially given the need for needing to pay for someone to do the voice over work. Unless of course, if the Devs cheaped out and had one of their own to voice it... Then, maybe possible BTC, but I still doubt it.

J1NG

[Mindos]

Kobolds say already make sentient dragon gem

I have several Sentient gems with different voices. I wish the system was different though. Getting the different gems should be enough. Then you should have the voice unlocked and simply click to change the sentient voice on whatever gem you are using.

[ahpook]

No effing way!

That would rock so much balls I'll be sporting no jocks for a week... scrap that... for a month!

Sorry. With SSG corrupt-a-wish decision making spinner it was determined that the voice would be Jaleel White (Urkel from Family Matters) as the sentient dragon....

[smokejumper89]

So, nothing that would interest players like me. Good Job!

At the absolute least, you can feed it to another sentient gem for 50 XP. That alone makes it better than a cosmetic armor code there's no point in redeeming. Unless you don't even use sentient jewels...

[smokejumper89]

Sorry. With SSG corrupt-a-wish decision making spinner it was determined that the voice would be Jaleel White (Urkel from Family Matters) as the sentient dragon....

Jokes on you, he's actually a very accomplished voice actor. That would rock!

[0ldschool]

We have winners! :) Expect the code for it within the next 24-48 hours.

OK, I'm officially impressed. Great idea! A fun item that provides value (not a cosmetic) while not adding power creep.

Well done.

[0ldschool]

wow.

you actually got benedict cumberbatch to voice this sentient jewel?

That would be indescribably spectacular.

[Nonesuch2008]

I like this as a gift, thank you. I'm really looking forward to hearing the voice acting.

Can we please have this gift awarded per server rather than per account, if possible?

Thanks

[Livmo]

We have winners! :) Expect the code for it within the next 24-48 hours.

Amazing


Kobolds say already make sentient dragon gem

Amazing!


wow.

you actually got benedict cumberbatch to voice this sentient jewel?

AMAZING!



I can't wait!



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IDWk183xE4

[Lokeal_The_Flame]

wow.

you actually got benedict cumberbatch to voice this sentient jewel?

Hopefully not this one.....


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtKtOqCG5so

[ShifterThePirate]

wow.

you actually got benedict cumberbatch to voice this sentient jewel?
No it's Sean Connery with his DragonHeart voice :rolleyes:

[smokejumper89]

No it's Sean Connery with his DragonHeart voice :rolleyes:

That would be so cool.

[MaeveTuohy]

No it's Sean Connery with his DragonHeart voice :rolleyes:

Which is the same as every other character he has portrayed. I mean, eminently watchable, but his range is ... narrow.

That said, if it was Connery I might actually turn the sound on (I play exclusively in silence).

[FuzzyDuck81]

No it's Sean Connery with his DragonHeart voice :rolleyes:

That'd be cool, though personally VA-wise I'm holding out hope for Hugo Myatt, aka Treygard from Knightmare :)

[John3000]

No it's Sean Connery with his DragonHeart voice :rolleyes:

Nah.... The rights on that would cost too much. Something along Puff's voice would probably be more in budget :


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu3ILcyZwQ0&feature=youtu.be&start=846

:p:p:p

[smokejumper89]

Which is the same as every other character he has portrayed.

You say that like its a bad thing.

[Spl1tz]

Ok, cool... really nice gift. Thank you.

But it would have been very cool if we got something everybody could use, you know... like people who maxed a couple of jewels already.
Something new?

[smokejumper89]

Ok, cool... really nice gift. Thank you.

But it would have been very cool if we got something everybody could use, you know... like people who maxed a couple of jewels already.
Something new?

I'm pretty sure the category of players who have maxed as many sentient jewels as they will ever need are in an EXTREME minority.

At the very very least, its 50 sentient XP, more useful than another cosmetic cloak.

[Spl1tz]

I'm pretty sure the category of players who have maxed as many sentient jewels as they will ever need are in an EXTREME minority.

At the very very least, its 50 sentient XP, more useful than another cosmetic cloak.

Regardless. An anniversary gift should be useful for everyone, even that "EXTREME minority" of farmers, powerlevelers, veterans like me who've been playing since the beginning etc... i assume you've got all the statistics of.
At least with a cosmetic, everyone would be on the same level. With this, not so.

[smokejumper89]

Regardless. An anniversary gift should be useful for everyone, even that "EXTREME minority" of farmers, powerlevelers, veterans like me who've been playing since the beginning etc... i assume you've got all the statistics of.
At least with a cosmetic, everyone would be on the same level. With this, not so.

I am among several other people who stated a cosmetic would be completely useless to them and they wouldn't bother redeeming the code for it. So a cosmetic does not meet your "everybody could use" requirement.

So, since we've established not everyone can use a cosmetic and not everyone can use another sentient jewel, what would you propose as something "everybody could use" ?

[jax2649]

I am among several other people who stated a cosmetic would be completely useless to them and they wouldn't bother redeeming the code for it. So a cosmetic does not meet your "everybody could use" requirement.

So, since we've established not everyone can use a cosmetic and not everyone can use another sentient jewel, what would you propose as something "everybody could use" ?

That is thinkwork they should do.
Not us.

[Sythe777]

Personally, I would have preferred something with a bit more functionality to it than something I get for free on the way to level 30. To me, it's the equivalent of cosmetics. Glad people like it, though.

[Chilianna]

Personally, I would have preferred something with a bit more functionality to it than something I get for free on the way to level 30. To me, it's the equivalent of cosmetics. Glad people like it, though.

"Simple minded people are easily entertained"

[Aelonwy]

https://www.ddo.com/forums/showthread.php/512818-Happy-14th-Anniversary-Dungeons-amp-Dragons-Online!#post6301212

Anniversary code:

HAPPY14

[Livmo]

https://www.ddo.com/forums/showthread.php/512818-Happy-14th-Anniversary-Dungeons-amp-Dragons-Online!#post6301212

Anniversary code:

HAPPY14

Thanks for the code Aelonwy~

Update is downloading.

Happy 14th!

[carsonfball]

just a silly question: if I have several sentient jewels, what use I could put in the new one? different personality/voice I know, but any other thing I don't know?

If you have multiple weapons that you swap based on conditions (fire damage vs acid damage for instance) you could have a sentient jewel in each so you wouldn't lose those buffs when you switch. Or you could put defense filigrees in one weapon and spell power filigrees in another. You could also give this new jewel to an alt who doesn't have a sentient jewel yet.

[Dark_Lord_Mary]

Dragon Gem is a fantastic anniversary gift! Thank you SSG !

[sleeksilver]

Thank you SSG! Best gift ever!

[pSINNa]

In the bank! :)

Thank SSG, personally think this was a great idea and am looking forward to hearing the voice and phrase list on this one.

Happy Coit! :)