Downtime Notice: Thursday, March 19th 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM Eastern (-4 GMT)

[Cocomajobo]

The DDO game worlds will be unavailable on Thursday, March 19th from 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM Eastern (-4 GMT) to release Update 45.3.1. The following announcement by Severlin contains all of the changes present in this deployment: Important Announcement (https://www.ddo.com/forums/showthread.php/513348-Important-Announcement)

[ChemE]

Will you be fixing sinister chill on the stygian wrath to work with poison in the next patch?

[HastyPudding]

If there are no quality of life changes for alchemist, I'm probably going to TR into some class that's more playable as a support. I want to play an apothecary alchemist, but I just can't bring myself to actually like it. Am sad. ( ._.)

[cdbd3rd]

Not posting the notes til servers are down?

"Who's that shadowy figure behind the curtain and why is he swinging that nerf hammer around menacingly?"


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"Well, okay. It sounded funnier in my head." :p

[cave_diver]

The DDO game worlds will be unavailable on Thursday, March 19th from 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM Eastern (-4 GMT) to release Update 45.3.1. Release notes will be posted during the downtime (likely shortly before the worlds have opened).

Release notes:

Adding more lag, as we can do with a challenge.
Purel stations at the front of every quest.

[Saaluta]

Not posting the notes til servers are down?

"Who's that shadowy figure behind the curtain and why is he swinging that nerf hammer around menacingly?"


.......

https://media.giphy.com/media/etN5wbnGXj6Ao/giphy.gif


"Well, okay. It sounded funnier in my head." :p

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to cdbd3rd again... Virtual +1 :)

Saal :)

[HastyPudding]

Wait, where's Cordovan? He usually delivers the maintenance news and notes.

[fatherpirate]

so release notes?

[Loromir]

Wait, where's Cordovan? He usually delivers the maintenance news and notes.

Cordovan hasn't posted since 3/13.

[Saaluta]

Cordovan hasn't posted since 3/13.

Hoping he's just on vacay and not down with Covid-19 :)

Saal :)

[Spl1tz]

Wasn't there a thread some days ago about him contracting the coronavirus?
Here's hoping it's just a rumor...

[Cocomajobo]

Wait, where's Cordovan? He usually delivers the maintenance news and notes.

He's on vacation. That guy has so much PTO saved up. =]

[Saaluta]

Hi Coco, so Release notes?????!!!! :)

Saal :)

[Darsch82]

If there are no quality of life changes for alchemist, I'm probably going to TR into some class that's more playable as a support. I want to play an apothecary alchemist, but I just can't bring myself to actually like it. Am sad. ( ._.)

I love it, but i wish the sla cure would actually go where i was looking instead of just flying straight out in front of me. if 8i look down i would love for it to go at me feet like the other regular vials and cures do.

[TheMaxpower]

They probably are nerfing Sorc and Alchemist ROFL

[DRoark]

Unless they're making some of the metamagic actually work with admixtures, like Quicken and Accelerate (still busted), Alchemist
is always going to be useless for healing and long-ranged. Hits too many ceilings, and it's too slow to be a viable healer. Everyone
I know that's tried Alch, TR'd immediately. It's almost as bad as Inquisitor, which caused the "kill ranged classes" nerf-a-palooza.

[HastyPudding]

Unless they're making some of the metamagic actually work with admixtures, like Quicken and Accelerate (still busted), Alchemist
is always going to be useless for healing and long-ranged. Hits too many ceilings, and it's too slow to be a viable healer

^This^

If none of this is fixed or at least touched upon in this patch, I'm TRing my alchemist when I login. I didn't sign up for a slow healer and suicide-inducing crowd controller when I started alchemist.

[Zarkarion]

It is probably a good thing that so many people seem to hate alchemist. It is less likely to be nerfed for those of us who are enjoying it and finding it mildly OP. (Currently on 2nd alchemist life).

With regard to the high throwing arc, obviously you need to take that into account and go a bit nearer (not very near unless the ceiling is very low). It's a skill to learn.

However, the throwing arc often allows you to hit mobs that would be impossible to hit with ranged weapons because although they are targettable there is no direct LOS. A quick multivial and a group of them are mostly dead before they could even be hit with a crossbow.

One thing that is seriously annoying is the throwing arc of the healing SLAs. The actual spell version is easy to drop near your feet so it reliably heals you and anyone standing nearby, without having to target yourself, but it seems impossible to throw the SLA versions that close. It seems bizarre that they don't seem to use the same throwing code as the spell versions. Anyway, it isn't a problem for me, I just use the spell version.

I seem to remember having the same problem with the Artificer healing SLAs, it seemed impossible to heal myself without hard targetting myself, but I never tried the non-SLA spell version, just went down the Construct Essence route instead, so maybe the same difference between SLA and spell versions applies to Artificer healing admixtures.

[Abilbo]

The DDO game worlds will be unavailable on Thursday, March 19th from 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM Eastern (-4 GMT) to release Update 45.3.1. Release notes will be posted during the downtime (likely shortly before the worlds have opened).

With 15 minutes until the "expected" game time being up, we still see no release notes, why the secrecy?

[Cocomajobo]

The game worlds have re-opened!

[Arkat]

The game worlds have re-opened!

Ummm...Release Notes?

[Loromir]

Patch is updating for me.

[AlmGhandi]

The game worlds have re-opened!

Release notes?

[HastyPudding]

The game worlds have re-opened!

That's wonderful, where's the release notes?

[Xgya]

Release notes will be posted during the downtime (likely shortly before the worlds have opened).

? Coco? These notes want to roam free. Release them!

[barecm]

By "shortly before" the update, what they mean is "sometime after".

[cave_diver]

The game worlds have re-opened!


And release notes?

[Abilbo]

The game worlds have re-opened!

And still no release notes...

[AlmGhandi]

By "shortly before" the update, what they mean is "sometime after".

SOON (tm)

[redtornado]

You got Nerfed the Flock Out! end:p:

[JoeCamb02140]

The game worlds have re-opened!

And the release notes....? BTW Thank you for the Buddy Xp bonus for the whole month :)

[AlmGhandi]

You got Nerfed the Flock Out! end:p:

Should start campaigning for free LR20 hearts then?

[Vorachtin]

Anyone see patch notes yet?

[Cocomajobo]

The OP has been updated with a link to Severlin's post which contains the announcement of the only changes present in this deployment. That link can be found here as well: Important Announcement (https://www.ddo.com/forums/showthread.php/513348-Important-Announcement)

[AlmGhandi]

The OP has been updated with a link to Severlin's post which contains the announcement of the only changes present in this deployment. That link can be found here as well: Important Announcement (https://www.ddo.com/forums/showthread.php/513348-Important-Announcement)

Cool thank you!!!!

I was worrying that my arti-barb build had been stealth nerfed...… (really don't need anything making my life more difficult atm)

[srmobsters]

The update keeps failing. Getting error code 0xffffffff80043038 or maybe a few more f, did not really count them. Anyway point is it keeps stopping and saying update failed. Anyone ideas?

[HastyPudding]

The OP has been updated with a link to Severlin's post which contains the announcement of the only changes present in this deployment. That link can be found here as well: Important Announcement (https://www.ddo.com/forums/showthread.php/513348-Important-Announcement)

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[Annihilyght]

The update keeps failing. Getting error code 0xffffffff80043038 or maybe a few more f, did not really count them. Anyway point is it keeps stopping and saying update failed. Anyone ideas?

Three of us sitting in the same room with the same problem...

[Rauven]

The update keeps failing. Getting error code 0xffffffff80043038 or maybe a few more f, did not really count them. Anyway point is it keeps stopping and saying update failed. Anyone ideas?

Same thing happening to me.


ETA: took several tries, several fails, and several restarts, but I was finally able to get the launcher to finish updating and get into the game.


I also want to say thank you to SSG for the next month of events.

[ChemE]

The OP has been updated with a link to Severlin's post which contains the announcement of the only changes present in this deployment. That link can be found here as well: Important Announcement (https://www.ddo.com/forums/showthread.php/513348-Important-Announcement)

So you didn't fix my busted stygian wrath? That sucks you broke a really nice PM item like this. Alchemists could really benefit from it.

[HungarianRhapsody]

So you didn't fix my busted stygian wrath? That sucks you broke a really nice PM item like this. Alchemists could really benefit from it.

I don't think any reasonable person should have any complaints about today's patch. :)

[Hulligan]

Okay, I can live without the release notes, but I'm actually 1 level lower than before I logged out.
Can we get an explanation as to why, what happened that caused a rollback? I'm seriously concerned as to what happened...

[HastyPudding]

I don't think any reasonable person should have any complaints about today's patch. :)

Other than the 'friends' thing, I don't know what's in the patch because nobody is giving us release notes....

[Steelstar]

Other than the 'friends' thing, I don't know what's in the patch because nobody is giving us release notes....

See a few posts up:


The OP has been updated with a link to Severlin's post which contains the announcement of the only changes present in this deployment. That link can be found here as well: Important Announcement (https://www.ddo.com/forums/showthread.php/513348-Important-Announcement)

[Buddha5440]

It's a DDO free-for-all !!! :) :) :) Thank You SSG

[HastyPudding]

See a few posts up:

So there is no actual patch, just the important announcement. Nice. Welp, time to TR out of alchemist and take advantage of the buddy bonus, I guess.

[HungarianRhapsody]

So there is no actual patch, just the important announcement. Nice. Welp, time to TR out of alchemist and take advantage of the buddy bonus, I guess.

They needed to do the patch to be able to make all content available to all players. That's a programming change to the game.

[xaul17]

I know some guildies of mine who are going to be VERY happy by this news. Thank you so much for your generosity during these times, you guys rock!

[Aelonwy]

Just sayin' it here too.

https://i.imgur.com/V3ubRDE.jpg

[Cocomajobo]

The update keeps failing. Getting error code 0xffffffff80043038 or maybe a few more f, did not really count them. Anyway point is it keeps stopping and saying update failed. Anyone ideas?


Three of us sitting in the same room with the same problem...

We are investigating this currently.

[xaul17]

Good to know these errors are not just me. Thought my internet was being spotty.

Edit: After exiting the launcher a few times mid-update, it seems to have finished updating.

[Arkat]

See a few posts up:

How, exactly, is that a "patch"?

[Steelstar]

How, exactly, is that a "patch"?

We changed game data necessary to make the above happen. We needed to patch our servers with that game data. You then needed to patch your game client in order to get that data and connect to the updated server.

[Saaluta]

We are investigating this currently.

Having the same problem Coco, even did a full reinstall to see if that would fix it, but no go :)

Saal :)

[Arkat]

We changed game data necessary to make the above happen. We needed to patch our servers with that game data. You then needed to patch your game client in order to get that data and connect to the updated server.

I don't believe those are ALL of the changes...not even for a second.

[HungarianRhapsody]

I don't believe those are ALL of the changes...not even for a second.

Don't forget that there are some bug fixes that don't belong in release notes. Even if there are those kinds of changes in this patch, they wouldn't have been in the release notes anyway.

[Aelonwy]

Mine didn't update properly the first time but I tried again after a few minutes and it went fine. Except when it finally loaded the game world it wouldn't load my characters. The list was there but the place where they stand was empty. Then it stopped responding. So I exited it and logged in again. Everything's okay now. But I had a moment of scare.

[Steelstar]

I don't believe those are ALL of the changes...not even for a second.
Cool.


Don't forget that there are some bug fixes that don't belong in release notes. Even if there are those kinds of changes in this patch, they wouldn't have been in the release notes anyway.
You're right, we don't normally comment on those, but I'll say this time that there aren't any of those kinds of changes in this Patch either.

[Aelonwy]

unfortunately, hubby has tried 5x to download patch and it keeps failing.

unknown error 0xffffffff80043038

[Arkat]

Don't forget that there are some bug fixes that don't belong in release notes. Even if there are those kinds of changes in this patch, they wouldn't have been in the release notes anyway.

Detailed descriptions of specific bugfixes I can understand not being included in these particular "patch" notes. But it would not have hurt to include a generic note about bugs being fixed in general.

BTW...I seem to recall Release Notes in the past mentioning some bug fixes.

[Steelstar]

Detailed descriptions of specific bugfixes I can understand not being included in these "patch" notes. But it would not have hurt to include a generic note about bugs being fixed in general.

BTW...I seem to recall Release Notes in the past mentioning bug fixes.

We didn't fix any bugs in this patch.

[Arkat]

We didn't fix any bugs in this patch.

Cool.

[Arkat]

unfortunately, hubby has tried 5x to download patch and it keeps failing.

unknown error 0xffffffff80043038

https://www.ddo.com/forums/showthread.php/513314-Downtime-Notice-Thursday-March-19th-9-00-AM-1-00-PM-Eastern-(-4-GMT)#post6307650

[Aelonwy]

https://www.ddo.com/forums/showthread.php/513314-Downtime-Notice-Thursday-March-19th-9-00-AM-1-00-PM-Eastern-(-4-GMT)#post6307650

Just demonstrating that hubby is having the same error but mine updated okay.

[MacDubh]

Just demonstrating that hubby is having the same error but mine updated okay.

Time to update hubby?

[ChemE]

We didn't fix any bugs in this patch.

Do you think you will fix stygian wrath anytime soon? It's an important part of gear for some of us.

[Arkat]

Do you think you will fix stygian wrath anytime soon? It's an important part of gear for some of us.

You heard the man, they fixed jack squat.

Cool.

[Lynnabel]

Do you think you will fix stygian wrath anytime soon? It's an important part of gear for some of us.

Just fixed this for you :)

[twoleftfeet]

is there a freebie for the ddo store this week?

[ChemE]

Just fixed this for you :)

That is much appreciated.

[Saaluta]

unfortunately, hubby has tried 5x to download patch and it keeps failing.

unknown error 0xffffffff80043038

This is the same error message I keep getting :(

Saal :(

[sago]

I am getting a patch error...
Anyone else ??

[Seph1roth5]

Mine failed too, after 3-4 retries it worked though. (Too impatient to wait for it to retry on it's own so I closed it and restarted myself)

[Cocomajobo]

Having the same problem Coco, even did a full reinstall to see if that would fix it, but no go :)

Saal :)


Mine didn't update properly the first time but I tried again after a few minutes and it went fine. Except when it finally loaded the game world it wouldn't load my characters. The list was there but the place where they stand was empty. Then it stopped responding. So I exited it and logged in again. Everything's okay now. But I had a moment of scare.


unfortunately, hubby has tried 5x to download patch and it keeps failing.

unknown error 0xffffffff80043038


I am getting a patch error...
Anyone else ??


Mine failed too, after 3-4 retries it worked though. (Too impatient to wait for it to retry on it's own so I closed it and restarted myself)

After having investigated this over the course of today all logs have indicated that this isn't actually an issue with the launcher itself so much as external intermittant issues. We have a suspicion that this occassionaly happening may be a result of the current situation where internet service providers getting overwhelmed but we don't know for sure.

As a result, we don't have a good workaround besides potentially retrying or trying a data repair which is available in the launcher menu. Again, though, we don't have a reliable workaround.

[peng]

I also had an issue where it failed to download the patch. Restarted the client multiple times to no effect. Restarted computer, and it worked just fine.

[AlexanderMaat89]

Hello, i've been having same error issue with the update. I've attempted many things that didn't work out, until i had the idea of using my phone as router and so started the launcher and it did download finally. So, if you are having problems to download the update, maybe you could try to switch your connection to another source. :)

[Aelonwy]

Hello, i've been having same error issue with the update. I've attempted many things that didn't work out, until i had the idea of using my phone as router and so started the launcher and it did download finally. So, if you are having problems to download the update, maybe you could try to switch your connection to another source. :)

This worked for my hubby. Son had no problems whatsoever and our computers are all in the same room so? I have no idea. Computers are crazy-magic to me.

[ChemE]

Just fixed this for you :)

Sinister chill still not working with poison. It is working with vein freeze though.

[AnubisPrime]

I don't think any reasonable person should have any complaints about today's patch. :)

Wow...assumptions!

Some can find fault with anything, but hopefully they won't.

I think that it's great that they are doing this. Good deal!

[HungarianRhapsody]

Wow...assumptions!

Some can find fault with anything, but hopefully they won't.

I think that it's great that they are doing this. Good deal!

I phrased my comment that way intentionally. :)

[Lynnabel]

Sinister chill still not working with poison. It is working with vein freeze though.

Ah, should have specified - we fix bugs internally and then release them when we do patches. Right now the bug is fixed internally and slated to be in U46 - and when it is released, it'll be in the release notes. The only thing today's patch did was what's specified in the announcement post.

[ChemE]

Ah, should have specified - we fix bugs internally and then release them when we do patches. Right now the bug is fixed internally and slated to be in U46 - and when it is released, it'll be in the release notes. The only thing today's patch did was what's specified in the announcement post.

Very cool. Thanks.

[Khalibano]

Ah, should have specified - we fix bugs internally and then release them when we do patches. Right now the bug is fixed internally and slated to be in U46 - and when it is released, it'll be in the release notes. The only thing today's patch did was what's specified in the announcement post.

Hi Lynn,

Any chance for a fix to cold breath in wolf form not working on dragonborn characters? My druid would love to see thix fixed :D It's been broken for quite a while:


I am currently playing a Dragonborn druid in wolf form and the cold breath is not working. It is exactly as described in the OP: uses mana, spell animation works, does not hit any mobs.
I am still in heroic levels (level 9), so it is not the epic defensive fighting feature.

Devs, it would be great if you could have a look at this at some point and get it to work :)

Thanks

Thanks in advance!

[cave_diver]

Since the patch today, game has been super laggy. I think you can tone it down just a tad.

[Satyriasys]

Ah, should have specified - we fix bugs internally and then release them when we do patches. Right now the bug is fixed internally and slated to be in U46 - and when it is released, it'll be in the release notes. The only thing today's patch did was what's specified in the announcement post.

With changes to poison recently can you finally give incorporeal undead their poison immunity?

[Lynnabel]

With changes to poison recently can you finally give incorporeal undead their poison immunity?

Would you mind elaborating on this? Undead players? Undead monsters?

[AlmGhandi]

Would you mind elaborating on this? Undead players? Undead monsters?

my undead players are immune to poison... so probably he's meaning let the monsters also keep up.

[Xgya]

Imma chime in about different undead woes.
Plant zombies in Sharn are plant monsters that absorb negative energy.
That type of monster shouldn't, and normally doesn't (see: Faerun's plant monsters).

Why that's an issue: palemasters have a skill that specifically applies ONLY to undead. These plant monsters either are undead (so the ability should work), or they're not and shouldn't absorb it in the first place.

Oh, the same applies to a rather uncanny group of monsters.
The vampires at the end of Amber Temple aren't vampires at all! They're humans that happen to absorb negative energy. Makes absolutely no sense.

[Satyriasys]

Would you mind elaborating on this? Undead players? Undead monsters?

Incorporeal undead monsters

[Nocker]

The DDO game worlds will be unavailable on Thursday, March 19th from 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM Eastern (-4 GMT) to release Update 45.3.1. The following announcement by Severlin contains all of the changes present in this deployment: Important Announcement (https://www.ddo.com/forums/showthread.php/513348-Important-Announcement)


Help! I can not seem to find the release notes posted anywhere

[Krelar]

Help! I can not seem to find the release notes posted anywhere

You literally quoted the link. Prep work for that was the only change.