Weekly Wednesday TLDW - 1st week Feb 2021

[voxson5]

DDO related discussion:
Team was impressed the downtime was only 4 hours.
Anniversary cookies may be able to go into cookie jar (but no promises).
Cookie jar will not be changed to BTA due to risk associated with transferring via shared bank.
Bags via store will always be BTC, otherwise sources of bags may be BTA at 'players risk' that things inside may go missing.
Dimensional augment bag (BTA) has not been raised as having issues.
There is a bug in frosty reception (treasury room won't unlock). Jerry's advice is that players should do things in the right order.
Will staves become competitive with scepters / scepter + orb? No plans to revisit because it's a single item, not dual wielding - they may or may not look at this.
Community asked again for the old goldbox games to be done as DDO content - No, it's likely a licensing thing.
There were exploit related fixes in the patch, which won't be discussed.
Team has been looking into lag / chat disconnects. The patch was also a 'full systems refresh', which is a reboot of the entire environment (authentication servers, the VM's etc) - this has not been done for approximately 90 days. They are looking to differentiate whether this has any impact vs standard restarts.
Discussed patch notes (please note https://www.ddo.com/forums/showthread.php/521484-Downtime-Notice-Wednesday-February-3rd-9-00-AM-3-00-PM-Eastern-(-5-GMT) player responses)
Unknown ETA to purchase points via DDOMarket.
Updated anniversary event + Feywild raid will be on Lamania next week (not weekend).
New raid - "there is something different about the next raid", and it is expected that the community will have comments of "woah!" and "awesome!".
There will not be a wildmage enhancement tree.
Producers letter is still in the works - goal is for this to be release at the time of the anniversary event. This may or may not also be in video format.
Another Sev's Q&A is planned, but not formalized at this time.
Hardcore updates will be in the producers letter, and will be on soon(tm).
Next HC will have "new rewards".
There has been internal discussion of a 30 day HC season, with all previous HC rewards on offer. Possibly a 'mid-season' HC season. Possibly to open this up to non-VIP's who did not go VIP for HC 1 & 2.
Internal discussions about a "HC pass 3 month sub".
Future HC seasons are expected to be open to everyone (not VIP only), HC 3 was 'very successful' because it was opened up to non-VIP.
Not ready to provide feedback on the extra lives from HC 3.
It has been business as usual under EG7.
Havadasher mob count will remain as is.
SSG does not support upgrades to expansions packs - this was previously handled by distribution platforms in the past.
No plans for a player housing update.
Vet status 3 (start at lv 10) may come back for a limited time at some point.
Guild renown weekend bonus may happen soon(tm).

Unrelated fluff:
Edit - Miseries peak on hard (not casual, corrected by Cordovan)
Havadasher on elite.
Miller debt on solo.
Arachnophobia on solo.
Bauldry 1 & 2 on elite.
Jerry has a greyhawk boxed set.
He has a poor quality internet connection.
Korthos explorer "bow down before me" is proven to not work, despite advice last time.
Jerry 'doesn't do fake hype'.
Jerry laughs at a fart joke.

Weekend bonus:
Double daily dice xp

[Arkat]

Thanks for the summation!

+1

[Fivetigers33]

+1 as well. Please make this a weekly post.

[Captain_Wizbang]

+1 ty

[mikarddo]

+1 Much appreciated. Well written in a factual manner. Please make this a regular thing :)

[kanordog]

I don't have bloody footsteps because i was on a break and I had only a couple of weeks left to get them.

I hope the way we could get them will be a SINGLE LIFE WAY, I do not want to diminish (whatever the right word here) anybody's achievement by getting them an easy way, same goes for HC2 rewards (which i have running with one life toons).

[Lupito]

Nice summery
When the official ddo stream is someone playing quests on casual
No wonder they spend time on vet status 10 when 99% of the player base is people that reincarnate over and over..

[Arkat]

No wonder they spend time on vet status 10 when 99% of the player base is people that reincarnate over and over..

I think you're exaggerating. I know several guildies that do that but it seems to me the majority of players are not always on the "TR train."

All my 18+ capped toons have 3 lives but only a couple have more than 3. NONE have more than 6. That's with almost 15 years of playing experience.

[Lupito]

I think you're exaggerating. I know several guildies that do that but it seems to me the majority of players are not always on the "TR train."

All my 18+ capped toons have 3 lives but only a couple have more than 3. NONE have more than 6. That's with almost 15 years of playing experience.


On the contrary i can add more to my statement : considering ssg has a small dev team and we constantly see threads about Lag, problems that are not solved for years, player council beeing ignored etc

I think they really need to set they priorities straight, if they decided to go with "same character progression system and not accound system" then why waste time and resources promoting the mostly useless veteran status?
If i was able to reincarnate to lvl 10 then that would be amazing but i can't... And even for the ocasional character someone decides to get only 3 lifes with it it's barely relevant.

And regarding the stream -As much I think Cordovan is doing great job doing weekly streams,dnd games and engaging with the community all this time, imo he's demonstraing such a low tier of gameplay that is far from what other people play(not saying how one should enjoy the game,but that ads to the disconnect of the ssg staff and the playerbase )

[Paladin_of_Power]

+1 Much appreciated. Well written in a factual manner. Please make this a regular thing

[droid327]

You're doing yeomans work, son

[Alttab]

+1 thanks

[Cordovan]

Just a couple of clarifications and expansions:


Team was impressed the downtime was only 4 hours.

That was meant to be a personal statement, not a statement on behalf of the team. I was personally surprised we were up so quick.


Anniversary cookies may be able to go into cookie jar (but no promises).

This is something we absolutely intend to do in the near future, I just am not sure as of today whether that work is getting done in time for this year's event.


There is a bug in frosty reception (treasury room won't unlock). Jerry's advice is that players should do things in the right order.

That was my advice yesterday, but I also need to follow up to see where we sit on a bug report for it, and what the current state of this issue is. I wasn't intending to imply that there was no bug, just that I was aware of an issue where if you killed the spider before talking to the optional NPC it wasn't working.


Will staves become competitive with scepters / scepter + orb? No plans to revisit because it's a single item, not dual wielding - they may or may not look at this.

I realized afterwards that I failed to bring up that quarterstaves do get the additional properties, although I get it isn't a 1:1 with wielding two items.


There will not be a wildmage enhancement tree.

Not saying never on this, just that it is not currently being planned.


Not ready to provide feedback on the extra lives from HC 3.

This was intended to be more about me not giving my personal opinion on it. I'd say the overall feedback from the community is split, with some preferring it and others, particularly those who had a lot of success in earlier seasons, disliking it.


Miseries peak on casual.

This was not on casual. I almost always run things on Elite unless I'm soloing and expect to not be paying as much attention to the actual quest while answering questions, where I'll sometimes bump it down to hard just to make things a bit easier for myself to multitask.


He has a poor quality internet connection.

Hey, my Internet connection is fine! I get about 75mb down and 10-15 up. It just isn't enough apparently to stream three video feeds out simultaneously in 1080p.


Jerry laughs at a fart joke.

I mean, the person suggested we take the idea of the bloody footprints to create a "crop duster" effect. Sorry for laughing.

[voxson5]

clarification

Cheers, will update op for correct miseries difficultly - I think the wording of 'running through this casually' put that in my mind.

[Josielynn]

Just a couple of clarifications and expansions: ... I mean, the person suggested we take the idea of the bloody footprints to create a "crop duster" effect. Sorry for laughing.

Thankfully, computer games have no smell...

[Vish]

I mean, the person suggested we take the idea of the bloody footprints to create a "crop duster" effect. Sorry for laughing.

Then we could run in circles and make crop circles
Sorry for joking

Could be new raid mechanic
Magic of the fey
Call it the Circle of Seasons


V

[QuantumFX]

It's too bad Cordovan won't update us on the Ruby of the Snowpeaks falsehood he spread a couple weeks ago. You know, when he claimed that it was a "scaling augment" despite the fact that it acts exactly as the tooltip describes. And how it was supposed to be updated to reflect the scaling nature 2 patches ago.

[droid327]

I realized afterwards that I failed to bring up that quarterstaves do get the additional properties, although I get it isn't a 1:1 with wielding two items.


This reminded me of something - I guess a question for a future livestream or Q&A

Are Qstaves supposed to have the same base attack speed as every other THF weapon? They're the only ones that didnt get upgraded to the "new" faster speed with the THF overhaul. As a result, they're about 15% slower than every other THF option...so Rogue TAs have to spend 4 AP just to catch up to where everything else is baseline.

It feels to me like the unique Staff animations were just overlooked during the upgrade, and that everything should be the same base speed. I dont see a reason why Qstaves would require that additional opportunity cost, especially since they're pretty inferior to other THF options otherwise. But it'd be nice to just get a confirmation one way or the other so we know.

[cdbd3rd]

Thankfully, computer games have no smell...

...yet.

;)

[LrdSlvrhnd]

Then we could run in circles and make crop circles
Sorry for joking

Could be new raid mechanic
Magic of the fey
Call it the Circle of Seasons


V

Become epic. Get to Fatesinger. Put points in Reign. Run around in circles hitting Reign and seeing puffs coming out of your butt. Giggle like a schoolgirl with a crush because you're secretly 12.

...at least that's what *I* do...

[LrdSlvrhnd]

No wonder they spend time on vet status 10 when 99% of the player base is people that reincarnate over and over..

To be fair, the time they spent making Vet Status 3 was done a few years ago for Ravenloft, so it's not like they'll have to spend much time on it now.

[Lupito]

To be fair, the time they spent making Vet Status 3 was done a few years ago for Ravenloft, so it's not like they'll have to spend much time on it now.


Sure but why bother.. . There are so many things in game that can be fixed or improved and yet this is what comes up on the table..
First make vet status work after reincarnation and then start promoting higher lvl versions x.x

I'm just ranting about this one random thing at this point xD not that it's gonna change anything but w/e..

[Josielynn]

...yet.

;)

I'm asking for a "toggle switch" in advance, then! :p