Downtime Notice: Wednesday, February 24th 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM Eastern (-5 GMT)

[Cordovan]

UPDATE: The game worlds have reopened!

The DDO game worlds will be unavailable on Wednesday, February 24th from 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM Eastern (-5 GMT) to release Update 48.4. Read the Release Notes on DDO.com (https://www.ddo.com/en/update-484-release-notes). This is our anniversary patch!

[Zorrbeania]

Really looking forward to the big event! Can hardly wait! :)
I'm also looking forward to the coupon code, I'm excited about what the options might be!

[socky-mcsockerton]

The DDO game worlds will be unavailable on Wednesday, February 24th from 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM Eastern (-5 GMT) to release Update 48.4. Read the Release Notes on DDO.com (https://www.ddo.com/en/update-484-release-notes). This is our anniversary patch!

For the party favor potion, what limits are built in to the potion? Does it have to be critters dying with High enough CR? Or any critter dying?

I’ll go back and do favor cleanup with a potion running if I’ll get party favors for it, but I won’t drink a potion if it isn’t going to do anything because the enemy kills are too low of a CR.

[Maidenstalker]

You get the favors from running the Anniversary quest/challenge (not from running standard quests) and then exchange the favors for rewards.

Oh wait, you are probably referring to this:

"A new item has been added to the Store during the Anniversary Event called Party Punch, which provides a 5% chance to earn Party Favors every time an enemy is defeated for the next hour."

Never mind.

[Smokewolf]

"A new item has been added to the Store during the Anniversary Event called Party Punch, which provides a 5% chance to earn Party Favors every time an enemy is defeated for the next hour."


Sounds like I will be running Kobalt Assualt lots.

[FranOhmsford]

What's with the massive nerf to Two Handed Fighting!?!

Two Handed Fighting doesn't have the defensive options of other styles! It should give more damage - That's the whole point!

Is this going to be with B-Swords and D-Axes to or are they gonna get further nerfed as you get much better defenses with the shield and shield feats?

[liston33]

I don't understand the nerf either. It seems to me that a character that is wielding the largest weapon in the game, swinging it with 2 hands should do the most damage per hit than any other fighting style...

[HastyPudding]

Me, after today's bard buffs:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MqdbQN1D5Pc/UvHAL56Lk1I/AAAAAAAAFI8/QIBPLaP7pes/s1600/Entertained.jpeg

[donblas]

I don't understand the nerf either. It seems to me that a character that is wielding the largest weapon in the game, swinging it with 2 hands should do the most damage per hit than any other fighting style...

Indeed, if damage was just equated with carving chunks off someone.

While a 2h weapon chops someone's arm off, a rapier might pierce someone's heart. Less actual damage from the rapier, but far more hitpoints lost.

[Bunker]

What's with the massive nerf to Two Handed Fighting!?!

Two Handed Fighting doesn't have the defensive options of other styles! It should give more damage - That's the whole point!

Is this going to be with B-Swords and D-Axes to or are they gonna get further nerfed as you get much better defenses with the shield and shield feats?

A little over dramatic don't you think? Massive???

Hardly.

[Aelonwy]

The Cookie Jar now holds the Cookies from the Anniversary Event.

Thank you so much, greatly appreciated. And for this reason (that you keep it up-to-date) I will finally get both my kids a Cookie Jar on their accounts.

[Anuulified]

What's with the massive nerf to Two Handed Fighting!?!

Two Handed Fighting doesn't have the defensive options of other styles! It should give more damage - That's the whole point!

Is this going to be with B-Swords and D-Axes to or are they gonna get further nerfed as you get much better defenses with the shield and shield feats?

They did a preemptive strike on Bastard Swords already. A nice 7W one was in the works for this raid that appears to have been axed along with 2hf dps. I'm hoping that changed :-(.

[droid327]

Sounds like I will be running Kobalt Assualt lots.

Only if you're an AFK Aura Lock lol

Otherwise its Epic Orchard or running down the hill from Amber Temple or maybe farming the first part of Slavers 2 HE

[Zarkarion]

A little over dramatic don't you think? Massive???

Hardly.

How is reducing 3 x Stat to damage for full BAB build at level 11, to 2.25 x stat to damage at level 11, and 2.50 x stat to damage at level 26 (IF I understand it correctly) not massive?

Well that's really taken the shine off my planned next racial TR life.

[philoe]

Slash agrees with Bunks



A little over dramatic don't you think? Massive???

Hardly.

[nobodynobody1426]

Slash agrees with Bunks

It's over with for all THF, every time they swing they will crit themselves instead!

Yes the usual extreme overreaction.

[arminius]

My client is updating, fyi

[philoe]

Mine updated 2 hours ago FYI


My client is updating, fyi

[arminius]

Mine updated 2 hours ago FYI

Yep, worlds still show closed. Never mind! Just excited to see the update and I have a ton of work to do and am trying to avoid it

Now it says worlds up!

[Cordovan]

The game worlds have reopened.

[Malusny]

The DDO game worlds will be unavailable on Wednesday, February 24th from 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM Eastern (-5 GMT) to release Update 48.4. Read the Release Notes on DDO.com (https://www.ddo.com/en/update-484-release-notes). This is our anniversary patch!

Sorry guys but if you call this patch "an improvement" then someone should lose job.

Whoever chose to nerf Confront Any Foe again and make it COMPLETELY USELESS is a great brainer. Confront any foe now has a new animation, indeed, that is SLOWER than regular attack, does LESS DAMAGE than normal swing attack and and DOES NOT WORK WITH DOUBLESTRIKE!!!

You guys want melee out of the game, sure, forget I am making further purchases. You did Two Handed Fighting rework last year and now you totally take a step back.
Serioulsy disrespectful to the players who play front line in this game.
I just cannot believe that after 15 years of experience with this game, some of the Devs seem to put some last second nerfs into live servers and ruin completely Two-Handed builds.

Confront Any Foe is an absolutely useless ability now.


Two Handed build - not enough defence, not enough HP to survive in reaper...

Developers, do you really have no sense how players are playing this game on reaper now? Most of them are ranged builds who run and shoot or cast spells and don't get hit at all and Two Handed builds. The only viable builds for melee are now rogues or bards with good dodge. Serioulsy,

Completely ruined melee again. Forget about your subscription $$$ from us. Have fun.
Cheers

[aGarde]

The game worlds have reopened.

I guess this means you haven't been fired as per the speculation. Sorry, couldn't resist. It was my first thought when I saw your initial post about the downtime.

[MasterAO]

It seems the Advanced Magical and Advanced Musical Studies change didn't make it into the patch, I still have to choose between the two versions.

[Smokewolf]

@Cordovan

A few questions:

1) When will DPS based Arcane (Wiz/Sorc) casting be viable again? With how things stand post-patch the only viable option is for most to adopt DC casting as it’s not as dependent on spell-power.

2) Please keep in mind that the belt-enhancement changes also had a major impact on the EK Spellsword. Thus making the imbues damage scaling very lack-luster as EK players are very spell-power dependent. Read here for more details: https://www.ddo.com/forums/showthread.php/521980-Eldritch-Knight-Spellsword-needs-some-work

3) Is anything being done to address the gear-set gap between levels 20 - 27? Part of the problem is that all classes in general don’t have much gear-wise to step into past their heroic levels. This means that players are often running with gear that’s way under their level and thus feel the effects of the belt-enhancement changes keenly.

-Smoke

[Fauxknight]

Shifter ability True Hunter is not granting Freedom of Movement. The character buff icon still states Immunity to Petrification. I don't know if the character is gaining Immunity to Petrification or not, but testing shows they most certainly are not granted Freedom of Movement as suggested by the patch notes.