Downtime Notice: Thursday, April 8th 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM Eastern (-4 GMT)

[Cordovan]

The game worlds will be unavailable on Thursday, April 8th from 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM Eastern (-4 GMT) to release Update 48.5.1. Click here for the Release Notes (https://www.ddo.com/en/update-4751-release-notes).

[Matuse]

August?

[Garix]

August?

People kept complaining about the lack of notification. This may be overkill though :p

[voxson5]

RIP alchemical stone.

[Valerianus]

yeah exactly we always whine and whine and now we get notifications for august yeah, careful what we wish for my dudes

[rabidfox]

August?

Thursday, August 8th to be specific... the next one being in 2024; so we've got a solid heads up this time around.

[arminius]

I am glad the Spies thing is going to be fixed, that's a lot of xp to leave on the table on HCL

[DarkSkysz]

Minor Slayer Count Boosts no longer count down while in dungeons.

Does this mean all slayers pots will not countdown inside quests? Or just minor?

[Cordovan]

Minor Slayer Count Boosts no longer count down while in dungeons.

Does this mean all slayers pots will not countdown inside quests? Or just minor?

They all shouldn't, but the Minor was was since a recent patch.

[Rosze]

Would love a special reward for HC with the mimic vendor like purple foot prints with 200-500 mimic tokens. Makes those tokens worth it and makes you want to open all the chests.

[Lonnbeimnech]

RIP alchemical stone.

round 2 of sorc and alchy nerfs

[mbartol]

RIP alchemical stone.

Isn't it amazing that they can quickly & easily fix the things that benefit players?

[gorocz]

round 2 of sorc and alchy nerfs

It was a level 1 item with a potency bonus as strong as the Barovian Scepter has potency + insightful potency combined at level 10. I don't think anyone can honestly say that the item wasn't extremely overpowered for ALL low level casters.


Isn't it amazing that they can quickly & easily fix the things that benefit players?

It's been like that for nearly a year. I wouldn't call that exactly a quick fix. Also, the fix to it is just to make 1 item work like all other items, it's not like they're exactly taxing the dev team with this fix.

[Mofus]

Is the HC vendor going to dispense previous league rewards any time soon, would like to get my horse from season 2 or 3.

[losian2]

round 2 of sorc and alchy nerfs

Fixing an item that is obtainable at no effort and better than anything else available to the point that people make a level 4 alch just to get it.. is not a nerf. People overusing "nerf" is a pet peeve because it has such a whiny connotation of "I want to abuse obviously broken things/exploit bugs, and here you are fixing it!"

Stuff like that you obviously expect to be fixed, and it's not an "alchemist nerf." One of the class traits is not "alchemists also have an overpowered item available you can use on other characters!" It's an itemization fix. Stop crying "nerf" for this kind of nonsense, it makes the playerbase look really silly and utterly blind to obvious balance issues that genuinely need fixing.

[Lonnbeimnech]

Fixing an item that is obtainable at no effort and better than anything else available to the point that people make a level 4 alch just to get it.. is not a nerf. People overusing "nerf" is a pet peeve because it has such a whiny connotation of "I want to abuse obviously broken things/exploit bugs, and here you are fixing it!"

Stuff like that you obviously expect to be fixed, and it's not an "alchemist nerf." One of the class traits is not "alchemists also have an overpowered item available you can use on other characters!" It's an itemization fix. Stop crying "nerf" for this kind of nonsense, it makes the playerbase look really silly and utterly blind to obvious balance issues that genuinely need fixing.

It took you 2 paragraphs to say, what you could have said in 2 words; alch nerf.

[noinfo]

Fixing an item that is obtainable at no effort and better than anything else available to the point that people make a level 4 alch just to get it.. is not a nerf. People overusing "nerf" is a pet peeve because it has such a whiny connotation of "I want to abuse obviously broken things/exploit bugs, and here you are fixing it!"

Stuff like that you obviously expect to be fixed, and it's not an "alchemist nerf." One of the class traits is not "alchemists also have an overpowered item available you can use on other characters!" It's an itemization fix. Stop crying "nerf" for this kind of nonsense, it makes the playerbase look really silly and utterly blind to obvious balance issues that genuinely need fixing.

Except that they fix that garbage over broken raid loot that people have been waiting for for months.

[droid327]

Isn't it amazing that they can quickly & easily fix the things that benefit players?

I mean, to be fair...its a lot easier to make a good thing worse than to make a bad thing better. If it were easy to fix the bad things, they probably wouldnt still be around. And you dont really remember the bugs that got quashed right away, but you do remember when your things get nerfed.

Also, again, to be fair - Alchemist came out over a year ago, so its not like they jumped right on Alchemical Stone the minute players realized it was OP in some way.

[cru121]

Glynereth returns

This would have been a great opportunity to reduce the mimic token cost of lower-level items.

[kanordog]

RIP alchemical stone.


What happens if I put mine into the shared bank?

[cru121]

What happens if I put mine into the shared bank?

it will be in the shared bank!

[Lanadazia]

The game worlds will be unavailable on Thursday, April 8th from 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM Eastern (-4 GMT) to release Update 48.5.1. Click here for the Release Notes (https://www.ddo.com/en/update-4751-release-notes).

i was searching the patch/release notes section. please add the last few updates there too, even if they're small.
the last 5 patches are missing!

[Torkzed]

What happens if I put mine into the shared bank?

I was wondering what will happen to those as well. I have one in my shared bank. I suspect it will become bound to the first character that pulls it out. And it will probably also be reduced to the correct stats.

The change is a bit sad, but really no surprise. The surprise for me is that it lasted as long as it did. I "discovered" (I'm sure I was not the only one) the stone a couple of days after alchemist came out when I created a level 7 vet to test a build. It was a pure accident that it ended up in my shared bank, as I was just transferring a few minor bits o'stuff to the shared bank before deleting the test character. Once I realized the potential, I told some guild mates about the new "cheater's orb" and we all assumed it would be fixed soon thereafter.

As it turned out, I used it over several lives as both sorcerer and alchemist. It was useful to the mid-teens each life. I just hope I haven't thrown out the various crafted scepters I used before the stone became available. Time to go hunting through my bank alt inventories.... :)

[Cordovan]

The game worlds have reopened.

[Ghlitch]

What happens if I put mine into the shared bank?

It remains bind to account and looks normal until you take it out. After taking it out it binds to character and becomes this:

https://i.imgur.com/8aLckVc.jpg

[Arkat]

It remains bind to account and looks normal until you take it out. After taking it out it binds to character and becomes this:

https://i.imgur.com/8aLckVc.jpg

Ouch.

[Valerianus]

i have questions please.

disclaimer:i'm just genuinely curious, i have zero interest in all the gear i'll mention. just curious.

why is the orb now level 1 if it is some veteran status gear?

why the orb is automatic changed but instead, according to lam release notes, adjusted plaza gear must be reaquired? what's the difference?


thanks

[kanordog]

It remains bind to account and looks normal until you take it out. After taking it out it binds to character and becomes this:

https://i.imgur.com/8aLckVc.jpg


Thank You.
This is what I thought would happen. I passed it to my main before the downtime but since it has been "adjusted" possibly just going to feed it to a sentient jewel.
Why not +2 spell power? If we nerf things why stop at just right before ridiculous level?

[Fixitosis]

The game worlds have reopened.

Getting stuck on the patch/update... anyone else?
Keeps failing :
Unknown error missed the code but there were a lot of f's and 800...Ha!
So, " Done applying forward iterations.
Sticking at Overall Patch dat files 88%
Waiting for error code so I can post here....
0xffffffff8004301c Think that's it... patch didn't close, it's "retrying" now....

[Fixitosis]

Getting stuck on the patch/update... anyone else?
Keeps failing :
Unknown error missed the code but there were a lot of f's and 800...Ha!
So, " Done applying forward iterations.
Sticking at Overall Patch dat files 88%
Waiting for error code so I can post here....
0xffffffff8004301c Think that's it... patch didn't close, it's "retrying" now....

Repeatedly.

[gam3rfi3nd]

People kept complaining about the lack of notification. This may be overkill though :p

Can't judge. The lack of notifications is really a major problem...