Downtime Notice: Wednesday, November 3rd 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM Eastern (-4 GMT)

[Cordovan]

UPDATE: The game worlds have reopened.

The DDO game worlds will be unavailable on Wednesday, November 3rd from 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM Eastern (-4 GMT*) to release Update 51. Find the release notes on DDO.com (https://www.ddo.com/en/update-51-release-notes-page-1). *NOTE: The U.S. has not yet begun following Standard Time, but Europe has, so the hours are an hour off from the typical offset.

[Cordovan]

FYI: The release notes for Update 51 are huge, and I've seen some issues with them not displaying correctly on DDO.com. I've separated it into three (!) pages, but if you run into an issue, I've put the Release Notes in the Forums as well: https://www.ddo.com/forums/showthread.php/527846-Update-51-Release-Notes

[mikarddo]

Tier 5: Level 30, 30 Destiny Points spent


Such sadness.

Nomatter how well everything else may or may not turn out this is a really bad design.

[Arkat]

Such sadness.

Nomatter how well everything else may or may not turn out this is a really bad design.

Should have been "25 Destiny Points spent."

[Dandonk]

Such sadness.

Nomatter how well everything else may or may not turn out this is a really bad design.

Yeah :( Very very sad that they didn't want to listen. But the silence for the last week spoke volumes about that...

[Shadowperson]

The Magus of the Eclipse tree preview post will have a lot more information on why this tree specifically was replaced entirely instead of being refactored but that isn't ready for this early preview

So this is an early preview?

[Archfae]

So this is an early preview?

Yes. The tree is exactly the same as it was during preview 2 except hopefully this time some abilities actually are functioning rather than being bugged out messes. The only chance I got sight of in the tree was to change the cooldown on the third core to 2 min instead of 1 min.

Time stop didnt change despite them saying they'd lengthen it and make it more useful. And they certainly didn't do anything else for the tree. It's painfully DoA.

[Arkat]

So this is an early preview?

Probably copypasta'd release note from one of the early previews.

[Cadveen]

Yes. The tree is exactly the same as it was during preview 2 except hopefully this time some abilities actually are functioning rather than being bugged out messes. The only chance I got sight of in the tree was to change the cooldown on the third core to 2 min instead of 1 min.

Time stop didnt change despite them saying they'd lengthen it and make it more useful. And they certainly didn't do anything else for the tree. It's painfully DoA.

It's 10 seconds if you open the link.

[Qlumsee]

What's this? EIN in GMoF!

I will sleep soundly tonight. All is as it should be.

[Razor_Wit]

No additional raid in this update - but you DID break 2 existing raids. Sounds like it's going to be a great!

[Saekee]

looks like a lot of adventure packs will be shut down—I urge you to get that patch working pronto

looks like staff builds got a small buff with thr misnamed swords to plowshares feat

[Eme]

What's this? EIN in GMoF!

I will sleep soundly tonight. All is as it should be.

that was the fire hydrant. Something so deliberatly wrong that it attracts the attention and ire of the clients to p_ss on to allow the rest of the awful to get through unnoticed while leaving the clients feeling like they achieved something positive.

[enkka1]

Still no legendary sands items thou had some even on Lamannia?

[jskinner937]

No additional raid in this update - but you DID break 2 existing raids. Sounds like it's going to be a great!

Yeah I saw the you tube video where sev said we were getting new quests and a raid. Instead of more we get less. Disappointing to say the least.

[Natashaelle]

*NOTE: The U.S. has not yet begun following Standard Time, but Europe has, so the hours are an hour off from the typical offset.

Again, GMT is invariable. BST (British Summer Time) and the time in Greenwich during the Summer months is GMT +1.

If you're posting times relative to current time in Greenwich as a standard, you should be using WET not GMT.

Massachussetts time is either GMT-4 in Summer time, or GMT-5 in the Winter. Whereas it is nearly always WET-5, except in these short periods of divergence between US & UK summer & winter time as at present, when it switches to WET-4. It would be less confusing to European players in particular if you used WET instead of GMT, as the differences between the European times zones WET, CET, and EET are invariable.

Either that or use GMT-4 systematically during US daylight saving, and GMT-5 in the Winter.

Great title for the Update BTW !!

[Natashaelle]

Release Notes : This means that a player with Epic Completionist, all Epic Past Lives, the Tome of Destiny from Feywild, a +3 Tome of Fate, and all unlocked Destiny Trees, will begin level 20 with 23 Permanent Destiny Points (18 from fate, 4 from four copies of Epic Completionist, 1 from Tome).

Did you forget the Tome of Destiny (Historic) in this calculation ?

[Nickodeamous]

I got a chuckle out of the description of GMOF listed in the release notes...I'm sure its a simple copy and paste error, but maybe the devs really don't know the point of GMOF? haha. I'm sure its just an error...or is it!!!


Grandmaster of Flowers
Overview: Become the embodiment of a Draconic Bloodline as you wield elemental damage to destroy your foes.

[Hawkwier]

Meh, by this stage I'm resigned to the car crash. So, seatbelts on and pray to Crom the airbags work!

[rfachini]

This revamp is fantastic and will make epic leveling actually fun. The artwork for the update is likewise stellar.

A couple of constructive comments: I do understand this update was a metric ton of work. I would have liked to see at least one small quest with it in order to provide new content or something for heroic characters.

I would also have liked to see at least one level cap increase here. I am waiting to play my level 30s until after the cap increase. A level cap increase was planned for Feywild. I understand that the pandemic likely altered your plans. Please comment on if and when we could expect to see a level cap increase.

Thanks for the changes, I'm really looking forward to this update!

[droid327]

Should have been "25 Destiny Points spent."

25 Destiny points and L29

The lack of anything at L29, then 3 things at L30, is a head-scratcher. Also, it would be nice to actually be able to use our T5 abilities to level from 29-30. Having things hard-gated at 30 means (at least right now) you'll never get to use them if you're ETRing, and I thought the whole point of the ED overhaul was to create the feeling of steady progress as you level from 20-30.

[mikarddo]

25 Destiny points and L29

The lack of anything at L29, then 3 things at L30, is a head-scratcher. Also, it would be nice to actually be able to use our T5 abilities to level from 29-30. Having things hard-gated at 30 means (at least right now) you'll never get to use them if you're ETRing, and I thought the whole point of the ED overhaul was to create the feeling of steady progress as you level from 20-30.

They claim that as the point but it seems the real point is to take away from levels 20-29 to reuse the same stuff for level 31+ rather than make something new.

[capitainetaverne]

von + chrono + menec = closing all raids dropping greater tokens...
Is that intended?

[Drwaz99]

The following quests and raids have been temporarily closed due to a monster statting bug, and we expect to reopen the following quest packs and raids in a patch in the near future:

The Phiarlan Carnival
The Sands of Menectarun
Sentinels of Stormreach
Vault of Night: VoNs 5 and 6 (raid)
The Chronoscope (raid)





Lol. When you wait till the last minute to do things and then the deadline hits. No wonder they couldn't give us specifics or let us test the numbers. They probably hadn't even started yet.

[irnimnode]

The DDO game worlds will be unavailable on Wednesday, November 3rd from 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM Eastern (-4 GMT*) to release Update 51. Find the release notes on DDO.com (https://www.ddo.com/en/update-51-release-notes-page-1). *NOTE: The U.S. has not yet begun following Standard Time, but Europe has, so the hours are an hour off from the typical offset.
How many more times are you going to update this Epic Destiny's ? Maybe you should have left it as the old ones at least the worked just fine

[Veromos]

Such sadness.

Nomatter how well everything else may or may not turn out this is a really bad design.

I agree. We never asked for this change. isnt it normal for a company to be excited about something new and the players being excited? Sure there are some DDO players that are excited for change because it is a 15 year old game, but I think this change will hurt the game more than make it better. I feel it can enhance the game, but this is already a game that has a pretty big learning curve to it. Now something was added to make it even more complex. I got to test it already on Lammania both times it was out. And i just didnt care for it. That is why I let both my subs run out. Not because of a change, but because there are so many other more important things that need to be taken care of in the game. Lag is one of them. Every expansion brings even more items into the game and we have no where to put all this stuff. Chat bugs. The list goes on. I can not justify giving them a sub per month any more. I will be be a casual free to play from now, and not give one more cent unless the major things are addressed.

[superevbully]

Yeah I saw the you tube video where sev said we were getting new quests and a raid. Instead of more we get less. Disappointing to say the least.

Cred from ssg was lost ages ago never ever take them at their word ...sad but true

[Vish]

wow 3 pages
a new destiny

i laughed at the fine print at the end

dont worry im sure you know thats industry standard

[Cordovan]

The game worlds have reopened.

[Bowmagus]

The game worlds have reopened.

That's awesome - Thank You!

[Frezar14]

The game worlds have reopened.

Grabbing popcorn.

[Valerianus]

Grabbing popcorn.

hey pass em

i have beer

have one

[Brekian]

did the xp progression in epics change? I have scanned the release notes and can't seem to find it. I was level 20 with enough xp to take 21 yesterday, but today I am only rank 4.

[Sirea]

Cordovan, just wanted to drop you a very big thank you for the Nightmare mount I received through in-game mail due to spending shards through daily dice. It was an awesome surprise! Made my Grinch heart swell to three times its normal size.

[Whitering]

Well, I just ETRED fine, let me take completionist and if I wanted a different class past life, but alas, upon emptying my cache, when I go to hit that reincarnate button (racial TR) none of my past lives show up, class or completionist.

So, this is a bug, and since I only have 5 free inventory slots (without equipping stuff), I don't really think I can keep going like this.

[Xanom]

When you wait till the last minute to do things and then the deadline hits.Well, for purely selfish reasons I had hoped that this update would drop mid-November rather than early November. Started grinding my main hard to complete all my legacy Destinies, and made it to 9 (and a half) of 12 yesterday before downtime. So no fancy cloak for me (sadness).

[Puddinhead]

So much trepidation about this update when it was first previewed. I'm blown away. I thought like many others that this would be the end of DDO. It is not. This is a MASSIVE change to the game, bringing so many fresh ideas. You guys completed the update a little earlier than promised, no major crashes or bugs from what I've seen. I didn't see the +5 heart of wood advertised anywhere, that was a nice surprise. Seriously, this was a home run. BRAVO DDO.