DDO Producer's Letter - January 2017

Are there plans for Dragonborn to have an Iconic option?

On a similar note, I would love to see an Iconic Dwarf of some kind.

Nice! Sounds Like a promising year!

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Originally Posted by Lost_Leader

On a similar note, I would love to see an Iconic Dwarf of some kind.

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Duergar!

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Originally Posted by Saekee

impossible to enter a quest in reaper mode while overlevel (maybe 2 levels) not counting epic. It will be cheese with level 30 toons farming heroic reaper boosts like on the helmet, further trivializing heroics

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I think I like this idea.

What about simply reducing damage dealt, to hit, HP, Dodge, AC, DCs, and saving throws of all PCs and increasing damage taken by PC by a formula like: Character Level - Quest Level *5

So a lvl 30 in a lvl 15 quest would have damage, AC and saves reduced by 75%, and take 75% more damage.

Or something similar. This is like how other multiplayer games work that focus less on people being the same level and more on people just playing together.

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Originally Posted by Severlin

After Update 36, we still have two more updates in 2017, and we have already teased that one of those will be our expansion! We are very excited about Ravenloft, which has long been a fan favorite. We are planning lots of new content, Sentient Weapons, and other surprises.

~ Sev

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What if you have a sentient weapon that is has a fear of kobolds... or brocolli?

That sounds like an ambitious agenda.

Thanks for the letter.

:)

Is there any chance we will be getting more storage space (especially for bound to character items)....?

There are so many BtC items now that once a character has completionist done, it is a real task to TR due to inventory maintenance.

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Originally Posted by Fedora1

Duergar!

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This

Great stuff

Can't wait for Ravenloft

Dragonborn? What about Aasimar?

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Originally Posted by Severlin

Greetings,

It has been a busy couple of weeks since we announced our transition to Standing Stone Games. We appreciate the patience you’ve shown as we continue to work on this transition, and your help in identifying various nooks and crannies that might still need attention. We all thank you! The coming year promises to bring lots of new content, so I wanted to talk about at some things you can look for in 2017.

We are currently working hard on Update 34, which will feature a new, free dungeon, a champion revamp, and the debut of Reaper difficulty. Champions are creatures that have been tainted or empowered by the Manual of the Planes with bits of planar energy to make them more powerful. To reflect this lore, and to allow you to better identify the threat they pose, champions have been revamped so they are marked with a specific plane, and gain powers from that mark. Each champion has a planar title and a crown icon to reflect the level of its empowerment, so you can identify the challenge ahead of you more easily.

One of the joys of playing Dungeons and Dragons Online is the vast amount of build customization the game offers, and many of you have told us that want more challenge for your top builds as you refine your characters and gear them up. Reaper difficulty will offer new challenges for you. Some characters cheat death so often that even Reapers take notice! In this mode the dungeons you play are much more dangerous, and Reapers roam halls that might otherwise seem familiar. In the Reaper difficulty denizens from the planes aligned with Death are actively trying to kill you, and so is the Dungeon Master! Not for the faint of heart. Reaper difficulty brings 10 Skulls worth of difficulty so you can find the challenge that is most fun for you.

At the end of February we will be celebrating the 11th anniversary of Dungeons and Dragons Online! We'll have special gifts, and the anniversary dungeon will be coming back for an encore. We are also working on Update 35, and hope to have it ready in that timeframe. It will debut several new adventures, a new raid, and a new playable race with the Dragonborn!

After Update 35, we will continue our focus on new content, with an adventure pack set in the Forgotten Realms. The Stonelands are located north of The Stormhorns, and are known as a rocky and hilly region where legend states a castle built above the clouds crashed to Earth. The Stonelands’ frequent storms may indeed come from a battle against a magical realm of old. Expect Update 36 sometime in late Spring/early Summer.

After Update 36, we still have two more updates in 2017, and we have already teased that one of those will be our expansion! We are very excited about Ravenloft, which has long been a fan favorite. We are planning lots of new content, Sentient Weapons, and other surprises.

We will continue to target game performance improvements and squash bugs, like usual, and we'd like to look at Cleric, Favored Soul, Druid, and Artificer, and do other class work as necessary. We also want to hear from you! Listening carefully to your suggestions has always helped our game be its best, and we are expanding the roster of the DDO Players Council to get more feedback from more people more often.

This will be an incredible year for DDO, and we thank you for being a part of it!

~ Sev

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this all sound awsome but why keep adding to a game thats so screwed up everytime ya'll add more content with in a day or two your doing a hotfix then within a day or two doing a hotfix to fix a hotfix the a few days later doing another hotfix to fix something the last hotfix screwed up and this has happen the last 4 updates. I mean come on it doesnt take a genus to see this getting worse every update u add to the game. dont get me wrong love the updates and new stuff but stop adding and fix whats wrong first then add new.yea yea i know u will always have bugs in a game I am a programmer i know what goes on when adding updates or trying to fix something thats wrong it takes time so stop adding causing more problems and u can get the game right at some point. thank u for your time

Great news! it would be an exiting year :)

Hi my name is Laggin.

I approve.

any thoughts on stats for dragonborn?

Is your car over ten years old?

This one is and looks like it.

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Originally Posted by Trakemm

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This was discussed on today's live stream.

It actually turns out it is Steam. They are in the process of removing Warner Brothers as the publisher for DDO and Lotro and changing it to Daybreak. During that process, the use of steam wallet for DDO and Lotro has been turned off by Steam (as there is no where to send the revenue).

Cordovan said they just figured it out.

Are Dragonborn Iconic? If so, what's the starting class?

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Originally Posted by Severlin

After Update 36, we still have two more updates in 2017, and we have already teased that one of those will be our expansion! We are very excited about Ravenloft, which has long been a fan favorite. We are planning lots of new content, Sentient Weapons, and other surprises.

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You had me at Ravenloft