Weekly Dev Activities 1/21/08

[MrCow]

NEW Halt Undead now uses the correct save DC.

I win!

I also think Yaga Nub will be pleased to see they finally put this in the WDA.

[Turial]

Cool stuff.

Now that we have bags for most everything else is there a chance quivers will be implemented for ranged combat users?

[dragnmoon]

I win!

I also think Yaga Nub will be pleased to see they finally put this in the WDA.

Can Cows Lose?

[Lorien_the_First_One]

No, those are a bonus above your BAB as you progress.

*blinks* um..ok, I've just had a noob moment...I had no idea how overpowered we really were compared to PnP. I just kinda believe the math when it says +whatever to hit and never double checked. I mean the PnP progression really is 0/-5/-10/-15

[Strakeln]

Not to be a pain... well, okay, trying to be a pain:

I like these bags that we keep getting. But really, come on now... what is the holdup for quivers/larger arrow stacks?

[Shade]

General

• NEW The attack progress has been adjusted as follows: +0, +0, +5, +10, +10. For one handed weapons and dual wielders the 5th attack is the same speed as attack 4 so we are in good shape with them. For two handed weapons, we have added a glancing attack on the fifth attack. If they have superior two handed fighting, that will give them 2 glancing attacks for swing #5.

That doesn't sound like "we are in good shape"
I mean even if the 5th attack for 1handed/weapon is as slow as the rather slow 4th attack - by leveling up we will STILL lose dps. Because the first 3 attacks are the fastest. So overall the 5th attack has to be inbetween the speed of the 4th and the 1st attack for us to break even on overall attack speed - yea just to break even, for leveling up at a critical point... So its not really "in good shape" if thats the case - because we still end up in the weird situation that NOT leveling up, or triple classing in 2 0BAB classes will give us overall higher DPS - which makes no sense.

For 2handed you say nothing about being "in good shape" and i agree we aren't. Glancing blows won't make up for the loss in attack rate. Especially not for those who did not take all 4 two handed feats.

And a single glancing blow on 20% of attack for what should be the end of a powerful feat chain is quite frankly disapointing. I mean at least increase the damage of glancing blows some more like the other feats do, or give us 2 new glancing blows for the feat like greater two handed does.. I mean as it stands now grater two handed provides a massive increase in DPS, and superior sounds like it will barely alllow us to break even vs what we have now.. That doesn't make sense. I would not take that feat on my pure dps barbarian.

Please just allow us to disable the dreaded 5th attack in options.

Or just take away spell points and some dmg dice from caster classes when they hit level15 to make it fair - works the same way, i mean nerf everyone at the same time. (being sarcastic which i know often fails in text form)

[dragnmoon]

Q quick question...

Why are you not off today?..

*imagines Kate with a Whip, whipping everyone to work on their day off*

[Beherit_Baphomar]

[/LIST]Please just allow us to disable the dreaded 5th attack in options. /signed

Or just take away spell points and some dmg dice from caster classes when they hit level15 to make it fair - works the same way, i mean nerf everyone at the same time. - Im not really understanding where you get "Melee are so powerful we need to nerf them" Devs, it just makes no sense to me.

And why cant you comment on the threads that are asking questions about this issue? Is it a nerf? Is it poor animation?

I dunno man, I just dunno...

...time to get my sorcerer levelled.

[Deragoth]

• NEW There are now bags available for spell components and eldrich device ingredients, which work similarly to the collectible bags.

Let the Lashings commence! LASH LASH LASH!!!!

Bummer, I was pretty excited about the increase in backpack space.

[Mad_Bombardier]

Items

• NEW There are now bags available for spell components and eldrich device ingredients, which work similarly to the collectible bags.

I'm intrigued by this one as well. Is this for all spell components, just for special components like Stoneskin, or what?

[Kerr]

Or just take away spell points and some dmg dice from caster classes when they hit level15 to make it fair - works the same way, i mean nerf everyone at the same time.

I despise posts where people think they are being hurt and then demand other people be hurt as well.

[Kerr]

I'm intrigued by this one as well. Is this for all spell components, just for special components like Stoneskin, or what?

It'd be preferable for ALL spell components, even unique ones, but I'd be happy with just the level 1,2,3, etc. That'd be 8 slots compressed into 1.

[ArkoHighStar]

Q quick question...

Why are you not off today?..

*imagines Kate with a Whip, whipping everyone to work on their day off*

most offices are open

[Kerr]

most offices are open

It's only really a civil service holiday, or holiday for people who take it instead of Presidents Day as a holiday.

[dragnmoon]

most offices are open

They shouldn't be, being that it is a Federal holiday....

This is me..

Boss... " hey we are all working on MLK day... i

Me..." ummm No we are not.... it is a federal holiday... you don't make us work on veterans day do you?

[Kisaragi]

[Cool Stuff]

• Added a "Sell Gems" button to the sell window of vendors which buy gems. Hitting this button will sell all unsecured gems in your inventory as well as all gems contained in all of your gem bags.
• Detaching currency from auction mail will now properly auto delete the mail.

[Awesome Great Work Guys]

• The user interface (UI) can now be re-skinned and customized by editing or applying user created skins.
• Some items which were not marked as magical, such as a Minor Kinetic Lore Scepter, will now have the blue magical item background on it's icon.
• There are now bags available for spell components and eldrich device ingredients, which work similarly to the collectible bags.

[Oh Thank Cube, finally fixed]

• There are now fewer places in the public areas of Gianthold to get stuck.
• Many Many Many stuck spots have been fixed throughout the entire game.
• Returning Throwing Weapons are now repairable and sellable to brokers.

Don't you love Mondays?
Keep up the good work.

[SilverSong]

They shouldn't be, being that it is a Federal holiday....

This is me..

Boss... " hey we are all working on MLK day... i

Me..." ummm No we are not.... it is a federal holiday... you don't make us work on veterans day do you?

In my area its a State and Fed holiday. Means all schools, banks, postoffices, State and Fed jobs are off/closed.

[dragnmoon]

It's only really a civil service holiday, or holiday for people who take it instead of Presidents Day as a holiday.

It should be treated no differently then Veterans day, presidents day or labor day.. it has the same status as those as a Federal holiday..

[Kerr]

They shouldn't be, being that it is a Federal holiday....
This is me..
Boss... " hey we are all working on MLK day... i
Me..." ummm No we are not.... it is a federal holiday... you don't make us work on veterans day do you?

Most offices aren't Federal, and are privately run.

[dragnmoon]

Most offices aren't Federal, and are privately run.

True.. but most offices Close down when Banks are closed..

And most offices are closed Veterans day, Labor day and Presidents day..

I personally I have never worked on MLK day or any federal holiday unless it was an emergency.