Delera's Graveyard Event! - Friday, October 8th, 7:30PM GMT-4

[Thoon]

On Friday night, October 8th, 2010 starting at 7:30pm (GMT-4) the new Update 7 Live Event will be once again active in Delera's Graveyard.

This time around MadFloyd, Purplefooz, and Tolero will be showing off some of the changes that have made to the event based on feedback from the first run of the event. We really loved the turn out we got for the first run of the event hope you will all come back for more fun, and bring even more friends along.

We expect the event to run from 7:30pm to 10:30pm Eastern Time (GMT-4).

Some of the changes you should see are:

• The player population limit on each instance of Delera’s Graveyard has been slightly lowered.
• Each player in a party in the same instance as one of the undead is killed will have a chance of receiving a collectible.
• Undead will now only call assistance from other undead if their CRs are within -4 to 10 CRs of itself. A zombie fighting a level 3 character will no longer call for a red named Lich for assitance, for example.
• The Night Trader now remains open when the Spectral Dragon is being fought. Please note that trading with it at that time does not contribute towards unlocking the next Spectral Dragon.
• Adjustments have been made to make kill-stealing less rewarding.
• Draught of Midnight gives Motes of Night when the Mabar festival is off, but at a lesser rate.
• Some of the Mote of Night costs at the Mote of Night Collector have been adjusted.
• Leaving the Summoning Chamber will return your Ethereal Key. This can now be done anytime before the dragon is killed or before an altar is destroyed.
• The Spectral Dragon should no longer go brain-dead.
• The Spectral Dragon should now behave correctly when attacked by more than 11 players simultaneously.
• The Spectral Dragon has learned a new way to get from room to room which will cause it to get stuck in one room less often.

And a couple of known issues for you too:

• Sometimes kobolds appear in the Summoning Chamber… big giant spectral kobolds and little kobolds too. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain…
• The countdown alerts for the 10 minutes the Summoning Chamber is open only show up in the Level 20 Summoning Chamber instances. They are incorrectly missing from the three lower level tiers.

[Memnir]

Changes look good.
Looking forward to it.

[MeliCat]

ooooh! FRIDAY!!! woot!!!!

working out that time for me... EDIT: 11.30am AEST. me. there. bells on.

[Racalin]

On Friday night, October 8th, 2010 starting at 7:30pm (GMT-4) the new Update 7 Live Event will be once again active in Delera's Graveyard.

We expect the event to run from 7:30pm to 10:30pm Eastern Time (GMT-4).

Not showing much love to the west coast people. The last event I was in for about 1/2 hour and enjoyed every bit but there where alot others who just coming on, when it was ending. Can we get this a little longer?

[Trillea]

Argh! I want to come but don't get off work until 10:30 pm EDT.

[Mockduck]

The changes sound great and the event was already pretty darn fun the first time around. Only thing is I'll be taping the show live on Friday night starting at 8 Eastern, so I'll be around before and after (or during, maybe I should see if my bandwidth can handle a live stream, Skype and DDO at the same time...probably won't work well, though.)

Me and some others saw those Kobolds last time!

[TheSavage]

Boo! Can't make Friday... I really wanted to run this again too.

Oh well, no upgraded handwraps for me!

[Thoon]

Not showing much love to the west coast people. The last event I was in for about 1/2 hour and enjoyed every bit but there where alot others who just coming on, when it was ending. Can we get this a little longer?

I understand the times are tough for folks on the West Coast. They're pretty impossible for the folks in Europe and other parts of the world too. We'd love to be able to accommodate everyone, but we are all working pretty long hours these days to try and wrap things up for Update 7, and even 10:30 is stretching some of us to the limits.

[Krastave]

yeah hard for us here in europe aswell :P
starting 01:30 am (if that is the after midnight one)
so wishing you gl in testing/doing the event again.
this time i cant make it in the middle of the night (last time i did)
i have a busy day saterday.

[Trillea]

...10:30 is stretching some of us to the limits.

Agreed, could you tell this to my boss too?

[zorander6]

I understand the times are tough for folks on the West Coast. They're pretty impossible for the folks in Europe and other parts of the world too. We'd love to be able to accommodate everyone, but we are all working pretty long hours these days to try and wrap things up for Update 7, and even 10:30 is stretching some of us to the limits.

Don't mind the complainers, most of it's just "**** I wish I could be there." It's pretty cool that 1. the devs are actually taking the time/allowed to take the time to spend on the preview server to see the problems and 2. it seems like at least some of the problems are being addressed. Which is something people have asked for for a very long time. Mad props to everyone who is participating. Sadly I doubt I'll be there but we'll see.

[SneakThief]

I understand the times are tough for folks on the West Coast. They're pretty impossible for the folks in Europe and other parts of the world too. We'd love to be able to accommodate everyone, but we are all working pretty long hours these days to try and wrap things up for Update 7, and even 10:30 is stretching some of us to the limits.

Being on the east coast, the west coast people are just kinda hosed ... but on the bright side ... you could run it at lunch for European guys ... that would be about the time they are getting home from work

[lilbrudder1]

Do you have to pay to use pay-to-play commodities during an event?

[TheDearLeader]

Do you have to pay to use pay-to-play commodities during an event?

The event is free.
Lammania is free.
Your "Account" on Lammania for Turbine Points is separate from your real account.
Sir Pointsalot is hiding somewhere in the Harbor, waiting for you to ask him for his 1000 free points he'll give you, per toon, every 24 hours.
????
Win.

[Trillea]

Do you have to pay to use pay-to-play commodities during an event?

Not if you get the free TP from Sir Poincealot to buy what you need. Although if you are talking about the graveyard itself it has been changed to an open-access area (though you still need the adventure pack to get in the quests).

[ZeroTakenaka]

So nothing tonight at 7:30 PM EST?

[TheDearLeader]

So nothing tonight at 7:30 PM EST?

Nothing tonight.

[ZeroTakenaka]

Nothing tonight.

Darn. I guess the event was moved after all. Friday event is GO.

[LordDunmore]

Thoon,
Several of us Bard players were hoping to hear something about Bard Songs and/or Clickies being able to regenerate like the Mana/Hit Points do when drinking the Coffee. Is that in the new update, or will we still have to run out and go to the tavern to get them back?

[iamsamoth0]

Getting the patch updates, I had considered un-installing it but I think I'll give it another shot. Hope to see everyone there!