Your update 8 wishlist.

[articwarrior]

How about something we havent had in over a year. High end content.

we got high end content like 6 months ago, remember dreaming dark II?

[kilagan800]

Add spells:

Blink
Pyrotechnics
Spider Climb

Make more interesting staves.

New armor/robe variations.

Do something with Three Barrel Cove, like add a mailbox, auction house and maybe even a bank.

Add more quests in red fens.

Add weapons:

Spear
Javelin
Net
Flail

[Eladiun]

we got high end content like 6 months ago, remember dreaming dark II?

More like 10 months, 12/16/2009 was U2.

[der_kluge]

Add spells:

Blink
Pyrotechnics
Spider Climb

the problem with pyrotechnics is that it requires a fire source. There aren't any fire sources in the game - there is just animated scenery made to look like fire.

Blink would work exactly like displacement in game terms, and thus would be redundant. There isn't an ethereal in the game, so that aspect couldn't really be taken advantage of.

Spider climb would be game breaking. It would let you get into areas players shouldn't normally be able to access. None of the quests require the ability to climb walls, so it would be highly useless.

Add weapons:

Spear
Javelin
Net
Flail

Flail one could add fairly easily, I think Though animated all those little balls and chains might be too much work for the trouble. Spear and Javelin would require new attack animations, since it wouldn't looke right "swinging" a javelin like a quarterstaff.

Net would be WAY problematic.

[der_kluge]

As a corollary, here are some spells that would make a GREAT addition to the game:

align weapon
[evard's] black tentacles
bless weapon
daylight
disruping weapon
eyebite

[Maxelcat]

mines simple.

+1 to all chest loot.

Im sick and tired of getting stuff that was use full 3 levels ago.

[woghd911]

any hope of adding a Druid Class? Any at all?

[Bernaise]

any hope of adding a Druid Class? Any at all?

That would be more of an Update 9 thing

[Zuldar]

Since update 8 will probably just be quests, I hope they announce fvs and sorc pre's for update 9.

[CrescentCalling_5]

hmm my wishlist?

1. Boost up the other level 4 spells to match firewall. Acid Rain should be an AoE effect that is continuous over 60 seconds, not a DoT spell.

2. Add more midgame content, even at level 9 I start to notice a decisive lack of things to do.

3. Add more endgame content, I don't wanna grind one quest constantly from level 13 to 20 >>

4. Switch your focus, I'm sick and tired of watching Turbine push out these useless and often stupid minidditions to the cash shop. How about something that is actually useful and will actually make you money AND us happy? More Adventure Packs, more races, more actual content!

5. A filter button on the quest selection screen (for lfm) and the quest list (in the patron section) which filters out "Quests I don't own".

6. Adjust AC to be more useful, possibly by lowering the amount of AC needed to be useful (and dropping a few items that let you get that 80 AC) or by increasing the number and ability of equipment, spells, etc. to increase AC. Mage Armor originally gave you a +1 AC bonus to deflection, armor, shield, and dodge, now it's useless if you wear a +5 outfit.

[The_Cataclysm]

4. Switch your focus, I'm sick and tired of watching Turbine push out these useless and often stupid minidditions to the cash shop. How about something that is actually useful and will actually make you money AND us happy? More Adventure Packs, more races, more actual content!

The minidditions are something that they can do between patches and don't require much work (so don't take resources away from the core stuff that they are working on). Adventure packs, races, etc. take time.

[Bernaise]

I would like to see a Crafting NPC for the lower level stuff that would help new players understand how the Stone of Change works without having to hit 10 different websites to achieve some knowledge of its workings.

Sorcerer pre's would be great.

Make Armor more relevant

Fix 2-handed throwing to be 2-handed

[Nieche]

Sorcerer prestige.
End game raids.
New gear.
New look of armor/weapons.
Open PK area.
New spells/feats.
Capstone level 25.

[Meretrix]

more prestiges
fix shields (and ac)
fix useless spells
balance melee weapons
proper drow sr
fix dumbed down tool tips
armor customizing
more end game content

[CrescentCalling_5]

The minidditions are something that they can do between patches and don't require much work (so don't take resources away from the core stuff that they are working on). Adventure packs, races, etc. take time.

That's true, but a lot of them are just sucker merchandise anyway. It's the same mindset as PvP, "a minute wasted on PvP is a minute they could use for PvE", well a minute wasted on these minidditions that don't actually do anything is a minute they could be using to implement the Druid class or fix a bug.

[Mikula]

Most of this would be more likely to be in U9 than 8 but here we go anyway:

-Show some love to Sword&Board and Ranged users.
-Give Bards more spells.
-An adventure pack that reveals more information about Fred. I seriously could care less about Nat Gann but I have always been curious about this apparently well meaning Mindflayer and what exactly he plans on doing with all those siberys shards.
-Add the ring of Siberys to the sky.

[die]

1. High end content

2.A cool castle dungeon - with no light's or very little none in some spots for sure and you need torches.. make the rogue carry it

3.A brothel.. with sexy dwarven chicks.. ahh and maybe a ugly elf or 2..j/k

4.peace and love

5.High end content

6.TWF Rangers rock again

7.DDO2 take what we have learned from ddo1 and make a bad ass ddo2 thats my vote ill play counter strike till its done , send me a email when the beta is ready... ty and have a nice day - Rich

[Sintwar]

Random dungeons.

Yeah, I said it!

[sirgog]

I made a bunch of suggestions here: http://forums.ddo.com/showthread.php?t=278564

Here it is again - and it's a wishlist focused on level 18-20 players, the lowbies/midbies have had enough love lately.



New Adventure Packs:

The Blinding Light (level 18+):
Sometimes, the greatest threat isn't the devil you know.
Journey to Shavarath's Archon areas, and unravel the deadly machinations of a fallen angel.
Discover how a great force of Light was corrupted - and redeem or destroy the Mad Archon before it's too late.

*Explore an expanded Amrath, and travel to all-new areas of the Devil Battlefield.
*Battle Eladrin, Ghaele and other archons - plus the infernal cultists manipulating them
*Defend uncorrupted archon soldiers from a combined demon and archon assault
*Prevent the Archon hordes from corrupting the Silver Flame itself
*Get a glimpse of the cause of the archons' corruption on your lower level characters in Hidden Agendas, an all-new free-to-play level 11 quest that leads into the main storyline of The Blinding Light
*Experience five all-new quests designed to challenge higher level players - three medium-difficulty level 18 quests and two very challenging level 20 quests
*Battle through two new raids - storm the Bastion of Light and assassinate a corrupted Archon commander, in one level 18 raid, then storm the Refuge of the Mad Archon and end to its corruption once and for all in The Devil You Don't, a level 21 raid designed to pit your characters against the most difficult encounters yet in DDO's history, and which the designers don't expect to see beaten on Elite for months.
*Craft amazing armor and weapons (including handwraps) in the Bastion of Light, then unlock their Epic versions in The Devil You Don't.
*Free to VIPs, otherwise 995 TP.

Stormreach's Finest
This adventure pack contains no new quests, but allows players access to the Epic difficulty setting on Tempest's Spine, Stormcleave Outpost, Gwylan's Stand, Xorian Cypher, and Tear of Dhakaan. These quests remain free-to-play on Casual, Normal, Hard and Elite, and their Epic versions are tuned to be somewhat easier than most other Epics (comparable difficulty to The Last Stand).
It also unlocks the Epic mode of the Ataraxia's Haven wilderness area (see below).
This adventure pack is free to VIPs, and 295 TP to other players.


Changes to existing content:

* The Vale of Twilight adventure pack has been split into two packs - the Thirteenth Eclipse (Vale, Shroud, Shroud flagging quests) and the Subterrane. Players that currently own the Vale will automatically own both of the new packs; those that wish to purchase it in future may buy one or both parts.

Design intention: This is really a money-maker for Turbine. The Vale would remain one of the best packs even if it lost the Subterrane and was priced at its present price or just below. The Subterrane is a unique area (just as Devil Assault was a unique quest) and as such should probably be its own pack, and would be a fine buy at ~300 points.

* Mindsunder: A very minor change. Dream Edges (and only Dream Edges) now bind to account upon equipping, rather than binding to account upon acquisition.

Design intention: Farming elite Mindsunder 85 times for a Vorpal Dream Edge isn't fun (if you run 85 elite ones in full groups, an average of one vorpal dream edge will drop, and it probably won't drop for you but instead for someone else in your group). This is even more the case for really 'niche' Dream Edges like Healing Amplification ones that can make or break an odd build. People that like Mindsunder will run it and trade their good Dream Edges for other awesome stuff. Those that hate it can run things they find fun and trade for good DE's or niche ones they want.

* Epic Dungeons: Certain tough-to-acquire chests (such as the Gelatinous Cube chest in Fathom the Depths, the end chests in VON4, VON5, DQ1 and Chains of Flame, and some others) have been given a chance to drop Epic Scrolls in addition to their current loot tables. Chances to get a scroll vary from quite low in VON4 to 100% in VON5. These scrolls cannot be 'ninja-looted' - they drop under a random player's name, just like other chest loot.

Design intention - There's no current reason to run some of these, except once to experience them. This change gives a reason to run these quests/optionals. For optionals, it mimics the way optionals feel from levels 1 to 19 - an extra challenge, always rewarding, and the rewards may or may not be worth the effort.

New Feature - Epic explorer areas: The following explorer areas can now be entered on Epic difficulty by level 18 and higher characters:

Sands of Menechtarun (tuned to be somewhat challenging to Shroud-geared veterans)
Searing Heights (tuned to be somewhat challenging to fresh level 20s without Shroud gear)
The Red Fens (tuned to be easier than Into the Depths but tougher than the flagging quests)
Ataraxia's Haven (tuned similarly to Searing Heights)

Epic Explorer areas have separate Explorer/Slayer/Rare quests to their non-Epic counterparts, and offer very large amounts of XP for the bravest level 18-19 characters (which is only fair, as the monsters in them are much harder to kill). Monsters in them have a small chance to drop Epic Dungeon Token Fragments and Epic Scrolls. Chests in them have a small chance to drop Epic Scrolls and always drop a small number of Epic Dungeon Token Fragments (this may be as few as 3-4 for easily accessed rares and as many as 30-50 for tough rare encounters).

In addition, each explorer area with an Epic mode has one new Epic-only rare encounter that is designed to be tough and rewarding. A blue dragon (massively tougher that the one in the Tor on elite) in the Sands would be one place to start.

The Sands drops Desert scrolls, Searing Heights drops Sentinels scrolls, The Red Fens drops.... (drumroll please...) Red Fens scrolls, and Ataraxia's Haven drops scrolls for Stormreach's Finest quests. In addition, some of the harder to reach Sands of Menechtarun rare encounters have been tuned to be fiendishly difficult - these rare encounters have a chance to award shards of explorer area items.

Design intention - Scrolls: Currently most players HATE the Epic Scroll mechanic - it discourages grouping, rewards really obnoxious behaviour (ninja-looting) and rewards boring grinding of mobs early in a quest. This change allows players to group up for scroll farming without hurting their rewards. It will have the side effect making certain epic scrolls (particularly Desert ones) more common - this can't hurt IMO.
Design intention - Epic Explorer areas: Some players really like these areas (I'm not really one of them). But at level 18-20, none of them except the Subterrane are even close to difficult enough to challenge these players. Epic-ifying these zones lets those players enjoy high levels more. It also lets people actually be challenged and rewarded by the run out to quests.
Design intention - Desert Shards: Shards for the explorer area items are just too rare - currently the drop rate of the Shard of the Spectral Gloves is about seven times the drop rate of the Shard of Xuum. (This is because there's so many different explorer area shards). These items aren't even more powerful than the other Desert items, they are just rarer. This change adds another source of these Shards to the game - putting them in the hardest rare encounters makes sure that players are earning them, not getting them for free.
Design intention - Level 18s: Level 18 and 19 are hell for multi-TR'ed characters, with players forced to mindlessly grind trivially easy content to eek out XP - this is a source of a LOT of XP that comes from challenging encounters rather than jokes like IQ normal.


New feature - semi-random named loot
In addition to the existing main types of loot (raid loot, quest rewards and random lootgen), new semi-random items (somewhat akin to Dream Edge) can now drop from various treasure chests. These items all bind to character on equipping, just like Greensteel blanks.

Each of these items starts as a named item that is somewhat underpowered for its level (example: Serrated Scimitar - +4 keen scimitar, min level 14). They then receive from one to three (depending upon the item) extra modifiers at random from a list specific to that item.

Some of these items drop only in quests on Elite difficulty.

Note that the example items here are all specific to one drop location - however, there could also be some items like this that drop like the Sunblade or Ioun Stones - they can drop from any chest of a certain level.

Example items:

Serrated Scimitar
+4 Keen scimitar
Min level 14, binds on equip
Has any two (at random) of the following list:
Maiming
Puncturing
Wounding
Seeker +6
Augmented Critical - base crit enhanced to 17-20/x2
Bleed
Sneak Attack +3
Greater Human Bane
Augmented Damage - base damage increased to 2d6
Tendon Slice 6%
+5 enhancement bonus

Drop location: Against the Demon Queen end chest (Elite and Epic difficulty only)


or Flamewarden's Bracers
Bracers
Binds to character on equip
Min level 13
Inherent Fire Resist +10
plus any two, randomly selected, of
Fire Absorption 15%
Inherent Fire Resist +5
Greater Fire Resistance
Dexterity +5
Resistance +4
Minor Evasion: When you are subjected to an attack that allows a Reflex save for half damage, you take no damage if you roll a natural 20 on your Reflex save.
Cold Guard

Drop location: Enter the Kobold end chest (all difficulties)


Artificer's Ruin
Maul
Binds to character upon equip
Binds to character upon modification (such as using the slots)
+6
Augmented base damage: 2d8
Greater Construct Bane
plus any three of:
+7
Red Augment Crystal Socket
Orange Augment Crystal Socket
Violet Augment Crystal Socket
+7 Strength
Adamantine
Epic Construct Bane (replaces Greater Construct Bane)
Anarchic
Augmented base damage: 3d8
Blueshine
Vicious
Smiting
Thundering
Superior Sonic Resistance

Drop location: End chest, VON5 epic



Design Intention: This provides two things. Firstly, it's something to make opening random loot chests exciting again. When they have highly desired combinations of effects upon them, these items are likely to be quite valuable. Secondly, it provides opportunities to add a much-needed incentive to running tougher quests on Elite or Epic. Note that these items may not be particularly balanced at the moment (although none outclass Greensteel for general use), it's more the idea I wanted to float.

[Gadget2775]

Human Versatility boost counting for Enhancement/PrE pre-reqs (possibly one higher level than class boost). Instead of Fighter AC boost, why not Human Versatility 3 (Which has an AC boost).

Human Weapon Versatility Enhancement (Half-Elves as well...). +1 to hit, +1 to damage...Select the weapon of your choice.

Enthrallment actually counting as Fascinate for the purposes of Suggestion/Mass Suggestion.