Welcome to the Update 8 Preview on Lamannia

[The_Cataclysm]

There don't appear to be any appearance kits for Warforged...

Talking to the guy doesn't currently show any of the kits, whether you are warforged or not. Go to the store, click cosmetics, and then cosmetic gear. The temp kits will be on the last page.

Edit: Non-temp kits seem to be mixed in with the rest of the pages.

[systemstate]

Talking to the guy doesn't currently show any of the kits, whether you are warforged or not. Go to the store, click cosmetics, and then cosmetic gear. The temp kits will be on the last page.

Ah! You are correct, sir!

[J1NG]

Our Systems team worked together with the content folks to bring us some great new crafted Droaam items using the same technology that was employed in the Mabar event.

I wonder if this means those in the preview gets banned from the game at some point...

Sorry +Thoon, but this message came too soon after the recent issue for someone not to take a dig at it.

I'll probably be over every so often to see what I can see I can break and report. See you in there.

J1NG

[Xenus_Paradox]

Cosmetic Armor system
Dilettante Enhancement

I want to have your babies.

And I'm a guy.

[k1ngp1n]

Toaster looks:

[systemstate]

Toaster looks:

BTW- if you don't have the body feat, all you get are leotard-like bodysuits. Meh. Oh, and apparently Turbine is now referring to "Pink" as "Pale Red."

[Mister_Peace]

"There's already a color for pale red. It's called pink."

[Lear_beta]

You know how if you have a halfling and a warforged standing next to each other, both holding greatswords, the warforged's sword is bigger?

I guess that function works for breasts on female characters too. Why did her boobs magically get bigger for that outfit?

i don't know... but i want a set for my girlfriend...

[systemstate]

"There's already a color for pale red. It's called pink."

Exactly. I think the devs are having a little fun with the WF community. I thought we were through with all these pink outfits.

[k1ngp1n]

Fighter dilettante gives access to combat feat DC increases, +1 str, armor mastery
Rogue: Trap sense, dex +1, up to 3d6 SA dmg
Barb: Barbarian toughness, con +1, dmg reduction bumped to 3/-
Cleric: +1 wisdom, bumps your caster level up to 10th
Monk: +1 wisdom, healing amp, up to 5 wisdom ac bonus
Wizard: int +1, bumps your caster level up to 10th
Ranger: dex +1, more bow str, elemental resistances
Paladin: cha +1, up to 5 cha bonus to saves
Bard: cha +1, bumps your caster level up to 10th
Sorc: cha +1, bumps your caster level up to 10th
FvS: cha +1, bumps your caster level up to 10th

What i've found so far. Stat enhancements don;t stack with your class enhancments.

[systemstate]

Tried out the armor appearance kit on my human. Both items turned my +5 heavy plate into bodysuits. Pink bodysuits.

[Rumbaar]

Our Systems team worked together with the content folks to bring us some great new crafted Droaam items using the same technology that was employed in the Mabar event.

Nice, non automated - automated bans for everyone

[stoolcannon]

Why did her boobs magically get bigger for that outfit?

Stop asking stupid questions before you wreck it!!!!!

[Khellendros13]

BTW- if you don't have the body feat, all you get are leotard-like bodysuits. Meh. Oh, and apparently Turbine is now referring to "Pink" as "Pale Red."

******, that's a blow for any WF that isn't a fighter. I could drop toughness :|

[Asketes]

We have not purged the characters already on Lamannia from the Update 7 release, so if you had characters on the server, they will still be there. And if your characters are showing up in http://my.ddo.com/charactercopy and you have transfer attempts available, you can copy others over using the tool.

-- Thoon

YEAH, I get to copy Permaforged..


oh wait, my.ddo has him as a level 8 fighter, he's already tr'd and is currently a paladin.


Which leads me to my question:

Is this going to copy a current version of whatever character I select or is it going to copy versions of my character when my.ddo stopped updating?

[Trillea]

YEAH, I get to copy Permaforged..


oh wait, my.ddo has him as a level 8 fighter, he's already tr'd and is currently a paladin.


Which leads me to my question:

Is this going to copy a current version of whatever character I select or is it going to copy versions of my character when my.ddo stopped updating?

As long as the character is listed, it will make a current copy.

[Rydin_Dirtay]

I guess that function works for breasts on female characters too. Why did her boobs magically get bigger for that outfit?

Nah, they're the same size. Haven't you ever heard of a push up bra???

[Mobeius]

BTW- if you don't have the body feat, all you get are leotard-like bodysuits. Meh. Oh, and apparently Turbine is now referring to "Pink" as "Pale Red."

yea the U7 Quorforged Docent of BATTLE, is "pale red", it really seems someone in Turbine has a twisted sense of Humor with all the pink accents and colors. Pink is pink no matter what you call it, just like calling a pink shirt Salmon. I dont like pink... I am sure there are those that do, but I dont. I purposefully got that docent for the green look and they go and jacked with it U7... blah...

However, I am somewhat pleased they are adding more options for looks. One thing that always didnt like about DDO, the lack of optimization and looking like everyone else with little or no distinction.

[Fecerak]

Fighter dilettante gives access to combat feat DC increases, +1 str, armor mastery
Rogue: Trap sense, dex +1, up to 3d6 SA dmg
Barb: Barbarian toughness, con +1, dmg reduction bumped to 3/-
Cleric: +1 wisdom, bumps your caster level up to 10th
Monk: +1 wisdom, healing amp, up to 5 wisdom ac bonus
Wizard: int +1, bumps your caster level up to 10th
Ranger: dex +1, more bow str, elemental resistances
Paladin: cha +1, up to 5 cha bonus to saves
Bard: cha +1, bumps your caster level up to 10th
Sorc: cha +1, bumps your caster level up to 10th
FvS: cha +1, bumps your caster level up to 10th

What i've found so far. Stat enhancements don;t stack with your class enhancments.

Hm, could seem like half-elves actually may outdps horcs if you have the rogue dilletante, as 3d6 SA is actually pretty good. Its a total of 10,5 dmg, which is more than a halflings guile.
The wiz/monk/fvs/bard/sorc dilletantes sound kinda pointless IMO. Altho I guess it can make you use healscrolls with a decent successrate. And the monk is actually pretty nice. Kinda paladin too although I dunno. Barb is still kinda meh as DR doesn't stack this game and thus DR 3/- is equal to nothing in any party with a WC for example. How high is the ranger elemental resistances? If they are high and stackable it could be nice. I am actually starting to like helves Shame on me. WF is da master race and should continue to be so :/
Oh, and forgot to mention the fighter dillentante, altho that may actually be one of the weaker ones IMO.
Also, I would kinda like it if they could differentiate the different caster dilletantes as right now FvS is almost the same as Clr

Personally I would rate them like this (assuming ranger is something like clever monkey):
1. Rogue, yeah, those 3d6 are REALLY good.
2. Monk, healing amp is nice, and now its actually kinda possible to get a half-decent AC without splashing monk.
3. Ranger, although I am kinda biased as I just love my clever monkey enhancements lol. Immunities and such FTW
4-5. Cleric/FvS, well, heal scrolls and res scrolls are just nice. Its one of the main reasons to get 39 UMD
6. Paladin, +5 saves could be really nice.
7. Fighter, I guess some combat DCs are nice, but now we are starting to get to the weaker ones
8. Barb, hp can be nice I guess. DR is kinda useless, con+1 is kinda nice as well
9. Bard, you get a few scrolls and some healing wands? No heal scrolls? Meh
10-11. Wiz/Sorc, Well, since you arent the master race if you have the dilletante feat you cannot reconstruct yourself, so the biggest benefit from getting this dilletante is probably the ability to use teleport scrolls to get to meridia faster... Yeah, thats more or less it :/

[butlerfamilywa]

In all seriousness, I remember a thread that was started a while ago, called Pimp my Warforged.

I love the idea that we will have armor skin customizations, however.. can we finally get Warforged Dye? I want a Neon Green Warforged!!!

Shouldn't be too hard to do, considering we already have the ability to dye hair.