Lamannia is open with a preview of our 5th Birthday!

[AZgreentea]

Pirates? Again?

This is like those parents who throw a Pirate themed birthday for your 21st birthday because you liked them when you were 8.

I'm sure it has something to do with the fact that from a lore perspective Stormreach is pretty closely associated with Pirates.

[chester99]

contentless updates are a waste of time. please stop wasting my time.

[salmag]

WOW...
a patch for the birthday... no update...
some live event, which will probably be like the Mabar one...
very underwhelming...

Kind of like kissing your sister...

[Gratch]

Um. Yes... the town of Um in the country of Um.

Someone go have Eladrin post his myDDO post about hate/aggro now. Need something...

[Tocawe]

Character gift list, based on the amount of time a character has played DDO:

Do this takes into account the time the character have spent on the European servers?

[DasLurch]

Each Characters gift will be elevated one “tier” for each of the following conditions:

Active VIP Subscription: +1 Tier
Founder Account: +1 Tier
Character has True Reincarnated one or more times: +1 Tier


So once again, people that have been VIP, and here since March of 2006, are getting the shaft again. The only message this sends to me is that I should have been TR'ing for the past 2 years instead of leveling and making more characters, I ws a few days late because my pre-order for the game never showwed up until March so I'm not nearly as worthy, and paying fort he past 5 years has been really stupid. I hope that this gets some more of a look. As of right now all I see is a lot of why should I bother. Where's the benefit for paying and playing the game over the last 5 years? It just feels like alot of us are getting overlooked for being here for so long. I guess it's not an annaversery that I'm supposed to be happy about? It is still MY 5 year marker for being here. I guess that the folks in charge don't feel the same way.

I'm probably over-reacting to this all, so whatever. I just really expected better of the folks planning the game out. They may have changed things in the past that I didn't like, but it has worked out for the most part in the long run (no not referring to DA. That's still a bad idea) I know it will be a freebie, but it just smacks of "Oops. Forgot it was your B-day, so here's something from the local gas station because all the other stores were closed."

[DasLurch]

Do this takes into account the time the character have spent on the European servers?

I would be absolutely floored if it did.

[Shade]

No they didn't...though it could probably use some sort of punctation for clarity.

The full entry should look like this

Gianthold Tor //The area

Reaver's Bane //The quest name

• Corrected a text error in Crag's dialogue. //The change

Yea no..

The name of the Gianthold Public area:
Gianthold.
The name of Gianthold adventure area:
The ruins of Gianthold.

The location of Crag:
Gianthold.

The name of a quest in Gianthold:
Gianthold Tor.

But whoever wrote those realease notes probably doesnt know the difference. Or care.

If they really cared it would of said this:

Gianthold Tor: Epic Diffculty unlocked. Really sorry for the 1+ year delay guys.

[knightgf]

Pirates? Again?

This is like those parents who throw a Pirate themed birthday for your 21st birthday because you liked them when you were 8.

Do as you want as a pirate is free...

But yeah, im confused, what happened to update 9? Are we going to use 'update 8 patch x' instead of just updates from now on? Is there something so bad about the number 9 in Turbine terms? Were there any bets around the office that this game wouldn't make it to update 9?

[kamimitsu]

Ship doors are now set to allow usage without breaking stealth.

This makes me happy, except that it should be ALL doors in all quests (and levers, too).

[fuzzy1guy]

Fix anything? No. Not really.

New stuff? No. Not really.

At least add some of the stuff we all know is broken to the known issues list? No. Not really.



What the hell has turbine been doing?

[FrostBeard]

yup shade's on the money.

hence why i quit playing this game for awhile. it was a great game. 5yrs ago, but now its pretty meh..

[rest]

Lol.

[MrkGrismer]

Each Characters gift will be elevated one “tier” for each of the following conditions:

Active VIP Subscription: +1 Tier
Founder Account: +1 Tier
Character has True Reincarnated one or more times: +1 Tier


So once again, people that have been VIP, and here since March of 2006, are getting the shaft again.

I am curious, did you miss the part about the Tier being determined by how long the character has been played for? So each of the thing you mentioned increases the Tier.

Making it +1 for an active VIP subscription is a little bit of a money grab, but I can understand it.

[patang01]

So the Horc Great Axe and Maul animation is still broken along with using great cleave with those weapons. No fix. I mean great cleave isn't just messed up animation wise, it doesn't work when using those weapons on a Horc.

[Phax]

I was at least hoping some spell bugs (like WoF crit calculation problems

The WoF crit issue has been fixed in this update. My fault for leaving that note out.

[Thrudh]

New stuff? No. Not really.

Did you see the new epic items? Holy cow...

What the hell has turbine been doing?

More than you.

[KreepyKritter]

Pirates? Again?

This is like those parents who throw a Pirate themed birthday for your 21st birthday because you liked them when you were 8.

I had to come back to this for the simple fact that this analogy fails utterly... If my dad had thrown me a Pirate themed 21st birthday, there would have been scantly clad wenches, ale, grog, dancing girls, at least one sword fight, I'd've been called 'Cap'n' the whole time, and there'd be a wench warming my bed when I got there...

Just depends on who your parents are.

[Coldin]

I had to come back to this for the simple fact that this analogy fails utterly... If my dad had thrown me a Pirate themed 21st birthday, there would have been scantly clad wenches, ale, grog, dancing girls, at least one sword fight, I'd've been called 'Cap'n' the whole time, and there'd be a wench warming my bed when I got there...

Just depends on who your parents are.

I want to get invited to your parties.

[Kamo]

Devs im starting to feel like a Alzheimers patient in a ***** house. I keep wondering why im getting screwed by this u8p1 bs, and i dont feel like paying for stuff like this anymore. This might be the last straw for me. Whats the point of staying.