Anything in honor of "Talk Like a Pirate Day"?

[MsEricka]

Ya know what we need as an event?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IY0FTEtECCU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z81T6FycBz4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVE4cnzUEpI

I originally asked for this two years ago. And it would still be awesome.

[-Avalon-]

Would hope/assume that Cove relaunch would/could coincide with DDO anniversary like when it originally launched.

Course I also thought that cinco de mayo would be a good day to run mabar as well (being day of the dead and all =) )

Makes me wonder what the anniversary celebration will be this year.

Hmmm, in that case, can we have an Oktoberfest in DDO?? Basically, a celebration for Olladra? Or in FR, have a celebration for Lliira?

[Lifeblood]

I also thought that cinco de mayo would be a good day to run mabar as well (being day of the dead and all =) )

I think your confusing Cinco de Mayo with D�*a de los Muertos

which is kind of like confusing the fourth of July with Halloween

[-Avalon-]

I think your confusing Cinco de Mayo with D�*a de los Muertos

which is kind of like confusing the fourth of July with Halloween

Good catch! I missed it because my mind does that whole "Auto-Correct" type thing where it fills in blanks and just blurs over mistakes and makes them what they should be

But yes, 'Cinco de Mayo' is very much an independence day for them... where as 'Dia de los Muertos' is the "Day of the Dead"...

[GoRinNoSho]

I just thought about how they will enhance it. All of the kolbolds will be replaced with cr 8 Coyle clones that will aggro on mobs with magic missile and die a quick death.

[varusso]

Yarrrrr, Happy Talk Like a Pirate Day, me hearties!

We know some of you be disappointed by the lack of Euphonia’s Challenge and Crystal Cove today, so we thought ye’d like some news on what be happening there. The Cove, she be gettin’ a number of upgrades, including:

• Support for Epic-level characters, including higher-level pirates in Smuggler’s Rest!
• Raising the Crystal Cove instance to be playable up to CR 30
• New items to spend yer Doubloons, Gems, and Dragonshards on!
• Bug fixes and balance adjustments. Yaar.

By the devourer’s salty beard, we think these changes will make Crystal Cove better than ever when it re-opens next yearrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

How about you convert the wilderness area into an instanced area, with the boat and inn as the common area, devoid of mobs. This prevents morons dragging them onto the boat "for lulz" and it also avoids the inevitable problems with low lvl toons getting stomped by high level mobs spawned by epic toons in the area. Not to mention the constant kill-steal/leeching garbage that goes on in both Cove and Mabar.

Its long past time these changes were implemented. Seems like the perfect time to do it.

[-Avalon-]

Oh, side thought, want to know, but cannot find out quite yet since I cannot log in =/

How much is this pack? Cannot find it in store, will look again, but not seeing it on the web page... typical price is 1550 TP I think, but how much are we saving by buying all 3?

[QuantumFX]

New items to spend yer Doubloons, Gems, and Dragonshards on!

Arrrrr.... Make sure that landlubber Featherrrrr_of_Sun understands that the loot better be good or we’ll keelhaul a pony! Arrrrrtificers need an epic hand cannon!

[RabidKoala]

Arrr... Lolth must e sent the ship down to Davy Jones locker. Now ye hast to wait for the next year before ye can sail to the cove. Arghhhh....

[Wildseed]

I hope you guys introduce more loot since you made the scimitars unuseable to all but chaotic characters (which my fvs isn't so, thanks for invalidating her weapons) So I hope there's maybe an alternative scimitar or other weapons that can be just as good as those scimitars were.

[EatSmart]

Two Words - GOLD DUBLOONS!

That is all.

Arr indeed. Why be the gold doubloons nevar gone?

I'd be gladly sellin' gold fer rum.

/Aye

[My2Cents]

Thanks Tolero and Steelstar for the udate.

I'm very glad it'll be back and I look forward to it!

2013 is only...<counts on fingers>...103 days away!

[Munkenmo]

Yarrrrr, Happy Talk Like a Pirate Day, me hearties!

We know some of you be disappointed by the lack of Euphonia’s Challenge and Crystal Cove today, so we thought ye’d like some news on what be happening there. The Cove, she be gettin’ a number of upgrades, including:

• Support for Epic-level characters, including higher-level pirates in Smuggler’s Rest!
• Raising the Crystal Cove instance to be playable up to CR 30
• New items to spend yer Doubloons, Gems, and Dragonshards on!
• Bug fixes and balance adjustments. Yaar.

By the devourer’s salty beard, we think these changes will make Crystal Cove better than ever when it re-opens next yearrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

Sometime in 2013.
...arrrr!

So...

These changes are already half way through, but have made their way to live, so the event is being left disabled?

Glad I've got other games to play.

[DarkForte]

So...

These changes are already half way through, but have made their way to live, so the event is being left disabled?

Glad I've got other games to play.

My guess is they don't want to release non-epic CC while everyone is level 25, but I am indeed a hopeless optimist.

[danotmano1998]

• Bug fixes and balance adjustments. Yaar.

Uhoh...



These words fill me heart with dread, and gets me stump itchin.
I can only hope this means you guys will be upgrading the CC loot, not nerfing it.

[Phemt81]

Sentinels has been 50%

Can you recall when was that?

[Tyrost]

Can you recall when was that?

Sadly, that was a couple years ago during the Festivult to end all Festivults. As many recall, last December we had a rather disastrous Festivult sale with various consumables in the store for, well, varying amounts. December 2010, on the other hand, was one to remember. Nearly every pack went up for 50%. In addition, January 2011 they put up all packs except the latest at the time if I recall.

Short story long,
Sentinels of Stormreach 50% on 2010-12-10
Sentinels of Stormreach 50% on 2011-01-11

Also, kudos for the staff on the Pirate pack (though Attack on Stormreach seems the odd-man out there). However, I have to point out that many of us faithful players have likely bought one or more of those packs already... and are thus ineligible for the bundle.


It's wonderful news on the enhancements to the cove though... love to see a few things expanded on! Thanks for the update!

Since Mabar and the Cove are obviously getting the epic treatment now, could you please keep a few options open that will benefit the full range of players?
- Cove: could we get a doubloon (gold-silver-copper) exchange option?
- Mabar: since Divine Punishment is running rampant in some quests now and light damage is sprinkled heavily on random weapons, can we get a turn-in for "Light Resistance" potions similar to the "Light Damage" adding potions?

Reasons?
- The doubloon issue was a common complaint since the first run of the event. It should be a trivial fix as you could simply make it a turn-in selection similar to the map fragments.
- As for the light resistance request, well Force damage and Light damage were so rare before, but now it's hard not to find a random drop item with either after running just a few quests. Divine punishment is amped up in many quests and wilderness areas and providing a rare item (acquired only during the Mabar event) to give even 10 reduction would be welcome!

-Tyrost-

[varusso]

- Cove: could we get a doubloon (gold-silver-copper) exchange option?

Please God no! The barter system is a horrible clicking nightmare as it is. Until they add a batch-conversion to the system, I have NO desire whatsoever to see them add another convert X to Y in order to spend it on Z monstrosity. I would much rather see them add something worth buying directly with Gold coins. Such as buying requisition forms, XP pots, or pretty much anything useful.

But no more hour-long click-to-convert garbage

[countfitz]

Would hope/assume that Cove relaunch would/could coincide with DDO anniversary like when it originally launched.

Course I also thought that cinco de mayo would be a good day to run mabar as well (being day of the dead and all =) )

Makes me wonder what the anniversary celebration will be this year.

On behalf of my guild leader, Mexi, I'm going to have to slap you.

/slap

Seriously? Cinco de Mayo =/= the Day of the Dead. The Day of the Dead = Dio de los Muertos, or, translated, The day of the dead.

Which is the day AFTER HALLOWEEN.

By the way, "All hallows eve" means "The day before the day of the dead." It's not just a Mexican thing.

Anyway, that doesn't mean I'd be opposed to Mabar coming around twice a year. Despite HATING Mabar, I feel it's only fair that if the Icy games and CC have a twice a year event (which they didn't this year... but whatever) then the same can be done for Mabar.

[countfitz]

Can't be, I believe we disagree on the topic of naked thigh armorskins.

On another note, would it be possible to get a pirate style armor skin with a parrot attatched to the shoulder instead of a gigantic pauldron? 'Cause I'd be okay with that...

OMG! So did the wife and I. If you're discussing the Cormyrian Armor, I tried so hard to get her to turn in her ingredients for a pair of these, but she insisted on getting a Cormyrian Greataxe instead

And to the armor skin with a parrot, this would be FREAKING AWESOME.

By the way, I know my wife would spend money on armor skins that included animals on the shoulders, especially a little pseudodragon.

Screw it. NEW THREAD!