Lamannia Update: EARLY Enhancements Preview

[Failedlegend]

Lamannia will be coming down for an update on April 11 between 10am and 2pm EST (GMT -5).

Great the day it gets released I have warning of huge amount of freezing rain and hail that is likely to cause power outs

Racial Enhancement Trees will be available for the entire time, Class Enhancements will be distributed throughout the weeks as follows:

Can't wait to see what the racial prestiges look like Warforged Juggernaut, Dwarven Runesmith or Defender, Halfling Talentia Rider

[*]Artificer

Hoping to see something that furthers the initial effects of construct essence even if it's a pretiges like Self-Forged

[*]Cleric

Not really my cup of tea but I can hope domains and war-priest are included might convince me to play one

[*]Fighter

Hoping PDK can bring something different to this class thatmakes it more than a easy way to get more feats.

[*]Ranger

Really looking forward to see what was done with deepwood sniper as out of all 3 PrEs this one most closely resembles my personal view of rangers

[*]Rogue

Not really sure what to expect from rogue but hoping mechanic got a nice rework

[*]Sorcerer[*]Wizard

Ah my favorite classes cannot wait to see AotS although I'm a little worried something might be changed for PMs that destorys my Arcane knight but thats prob just paranoia

[*]Barbarian

Another class that I've never really jived with, hoping to see Occult Slayer though

[*]Monk

My Acromonk is looking forward to seeing what kind of synergy I can eek out of Henshin Mystic

Paladin

Ah the poor poor paladin hopefully these Prestiges go a good size rework done

[Violith]

Yes later this year there will be a 'free for all' phase.

later this year as in sometime in may after the 'early preview', or after the expansion which is set for summer? it was already stated that there would be an extended lam visit for the enhancement pass but I still hoped it'd make it in for the expansion, but gotta admit that it doesnt seem likely with the wording... is it even a definite that it will be finished this year?

[gphysalis]

****... So tempting to miss work tomorrow... If only my dad didnt work there too...

If you convinced your dad to play ddo...

Feel free to put out the text write-up before the servers go live

I also would love to see the descriptions before the servers come up.

[Qezuzu]

later this year as in sometime in may after the 'early preview', or after the expansion which is set for summer? it was already stated that there would be an extended lam visit for the enhancement pass but I still hoped it'd make it in for the expansion, but gotta admit that it doesnt seem likely with the wording... is it even a definite that it will be finished this year?

I'd rather they have it on Lamannia for months than release buggy enhancement.

Unlike EDs, bugged enhancements would ruin a lot of characters.

[emptysands]

Lamannia will be coming down for an update on April 11 between 10am and 2pm EST (GMT -5).

This Update will contain an Early Preview of Enhancements on Lamannia. For the next three weeks, you, the players, will have the opportunity to get an early look at our upcoming Enhancements revamp. While Racial Enhancement Trees will be available for the entire time, Class Enhancements will be distributed throughout the weeks as follows:

Do these include the "new" racial PrEs? Or only existing racial PrEs?

Will existing and new PrEs be fleshed out to tier 3 or whatever the new max (rank 5) tier?

How will items like TOD set interact with the new system?

[BananaHat]

Very excited to test and give feedback, looks like I'll have characters available to test each week. Artificer, favored soul, wizard, and monk are my main characters. I have a cleric that was shelved once I made the favored soul, but I'm hoping the enhancement pass will revitalize that character as well as my interest in my almost 20 bard and a slew of other lobbies (rogue, barbarian, and fighter)

What I expect to happen is that they will take our feedback from each week and tweak stuff while the others are up for testing. Hopefully, we then get a second focused pass where we check out all the changes and then we get to look at them all together where everyone can see how multiclass builds fit once they've tweaked for single class builds. Then, they'll need another free for all based on that. After that, who knows, more bug squashing and tweaking iterations?

[Phemt81]

I'd rather they have it on Lamannia for months than release buggy enhancement.

Unlike EDs, bugged enhancements would ruin a lot of characters.

I am sure developers are aware that highly bugged enhancements could lead to an unplayable game and they won't release them until 100% sure they work 1000% as intended.

That's why this feature is taking so long and will have to wait some more months in my opinion.

Said that, you did a good thing reminding that to us all

[EllisDee37]

My ignorant assumption is that anything that goes on lammania is pretty much part of the next update/patch/hotfix. Meaning U18 would include the enhancement pass.

[Violith]

I'd rather they have it on Lamannia for months than release buggy enhancement.

Unlike EDs, bugged enhancements would ruin a lot of characters.

I understand that, however they have (or should have) been in development for over a year by now, honestly, currently they shouldnt be as buggy as the ED's were when they were first released since they were in development alot longer

My ignorant assumption is that anything that goes on lammania is pretty much part of the next update/patch/hotfix. Meaning U18 would include the enhancement pass.

well it was already stated that it'd be in lam for the long haul. just didnt say how long, since update 18 isnt hte expansion coming out, I highly doubt it'd be in u18. and now it seems like it'd not be in u19 (? supposed number of the expansion) which is slated for summer... so... more then likely it seems more probably that it'd make it in at u22 or so

[Gratch]

My ignorant assumption is that anything that goes on lammania is pretty much part of the next update/patch/hotfix. Meaning U18 would include the enhancement pass.

There was some devtalk or interview or "words" where they said they'd probably make the enhancement updates run across a few Updates before they go live. So this was cited as an exception to normal testing.

[stricq]

finally!

When will we get the Pony mod on Lamannia?

[QuantumFX]

These Class Enhancements will only be available during the weeks specified. During the off weeks, they will be disabled in order to allow us to get more focused feedback.

So, how are we supposed to test out the Racial PrE’s?

[LeoLionxxx]

Do these include the "new" racial PrEs? Or only existing racial PrEs?

Will existing and new PrEs be fleshed out to tier 3 or whatever the new max (rank 5) tier?

How will items like TOD set interact with the new system?

I'm also wondering if the updated Dragonmarks will function correctly with the Epic Chimera's fang - At least, I hope the updated Dragonmarks have hade it into the enhancment pass.

[toaf]

yaa more B5 stuff in forums.

[Antheal]

Yes later this year there will be a 'free for all' phase.

Later this year?

So does that mean we can't even expect the enhancement revamp to go live until next year?

[emptysands]

So, how are we supposed to test out the Racial PrE’s?

See:

While Racial Enhancement Trees will be available for the entire time, Class Enhancements will be distributed throughout the weeks as follows:

Of course, that may not be the racial PrEs. Or since the racial PrE are notional just class PrEs with different preqs, maybe they will only be active for the source-class week indicated. ie. AA = Ranger week.

[ehcsztein]

At least, I hope the updated Dragonmarks have hade it into the enhancment pass.

Me too. My most likely to be broken by the changes build also happens to be a DM Halfling. Really hoping the racial trees have DM info available etc.

[IronClan]

Later this year?

So does that mean we can't even expect the enhancement revamp to go live until next year?

This really needs to be one of those things that's released when it's done, not pushed out by manager types because it's a nice bullet point on the back of an expansion box.

These changes have the potential to screw up a lot of characters that have done some interesting contortions to fit prerequisites for unusual PrE combo's (like my Elven FvS AA), needless to say it needs to be old news by the time it's published or lots of people will be blind sided... a long public beta of sorts is a excellent way to get the news out there and also discover the worst of the "breakage" and either fix it or at least let players of those characters know it's going bye bye.

[Momsboys]

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Where?

[knightgf]

Where?

In the center of the negative energy plane, accessible only by planescaller.