The Announcement You Have Waited For

[Drwaz99]

While Melange made the quest House of Rusted Blades, I am to be blamed for all the itemization in Updates 14, 15, 16, and 17 (MotU through Epic Gianthold).

Melange started doing some item work with Update 18, and is carrying it on into Update 19.

Now that Melange is trained up on item creation, he may be doing more of it in the future. =)

Blamed? You ended up doing very, very good on eGH and 90% of the MoTU loot.

There was never any version of the Caught in the Web items that had randomization.

When the items were still being designed, I mentioned on the Lamannia forums that I was considering making the staff randomly select a spell power type, but that never happened- instead I implemented it with Impulse.

You see that even one possible random mutation is no good. Especially on raid loot, and even on named loot but to a lessor degree. I am nearing 60 runs of CitW and still no Twilight for my Sorc. Now if you had put a random SP mutation on it and I ended up getting one without the mutation I wanted, I would be livid. As it stands now my FVS has all he needs from CitW and unless I am helping someone, I will never, ever set foot in that raid on him.

[Urjak]

Cool a named Shuriken

now lets hope it does some cool stuff^^

oh and ... screenshots pretty please

[Hendrik]

Thank you +Mel for the Shuriken!!!!


Looking forward to seeing your work!

[yynderjohn]

Many of you read Feather of Sun's announcement that I was pulled in to help with the named loot for U19. In his post he promised you 10 new named items from me. I put forth some proposals and made what I could and the end result is not 10 new items.

It is 12 new items. Each quest will be getting one more named item added to its possible loot and Through a Mirror Darkly and What Goes Up will each get one more on top of that.

So what are these new items, I'm sure you're asking right now. I have an answer!

In Wheloon:
The Shade's Hood - a Helmet
Shadowsight - Goggles
Glorious Dawn - a Ring
Trapsmith's Crossbow - a Heavy Repeating Crossbow
The Morning Star - a returning Shuriken (not to be confused with a morningstar)
First Blood - a Bastard Sword

In the Storm Horns:
Frostbite Blade - a Scimitar
Thunder and Lightning - Handwraps
Elemental Fury - a Short Sword
Giant's Fist - a Maul (and a really painful one at that)
Nether Orb - an Orb/Shield
Consuming Darkness - another Ring

Come on!! Can we get a heavy or light pick? tons of good bastard swords, handwraps and shortswords already. There is only 1 named pick worth using, Deathnip, and its ML 14.

[AlteredState]

Come on!! Can we get a heavy or light pick? tons of good bastard swords, handwraps and shortswords already. There is only 1 named pick worth using, Deathnip, and its ML 14.

There are only 2 "good" bastard swords, Echimera fang and Nightmare. But yeah that is still more than the one heavy pick.

[yynderjohn]

There are only 2 "good" bastard swords, Echimera fang and Nightmare. But yeah that is still more than the one heavy pick.

I'd consider Templars Retribution one as well. Anyhow, yeah I'd love a named pick.

[Silverleafeon]

Eppy Woot.

Thank you.

[Urjak]

Come on!! Can we get a heavy or light pick? tons of good bastard swords, handwraps and shortswords already. There is only 1 named pick worth using, Deathnip, and its ML 14.

There are only 2 "good" bastard swords, Echimera fang and Nightmare. But yeah that is still more than the one heavy pick.

I'd consider Templars Retribution one as well. Anyhow, yeah I'd love a named pick.

Ya ... totally forgot about them ... would also like to see epic picks ... IMO it all *screems* for a new crafting system like greensteel where you can craft each and every weapon type ... then there would be at least one endgame weapon for each type ... and then there is no problem adding specific named weapons as there is always the possible "fallback" to the crafted weapons (greensteel served that very role for a long time ... but with U19 it really is completely outdated ... it already was with U14 ... but now with increased dice and new enchantments you can random loot better than green steel ...)

epic necropolis would be cool though as well ... would like to see some undead quests again (yes there was a time when DDO was too undead intensive ... at that time I also didn't want more undead quests) ... but now we have only very few undead in endgame ... and with pally post U19 being so focused on evil outsider and undead I think its about time we get some more epic undead quests ... AND that would mean the possibility for epic deathnip ... THAT would be epic

[Gratch]

New items are nice... would be even nicer if our current L25 ones weren't stuck at ML19 attribute bonus levels.

Aka, EE Helm of Dragons have level 19 +8 attributes on them (as do tons of other L23-25 nameds gears).

I'd most prefer these to just be updated to +10 stats on all existing named items... or add alter recipes so we can replace our ML19 named L25 stuff. Or you could add a ton of upgrade recipes for your EGH raid/helm loot to go from +8 stat to +10/11 stat... bump the ML if it's a new upgrade recipe.

Or better yet reduce the power creep and cap attribute bonus at +9 for ML28... save +10 for ML30.

Then do the same thing for DC focus items and an upgrade recipe for Dream Visor.

It's like you've smashed the 8 layer cake down, added 3 layers and left current named loot with the raspberry.

[PublicEnemy]

All good news there!

And I just posted to say a big thank you to listen (atleast a bit ;P) to us!

Also, yes the loot since u14 been very good, heck I love most of the stuff that comes from CITW, each weapon is so different and interesting that I get excited every time I run it to see what I could get! (even if I give to someone else if needed, ofc).

I have confidence in the upcoming loot (even if a few mistakes were made, but nobody's perfect!) and can't wait to see what it will looks like! Dear developers, don't give up thanks for the great loot until now and keep going! Some of us can be (too much?) rude sometimes, but it's only because they love that game too and only want to get it improved!We have faith in you! Cheers!

[Jay203]

Many of you read Feather of Sun's announcement that I was pulled in to help with the named loot for U19. In his post he promised you 10 new named items from me. I put forth some proposals and made what I could and the end result is not 10 new items.

It is 12 new items. Each quest will be getting one more named item added to its possible loot and Through a Mirror Darkly and What Goes Up will each get one more on top of that.

So what are these new items, I'm sure you're asking right now. I have an answer!

In Wheloon:
The Shade's Hood - a Helmet
Shadowsight - Goggles
Glorious Dawn - a Ring
Trapsmith's Crossbow - a Heavy Repeating Crossbow
The Morning Star - a returning Shuriken (not to be confused with a morningstar)
First Blood - a Bastard Sword

In the Storm Horns:
Frostbite Blade - a Scimitar
Thunder and Lightning - Handwraps
Elemental Fury - a Short Sword
Giant's Fist - a Maul (and a really painful one at that)
Nether Orb - an Orb/Shield
Consuming Darkness - another Ring

a named heavy repeater and a named shuriken?
Melange, do not disappoint us

[Drwaz99]

a named heavy repeater

I second and third and fourth that. Please, please, please make it at least comparable (lateral move for different situations) and/or better than Needle. If it's not as good and has a higher min lvl..then it's not going to be a good use of development time.

[maddmatt70]

Many of you read Feather of Sun's announcement that I was pulled in to help with the named loot for U19. In his post he promised you 10 new named items from me. I put forth some proposals and made what I could and the end result is not 10 new items.

It is 12 new items. Each quest will be getting one more named item added to its possible loot and Through a Mirror Darkly and What Goes Up will each get one more on top of that.

So what are these new items, I'm sure you're asking right now. I have an answer!

In Wheloon:
The Shade's Hood - a Helmet
Shadowsight - Goggles
Glorious Dawn - a Ring
Trapsmith's Crossbow - a Heavy Repeating Crossbow
The Morning Star - a returning Shuriken (not to be confused with a morningstar)
First Blood - a Bastard Sword

In the Storm Horns:
Frostbite Blade - a Scimitar
Thunder and Lightning - Handwraps
Elemental Fury - a Short Sword
Giant's Fist - a Maul (and a really painful one at that)
Nether Orb - an Orb/Shield
Consuming Darkness - another Ring

Well done on the shuriken.

[Missing_Minds]

They are named items for a reason

*shrugs* A "Ginsu" is a named knife, but still just a knife.

Just because something is named does NOT make it relic status. You've become too used to the Monty Haul style of loot.

Heck, think of the legendary and mythical reputation that the sword Excalibur has. Do you know how 2nd ed. DnD designed it? Just a +5 longsword of sharpness. It didn't even rate vorpal or holy avenger status.

[Silverleafeon]

Or you could add a ton of upgrade recipes for your EGH raid/helm loot.

Dragons in a future expansion, perhaps more Dragon Scale Helm/Armor Upgrade/Reoutfit Options coming?

[Wizza]

*shrugs* A "Ginsu" is a named knife, but still just a knife.

Just because something is named does NOT make it relic status. You've become too used to the Monty Haul style of loot.

Heck, think of the legendary and mythical reputation that the sword Excalibur has. Do you know how 2nd ed. DnD designed it? Just a +5 longsword of sharpness. It didn't even rate vorpal or holy avenger status.

Aaaand noone gives a **** about how DnD designed Excalibur.

This is DDO, get your facts straight. There are 2 kinds of loot here: Named loot and Random generated loot. They shouldn't be mixed, ever.

It's like saying: from now on, every random generated loot that you will pull will have Wisdom +6 on it. And there you killed a category.

Cool right?

/sarcasm

[lyrecono]

i agree, named loot is called named loot for a reason,
i can understand the desire to cater to different builds with the random stuff.
Might i suggest a crafting system to fill in the random bits instead?
The Shroud seems to be doing this just fine for many years.


Question:
When will we be getting a 2handed weapon that out dps the ESoS?
i know the FoT gs comes close when dealing with full fort mobs!
*same for some drow weapon master stuff and a upgraded cleaver*
but we're 8 levels beyond this thing, mob hp kept inflating, when are we seeing propper 2handed ESoS beater instead of "close but not there yet"

oh and no joke stuff either, like a greatsword that only works when naked

[Alistina]

Very happy to hear about new named heavy repeater, wraps & shuriken. Happy for the shortsword as well, my toons tend to use them a lot on several lives

Any ETA on the screenshots? Eager to see them. And thankyou for the post n designing more new shinies

[CoasterHops]

Aaaand noone gives a **** about how DnD designed Excalibur.

This is DDO, get your facts straight. There are 2 kinds of loot here: Named loot and Random generated loot. They shouldn't be mixed, ever.

It's like saying: from now on, every random generated loot that you will pull will have Wisdom +6 on it. And there you killed a category.

Cool right?

/sarcasm

They shouldn't be mixed ever? Your ramblings are starting to get more and more nonsensical.

[Hendrik]

Aaaand noone gives a **** about how DnD designed Excalibur.

This is DDO, get your facts straight. There are 2 kinds of loot here: Named loot and Random generated loot. They shouldn't be mixed, ever.

It's like saying: from now on, every random generated loot that you will pull will have Wisdom +6 on it. And there you killed a category.

Cool right?

/sarcasm

You include Raid loot in your named loot category??

Talk about a category killer.