Downtime Notice: 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Eastern (-4 GMT) Monday, October 27th

[Cordovan]

We have now reopened the worlds to players and enabled the ability to patch up game clients. Thanks, and we will see you in the game!

[LXP]

Yup, works now. Thanks a lot.

[Valthanas]

How many people are yelling "GO! GO! GO!" at the little green bar?

/raises hand

[supott]

im loving this new ability so far

[Spoonwelder]

im loving this new ability so far

First....huh?

Second

• Eveningstar
  
  • There is now a General Vendor in Eveningstar.

Huzzah to the barkeep - I am hoping it has potions if not..... I hate having to go back to House K for haste pots and other quickly consumed stuff.

[Aishana]

I'd certainly love to be in the game right now, but my launcher has been hanging on "Checking dat files" for the past five minutes. Weeeeee.

[Buddha5440]

12:00 EST and not open. No updates on Facebook or the logon screen. Anyone heard anything?

Seriously??? You post this 1 Minute after the time frame given for the update... Take a breath and re-evaluate your priorities.

[Violith]

not seeing it on the known issue list, but is anyone looking into the Thunderforge throwing weapons? They currently dont work (atleast the throwing axe doesnt) in certain spots.

[Cordovan]

Unfortunately, another one of our Release Notes has been quelled:

• The Mark of Death
  
  • Intercession Ward now blocks the Aura of Intercession.

This fix didn't make it into the patch, and will be removed from the Release Notes shortly. This fix should be in Update 24.

[NoLeftEye]

While patching,

During the download of dndclient.exe, right around 46%, it will fail with the following:

Unknown Error 0xffffffff80043012.

Restarted client couple times with no behavior change.

Any ideas anyone?

[UurlockYgmeov]

Unfortunately, another one of our Release Notes has been quelled:

• The Mark of Death
  
  • Intercession Ward now blocks the Aura of Intercession.

This fix didn't make it into the patch, and will be removed from the Release Notes shortly. This fix should be in Update 24.

Darn Quells Strike Again!

[LrdSlvrhnd]

I just don't understand why the Devs have specified "melee" hirelings at all here?

How many people actually even USE melee hirelings?

I use 'em all the time, because they're gold seal and free. Summon the panther and owlbears in the wildy, let 'em move for a bit, and then park 'em in an attempt to increase spawns in KF a teeny bit. Or park 'em at a respawn point while I continue on. Not to mention my arti's dog or my druid's wolf. Sometimes I want a little bit of extra muscle, but I want 'em to stay out of a particular fight (going up against something with instakill, for instance, because I don't trust them to have DB). Sometimes I just want something handy to come grab my stone and follow me back to a shrine, just in case.

I'm more concerned with whether 1) AI customization is now persistent; and 2) if parked melee hires will actually defend a spot, or if they'll still try to do ranged (I'm guessing most melee, and certainly the gold-seal animals, don't have ranged).

[Panzermeyer]

Release Notes are up, as are the new Known Issues. Just a reminder that DDO.com will be down from 10:00 AM until 12:00 PM Eastern today. If the game servers reopen prior to the web site becoming available again, please check our social networks (Twitter, Facebook, Google+) for that information. Thanks!

The release notes talk about fixes to the hirelings that clearly have not been effective, and I wonder if they were even tested before they where put in the release notes.