That is the feedback in several threads from every player who runs any kind of caster who relies on DC checks.

My maxed PM cannot land a single Finger of Death on any mob even after (multiple rounds of) enervation + power drain running a necro DC of 77. A bard quotes an enchantment DC of 81 and can only briefly hold some types of mobs even after debuffs. A druid has stated that he can't get Earthquake to land with an 87(!) evocation DC.


For reference, see:

https://www.ddo.com/forums/showthrea...=1#post5652383
https://www.ddo.com/forums/showthrea...=1#post5650495
https://www.ddo.com/forums/showthrea...=1#post5649942
https://www.ddo.com/forums/showthrea...=1#post5650214





These are characters running with min/max builds who cannot mathematically beat the saves of the U27 mobs. That is, they don't just fail some annoyingly large percentage of the time - they fail at or near 100% of the time. DC casting is dead if this doesn't change before U27 goes live.

We haven't had a public acknowledgement by any dev yet that this is viewed as a problem. It wasn't changed at all between the first two Lamannia builds even though it was clear in the feedback after the first one that this is an issue. It's not mentioned in the release notes or known issues. Given a long history of things on Lamannia generally going live as-is without such an acknowledgement, we're left to assume that this is intentional for some reason, which is odd given that there are a couple of incremental DC-related items in the new loot.


Is this getting discussed in the PC forums? Are there plans to change this in some way before it goes live? If it's an intentional part of the design going forward to end DC casting in end game, some forewarning would be appreciated so that we have time to TR into a barbarian or FoTM Shiradi caster to raid with our friends when U27 goes live.





U27 is a tale of two difficulties - any generic DPS build is finding this content trivial on EE, and anything that needs to beat saves is finding it mathematically impossible to do anything but pike.