Downtime Notice: 8:00 AM - 11:00 AM Eastern (-4 GMT) Thursday, September 24th

[Loromir]

Wow.. going live with update already? Please, wait until at least beginning of October.. it's barely been 2 weeks..

I'm betting this is a pretty "vanilla" update as far as new systems go. It doesn't seem they are introducing any new questing feature/mechanisms. Even the Ranger pass does not seem to be offering anything new, just applying existing abilities to the ranger enhancement tables and re-naming them.

Even for the new quests...they have re-used some of the art-work and areas.

I'm encouraged that this will be a mainly bug free update. The only hiccups I see could be they might need to tweak ranger enhancements to add or reduce power.

[WarhammerQuest]

May I politely ask for release notes? Can not await them.

Shouldn't the release notes have gone up before the release is applied!?

[Nyata]

awwww.... just got home from work, started client, and was like 'what do you mean, failed to connect to patch server...' - I got home 2 minutes after the downtime started. ah well.

always happy about new content and fixes of old content, so I think I'll survive Just hoping it really only takes 3 hours

[Kwyjibo]

Expediently pushing out content, what could possibly go wrong?

[morkahn82]

Shouldn't the release notes have gone up before the release is applied!?

As they are release notes and not pre-release notes it is sufficient to bring them at the time of release i.e. 11:00 AM. But you can ask politely if they can post them during downtime so we have something to read in the time where we can not play.

[Nyata]

and here I thought the drama that inevitaly always happens on the forum somewhere during downtime was our reading for entertainment... my bad

[Shindurza]

https://www.ddo.com/forums/showthrea...ted-9-21-15%29

That link has the most recent updated release notes from the Lamannia test server, and those are usually pretty close to what goes live.

-Shin

[silinteresting]

hey cordo

any chance of the release notes please mate.

thankyou.

your friend sil

[Cleanincubus]

seems to me that there is enough content yet to publish this year for at least two more updates beyond U28...

level cap
epic Vale
epic Shroud
epic HoX
epic Tempest Spine
fvs and art pass
AA
monk pass
handwraps
Cannith Crafting pass
Mabar reincarnated


In fact it seems to me that Turbine is accelerating the amount of content updated/added this year. I'd bet (if I were a betting warforged) that the schedule shows 6 updates (4 with quests) in 16.

A little hint in the Dev Preview stream would seem to suggest that we'll more than likely see another update beyond 29. Also the fact that it's only September, and there's more than enough time (especially how quickly they are shoving these updates out) to fit at least 2 more updates in.

[Galad1]

With this update speed, we'll have update 43 somewhere between 12-24-2015 and 12-31-2015........ :-p Sorry couldn't help my self....

[Trillea]

Considering that this is the last day of my vacation and that they decided to release the new update today, I give 3:2 odds that the servers will be down all day so i can't get my main to 28 before my wife gets home tonight.

[Cordovan]

Release Notes are up.

[cru121]

Release Notes are up.

release notes link to a new-in-store article which contains u27 content. fixy fixy?

[gabbatastic]

update goes as planned...games back up by 11...then massive bugs, further downtime while issues r resolved and all back and running by friday night...oh then they will do xp weekend and everyone will forget how upset they were and life will return to normal...

You REALLY think we'll be back up by ELEVEN. Maybe on the west coast if we're lucky. I haven't seen an update finish in the time window they provide in over a year. It's pretty pathetic, but I give 0% credibility when it comes to uptime predictions.

[Requiro]

Release Notes are up.

Thank you!

ps. Typo: Archer's Focus now adds 3 Ranged Power per stack instead of 2% damage to missile damage.

[drathdragon]

so,

if i read well these release notes.... it mean that there will be a Mabar of some kind this year...

is it confirmed ?

[morkahn82]

Monster Manual
A new Monster Manual (Monster Manual 6) is now available! Includes a top-tier reward of an exclusive Hellhound Creature Companion!

Just a note, this is missing.

[Cordovan]

The game worlds are now open. We'll see you in the game!

[HuneyMunster]

Release Notes are up.

"Deflect Arrows: +1 Competence Bonus to Critical Damage Multiplier while dual wielding weapons."

Did this replace?

"Deflect Arrows: You also gain an additional 10% chance to make off-hand attacks when dual wielding."

[gabbatastic]

you really think we'll be back up by eleven. Maybe on the west coast if we're lucky. I haven't seen an update finish in the time window they provide in over a year. It's pretty pathetic, but i give 0% credibility when it comes to uptime predictions.

wow! I stand corrected... Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!