Ravenloft Expansion Preview #2 Friday-Monday

[Fenix93]

what time does it open lammania?

[Cocomajobo]

This game has sound??? I've turned off 99.9% of sound since you can't hear people otherwise.

Personally, I generally reduce most in game sounds to very minimal except for DM and music. The DM narration is one of my favorite aspects of DDO. =P

I assume that the raids won't contain a heroic version? Nor any heroic sentient weapons?

Correct. Neither the raids nor sentient weapons have heroic counterparts.

Have all the set issues been worked out? The ones we gave feedback on last round?

I will simply answer with a quote from the OP:

-All of the Quest Loot (With a small amount of feedback based changes from last preview but not the full list of changes we currently intend on making)

[Cocomajobo]

what time does it open lammania?

Once I've finished verifying the build from last night is stable and writing release notes.

[Fenix93]

Once I've finished verifying the build from last night is stable and writing release notes.

ok i thank you ^^ I can not wait

[Thar]

Personally, I generally reduce most in game sounds to very minimal except for DM and music. The DM narration is one of my favorite aspects of DDO. =P
P:

Is it just me or at 1% the sound effects are still blaringly super loud?

[Kza]

Is it just me or at 1% the sound effects are still blaringly super loud?

No, me also. Solo- more or less Always sound on- awesome.
Group: never sound on - cant hear other ppl if so.

Sound is very important- superhappy you get voice on quests and on sentient weapons. I hope its many many lines and if you stray from weapons alignment plz let the weapon say bad bad things and try correct you. I hope its not just some punchlines- hopefully weapon see what you do and comment on that.

Personally i will get a lawful good weapon and kill the sovereign host in house p. If the weapon go bananas it will be awesome- hopefully it be so :-)

[Thrudh]

The DM narration is one of my favorite aspects of DDO. =P

Me too.

[KookieKobold]

We've finished verifying the build and are now in process on updating Lamannia with said build!

As such, it'll probably be about an hour to an hour and a half before we open up.

[sebascz]

ok

[PsychoBlonde]

Me too.

Me three!

[MistaMagic]

Update currently downloading

[khalilkilo]

Downloaded and waiting for it to open, can't wait!

[Cocomajobo]

The preview is now open! The OP has been updated to reflect this. Please visit the link directory post (right below the OP) and look through the various threads available for feedback!

[DANTEIL]

[*]Racial Enhancement Point Tome

I filed a bug report on this, but I thought I would mention it here. The Racial Tome appeared on the character after transferring over to Lamannia, but when I applied the tome to my character, it seemed to give me a 'regular' enhancement Action Point that I could use to upgrade any Enhancement, rather than being limited to the Racial Tree.

[Cocomajobo]

Lamannia will be coming down in roughly half an hour at 5:30 PM Eastern.

Thank you all for coming out to the second Ravenloft Expansion preview! We've been parsing all the feedback from the weekend and have had several long discussions about what portions of feedback to act on and in what ways in the office today. We are tentatively planning on running a third Lamannia preview late next week (but, as always, all plans are subject to change).

[Seikojin]

Something I noticed, and will echo on the sentient weapon feedback:
Weapons with enhancements had a hard time being a offhand weapon. Like they wouldn't drag and highlight the offhand, or allowed to be in the offhand. Even for a one handed weapon.

[Cocomajobo]

Something I noticed, and will echo on the sentient weapon feedback:
Weapons with enhancements had a hard time being a offhand weapon. Like they wouldn't drag and highlight the offhand, or allowed to be in the offhand. Even for a one handed weapon.

What weapons?

• All Weapons?
• Weapons that woukd “Accept Sentience”?
• Weapons with a Sentient Jewel slotted in them?
• Ravenloft quest loot named weapons?
• Specific Ravenloft Raid loot named weapons?

[Seikojin]

What weapons?

• All Weapons?
• Weapons that woukd “Accept Sentience”?
• Weapons with a Sentient Jewel slotted in them?
• Ravenloft quest loot named weapons?
• Specific Ravenloft Raid loot named weapons?

I was checking all the weapons from the Ravenloft weapons from both the quests and the raids. I think they were all morninglord versions of weapons that an undead scourge asimar would wield. All but the light hammers would not work. This was without sentient jewels in them.

So in list order:
No, not all
Yes
No
Yes
not specific, but there were ones from there that didn't work
trying mauls, light picks, maces, hammers, clubs. Only light hammers of morninglord worked. So well, they allowed me to dual wield sentient versions.

[Fenix93]

Misc

• Some monsters do not have correct appearances.
• Vargouilles look like the dev instead of the D&D monster.
• Flameskulls are still being tweaked.
• Barovian Witches, Barovian Trappers, Mountain Folk, Corrupt Watchmen, and most rares do not have correct appearances.
• Many NPCs and monsters do not have final/correct names, or dialog.
• The Brides of Strahd do not have their correct appearances.

This is noteworthy, some monsters or bosses have been changed since last beta ... but some still need to be duly ordered, like Baroness witches who should have this aspect.

but I love the job done on the skull flame although most of those "Wisps" I see in Wilde and in some quests are older and I think they will be flame skull in the final build.

In general congratulations are really doing this aesthetically expanding, there is the right atmosphere and submarine musics are evocative,
but there are some "bugs" to solve as when you enter combat with a Barovian Withc completely breaks the atmosphere ... changing combat music with more action.Gigantic quests are very simple and maybe better so too it would not make any sense if they did not buy the expansion if a quest that lasts nearly 1 hour about pay few XP, I already imagine a Daily Run XP of Death House ... and a Mad Tea Party ... EN x2 on lfm.

but it's worth adding that this expansion is worth at least the basic price to be enjoyed, and is not a negative but positive comment, because that means "Mist of Ravenloft" is an expansion that is worth buying, because full of things to do captivating and entertaining and a large explorable area the biggest ever ever seen in DDO but...

my questions are

Will the guides in the final phase direct you to the quest where you have to go? or will you have to spend Astral Shard or have to complete the quest first as for Storm horns, Necro 4 and 3BC?

Do the bosses and some NPCs have a unique look in the final build?

in castle ravenloft in a "Invitation fo Dinner" can you take the option of "not going to for see my future" so that when you make Zerg groups inside the quest, do not you go blind?

can you add boxes for traps at some points in quests so that they can be disabled?