Downtime Notice: Friday, December 8th 9:30 AM - 1:00 PM Eastern (-5 GMT)

[Cordovan]

UPDATE: Due to an issue that came up overnight, today's hotfix has been postponed. We'll let you know what the new date is soon.

The DDO game worlds will be unavailable on Friday, December 8th from 9:30 AM - 1:00 PM Eastern (-5 GMT) for a hotfix. Thank you for your patience.


We are working tonight on this hotfix, so there's a small possibility the downtime will need to be rescheduled. Our intention is to correct the following things:

• Correct an issue where the examination window will sometimes get wider over time.
• Fix an issue where the Keystone would not consistently spawn in the quest Invitation to Dinner.
• Correct an issue with The Mist wall in Raven's Bane that could prevent players from progressing past Baleful.
• Lowered the number of wolves that spawn in Fresh-baked Dreams.
• Correct typos in Fresh-baked Dreams.
• Remove an energy drain spell attack in Fresh-baked Dreams and Mad Tea Party.
• No longer allow Dimension Door to be cast in the quest Mad Tea Party due to the spell sometimes breaking the quest.
• No longer having the quest Sealed in Amber sometimes get a PvP flag activated.
• Fix an issue where the wrong level weapon would be bestowed to a player as part of the weapon giver encounter in the Barovian wilderness area.
• Resolve some issues where effects were stacking incorrectly over time (aka - "stacking effects bugs").
• Fix an issue where a Half elf Vistani Knife Fighter would sometimes display in a T-Pose.
• Provide instructions in their tool tips on how to use Sentience Toolkits, Destroyers, and Jewels.
• Correct an issue in Assault on the Aerie of the Slave Lords where Madam Eva would not move to open the secret passage, making the quest not able to be completed.
• Correct an issue where Grave Wrappinigs, Antipode, and the level 20 and 24 versions of Amaunator Ascetic's Handwraps were not Accepting Sentience.
• Correct an issue where the Arcane Archer Critical Multiplier was not applying consistently.

[Draculetta]

[*]Correct an issue in Assault on the Aerie of the Slave Lords where Madam Eva would not move to open the secret passage, making the quest not able to be completed.
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Not sure that's the right quest listed there unless Madam Eva makes a new appearance in slave lords now

[Cocomajobo]

Not sure that's the right quest listed there unless Madam Eva makes a new appearance in slave lords now

There's a different Madam Eva in Slave Lords. And, in fact, she's messed up currently on live because she got caught in changes being applied to the Ravenloft Madam Eva because they share the same name. =P

[DaveyCrockett]

Not sure that's the right quest listed there unless Madam Eva makes a new appearance in slave lords now

Isn't Madam Eva the "host" in the brothel (in Slave Lords)?

[itstheguy]

Is there anything in the patch to fix getting dropped from the game every time you try to enter Barovia? I have tried lowering the new sliders and moving other settings low as well.

[Draculetta]

There's a different Madam Eva in Slave Lords. And, in fact, she's messed up currently on live because she got caught in changes being applied to the Ravenloft Madam Eva because they share the same name. =P

I never even connected the 2 names till you just said that

[The_Human_Cypher]

Isn't Madam Eva the "host" in the brothel (in Slave Lords)?

[The_Human_Cypher]

BTW, the two Scarecrow hirelings from the Ravenloft expansion will still not go into a Hireling folder. There needs to be a patch to fix this issue; all of the other Permanent Hirelings from the previous expansions can be stored in Hireling folders.

[Veltamore]

The DDO game worlds will be unavailable on Friday, December 8th from 9:30 AM - 1:00 PM Eastern (-5 GMT) for a hotfix. Thank you for your patience.


We are working tonight on this hotfix, so there's a small possibility the downtime will need to be rescheduled. Our intention is to correct the following things:

• Correct an issue where the examination window will sometimes get wider over time.
• Fix an issue where the Keystone would not consistently spawn in the quest Invitation to Dinner.
• Correct an issue with The Mist wall in Raven's Bane that could prevent players from progressing past Baleful.
• Lowered the number of wolves that spawn in Fresh-baked Dreams.
• Correct typos in Fresh-baked Dreams.
• Remove an energy drain spell attack in Fresh-baked Dreams and Mad Tea Party.
• No longer allow Dimension Door to be cast in the quest Mad Tea Party due to the spell sometimes breaking the quest.
• No longer having the quest Sealed in Amber sometimes get a PvP flag activated.
• Fix an issue where the wrong level weapon would be bestowed to a player as part of the weapon giver encounter in the Barovian wilderness area.
• Resolve some issues where effects were stacking incorrectly over time (aka - "stacking effects bugs").
• Fix an issue where a Half elf Vistani Knife Fighter would sometimes display in a T-Pose.
• Provide instructions in their tool tips on how to use Sentience Toolkits, Destroyers, and Jewels.
• Correct an issue in Assault on the Aerie of the Slave Lords where Madam Eva would not move to open the secret passage, making the quest not able to be completed.
• Correct an issue where Grave Wrappinigs, Antipode, and the level 20 and 24 versions of Amaunator Ascetic's Handwraps were not Accepting Sentience.
• Correct an issue where the Arcane Archer Critical Multiplier was not applying consistently.

same time again what about people on other time lines always have to deal with down time. Please fix ongoing issues that are in the game instead of adding new stuff and creating more issues . maybe that might help. Oh and a server merge so its not like being in a ghost town all the time with hardly any lfms and players. No point buying new content if there's no 1 to run it with.

[Jedamijo]

BTW, the two Scarecrow hirelings from the Ravenloft expansion will still not go into a Hireling folder. There needs to be a patch to fix this issue; all of the other Permanent Hirelings from the previous expansions can be stored in Hireling folders.

MIne do, but I had to unlock them first. Same wiith the cats. I believe they used to go in even when locked.

[grandeibra]

Correct an issue where the Arcane Archer Critical Multiplier was not applying consistently

Is there any chance the barbarian Ravager crit range error (not applying after any weapons swap and that has been on live for many months) could be fixed anytime soon?

[The_Human_Cypher]

MIne do, but I had to unlock them first. Same wiith the cats. I believe they used to go in even when locked.

OK, thank you. I will try that.

[padith22]

Is there anything in the patch to fix getting dropped from the game every time you try to enter Barovia? I have tried lowering the new sliders and moving other settings low as well.

I Second this!

[The_Human_Cypher]

MIne do, but I had to unlock them first. Same wiith the cats. I believe they used to go in even when locked.

That didn't work. I checked and my Scarecrows were never locked to begin with. I locked and then unlocked both of them and then tried to drop the Scarecrow hirelings into my Hireling Folder, but nothing happened. This may be a selective bug.

[KookieKobold]

Unfortunately, we've just found a particularly nasty issue in the new build for this downtime so we will not be doing it at the time listed.

We'll update once we get a more solid plan of action for getting this hotfix out the door!

[The_Human_Cypher]

Unfortunately, we've just found a particularly nasty issue in the new build for this downtime so we will not be doing it at the time listed.

We'll update once we get a more solid plan of action for getting this hotfix out the door!

Fix the Scarecrow hirelings and the Hirelings Folder issue in the upcoming hotfix if you are going to have more time.

[1eatsboogers]

I also found a bug with the Ruins of Berez quest where the quest breaks if you one shot Baba Lysaga. She disappears from the quest, and the four brooms spawn, but you can't progress and have to restart

[Valerianus]

Is there any chance the barbarian Ravager crit range error (not applying after any weapons swap and that has been on live for many months) could be fixed anytime soon?

please. and any chance to slip in a real quick and easy (i think) change to Frenzy and Death Frenzy in FB tree? Duration, from 1 min to whatever, 10 min, 30 min, 60 min, stop the clickfest really please

[Fenix93]

in addition to this, I was thinking if you ever put a log in theme Ravenloft for those characters that are barovia, every time I log a character that in barovia makes me the screen of the Forgotten Realms and then there is also the map of the world that shows that of Ebberon while it should show the world map of ravenloft ... but these small things make everything more credible.

[Tist]

[*]No longer allow Dimension Door to be cast in the quest Mad Tea Party due to the spell sometimes breaking the quest.

Any chance of fixing the scripting bug in this quest? It took me 6 tries to complete the quest, since every time before, upon interacting with the Baron's assistant (kill or tell to go do stuff), the Lady would appear in the middle of the tunnel system and become unresponsive. After that happens, although doing various things might allow killing all of house 1 or house 2 (or both), the Lady would not be in her house, not react to conversations, etc, and stop the quest from being progressed. I have no idea what I did different on attempt 6 to get it to work.

Also the "stop the world" bug that ravenloft preview patch introduced, seems to be when the client wants to load an unloaded sound. Sometimes the client stops while it tries to load the sound, other times it seems to fail the load attempt.