Introducing: Visible Cloaks!

[Gywiden]

Can we get visual quivers too, please?

[Satyriasys]

Can we get visual quivers too, please?

They said it's a possibility in the llivestream.

[Yamani]

Updating updating?

Gonna call it now, all cloaks will cause lag from updating^2

I think it was said in the Wednesday live stream cloaks will be client side.

[Niminae]

How will this affect hair styles?

How will this look on bears?
On bears with hair dye / war paint?
On wolves?
Will there be cosmetic capes for Companions?

Will this break some random dungeon? And is Enter the Kobold fixed yet from the last "change that broke a random dungeon?"

[tigglenorrifis]

Is there going to be a new tab for cosmetics? Similar to the companion tab in your inventory? A place where u can store cosmetics??? so u don't have to worry about them taking up inventory/bank space!!?? please haha

[The_Human_Cypher]

Is there going to be a new tab for cosmetics? Similar to the companion tab in your inventory? A place where u can store cosmetics??? so u don't have to worry about them taking up inventory/bank space!!?? please haha

I've been suggesting an account-wide cosmetics Tab for years on these forums.

[Satyriasys]

Is there going to be a new tab for cosmetics? Similar to the companion tab in your inventory? A place where u can store cosmetics??? so u don't have to worry about them taking up inventory/bank space!!?? please haha

Doubtful. Cosmetics are coded as normal items and the game cannot distinguish them from any other item. They would have to recode every cosmetic in the game and the way the game handles cosmetics. Cordovan said it would just be easier to give us all more space (which may happen)

[Niminae]

[*]The ability to take an item you have looted and make it a ‘cosmetic’ without having to pay each time you want to do it. This is probably the biggest annoyance in DDO’s method and the greatest power of LOTRO’s. Every time you want to make a DDO cosmetic item it is another 245 points (or 340 for a cosmetic weapon with glamered aura)

You know, I've never purchased a Glamered Weapon Aura because I've never been quite sure that it would work as described.
Here is what the description in the store reads:

Change the visual effects on your glamered weapon with this Aura!
Use this glamer on any glamered weapon created by the the Mirror of Glamering (except bows, crossbows, hand wraps, shields, or thrown weapons) to change the weapon's visual effect. Choose from exclusive new Fire, Cold, Acid, and Lightning effects.

But I recall a lot of posts from Cordovan and others when Ravenloft came out about special situations where the weapon glammer (Weapon Aura: Mist) that came with the $130.00 bundle would or would not work, and it just seemed like it was not worth my effort to try to figure out if I would be wasting my money/points to buy the weapon glammer and possibly find out that for the weapon I wanted it to apply on that it just doesn't.

The 95 store points is just trivial and I'd probably have this on many characters if not for it being set up as something for me to avoid due to all the special cases surrounding the use. If it was just "except bows, crossbows, hand wraps, shields, or thrown weapons" that would be clear enough, but I do not believe that that list is inclusive of all the caveats which should be listed on the item in the store. But maybe someone can set me straight if I'm not understanding things clearly.

[Niminae]

Can we get visual quivers too, please?

I'd prefer non-cosmetic quivers that are compelling enough for players to use other than the ~1-2 which exist now. That kind of limitation for an entire equipment slot should have been corrected long ago. If there were only ~1-2 helms being used by all players you'd hear about it on the forums weekly. I mean, if they can also be cosmetic, fine. But I'd prefer that they be useful before effort is spent to make them pretty.

[Iriale]

Great, good job, devs.

But make sure they move realistically! It is important!

So ... will we see it already for the next update? Can we have a preview in Lammania? I really want to see how they will be

[Petrak]

i am so looking forward to this! i really hope there is a cool vampire style with a popped collar like Strahds old cape!

[KingKoz]

Hey, everyone!


By now, a lot of you have probably figured out - either through our teaser trailer or today's Livestream - that visible cloaks are coming to DDO! We're very excited about this feature and expect you have some questions, so here's a compilation of the important information! Please bear in mind that this feature is still in development, and is subject to change!

Please, STOP LISTENING to the players! 1st Bear Dye, now cosmetic cloaks? Why waste money and time on cosmetics? How about waste time and money on fixing existing issues.....for instance stopping the social panels dead LFM's or when I look at my friends list, I see the correct level they are? Or better yet, stop wasting time on cosmetics and produce more content!

[C-Dog]

Please, STOP LISTENING to the players!..

...shouted the player, oblivious to his own irony.

[-D_Rock-]

Yes, I understood what you meant; I just got done manually analyzing and updating every cloak in the game.

Like I said above, (even in the case of icons that have them), none of DDO's visible Cloaks will have hoods attached. There may be separate Helmet-slot items in the future that resemble Hoods and match certain Cloaks.

well why would they have hoods when hoods are a head slot. literally we have hoods in game and they go to head slot. Hood of unrest? I mean check the ddo store, there are hoods there too for low points. Indigo hood? I got one on occasion with free points from TR just to cosmetic and pass around to toons. just examples here.

[ComicRelief]

Yay !!

I've been suspecting this was somehow in the pipeline since I first set eyes on Count Strahd, and I'm so happy that indeed it is !!



As a cape-wearer, I'd say wait and see, though I would guess that some will be cloaks, and others capes.

Though technically, a cape has a hood whilst a cloak does not.

A cloak is also typically shorter than a cape, and is a more decorative garment, whereas a cape is a properly functional one against the rain and cold as well as being a wearable blanket.

A cloak can cover the shoulders and attach below the neck as a cape does.

The garment in the video is definitely a cloak.

Well, actually...

According to this web-site, you have that backwards.

Just sayin'...

[Captain_Pengie]

Here is something I am wondering, will there be a way to see the design on a cloak via its icon or some other method other than putting it on?

I wonder this as some people may go hunting through the AH or trade with other players looking for a specific design so it can be made into a cosmetic but without either a dressing room (ala LOTRO - great feature btw, bring it to DDO please) or designs visible on the icons it is going to be hit & miss as to whether you can get the one you want or don't get ripped off by a bad trade.

Looking forward to this coming to Lamannia either "Soon" or better yet 'MoreSoonerish' so we can try out all the new looks and features.

And BTW - the thing in the video is a cape. Cloak & Dagger put it best, "A cape is just an add on to a shirt. But a cloak…it hugs you"

Or in other terms, Superman, Batman & Thor wear a cape while Cloak, Raven & Doctor Doom wear a cloak.

[Satyriasys]

Please, STOP LISTENING to the players! 1st Bear Dye, now cosmetic cloaks? Why waste money and time on cosmetics? How about waste time and money on fixing existing issues.....for instance stopping the social panels dead LFM's or when I look at my friends list, I see the correct level they are? Or better yet, stop wasting time on cosmetics and produce more content!

It would be a bigger waste of time and money putting the animators to work fixing bugs.

[Kerthyn]

So will these be released with update 40 or before it?

[Fenix93]

So will these be released with update 40 or before it?

Cordovan said the visible cloaks will be in U40

[Saaluta]

Reading this literally brought a tear to my eye as we have been asking for visible cloaks forever, thank you SSG

Saal

(Finally a use for all the mirrors of glammering I have sitting on my bank toon from daily dice rolls!!!!!)