Update 41 Lamannia Preview 11/13-11/15

[Cocomajobo]

(EDIT 6: The preview will be closing in roughly 2 hours (at 6PM Eastern). If you'd like to get a last minute look at any of the changes before our second preview now is the time. Otherwise, we'd love your feedback here on the forums until our expected second preview is opened sometime in the week or two after thanksgiving.)

(EDIT 5: Hey, all! I know this preview has had a large share of rockiness and I will again apologize for all of it.

However! Tonight I and whoever else from the team that I can convince after I post this (after last minute deciding to host an event) will be available on Lamannia tonight to answer questions and run the new quest. I am expecting to be available from 6PM to 10 PM Eastern. I'd love so see you there and look forward to answering your questions!)

(EDIT 4: Unfortunately, the issue preventing players from copying their characters from live is not possible to resolve for preview 1. I apologize for the inconvenience this causes.)

(EDIT 3: The Preview is open! Release notes have been posted and links have been added to this thread pointing at the official discussion threads for the various features. I apologize for the scattered nature of this preview's forums presence as we moved as quickly as possible to get it up and open to players.)

(EDIT 2: The blocking issue has been resolved and we are moving forward. We expect to be able to open the preview in the next couple hours. We are expecting this first preview to run until sometime Friday evening. I will update this thread when it is open.)

(EDIT 1: Hey, all! The preview build has encountered a critical blocker that prevents it from being possible to open tomorrow. As such, the preview has been postponed until further notice. I apologize for the unstable nature of preview schedules and will attempt to keep you in the loop as a new timeline solidifies but at this time we do not have any indication as to when the preview will be available.)

Greetings!,

It's time again to begin previewing the next update. We currently expect for a preview of Update 41 to be available on Lamannia from 11/14 (Wednesday) to 11/16 (Friday). As always, this timeline is fluid and may end up changing, however, that is the current plan. This preview contains some but not all of the features that are planned for Update 41 including the following:

Expected Features

• New Free to Play Dungeon
• Loot (Threads of Fate, Filigree)
• Arcane DPS Spells Pass (Wizard/Sorcerer "nuking" spells)
• Eldritch Knight Revamp
• Bard Songs Revamp
• Assorted smaller changes and bug fixes

The full release notes are listed here!

Please note, it is probable that there will be a second preview for Update 41 but the dates of that have not yet been decided. When that has been determined we will let you know!

[Arkat]

nt

[Bluebird6757]

Will the falconry tree finally be available to obtain without cosmetics???

[Craigrx1]

Will the falconry tree finally be available to obtain without cosmetics???

As Per Coco yes it will be

[Cocomajobo]

As Per Coco yes it will be

Currently slated as a favor reward in U41. Remains to be seen whether it will make it in for the preview.

[PsychoBlonde]

Oo, new f2p dungeon, huh? Looking forward to it!

[Katalissa]

Words lack the ability to convey how excited I am for this!

[Hobgoblin]

in regards to the nuking spells can we get some details?

[Fanaval]

Greetings!,

Arcane DPS Spells Pass (Wizard/Sorcerer "nuking" spells)

It will also include endgame feat spell like Ruin, Greater Ruin, Arcane Pulse and Hellball? In my humble opinion they require a improved dps too.

Thanks.

[silinteresting]

if you watched todays live stream there is a point where there talking
with no sound on hmmm, who can lip read?

your friend sil

[Cocomajobo]

in regards to the nuking spells can we get some details?

There will be a thread detailing the pass available for feedback next week.

[GramercyRiff]

Looking forward to see what's in store for Eldritch Knight. Hopefully it's not as disappointing as Warpriest.

[Selvera]

• New Free to Play Dungeon - I'm excited to see what you have in mind for this. More quests is always better.
• End Game Raid Loot Revamp - Sounds good so far. Let's get more info.
• Arcane DPS Spells Pass (Wizard/Sorcerer "nuking" spells) - Tentatively worried about this since we haven't had any info on this so far. I don't want to be locked into having to run a wiz/sorc/warlock/fvs/cleric if I want to have any decent clearspeeds in heroic quests.
• Eldritch Knight Revamp - Excited to see what's in store here. The tree suffers from high cost-low yield enhancements; and very few enhancements powerful enough to want to build towards.
• Bard Songs Revamp - Not so keen on the nerf to inspire courage; but I like the change to single target bard songs.
• Assorted smaller changes and bug fixes - Always good to have.

[Vish]

Sounds good,
No new content
I just rolled into heroics again
Doing some more racials
So thanks for the pause

Will the expansion be after update 41?

[Sam-u-r-eye]

woot,

am looking foward to giving feedback!

[thedip]

Currently slated as a favor reward in U41. Remains to be seen whether it will make it in for the preview.

This is excellent news. Is it likely to be a per character (Vistani Knife Fighter) or per server (Harper) basis?

[MasterKernel]

There will be a thread detailing the pass available for feedback next week.

Next week ? Why do you leave us agonizing for that long ? Come on ! Hit us with the new nerfs already ! :-D

[Hipparan]

Holy cow that's a lot of stuff. I look forward to previewing it all!

[cru121]

Indeed lot of stuff.
Maybe it would make sense to release some information earlier, to allow more time for comments.

[HastyPudding]

• New Free to Play Dungeon - I'm excited to see what you have in mind for this. More quests is always better.
• End Game Raid Loot Revamp - Sounds good so far. Let's get more info.
• Arcane DPS Spells Pass (Wizard/Sorcerer "nuking" spells) - Tentatively worried about this since we haven't had any info on this so far. I don't want to be locked into having to run a wiz/sorc/warlock/fvs/cleric if I want to have any decent clearspeeds in heroic quests.
• Eldritch Knight Revamp - Excited to see what's in store here. The tree suffers from high cost-low yield enhancements; and very few enhancements powerful enough to want to build towards.
• Bard Songs Revamp - Not so keen on the nerf to inspire courage; but I like the change to single target bard songs.
• Assorted smaller changes and bug fixes - Always good to have.

Arcanes and offensive-casting divines have always had good 'clearspeeds' by virtue of the fact that they're spellcasters, and thus very good with trash mobs (physical dps is better with bosses due to not needing to rely on spell points). I don't think they need much help in heroics, but epics is where they fall short.


More on topic: YAAAAAY!!!!!! Everything in this list is exiting!!