Update 41 Lamannia Preview 11/13-11/15

[HastyPudding]

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?

The devs said that the Sharn expansion won't be until next summer, at the earliest.

[cru121]

The devs said that the Sharn expansion won't be until next summer, at the earliest.

interesting, haven't heard this yet. was this in some recent livestream?

[nolifer1]

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

same question, i dont spend tp to cosmetics i dont even like... and falconry tree for 1500tp is way too much

[Cocomajobo]

The devs said that the Sharn expansion won't be until next summer, at the earliest.

I do not know where you heard that but it does not match my understanding of our current schedule.

[HastyPudding]

I do not know where you heard that but it does not match my understanding of our current schedule.

Eh, didn't Severlin or Cordovan say you guys were shooting for the summer of 2019?

[Selvera]

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.

I know they have good clearspeeds already; I'm playing a dps sorc right now. But there's a difference between running a quest in 10 minutes on a melee or 9 on a caster; and 10 on a melee or 5 on a caster. And that difference is one of them involves someone getting twice as many pastlives (and reaper xp) done in the same amount of time. If the devs just hear people whine "casters don't do enough damage" and double their damage output; heroics are going to be a casterfest.

And I'm not so sure why people keep on bringing up this "rely on spellpoints" thing. I've played clerics, fvs, wizard, warlock, more fvs and more clerics, and now a sorcerer, and spellpoints really isn't an issue. Often I skip... all of the shrines in a quest. Maybe spellpoints is a high skull issue or something. I haven't play too much spellcasters in high skulls.

[Tlorrd]

Why are arcanes the only ones getting a dps pass ... it's not like divines are not in the same boat with regards to end game dps casting. Divine disciple definitly can't keep up even with domains and neither can FVS.

[asdfghhjkl]

I do not know where you heard that but it does not match my understanding of our current schedule.

Here is more rumors for you to debunk, please. I did not create them. I heard them from a friend.

he says Sharn Expansion releases:
A) end of 2018
B) also first months of 2019
C) also spring of 2019
D) also summer of 2019
F) also autumn of 2019
G) also winter of 2019
H) also midnight on 29 February, 2020

[Lynnabel]

Here is more rumors for you to debunk, please. I did not create them. I heard them from a friend.

he says Sharn Expansion releases:
A) end of 2018
B) also first months of 2019
C) also spring of 2019
D) also summer of 2019
F) also autumn of 2019
G) also winter of 2019
H) also midnight on 29 February, 2020

The answer is J: All of the above.

[asdfghhjkl]

The answer is J: All of the above.

Thanks! I heard some good rumors it seems

[HastyPudding]

Here is more rumors for you to debunk, please. I did not create them. I heard them from a friend.

It wasn't a rumor. I'm almost 100% certain Severlin said summer 2019 was what they were looking at in a livestream. The schedule might have changed since then, but I'm just going off the most recent information, ergo, if it comes from the source it's not a rumor.

[Indubitably]

I know they have good clearspeeds already; I'm playing a dps sorc right now. But there's a difference between running a quest in 10 minutes on a melee or 9 on a caster; and 10 on a melee or 5 on a caster. And that difference is one of them involves someone getting twice as many pastlives (and reaper xp) done in the same amount of time. If the devs just hear people whine "casters don't do enough damage" and double their damage output; heroics are going to be a casterfest.

And I'm not so sure why people keep on bringing up this "rely on spellpoints" thing. I've played clerics, fvs, wizard, warlock, more fvs and more clerics, and now a sorcerer, and spellpoints really isn't an issue. Often I skip... all of the shrines in a quest. Maybe spellpoints is a high skull issue or something. I haven't play too much spellcasters in high skulls.

And also replying to the person this guy quoted.

There is a BIG difference between clear speed and being able to deal with bosses.
Its a moot point if a wizard can clear twice as fast as a fighter if the wizard gets stuck on the boss and can't kill him because it takes forever and he runs out of SP.

I agree to an extent that wizards and especially sorc don't need more aoe damage in heroics (epic is another matter). But single target damage is terrible throughout. It basically becomes unviable, and its very easy for your chosen type of damage to become useless in certain scenarios.

Wizards don't need to be top-tier DPS. Just have viable options for dealing with high HP - CC/instakill immune characters.
On the same note - EK doesn't, and shouldn't, be capable of making a pure wiz/sorc on par with a melee class.
Just go play a melee class if you want to do that. It would mean EK has to not only match everything in the dedicated fighter's tree, but then also has to make up for wizards HORRIBLE HP / BAB / Armour to be on par!
Guess what the fighters will start splashing to take if such a tree exists? and imagine the (warranted) whining when wizards can CC/instakill/AoE/ and melee at equal viability with survival?

My main concern is that wizards, and sorc, are losing a lot of options and flexibility. Their spellbook is slowly becoming more and more useless and unviable.
These "new nuking spells" will just further make their normal spells obsolete and pointless.

What are we going to get? A level 1 spell we can spam for single target damage for heroic, then a lvl9 spell that deals epic level damage?
Class is going to be so fun and varied to play with everyone spamming the same one spell over and over again because its the best and only viable option.

Nice Solution

Please make archmage actually improve their school(s) of magic and make spells in their spellbook viable again for that school(s).
Can easily be done by reducing cooldown, cast speed, and SP cost of spells of that school based on enhancements or cores taken. That would also equally help evocation and non damaging schools without favouring one or the other.

Enchanter is throwing out holds and charms at twice the speed for less sp (but still suck at nuking). Evokers are throwing out meteor swarms and prismatic sprays at twice the speed for less sp (but still average at CC, DC depending).
Twice the CC, Twice the damage... works out well. Spellbook still viable.

Clearly though fixing broken spells and max levels is a nice solution, but i suspect beyound possible.

Lastly... please stop giving us SLAs or feats for spells that are broken! "Master of..." increasing max caster levels of spells that won't change (or dont really scale with level), SLAs that don't benefit from METAS or are cheap and/or not spammed anyways (cloudkill is both!).

[Krelar]

It wasn't a rumor. I'm almost 100% certain Severlin said summer 2019 was what they were looking at in a livestream. The schedule might have changed since then, but I'm just going off the most recent information, ergo, if it comes from the source it's not a rumor.

If you can't actually show the source, no one else remembers it, and there hasn't been any official confirmation it's still a rumor.

[HastyPudding]

If you can't actually show the source, no one else remembers it, and there hasn't been any official confirmation it's still a rumor.

I looked on the DDO youtube channel and I can't find the video. It was a livestream with Cordovan and Severlin, that much I know. It was the one where they first said there was going to be a Sharn expansion. I think it was supposed to be the 'big announcement' the devs were talking about several months ago.

I strongly dislike that people think I'm making this sh*t up. I'm not.

[FuryFlash]

I know they have good clearspeeds already; I'm playing a dps sorc right now. But there's a difference between running a quest in 10 minutes on a melee or 9 on a caster; and 10 on a melee or 5 on a caster. And that difference is one of them involves someone getting twice as many pastlives (and reaper xp) done in the same amount of time. If the devs just hear people whine "casters don't do enough damage" and double their damage output; heroics are going to be a casterfest.

And I'm not so sure why people keep on bringing up this "rely on spellpoints" thing. I've played clerics, fvs, wizard, warlock, more fvs and more clerics, and now a sorcerer, and spellpoints really isn't an issue. Often I skip... all of the shrines in a quest. Maybe spellpoints is a high skull issue or something. I haven't play too much spellcasters in high skulls.

Right, the problems with DPS casting have very little to do with heroics (which the spells were originally created for), and much more to do with:
1. Epic, and more noticeably, Legendary content due to enemy stat increase (higher hp, saves, number of enemies, etc.) vs. spell damage increase ratio (spell base damage dice don't scale, caster levels hard-capped, etc)
2. Reaper scaling hits spellpower extra hard, which scales down the primary way of increasing spell damage and further negates DPS casting in reaper, especially Legendary Reaper where high-skull gameplay is more common

[MistaMagic]

It wasn't a rumor. I'm almost 100% certain Severlin said summer 2019 was what they were looking at in a livestream. The schedule might have changed since then, but I'm just going off the most recent information, ergo, if it comes from the source it's not a rumor.

If you mean this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljsnozQ76ME it also does not say when

[Tlorrd]

I looked on the DDO youtube channel and I can't find the video. It was a livestream with Cordovan and Severlin, that much I know. It was the one where they first said there was going to be a Sharn expansion. I think it was supposed to be the 'big announcement' the devs were talking about several months ago.

I strongly dislike that people think I'm making this sh*t up. I'm not.

I think your quoting the interview they did with Axel at Gencon. They said it there I'm pretty sure. It's on Axel's YouTube page.

I believe you.

[Sam-u-r-eye]

I think your quoting the interview they did with Axel at Gencon. They said it there I'm pretty sure. It's on Axel's YouTube page.

I believe you.

Well I don't. People misremember constantly. It's nothing personal so don't take it that way.

[zehnvhex]

Captain Pessimism time!

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New Free to Play Dungeon - Given the shoddy quality of previous F2P dungeons, modern mudflation and the copy/paste encounter ratio of a lot of recent pay packs, I'm expecting something that takes roughly 46 minutes to complete, has "2 Fighter NPC's, 2 Ranged NPC's, 2 Caster NPC's" in exactly 80% of encounters and rewards about 40% less XP than the average quest does at that specific level range. But it will have one really nice item worth farming so we'll all do it for a week.

End Game Raid Loot Revamp - While the updated loot is nice, tossing in another token farm on top of it is just a slap in the face. "Yo dawg we heard you like raid tokens so we made raid tokens you can buy with your raid tokens." We now have heart seeds, CoV's, raid runes and now dragon souls. ETA on next token system because "No guys for truly and for real we have it figured out this time?" You should be condensing this stuff, not adding more. What the heck guys.

Arcane DPS Spells Pass (Wizard/Sorcerer "nuking" spells) - No mention of Warlocks? You guys realize they're one of, if not the, worst DPS classes in the game right now, right? I mean if all you play is epic hard they're pretty dope, but on epic hard Sorc's absolutely crush Warlocks. Not to mention it should be 'caster dps' because it's an endemic issue across all spell casting classes. I'm smelling a whiff here given how bad you guys are at balance. Not your fault of course, balance is really hard, but when at least one dev we know of doesn't understand how DPS rotations work, it's a bit concerning.

EK revamp - I eagerly anticipate a bunch of 2 minute duration, 30 second recast self-buffs. 20 melee power in T5 or capstone (or both). Let's see, +1 to crit range and crit modifier at some location in the tree. How far off am I so far? Int to damage as a core? One or two "+2[W]" abilities that grant double strike or maybe a stacking DoT?

Bard Songs revamp - I'll admit, I kinda like this one. Kudos guys. People whining about buffing taking forever in raids clearly have never raided before.

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[vryxnr]

I think your quoting the interview they did with Axel at Gencon. They said it there I'm pretty sure. It's on Axel's YouTube page.

This isn't it either. I just watched that video/interview, and the only mention of a date is made after the interview by Axel (not a dev) and he only mentioned the year (2019), not a specific season/month. Near the end he also said "and something in the fall" with no mentioned of either the year or what that specific content is, just an 'unrelated to what he was just talking about '"something"'.