U41.4 Preview 1: 2/26-2/28

[Cocomajobo]

(EDIT: U41.4 has ended. We should have another preview ready in 2-3 weeks. If you have any feedback, feel free to leave it in the appropriate thread in this section of the forums!)

Disclaimer

Everything seen on the preview server, Lamannia, is not final and is subject to change or removal before live release. Specific extra disclaimer on the current visual appearance of Tiefling and Tiefling Scoundrel.

Hey, all! The pre-sale of our new Expansion (visit www.ddo.com/mastermindsofsharn) is on the horizon. Today Update 41 Patch 4 is now live on Lamannia. This preview is expected to last from Tuesday 2/26 to the evening of Thursday 2/28. There will be a dev event featuring at least Cocomajobo on Wednesday from 8:00-10 PM Eastern if you'd like to stop by and ask questions. This preview contains the following features:

• New Heroic Eberron Race: Tiefling
• New Iconic Eberron Race: Tiefling Scoundrel
• New Universal Enhancement Tree: Inquisitive

In addition to those main features there are an assortment of smaller changes and/or bugfixes which are listed below

Character

• Ranger Arcane Archer's Arrow of Slaying now properly requires 12 Character Levels, like other Tier 5 enhancements.
• Knight's Training's text has been updated for clarity.

Items

• Several item-based enhancement effects now disappear on Logout (since you get a new copy when you log in anyway).
• Legendary Greensteel's Ash debuff now properly stacks on targets.
• The Astral Projector now reports its collision more reliably at any range.

Monsters

• Doomspheres will look and act like Doomspheres again.
• Gnoll combat sounds have been redone. Enjoy the laughter.

Quests

• Madstone Crater: A typo has been corrected.

Misc

• The Character Select screen now has a new backdrop for characters in Eberron.
• The UI for the Race portion of the character generation process has been adjusted to account for the growing number of races available.
• The strange new ship in the harbor has docked. Too bad there isn't anyone aboard yet to take adventurers anywhere they haven't been before.
• The fields for Alignment and Gender have been pushed further right on the character sheet, allowing longer Race/Iconic names to appear without being cut off.
• Work has been done on the lighting and color saturation of locations in Eberron.

[Cocomajobo]

Let us know what you think here and in the various main feature threads!

[mr420247]

Credit where credit is good

Ash fix is greatly appreciated

Thanks

[Mindos]

• Gnoll combat sounds have been redone. Enjoy the Slaughter.

there I fixed it!

• The Character Select screen now has a new backdrop for characters in Eberron.

Can we get a new backdrop for characters in Ravenloft too?

• Several item-based enhancement effects now disappear on Logout (since you get a new copy when you log in anyway).

Will this mean less lag? Or more lag when logging in?

[Sam-u-r-eye]

I took a look through both trees and I felt that (balance-wise) they look great! I'll be doing some DPS tests tomorrow hopefully on the crossbow stuff. Cheers!

[mr420247]

So is the new shuri 12 ranger 8 monk or what lol

[Aelonwy]

I love, love, love the new character select screen.

I wish some work would be done to give the character creation screen better lighting. Sometimes when I get out of that dark cave I cringe at the skin tone I've chosen because it looks so different in sunlight.

[FuryFlash]

First off, thank you for moving towards bringing the same minor but noticeable game changes that Menace of the Underdark had. The new character select screen is not a major change, but makes everything feel new and fresh. These little touches are what bring hype to expansions - it should be more than just a quest chain, the whole game should change subtly. Other things like opening music, character select music, UI changes, load screens, all this stuff makes the new expansion feel exciting. Keep it up!

[Grace_ana]

Is there still no character copy option?

[Arkat]

Is there still no character copy option?

I was able to Character Copy one of my Khyber toons on to the Lamannia server with no issue.

[Grace_ana]

I was able to Character Copy one of my Khyber toons on to the Lamannia server with no issue.

I didn't ever get the option.
EDIT: Ah, nvm. I just restarted it and found it. I somehow missed it the first time around. The throwing weapon issue is still a thing, though, and others noted it too.

Also devs, there is an issue in the test dojo with thrown weapons. Anytime we try to get one out of the dojo, it tells us it cannot split and we get nothing. That makes it impossible to test a thrower. Can someone either fix it or stand around in the dojo to hand out stuff? Thanks!

[Cocomajobo]

Also devs, there is an issue in the test dojo with thrown weapons. Anytime we try to get one out of the dojo, it tells us it cannot split and we get nothing. That makes it impossible to test a thrower. Can someone either fix it or stand around in the dojo to hand out stuff? Thanks!

This is a fundamental issue with vendors and purchasing stacking returning items. This is not likely to be fixed in the near future.

[Cocomajobo]

Can we get a new backdrop for characters in Ravenloft too?

Not on the docket as far as I am aware.

[Searious]

How are dual xbow universal tree chars reloading, when they have an xbow in each hand?

[cru121]

How are dual xbow universal tree chars reloading, when they have an xbow in each hand?

magic?

[Cocomajobo]

A reminder that there will be a Dev event from 8-10 PM Eastern tonight (Wendesday 2/27) on Lamannia where I, and maybe some others, will be around answering questions and gathering feedback to share with the rest of the team.

If you are available and would like to attend, simply log onto Lamannia and use the chat command "/joinchannel devchat" and then set your outgoing chat text to that channel.

[Wanatuc]

U mean Wednesday 2-27 don't u

[Cocomajobo]

U mean Wednesday 2-27 don't u

Right. Wednesday. Monday and Tuesday kinda blended together into one very very long day on my end. =P

[ThomasHunter]

Reading through everything has me pretty excited for the expansion. However that is tempered a bit as at least one of the three new trees would have been great to see Charisma for damage.

For example if I build a Warchanter I feel like I have to make a sword wielding PDK. This makes the Scoundrel seemed constrained to Swashbuckler. Just seems limiting instead of allowing or encouraging new builds. Yeah I tend to dislike a straight Strength build. Heh.

The Inquisitive seems and sounds really fun! Here again though is how to get a decent damage stat working. Maybe a fighter or FvS? Again just somewhat self-limiting instead of inspiring new builds!

Thanks for listening and I’m pretty pumped to play Sharn!

[Cocomajobo]

As a reminder: The first preview of U41.4 will be ending this evening. Likely around 6:30-7:00 PM Eastern.