U42 Preview 3: 5/03-5/06

[DYWYPI]

Cocomajobo, you might want to check the grammar for the white text, around: "This dungeon [...] designed ..."

One day your faces will grow mould.

Is there any reason why you are now "auto killed", when falling from a height into a ditch within the Cogs Wilderness even though you are wearing Feather Fall?

[Sormiron]

[*]Druid: Tier 1 of "Force of Nature" (in Tier 5 of Nature's Protector) now grants the following in addition to its current effects: "Your attunement to Nature is emboldened - Your Druidic Oath is no longer broken by wearing metal armor or shields."
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Awsome change! it might make Bear druid tanks possible. I think both pure fighter and druids suffer from having bad reflex saves to much. fighter can get 6 paladin while Bears can not unfortunetly. Maybe with 5 cleric and strength domain it can be done.

Edit: Being enraged and not being able to use renew is a drawback too sadly. Oh, well. What's a royal ball? After all, I suppose it would be frightfully dull, and boring, and completely...

I am gonna give it a shot.

[Emerslochingvyrr]

Maybe it's too late, but I just thought of the convenience of being able to use a teleport spell/scroll to go to Sharn, since it is on the same plane as the other teleport locations?

I didn't know where to post this idea....my apologies if this seems misplaced.

Edit: Forgot about boarding pass. This would be a convenience/neat thing but understood its a disincentive to buy the bundle xD

[Wongar]

Boarding Pass and Bottle of Mist are same - It would be nice if the pass used a different icon like a ticket or at least had a different color. Easy to confuse the two on a hotbar

[Aelonwy]

Boarding Pass and Bottle of Mist are same - It would be nice if the pass used a different icon like a ticket or at least had a different color. Easy to confuse the two on a hotbar

Agreed.

[Lynnabel]

Boarding Pass and Bottle of Mist are same - It would be nice if the pass used a different icon like a ticket or at least had a different color. Easy to confuse the two on a hotbar

It's currently using a placeholder icon - the real one barely missed the preview cutoff.

[Cocomajobo]

The third preview for U42 has ended. Thank you to all who came out to give it a look! Please inform us of any feedback or bugs found in the appropriate threads.

[DYWYPI]

Cocomajobo, you looked rather lonely in the: Test Dojo, so I summoned a mini friend for you to chill-out with for a while...

The scarecrow's only scaring himself.

I noticed several bugs, grammar issues and irregularities that didn't really warrant putting into the quest specific threads themselves.

Skycoach: that allows you to travel to quests was often completely unresponsive unless you clicked it in very particular places. Even if you used the 'focus orb' interact method or got the Dialogue box showing it wouldn't display the correct unlocked quest progression options!

Miscellaneous Errors:

• Erroneous square bracket: Tadjet Mossmn] – General Vendor
• Edwin Tremont, was lacking any floating text above his head!
• Kalphan Riak's dialogue: [.]You've made ...
• Zeleth Crowspire's dialogue: In Just[t] the last ...
• The Same Old Song Credits: Vocals by Satine Phoenix (lower text was half missing)
• Issabet, still displays as "Irk".

Within the Cogs Wilderness there is area that has a molten metal holding pot. The monsters occasionally get "stuck" within there and you cannot target them, etc.

Monster stuck area near:

(Standard): You are at: r1 lx1527 ly787 i6 ox142.93 oy77.36 oz141.23
(Standard): Q:0x70030E8E

That covers most of the odds-and-ends issues that I came across. :-)

[Celender]

Allowing druids to use metal armor is just pathetic!

What is next? Monks can be centered with a greatsword? Evasion with medium armor? A swashbuckler with a tower shield?

I am getting extremely disappointed with this game every update.

[Yamani]

Allowing druids to use metal armor is just pathetic!

What is next? Monks can be centered with a greatsword? Evasion with medium armor? A swashbuckler with a tower shield?

I am getting extremely disappointed with this game every update.

You might want to read kensei's top tier ability. One with the blade.

[lyrecono]

You might want to read kensei's top tier ability. One with the blade.

To be fair, that is for 1 weapon type, requires 5 levels of fighter, makes you loose out on the base damage of unarmed combat and is thematically fitting to oriental adventures, also, lots of people will have to take the weapon group enh to up the damage, costing 3 (underpowered) feats in the process.

As for druids being able to equip heavy metalic armor (i assume in the bear druid tree?), It's a sign of lazy programming, a smart person would have upped the stats of the animal forms, scalled them up each level or introduced more forms(epic destiny?) now that druids have their new bear tank tree and can wear heavy armor, every update, people will demand a dragonscale version of whatever platemail comes out.
Lazy design if you ask me.

If devs were blessed eith foresight they would never allow druids the melee dps (in wolf) and tankyness(in bear)and left that to the classes that were designed for melee/tanking instead of abandoning those classes and diluluting playstyles by adding melee to classes with 9! Spell levels!

Yes, druids can melee to a degree in pnp, however they were unable to wear gear unless using the very rare wildclasps, giving druids the best of 3worlds is just way to much.