Downtime Notice: Wednesday, December 9th 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM Eastern (-5 GMT)

[Cordovan]

UPDATE: The game worlds have reopened.

The DDO game worlds will be unavailable from 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM Eastern (-5 GMT) on Wednesday, December 9th to release Update 48 Patch 2. The release notes can be found on DDO.com.

[TitusOvid]

The Master's Gift is now Bound to Account.

Thank you very much.


Cheers,
Titus.

[rabidfox]

Any news on when we might get an update that reopens hardcore server transfers?

[SirValentine]

All sources of preslotted augments have been removed from the game.

So, why was this done? There's a bunch of obvious bug fixes (yay), and then this quality-of-life reduction is randomly thrown in, too. What is the reason?

[Cordovan]

Any news on when we might get an update that reopens hardcore server transfers?

Yes, maybe/probably. Assuming some work goes well tomorrow, we expect to be in a position to reopen transfers from Hardcore through something like January 3rd. We will have a formal announcement when this actually happens.

[Aftergod]

The DDO game worlds will be unavailable from 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM Eastern (-5 GMT) on Wednesday, December 9th to release Update 48 Patch 2. The release notes can be found on DDO.com.

"All sources of preslotted augments have been removed from the game."

whats the meaning of removed from the game?For example, I have a level 1 BTC featherfalling ring with Master's Gift. What will it look like after being updated?

[Aelonwy]

The Master's Gift is now Bound to Account.

Thank you very much.


Cheers,
Titus.

Huzzah! Good work devs!

Additionally, thank you very much for fixing invisible augment slots on new random loot and end rewards.

[Mindos]

"All sources of preslotted augments have been removed from the game."

whats the meaning of removed from the game?For example, I have a level 1 BTC featherfalling ring with Master's Gift. What will it look like after being updated?

Named loot that comes preslotted will drop in the loot list no longer having that augment slotted, I think. Items already in posession should not change. I think.

[Aelonwy]

"All sources of preslotted augments have been removed from the game."

whats the meaning of removed from the game?For example, I have a level 1 BTC featherfalling ring with Master's Gift. What will it look like after being updated?

I could of course be wrong but I think that means named loot that used to drop with a pre-slotted augment such as Coronation Shield with Heavy Fort augment will no longer drop with the augment pre-slotted. Of course this means a lot, and I mean A LOT, of old named loot will become even more junk/sentient food than before but on the bright side without augments they'll be even easier to feed to your sentient weapon/artifact.

[Livmo]

The DDO game worlds will be unavailable from 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM Eastern (-5 GMT) on Wednesday, December 9th to release Update 48 Patch 2. The release notes can be found on DDO.com.

Lots of win!

Also many ways to not have a blind link:

The DDO game worlds will be unavailable from 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM Eastern (-5 GMT) on Wednesday, December 9th to release Update 48 Patch 2. Changes are listed in the Update 48 Patch 2 Release Notes.

[kanordog]

So, why was this done? There's a bunch of obvious bug fixes (yay), and then this quality-of-life reduction is randomly thrown in, too. What is the reason?

This will eliminate the need of legacy unslotters and the possible mess they can create.






Also, you got to buy augments instead of removing them for free.

[Livmo]

"All sources of preslotted augments have been removed from the game."

whats the meaning of removed from the game?For example, I have a level 1 BTC featherfalling ring with Master's Gift. What will it look like after being updated?

Items like this, https://ddowiki.com/page/Item:Minos_Legens

Master's Gift doesn't come pre-slotted into an item.

[LeoLionxxx]

Lots of win!

Also many ways to not have a blind link:

The DDO game worlds will be unavailable from 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM Eastern (-5 GMT) on Wednesday, December 9th to release Update 48 Patch 2. Changes are listed in the Update 48 Patch 2 Release Notes.

Yes, wording like this would have been less confusing. Before hovering over the link, I half expected the link to bring me to DDO.com, with the expectation that I go hunt for the notes; or worse, that the notes had not been posted yet and this was just telling me where to go to find them later.

[Saekee]

• All sources of preslotted augments have been removed from the game.

Oh wow, I am disappointed. Couldn't you at least leave in the lowbie ML4 ones? I assume the stats or effects that they represented were replaced with some kind of suffix/prefix?

I am glad I farmed out some lowbie ones from Ringleader and Redwillows before this hit.

[Seph1roth5]

Some of the low level pre-slotted stuff was nice (go loincloth!) but if it'll make the augment system run smoother than I'm all for it.

[LrdSlvrhnd]

• All sources of preslotted augments have been removed from the game.

Oh wow, I am disappointed. Couldn't you at least leave in the lowbie ML4 ones? I assume the stats or effects that they represented were replaced with some kind of suffix/prefix?

I am glad I farmed out some lowbie ones from Ringleader and Redwillows before this hit.

I wouldn't assume that at all...

As for leaving in the lowbie ML4 ones... where do you draw the line, really? Better to just nuke them all and not have this worry anymore. Although now I wish I hadn't kept procrastinating on farming up some Reaver's Rings for the free heavy fort LOL

[Greantun]

Items like this, https://ddowiki.com/page/Item:Minos_Legens

At least they made it so you could just purchase the Vitality +20 Augment from the turn in.

The other augment I found useful that was on other items is the Heavy Fortification one. Things like https://ddocompendium.com/w/Reaver%27s_Ring have it, and the prementioned https://ddocompendium.com/w/Coronation_Shield

I know you can buy one from Verisgante in House P, or from Lahar, but Verisgante you have to spend Astral Shards, or hope your luck is good enough for the RNG to work.

Lahar costs 20 Tokens of the Twelve, so is also not very convenient.

[grudgebear]

Seems like a good patch!

[Matuse]

Trying to figure out exactly what this means. I see three possibilities:

1) The items with pre-slotted augments are just removed from the drop tables and will not show up at all.
2) Items will show up, but their pre-slotted augments have been removed so they appear with empty slots.
3) Items will show up, the augment abilities they used to have as augments are now just a part of the item.

So...

1) Minos Legens removed from the tapesty reward list entirely.
2) Minos Legens can be obtained from the tapestry reward list with Heavy Fort and an empty colorless slot.
3) Minos Legens can be obtained from the tapesty reward list with Heavy Fort, +20 Vitality HP, and no slots.

[Yamani]

Trying to figure out exactly what this means. I see three possibilities:

1) The items with pre-slotted augments are just removed from the drop tables and will not show up at all.
2) Items will show up, but their pre-slotted augments have been removed so they appear with empty slots.
3) Items will show up, the augment abilities they used to have as augments are now just a part of the item.

So...

1) Minos Legens removed from the tapesty reward list entirely.
2) Minos Legens can be obtained from the tapestry reward list with Heavy Fort and an empty colorless slot.
3) Minos Legens can be obtained from the tapesty reward list with Heavy Fort, +20 Vitality HP, and no slots.

2. + the augment can now be obtained separately as an additional reward option.

This change is essentially to stop the easy farming of certain augs, is my guess. Since you can just unslot the aug with a legacy unslotter.