Dev Event: Preview 2 of U50 Chatlog (15th July 2021)

[Zavina]

(World Broadcast): World broadcast: 'Hello! Welcome to U50 Preview 2. For the next 2 hours members of the DDO team will be available to chat about the update and gather feedback. To join in just type "/joinchannel devchat"

[Mindos]

thank you for doing this!

[Tlorrd]

So they want melee ahead of ranged in burst and sustained DPS

They want melee ahead of casters in sustained DPS

1. They have a funny way of trying to implement that
2. RIP ranged AOE ... IPS will never change and if anything may get nerfed again
3. RIP DPS casters ... Your day was over before it ever began

[Vish]

So they want melee ahead of ranged in burst and sustained DPS

They want melee ahead of casters in sustained DPS

1. They have a funny way of trying to implement that
2. RIP ranged AOE ... IPS will never change and if anything may get nerfed again
3. RIP DPS casters ... Your day was over before it ever began

The only sustained damage is v bosses

[Stravix]

So they want melee ahead of ranged in burst and sustained DPS

They want melee ahead of casters in sustained DPS

1. They have a funny way of trying to implement that
2. RIP ranged AOE ... IPS will never change and if anything may get nerfed again
3. RIP DPS casters ... Your day was over before it ever began

Thing is, melee has to hard commit to one of those, where as ranged can swap on the fly.

In that sense, I agree with them, with the combat style feats as they are right now, sustained DPS should likely be

1.) TWF

2.) Either SWF or AF Ranged

3.) DoT Caster

4.) IPS Ranged

5.) THF

6.) AoE Caster

Seeing as how, atm, Dot Caster doesn't really exist. The rest of those seems to align, at least somewhat with that mentality.

[Karthunk]

So they want melee ahead of ranged in burst and sustained DPS

They want melee ahead of casters in sustained DPS

1. They have a funny way of trying to implement that
2. RIP ranged AOE ... IPS will never change and if anything may get nerfed again
3. RIP DPS casters ... Your day was over before it ever began

The forums decided that ranged will never be dps monsters again by causing such a massive backlash at the Devs over Inquisitors. It is what it is at this point.