DDOCast 651 - Update 51 Preview 1 pt 1

[pjstechie]

Arkat & Vooduspyce join Patrick this week to talk about Update 51 Preview 1 with the first half of our discussion!

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Update 51 Preview pt 1 - 3:40
Community News - 1:12:25
Lightning Post - 1:16:00

Update 51 Preview 1
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[FuzzyDuck81]

People being annoyed about epic skills feats going is understandable; perform for coup de grace in swashbuckler tree & heal for dissolve in the apothecary tree come to mind for me, that's +5 DC on some handy instakills. Also for rogues, those placed traps like web & glitterdust can be invaluable in certain situations, especially when soloing, since while they don't last long having 100% of your DD skill as the DC for resisting them is very solid.

I'm liking the look of the destinies overall so far, especially looking forward into getting my teeth into trying out some less obvious combinations & interesting synergies that might be possible with secondary & tertiary trees, as well as new build variants that'll be possible. For example, draconic incarnation lets you cast while raging as a relatively low hanging fruit so one possibility could be a shifter cleric or fvs based tank with 7 APs spent in the racial tree (+CON while raging, +75% rage duration), meaning they'll have relatively cheap access to a 5+minute +7 CON clicky with no real drawbacks, or even +10 CON plus full martial weapon proficiencies & extra run speed if they splash 1 barb level & spend 4 APs in ravager.

I've found razorclaw shifter handwrap barbarian perfectly viable - ravager works particularly well for them since it boosts the critical threat nicely & you get great self healing through their fast attack rate. I'm using duality on mine currently & they're still solid even losing the monk bonuses but am working on getting the handwraps of the hound; legendary tatterchain & legendary crocodile maw look very tasty too.

[Arkat]

Good comments as always FuzzyDuck81.