Downtime Notice: Thursday, October 14th 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM Eastern (-4 GMT)

[brian14]

Balance issue? What "balance issue"?

The candies were of minor assistance at best...unless there was a way to exploit them in such a way that they gave more than their intended benefit.

I suspect Sweet Cinnamon Cloud was the problem. If you max out Listen skill, it gives you a huge bonus to Dodge. So a level 30 Druid can be pretty much unhittable.

[superevbully]

Balance issue? What "balance issue"?

The candies were of minor assistance at best...unless there was a way to exploit them in such a way that they gave more than their intended benefit.

If that's the case, then it's news to me.

Agreed very strange as i see them as little to minor albeit very cool buffs

[jskinner937]

I suspect Sweet Cinnamon Cloud was the problem. If you max out Listen skill, it gives you a huge bonus to Dodge. So a level 30 Druid can be pretty much unhittable.

IIRC you still were limited by dodge cap. And if you arent wearing robes, or using a shield its even more limited.

[Fivetigers33]

• Due to U51's Epic Destiny work, we did not have time to do the careful work of designing and implementing new effects for the Candies that retain the cool factor of the existing ones without disrupting game balance in the same way the existing ones did.
• As a result, we decided to retire the candies for this year, and hope to bring them back with new effects next year.

Just so we understand, you are saying that giving players a 50% uptime buff of 5 melee power and 5 PRR/MRR would disrupt game balance? You must not know about sentient weapons...

[YTSEsoldier]

[QUOTE=Lynnabel;6469863]They're actually slated to be in U51, which is the next full update after U50, which was the debut of this overhaul.


Thanks for the reply...its good to have a target date at least. Hopefully there will be a perfected item or 2 that is actually useful for melee as the options Lahar gives now are pretty much caster items. The Perfected Charged Gauntlets are Meh at best (Sovereign lightning strikes <<<<<<<<< dripping with magma and speed is on every third melee item so likely duplicate stat), and being "crafted/purchased" the Perfected dragon helm will never have reaper ability boost with helmet as of yet the ONLY slot that gets that bonus, makes it kinda difficult to choose (not to mention that half of its bonuses are caster based and it is still a ridiculously rare drop that cannot be purchased with runes yet). And Jidz is for monks...

[silinteresting]

We ran into a build issue overnight so the deployment has been delayed a bit, but is still happening today. The game worlds are expected to become unavailable around 10:00 AM. This likely means we will not be able to open by 1:00 PM, but we'll see.

on way home so cant check is game back up as i write this?

your friend sil

[jskinner937]

on way home so cant check is game back up as i write this?

your friend sil

Nope

[Kielbasa]

Just so we understand, you are saying that giving players a 50% uptime buff of 5 melee power and 5 PRR/MRR would disrupt game balance? You must not know about sentient weapons...

Don't worry they will be back and even better balanced than ever at 25% uptime and 3 mp/rp and 3prr/mrr and 1% dodge. Boy oh boy!

[YTSEsoldier]

Interesting! Details?

Just more opportunity to waste threads rerolling...if paying with threads (or shards or whatever) there should be an option to buy the set bonuses you actually want since more options means more chances for sets that wont be useful to you particular build.


First quote did not make it into thread...was addressing new set bonuses for gem of many facets.

[YTSEsoldier]

I suspect Sweet Cinnamon Cloud was the problem. If you max out Listen skill, it gives you a huge bonus to Dodge. So a level 30 Druid can be pretty much unhittable.

Last I checked it was dodge only and not dodge cap so said druid would be nekad...and still capped in the 25-30ish range unless also a monk, who usually can cap their dodge by endgame anyways...I'm pretty sure that's not unhittable nor game breaking.

[jskinner937]

Last I checked it was dodge only and not dodge cap so said druid would be nekad...and still capped in the 25-30ish range unless also a monk, who usually can cap their dodge by endgame anyways...I'm pretty sure that's not unhittable nor game breaking.

Hood of unrest was the one that raised the dodge cap temporarily i believe to 50%. But yeah thats what I remember as well and honestly never missed that candy when it spoilled.

[HedgeHogShadow]

[apocaladle]

The owners of SSG for about a year now.

Standing Stone Games is owned by Daybreak Game Company

Daybreak Game Company is owned by Enad Global 7 (EG7) since 2020. Formally owned by Sony till 2015 then Inception Aquisitions till 2020.

Enad Global 7 is a publicly traded company with 44.75% held by insiders with institutional ownership of 29.78% held by 44 institutions.

EG7 has 87.12 million shares outstanding, a float of 44.67 million shares and is trading at 29.65kr for a market cap of 2.35B (currency in Swedish Krona)

[jskinner937]

Standing Stone Games is owned by Daybreak Game Company

Daybreak Game Company is owned by Enad Global 7 (EG7) since 2020. Formally owned by Sony till 2015 then Inception Aquisitions till 2020.

Enad Global 7 is a publicly traded company with 44.75% held by insiders with institutional ownership of 29.78% held by 44 institutions.

EG7 has 87.12 million shares outstanding, a float of 44.67 million shares and is trading at 29.65kr for a market cap of 2.35B (currency in Swedish Krona)

Since you are good at cut and paste, can you find out when DDO will be up and cut and paste here? :P

[apocaladle]

Since you are good at cut and paste, can you find out when DDO will be up and cut and paste here? :P

Sorry, no amount of googling seems to yield and accurate results.

[jskinner937]

Sorry, no amount of googling seems to yield and accurate results.

lol

[Rog]

Balance issue? What "balance issue"?

The candies were of minor assistance at best...unless there was a way to exploit them in such a way that they gave more than their intended benefit.

If that's the case, then it's news to me.

the new meld into darkness upcaps dodge bonus allowing the candy to stay that makes your dodge the same as your listen score
could give you over a 100 dodge. not a big deal to me but some people cry foul

[Sylvado]

"We ran into a build issue overnight so the deployment has been delayed a bit, but is still happening today. The game worlds are expected to become unavailable around 10:00 AM. This likely means we will not be able to open by 1:00 PM, but we'll see."

It was closer to 11 when it went down.

[Syrrah]

Since you are good at cut and paste, can you find out when DDO will be up and cut and paste here? :P

Easy, you can calculate it yourself:

I've noticed - barring some exceptions - that downtime due to patches always takes twice as long as planned -1 hour.

The downtown scheduled was 9 AM - 1 PM, that's four hours. So it will take instead 4 x 2 -1 = 7 hours, in other words 3 hours longer that announced. This means servers are expected to be fully up again around 4 PM or 16:00 GMT.


The more you know ...

Edit to add a disclaimer: the above is no criticism or silly sarcasm. Just something I noticed. A tip for potential readers: for our clients, we have learned over the years to always overprovision any durations and deadlines given, that way we can afterwards go back to that client and say "Hey, we managed it in even less time! and the client is ven happy because of the good service.

[Azithoth]

Easy, you can calculate it yourself:

I've noticed - barring some exceptions - that downtime due to patches always takes twice as long as planned -1 hour.

The downtown scheduled was 9 AM - 1 PM, that's four hours. So it will take instead 4 x 2 -1 = 7 hours, in other words 3 hours longer that announced. This means servers are expected to be fully up again around 4 PM or 16:00 GMT.


The more you know ...

this

simple as that...