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    Default U51 Preview 2: Epic Destiny Overview

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    Greetings! This is a pretty crazy read, so buckle up!

    Epic Destinies
    We are going to fully revamp the ED structure from the ground up to provide a cohesive leveling experience from levels 20-30 and beyond. The new structure will resemble heroic Enhancements - 6 cores along the bottom and 5 tiers reaching to the top. However, there are some notable differences and similarities to the old ED structure:

    You can now be in a maximum of 3 Epic Destinies at a time. Think of it like the current Enhancement window, but without any ability to scroll horizontally along trees. You select up to three trees at a time, socketing them into place in your ED window, just as you select your Heroic Enhancement Trees. You can spend points freely between these three trees, and resetting your ED points out of a tree will allow you to choose a new one.

    As you level up beyond level 20, you will earn Destiny Points that you can spend in these ED trees. Epic Levels now display their experience in Ranks, just like Heroic levels do. Each point is earned at each Rank of an Epic Level, which means that each Epic Level corresponds to 4 Destiny Points. The 5th rank of each Epic Level is the level itself, as it is in Heroics. This means that you'll earn Destiny Points at a steady rate rather than in large chunks every 5 ranks.

    Each Epic Destiny ability in the new Destiny system has a destiny point requirement as well as a level requirement - just like heroic enhancements do - so you can't jump right to the end at level 20 or without spending the requisite points up the tree. The Level and AP requirements are as follows:

    Core 1: Level 20, 0 AP
    Core 2: Level 23, 5 AP
    Core 3: Level 26, 10 AP
    Core 4-6: Will eventually be available at levels higher than 30. Exact breakdown TBD.

    Tier 1: Level 20, 0 AP
    Tier 2: Level 20, 5 AP
    Tier 3: Level 23, 10 AP
    Tier 4: Level 26, 20 AP
    Tier 5: Level 30, 30 AP (you may only be in one Tier 5 at a time)

    You'll notice that the tiers and cores don't exactly match Heroic enhancement trees, and we'll get to that in a moment.

    These new ED trees are a mix of the old ED abilities and brand new ones, providing a huge variety of options to players both familiar with our current EDs and hungry for new exciting abilities. As we examine just what made the old Epic Destinies compelling, we're able to make sweeping changes to themes and designs to better support the widest range of available play. You'll see familiar abilities in unfamiliar places, new abilities in the places of old ones, and a lot of radical changes to bring the entire Destiny system together into more of a cohesive whole. We'll have a separate post about the general design notes of the new trees so you can examine the changes in more detail before diving into the trees themselves.

    Unlocking Trees
    Assuming you've never been in epics before, when you reach level 20, you will be directed to the Fatespinner and a new public area accessible from her dialogue. This area will contain NPCs that correspond to each Destiny. Speak to those NPCs to unlock the destiny for this character permanently. This NPC will give you a description of the playstyles that the tree supports, as well as serve a small part in a new, lightweight tutorial. Once you have done this once on a character, you will not need to do it again. This is just a way for us to vector new players to the Epic gameplay loop into a space that can give them a bit of an aesthetical introduction to our Epic game.

    If you have at least one character before this overhaul that has fully capped all of their Epic Destinies, you will receive an exclusive Cloak featuring the now-deprecated Starmap to commemorate your achievement.

    Unlocking a tree in the new system also provides +3 Fate Points per tree, which means that a brand new character reaching 20 for the first time will begin with 36 Fate Points.

    Fate Points
    There are no more Twists of Fate in this system - as players are able to branch out across up to three trees - but Fate Points still have a use. Every 3 Fate Points you've earned will contribute to 1 Permanent Destiny Point in the Epic Destiny Trees. These points are available at level 20 and can be freely spent between the trees you have slotted. If this is your first time in Epics, you will begin with a bare minimum of 24 Fate Points (from unlocking the 12 currently available trees), which means you'll start level 20 with 8 Permanent Destiny Points. This Permanent Destiny Point system is where we recapture the currently-frontloaded Destiny flow and allows us to offer playstyle-defining elements right out of the gate. The first two tiers of each tree are accessible at level 20, so you'll have quite a bit of choice and power at the start.

    Fate Points also grant +2 Hitpoints and +1 Spellpoints each, starting at level 20.

    You earn Fate Points in a variety of ways - from the Tomes of Fate currently available, from Epic Past Lives at the ratio of 3 Epic Past Lives to 1 Fate Point (which is an improvement, compared to 4:1 as it is currently), and from unlocking Destinies in the new system. You will no longer receive bonus Fate Points at levels 29 and 30.

    The current maximum Fate Points is 55: 36 from unlocking trees + 16 from Epic Past Lives + 3 from a Tome of Fate. This means that you will start with up to 18 Permanent Destiny Points from Fate at level 20 (+1 extra Fate Point).

    Epic Reincarnation
    Rather than requiring Karma, Epic Reincarnation simply allows a player at level 30+ to take the Epic Past life of your choice and return to level 20.

    Epic Completionist, rather than granting a Twist of Fate slot, will instead grant a flat +1 Destiny Action Point. You will also earn additional copies of Epic Completionist every 12 Epic Past Lives you earn thereafter. This means that a player with 24 Epic Past Lives will start with 2 copies of Epic Completionist, and will be able to earn 2 more as they reach the 48 total Epic Past Lives. A player with all 48 will have 4 copies of Epic Completionist, for a total of +4 Permanent Destiny Points.

    This means that a player with Epic Completionist, all Epic Past Lives, the Tome of Destiny from Feywild, a +3 Tome of Fate, and all unlocked Destiny Trees, will begin level 20 with 23 Permanent Destiny Points (18 from fate, 4 from four copies of epic completionist, 1 from tome).

    Epic XP, Epic Destiny XP, and Karma
    Although you may have gleaned this from the above sections, just to make sure everyone is on the same page, there is no Epic Destiny XP or Karma in this new system. A player will not be required to level up in a destiny, or earn XP in a destiny, to unlock new trees or reincarnate. The base 12 destinies will be unlocked at level 20 via a simple tutorial (see the Unlocking Trees header for information) and reincarnation will no longer require Karma to complete (see the Epic Reincarnation header for information).

    This means that the only type of XP you need to worry about in Epics is Epic XP, which will be unchanged from how it is earned. Epic XP will be displayed on your XP Bar differently (by splitting each level up into Ranks so we can award points more often), but the amounts and totals needed to level up are unchanged from how they are currently.

    Leveling Up in Epics
    In order to address the backloaded feat flow and frontloaded enhancement flow, we are meeting in the middle for the new level-up experience for Epics.



    As you can see, we are moving the Destiny feat levels to follow directly after the Epic Feat levels. We are making an effort to ensure that every level in Epics gives a player some sort of choice or advancement. We want to smooth out the rate at which a player gains power considerably, which means we will be lowering the minimum levels of the Destiny feats.

    Epic and Destiny Feats
    Epic Destiny Feats no longer have Sphere requirements, as there are no more spheres. Instead, they will simply have level prerequisites.

    The level prerequisites of Destiny Feats have been changed. Whereas before a Destiny Feat would have a prerequisite for levels 26, 28, and 29, they will now follow the new acquisition level flow, moving to min level 22, 25, and 28 respectively.

    Several Epic and Destiny Feats have changed in functionality, as will be detailed in a separate post.
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    This is a companion post to the main Epic Revamp framework. Please read that post if you haven't already before reading this one! This post focuses on our Design Philosophies and the rules we used to build out the new Epic Destinies themselves.

    Epic Destiny Design Paradigm
    When looking at our current spread of 12 ED trees, they're all over the place in effectiveness and usability. We've had to contend with several strange and relatively inelegant designs that make balancing the destinies quite difficult. Therefore, when approaching the monumental task of remaking the system from scratch, we wanted to go back to the very beginning and explore the rough edges in the current system and how we've changed our designs to address those problems.

    Caster Levels
    Old EDs gave specific bonuses to specific caster levels in the cores, but these bonuses did not give Max caster levels, just caster levels. There was also a smattering of specific caster level/max caster level bonuses spread across some trees for only specific spells.

    New EDs will give no specific caster levels to classes. You'll instead gain +1 Caster Level and +1 Max Caster Level with all spells for every 2 Epic levels you've earned - so at level 30, you'll be at +5 to your caster levels.

    Spell Schools and Spell DCs
    Old destinies supported either a small subsection or all DC types at the same time, and even then, if you wanted DCs, Magister was the clear choice most of the time.

    Our goal is for each spell school to have a specialized destiny (for example, Fatesinger and Enchantment), but to also support several DC bonuses. This means that each type of DC has plenty of room to be specialized in instead of living in a single tree. Magister itself is a very special case, but we'll get to that later. Our new Spell DC Paradigm is as follows:

    • Each core of a casting tree grants +1 Epic bonus to all DCs (so core 2 grants +2 Epic bonus, core 3 grants +3 epic bonus)
      • Since this is typed, it does not stack, so taking cores from other trees will not increase your DCs.
    • Each of these casting trees in tier 5 has an enhancement that grants +1/2/3 to all DCs.
      • Since this is in tier 5, and like with heroic enhancement trees you can only spend points in the tier 5's of a single Destiny, you can only access one of these universal DC boosts.
    • In tier 3, there is a multiselector of a subset of DCs that grants +1/2/3 to the selected DC
      • These are antirequisites of the same DC found in other trees. Once you select necromancy in one tree, you can't take it in the other tree.
      • This means that if you are a Necromancy DC caster, you will want 1 of your trees to have that Necromancy, but once you've gotten that DC, your other options are wide open
      • This also means that you can go wide for more DCs for secondary DC values OR go tall to keep focusing, rather than wanting to go wide for all of the DCs across all of the trees that offer it
    • We are also planning on removing the Epic Resilience buff from all monsters at endgame to make DCs across the board far easier to achieve.


    Spellpower Types
    Our goal is for each type of spellpower to have at least one tree that specializes in that type of spellcasting damage, with Draconic and Primal Avatar both leaning on different parts of the role of "choose a spellpower to specialize in". This means that if you're a caster that tries to deal spell damage, you'll have two or maybe three trees full of attractive options to encourage you to pick the ones that are right for your specific build. We're also opening up Draconic and Primal Avatar to cover a lot more ground horizontally, but you'll see that in the specific trees itself.

    There simply isn't actually a lot of Spellpower in the current Epic Destinies, which means that compared to a melee or ranged character, your spell damage from raw spellpower didn't actually increase that much in your Epic Destiny.

    In our new flow, each core of a Spellcasting Destiny will grant +5 Spellpower in the thematic types (For example, Fatesinger will boost Force and Sonic) as well as +5 Universal Spellpower. There will also be +20 thematic and +20 Universal spellpower in the tiers of each Spellcasting Destiny, for a total of +35 thematic/+35 universal in each tree.

    Spell Critical Chance
    Old EDs gave a smattering of spell critical chance that disproportionately boosted the elements presented. Fire and Light were at a severe advantage, and other elements were neglected.

    New EDs will give no spell critical chance.

    Spell Critical Damage
    Draconic being the only source of Spell Critical Damage meant it was clearly superior in terms of raw damage for almost all damaging casters, even if it was aesthetically or synergistically suboptimal.

    New EDs will give no spell critical damage, but that doesn't mean players won't have access to it going forward, as we'll get to further down.

    Melee and Ranged Power
    Each tree that wants you to deal damage with weapons will now support both melee and ranged in both their active attacks and respective powers.

    Each tree that grants Melee/Ranged power will now do it at an equal rate across all trees to prevent one tree from simply granting more than the others. We want players to choose the tree that best fits their desired playstyle and not the tree that simply has the greatest numerical superiority.

    Melee Power per Core Ability: 5
    Ranged Power per Core Ability: 4

    Each melee/ranged tree will also grant both melee and ranged power at the same time. The exception to this is Fury of the Wild and Shiradi Champion, which will grant only Melee Power and only Ranged Power respectively, and contain only melee and only ranged attacks respectively.

    To make up the rest of the Melee and Ranged Power that was currently available, we are doubling the bonuses of the Epic Power feat that is granted at each Epic Level from +3 to +6. This means that you will earn a total of +60 Melee and Ranged Power from leveling up versus the currently available +30.

    Usage-Per-Rest Abilities
    Rather than individual abilities having their own charges (for example, Healing Spring in Shiradi being usable some number of times per rest), if we use a charges-per-rest system in the new ED trees, it will always have a heroic or shared component. Keeping with Healing Spring, in the new paradigm, it will instead use Wild Empathy charges (and grant a few so that you'll be able to start with the same amount of charges or more in the new flow). You'll see a lot more abilities that use things like Turn Undead, Bard Songs, Rage, and Smite Evil, and a lot of ways to augment recovering those charges or increasing your pool. This helps the Epic Destiny trees feel more like an extension of your existing abilities than an unconnected system meant to replace them.

    Feat Tie-Ins
    We're going to try to reclaim as many of the old and sub-optimal feats as we can - for example, an ED ability that grants a significant bonus if you have the Luck of Heroes Feat trained - in ways that would reward you for having them in your build without making them mandatory. Some feats might need additional help, but with this we're going to make an effort to tie a lot of those loose ends up.

    You'll also see a lot of abilities that tie into Destiny and Epic feats that are underused or overlooked, such as Embodiment of Chaos/Law and the Bulwark of Defense feat. When these appear, rather than being requirements to train, they will instead apply an additional bonus if you have the feat to reward players who decide to shift their own meta.

    Ability Score Bonuses
    There are no more ability score bonuses in these trees (meaning the line of +1 Stat across the right edge of each ED) - they took up a full 1/5th of the real estate of the old EDs and caused far more trouble than they're worth from a build choice perspective. This means that any class or build can effectively use any tree without worrying about ability score mismatches. This also means that we have 20% more real estate per tree to pack in more exciting abilities that better explore the themes of each Destiny.

    DC Checks
    Old Epic Destinies had DC checks that used specific stats to determine their DC, and sometimes didn't include DC bonuses they should have. This meant that if you were a specific caster type, you were limited in which SLAs had workable DCs.

    If an ability in a new Epic Destiny uses a DC, it follows this formula: 20 + (highest of int/wis/cha if a spell, highest of str/dex/con if a purely physical ability, highest of all ability scores if otherwise/both) + (spell school bonus if it's a spell, appropriate DC boost such as Sunder or Trip if not, includes things like Breath Weapon if it's a Breath Weapon, etc)

    This means that you can expect a relatively small range of DCs for your abilities that use the same stats, even across separate trees. It also means that if you're a spellcaster, your primary spellcasting stat will be able to contribute evenly, regardless of which tree you are in.

    New Trees
    One of the major changes as a part of this refactor is that we can begin releasing entirely new Epic Destiny trees. Our goal is to end up with 12 at the start, and then slowly start rolling out more, at least until we can get up to 15, with each tree loosely corresponding to a heroic class.

    In more immediate news, we're going to be retiring the Magister Epic Destiny and replacing it with Magus of the Eclipse, a brand new ED that focuses on Negative, Cold, and Necromancy spells, as well as weaving potent anti-magical defenses. Eventually The Magus of the Eclipse tree preview post will have a lot more information on why this tree specifically was replaced entirely instead of being refactored but that isn't ready for this early preview. For now, suffice it to say that when we went into building out a new cohesive epic ecosystem Magister in it's current broad form did not fit the framework.

    Epic Destiny Mantles, Epic Strikes, and Epic Moments
    To help keep Epic Destinies feeling mechanically different than heroic trees, we're putting together a global system of active play across all trees.

    Destiny Mantles
    In the lower tiers of each Destiny Tree you will find an enhancement labeled as a Destiny Mantle. These are powerful persistent abilities that must be toggled on in order to gain their benefits. You can only have a single Destiny Mantle active at a time. You can take multiple of these Mantles in order to swap between them on the fly, however, you can only gain the benefits from one of them at a time. These exclusive toggles are how we plan to keep powerful passive abilities and aspects separate from each other (for example, Grandmaster of Flower's monk animation suite versus Shadowdancer's Shadowform) without making them truly exclusive. Their exclusivity also means that we can allow players access to them right at level 20.

    Epic Strikes
    Scattered throughout the Destiny Trees you will find abilities that are labeled as Epic Strikes. These abilities share a cooldown but are not exclusive. These powerful abilities are enhanced as you spend points in their respective trees, and are meant to be accessed right out of the gate at level 20.

    Epic Moments
    In Tier 5 of each tree you will find an Epic Moment. Epic Moments are powerful abilities with a long cooldown, and represent a significant amount of lategame power. Our design philosophy for Epic Moments was quite loose to give each tree the freedom it needed, but a general rule is that Epic Moments will break one fundamental "rule" of DDO for its duration. As an example, the Shadowform Epic Moment ("Shadow Mastery") allows you to be considered "stealthed" for its duration, regardless of your actions.
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    ED tier 5 is still at level 30?

    Why?

    Loads and loads of feedback during the previous preview explaining why that is a pretty bad idea.
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    At least make a new chart for current/proposed advancement without the giant blank space at 29. Still horrible, but less insulting.

    I don't really understand some of the changes. Instead of trying to balance anything, they're just removed?

    - Spell criticals they're disproportionate, so we've removed them.
    - Draconic was superior dps because it had crit damage, so we removed spell crit from EDs too.
    - Ability scores in ED were removed because...people would be in an ED that didn't have a stat they wanted? Not sure why they couldn't just...not spend pts in it. (same with epic skill focus but that's not new)

    I like the general uptick in some numbers/power levels listed here, but the main, large complaints from last preview are still here. The way destiny mantles and epic strikes upgrade in a tree, severely limit the whole "you can be in 3 trees now!" aspect of this revamp. Because you can only be in one mantle at a time and epic strikes share cooldown.

    I'm not saying let you be in a bunch of mantles at once, I'm saying don't have the mantle tied to the whole tree. And Epic strikes just shouldn't share a cooldown.

    Maybe these systems look good on paper, but in practice it has the complete opposite effect of giving us options. It's like being a pale master/enlightened spirit warlock/druid. Yeah you can turn into an undead, celestial spirit, bear, or fire elemental, but spreading your points amongst all of them is garbage and healing is a headache.

    I think the idea of a 3-tree system CAN be good, but really need to rejigger just how much your main tree means. Otherwise, just bring back twists?
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    Most the the new ED have a T1 Epic Strike: (Multiselector) --> do you gain both abilities with a common cool down (both on your hot bar - freely pick which one you want to use any time) or do you only get to pick one?

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    Look seriously,
    You should give us t5 at 29

    We need a bone here until level cap is raised
    All the gear lands at 29
    We would get one level in before we tr
    Pretty much like we do now

    Really it should be a different progression

    But locking everything at 30 including new gear?
    And you don’t have plans for legendary?
    How long you gonna pretend not nerf us there
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    You wanted to bring flexibility to Epic Destines and after a good number of players saying that there just not enough points and bringing options and ideas how to make more points without breaking game balance (for example, lowering the needed amount of points in order to unlock tiers and adding another point per level) i guess these were not good enough for you or you think it is interfering with game balance. Right now, twists are better, they provide more flexibility to the game and they just do a better job than your proposed system. We try to make things better, why not listen to us?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Vish View Post
    We still have to play this game
    We definitely do not have to play this game.

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    Default Diff Preview 1 to Preview 2

    I had to diff the files to see the changes. This is what I found to be new.

    These points are available at level 20 and can be freely spent between the trees you have slotted. If this is your first time in Epics, you will begin with a bare minimum of 24 Fate Points (from unlocking the 12 currently available trees), which means you'll start level 20 with 8 Permanent Destiny Points.
    <from minimum of 36 to 24>

    Melee Power per Core Ability: 5 <from 10>
    Ranged Power per Core Ability: 4 <from 8>

    To make up the rest of the Melee and Ranged Power that was currently available, we are doubling the bonuses of the Epic Power feat that is granted at each Epic Level from +3 to +6. This means that you will earn a total of +60 Melee and Ranged Power from leveling up versus the currently available +30.


    If an ability in a new Epic Destiny uses a DC, it follows this formula: 20 + (highest of int/wis/cha if a spell, highest of str/dex/con if a purely physical ability, highest of all ability scores if otherwise/both) + (spell school bonus if it's a spell, appropriate DC boost such as Sunder or Trip if not, includes things like Breath Weapon if it's a Breath Weapon, etc)

    This means that you can expect a relatively small range of DCs for your abilities that use the same stats, even across separate trees. It also means that if you're a spellcaster, your primary spellcasting stat will be able to contribute evenly, regardless of which tree you are in.

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    Shifting some of the Mellee Power from the cores to Epic Feats is good for flexibility as there is less opportunity cost in not taking cores now.

    What isn't good for flexibility is the persistence on keeping Mantles and Epic Strikes. These are far too restrictive on flexibility and need to go. Particularly given we're losing twists.

    On live I can run in Fury and twist in Meld, and Consecrated Ground too if I wish. That's not possible here. Mantles and Epic Strike restrictions are just a bad Idea. Give us the choice to spend DPs as we wish freely please, we've earned them!

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    Tier 5 should be level 26. the other Tier level gating should reduce in similar fashion.

    1) Heroic gets Tier 5 at 12. Which works as lots of heroic players reincarnate at 20. So they have plenty of time to use their Tier 5 abilities.
    2) In epics many players often do not stay at 30.
    3) The current level gating will cause almost everyone to reset their destiny points at every level gate. ( so it better be cheap )
    4) And really the Tier 5 abilities are not so powerful that it should be this big a deal.

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    There is little doubt that these new trees will make for some very strong builds. Although, the flexibility is only in the 3 tress you choose. Once you choose 3 trees you've locked your build down.

    I hope I'm wrong, but the existing system seems to inspire me to re-roll and try something new.

    This new system (IMO) has an easily attainted finite number of builds. For instance, Shadow dancer has the +1 crit multiplier tied to finnesable weapons, Fury has a similar requirement of twohanded or animal form. With crit multipler playing such a huge roll in dps, for me, this means that each tree is only optimal for the few builds where the crit multipler is useful. So, twists aside, this is a strong channel that limits possibilities.

    Other control mechanisms is the cost of abilities and the lower tier filler, destiny mantles, and shared cool downs between trees.

    IMO, this will make building future content easier to develop because you'll have fewer archetypes to build around, but at the cost that I'm highly likely to run into a replica of my build...which, breaks the immersion that I'm a super hero come to save the day...even if I'm just singing songs. I've always loved DDO b/c I could craft a strong character that few if any others were playing.

    I'm not advocating twists....but the feedback from preview 1 seems to be under-represented. I'd like to see more fun stuff in lower tiers that isn't on cooldown or locked behind mantle. Fewer top tier feats that require or heavily reward you for being a very specific build.

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    Default Debuffers dead?

    I play a warlock debuffer build and I use lot of the old destinies to buff the party’s damage. It seems all of these buffs like are being removed. Like grim/bound fate, rebuke and the auras from exhated angel. I know Lynnabel said at one point that debuffers wouldn’t be dead but not sure if I just need to think of a new play style.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lynnabel View Post
    Melee and Ranged Power
    Each tree that wants you to deal damage with weapons will now support both melee and ranged in both their active attacks and respective powers.

    Each tree that grants Melee/Ranged power will now do it at an equal rate across all trees to prevent one tree from simply granting more than the others. We want players to choose the tree that best fits their desired playstyle and not the tree that simply has the greatest numerical superiority.

    Melee Power per Core Ability: 5
    Ranged Power per Core Ability: 4

    Each melee/ranged tree will also grant both melee and ranged power at the same time. The exception to this is Fury of the Wild and Shiradi Champion, which will grant only Melee Power and only Ranged Power respectively, and contain only melee and only ranged attacks respectively.

    To make up the rest of the Melee and Ranged Power that was currently available, we are doubling the bonuses of the Epic Power feat that is granted at each Epic Level from +3 to +6. This means that you will earn a total of +60 Melee and Ranged Power from leveling up versus the currently available +30.
    While better than last preview, I would still argue that making it 15 Melee power/12 Ranged power per core but not NOT stack with other trees (like epic DCs) would be better for build diversity.
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    What is the max number of points for ED a character can have? (for a full completionist character with all the tomes). I ask because I had heard 67, yet my full completionist with all the tomes is showing 66.. I'm wondering if there's a bug or im missing something.
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    Hi, when do we get to see the Warlock and Artificer new EDs ?

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    Quote Originally Posted by RS-Makk View Post
    What is the max number of points for ED a character can have? (for a full completionist character with all the tomes). I ask because I had heard 67, yet my full completionist with all the tomes is showing 66.. I'm wondering if there's a bug or im missing something.
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    If this is your first time in Epics, you will begin with a bare minimum of 24 Fate Points (from unlocking the 12 currently available trees), which means you'll start level 20 with 8 Permanent Destiny Points.
    Unlocking a tree in the new system also provides +3 Fate Points per tree, which means that a brand new character reaching 20 for the first time will begin with 36 Fate Points.
    36 is correct I think, 24 is not.
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    Quote Originally Posted by mikarddo View Post
    ED tier 5 is still at level 30?

    Why?

    Loads and loads of feedback during the previous preview explaining why that is a pretty bad idea.

    This...above all else. Tier 5 EDs should be available at lvl 28.

    I rarely keep my character at lvl 30. I hit 30 and TR....I'll never get to use those nifty tier 5 abilities.

    If this goes off as planned, then U51 will be a massive fail in my book!!!
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    Quote Originally Posted by donblas View Post
    Do you have the feywild tome?
    Yes I do. On live I have 25 destiny points. Is the max 67? Any easy way to see if the tome didnt carry over on the copy to Llama? I dont see it listed as an inherent feat (like the fate tomes do) on either live or llama so not sure how to check

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