Update 4.2 First Look - Release Notes

[Rouge]

Looks like I need to wait till they up the level to take Spellsinger with my bard, I have not put any points into concentration yet and since we can't respec skill points yet, I'm screwed

[Freeman]

Looks like I need to wait till they up the level to take Spellsinger with my bard, I have not put any points into concentration yet and since we can't respec skill points yet, I'm screwed

That's the enhancement to Concentration, not the skill itself. You just have to reset your enhancements.

[dragnmoon]

Looks like I need to wait till they up the level to take Spellsinger with my bard, I have not put any points into concentration yet and since we can't respec skill points yet, I'm screwed

Freeman Is correct... And Also unless they add some new Skills, never expect a Skill respec. They have not done any changes to skills (some Human race players disagree) to really warrent a respec.

[samsarai]

Not to be mean(ok just a little), but when this dosent go off without a hitch....when do you have the +1 loot weekend scheduled?

ROFL
Yes, please tell us when that's scheduled lol

[ebt-dnd]

Are they going to fix the spamming of the Reaver Raid quest completion message when people are hitting the puzzle lever to rez people killed by left over elementals? I don't see that in the notes.

[Rouge]

cool, thought it was the skill since it says.... SKILL

[dragnmoon]

cool, thought it was the skill since it says.... SKILL

I can see how that can be confusing... But they do Mean the Second Level of the Bard Skill : Concentration Enhancement.

Though.. It will also suck taking that enhancement and not getting the benifit out of it (Other then Spellsinger) on the skill Concentration since you do not have the skill.

[slumbering_dragon]

cant you guys go one mod without complaining, geeze these guys are doing the best they can do, if u can do better, i dont see you comming out with a D&D MMO game at all now do I. if you know how to do line codes and fix all the problems at once well then go and apply and make us all proud. untill then shut up every freaken time they post something, i think they would know about the issue right away and dont need reminders. i am glad to have the clossest thing to real D&D i can get right now considering i live in the middle of no where and have no one to play with, thx Turbine you guys are doing great.

[Seb4sti4n]

I dont see it in the release note, but.... do you think they resolve the prob of monster that dosent spawn in Stormcleave... becose i saw this bug a lots of time now.

[Freeman]

cant you guys go one mod without complaining, geeze these guys are doing the best they can do, if u can do better, i dont see you comming out with a D&D MMO game at all now do I. if you know how to do line codes and fix all the problems at once well then go and apply and make us all proud. untill then shut up every freaken time they post something, i think they would know about the issue right away and dont need reminders. i am glad to have the clossest thing to real D&D i can get right now considering i live in the middle of no where and have no one to play with, thx Turbine you guys are doing great.

Don't get me wrong, I love the game. That doesn't mean the developers are perfect. The last time I didn't complain, it took about five months to get something fixed(Bard's Song of Freedom). It took three months before the developers even realized it was broken. Everyone assumed they knew about it, but in fact, they didn't. Know how they found out? Someone posted that it still wasn't fixed in a WDA thread, and a developer responded that they didn't even know about the problem. The problem with Crippling Strike has been around for over three months now. There has been no word on when a fix is coming, or even any indication that the problem is being worked on. Other problems have been around much longer(no attack rolls for ranged attacks), acknowledged as known issues even, yet are still in the game. I post in the hope that we will get some kind of indication of the current status, particularly since the Crippling Strike issue kept getting mixed up with another bug and I'm worried that they never got the two completely straight.

[stonecircle]

I know this is old news by now, but we didn't want to make any announcements until the update had a date and was approved. Enjoy!

No this is not old news. Not everyone reads the forum every day and tracks every Dev post. One of the biggest mistakes of many gaming companies is relaying info only to those that have nothing better to due then read deep with posts on teh forum.


WHEN is the update? Cause its not listed anywhere readily visable I can see. Please edit your original post and include the release date if there is one now. As it is, Im ****ed that I renewed this last month because Turbine said we'd have 4.2 last month. I would have took a month break if AI knew it was faulty info.

[Kire]

Its wednesday btw. 7 am to 1

[CombatMedic]

Prison of the Planes

Cochitlehua has remembered that he has "Teleport Without Error" as an at-will spell-like ability.

ROFLMAO! Oh this change just made this quest fun again! No more surrounding him and beating him like a pinata! He gets out every time now, and you get to chase him around as the mindflayers spawn

The days of the easy elite loot run are OVER

Way to go Turbine, you're starting to think like a Dungeonmaster!

[DKerrigan]

Prison of the Planes

Cochitlehua has remembered that he has "Teleport Without Error" as an at-will spell-like ability.

ROFLMAO! Oh this change just made this quest fun again! No more surrounding him and beating him like a pinata! He gets out every time now, and you get to chase him around as the mindflayers spawn

The days of the easy elite loot run are OVER

Way to go Turbine, you're starting to think like a Dungeonmaster!

If it's too ridiculous I'll run the two randoms that actually have decent named loot in them (the Dream Visor does NOT count, it's junk) and drop out. By too ridiculous I mean persistant Teleporting with out Error to a place where he can spam cast out of melee range while wave after wave of Mindflayers come and stun the whole party.

I'm betting that there's a foothold for him on one of the doorway ledges inside the barrier.

[Cambo]

Prison of the Planes

Cochitlehua has remembered that he has "Teleport Without Error" as an at-will spell-like ability.

ROFLMAO! Oh this change just made this quest fun again! No more surrounding him and beating him like a pinata! He gets out every time now, and you get to chase him around as the mindflayers spawn

The days of the easy elite loot run are OVER

Way to go Turbine, you're starting to think like a Dungeonmaster!

I hope they fix that you cant hit things while your chasing them...otherwise he is spell fodder only...my rogue wont get a show in for POP group then...New LFG - POtP quick run need 4 casters an 2 clrerics..(casue them casters are squishy)

[Nero]

cant you guys go one mod without complaining, geeze these guys are doing the best they can do, if u can do better, i dont see you comming out with a D&D MMO game at all now do I. if you know how to do line codes and fix all the problems at once well then go and apply and make us all proud. untill then shut up every freaken time they post something, i think they would know about the issue right away and dont need reminders. i am glad to have the clossest thing to real D&D i can get right now considering i live in the middle of no where and have no one to play with, thx Turbine you guys are doing great.

Um Have you played Neverwinter Nights 2 yet? THATS the closest thing to real DND I think physicallly possible as of yet. This DnD MMO gets farther and farther from real DnD every patch. But I love the Idea of playing it online thought. Thats why I still pay and play.

The Developers aren't Perfect. No-one is. I have extensive coding experience but even I make mistakes and can go on for quite some time before the error becomes apparent. Some times the developers are so rushed by a deadline that they make one intsy bitsy error and never know till a player decides to bite their head off. Its stressful being a developer. If they find out about a bug they will try to fix it as soon as thier supervisor says they have time to worry about it.

[Missing_Minds]

Their main reason from what I understand from those that played in the begining of the Beta (I was late in the Beta) for keeping Ranged rate of attacks lower then Melee attacks was Turbines fear that everyone would go ranged and skip Melee all together.

To me this is a poor excuse since A melee player would still do more dmg than a Ranged player even if they did equal out the Rate of attacks like it is in the PnP D&D game.

They should at least freaking give us the same base attack scaling up for multiple attacks that melees get, not this constant lowest attack bonus ****.

What do they do to their archers? Make them 15 lvls higher than us to make them shoot faster, give them 3 times warrior NPC hit points, and 2 times the warrior NPC AC. Emm... right. utter load of ****.

I mean, the warriors NPCs are completely gimped compared to caster and archer classes in the game. My lvl 14 fighter in STK normal....
Melee NPCs die in 2 swings
Caster NPCs die in 3 swings.
Archer NPCs die in 3 to 4 swings
Worgs die in 3 swings. (and we already know how flipping over powered all the muts are. Stupid, trip attack every attack, no cool down what so ever dogs.)

[Missing_Minds]

WHEN is the update? Cause its not listed anywhere readily visable I can see. Please edit your original post and include the release date if there is one now. As it is, Im ****ed that I renewed this last month because Turbine said we'd have 4.2 last month. I would have took a month break if AI knew it was faulty info.

http://forums.ddo.com/showthread.php...36#post1243836

I'd call it very visible myself.

[Richtenfaust]

i have recently joined ddo from another online game and was excited to play a cleric but i found out that after 4th lvl there turn undead really stinks and do not understand why now im realy enjoying the game but i loved the idea of turnng undead and it just aint happening so please make it a little better at least i play a straight cleric none of that battle cleric mess and i would love to have at least 1 enemy that i could really kick butt against.so please make it better i mean im a cleric for GOD sake but besides that keep up the great work:]

Start with punctuation...maybe throw in a little capitalization...then, when we don't feel like we've just run a marathon after reading your post, we can figure out what the heck you are trying to say. ok am i making myself clear on this point if i'm not please let me know cause i can reclarify and let you know just what it is you are doing wrong i think if you took some time to just slow down and add periods i would not have such a big problem with your posts ok:]

[linaewen]

great news, would be nice if you could be late though, so we would get another +1 loot weekend as an apology

so take your time