End of the week with Major Malphunktion 9.23.11

[Qaliya]

geeze so cc is fixed, but we get to hurry up and wait because turbine's marketing department wants to see how many more people they can get to buy the new class before it becomes earnable and they wont let us enjoy the event untill they get all the money they can? Is that what is going on? I hate hurry up and wait. its bad enough we had a teaser last monday for 40 min. I say GIVE US OUR CC BACK NOW!! lol

I think that marketing's involvement has to do with putting up notices, coordinating releases with other activities, etc. Don't see how the timing of a patch is related to people buying artificer.

[Produktion_Malphunktion]

I think that marketing's involvement has to do with putting up notices, coordinating releases with other activities, etc. Don't see how the timing of a patch is related to people buying artificer.

Not related at all. We just do not live in a vacuum and there are other parts of the company that we need to coordinate with.

[BOgre]

Not related at all. We just do not live in a vacuum and there are other parts of the company that we need to coordinate with.

Dude, it's Sunday! How are you avoiding waggro right now???

[goodspeed]

That sucks about mabar. lol I never got to make them to feel the overpowerness. At least make em about twice as nice as the devotion wraps from delera's. If theirs one thing that sucks it's beating on a zombie in necro with fists. Even with holy righteous shocking.

[spyyder976]

Well I'm still going to run CC, because even the base items (which remain BtA) are still worth it for loot-poor lowbies like me.


Crafted items are built exactly to your specifications, with exactly the effects you planned, every time, as many times as you want.
Random loot is random, and you have to be very lucky, or very persistent and patient, to get an item with exactly the effects you planned, even once.

It is both right and fair, IMO, that equipment which is effectively as good, yet boundlessly plentiful, should have more restrictive usage requirements than it's less common equivalent.

Since I have every tier upgraded to 3 except for 2 level 16 items and all the level 20's, I'm in good shape. I'll just grind the level 20's and be done with it. But everyone be careful and don't use your BTA trinkets on upgrades, because I'm betting they'll also become BTC when making and upgrading new ones. Everything I have is good for passing to all my alts until they hit 20 and may or may not want to make the items again or just stay with the level 16's.

[BOgre]

Hey Major,
In the spirit of all this great open communication you're participating in, and knowing that this isn't your department at all, could you read this thread and maybe pass it along to someone who can do something about it? It seems to be getting worse...

http://forums.ddo.com/showthread.php?t=301612

Thanks in advance for anything you can do.

[cdbd3rd]

Hey Major,
In the spirit of all this great open communication you're participating in, and knowing that this isn't your department at all, could you read this thread and maybe pass it along to someone who can do something about it? It seems to be getting worse...

http://forums.ddo.com/showthread.php?t=301612

Thanks in advance for anything you can do.

Might need to specify which you mean:

Increased number of GMs who seem to be relying too heavily on the "I can't help you" button.
Or, the increasing number of necroed threads?

[cdbd3rd]

I don't know if this is a new bug or not:

Seems that when emptying a quiver (Have tried House D narrow, House D wide, and Thin Quiver), the last stack empties to pack, but a 'fake' copy of the stack remains inside. It's not actually there, and disappears if another stack of something gets put back in. It just LOOKS like it's there.

On the list, not sure if it will make patch.

Relatedly, something I noticed last few days on a Store-bought quiver: When the auto-loader pulls a stack of ammo out, there's an extra 100-stack dragged out and dropped in the backpack. (Crafted bolts, btw. Not sure of doing the same with non-crafted ones.)




Just to add to the pile of Arty/crossbow themed bugs.

[BOgre]

Hehe, haven't been here long enough for either I guess But in-game I'm hearing alot of anti-gm sentiment... consistency being the major issue. Hoping the Major can shine a light on it for us.

[bradleyforrest]

Dude, it's Sunday! How are you avoiding waggro right now???

He's not avoiding agrro at all. I'm sure that the wife is avoiding aggro caused by the Patriots' loss.

How the hell did they lose that game after what happened in the 1st quarter?

[MrElusiveness]

Not related at all. We just do not live in a vacuum and there are other parts of the company that we need to coordinate with.

ok but why wait to put it back on if its fixed? we all want our cc back now.

[Produktion_Malphunktion]

He's not avoiding agrro at all. I'm sure that the wife is avoiding aggro caused by the Patriots' loss.

How the hell did they lose that game after what happened in the 1st quarter?

4 INTs...One BS call by the Refs on a INT overturned to a Pass Interference after the INT already happened (nice refs, nice) and great clock management at the very end by the Bills.
No worries, D actually looked better when they were not being penalized, and Brady still threw for 3 TD's and almost 400 yards...and we have a running game. Turnovers and penalties like today very few teams would over come.

[Br0ken_0ne]

Hi,

just saw this tread here active and thought it would be a good way to get one of the most annoying bugs that bothers me with one of my characters most out to you. I already filed a bug report and also told Tolero about it while chatting with her at the Gamescom in germany.

In since U9 or U10 if you used the clicky you got from the "Greater Dragonmark of Storm", which is "Call Lightning Storm" it worked fine if you are a sorceror while not having the "Air Savant" prestige enhancements. But in the special case of a sorceror that can even use those "Dragonsmarks of Storm" as prequesites for getting into "Air Savant" there is some serious problem. My should-be "HElf Air Savant" is an "HElf Water Savant" at the moment because as soon as you take just the first level of the "Air Savant" prestige enhancments the damage of the "Call Lightning Storm" clicky drops into nothingness. I even got hits with 1-6 damage which make no sense at all given the minimum damage it should do. If you are no "Air Savant" it easily crits, while having items, lightning enhancements and metamagics for 1300-1500 damage per lighnting strike and has normal its in the dimenions of 300-700 damage.

Will this get fixed? Tolero told me hat she even got an idea what could be wrong and that it could be a quiet easy fix. I can't imagine that this is WAI because you even suggest taking those "Dragonmarks" to get into the prestige. You'll find more information and screenshots from people testings this here:

http://forums.ddo.com/showthread.php?t=315561

and here

http://forums.ddo.com/showthread.php?t=314790

Here is one more person reporting it in your first thread:
http://forums.ddo.com/showpost.php?p...&postcount=313

Greets & Thanks,

Broken One

[Dark_Helmet]

You mean like Hewlett Packard who is leaving the PC hardware industry because they can't compete?

If you mean "HP had bad management that made stupid decisions about their quality products" I would tend to agree. We shall see if "nut" Meg can get them back on track. While the PC market doesn't have a large profit margin, it can be an integral part of their solution to provide an end-to-end solution.
Just because one product has a higher profit margin doesn't mean you have to change all your products to be like that one. Sometimes, you steal your own market (robbing Peter to pay Paul) and people will burn out on it.


Anyways, people need to learn that Major is just one part of the cog in the development cycle (the one singing to us which we do appreciate). There are several other hoops for the patch to go through before being released.

[Diyon]

Hi,

just saw this tread here active and thought it would be a good way to get one of the most annoying bugs that bothers me with one of my characters most out to you. I already filed a bug report and also told Tolero about it while chatting with her at the Gamescom in germany.

In since U9 or U10 if you used the clicky you got from the "Greater Dragonmark of Storm", which is "Call Lightning Storm" it worked fine if you are a sorceror while not having the "Air Savant" prestige enhancements. But in the special case of a sorceror that can even use those "Dragonsmarks of Storm" as prequesites for getting into "Air Savant" there is some serious problem. My should-be "HElf Air Savant" is an "HElf Water Savant" at the moment because as soon as you take just the first level of the "Air Savant" prestige enhancments the damage of the "Call Lightning Storm" clicky drops into nothingness. I even got hits with 1-6 damage which make no sense at all given the minimum damage it should do. If you are no "Air Savant" it easily crits, while having items, lightning enhancements and metamagics for 1300-1500 damage per lighnting strike and has normal its in the dimenions of 300-700 damage.

Will this get fixed? Tolero told me hat she even got an idea what could be wrong and that it could be a quiet easy fix. I can't imagine that this is WAI because you even suggest taking those "Dragonmarks" to get into the prestige. You'll find more information and screenshots from people testings this here:

http://forums.ddo.com/showthread.php?t=315561

and here

http://forums.ddo.com/showthread.php?t=314790

Here is one more person reporting it in your first thread:
http://forums.ddo.com/showpost.php?p...&postcount=313

Greets & Thanks,

Broken One

Something changed in U11. I still think there's some stuff missing, but I can get 400-500 crits now where as before the damage was absolute ****.

[daddio42]

Relatedly, something I noticed last few days on a Store-bought quiver: When the auto-loader pulls a stack of ammo out, there's an extra 100-stack dragged out and dropped in the backpack. (Crafted bolts, btw. Not sure of doing the same with non-crafted ones.)




Just to add to the pile of Arty/crossbow themed bugs.

It occurs with Deneith arrows, too. (Has for about 2 updates.)

[Ryiah]

Anyways, people need to learn that Major is just one part of the cog in the development cycle (the one singing to us which we do appreciate). There are several other hoops for the patch to go through before being released.

I'm fully aware he is only one part. But he's supposed to be Quality Assurance - aka the team that is supposed to ensure we are getting a quality product. But I fail to see any quality in this patch. They're effectively taking an event's gear, gear which mostly is only good enough to be temporary until something more ideal is found, and making it unable to be handed down to each character. So far I'm seeing only a very small minority of the forum base supporting this.

[Full_Bleed]

Here is a question that has not been asked and answered...

If I take an original Tier 3 Cove item and apply a Stone of Change Ritual to it, will it change to BTC?

Traditionally, the Stone of Change rituals will not change BTA items to BTC, but I'm a little worried since upgrading items in the barter box now will.

Can I get a comment on this? I don't want to wreck an irreplaceable Tier 3 BTA CC item with a Stone of Change Ritual.

[bradleyforrest]

4 INTs...One BS call by the Refs on a INT overturned to a Pass Interference after the INT already happened (nice refs, nice) and great clock management at the very end by the Bills.
No worries, D actually looked better when they were not being penalized, and Brady still threw for 3 TD's and almost 400 yards...and we have a running game. Turnovers and penalties like today very few teams would over come.

Yeah, I couldn't believe that PI call. There was absolutely no reason for the flag. I was wondering if I was watching the same game that the refs were for most of the second half.

Gotta give props to the Bills for the clock management, though, even if Fitzgerald was trying to give the football away from the way he was taking his knees.

[Witchstone]

@BtA
The good thing is: I don't need any additional shared bank slots anymore.
Why have you introduced BtA in this game, if you don't like it? Maybe you could remove non bound items too (we use them anyway, only to decompose).