Update 15 Broken ‘Things’ Master List

[NexEverto]

Some fancy wall of text here to introduce the thread! Forum Reputation to anyone who can come up with something witty for for me! Also, please note if you submit good feedback, I now offer Forum Reputation as a thank you.

I request you at least try to use the Forums Built in Search Feature to see if the the bug you're going to report has already been listed (Just try key words, like fort, immunity, etc), if you can't do that Search the first page by using Ctrl + F. I've been getting a lot of 'I'm not sure if its there because I haven't read the list as its so long' and even a few 'TL;DR' opening sentences for posts, and honestly, that's almost a guaranteed sign that I should just skip the post, and with the amount of volume I'm getting that's exactly what I'm going to do. If you're not going to bother reading, don't admit your ignorance, because I find it disrespectful you assume its your right to take up my time but you won't give me a few extra moments of yours. Of course, if you won't do any of my above, you likely won't see this. Oh well.

When posting pictures, please provide a link of the picture and not the picture itself. Unfortunately full sized pictures tend to make it hard for me to read pages and messes up my formatting. Thank you.

Classes & Races:

1. Bard - Songs
   
   • Some Bards have reported losing their Songs after the Update, it is unknown as to why they have been lost or how to recover them. (HERE) (Fixed)
2. Druid - Animal Form Attacks
   
   • Animal Form Attacks such as Takedown and Baiting Bite are incorrectly showing a duration of the characters character level. A level 13 character for example will show a 13 minute duration. (HERE)
3. Druid - Shifting Rake
   
   • Shifting Rake is currently applying its stated Armor Class debuff to the player rather than the target. (HERE)
4. Warforged - Healing Amplification (Incoming)
   
   • Changing Healing Amplification items on Warforged result in a loss of Amplification. Relogging or changing area corrects this issue. (HERE)
5. Barbarian - Improved Uncanny Dodge
   
   • Barbarians who previously had Improved Uncanny Dodge now have two Uncanny Dodge Feats. (HERE)
6. Wizard - Undead Form
   
   • Wizard Monks who enter an Undead Form will lose 0.5[W] from their Unarmed Attacks. (HERE)
   • Wizards in Melee whilst in Undead Form are no longer able to proc Greater Shocking Blow from Epic Charge Gauntlets on vorpal hits. (HERE)
   • Shroud of the Vampire is currently confused, and shows you in form when you are not, and out of form when you are in it. (HERE)
   • Currently there is no way to toggle off Shroud of the Vampire without presumably dying or logging off. (HERE)
   • Wizard Monks becoming Uncentered whilst in an Undead Form forces you out of your Form and causes any Negative Energy Auras active to cause you damage. (HERE)

Epic Levels:

1. Leveling - Bravery Bonus
   
   • Bravery Bonus in Epic Level quests is currently misbehaving, and will often reset when completing Normal Elite regardless if you've done the quest on Epic Hard or Epic Elite previously. This is most obvious with the new 'Song of Druids Deep' chain. (HERE)
2. Epic Feats - Overwhelming critical
   
   • Overwhelming critical is still not working as intended. It currently increases your critical threat range by +1 instead of increasing the multiplier on a 19 or 20. (HERE)

Reincarnation:

1. Free Lesser Reincarnation
   
   • There have been reports that the Free Lesser Reincarnation Kruz offers has the possibility to remove all Tomes previously used. Relogging on the Heart of Wind Airship before Level 3 should correct this issue. Failing that please contact customer service via telephone. (HERE)
   • There have been reports that the Free Lesser Reincarnation Kruz offers has the possibility to remove all Epic Destiny Experience previously earned. Cases of this have been isolated, but and many people have experienced no issues. Reincarnate at your own risk.
   • Characters trying to add a third level whilst possessing two Heroic Class and Epic Levels will unable to take a third Heroic Class. (HERE) (Known Issue)
   • Players who wish to undergo different forms of Reincarnation (+1, +3, etc) are Forced to use the Free Lesser Reincarnation then wait a week before they can undergo the one they intended. It has been reported that Kruz gives you the option of which Reincarnation you'd like to under go, so read carefully! (HERE)

Quests, Raids & Challenges:

1. Spawning Monsters
   
   • Monsters in some quests are currently refusing to spawn or spawning at extremely slow rates. This has been noticed with The Judge in Tower of Despair, the Marut in Finding the Path, as well as The Black Abbot in the Ascension Chamber. Difficultly seems to have some contributing factor to this. (HERE) (Fixed)
2. Outbreak
   
   • Aeron Leifbrand will become attack players when hit with an aura such as Aura of Menace or Angelic Presence before the "Defeat the Wizard Plague Victim" objective has become active. (HERE) (Fixed)
3. Overgrowth
   
   • A door in Overgrowth cannot be reopened once it has been closed, locking party members behind it. (HERE)
4. Song of Druid's Deep Arc
   
   • Players can currently render their Arc in-completable if completing things in a different order than expected. (HERE)
5. An Offering of Blood
   
   • An Offering of Blood is currently rewarding a single Epic Token Fragment for completion on Epic Hard. It is unclear if other difficulties are effected. (HERE)
6. The Ruined Keep: The Daybreak Ritual
   
   • The Ruined Keep: The Daybreak Ritual is rewarding lower than expected Ingredients on completion. (HERE) (Fixed)
7. Cannith Challenges
   
   • House Cannith is still being stingy with Experience, and Cannith Challenges are returning lower than expected Experience on completion. (HERE)
8. Underdark Arena: Ring of Fire
   
   • Underdark Arena: Ring of Fire is currently rewarding less than expected challenge ingredients upon successful completions. (HERE)

Items:

1. Exclusive Items
   
   • When trying to place two exclusive items in your inventory (Such as bags being withdrawn from the Bank), the transfer will fail and the bag will vanish rather than be return to its previous location. Lost items will be returned by the Stormreach Lost and Found. Anyone who doesn't receive their item with in 24 hours is advised to contact customer support. (HERE) (Acknowledged)
2. Bags
   
   • Bags set to Auto-Gather no longer automatically gather appropriate items when they are withdrawn from the shared bank. (HERE)

Cannith Crafting:

1. Level 6+ Effects
   
   • Deconstructing Level 6 or greater effects only yields 5 Experience, not Experienced based on level. Looks like someone copy pasted code and failed to use variables, choosing to hard code values. (HERE)

Spells & Effects:

1. Spell Power
   
   • When changing a Non-Spell Power item over all Spell Power can incorrectly reported lower values than it should. This occurs for both the player casting spells, and the person having the spells cast on them. Swinging your in hand weapon reportedly corrects this issue. (HERE)
2. Magical Fang
   
   • Magical Fang currently removes the Ghost Touch effect from Handwraps it's cast on. (HERE)

Monster Manual:

1. Animal
   
   • It is currently impossible to achieve the final Bat Hunter Deed in the Monster Manual.
2. Elemental
   
   • It is currently impossible to achieve the final Earth Elemental Hunter Deed in the Monster Manual.
   • Earth Elemental Monsters in the Song of Druids Deep pack are not counted as Earth Elementals by the Monster Manual. (HERE)
3. Player Races
   
   • Humans from Cult of Six are currently not counted as Humans by the Monster Manual. (HERE)
   • Humans from Foundation of Discord currently not counted as Humans by the Monster Manual. (HERE)
   • Humans from A Cry for Help are currently not counted as Humans by the Monster Manual. (HERE)
4. Undead
   
   • Killing wraiths called Wriath are incorrectly listed under Ashok Khalidan in the Monster Manual. (HERE)
5. Giants
   
   • The Troll rare in Sorrowdusk Isle named Kremen is incorrectly listed as Gewastern by the Monster Manual. (HERE)
6. Accounts Deads
   
   • Top Tier Turbine Point Rewarding Account Deeds are currently missing their Turbine Point Reward. It is unlikely when this issue is corrected that it will be a retroactive change, so complete these Deeds at your own risk of losing 35 Turbine Points. (HERE) (Acknowledged)

Non-Player Characters:

1. Fred
   
   • Fred is once again suffering some form of a mental break down, and no longer allows certain Feats to be swapped out, depending on the order they were taken. I get the feeling Fred has been playing with his mind again. (HERE) (Known Issue) (Fixed)
2. Klin Stegen
   
   • Klin Stegen is currently having issues summoning Hezrou outside of Eberron, as a result all Hezrou he Summons are CR:10. (HERE)

User Interface:

1. Adventure Compendium
   
   • The Search Feature in the Adventure Compendium is currently functioning poorly. Searching for a quest will likely remove all quests from the Compendium. Relogging will correct this issue. (HERE)

DDO Store:

1. Whorl - Dark/Steel
   
   • Previewing Whorl - Dark/Steel on a Docent can clear your current Armor Kit, if you have one previously applied. (HERE) (Acknowledged)

Audio:

1. Environment Audio
   
   • Some quest and challenge specific audio will remain even after the player has left the area. This is most noticeable in the Underdark Arena. Personally I like being cheered on because I'm so awesome. (HERE)

Miscellaneous:

1. Invisible Characters
   
   • Characters are still turning completely invisible after loading through some instances. This was meant to be corrected with Update 15 however it is still occuring, the release notes should be adjusted to reflect this. (HERE)

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Self Notes: (C) 0 (UT) 190 Save Posts before closing window. Sleep more. If your reading this perhaps you should consider helping me?

[NexEverto]

I do not intend for this thread to become a 'bag Turbine' thread, it is simply a place to keep record of everything that's not working as expected in U15. I'm sure there are many other players, as well as QA/Dev's who hate having the head spin caused by shifting across dozens of threads and posts trying to work out exactly what's going on. I have not, and most likely will not bug report any of the problems I'm listing, as I'm hoping the individual that found them has already done that.

As 404 said...

... There will always be bugs in DDO it will never be bug free at any point in its lifetime.

[NexEverto]

Having issues submitting a bug report? Here's Kookie's quick solution to submitting bug reports!

The best thing to do if you are unable to report from in-game would be to hop onto the forums (not using the in-game browser) and use this link:

http://forums.ddo.com/new_bug.php

If you are still having major issues, here's Maj's comment on the Bug Tool and its functionality.

Bug Tool: This is now functional. There is still a possibility of having issues, and we are still thinking about a newer solution to the tool. Be nice in the bugs though, I have a new guy doing it…kid gloves! I have a few other ideas to get info to QA from the community which should be active by the next Lamannia update. MadFloyd and I are trying to have the community as a whole more involved in the process. After all, we do this all for you.

[NexEverto]

Previous Lists:
Update 12 Broken ‘Things’ Master List
Update 13 Broken ‘Things’ Master List
Current Lists:
Update 14 Broken ‘Things’ Master List (MotU Edition)
Update 15 Broken ‘Things’ Master List

[Nospheratus]

The Judge in ToD on hard doesn't spawn and the Jailer doesn't even activate. On normal he did spawn though.

[Xenostrata]

The Judge in ToD on hard doesn't spawn and the Jailer doesn't even activate. On normal he did spawn though.

This isn't limited to just ToD. The efreeti in Sins won't spawn, the Marut in Finding the Path won't spawn, and I've heard tell of other people running Accursed Ascension and finding the quest is lacking an Abbot. There are probably more quests with this issue out there.

This is a good time to take a break from the game.

[Ovrad]

This is a good time to take a break from the game.

This, seriously.

Tried running Outbreak, we got to the part where the NPC tells us to take the ddoor... and there's no ddoor. Quest fail. Thanks Turbine.

[knockcocker]

This, seriously.

Tried running Outbreak, we got to the part where the NPC tells us to take the ddoor... and there's no ddoor. Quest fail. Thanks Turbine.

Indeed. Dropped my sub today. I have had enough of this dog.

[Meat-Head]

This isn't limited to just ToD. The efreeti in Sins won't spawn, the Marut in Finding the Path won't spawn, and I've heard tell of other people running Accursed Ascension and finding the quest is lacking an Abbot. There are probably more quests with this issue out there.

This is a good time to take a break from the game.

I love it. I'm totally not a "doom sayer", but the pattern does appear to be thus:

1. Update
2. PARTS of game are unplayable for a while
3. Patch 1 (SOME parts are fixed, some are not, some are worse, some say they are fixed but aren't)
4. Patch 2 better
5. Update
6. ....


So, we're at #2 atm.

Now, the key point here is that only PARTS of the game are unplayable. Luckily, my gimpy main is still slowly TRing back to 20. He'll TR right away again. So, thankfully I'll miss much of this junk till it's fixed.

I totally get how this is frustrating to ppl though. It's kinda demoralizing in a way.

That being said, breaks are good. Updates DO appear to be good times for breaks.

On another note, this update is totally unexciting to me UNLESS there is some solid XP in those new quests for TRs. Otherwise, meh. The only thing exciting to me on the horizon is the enhancement update. That one will take at LEAST 3 patches to be playable.

[phalaeo]

Logged onto my Bard who was working on Legendary Dreadnought to find she only has 4 songs. I waited in a tavern to see if they would regen, and they didn't. I swapped the destiny out and back in... still 4 songs. Finally, I just ran the first two new quests using Fatesinger to get me up to 19 bard songs so I'd have enough.

Speaking about having enough....

[Barazon]

Into the Deep, not enough drow slaves spawn to complete the optional objective to free them.

Edit: difficulty setting was Heroic Elite, since apparently the difficulty made a difference for ToD.

[Meat-Head]

Into the Deep, not enough drow slaves spawn to complete the optional objective to free them.

LOL!

So many weird bugs.. What in the world??! STOP THE UNRAVELING THREAD QUIK! Soon, players will benefit or something. :P

[Tiamas]

Epic feats:

• Overwhelming critical is still not working as intended. It increases your critical threat range +1 instead of increasing the multiplier on a 19 or 20. (So it works like kensai III currently)

[auntjobiska]

A +4 devotion shield that claimed to add 60 spell power before the update (but was bugged to only add 54) has now been 'fixed' so that its description says it adds 54 spell power. This 'fix' was not in the release notes.

AJ

[Barazon]

Into the Deeps, ground textures are missing in the underwater area, leaving huge patches of pure, featureless blackness.

In the Adventure Compendium (P key), Adventures tab, do not use the search box. After you type a few characters, the entire list will disappear. Logging out and back in restores it.

[Bilger]

Completing Outbreak is bugged. Only 1 completion of 3 and that is the one I skipped all optionals, started at left door, and just killed spawns and names.

First 2 that didn't complete did optionals and everything else in quest.

[jamestheman]

So our ships get stripped again?

[Skeald]

Shillelagh is not responding as stated in the release notes

Metal damage types are stripped from metaline weapons when shillelagh is cast
Good damage is stripped from both holy and Pure good weapons when shillelagh is cast

Tested on 2 toons and used several differnt QS's both canith crafted and random loot gen

I would bug report it but.....

[Qezuzu]

So our ships get stripped again?

I'm not experiencing this.

They might have simply expired without you noticing.

[samthedagger]

I hate to trash on Turbine because I really do love this game, but the bugs are getting a little ridiculous. I have often taken it upon myself to be a dutiful member of the gaming populace and report bugs promptly and with as much detail as possible. But after u14 I was swamped with so many things and I was still coming across things to big report right before u15 and many of the things I reported persist and are not listed as known issues or addressed in patches. It is getting frustrating. The game is still fun and playable so I am not crying doom here, but you would think, at the very least, they would get some priority on IN-GAME bug reporting getting fixed so that the process is easier for players and the info more accurate. The out-of-game big reporting requires you to provide many pieces of info manually which the in-game does automatically and more precisely.

I realize the game will never be bug free. But they can improve their quality control a lot by making it easier and more effective to report bugs by first fixing in-game reporting.