Downtime Notice: Wednesday, August 31st 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM Eastern (-4 GMT)

[Cordovan]

UPDATE: The game worlds have reopened.

The DDO game worlds will be unavailable on Wednesday, August 31st from 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM Eastern (-4 GMT) to release Update 56: Archetypes and Archvillains. The release notes can be found on DDO.com.

[Aelonwy]

I was just about to ask about the maintenance window. I have nothing nice to say about the speed at which this update was shoveled at us so I will say nothing else.

[ahpook]

I was just about to ask about the maintenance window. I have nothing nice to say about the speed at which this update was shoveled at us so I will say nothing else.

Based on the Lam feedback it makes you wonder who this update is for. I don't think as many people hate it as the ED revamp (I could be wrong) but certainly not as many people are as excited by it. And it doesn't seem to be required to support the next release (like the ED revamp was to support the level increase). I am ambivalent on it except I greatly appreciate the bank UI revamp. I am now not dreading the Iconic TR I have planned for this week and dealing with the TR cache.

[TitusOvid]

So bank change will come tomorrow? I hope you have a good backup system installed. There will probably be people with pitchforks and torches camping out in front of your offices, if something goes wrong.
Good luck.

Cheers,
Titus

[FatBudScream]

Lets be positive, if we loose things we'll have a reason to refarm it. its genius move.

Thougt you were more a half-full glass guy O Mighty Titus my Beloved Leader.

[Aelonwy]

So bank change will come tomorrow? I hope you have a good backup system installed. There will probably be people with pitchforks and torches camping out in front of your offices, if something goes wrong.
Good luck.

Cheers,
Titus

Uhg. Now I'm even more concerned.

[J1NG]

If no notes can be posted today due to a technical issue, yet posting a post is not affected by a technical issue, else you can't post; this may suggest that there's other changes that have been "added" since Preview 3 on Lam.

Get ready for some surprises everyone...(!)

J1NG

[TitusOvid]

Lets be positive, if we loose things we'll have a reason to refarm it. its genius move.

Thougt you were more a half-full glass guy O Mighty Titus my Beloved Leader.

In everything but SSG, lolz.
Sorry SSG folks.

Cheers,
Titus.

[mikarddo]

Hopefully, a few more cheerful things have been added to the patch notes come tomorrow based on the feedback received.

- Obviously, we wont have a storage update without some real improvements in terms of actual storage. All current shared bank slots are being doubled. E.g., if you currently have 200 slots in the shared bank you now have 400. Also, the price of shared bank slots and character bank slots have been reduced significantly.

- Further, all minor artifacts and many older raid items (3+ years old) have been made BtA.

- On further reflection the nerf to FvS (and Clerics) was too much. Holy Smite is now 1d6+6, and AoV cores 1, 3 and 5 add +1 caster level while all AoV cores add +1 max caster level.

- We hear you on Sonic Blast. It is not being nerfed and thus remain AoE. Instead Lightning Strike from Stormsinger does not proc from Sonic Blast. That was, afterall, the real issue.

- Aasimar. Back to 7 total but we had to nerf the recharge, sorry, it was just too good.

- ToEE. We really want you guys to run these so we gave them really good xp. And by really good we mean really, really good. So go forth and enjoy these quests with excellent xp rewards. We do expect to have to reduce this down the line but for now we just want to make sure you swarm these quests.

and probably a few more changes from the Lam notes to cheer things up.

[FatBudScream]

In everything but SSG, lolz.
Sorry SSG folks.

You can trust ALL the french players of Orien to be sure there will be no issue.
No item magically disappearing in aether, no items stuck on a slot, no non-tradeable items, no BT/BTC hiccups.
All is ok.

This message is french government approved. (^-^)b

[TitusOvid]

Hopefully, a few more cheerful things have been added to the patch notes come tomorrow based on the feedback received.

- Obviously, we wont have a storage update without some real improvements in terms of actual storage. All current shared bank slots are being doubled. E.g., if you currently have 200 slots in the shared bank you now have 400. Also, the price of shared bank slots and character bank slots have been reduced significantly.

- Further, all minor artifacts and many older raid items (3+ years old) have been made BtA.

- On further reflection the nerf to FvS (and Clerics) was too much. Holy Smite is now 1d6+6, and AoV cores 1, 3 and 5 add +1 caster level while all AoV cores add +1 max caster level.

- We hear you on Sonic Blast. It is not being nerfed and thus remain AoE. Instead Lightning Strike from Stormsinger does not proc from Sonic Blast. That was, afterall, the real issue.

- Aasimar. Back to 7 total but we had to nerf the recharge, sorry, it was just too good.

- ToEE. We really want you guys to run these so we gave them really good xp. And by really good we mean really, really good. So go forth and enjoy these quests with excellent xp rewards. We do expect to have to reduce this down the line but for now we just want to make sure you swarm these quests.

and probably a few more changes from the Lam notes to cheer things up.

How can I vote for you?

Cheers,
Titus.

[Cordovan]

I specifically can't get the release notes published until tomorrow due to a one-off hardware issue, but yes, this is the update to Temple of Elemental Evil, the updated Character Bank, Shared Bank, and Reincarnation Cache, and the debut of the three initial (and free!) Archetypes! The release notes themselves are essentially the same as was seen on Lamannia most recently. We'll have a landing page on DDO.com up tomorrow as well.

[Nickodeamous]

Hopefully, a few more cheerful things have been added to the patch notes come tomorrow based on the feedback received.

- Obviously, we wont have a storage update without some real improvements in terms of actual storage. All current shared bank slots are being doubled. E.g., if you currently have 200 slots in the shared bank you now have 400. Also, the price of shared bank slots and character bank slots have been reduced significantly.

- Further, all minor artifacts and many older raid items (3+ years old) have been made BtA.

- On further reflection the nerf to FvS (and Clerics) was too much. Holy Smite is now 1d6+6, and AoV cores 1, 3 and 5 add +1 caster level while all AoV cores add +1 max caster level.

- We hear you on Sonic Blast. It is not being nerfed and thus remain AoE. Instead Lightning Strike from Stormsinger does not proc from Sonic Blast. That was, afterall, the real issue.

- Aasimar. Back to 7 total but we had to nerf the recharge, sorry, it was just too good.

- ToEE. We really want you guys to run these so we gave them really good xp. And by really good we mean really, really good. So go forth and enjoy these quests with excellent xp rewards. We do expect to have to reduce this down the line but for now we just want to make sure you swarm these quests.

and probably a few more changes from the Lam notes to cheer things up.

SSG should hire you to save the game.

[J1NG]

The release notes themselves are essentially the same as was seen on Lamannia most recently. We'll have a landing page on DDO.com up tomorrow as well.

This really should have been part of the OP to be honest from the get go if that was the case.

However, I will still not expect everything in notes to be what is found in game, as there's unfortunate history of this repeating itself over and over again. Will monitor for unusual stuff as usual and keep the more juicy bugs/exploits for personal testing use.

I am looking forward to the Sacred Fist though, and have some nice ideas for it that I can build on one of the part time actor (non main or even secondary) accounts.

J1NG

[Thoggy]

So silly. This update stopped any more spending from me on this game. Now do I cancel go ahead and cancel vip? Idk, see how I feel in the morning.

[Urklore]

Can you lesser reincarnate into an archetype? Do I need a plus Heart of Wood for each class level?

[Hipparan]

Can you lesser reincarnate into an archetype? Do I need a plus Heart of Wood for each class level?

You should be able to reincarnate into an archetype with a +0 heart of wood as long as your character is the base class of whatever the archetype is. Otherwise if you're a Fighter for example, you'd need a +X heart of wood to get the levels of whatever class the archetype belongs to.

[Epicsoul]

I really appreciate SSG for trolling its own Hardcore players with this update. You guys are really crushing it--the player base. You're crushing the player base.

[voxson5]

The DDO game worlds will be unavailable on Wednesday, August 31st from 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM Eastern (-4 GMT) to release Update 56: Archetypes and Archvillains. The release notes will be available on Wednesday due to a technical issue today.

[Nickodeamous]

I really appreciate SSG for trolling its own Hardcore players with this update. You guys are really crushing it--the player base. You're crushing the player base.

I about fell outa my chair after I read this. lol

Nico