THF:
No glancing blows while moving (so twitch attacking has a lower benefit)

TWF:
No certain offhand attacks on certain swings in the attack chain, is now a percentage chance on each mainhand swing to proc an offhand swing. From memory:
No TWF - 20%
TWF - 40%
ITWF - 60%
GTWF - 80%

Tempest 1 improves this by 10%, tempest 2 by another 10%, Monk wind stance improves this by some amount. Tempest 1 also no longer gives the 10% attack speed increase.

Overall:
Abilities like Zeal and Fighter capstone no longer increase attack speed by 10%, they instead add a 'doublestrike chance' of 10%. Doublestrike is basically a chance on each mainhand swing to proc another mainhand swing instantly, I believe with smite, trip, stunning blow etc attached.

The gist:

This is an MMO. It is not DDO.

Whatever we can do to make more cash, we do.

So:
Dumb down the rules
Make it easy for low levels to go up quickly, then once you have them hooked, make the higher levels require stuff from the store.
Nerf stuff so people have to rebuild characters. Quickest way is to pay for a TR.
Put in some Hello Kitty colors. Oh wait, that is some idiot on the forums saying that. 

Schmoe wrote on Jun 10^th, 2010 at 10:09am:




Yes let´s not fix the hardware or the code lets fix something that wasn´t broken.

But you make that sound so much better.

stainer wrote on Jun 10^th, 2010 at 1:00pm:


Well if you pick that haircut on your dorf then i understand how you can get your own head stuck that far up your own arse.

Schmoe wrote on Jun 10^th, 2010 at 10:09am:



Unfortunately testing showed this was total bullshit and they just wanted to slow down and change combat.  Lag was just a convenient scapegoat...

As my boobies on the Vault, can I just say this:

Fuck you turbine, fuck you for making me grind 2 TR's on my first TR toon, fuck you for nerfing glancing blows, fuck you for nerfing TWF, fuck you for slowing combat down (again).

Fuck you for not even replying or making a comment on all of this for over 2 weeks in a thread with 150+ pages.

Seriously, fuck you.

Now, who is running ToD and epic DQ tonight?

Just so you all know, my toons on Drama Llama are Felgor, Angryscrews, Splatsplat, Flavoursome.

EDIT: I love the sneaky word conversion...lol

Felgor wrote on Jun 26^th, 2010 at 1:25am:

I like this guy already.

I've been having trouble filling in my spare time and had been considering coming back for a bit... but I know the combat slowdown will drive me absolutely nuts.

What really kills me is that they "discovered" the real problem in a Llama thread earlier this month, thanks to someone doing some studies.  The REAL cause of DPS lag is their artificial bandwidth cap.  US players are capped at 20.5kbps.  Once you start using a weapon with lots of magical effects (or otherwise increasing the amount of data transfer to reach that cap), lag starts kicking in.

Here's the real kicker: not only is Turbine aware of this problem, they have the ability to raise the cap on the fly.  In other words, the utilities to change it already exist.  How do we know this?  Apparently European users do not share the same bandwidth cap.

Here's the thread on the matter: http://forums.ddo.com/showthread.php?t=253905

And I'll repeat what I said in a post to Turbine when I read that thread: Fuck you, you fucking fucks.

Strakeln wrote on Jun 26^th, 2010 at 10:46am:

The bandwidth issue should have been obvious, imho. At least it should to their developers. I wonder if there is a large cost associated to increasing bandwidth that they are trying to avoid? Or maybe, the current cap was put into place to balance play for people with poor connections? I am going out on a limb on the with connection issue. I guess there could be latency and quality issues, especially in America with our crappy infrastructure.

My point is this issue is/was known to Turbine. What was the reason for not wanting to make a bandwidth change?

Hmmm...increasing bandwidth reduces lag. Who'd've thunk it? 

Seriously, would it've been THAT hard to increase the bandwidth cap before that test? I mean seriously. The European servers evidently have a higher bandwidth cap (approx 30 kbs?) than the Turbine servers. Would it have been THAT hard for Turbine to compare notes with Codemasters regarding that???

I don't wanna hear anything about "there's only so much bandwidth available" either. Since F2P took off, there's NO reason why the Data Center Turbine uses could not get OC3 (155 Mbps) lines (heck, I'll bet an OC12 line wouldn't be out of the question) hooked up for the DDO servers.

I can't even find the post where I put that forward 2 years ago. I noticed that, on a T-3 connection with 40 ms when I was in DC, it was capped.

I had "suggested" that, since the servers are separated, they could just put some at one site and the rest at another site (effectively increasing the bandwidth if that was a provider limiter).
They tried doing that with the account servers at one site and the game servers at another, but it failed due to other reasons.


Maybe it was because I said their netops group needed to be fired? I also had a comment about how their DBA was full of shit about the database filling up with characters so they capped the number of characters we had (it was when we could get more slots by earning favor - which then got classified as an "exploit"). For space, they could just archive off the thousands of accounts/characters that were not currently paying (all those plat farmers!)

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