Lammania Release Notes: Update 10 Patch 1

Welcome to the Lammania Update 10 Patch 1 Release Notes for Dungeons & Dragons Online! These release notes were posted on Thursday, July 7th, 2011. These notes are subject to change.

News & Notes

Of Special Note:

Crafting Beta

    * Items can now be dragged directly from Collectible, Ingredients and other bags into Eldritch, Crafting and other devices. Additionally, Eldritch, Crafting and other devices will pull required ingredients directly from bags when a recipe is selected.
    * Crafting Hall vendors will now buy and repair equipment.
    * Players will now receive platinum along with essences when using Item Deconstruction devices. Preparing an item for crafting does not return platinum.
    * Maker, the greeter in the Crafting Hall, now has a tutorial quest to help players learn how to craft.
    * Sorting by "Max" crafting level will return results up to 10 levels above a character's highest crafting level.
    * Crafting device UIs will no longer need to be closed and reopened after a crafting error message is received.
    * Several recipes have been removed from the unbound crafting devices, but remain on the bound devices.
    * Some crafting recipe requirements have been adjusted to be more in line with other recipes at their level.
    * Many higher level crafting recipes have had their ingredients adjusted to make them more challenging to make.
    * A new ingredient called a Purified Eberron Dragonshard Fragment has been added to some high level crafting recipes. These fragments can be obtained from a crafting vendor in exchange for various items.
    * The crafting animation has been shortened.
    * Crafted items that should bypass damage reduction (such as Holy) will now do so.
    * Lesser Vampirism and Vampirism effects can no longer be applied to ranged weapons, since these effects do not work on ranged weapons.
    * Ghost Touch crafted handwraps now work.

General Changes

Armor Appearance Kits

    * Dark/Steel Leaf armors that saw their decorations change to the color gold in a previous update have had their steel-colored look returned.

Enhancements, Feats, and Skills

    * The Aura of Menace projected by a Favored Soul's Angel of Vengeance is now suppressed when the player is sneaking or invisible.

Guilds

    * Guilds that were prevented from depositing Astral Diamonds into their guild accounts after purchasing Windspyre Gryphon airships can now do so.

Hirelings

    * Several Cleric hirelings (especially Erythyn Veridyn, Elieri Thistledown, and Maloren) have had a stern talking to by Archbishop Dryden, and should not wait as long to heal players

Items

    * Greensteel items that were missing their Frost properties now have them.
    * The Mantle of the Worldshaper will no longer lose charges when a player hits an enemy with a weapon that has the Vampiric effect on it.
    * Items granted by Swag Bag Vouchers are now bound to character.
    * Crafting ingredients are now generated separately from normal loot, and will no longer take up a normal loot slot in chests.

Localization

    * Numerous translation and other localization improvements have been made.

NPCs

    * House Cannith's Frabricators Guild NPCs in the Harbor and Marketplace now give Small Ingredient Bags to players when one of them is first visited.
    * Banker NPCs now have an overhead symbol denoting what they are.
    * Some barrels have been added to prevent collission issues near Guard Jung in The Harbor.

Quests and Adventure Areas

Devils of Shavarath

Tower of Despair

    * Player soul stones will now return to the top of the platform if a player dies in the lava around the grand staircase area.

Gianthold

Cry For Help

    * Jailor Loki has been moved to resolve an issue which sometimes caused an objective to not complete.

Harbinger of Madness

In The Flesh

    * Friendly monsters summoned by the Shard of Xoriat item will no longer attack certain Taken monsters, which had caused an issue that could prevent progress in the quest.

Marketplace

    * The Marketplace has a new rock to prevent a possible stuck spot.

The Necropolis

Fleshmaker's Laboratory

    * The quest has been marked as requiring two or more players, due to the difficulty of soloing a puzzle late in the dungeon.

Reign of Madness

Acute Delerium

    * Hirelings, charmed monsters, and pets will no longer walk off the airship.
    * Belashyrra's Scepter will now be properly vomited out if dropped while inside of the beholder's stomach.
    * An issue that prevented some players from being transported into the beholder giant Quixxellops has been fixed.

Lord of Eyes

    * Fixed a beholder that was not properly spawning on Hard difficulty.

Vault of Night

The Vault of Night

    * A resurrection shrine will now appear when Velah is defeated.
    * Monsters will no longer continue to respawn after Velah has been killed in Epic difficulty.

Spells

    * Monsters will no longer cast more Magic Missiles, Force Missiles, and Chain Missiles than intended.
    * Necrotic Blast will no longer ignite Web and Grease.
    * Hold Animal is no longer affected by Extend.
    * Bless, Scorching Ray, Frost Lance, and Polay Ray can no longer be Enlarged.
    * Polar Ray now has its previously-missing double range benefit.
    * The effect of Symbol of Weakness will no longer be removed from targets when they leave the area of the symbol.
    * Monsters affected by Incendiary Cloud's blindness effect will now display the blindness symbol over their head.

UI Improvements

    * Barter shops now have much faster animations, allowing people to process transactions more quickly.

Other Improvements

    * Worldwide XP bonuses (such as the bonuses granted during special weekend events) now apply to landscapes as well as dungeons.

TWDiggs wrote on Jul 7^th, 2011 at 11:54am:


I think you can do it after they have been sent to the top, or if they die somewhere else. It might only trigger if they die in the lava.

* A resurrection shrine will now appear when Velah is defeated.
* Player soul stones will now return to the top of the platform if a player dies in the lava around the grand staircase area.


Interesting, that they finally got around to these two.

elstainer wrote on Jul 7^th, 2011 at 11:53am:


It looks like they looked at the common complaints about what was really fucking annoying and fixed (or at least tried to fix) most of the ones that were the most blatant.

I like it.

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lmao surely you are joking right? the recipe has another raid weapon in it?!?  ahahah i like this in a way for some reason. maybe because its a bit evil and genius at the same time. either way im glad they made the BEST shards actually cost something relevant and not allow you to craft over 9000 of them once you hit the appropriate level. will that cost be too steep? we'll see soon by the forum whiners! grats to all those who crafted a bunch of uber weapons before the patch takes place! (next monday maybe?)

edit* just saw the requirements post for more shards! AHAHA chattering ring for halfling bane?! RAZOREND for greater magical beast bane?!? lmaooooo two pretty hard to get items for two of the worst shards. this is awesome and should provide me with a lot of forum whining to read weeee

popejubal wrote on Jul 7^th, 2011 at 1:22pm:

This was my reaction EXACTLY.

someguy wrote on Jul 7^th, 2011 at 1:43pm:



Epic tokens I could see...  the others are just fucking nuts.

Yet another clear sign that Eladrin (head of the system's team) and Madfloyd (another Turbine brain donor) not only do not have the most basic understanding of the game, but are grossly incompetent.

They just need to fire the entire systems team at this point and hire on random people from the harbor.  Have some poor code monkey implement what this brain trust comes up with and frankly I can't imagine it would be worse then what the systems team has inflicted upon us with dungeon scaling, dungeon alert, epic loot, epic system yoyo's, the 'spell pass', 'lag fixing' nerfs to melee dps, and cannith crafting.

someguy wrote on Jul 7^th, 2011 at 1:57pm:


This is true.....however, at some point even the ridiculous will piss off enough paying customers to say fuck it.

while thats true too... as long as its not affecting the core gameplay it wont make people quit the game. they'll only stop crafting.... which turbine is ok with until they fix everything and get crafting out of beta with no future changes. then people will pick crafting right back up and forget about that time they shit their pants for two weeks over some patch notes.

I think I'm going to just say fuck it at this point and wait for them to nerf the requirements before I even touch crafting anymore.