No Artificers.  Too many bugs, perhaps?

  Maybe we'll still get Psions before Artificers after all. 

"XP, Guild XP, Crafting XP, and Loot Boost Potions will now have their duration carry over through reincarnation."
-Yeah I've lost a fair share of pots b/c 2 hours into it i wanted to LR hehe.. or I TR'd with like 10+ hours left on an XP pot

"Slayer Count Boosts now pause while in dungeons."
-I like this!

Uh interesting:

• A new bonus has been created that awards players for running quests consecutively on hard and elite difficulties.
• This Bravery Bonus is a 5% bonus (10% bonus on Elite) that will "stack" up to five times, or until a player runs a quest on Normal difficulty.
• XP Rewards for first time completion on normal, hard, and elite are now 25%, 40% and 80% respectively.

"Some changes have been made to the storyline and dungeons on Korthos Island."
epic? 

"Shortcut bars will now remember items placed in them when consumed or deleted, and will display the item with a greyed-out icon. If the item is available in the DDO Store, right-clicking on the greyed-out icon will open the DDO Store page for the item. If a character has several stacks of the same item, and the one in the shortcut bar goes empty, the shortcut bar will be filled with another stack of the same item."
nice!


ATTN DISPEL:

• Players will now receive a buff to their maximum hit points while in a PvP arena or Tavern Brawling Area.
• There is now a 10 second immunity timer when a player enters a Tavern Brawling Area before the player's PvP flag is activated.

A new crafting recipe is available to reduce the minimum level usage restriction on a crafted item by 2. The recipe is called Masterful Craftsmanship I, and requires a special Bound to Account item that is only available from a House Cannith favor vendor or rare treasure drop. Currently, House Cannith favor can only be acquired by high level characters, but this will change in a future update.

Me gusta.

I really should have read all the notes. Ah well, I'll just pad my post count.

Love this
Dragonscale Armors no longer require special repair shops.
Crafting vendors in the House Kundarak Cannith Crafting Hall will now properly buy and repair equipment.


HOLY FUCK
Metamagic feats can now be applied to specific spells. Players can select a spell on a toolbar, click the right mouse button, and set the metamagic feats that apply to that spell.

Artificier is in.  Just checked under specialist in the creator.  For those that don't know Llama-land is up.

Edit:  You can select just not continue making right now.  hmmm. . .

Asketes wrote on Aug 9^th, 2011 at 3:50pm:

That's fucking amazing.

Asketes wrote on Aug 9^th, 2011 at 3:50pm:


I have seen you do this multiple times nub

Some nice unexpected changes (or slightly unexpected)

Viewable goggles is a step in the right direction. I like it even though we had a hint with the screenie.

Assigning metas to spells is long long overdue. Glad they got too it, hope they got it right, or get it right shortly after release

Buffing the raid bosses is good. Im very happy about that. Especially if the n-e scales well.

Im interested to see how the ui changes to health bars implements. Ive always thought it was way to simple the way it was. Hopefully this is a step in the direction of more customization such as volume sliders

Lowering Ki costs on higher end ki strikes is also a step in the right direction after the autocrit nerf. Hopefully they continue to tweak it. Although I havent played my monk in a while, I plan to start playing him tonight again.

Increased xp is good. Especially after all the xp nerfs the past few years.

More crafting tweaking is good as well, though its just a slight tweak this time it seams. Taking +3 tomes out of the boxes makes me happy

Asketes wrote on Aug 9^th, 2011 at 3:51pm:


I'm sure they want to demo them at the up coming cons and therefore not provide a sneak peak until then.  Need to have priceless Fernando video drooling over his Inspector Gadget.

Vissarion wrote on Aug 9^th, 2011 at 4:50pm:

Doubtless. I see that the handwraps fix only mentioned ghost touch on crafted - what about alignment based, and ever other broken handwrap effect on live?

Quikster wrote on Aug 9^th, 2011 at 4:20pm:


I think the look is cleaner, but extremely buggy.  Ki/SP overlap and is illegible. SP listed is either incorrect or added to classes that don't have it, and player slots 6 and 12 just don't show up.

I do not like the HP/SP bar ... suppose may be a way to toggle it back to the clasic and show actual values rather than percentages.

Of exceptional note... on observations I think human will be among the better races for a base on artificer, which is cool as they lost some application in some other classes (particularly twf melee) - I will not go into scope of here... I'll let you number crunchers figure that out.

Epic items now have finally antiquated GS in end game areas.

Will have to check it out latter am going to download the lam client again as mine is kind of flakey currently.