aDifferentHandle wrote on Jan 6^th, 2012 at 8:36pm:


I've said this elsewhere, but as someone who only plays a Sorc, a Cleric, and a Paladin atm, I plan on welcoming our new enhancement overlords.

Oh noes, not a reset of enhancements!  Whatever shall i do?
Post Ponies!

"Balance" strikes a Caution point in that OP!

All this means is Decrease for melee AP enhancements and pre-req, Increase for Casters.. Specialists will probs be forgotten all together. 

I foresee much drama in the months to come!

whothefuckami wrote on Jan 7^th, 2012 at 1:14am:


Poor, poor Zexxi...

I am so glad they are finally doing this.

Flav wrote on Jan 7^th, 2012 at 8:38am:


Exactly, done right it will enhance usability, remove confusion for people new to the system, and reduce the number of gimped enhancement sets out there.

Done poorly though and it will gut one of the selling points of DDO - the level of build customization available to players.

I'll reserve judgment until I hear more.

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Yeah, they are freaking out because they see a tree, with a trunk and branches...

But what if it's several trees that jumps to each other ....

That's another reason I didn't go into details of the tree, but gave a general hint of something that could be nice ( something that works like Civ Tech tree, that is you select what you want to reach and let the game points you the requisites.  Note the : WORK LIKE, I want something more complex than the Civ Tree with at least 20 trunks ( base enhancement that opens the others up ).

To be honest it's already more or less tree based, but it's not that obvious :

 										Improved Heal I		Life Magic I 			    Charisma I
                                                                                        |			|				|
                             Divine Vitality I----\     Improved Turning I	Improved Heal II 	Life Magic II	Empower Healing	    Charisma II
                                                  |            |			|			|		|	      |
Prayer of Incredible Life I<----Prayer of Life I  \---->Radiant Servant I <-----------------------------------------------------/	      |
|                                      |                      |										      |
\------------------------------>Radiant Servant II <------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------/ 

In the above example : Prayer of Life I, Divine Vitality I, Improved Turning I, Improved Heal II, Life Magic I and Charisma I are trunks ( no requirements )
Any you end up with a nice Radiant Servant II tree. 
But actually it's not a real enhancement tree...
There's part of a real enhancement tree hidden in it...

Prayer of Life is a requirement for Prayer of Incredible life... that's a tree... from the same trunk.

If it's like that, there's definitely won't be any problems... If it's something else there's going to be lots of rage quits.

Flav wrote on Jan 7^th, 2012 at 11:35am:


Yeah. What we have is more of a bush than a tree.

Darkrok wrote on Jan 7^th, 2012 at 9:55am:

Yeah that pretty much nails it for me too.

JDollar wrote on Jan 7^th, 2012 at 11:48am:


I thought they effectively nerfed those by making red+'s immune to wounding?

Merrick wrote on Jan 7^th, 2012 at 2:55pm:


J$ lives in the past.

I think the only people that are going to be upset about it at this point are Bowbarians.

Madfloyd's posting on a Saturday afternoon. Saying some nice things too - I think he addresses every fear in this thread, and I found it well worth reading. It sounds a lot better than when Eladrin dumped TWF changes on us as a fait accompli last year.