It's no longer possible to enter epic challenges below epic level. 

Turbine, believe it or not but breaking things that aren't broken and "fixing" things that are beneficial to players while introducing detrimental bugs in every update is not the way to make your customers happy.

Here's a list of things that were beneficial to players (that I've noticed) that were "fixed" in the last patch:

• Underlevel epics no longer possible
• Archer's focus functionality change
• Shield PRR switch removed
• Spell critical functionality change

Nobody is asking for these things to be "fixed" meanwhile, combat archery is STILL broken since U14, and U18 introduced a whole host of bugs.  Get your damn priorities straight....

crunch wrote on Jun 10^th, 2013 at 8:37am:


It also applies to the potions from the 6 Year Old Cake Djinni.

Flav wrote on Jun 10^th, 2013 at 8:42am:


It also applies to sp pots won from myddo lottery.

Eladiun wrote on Jun 10^th, 2013 at 12:31pm:



How is this an exploit as this method applied to every overlevel quest in the game.  Now, you can't get into ANY quest unless you are within three levels of it (heroic at least).  Besides they killed challenges as a method of leveling by removing the XP. That's also another thing to add to the list btw:

• feather_of_sun'ed challenge XP still not fixed

Also, it's just really annoying when they introduced functionality change without mentioning it in the release notes.,  It just really kills the enjoyment of the game to discover feather_of_sun'ed mechanic/feather_of_sun'ed quests when you were planning on it during a particular play session. 

It's pretty clear that they're prioritizing changing beneficial "bugs" and NOT things people are actually interested in seeing fixed. 

cdr wrote on Jun 10^th, 2013 at 2:44pm:


it's still there.

Munkenmo wrote on Jun 10^th, 2013 at 3:40pm:



Wait, Jeetz is back? I thought that was the biggest leveling exploit ever ~_~

I might be missing something better? !~

NOTpopejubal wrote on Jun 10^th, 2013 at 11:22pm:


You need to understand the thought mentality. Every exploit I know of and use, I call game mechanics and don't think of it as bad.
When people have exploits I don't know about or use, they are wrong and exploiting the game. Telling me makes it all ok, atleast that is how I view them personally.

knockcocker wrote on Jun 11^th, 2013 at 4:24pm:


It's been heading that way for years. But sadly over the years there just isn't anything better worth staying at either though. So most of us always come back to ddo.

Um. I am new here. Is there a dictionary of terms that have been appropriated by the forums? Otherwise I am having trouble understanding...

How can you drug, tie up and assfuck something till it bleeds and weeps for mercy... when that something is an underlevel challenge in a computer game?

knockcocker wrote on Jun 11^th, 2013 at 4:24pm:


I don't mind daily dice.  It's just like the old lottery except that it actually works for my characters.  At least once you get past the bug that takes all of your astral shards because it keeps the cost display as "0" instead of correctly showing that you're losing 3 astral shards for each spin of the wheel.