Yabb!

FakeStrake wrote on Feb 4^th, 2014 at 2:10am:


Thanks! I just leased my new apartment today. It's pretty cool to finally be able to afford my own place.

I have family out here too- that made SoCal beat out the other offers I was looking at.

FakeStrake wrote on Feb 4^th, 2014 at 2:17am:


Nah, that was Melange breaking it because he made a mistake when putting a MotU affix back in.

Mokune wrote on Feb 4^th, 2014 at 12:18pm:


FYI, Cannith Crafting predates me. I've never worked on it. I started with Menace of the Underdark. Cannith Crafting is Piloto. So send your praise/hate on it to him.

Arkat wrote on Feb 3^rd, 2014 at 11:00pm:


Sorry, but I'd rather not burn bridges. I might go back to the East Coast someday. The game industry is small, and it's because of glowing recommendations from current and former Turbinites that I had good offers to choose from as soon as I started looking elsewhere.
I think the only thing I can say is that Turbine is currently stable, as long as Infinite Crisis does as well as they hope it will.

Hey, I think I can give a couple of teasers, though.
The next Anniversary rewards has a tornado in a bottle as one of the rewards you can get. I made that for fun on my last week. It's a throwing weapon that makes a tornado, as the name implies. No saving throw, 6 second AoE knockdown. Damage is something like 18d4 per character level. (Yes, its a throwing weapon that scales with the level of the character using it)
I don't know how many will be given out per player. Hopefully it's enough that people can have some fun with them.
There's some other bottled spells I made with it, like an AoE bottled Flesh to Stone. DC 30+character level.

There's some stuff with guild airships coming up. I don't really know any details, since I was never part of future-update planning.

Other stuff:
Now that I'm gone, the difficulty-based loot has been discontinued. No more different items on Epic Normal/Hard/Elite. I was told it over-rewarded Elite play. Can't say I agree.


Thanks for the fun couple of years, DDO! It's been all of you guys who have kept me interested and engaging with the community.

That would be ideal.

FoS thanks for trying. Have fun in Cali! Gratz on the new pad. Have fun.

Think you tried to re-do the loot system and got put off it by higher ups because that didnt produce money and they want only what they can sell. Yes, I do think the staff is that blatant and transparent in its cash grabs. It has to be to keep afloat. I am going to miss the ee tier loot system as it gave people an incentive to grind out ee chests.. So, thanks for that.

I think the new loot dev comes in and fucks shit up even worse and that is with him being allowed to finish implementing his project!

karatekid wrote on Feb 5^th, 2014 at 11:20pm:

You may not have worked on the design and implementation of cannith crafting (which i think is fine, just needs more recipes), but your system to automate loot levels really fucked cannith crafting over.

SolarDawning wrote on Feb 5^th, 2014 at 7:59pm:



So what you're saying is that you were able to get the new job because you were good at your old job.

Yobai wrote on Feb 6^th, 2014 at 10:42am:


When you want someone to leave but don't want to fire them, the oldest trick in the book is to give them good recommendations so the next guy hires them and takes them off your hands.

SolarDawning wrote on Feb 5^th, 2014 at 7:59pm:


Best of luck on your new opportunity.  I agree, the EN/EH/EE difficulty difference was a nice thing.  I don't think you can ever "over reward" elite play. 

That was one of my favorite changes that came about after MoTU.  I also liked the augments and the loot scalability in FoT and CiTW weapons. 

Random effects on named loot gen was the major thing I think I didn't like from this era.  Also, the loss of many prefixes and suffixes when the naming scheme was redone and things like ghostbane, accuracy, deadly, seeking, etc was brought out.

SolarDawning wrote on Feb 5^th, 2014 at 7:59pm:


So what is exactly the plan about loot after U21 raids? Are we going back to Shard/Scroll/Seals with, hopefully, decent drop rates?

Shuy wrote on Feb 6^th, 2014 at 6:27pm:

Probably upgrading via Comms of Valor and other new ingredients.

Shuy wrote on Feb 6^th, 2014 at 6:27pm:


Haha, that is like 3 or 3 abandoned systems ago. No way are they going back to that. The new guy will make new things that will be abandoned by the next new guy