Lamannia Release Notes (Last Updated 5-15-14)
Lamannia Release Notes: Update 22

Welcome to the Lamannia Release Notes for Dungeons & Dragons Online! These release notes were posted on Thursday, May 15th, 2014. These notes will be updated and changed in the coming weeks.

Of Special Note:

Epic Three Barrel Cove

Three Barrel Cove has been significantly updated to support Epic-level questing! Visit Three Barrel Cove by visiting Nadine Shipton in The Harbor, or Evi Joss in House Deneith! NOTE: Monster statting is not yet complete, so things like monster hit points and saving throws are not final.

Guild Changes

Many new improvements to guilds, airships, and guild airship amenities are now available! Check them out! (NOTE: All costs are not final, and are placeholder numbers subject to change. Additionally, guild amenity buff durations are currently placeholder, and will change in a future Lamannia update.) Click here for more information about guild changes coming in Update 22.

Swashbuckler

The Swashbuckler is a new Bard Prestige Enhancement! Swashbucklers can improve their Dodge, Doublestrike, Attack Damage and gain benefits through a special Swashbuckling Defensive Stance!

Bag Deposit Box

The Bag Deposit Box is a new shared account storage tab that can be used to hold anything that fits into a storage bag, including Ingredients, Collectibles, event items and more! The tab can be found by visiting a Banker in-game. Players can drag an Ingredients or other bag into the UI tab to have the ingredients and other items inside automatically populate into the Bag Deposit Box. Free and Premium players get twelve slots for free, and VIP players get an additional thirty-three slots (for a total of forty-five slots) for free. The Bag Deposit Box can be expanded by visiting the DDO Store.

News & Notes

Airships and Guilds

The maximum guild level is now 200! Guild decay begins once a guild hits level 150, and continues until a guild falls below level 150.
Airship amenity hookpoints will now persist when changing decks on an airship.
Airships now have a "get all" buffs button.
Six new airships are now available!
NEW: Most old amenity effects now use the Guild Bonus type. However, older amenities in which several amenities gave the same bonus (such as Armor Class) were unchanged, so the older amenities will continue to stack with each other as before. Additionally, the older Elemental Resistance amenities remain unchanged.


Combat

NEW (LAMANNIA ONLY): Ranged weapon critical hits have returned!
Monsters will now aggro when players shoot their nearby friends at long range.
Monster AI has been adjusted to improve the ability of enemies to detect players, and to improve game performance (particularly in regard to aggro and when damaged.)


Enhancements

NEW (LAMANNIA ONLY): Swashbuckler Action Boosts now have charges.
NEW (LAMANNIA ONLY): Tier 5 of Swashbuckler now has a new ability: Coup de Grace. (Multiselector, Melee or Ranged Attack): Make an attack with +3[W]. If it strikes any Fascinated, Sleeping, Dancing, Dazed, Tripped, Mesmerized, Paralyzed, Petrified, or Stunned enemy, it must make a Fortitude save (d20 + your Perform skill) or die instantly.
NEW (LAMANNIA ONLY): Swashbuckler abilities that trigger when enemies miss you now trigger when enemies miss due to Dodge, Incorporeal, or most other reasons.
Fixed a few Tier 5 Heroic Enhancements that were not requiring character level 12.
The Monk Ninja Spy's Acrobatic rank 1 now properly updates the dodge bonus display. This was a display issue only.
NEW: Warchanter's Focused ability now adds Jump in addition to its other bonuses.
NEW: Spellsinger's Charlatan ability now adds Haggle in addition to its other bonuses.


Epic Destinies

NEW: Divine Crusader's Stand and Be Judged ability no longer affects bosses.
NEW: Epic moment counters should no longer be reset when going through some portals.


Feats


NEW (LAMANNIA ONLY): The Single Weapon Fighting feat and Two-Handed Fighting feat cannot be taken by the same character. The Single Weapon Fighting feat is mutually exclusive with the Two Handed Fighting feat.
A new line of Single Weapon Fighting feats are now available!
Single Weapon Fighting: While Single-Weapon Fighting, you gain +10% Combat Style bonus to attack speed. Requires fighting with a single one-handed weapon, and wielding only an orb, runearm, or nothing in your offhand.
Feat Requirement: 2 ranks of Balance
Improved Single Weapon Fighting: Your Single-Weapon Fighting bonus is increased to a +20% Combat Style bonus to attack speed. You now apply 50% more of your appropriate ability score to your damage instead of just your ability score (for instance, you add 1.5 times your Strength as damage, similar to Two-Handed Fighting.)
Feat Requirement: 4 ranks of Balance, Base Attack Bonus +6
Greater Single Weapon Fighting: Your Single-Weapon Fighting bonus is increased to a +30% Combat Style bonus to attack speed and 100% more of your appropriate ability score to your damage .
Feat Requirement: 7 ranks of Balance, Base Attack Bonus +11


Hirelings

An Epic Hireling Vendor is now available in the Marketplace.


Items

New named buckler shields have been added to the game! (NOTE: These items are not yet available for preview on Lamannia.)
The Key to the City - Eveningstar can once again be used on guild airships.
NEW: Snow Elemental Gems no longer try and fail to enter Gem Bags.
NEW: The Dethek Runestone shield's Spell Power bonus is now an Alchemical bonus, as described. Additionally, the shield's Runic Revitalization effect now works.
NEW: Demolition charges have been updated to allow characters with the Rogue Mechanic's Field Engineer Tier 3 enhancement to place them in half the time, and not be interrupted by damage. Characters with Improved Traps can continue to place them in half the time as well.
NEW: The correct Trap Part type is now given out according to the type of trap disabled. Additionally, a Disable Device skill check is now correctly checked when rolling to determine if trap parts are distributed.
NEW: Trap Parts are now given out on Epic Normal and Epic Elite difficulties.
NEW: The random roll for the number of Trap Parts given out on a successful roll now has a minimum of half the CR of the trap, with the maximum number of parts distributed being the CR of the trap.


Monsters

Kludjargs (red-named Battleragers) are now actually Kludjargs on Hard and Elite difficulties, and have had their hit points reduced. These creatures now have a higher Physical Resistance Rating that goes away as their armor is Sundered off.
Artificer enemies are now correctly wearing their rune arms.


PvP

Character above level 20 can now engage in PvP arenas (Death Match, Capture the Flag.)


Quests and Adventure Areas

The House Deneith quest Storming the Beaches (from the Sentinels of Stormreach adventure pack) now features an Epic version!
Blockade Buster
Fixed a stuck spot.

Chamber of Raiyum
Fixed a stuck spot.

Fire on Thunder Peak
Fixed a focus orb issue with the dragons

Gianthold
The Fog of War now goes away after collecting all of the Words of the Ancient Ones.

The Grotto
Fixed a stuck spot.

The Lord of Blades
NEW: Pets (such as Iron Companions) are no longer selected over players to teleport into the elemental area.

The Pit
Puzzle runes should now be easier to read (some of their glow has been reduced.)

The Subterrane
Fixed a stuck spot.

Three Barrel Cove
NEW: Now that the town in Three Barrel Cove is a public area, three of the old Heroic explorer points have been moved. Players who found the explorer points prior to the release of Update 22 will still have credit for finding the explorer points.

Tower of Despair
Fixed a platform to no longer cause lava damage.

Vault of Night (VoN 5)
Fixed a stuck spot.


Spells

Most spells (and the Favored Soul's Angel of Vengeance summoned archon) no longer emit light. This change has been made to improve game performance.
Flame Turret has a new focus orb image.


UI

The Shards for Cake UI window will now properly be suppressed by checking the display check box.


Miscellaneous

NEW: The Test Dojo has new loot! Players will now find boxes in the Dojo that distribute level 20-28 gear, including most gear from Menace of the Underdark and Update 21, as well as crafting ingredients to create Eveningstar Challenge weapons, Eveningstar Commendation items, Thunder-Forged Weapons, and Gianthold Dragonscale armors. Additionally, a box also now contains most Update 22 named items.
Some spell and item lighting effects have been adjusted to improve game performance.


Known Issues

Known issues are now available, click here!

Automated Character Copy Tool Update and Feedback
The new Lamannia Character Copy tool is now available! Click here to see it.

You'll need to be logged into the web site on the account where your characters are. Once you are logged in, it's a simple process: Select the server where the character sits, select the character, then select the destination server (Lamannia.) Confirm and wait for the copy to complete. You do not need to stay on the web page while the copy takes place, nor stay logged into the web site.

If you run into a failed character copy, it's possible to try again. If you consistently run into a failed copy issue, please use this thread to let us know about your experience. There are a few known possible reasons for a failed Character Copy to Lamannia:

Item conflicts: If you have an item on Character A, transfer Character A to Lamannia, send the same item to Character B, then try to transfer Character B to Lamannia, it'll fail until you move the item off Character B. The server doesn't allow for the same item to be transferred twice.
Pending Auction House transactions: You - may - run into an issue if you have a pending Auction House transaction in progress (Bid posted, item posted, etc.)
Pending unread mail: You may not live by the "Inbox Zero" rule in real life, but your character has to. Sorry. Unread mail - can - cause a failed Character Copy.


Please note that we are not able to provide direct support for Character Copy to Lamannia, so if you can't get your character copied over, we apologize, but we are not able to manually copy that character over for you.

ALSO: Tell us about your experience with the Character Copy tool! We'd love to hear about it.

A couple of other notes:
You'll see a Transfer button. While this tool is being built with future possible functionality in mind, Transfers are not possible.
If you start the Copy process, you'll see the Transfer button will no longer be "greyed out". Please ignore this. Transfers are still not possible.

NEW (LAMANNIA ONLY): Tier 5 of Swashbuckler now has a new ability: Coup de Grace. (Multiselector, Melee or Ranged Attack): Make an attack with +3[W]. If it strikes any Fascinated, Sleeping, Dancing, Dazed, Tripped, Mesmerized, Paralyzed, Petrified, or Stunned enemy, it must make a Fortitude save (d20 + your Perform skill) or die instantly.

Wow. Going to check the cool down timer on this.


Edit: 12 seconds. I'm way impressed.

sure they will make longer cooldown to nerfing it XD

that looks like an actual reason to roll a swashbuckler. perfom skill 70 possible? face slap followed by kill mwuahaha

70? last Cha based bard I had perform was 97.

Many new improvements to guilds, airships, and guild airship amenities are now available! Check them out! (NOTE: All costs are not final, and are placeholder numbers subject to change.)

Or make it a base d20, and you get a +4 every time it doesn't hit, for 3 minutes.  </gimpymonk*sigh*>

Most spells (and the Favored Soul's Angel of Vengeance summoned archon) no longer emit light. This change has been made to improve game performance.

so far so am I.

Didn't they just make thf the weakest choice in stead of swf? Anyone got math on this?

if you're a bard