Update 26 Patch 1 Release Notes
Here are the Release Notes for Update 26 Patch 1, released on Thursday, June 25th.

News and Notes:

Combat

    The penalty to Warlock Pact Dice, while using Cone or Chain shapes, can no longer be dispelled.
    When monsters save from an effect or spell that either deals half damage or special effects on save, the feedback over the monster's head now reads "Save" instead of "Evade".
    Champion chests can no longer spawn in public areas.

Enhancements

    Enlightened Spirit's Shield enhancement no longer loses its magic missile ward after resting or zoning.
    Enlightened Spirit's Displacement SLA no longer says it can be cast on friends.
    Tainted Scholar's Eldritch Chain Blast sound has been adjusted. The chain's visuals have been improved.
    Tainted Scholar's Stunning Blast now has its proper saving throw.
    Tainted Scholar toggle feats now properly give .75 Spell Power. This affects Eldritch Chain, Utterdark Blast, Faltering Blast, Penetrating Blast, and Enervating Shadow.
    Rogue Mechanic's Mechanical Reloader text has been updated to reflect that non-repeating crossbows gain +40% Alacrity, not +20%. Reduced the erroneous +40 Ranged Power to its proper +10 to match text.

Feats

    Fiend and Great Old One Pact feats now prevent you from being Good or Lawful, respectively, in character creation, and cannot be trained if Good or Lawful, if multi-classing into your 1st Warlock level. (Note: You may be able to use alignment changing items to get around this. We strongly recommend against this, as you still won't be able to activate your Pact or other Pact-dependent feats.)
    The Warlock - Great Old One's Create Thrall duration has been increased to 60 seconds (on a successful saving throw or not.)

Spells

    It is now easier to fire off spells while using an Eldritch Blast attack.
    Burning Blood now functions correctly. The description has also been changed to reflect the spell's actual intended 10-second duration.
    Evard's Black Tentacles now properly deals damage to enemies that enter its zone after the initial cast. The spell now lists its proper duration.

Known Issues:

Known Issues are now available. Click here to read them.


https://www.ddo.com/en/update-26-patch-1-release-notes

SweetKitten wrote on Jun 25^th, 2015 at 11:56am:


Well fuckballs! I didn't even get my Mechanic to 12, in order to take advantage of this. I suppose the combination of the RP bug + hitting a MP/RP Mysterious Shrine in ToEE, and then recalling for an hour of pure GXBow bliss, was pretty fun.

like mechanics needed it.

and before I get flamed, all my thrower builds benefited excessively from this bug

*but for the record I had nothing  to do with them fixing it

doyourealyknow wrote on Jun 25^th, 2015 at 11:43am:



I don't play a build that benefits from this, but I do feel your pain.

However look on the bright side, maybe this means they are starting to figure out how to actually fix shit instead of just changing the description on shit to match their incompetence

doyourealyknow wrote on Jun 25^th, 2015 at 11:43am:


When they made champ chests spawn where you were I can't believe I didn't think about dropping a bunch of dots on a champ and zoning out, dammit!
.

Doh... Mechanic is only 25 now. Was hoping to at least get to 28 before that was changed, heh.

Arkat wrote on Jun 25^th, 2015 at 12:10pm:



This.

Fuck you gib, you lame bitter little person.

Revaulting wrote on Jun 25^th, 2015 at 7:51pm:

Meh.

m4lacka wrote on Jun 26^th, 2015 at 3:08am:



And something new:

After I select a character in the selection screen and press enter, the game shuts down without any warning.
More interesting part is that, I (with a toon from an alt account) can see that selected toon log in to the game and stand there as if I am logged in with it.
It keeps standing still until I re-login with the same account and then it disappears.

Turdbin always finding ways to surprise us.

Sim-Sala-Bim wrote on Jun 26^th, 2015 at 3:32am:


yup, hit me too. First gamecrash after some remarkable stable months.

Revaulting wrote on Jun 26^th, 2015 at 6:40am:


It happens seldom and random.

Flav wrote on Jun 26^th, 2015 at 6:59am:

Okay, my sense of time is fucked up, then. So it's been happening to non-monk toons for all that time? Because it used to only happen to toons I'd given at least one lvl of monk.

Revaulting wrote on Jun 26^th, 2015 at 7:27am:


Since Monk = Mule for me and since it happened on all my characters ( mules included ) : Rogues, Clerics, Multiclassed ones, Bard, Barbarian, Halflings, TinCans, Elves, Drows, Half-Elves, ...  yes I'm certain... It appeared when said Kobold put in the update that plugged so many holes.

QuantumFX wrote on Jun 26^th, 2015 at 9:21am:


Fixed the Turdbine way ofc.   

Change character = ALT+F4
Create new character = ALT+F4