https://www.ddo.com/forums/showthread.php/467953-DDO-Players-News-Special-4-A-Ch...

I will take the bullet for you, my friends. I listened to the whole thing and gathered what notes I could.


-Host mentioned us already knowing that Gnomes are coming in u30. Sev did NOT deny that as a fact, and also mentioned Deep Gnomes being a possibility as maybe an Iconic.

-They also want to make Tiefling a Race after Gnomes.

-New Raid version of Group Bonus Event. 5% per Raid Member. 55% for full Raid Group.

-Around Wednesday Afternoon on Thanksgiving week, they're gonna start the Raid AND Group bonus event. 5% per Raid Member totaling 55% for full Raid. And 10% per Member of normal Groups, totaling 50% for full Group.

-Expansion? Maybe. Payed? Maybe, maybe not.

-Updating event items to level 30? (Crystal Cove for example). SUPER LONG ANSWER that can be summarized with... Maybe. 

-Player Housing? Don't wanna say no, don't wanna say yes.

-Hope to have all Class Passes done by end of 2016, might slip into 2017.

-Fighter Pass not happening in u29 (Reasons). After that, no clarification as to who could be next, but acknowledges Steelstar's everlasting love for Artificers.

-Unimplemented and unobtainable Favor Rewards. Later.

-UI Updates are on the Radar, such as Scale-able UI.  Sev thinks it could be a moderate amount of work, since it already exists in LotRO.

-They wanna look at making Reincarnating much easier. Something about something like being able to set up the whole Reincarnation upfront and just hitting "Accept". This way you could swap levels in and out and such.

-Stuff about Producer's Letter after u29

Did you also catch how far back Arty's were in Sev's list of class passes? dead last.

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It sounded more like no particular order, the way it was coming out....

...Gah, dammit! I just want to believe! Stupid reality always coming in and kicking me in the balls. 

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Right. I don't think anyone ever thought it was going to be u29? Guy says u30, and Sev doesn't deny. I'm presuming u30 is 10th Anniversary. Seems about right.

Tieflings would make me play.
Also, how about more than 5 hours of new content every half a year Turbine ?

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Isn't Sev leaving?  The new Producer could completely change the delivery of updates?

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worst bunch of devs ever. I had a group of friends stop playing after DoJ. If your raid makes dedicated players up and quit ; you're doing it wrong.

PersonaNonGrata wrote on Nov 22^nd, 2015 at 2:58am:


Don't believe everything you read on the internet...

Revaulting wrote on Nov 22^nd, 2015 at 1:20am:


I am, currently. I just miss using my Rune Arm more actively, rather than just having it sit there for Imbues with 18 Rogue/2 Arti. 

Plus, I'm always a bit paranoid with each update, wondering when the Communion of Scribing nerf might hit. Would like the Arti Reconstruct to fall back on.

No, I refuse to play fleshlings. 

Technomage wrote on Nov 22^nd, 2015 at 11:01am:



Oh FFS this again? See here's the thing Arkat I'm no sock, but you have been unsuccessfully trying to accuse me of being one for several months now. Of course the delicious irony is that you are posting from Technomage your sock account that you created after hitting your target number of posts. 

So, other than your hate boner for anyone that agreed with Hag in the past, why don't you share with the whole class what your proof is that I'm a sock? or anyone for that matter, come on buddy lets hear it

And while you're at it why don't we put this other interesting question to rest by you answering this: Prior to the creation of the Technomage account did you personally at any time previously post from the Arkat account? 

Novalis wrote on Nov 22^nd, 2015 at 1:07pm:

"I dont play, but that sounds like a great idea!"

probably get flamed, but the fact that they are changing and adding stuff actually makes me happy. If it changes the game then whatever, its not like swinging a +5 greataxe at flesh render for 2 minutes with a required healbot buddy a la 2007 would have been that much fun forever or anything either.

The problem I see is that back then in the good ole days after launch was that gaining power was incremental, but there was a huge amount of the power curve still in front of us. Now, one update comes out every 3-5 months, and you jam through and get the items and you're a little bit more powerful but you're already maxed everywhere else you can be and can blitz 99% of the game on EE.

So it's kind of like, whats the point?

They need to find a way to make this game IMPOSSIBLE (hopefully reaper) with some slow and incremental ways to eventually get strong enough to dominate that content, but only after massive effort to get more powerful. Until then, it should be really hard and take team work with other players to get through content at the highest levels.

That model does not exist today, but I keep staying hopeful that it might with legendary, reaper, level 30, and whatever else it is they are planning. We'll see, I said hopeful, not confident.

harharharhar wrote on Nov 22^nd, 2015 at 2:09pm:



I disagree with you.

They need to pull their heads out of their asses and stop listening people such as Fraan the retard and Uurlock "yes, fuck me harder master!"

I don't want trash monsters that can one shot. We already have them against everyone that doesn't wear heavy armor. I want to be able to explore and do something different than get in the room, kill everything, invisible barrier drops, corridor, next room full of trash, rinse and repeat for x amount of time, boss.

DDO is becoming a simple box where players are locked in a dps race against a mob