More ML29 crap. Who the fuck cares?

Those people are playing the game wrong 

Rzyman wrote on Sep 20^th, 2018 at 6:46pm:


In this build, there doesn't seem to be any changes to the weapons, other than making them BtA.  That said, they promised a cosmetic cloak that doesn't currently exist with either of the traders.  So, I'm guessing the final products will be up next week.

Pseudonym wrote on Sep 21^st, 2018 at 12:04am:


It Isn't enough for dps casting in high skulls. Some spell power, and even a substantial single element exceptional lore of 15-20% isn't enough to fix that debuff. And that leaves no room in dc caster set ups for these items at all, because that will never be the purpose of what high skull dc casters are doing. 

They do help lower skulls, by combining a few of the individual element exceptional lore items frees the gear set from beacon of magic set and robes, or stacked on for more targeted lores. 

Many of the items are great.

The longsword can be a swap to main hand weapon on long beatdowns to get 20mp/20dmg because the proc stacks up even if the target is immune.

Soulrazor Longsword
Damage Dice: 7[1d8+3] (+2W from Keen)
Soul Devouring: On hit, applies a stack of Soul Scar - Reduces AC, Fortification, and Will Saves by 1, stacks 20 times. On hit, Blackrazor can attempt to devour the Soul of a non-boss monster (DC 100 Phantasmal Killer vs Will negates, no effect vs mobs at 5,000 or more HP). When you kill a target, this adds a stack of Devoured Soul to you, max 20, which provides a profane bonus of 1 to Damage and Melee power per stack. On Block or unequip, consumed souls are released. Souls last for 20 seconds.
Keen V
Entropic (Bane damage on hit)
Vampirism 4d2
Mind Control Immunity
Red Augment Slot
Orange Augment Slot

The cloak makes its way in as an I/Charisma 9 item, and maybe even frees up the Nightmother's scepter slot. Spellcasting on the Run feat has to be worth its weight in gold. Strong candidate for mvp.

Cloak of the Mountain Cloak
Insightful Charisma +9
Spell Focus Mastery
Spell Penetration
Spellcast on the Run feat

Ring of the Silver Tongue has an Improved Deception proc, Insightful Deception +8, and assassinate, Insightful Assassinate dcs. The Echo of Ravenkind Improved Deception Proc is working on Lam. I tested the trinket few weeks ago on live and it does not work. We have 2 new functioning Improved Deception items now.


New trinket with MRR and I/Wisdom 9 allows dc casters to swap out their armor possibly.

Trinket of Freewill Trinket
Mind Control Immunity
Magical Resistance Rating +52
Spell Resistance +46
Insightful Wisdom +9

The staff is 20 spell absorb charges for favored souls.


Staff of Irian Quarterstaff
Damage Dice: 5[1d6+6]
Deific Focus III
Fire/Light Spell Power 208
Fire/Light Spell Lore 30%
If Quarterstaves are your favored weapon, whenever you expend a charge of Turn Undead, you become Favored by Irian, increasing your Fire and Light Spell Critical Damage by 5% (Quality Bonus) for 20 seconds.
If Quarterstaves are your favored weapon, while you are projecting an Aura of Menace, you can absorb 20 spells per rest.
Brazen Brilliance (from the Sunsword)
Red Augment Slot
Orange Augment Slot

Rubbinns wrote on Sep 21^st, 2018 at 1:50am:


Fire savant can already reach 100% crit chance and nobody's playing them. The damage is still too low to be effective in any decent amount of skulls. The sorc trees need at least some of the following to make them useful as nukers:
- add critical multiplier for their element in the savant cores
- significantly better spell pre crit damage, either by increasing base dice of spells or by adding significantly higher cl and max cl (in the trees and/or in gear). Make them glass cannons like the old days. Casters need a way to be future proofed so they won't fall behind every time new content comes out, because new weps with higher base dice and new sources of doublestrike scale things up much, much better than a marginal increase in spellpower does.
- the spellpower reaper boost should give a lot more spellpower to make it comparable to the dstrike/dshot boost that dps gets
- possibly something similar to fvs, where you can choose spellpoints or hp
- better slas
- achievable spell crit % should be lowered by a bit to compensate for the base damage increasing and to allow them to continue to add higher crit %s from better items in the future
- make the t5 stuff (heat death, icy prison) scale with spell power and probably make them accept metamagics too. Give each savant something like that that does legitimately good damage in t5 (with each one having slightly different numbers and a cool thematic effect) in addition to a useful "special" thing (earthgrab for earth, wind dance for air, possibly separate icy prison from the single target nuke etc). Change the t1 elemental resistances to %s. Make a bunch more minor changes to the trees to get rid of horribly weak and/or useless enh. Give them something cool that can be used during red/purple name fights to make them more valuable in raids, like a stacking debuff or a stacking group buff or whatever depending on what savant you are.

While I'm on the subject of caster changes-
Wizard would benefit from some of the stuff I listed above, but to prevent sorc from pulling way ahead wizard should get something similar to cleric domains. Let them choose evoker/necromancer/whatever as their specialty and give them cool stuff for that. Make archmage a bit more interesting, and make pm much less terrible for reaper by making it less heavily tied to being in undead form and adding a finger sla at t5 or something. Hell, go all out and give it a cool unique t5 insta that works similar to hurl for all I care. I'm not going to waste my time thinking about eldritch knight, but for people who want to suck they can add a melee option as one of the domains/specs/schools/whatever we're calling them.

Turn magister into an actual dc casting destiny with useful stuff that can't be twisted. Even before ea got buffed most wizards just twisted the dc boost and played in draconic (which could use some changes too obviously).

Congratulations, arcanes are a thing again.
Wizard is back to being the king of dc casting and flexibility, sorc is back to being a squishy nuker that can be really strong and fun if you know how to play it.

I think there are a lot of good new options in this update. I also think they are setting us up for some sort of gear swap to enhance the Wave, Whelm, and Blackrazor. Possibly more. The devs did state that the Wave, Whelm, and Blackrazor will eventually be upgradeable and I think these "reflection" items are going to be part of the process. Updating the DC on some classic weapon attributes is not a bad Idea, and I also love the Elyd charm.

Are these items from an upcoming persistent (non-seasonal) raid or are they only available from a new raid that's only accessible during the Night Revels?

crunch wrote on Sep 21^st, 2018 at 1:20pm:


Got to love that their favorite way of communicating with the fanbase is "live streams". Devs are probably borderline illiterate.

crunch wrote on Sep 21^st, 2018 at 1:20pm:

They know how much we like the current raid. They decided the only way to improve it was to make the boss undead. The loading screen was extracted from the current Lammania client.

When exactly was the last time DDO did a live event? I don't mean shit like night revels and crystal cove.

noamineo wrote on Sep 21^st, 2018 at 3:58pm:

I think it was the last time they did shit like night revels and crystal cove.

Rubbinns wrote on Sep 21^st, 2018 at 7:00pm:


I don't remember exactly, it's definitely been working since U39 patch 2 but it might've been fixed earlier without me noticing.