5 Foot Step wrote on Dec 7^th, 2018 at 5:27pm:


I can't believe the number of people that are gonna shell out $300 for fucking daily gold rolls... There's a sucker born every minute, and then there are people who play DDO....

Tspoon wrote on Dec 5^th, 2018 at 1:49pm:



The RL quests are good, and there are a good number of them plus 2 raids.  But RL also brought a lot of power creep.  The item stats are pretty much CC, but 4 effects and a set bonus pushed them into 'must wear.'  If sharn does the same it'll just invalidate RL items.  If it doesn't do the same then people will just wear RL items and ignore sharn and possibly not even buy it.

The only middle ground would be a different heroic level and a non-cap epic level.  They could easily do the different heroic level and should.  But the epic level pretty much has to be cap to sell the expansion, so they are stuck with power creep making RL 29th gear junk or a sideways option.  Neither of which is a really good option.

I guess they could do the wpm model and spread the epic levels out a bit.  That would be a decent option, but I think the expansion will need a good bit of capped content to be a sales draw.

Lynn said she'd link up some of the Killing Time items at the end of the lammania cycle for that raid; however, it looked like she didn't have time to do so, or delayed linking any up for a latter date.

Hopefully Sharn's primary power creep is a set-crafting system so that we can get flexibility with a slave-lords or ravenloft style set-bonus system.

Tspoon wrote on Dec 7^th, 2018 at 9:29pm:


Is that a lot of money to you?

For the record, I am still undecided.

Digimonk wrote on Dec 8^th, 2018 at 12:39pm:

And while we are at it! Fix glancing blows on two handers to either scale with crits and doublestrike, or since that might be too much single target dps, allow glances to scale with helpless damage. Either way it needs something because even 80% of your base damage is shit when it never crits or scales on helpless mobs.

WonderfulFoppyBint wrote on Dec 8^th, 2018 at 10:20am:

It will be this, except without flexibility or backwards compatibility. Possibly without "set". But definitely a new crafting system. Also, new mats. Always.

Who Cares wrote on Dec 8^th, 2018 at 8:43pm:


I am sure it can be fixed with religion.

5 Foot Step wrote on Dec 8^th, 2018 at 11:11am:


Its not a question of how much money someone has. The fact is, spending $300 USD on the "Seasons Pass" is a very poor financial decision. You're basically throwing away $100 USD.


I get wanting to support the game you love. However, buying the "Season Pass" is just retarded.

I've thought this several times over the years, but the heads of their marketing and sales departments need to be dragged out of their cubicles and shot.

Zehnpai wrote on Dec 13^th, 2018 at 1:32am:

12 years.

What exactly about getting screwed are you not familiar with, by now?

I can't expect anything except for the new to make the old obsolete. But, I really thought that sentient weapons were going to be the biggest, driest, hairy knuckled hug without the common courtesy of a reach around. Once you can feed loot to other loot it opens up the possibility of items being affected differently by being fed items from different adventure packs. Or raids. Instead of an inferior air focus and a material essence you feed it 3 Sireths.

Since DDO has been alive a probe was launched to Pluto. It made it and kept flying right the fuck past it. That's how old this game is. $300 being a season pass and not a lifetime sub in a game this old? I can ignore that my acid dripping shuriken doesn't melt my monk's fingers off, but believing that pass is worth it demands more suspension of disbelief than I can manage. The simple fact that the pitch is, "Here's some shit you'll get to keep for a while unless we decide to call it an expansion." Man, fuck that. I don't need to read a lease. If I just knew that for $300 whatever the hell came along it would be paid for until the day DDO finally wheezes its last auto-erotic asphyxiated breath then...maybe.

Your Sonic manager is looking for you.

gibbon wrote on Dec 13^th, 2018 at 4:18pm:

Announce that all passes (that include all races released that are free-to-VIPs) have sold out and within an hour, link interview about Sharn Xpack that mentions it will include Teiflings (not sure if that was previously mentioned).