Disclaimer
Everything seen on the preview server, Lamannia, is not final and is subject to change or removal before live release.


Hello, all! Preview 3 of Update 49 is open! It is expected to remain open until sometime in the afternoon (Eastern) of Thursday April 15th.

There will be a dev event on Wednesday April 14th from 8-10 PM Eastern where members of the DDO team will be available to collect feedback and answer questions in real time on Lamannia.

This preview is meant as a last stability check on the update. The total number of changes between preview 2 and preview 3 is limited and so we've opted to make one post that contains all changes since preview 2 instead of concentrated threads for each topic. Everything besides the things listed in here are covered in the notes from preview 2. Those new changes are below:

    New Adventure Pack: Perils of the Planar Eyes
        A deco pass has been completed on the couple of quests that had been missing it.
        Some of the monster statting has been adjusted
        Eye Know Whodunnit
            Levers that open secret doors will not be usable if the door is already opened
            The random chest that was not usable on occasion is now usable.
            The sparklies on feathers and kobold footprints are closer to their name tags.
    Named Loot
        Gorgon Docent is now updated
        Armor and jewelry/clothing now has augment slots
        Force epic sceptre now has force stuff instead of nullification
        Sora kell un-upgraded items are now level 11, upgraded to be level 13
        Base items now are 1.5w at level 10
        Set bonus is now +3 artifact to hit and damage
        You can upgrade wondrous items again
    Bow Combat Style Revamp
        Bow Strength has been rebuilt to work closer to other Ability-Score-To-Damage abilities in the game; you should now see it on examining bows you have equipped, and we fixed an issue where it would disappear if you had other Ability-Score-To-Damage abilities.
        Half Elf Dilettante: Ranger's "and can add up to 2 points of your Strength bonus to bow damage" portion now instead grants "+1 to Damage with Longbows and Shortbows". The feat otherwise remains the same, granting the other things that feat currently grants.
        Half Elf Improved Dilettante Ranger enhancements that granted additional points of strength to bow damage now grant +1 to Damage with Longbows and Shortbows instead; they otherwise remain the same, granting the other things they currently grant.
        Arcane Archer Final Strike now has its additional AOE damage scale with Ranged Power.
        The first hit of additional AOE damage from Arcane Archer Final Strike no longer scales with Ranger level, both on the Ranger and Elf versions; it is instead a static number of dice, scaling with Ranged Power, like the others. (It was the only effect on Final Strike using Ranger level to scale).
        Ranger Arcane Archer Final Strike no longer adds an erroneous extra +250 damage to its bow attack.
        Elven Arcane Archer Final Strike no longer adds an erroneous +10% Doubleshot.
    Combat Changes Focused on Boosting Game Performance (And Ripple Effects)
        There is a new icon for triple/quadra/penta-hits
        Sneak attack now doubles properly
        Ki now doubles properly
        Adrenaline's damage multiplier has been reduced from 300/300/300/400% to 150/150/150/200%
        Fury Eternal's 33% chance to regain an Adrenaline charge on vorpal has been increased to 100%
        Hunt's End damage multiplier has been reduced from 400% to 300%
        Hunt's End cooldown has been reduced from 24sec to 18sec
        Aasimar Scourge has lost its 2% Offhand Doublestrike per copy (as that stat no longer exists) and has gained an additional 1% Doublestrike per copy in its place (It now grants a total of 2% per copy, because it gave +1% before)
        Fury Eternal and Fury Made Placid's tooltips no longer claim that the two abilities are antirequisites of each other; they aren't.
        Tempest Capstone (Dervish) has lost its 25% Offhand Doublestrike (as that stat no longer exists) and has gained +10% Doublestrike.
        Reformatted text on Tempest's other Core abilities to be closer to current standards. (No functional changes).
    Miscellaneous Changes
        Fixed an issue that causes bear and wolf form to throw extra attack hooks with many active attacks
        Fixed an issue that caused Momentum Swing to hit more times than it should. The skill's animation has changed.
        Fixed an issue that caused Holy Retribution to hit more times than it should. The skill's animation has changed

I think it's getting close to time for another extended break.

This really is a double dose of "your fun is wrong".

Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz wrote on Apr 13^th, 2021 at 6:10pm:


Hmm, If I had to categorize all the terrible people with terrible builds it would be 3 main buckets:

1) Name has some type of drizzt in it
2) rogue/wizard/ melee 3 class hybrid
3) Pure bow ranger in heroics

Wouldn't they be draw to these bad builds?

Really packing the nerfs in again. Boring.

Still way too many impotent shots from ranged on third preview. Either Lam is too fucked to test as per Live (and if so, what's the fucking point of it being a preview server?) or they have really ballsed up the ranged pass in another way too.

If this change and the weapon swap delay go live they're going to seriously undermine an important selling point of this game. The fast, fluid combat is most of what it has going for it.

Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz wrote on Apr 14^th, 2021 at 3:07pm:

If in doubt,  never question SSG's ability to fuck up multiple things all at the same time.

It is impressive how interconnected the game is.

somenewnoob wrote on Apr 14^th, 2021 at 3:58pm:


...or, stuck in a wall. 

Wait... 

That actually happened to one of my guildies in Kind of a Big Deal when that artifact makes everybody large...she was literally teleported into the wall.  Couldn't "/stuck" her way out either. 

Wait again... 

That actually happened to her twice, in back-to-back runs.

Regardless, I'd bet more mind-boggingly stupid shit like that starts going down if the current batch of rodeo clowns keep bunging around with things that they may or may not have the skillsets to not completely fuck up.

Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz wrote on Apr 14^th, 2021 at 5:22pm:


So the first time I run something I tend to solo it on elite or r1 depending.  It usually gives me an idea of how hard the quest is scaled and lets me flower sniff.

My first time in that quest I got that bug.

A lot of people talk about how shitty the code is, so why don’t you suggest a way to fix it with how much it will cost them for you to do it?

Mattyo wrote on Apr 14^th, 2021 at 9:09pm:

Total Engine rewrite for the server.  5 people 150k per year, and a couple years time.

Mattyo wrote on Apr 15^th, 2021 at 8:31am:

It's top of my head, back of the napkin math.  As far as feasibility,  the other option would be to have the engineers fix the problems in the current code.  This would like take longer and cost more.  All signs are that the DDO code is a nightmare.  I say that seriously,  from things the devs have said,  it seems like every code smell that college profs talk about.  I'm not sure that I'd want to see their server code regardless of how much they paid me.  It sounds like a massive pain in the ass.