somenewnoob wrote on Aug 15^th, 2022 at 8:48am:


Or, you know, they could just nerf the range and leave the self-heal capability, but noooooo. Nuke it from orbit. Fucking SSG.

OK, so i can understand why they standardized divine spell damage...

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But what was the point of this? I agree +2 max CL per core was crazy strong but they could have just followed the sorc enhancement trees instead. Cores 1-4 give +1 CL, cores 5-6 give +1 CL and +1 max CL.

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I dont get it. Did anyone seriously think that casting them faster than 1 per 10 seconds was somehow game breaking?

And the Aasimar healing hands nerf because of EDF was retarded, couldnt they just have made it respect EDF's range limitation instead? Or let me guess, they couldnt figure out how to do that and this was their next best idea?

somenewnoob wrote on Aug 15^th, 2022 at 2:06pm:


I don't think I've seen a single "melees are too strong" thread in the past year.

ManyCookies wrote on Aug 15^th, 2022 at 1:41pm:


This is because of a new ability in the new Dark Apostate tree.

Pray for Mercy: Your Prayer-like spells (Bless, Bane, Prayer) now resonate with Evil energies, dealing 1d6 Evil damage per Caster Level to all enemies. This damage is doubled against enemies that are Cursed.

With that ability, you could spam bless and prayer and get AoE DPS on GCD.  A 10 second cooldown on an AoE buff isn't exactly a hardship.

crsm3423 wrote on Aug 16^th, 2022 at 10:18pm:


To be fair if you want to piss away your mana spamming on average 1k damage every second or so. Go ahead. I don't even think the effect is connected to crit, as I never saw it crit in my testing.

crsm3423 wrote on Aug 16^th, 2022 at 10:27pm:


Yes, this is where the fun comes from. If everyone is an AoE CC with AoE dps and heals, than it happens what eighnuss posted. The fun is in shining in a spcific role and having the party coordenated, because that requires more intelligence. They should desing the game so that these roles are not underpeforming, while not being a complete must have for most of the content. The majority of people who played pre-motu agrees that in those times the game was better, and that happened, despite the fact that casters overall had way more power than melee (personally I had more fun playing both my casters and melees pre-motu than after, when dps ruled until the release of reaper).

The first months after the release of reaper were fun too, the problem was that they released rpls soon after, so everyone was just getting rpls instead of playing at cap. From motu to shadowfell was acceptable. After that it came the problem with epic pls that was the turning point that accelerated the game too much in the direction of the wheels.

Vaultaccount wrote on Aug 19^th, 2022 at 5:25pm:



I'd rather staple my nuts to my chair than be forced to play within a holy trinity setup in any game ever again.

Strictly defined roles is just a pain in the ass; especially with DDO's lovely population problems.

ManyCookies wrote on Aug 15^th, 2022 at 1:41pm:


It’s the debuff to monsters portion. You could debuff mobs and bosses pretty damn fast by cycling through bane and prayer. And it’s not like most effect in higher reapers that expire quickly. But yeah even so it’s not a game breaking thing.

Meh, it is a shame to see as FvS in particular should be a divine nuking class but maybe that will stop so many bad players thinking they're hot shit by getting carried to the hardcore rewards by holy smite and bunch of free hp. Ah wait, they'll just go back to hiding behind the skirt of whichever player in the group actually has the balls to use their W button and knows how to play the game.

How about SSG put some actual challenges into Hardcore. Melee only season. Level cap 20 season (stop all the plebs gearing up and farming r4 quests at cap thinking getting rewards that way is some how an achievement). Permanent 30% vulnerability season.

To be fair that would be a terrible business decision, most of the playerbase wouldn't get far and many fewer points would be spent. It would make the rewards mean something though.

Edrein wrote on Aug 20^th, 2022 at 12:47am:


Trinity was not required beofre MotU. With a DPS focused barb you could tank even elite ToD. The only really required role was a healer, but for that endgame players would have at least one alt that does that, as you could easly create an effective 1st life healbot that could do anything. Only higher difficulties for LoB you needed a tank.