ManyCookies wrote on Sep 1^st, 2022 at 10:05pm:


I feel like SSG's wording makes this way more convoluted than it should be.

If your an archetype you get the archetype pastlife. But rather than increasing heroic completionist grind; the achetype pastlives count for their 'base' class.

IE: I reincarnate as a Dark Apostate. I get the Dark Apostate past life and if I didn't have any cleric pastlives, I am now flagged internally as having done a cleric pastlife.

You get credit; you just get a different past life.

Horizontal progression not linear. It's an alternate path to the same goal in the end.

ManyCookies wrote on Sep 1^st, 2022 at 10:33pm:


On a non-iconic character you pick your first level. On an iconic your first level is picked for you when you pick the iconic.

In any case it's kind of a moot point. No one would ever want to play a Morninglord Dark Apostate and there is no Bard Iconic. The only one where its even relevant is Bladeforged; and do we really think Sacred Fist is good enough that SSG is going to make a fortune of people who want to play BF Fisters?

Edrein wrote on Sep 1^st, 2022 at 10:38pm:


I can think of one way to do it...you know the way warlock pacts work? You pick a feat at level 1 to determine your pact. So they could make archetypes a "feat", you have to select either the base class or the archetype via a feat at level 1. If they dont want people to switch to a different archetype, then they could just make it not switchable at Fred.

Anyway, i had a closer look at dark apostate and stormsinger.

Stormsinger actually seems decent, the main problem with a bard at higher levels is that they lack good damage spells (greater shout only does 1d6+3), giving them access to lightning spells like ball lightning, chain lightning and thunderstroke helps a lot in that regard.

The lightning strike only being triggered via sonic and cold spells makes no sense. So if im blasting a boss with my higher damaging lightning spells, my lightning strike is not going to trigger, forcing me to use my weaker spells instead? Meh.

No way to remove cold or electric immunity is classic SSG stupidity. T5 is underwhelming....t5 spellsinger and t4 stormsinger might be a good choice though.

Dark apostate is meh. Shadow form is useless in end game reaper. Evil damage on hit with favored weapons is meh. Using bless, bane and prayer to deal damage is an interesting option...except that they dont deal enough damage and the cores dont give you +caster level to compensate.

The t5 is useless, and theres no way to remove negative energy immunity. Mighty turning without improved turning is pointless.

And these lame +5 spellpower feats are stupid. At least give +necromancy DC or something that matters.

contessor wrote on Sep 2^nd, 2022 at 4:05am:


Wrongo. You can't self proc the storm strikes with your own melee/ranged attacks only spells. Otherwise I'd have been happy to play a stormsinger despite the loss of temp HP from Inspire Greatness.

ManyCookies wrote on Sep 1^st, 2022 at 11:55pm:


An elegant solution that anyone with half a braincell and not under the crunch to make their brainchild actually a part of a no-new-content release might have thought of.

As it stands. I'm sure Lynabel probably had the smartest idea in the room to make them work off the skeleton of the Iconic's code.

I shudder at the thought of what the alternatives may have been.

Edrein wrote on Sep 2^nd, 2022 at 4:44am:


Hmm then it was changed from Lamania because you could add the buff to yourself.

Edrein wrote on Sep 2^nd, 2022 at 10:16am:


Well I’m on that path on HCL just as a troll character and because you can’t TR right now. I’ll see if I can duplicate but I in fact did it on lamania at least to get the buff. Can’t remember if tested if it proc’ed or not. I just remember self targeting with the generic bard song.

Sarlona will undergo a restart at 11:00 PM Eastern (-4 GMT) tonight on Friday, September 2nd to promote the health of the game environment. Thank you! #DDO

Tf does this mean?

Sasha wrote on Sep 3^rd, 2022 at 6:02am:


Based on the raid discord I'm in; server was shitting the bed last night.

I'd say the chinese were sploitin' but it was too early in the night for them.

ManyCookies wrote on Sep 1^st, 2022 at 11:19pm:


I would wager that you can't do bladeforged + sacred fist at the same time even with a heart.

on live just now without a heart. See http://www.ddovault.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1662333655

noamineo wrote on Sep 5^th, 2022 at 7:42pm:



robots can drown?