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Around 1-2ish years ago SSG made a series of changes aimed at fixing lag from the doublestrike change onward. Those changes did have a noticeable impact on lag. The last 6 months or so have seen the return of lag as bad or worse than before those changes. Rather than remove random components...

12 points in falconry for 5% quality hp 4 points in harper for +15 hp ravager cores if dragonlord

IMO the most important thing to make early epic leveling easier is a good level 20 sentient weapon (I reccommend dreadbringer filigrees for the fort bypass). eXuum if you have alts, eSOS otherwise. Night and day difference.

I agree, but they also need to survive longer than 2 seconds to do any of that :)

No. Buff mobs.

In my experience, there are usually very few scenarios where a group of mobs lives long enough to even resort to basic attacks, unless I'm doing something silly like trying to solo a different room than the rest of the party :)

No, I mean typical r10 play involves a group of melees running into a group of mobs, hitting 2-3 buttons then moving to the next during cooldowns. The AOE dps of THF or SWF is roughly equal because of the faster attack speed.

This is true for THF vs TWF, but SWF generally has better AOE dps in typical group play. Attack speed scaling (even without considering chains) means you can hit 3 cleave/whirlwinds in the time THF can do 2. At high levels of play in r10 you'll be lucky to hit any more than 2-3 buttons before...

Hard no to #1, but I agree with the rest of your post.

I've been calling for monster buffs as an alternative to nerfs for about 2 years now. Perhaps its just too simple and effective a solution that it gets no traction?

Right, THF is propped up in heroics and epic due to SOS/ESOS/Xuum. After 28 its falchion barb/dragonlord only.

THF definitely does not need such a large buff. It works well in 99% of DDO as others have mentioned and should be less single target dps than TWF for raids. The issue I see is that SWF builds are very close to TWF dps and with the large number of cleaves/whirlwind attacks available (and the...

Ironically, I just recently began experiencing the raptor sound crashing issue when I had no issues before. So its possible something got changed.

It depends what you are building for: 1) Endgame or epic leveling -Composite + dodge + evasion + spell absorb is the best defense for nearly all builds and its not even close -Mithral body is useless due to its max dex bonus cap of 5, compared to other light armors with 20+ -Adamantine body is...

I don't quite understand the idea that the game must remain easy so that mid-journey players can "catch up". It doesn't work like that... Easy grinds are the reason so-called "top" players are so far ahead. Without a difficult endgame progression system to slow these players down they will...

While I could see a few minor tweaks, I wouldn't predict any major nerfs. For 18-20 builds Kensei is generally more dps; TWF DLs might be equal/higher depending on how invested in imbue you are... Multiclass dragonlord splits aren't really abusing anything that frenzied berzerker multiclass...

Tumble was fine for ~15 years. I just don't understand why it needed to be experimented with in the first place.

Well no, I'd just say buffs and power creep are bad when the game is not getting any harder at the same time. But, since you asked, hunts end now procs on all bolts fired for crossbow/repeater, as does pluck the string which can also now doubleshot, and you can use both... (don't blame me if...

Technically speaking, there's no actual reason why the TR cache should need to be emptied when you TR. (besides the issue of size, which could just be arbitrarily limited at ~200) I'm pretty sure in the time I've wasted clearing TR caches I could have re-coded the system to be permanent...

only the old meta ;)