DBZ
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YOU HAVE ANY EVIDENCE OF THIS alleged rebalance
20th Anniversary Requests
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Deathromancer
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so true lolYep
Frantik
Well-known member
Evidence? No. Hope? Not really. But i do have an anger, a focussed loatihng towards SSG for the systematic nerfing of casters and their total failure to provide any rational argument or reason for having done so. I hate the fact that casters are not relevant at end game, that raid groups would never want a warlock (for example; unless extremely niche debuffer with max rxp and past lives). I am totally frustrated with SSG on their zero communication policy, their knowing alienation of parts of the communitty to privilege ranged and melees over casters, their (in my eyes) arrogance in never replying to our concerns.
Evidence, no. But it's time to fight back. I want answers, i want change, and will publicly pour scorn on all disappointing SSG communications... drum roll for the totally meaningless yearly Producers Letter.
BRING IT ON IN 2026. And a happy new year, hahaha.
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Erofen
Keeper of Hades' Secrets
I liked this and then realized the "1 per account". No. That type of thing needs to stop, especially if it is BTC. Stop punishing alts and playing on multiple servers.
Lazuli
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Yes, for some incomprehensible reason SSG seems to want to kill the alts, as if they weren't a source of income for them.
Lazuli
Well-known member
I want change too. We've been stuck in this miserable situation for years. The developers should be ashamed of creating such inequality between casters and martials, and of designing raids that are completely anti-caster.
But I don't expect much from these developers. There's no one left among them who understands casters. I don't think they know how to balance them; they're designers totally focused on martial styles.
Frantik
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I agree with most of what you wrote, as usual
except the last part; re-balancing is not so complicated if SSG really wanted to nomatter the staff they have. It's a question of motivation, willingness, understanding the games' mechanics and being able to use a spreadsheet in a very basic way.
Col Kurtz
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good ideas.. I was thinking about >Dragon Mount (something non cartoonish this time!) ty
Karadon
Old Paladin
THAT'S what we should have got for surviving the 64bit transfers if the haul they gave the LOTRO players for theirs was anything to go by.
For the 20th, I'm expecting a loot extravaganza that would make Scrooge McDuck go "Holy F****** S***!!!!"
horsepackage
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Since pretending to be another dude, as a dude, who purchased the box at Walmart: I do not care what the newcomers do or do not get. Reel them in, grab that bag. Give me more that I can or cannot miss out on. Or, do not.
Greatpumpkin
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Mistwalker
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I'd like a return or just regular availability of the 100 slots of shared storage that was offered last year. I know SSG really, really loves its limited time promotions and FOMO, but that was a game-changing quality of life upgrade that should never have been time gated. As someone who left the game years ago because I was exhausted managing 9-10 mules to juggle gear, and who returned just after the code expired, I'm both relieved at the improvements to inventory space and gutted every day that such a stunning upgrade had an expiration attached to begin with.
My take: Pet feat that scales like a pet, not a regular hireling. Kobold Favored Soul pet, that follows you 1-40, and refuses to heal you, because Kobold remembers Waterworks. Alternately, Kobold trapper, who like Darling, refuses to open any locked doors or chests at random and refuses to disable traps.
Code is already there, with the main issue being the four classes that get a similar pet being exclusive to it. Which you can probably work around if you want to invest in it; honestly at this point all the gold seal permanent hires should be feats and not items clogging our inventories. Save 20-30 slots! make permanent hires feats! Hell, I'd pay for scalable permanent gold seals; at least a trapper hire. Maybe a Cleric or Favored Soul depending on price.
I expect there will be cosmetics and maybe some L34 versions of party gear, which is fine.
If I was going all out, I'd say a universal caster focused tree. Something that all casting classes can make use of. A few Evocation and Conjuration SLAs on multi selectors and some spell power/crit change/multiplier (universal or otherwise) and DCs. Add some Max Caster Level increases in there.
It can come with a Wizard archetype, and/or a Druid Iconic. Maybe Blade Singer for Wizard, Circle of the Moon-derived Iconic racial for the Druid. Better yet, make the Druid iconic use Blightcaster, so I don't have to burn an LR heart to get the past lives I need or double up on Druid lives/figure out a carry build for something I hate. Rogues could get Arcane Trickster for an archetype maybe, but doing all of that is stretching it severely, unless the devs have been working over the last year on this stuff.
If a race is added, I'd expect something inexpensive to make relatively speaking, a variant on existing bodies and art. Another elf variant (half-drow, astral elf? someone jokingly referred to a werewolf elf too) or maybe Dwarf variant (Duergar would probably be popular). Genasi might be another relatively cheap and popular race to add. Or Kalashtar, in keeping with the Eberron origins of DDO. We've added Dhampir so a monster race isn't out of the question, though I'd expect something like a Kobold to be too much artwork to be added for free. Maybe Goblin?
Code is already there, with the main issue being the four classes that get a similar pet being exclusive to it. Which you can probably work around if you want to invest in it; honestly at this point all the gold seal permanent hires should be feats and not items clogging our inventories. Save 20-30 slots! make permanent hires feats! Hell, I'd pay for scalable permanent gold seals; at least a trapper hire. Maybe a Cleric or Favored Soul depending on price.
I expect there will be cosmetics and maybe some L34 versions of party gear, which is fine.
If I was going all out, I'd say a universal caster focused tree. Something that all casting classes can make use of. A few Evocation and Conjuration SLAs on multi selectors and some spell power/crit change/multiplier (universal or otherwise) and DCs. Add some Max Caster Level increases in there.
It can come with a Wizard archetype, and/or a Druid Iconic. Maybe Blade Singer for Wizard, Circle of the Moon-derived Iconic racial for the Druid. Better yet, make the Druid iconic use Blightcaster, so I don't have to burn an LR heart to get the past lives I need or double up on Druid lives/figure out a carry build for something I hate.
Rogues could get Arcane Trickster for an archetype maybe, but doing all of that is stretching it severely, unless the devs have been working over the last year on this stuff. If a race is added, I'd expect something inexpensive to make relatively speaking, a variant on existing bodies and art. Another elf variant (half-drow, astral elf? someone jokingly referred to a werewolf elf too) or maybe Dwarf variant (Duergar would probably be popular). Genasi might be another relatively cheap and popular race to add. Or Kalashtar, in keeping with the Eberron origins of DDO. We've added Dhampir so a monster race isn't out of the question, though I'd expect something like a Kobold to be too much artwork to be added for free. Maybe Goblin?
