A Look Ahead: Producer's Letter from Tolero!
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Especially with the cost of tools. Makes it a huge cost to re-spec.
FaceDancer
Olde Wurm
Hoping there is some mimic event planned for this year. I've heard there is an excessive amount of them in Stormreach since there haven't been any recent cullings...
tiliabloom
Well-known member
I love the title: "A look ahead". Perhaps now we can get a public event calendar/schedule similar to LotRO ( https://www.lotro.com/news/lotro-public-event-schedule-en )?
KylerrTheMajty
Well-known member
imo weak and booring , nothing fascinating
duergar - so just another dwarf , we had 1000 elfs now dwarf time
arcane trickster next caster variant maybe this time will be good ( 0 hopes) bc why not repair rouge just change it to caster! like shadowdancer...
xoriat mount - flying bed? reskined flying carpet/cloud? probobly will bug like cloud and change in to carpet like cloud do...
drow visual change - joke? it it worth producent letter... or just q4 would be too empty?
new expansion and 36 nothing new but good
where is balance ?
where is enhancment tree revamp ( lots of them are old and crap)
where is ED balance (why almost 90% of ppl use like 3-5 ed when we got 13..)
why no iconic in letter?
why no universal tree ?
why no new class or more archetyp?
lazy writing...
duergar - so just another dwarf , we had 1000 elfs now dwarf time
arcane trickster next caster variant maybe this time will be good ( 0 hopes) bc why not repair rouge just change it to caster! like shadowdancer...
xoriat mount - flying bed? reskined flying carpet/cloud? probobly will bug like cloud and change in to carpet like cloud do...
drow visual change - joke? it it worth producent letter... or just q4 would be too empty?
new expansion and 36 nothing new but good
where is balance ?
where is enhancment tree revamp ( lots of them are old and crap)
where is ED balance (why almost 90% of ppl use like 3-5 ed when we got 13..)
why no iconic in letter?
why no universal tree ?
why no new class or more archetyp?
lazy writing...
Haphazard
Sock Puppet
The road-map looks pretty good all round - great to see a full and rich year ahead. I've been waiting for Arcane Trickster for a long time and have always loved the Duergar.
It's quite an achievement to notch up 20 years for DDO. Aside from the love of the players it shows a (labour of) love from the Devs as well. Thanks for that.
I've played DDO from the start (well really before but that's another story). I especially loved the very early days when it was so new and all my friends were playing but I have many good memories spread over those intervening years.
I was very happy recently to get my first characters name back after losing it in the 2012 transfer. That felt good. Will be a good fit for when Arcane Trickster comes out.
I do miss 'old' stealth the best of which was now a long time ago, pre-Reaper, although I still do muck around with it from time to time.
It's quite an achievement to notch up 20 years for DDO. Aside from the love of the players it shows a (labour of) love from the Devs as well. Thanks for that.
I've played DDO from the start (well really before but that's another story). I especially loved the very early days when it was so new and all my friends were playing but I have many good memories spread over those intervening years.
I was very happy recently to get my first characters name back after losing it in the 2012 transfer. That felt good. Will be a good fit for when Arcane Trickster comes out.
I do miss 'old' stealth the best of which was now a long time ago, pre-Reaper, although I still do muck around with it from time to time.
Lazuli
Well-known member
Caster players are tired of waiting. And now we see no date for the pass, a melee race that will be op as melee races always are (while caster races are crap, like for example the eladrin, which was op for martial and garbage for casters, the same with the dhampir, and the tabaxi, and...). A hybrid archetype, when hybrids are currently unviable and you have done NOTHING to help them. And oh yes, another hardcore event that would require another new mule, while our alts are drowned in grind and neglected by you for more than a decade now.
And I also tell you, you can't keep adding past lives as if there wasn't even a tomorrow, because in the end there won't be a tomorrow. There is TOO MUCH grind in this game and ZERO catch-up mechanisms. Many of us are already fed up with so much grinding.
And get to the casters now, we're fed up.
PaxsMickey
New member
Is there any word on concerns from players who have had their accounts hacked?
Several people have posted on Reddit, as well as an IRL friend, who had someone access their account, spend all their DDO points on astral shards, then the hacker spent all the astral shards on the auction house on garbage items in order for the individual to steal all their shards and transfer them to another account.
Support has been unwilling to help these victims, and they are left with, "how do we know you didn't do this to yourself?"
My friend has quit playing as a result.
What do I like/miss from DDO? I miss playing with my friends. I miss having a support system that actually addessed player concerns, and doesn't treat each player as a scammer.
Several people have posted on Reddit, as well as an IRL friend, who had someone access their account, spend all their DDO points on astral shards, then the hacker spent all the astral shards on the auction house on garbage items in order for the individual to steal all their shards and transfer them to another account.
Support has been unwilling to help these victims, and they are left with, "how do we know you didn't do this to yourself?"
My friend has quit playing as a result.
What do I like/miss from DDO? I miss playing with my friends. I miss having a support system that actually addessed player concerns, and doesn't treat each player as a scammer.
My only concern with Arcane Trickster is if they're going to get unique arcane spells. While I would love to see more Illusion spells in the game, Wizards have already been harmed by some of their traditional spells being given to other classes/trees (Evards Black Tentacles and Weird being the two biggest examples). Losing MORE arcane spells to others classes is going to hurt in the longrun.
Kritikal
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So many memories.
- Meeting the "Rulers of Riedra" and joining their guild.
- the Devil Invasion of Stormreach.
- Running Coal Chamber, everyone died except my Ranger. I went into sneak mode and collected stones. Stealth mattered back then.
- Euphonia's Challenge and the start up quests before meeting with 4-Fingered Thad (which is before he became 3-Fingered Thad). Then he brought you to the Harbor.
So many more.
On to the Producer's Letter:
Happy for Duergar and Arcane Trickster.
Is the Trickster going to be a Rogue archetype or a Wizard?
Is the Duergar going to have the similar ability to grow (beef-up) like the mobs we face?
Will Wizard get their missing spells that are already in the game( Evard's, Weird, etc.)?
New Spells?
Demogorgon is nice, but it would be nicer to get more mobs and have them interspersed in existing quests (as long as the story permits). Give us more Ettins. Place them in existing wildernesses. Speaking of wildernesses, add teleporters to existing wildernesses (looking at you Myth Drannor). Update the Monster Manual. There are so many missing entries.
Once again the Producer's Letter is more MEH than WOW.
Just my 2 cps
- Meeting the "Rulers of Riedra" and joining their guild.
- the Devil Invasion of Stormreach.
- Running Coal Chamber, everyone died except my Ranger. I went into sneak mode and collected stones. Stealth mattered back then.
- Euphonia's Challenge and the start up quests before meeting with 4-Fingered Thad (which is before he became 3-Fingered Thad). Then he brought you to the Harbor.
So many more.
On to the Producer's Letter:
Happy for Duergar and Arcane Trickster.
Is the Trickster going to be a Rogue archetype or a Wizard?
Is the Duergar going to have the similar ability to grow (beef-up) like the mobs we face?
Will Wizard get their missing spells that are already in the game( Evard's, Weird, etc.)?
New Spells?
Demogorgon is nice, but it would be nicer to get more mobs and have them interspersed in existing quests (as long as the story permits). Give us more Ettins. Place them in existing wildernesses. Speaking of wildernesses, add teleporters to existing wildernesses (looking at you Myth Drannor). Update the Monster Manual. There are so many missing entries.
Once again the Producer's Letter is more MEH than WOW.
Just my 2 cps
Lazuli
Well-known member
It would be an insult if they gave the archetype unique spells, when Wiz/Sorc's spell list is still stripped of spells and without receiving the ones that legitimately belong to it.
Black tentacles and weird? And balefur polymorph, and time stop, and scintillating pattern, and confusion... and haste useless because absolutely all toons have it, and not fly (not even a leap), and displacement also nerfed, and...
At this rate, they may as well delete these two classes from the game.
Yeah, forgot about polymorph.
waxinglyrical
Well-known member
Its a Marshall Amp
Dandonk
Beater of Dead Horses
I like dorfs. Better than another elf, for sure! Would've been awesome with thri-kreen (never gonna happen), githzerai (one day) or even a new 'forged race along with an overhaul of warforged in general. But I'll take the dorf 
Arcane trickster I have no great feelings about, but will be interesting to see what it actually does.
Demogorgon sounds cool, looking forward to that
New raider's box could be cool, depending on what's in it.
New VIP year... yeah, let's not go there.
New Xen'drik pack, sweet.
New remnant exchange mechanic sounds... intriguing.
Suspicious lack of mention of anything MM-related
Not overwhelmed with joy, but decent enough. A lot depends on what some of the not-really-explained lines actually mean.
So, my nostalgic moments...
There's my old guildie who used the /death count joke on a party waiting for loot at the end of a shroud, back when that was endgame. One guy actually fell for it... yikes.
Or the evening I logged in and joined my guild in progress doing wizking on the newly unveiled epic setting. Joy. They'd been there three hours, and we gave up after three more... also yikes.
Then there's my current guildie who likes acid casters. I mean, I get it, acid well is great. There's one slight issue, though. He likes to max his acid spell power while levelling, which includes... stone shoes! The joy! And every single life as an acid caster, he forgets he has them on and starts cursing the stupid game because he can't get up out of the water again, or is burning up in lava. It's the gift that just keeps on giving
Or the time my old warforged twf fighter did his first run of PoP. Great xp back then, and cool quest line... and then, my very friendly guildie from the first story told me to go ahead and take the docent on the floor, it'd fit great in my gear...
Or the life we did r10 while levelling, awesome fun Died sooo much in the harbor, I ran out of raise cookies saved up over many years. Heh Hilarious fun though, slowly going through stuff where we used to zerg.
And as last, because I have to stop somewhere... our Earth, Wind & Fire lives as three sorcs. A LOT of fun, even if my guildies forbade me from singing in voice chat. Spoilsports
Anyways, here's to 20 more years! And don't forget the best tactics in the game, of course used and perfected by my guild: Running around like headless chickens while screaming like small children
Arcane trickster I have no great feelings about, but will be interesting to see what it actually does.
Demogorgon sounds cool, looking forward to that
New raider's box could be cool, depending on what's in it.
New VIP year... yeah, let's not go there.
New Xen'drik pack, sweet.
New remnant exchange mechanic sounds... intriguing.
Suspicious lack of mention of anything MM-related
Not overwhelmed with joy, but decent enough. A lot depends on what some of the not-really-explained lines actually mean.
So, my nostalgic moments...
There's my old guildie who used the /death count joke on a party waiting for loot at the end of a shroud, back when that was endgame. One guy actually fell for it... yikes.
Or the evening I logged in and joined my guild in progress doing wizking on the newly unveiled epic setting. Joy. They'd been there three hours, and we gave up after three more... also yikes.
Then there's my current guildie who likes acid casters. I mean, I get it, acid well is great. There's one slight issue, though. He likes to max his acid spell power while levelling, which includes... stone shoes! The joy! And every single life as an acid caster, he forgets he has them on and starts cursing the stupid game because he can't get up out of the water again, or is burning up in lava. It's the gift that just keeps on giving
Or the time my old warforged twf fighter did his first run of PoP. Great xp back then, and cool quest line... and then, my very friendly guildie from the first story told me to go ahead and take the docent on the floor, it'd fit great in my gear...
Or the life we did r10 while levelling, awesome fun
Died sooo much in the harbor, I ran out of raise cookies saved up over many years. Heh Hilarious fun though, slowly going through stuff where we used to zerg.And as last, because I have to stop somewhere... our Earth, Wind & Fire lives as three sorcs. A LOT of fun, even if my guildies forbade me from singing in voice chat. Spoilsports
Anyways, here's to 20 more years! And don't forget the best tactics in the game, of course used and perfected by my guild: Running around like headless chickens while screaming like small children
I'm definitely excited to see the Duergar race.
I also see that you are updating Drow, which has me asking a few questions. Is there plans for this to be a separate Drow option, kind of like how there's Elf Khorvaire and Wood Elf? Maybe possibly even giving it different stat bonuses and a slightly different racial tree like the two elves?
I think it would be a little better to separate them, just to preserve the original Drow with its animations and looks as it's been in the game so long, while adding a refreshed Drow option.
I also see that you are updating Drow, which has me asking a few questions. Is there plans for this to be a separate Drow option, kind of like how there's Elf Khorvaire and Wood Elf? Maybe possibly even giving it different stat bonuses and a slightly different racial tree like the two elves?
I think it would be a little better to separate them, just to preserve the original Drow with its animations and looks as it's been in the game so long, while adding a refreshed Drow option.
Are the characters stuck in transfer limbo on there with the lag things?
Svirfneblin
Well-known member
Hi Tolero thanks for doing the roadmap and thanks for responding to that request for balance for casters I do have to say many of us really enjoy playing casters and it’s just not as much fun anymore after all the nerfs to casters. Casters have been relegated to third rate classes and undesirable to have in your raid party.
I was also hoping to see some interest in balancing classes and archetypes overall. Some over performing by a long shot just as others are severely underperforming.
Kaish'Talan
Well-known member
Any news about bug fixing and Quality of life improvement?
Or a wardrobe for the too many cosmetics we have?
Or a wardrobe for the too many cosmetics we have?