Downtime Notice: Wednesday, April 2nd 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM Eastern (-4 GMT)

[Cordovan]

UPDATE: The game worlds have reopened.

The DDO game worlds will be unavailable on Wednesday, April 2nd from 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM Eastern (-4 GMT) to release Update 73. Read the release notes on DDO.com. Thanks for your patience, and we'll see you back in the game soon!

 

[Chab]

so, will the end of Den of Vipers still be locked on completion?

 

[Dandonk]

I Want To Believe... but all we got was some weird ugly giants. Ah, well.

Still, two heads are better than one, they say

 

[mikarddo]

• The Optional chests in Threats Old and New and Den of Vipers now drop ingredients 100% of the time.

Sadly, that still does not make it worth running those optionals. We will simply continue to ignore them completely as noone needs the ings due to getting plenty from the regular chest.

Add runes or dont bother.

 

[Fisto Mk I]

We will simply continue to ignore them completely as noone needs the ings due to getting plenty from the regular chest.

Be careful!
Next pathnotes: "Regular chest drop only runes and gear now"...

 

[Crell_1]

Wait, you're releasing the quests in reverse heroic level order? (5->4->3),. Epic/Legendary is 28->35->35.

 

[Nickodeamous]

Ninja Spy's No Mercy now costs 1AP/Rank. Clutch!!!

 

[Christhemiss]

what the hell are these patch notes

Spoiler: here's what I think of them

April Fools

 

[Chab]

what the hell are these patch notes

Spoiler: here's what I think of them

April Fools

is there a table for the secret loot in BLP breakables?

 

[Christhemiss]

is there a table for the secret loot in BLP breakables?

unsure

 

[svenofnein]

Reading the release notes on Monk makes you wonder what was actually working right to start with (and who is testing stuff before release)? Thinking those 50 monkeys have a better shot at getting some Shakespeare typed out.

 

[Bliv]

Reading the release notes on Monk makes you wonder what was actually working right to start with (and who is testing stuff before release)?

Apparently, almost nothing and most assuredly no one.

 

[PersonMan]

is there a table for the secret loot in BLP breakables?

100% drop rate for cleansers if you break them in the correct order.

 

[ChickenMobile]

Dragon Disciples can now properly take Cast on the Run and Heighten if they have 6 levels in the class (enough to cast 2nd level spells).

Their Breath Attack spells currently don't currently support Heighten though? Unless the idea is to heighten spells like Scare/Fear/Howl of Terror. Using a feat to give these spells +1-3 DCs doesn't make much sense when Dragon Disciple is fairly feat starved as it is and don't get bonuses to these schools in the first place.
The spells you would want to: Breaths/Fireball/Chain Lightning/Cone of Cold are already at their max level to cast.

Draconic Devastation's Fear component now applies properly

What does this actually mean? Do they try to run away at 90% slower speed? I can't think of a more annoying thing than monsters running away from a close combat character.
Also would the Fear DCs from Magus of the Eclipse apply to Draconic Devastation then? I've been finding it really difficult to get good DCs on Dragon Disciple.

 

[Catholicon]

So many Dragon Disciple Monk fixes.

SO. MANY.

Why are so many needed?

 

[ilya187]

Speak with Jarra Morand in Eveningstar, near the gate to the King's Forest, to get started. Toil and Trouble will be level 5 on Heroic difficulty and level 28 on Epic difficulty.

How are level 5 characters supposed to get to Eveningstar, let alone into King's Forest?

 

[Seppi Pearlsmith]

No acknowledgement or fix for the missing weapon dice multiplier on random/crafted weapons.
So it was a stealth nerf.

 

[Seppi Pearlsmith]

Speak with Jarra Morand in Eveningstar, near the gate to the King's Forest, to get started. Toil and Trouble will be level 5 on Heroic difficulty and level 28 on Epic difficulty.

How are level 5 characters supposed to get to Eveningstar, let alone into King's Forest?

Gatekeepers' Grove has a teleporter that does not require Key to Eveningstar. And I think the quest is next to the dungeon entrance, not in King's forest.

 

[Mornyngstar]

Speak with Jarra Morand in Eveningstar, near the gate to the King's Forest, to get started. Toil and Trouble will be level 5 on Heroic difficulty and level 28 on Epic difficulty.

How are level 5 characters supposed to get to Eveningstar, let alone into King's Forest?

There is a gate to Eveningstar in the Gatekeeper's Grove. Also, one to Wheloon. And, it says he will be near the entrance, not in King's Forest.

 

[Komrad]

what the hell are these patch notes

Spoiler: here's what I think of them

April Fools

You can tell its fake cause the devs would never be caught dead posting actual droprate values in patch notes like you did