ETA on Level Cap Increase
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The Blonde
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It's in Q3, not Q2.
Blaster
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I believe it is scheduled to coincide with the release of the upcoming Myth Drannor expansion. In the producer's letter from earlier this year, it stated the pre-sale for the expansion will be in June, so most likely the cap increase will come with the expansion in July.
Martial damage is getting the same 33% reduction in R10 that spell dsmage got a while back.
rabidfox
The People's Champion
"The level cap will increase to 34" https://www.ddo.com/news/ddo-producer-letter-2024
Dendrix Deathblade
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The Plan: Every 2 years +2 levels.
Eme
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Level 34 is the new Level 20
TavernBrawler
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Jeez get over it mate. Always bringing up melee vs caster DPS. People are still soloing R10s in their sorcs - if you cant do it get good.
I believe there is a concensus based on actual facts that martial dps _far_ outstrips spell dps. Failing to acknowling such a fact is not something that leads to a constructive debate.
Jack Jarvis Esquire
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Personally I've got no problem with balancing things. Provided that accounts for the bigger risks mellee take in applying their damage, that's fair enough IMO.
For the record though that doesn't mean they should be equal. Melee should IMO, as a general guiding principle, have access to a damage premium commensurate with that risk.
The difficulty the Devs have is that, if accepting that principle, it is difficult to apply in all sepcific cases, as we've got some very clever players who can figure out the specifics of pretty much any context to their advantage. There's nothing wrong with that, it's all part of the meta game. It just means that it's very difficult for the Devs to get it right all the time.
I'm not smart enough to figure out the balance point here. It's too complex and the Devs are paid to do that for me anyway. And as above, there may well not be one.
By allegory, where I want to play, at balance, is any time I'm sitting in the Triceratops arena on my own, copping aggro, thinking "oh strewth, this is gonna hurt" with all my non melee mates nicely perched above in perfect safety, I'll also be able to console myself with the thought that as I go down swinging l'll at least have the comfort of knowing I'm doing more damage for the privilege.
Then they can get my soul stone when it's all over. ?? But then I'll still come back for more. ?
For the record though that doesn't mean they should be equal. Melee should IMO, as a general guiding principle, have access to a damage premium commensurate with that risk.
The difficulty the Devs have is that, if accepting that principle, it is difficult to apply in all sepcific cases, as we've got some very clever players who can figure out the specifics of pretty much any context to their advantage. There's nothing wrong with that, it's all part of the meta game. It just means that it's very difficult for the Devs to get it right all the time.
I'm not smart enough to figure out the balance point here. It's too complex and the Devs are paid to do that for me anyway. And as above, there may well not be one.
By allegory, where I want to play, at balance, is any time I'm sitting in the Triceratops arena on my own, copping aggro, thinking "oh strewth, this is gonna hurt" with all my non melee mates nicely perched above in perfect safety, I'll also be able to console myself with the thought that as I go down swinging l'll at least have the comfort of knowing I'm doing more damage for the privilege.
Then they can get my soul stone when it's all over. ?? But then I'll still come back for more. ?
Good, only lvl 34, so no legendary content will be negatively affected by lockouts / overlevel penalty for delving.
IMHO lvl cap should not increase past lvl 34 without changing lockout /overlevel penalty rules because population is already segregated too much by level ranges.
Jack Jarvis Esquire
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Yeah it will be interesting to see how all the current quests are made redundant by the time cap is 40. Plenty more to come though I guess. ?
Elminster
Sage of Shadowdale
Who said this and link?
Elminster
Sage of Shadowdale
And yet it's still easier to do R10's (if not the only way) on a caster build. How do you explain that? And forget stupid raids, balancing a raid for a dozen people is near impossible and nobody cares if you can steal aggro and do massive damage. Raids aren't about that, remember?
Br4d
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We're not going to get to 40. I'm guessing that 36 is the last level cap raise before DDO is gone.
Elminster
Sage of Shadowdale
36, yeah. I figure they'll skip a year as the costs associated will not be justified. the new Amazon LoTR mmo will siphon away from LoTRO further hamstringing DDO development finances. And by that time, some new Dungeons & Dragons MMO will come out.