SteelStar
Senior Systems Designer
Hello, everyone!
This preview has your first look at the loot for the Terror of Demogorgon expansion! The items for this expansion can be found in the Test Dojo, so feel free to leave your feedback here!
For a framework for the items you're looking at, here's an overview on a few new and interesting things that can be found in this expansion pack's loot. There are a few features not yet appearing in Preview 1, but will be important to know about to understand the context of what's going on with these items.
Level
The items in this expansion pack are ML11 in Heroic and ML35 in Legendary.
New DC Proc Effects
We've made a suite of new item effects for the loot in this expansion. These largely resemble some existing effects, such as Paralyzing and Telekinetic, but using a system that lets us create them with level-appropriate DCs more easily. These are still a work in progress - We'll be adjusting things like DC numbers, cooldowns, and chance to apply on hit with these throughout the U81 Preview process. In the end, they may not be 1:1 identical to their older counterparts, but the hope is to be able to add these kinds of effects more easily to items with DCs that are useful in content near their minimum level.
Crafting Overview
There are two kinds of crafting in this expansion:
Many items in this expansion drop with a "Nearly Completed" effect for their 4th effect. If you're familiar with Nearly Finished in previous content, this is a very similar (and Forgotten Realms-friendly) system. There are six kinds of Nearly Completed present on items in this expansion:
Rare Catalysts & Catalyst Crafting
The powers of the Abyss and Underdark are manifesting in strange ways! The Rare Items in this expansion pack's chests are Abyssal Catalysts and Deep Catalysts. Each of these thirty items relates to a specific item from DDO's history, and when the two are brought together, they can be combined into a powerful new form at either ML11 (for Heroic Catalyst ingredients) or ML35 (for Legendary Catalyst ingredients).
To do so, you will need:
The ability to craft these items is not available in this Preview, but will be for Preview 2. That said, all thirty Catalysts can be found in Rare Loot in the Test Dojo, and the items they create can be found under "Transformed Items" (a temporary name) there as well. Give them a spin!
Known Issues
This preview has your first look at the loot for the Terror of Demogorgon expansion! The items for this expansion can be found in the Test Dojo, so feel free to leave your feedback here!
For a framework for the items you're looking at, here's an overview on a few new and interesting things that can be found in this expansion pack's loot. There are a few features not yet appearing in Preview 1, but will be important to know about to understand the context of what's going on with these items.
Level
The items in this expansion pack are ML11 in Heroic and ML35 in Legendary.
New DC Proc Effects
We've made a suite of new item effects for the loot in this expansion. These largely resemble some existing effects, such as Paralyzing and Telekinetic, but using a system that lets us create them with level-appropriate DCs more easily. These are still a work in progress - We'll be adjusting things like DC numbers, cooldowns, and chance to apply on hit with these throughout the U81 Preview process. In the end, they may not be 1:1 identical to their older counterparts, but the hope is to be able to add these kinds of effects more easily to items with DCs that are useful in content near their minimum level.
Crafting Overview
There are two kinds of crafting in this expansion:
- Items that drop with Nearly Completed effects, allowing you to select a 4th affix
- Catalyst Crafting, in which you collect Rare Abyssal Catalysts and Deep Catalyst ingredients and combine them with legacy Named Items to create powerful new versions
Many items in this expansion drop with a "Nearly Completed" effect for their 4th effect. If you're familiar with Nearly Finished in previous content, this is a very similar (and Forgotten Realms-friendly) system. There are six kinds of Nearly Completed present on items in this expansion:
- Spell School: This allows you to craft on an Equipment bonus to your choice of Spell School.
- Skill: This allows you to craft on an Exceptional Bonus to a group of skills based on an ability score of your choice (STR skills, INT skills, etc)
- Healing Amplification: This allows you to craft on your choice of Competence Bonus to Positive Amp, Enhancement Bonus to Repair Amp, or Profane Bonus to Negative Amp (the normal bonus types for those amps found on named items)
- Ability Score: This allows you to craft on your choice of Enhancement Bonus to Ability Score.
- Insightful Ability Score: This allows you to craft on your choice of Insight Bonus to Ability Score.
- Quality Ability Score: This allows you to craft on your choice of Quality Bonus to Ability Score.
Rare Catalysts & Catalyst Crafting
The powers of the Abyss and Underdark are manifesting in strange ways! The Rare Items in this expansion pack's chests are Abyssal Catalysts and Deep Catalysts. Each of these thirty items relates to a specific item from DDO's history, and when the two are brought together, they can be combined into a powerful new form at either ML11 (for Heroic Catalyst ingredients) or ML35 (for Legendary Catalyst ingredients).
To do so, you will need:
- One of the Rare Catalysts
- The specific named item it is associated with - In some cases, this may require the Heroic version of the item for crafting a Heroic item and the Epic or Legendary version for crafting the Legendary one.
- A number of Abyssal Gems
The ability to craft these items is not available in this Preview, but will be for Preview 2. That said, all thirty Catalysts can be found in Rare Loot in the Test Dojo, and the items they create can be found under "Transformed Items" (a temporary name) there as well. Give them a spin!
Known Issues
- Many items are not yet using the correct icons
- Duergarcraft and Great Forge armors are showing the correct base layers, but do not yet have the gear that goes on top of those base layers.
- As stated above, the system for crafting Nearly Completed item effects is not in Preview 1.
- As stated above, the system for crafting Catalysts into new items is not in Preview 1.
- Minor Artifacts planned for this expansion are not in Preview 1. They will drop on their own list, similar to how they dropped in Masterminds of Sharn.
- Duergarcraft Weapons do not yet drop in chests. They will have a chance to drop in chests in this expansion pack, similar to other recent expansions.
- Madness of the Demon Lords is visually smaller than it should be.
- There are some chests in the new content dropping basic daggers - This is placeholder for things like ingredients and artifacts that aren't in Preview 1.
- Legendary Catalyst ingredients don't have "Legendary" at the start of their name yet in this Preview.
- Items in Demogorgon quest chests drop with the Weapon mythic bonus regardless of item type in this Preview.
- New items with clickies and spell absorption don't yet have their charges set up.
- Someone said they spotted some kind of "Starry" gem? Wild. Probably just a rumor. A myth. A thing that may disappear by next preview, if it existed at all.
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