Update 69 Preview 3: Myth Drannor Wilderness Area

[Tolero]

The Myth Drannor Wilderness Area is now available to preview! Please be sure to give us feedback about the Monster Density of it.

 

[Celtic]

I can confirm that the monsters are all very dense

 

[Andu Indorin]

Wilderness looks first rate. Very Epic, very Legendary.

Could it be the best Wilderness Zone ever?

 

[Ratatoskr_Mikew]

Time to fire up Lamannia & Dragons Online!

 

[Rincewind]

I can confirm that the monsters are all very dense

do they activate only when you approach them? or you can hit them from a distance?

 

[in4theride75]

Thoughts having explored about 80% of the wilderness area.
It looks super cool, all those magic lines in the sky made me smile. The cemetery area up north is particularly stunning.
Seems some areas have a normal monster density while other areas of completely devoid. The hillside directly south-west of the entrance for example, I found 6 mobs. Plus the west/south-west area that looks like a grass lands seems....unfinished. hard to explain. I'd also expect more mobs in the areas with buildings then there are.
I love the portal spawn mechanic and I'd like to see it used a bit more although I'd prefer if the portals were visual instead of objects that couldn't be walked through.
I think there was an opportunity missed to make some of the ruined buildings explorable.
Quests and location change areas do not seem to be displaying on the map. Quests don't display until the black of the map is revealed, don't like that, plus they are using the location change icon instead of the quest icon.
The rare chests on legendary appear to be dropping heroic level loot.
There is a building directly east of Ildrannath's tower that is floating off the ground. There is a rock south-east of that building that is also floating. (Standard): You are on server 26 at r2 lx564 ly466 i9 ox87.31 oy52.19 oz156.46 h137.8. Game timestamp 1892999.952.
(Standard): Q:0x7003AF38
The mansion here has multiple floating pillars.
(Standard): You are on server 26 at r2 lx565 ly453 i9 ox117.95 oy117.20 oz161.69 h42.2. Game timestamp 1893197.151.

Spoiler: Floating rock locations

Another floating rock here.
(Standard): You are on server 26 at r2 lx518 ly429 i9 ox128.73 oy100.87 oz138.54 h111.1. Game timestamp 1893615.873
There are a few rocks here around this building that float.
(Standard): You are on server 26 at r2 lx514 ly424 i9 ox40.79 oy2.14 oz148.84 h274.2. Game timestamp 1893697.735.
Another floating rock here.
(Standard): You are on server 26 at r2 lx533 ly400 i9 ox102.74 oy10.76 oz180.08 h345.9. Game timestamp 1894191.247.
Another floating rock here.
(Standard): You are on server 26 at r2 lx526 ly404 i9 ox137.38 oy98.91 oz191.85 h188.4. Game timestamp 1894483.260.
Two floating rocks here.
(Standard): You are on server 26 at r2 lx523 ly408 i9 ox65.38 oy8.37 oz167.53 h149.1. Game timestamp 1894632.959.
Another floating rock here.
(Standard): You are on server 26 at r2 lx512 ly413 i9 ox14.17 oy116.95 oz183.28 h71.7. Game timestamp 1894793.899.
Another one here.
(Standard): You are on server 26 at r2 lx513 ly418 i9 ox38.91 oy51.20 oz158.61 h115.3. Game timestamp 1894904.233.
Another one here.
(Standard): You are on server 26 at r2 lx513 ly429 i9 ox29.10 oy105.20 oz149.52 h212.3. Game timestamp 1895003.641.
Five more here.
(Standard): You are on server 26 at r2 lx534 ly422 i9 ox125.74 oy138.63 oz160.53 h188.4. Game timestamp 1895211.991.
Another
(Standard): You are on server 26 at r2 lx525 ly432 i9 ox108.27 oy15.06 oz121.52 h229.2. Game timestamp 1895514.815.
Another
(Standard): You are on server 26 at r2 lx517 ly437 i9 ox105.41 oy118.52 oz146.84 h175.8. Game timestamp 1895612.457.
Another
(Standard): You are on server 26 at r2 lx633 ly422 i9 ox34.17 oy130.83 oz160.03 h191.3. Game timestamp 1898162.646.

Creatures are not displaying the white hexagon overhead they normally do when rubber-banding.
All the narrated explorers play their audio every time you cross the trigger zone instead just once.

 

[Dandonk]

Asking for a friend... is there a dead horse somewhere in this area?

 

[FVSHasBeenEvenMoreGutted]

i usually make some unhelpful, snarky comment. all i can say is wow, i did not know a ddo expansion could look so good

 

[Dandonk]

i usually make some unhelpful, snarky comment. all i can say is wow, i did not know a ddo expansion could look so good

I don't have time to log in and check Lama land, but this makes me very much look forward to the rollout on live

 

[Andu Indorin]

I might have expected more trees from the Forest of Cormanthor, but still it does look awesome. The monster population seemed a little sparse ... Will this scale with party size, a la Epic Orchard? That'd be cool.

 

[Ratatoskr_Mikew]

Yeah, went into the wilderness, couldn't find a single mob.... so recalled and gave up.

 

[rabidfox]

The size of the wilderness is massive and looks great. I didn't run into a lot of mobs, but the zone itself reminded me of zones I'd see in LOTRO with the scale and feel of them.

 

[Solarpower]

The Wilderness is huge. And for that massive area it feels a little bit empty.
All of the dungeons are quite far away from the entrance. ? There are no quest entrances marks in the map therefore finding dungeons is not easy even with the "arrow" pointer.

 

[Thorntoe]

Stuck Point: Along outer border of wilderness area.
Server 24 at r2 lx644 ly393 i10 ox94.82 oy24.85 oz100.15 h45.0

 

[Flimsy Firewood]

Thank you all for the feedback. Adding more monsters this week.

 

[FireEater]

Found "rare" the rare and he did not have a chest.

Found another rare - the croc - and he did have a chest so am thinking the problem is just with that rare.

 

[Solarpower]

Thank you all for the feedback. Adding more monsters this week.

Maybe some ambient wildlife ? ? Or nothing but monsters can survive in Myth Drannor ?
But the area surely feels empty. Especially those "city roads" - 2 rows of the houses and nothing alive (or undead in that case).

 

[FaceDancer]

Looks impressive! I wish you could explore the insides of the houses (more interactivity with the environment). I noticed in the the cemetery that the narration triggered 3 times, and also repeated the first word twice each time (stuttered kinda). Voice acting is great btw (for wilderness and scrolls)! Need to explore some more, but I did the drow captive adventure and really enjoyed the new "classic" critters in it. ?

 

[FaceDancer]

Thank you all for the feedback. Adding more monsters this week.

Maybe an ettin or four?!? ?

 

[Spook]

Please tell me there are teleporters to the quests (or close proximity to) without having to have run the quests first. RL questing felt better than Feywild as we could quest in order without having to take massive detours.

IoD quests were just annoying with some people having teleporters and others not.