Vecna Unleashed Mini Expansion Details

[Arcanaverse]

After today's stream, the Traveler is 100% for sure going to be involved in our fight against Vecna.

Spoiler

In each quest of the hidden hand, the traveler appears to us an interactable. Always wearing the same hat regardless of the form. And all encounters are basically at or very near the entrance of each quest.

Army of Eternal Night - Wandering Elf
Order in the Court - Normal Statue
Three Paths to Battle - Odd Lantern Archon
Growing Pains - Totally Normal Cow *Side note very worth talking to the cow multiple times. very funny
The Hand and the Eyes - Wanderer

However, it the odd Lantern Archon that seals the deal for me.

The Traveler, an estranged member of the Dark Six, not that it is really related to them or even the Sovereign Host.

From the wiki:

The most mysterious of all the gods, the Traveler is believed to be a supreme shapeshifter and trickster, a virtuoso of deceit and craftiness, a creator of things and a bringer of knowledge.[1][2][6][3][8] It is even believed to be the true lord of Eberron, having walked all its roads and seen all its sights, and left them all transformed.[5] However, it is also said to be impulsive and unpredictable[16] and a creature of dark cunning.[5] The Traveler is thought to look favorably on those who use their wits or are resourceful, and to disapprove of those who beg for safety and care or for unearned gifts.[6]

Bolded for emphasis in where the Traveler sits in regards to others in Eberron and would be invaders.

Checked out Kill 10 Rats and didn't find any traveler plot points. Though if anyone knows of any other sightings let me know.

In other news, preview for Machrotechnic in two weeks (probably).

 

[SiliconScout]

Yet another expansion we have to pay for. Yet another reason ViP is means what? Sorry, my days of paying for DDO content are over. Heck, I still haven't bought IoD, (for those saying "I want to support the game" I did since Oct 2006. The value for my money just isn't justified. I'd like to be proven wrong, the last 5 years did just the opposite.

Yep the whole mini-expansion BS turned off the $ taps completely for me. Thankfully I have most of what I care to play bought and I am very happy to be Premium. Don't have shifter, don't have tabaxi and don't really care to play either as racial completionist has such a farcical design I noped out of it on day one. Really that was probably the start of me turning down my spending.

I was never a whale by any means, think I bought 1 Otto's box ever, but I was good for anything from $300 to $1000 a year for a long time and been playing since Beta. Sadly VIP is $10 a month for a 10% XP boost and being able to open elite on Hardcore (which is rapidly losing its luster by the way).

 

[Arcanaverse]

With today announcement about the Underdark Patrons Coffer... my Lolth theory takes a hit as the panther is in this bundle not Vecna Unleashed. Updated the main posts.

 

[DeathTitan]

Watch thread ON.
Thanks for the updates and the speculations Arcanaverse

 

[rabidfox]

Someone just posted this image on discord. When the horse model glitches (any horse), it'll default to a plain brown looking base model. So it looks like the underlying base model for the panther is a sabertooth and the poster just revealed a likely upcoming mount (my guess would be with the mini-expansion).

 

[droid327]

I thought the gods in Eberron never directly interacted with mortals? Or is Traveler the canonical exception to that rule?

 

[Arcanaverse]

Someone just posted this image on discord. When the horse model glitches (any horse), it'll default to a plain brown looking base model. So it looks like the underlying base model for the panther is a sabertooth and the poster just revealed a likely upcoming mount (my guess would be with the mini-expansion).

Neat. Though... what poster are you referring to? I'm failing to find.

I thought the gods in Eberron never directly interacted with mortals? Or is Traveler the canonical exception to that rule?

The Traveler is indeed a canonical exception. It often gives out gifts to wanderers. In game we have a festival themed on it.

 

[rabidfox]

Neat. Though... what poster are you referring to? I'm failing to find.



The Traveler is indeed a canonical exception. It often gives out gifts to wanderers. In game we have a festival themed on it.

Look in the hardcore section on DDO discord; they posted there.

 

[Arcanaverse]

Ah, poster is a person not a new advertisement. lol

Vecna mount? maybe. Though based on the Underdark Supporter Pack I'd bet there is a Dino themed one in our future.

Either way, very fun.

 

[rabidfox]

This was in the promo art for Dread. Sabertooth mounts are a known thing there for pen and paper. So it's a not a far step to guess it could be with the Vecna expansion; could be wrong but that's the fun of speculating on things before lam hits.

 

[Arcanaverse]

Oh for sure, just I don't think Vecna Unleashed will (primarily) be taking place on the isle. One of the reasons I'm leaning in another direction. If it'll ever be mount.

But maybe! Main post updated.

 

[rabidfox]

Someone just posted this image on discord. When the horse model glitches (any horse), it'll default to a plain brown looking base model. So it looks like the underlying base model for the panther is a sabertooth and the poster just revealed a likely upcoming mount (my guess would be with the mini-expansion).

@Cordovan this the panther glitching into a sabertooth. (from the stream)

 

[Spook]

Well its obvious they were going to use the new rig as much as they can - if its reused as a mount for the mini expansion that might be a tad too soon though and may annoy people that bought the coffer specifically for the mount.

 

[rabidfox]

Vecna mount? maybe. Though based on the Underdark Supporter Pack I'd bet there is a Dino themed one in our future.

Might be neither guess and just the underlying art used for the model (from how Cordo acted on his stream today). But hopefully we eventually see them.

 

[CBDunk]

They were probably building the sabretooth mount for Isle of Dread (since it appears in the promo artwork), but either couldn't complete it on time or didn't release for some other reason. So then they did a little re-skinning and we got the panther mount.

 

[calouscaine]

Someone just posted this image on discord. When the horse model glitches (any horse), it'll default to a plain brown looking base model. So it looks like the underlying base model for the panther is a sabertooth and the poster just revealed a likely upcoming mount (my guess would be with the mini-expansion).

That is. . .a pretty bad photoshop

 

[rabidfox]

That is. . .a pretty bad photoshop

Strimtom mentioned in today's Cordo DDO stream of having clips & screenshots it; it's entirely possible it could be a bad photoshop, but that seems like a trustworthy source to me.

 

[Misadventure]

Level 18/32 Rogue Hireling - Darling (wererat)

Why 32, should be 26/27/28 or rather 22 since we got the 25 owlbear.

Hardly anybody use hirelings at cap. So far I've only seen the fey one for heals.

 

[calouscaine]

Strimtom mentioned in today's Cordo DDO stream of having clips & screenshots it; it's entirely possible it could be a bad photoshop, but that seems like a trustworthy source to me.

I could be wrong, but it looks like something I would have done as a freshman learning the software, heh.

 

[Dragnilar]

Why 32, should be 26/27/28 or rather 22 since we got the 25 owlbear.

Hardly anybody use hirelings at cap. So far I've only seen the fey one for heals.

I guess you can count me as one of the people in the "hardly anyone" category. ?

If I had to guess, it's probably because Frogo and the rest tend to either get stuck in daydream mode (seems to be a performance problem, idk) or they do dumb stuff like start fights with monsters halfway across the dungeon? Regardless of the reason, I get it.

On the taunt thing, I thought this was funny:

A couple weeks ago, Frogo or the Shield Guardian somehow managed to taunt the entirety of "Wild Thing". That was fun... I had an instant red dungeon alert and suddenly trains of dinosaurs, cats, water elementals, reapers and bugs all heading towards me.