What are peoples thoughts on the Producers Letter for the 20th Anniversary Year?

[Duneseeker]

Just as the title says. Im interested to hear what old, new, and everyone in between thinks of whats coming for the New Year.

 

[Fallout47]

I have always marveled at their ability to reuse and recycle. I assume that is how they will fill the new cap. And it obviously applies to the new race. I wonder what other races in the game they can dust off to keep us on the hamster wheel.

 

[Stein]

Paints a picture of a company with long-term planning, goals, and continued funding and budgeting that is likely already set out and determined.

That is unfathomably rare in this industry. It's a very, very good thing.

 

[thejaerleclan]

Duergar. Fantastic.
Arcane Trickster. Very Nice
New Anniversary Area . Nice
New content based on the Deck of Many Things - Nice. 10/36 is a nice pairing
Out of the Abyss as the xpac - Nice Choice for the level cap increase. Demogorgan is a great end game foe.

overall a very nice roadmap.

 

[Uppsy]

I loved every word. Was a little saddened to hear Cellimas got a cut storyline (but perhaps now that's why she went absent for so many years), and the most saddening of all was nobody knowing who the OG DM is. Either way I loved their recognition and I am very excited for this year.

 

[Necrodancer]

Loved the fact that casters will be left behind again for another year. Ah, but we will have "arcane" trickster....yay.

Kind of excited about the expansion despite SSG track record. Maybe I'll finally buy something again depending on how it turns on Lamannia.

 

[FuzzyDuck81]

The Xoriat mount - pretty sure will be a rust monster, as there's rusty-riding enemies in an older quest.

Adding Duregar is nice - good chance that also means dwarves in general are going to get a pass on their racial enhancements, potential there for an iconic too, here's hoping it's weapon & shield-using battlerager as i think vanguard would be great fun on a barbarian, could also finally mean a new dwarven defender racial-based enhancement tree in the same vein as elven arcane archer.

Arcane trickster seems fun - presumably rogue, probably up to level 4 spells, ranged legerdemain to let them open locks & disarm traps from range & the ability to add sneak attack dice to spell damage. Might even get greater invisibility added, whether it's just for them or available to other arcane casters too, could be it's implemented by adding a modifier to regular invisibility as the tech to modify a cast spell already exists.

 

[Smelt]

Duerger!!!! Finally some Dwarven love to combat all the stinking Elvish nonsense!
Arcane Trickster. Nice.
New Public area. ok ... does it have chairs we can sit in?
New content based on the deck of many things, could be interesting... or terrifying!
Xpac where we get to face Demogorgan OMG! I guess they are saving the Terrasques and Badgers for the level 40 level increase!

 

[Arkat]

The Xoriat mount - pretty sure will be a rust monster, as there's rusty-riding enemies in an older quest.

This was my guess, too.

 

[Wahatep]

Duergar? Good
Arcane Trickster? Not that exciting

No caster pass??????????????????

 

[kmoustakas]

a) Dwarves! BG3 style hopefully!
b) cap 36 so probably all those fail dranor and lamoland rares farmed are now sentient food?
c) Arcane trickster please don't make it monklite like sacred fist or red dragon disciple!

 

[KylerrTheMajty]

imo weak and booring , nothing fascinating

duergar - so just another dwarf , we had 1000 elfs now dwarf time
arcane trickster next caster variant maybe this time will be good ( 0 hopes) bc why not repair rouge just change it to caster! like shadowdancer...
xoriat mount - flying bed? reskined flying carpet/cloud? probobly will bug like cloud and change in to carpet like cloud do...
drow visual change - joke? it it worth producent letter... or just q4 would be too empty?

new expansion and 36 nothing new but good

where is balance ?
where is enhancment tree revamp ( lots of them are old and crap)
where is ED balance (why almost 90% of ppl use like 3-5 ed when we got 13..)
why no iconic in letter?
why no universal tree ?
why no new class or more archetyp?

lazy writing...

 

[Ozz]

a) Dwarves! BG3 style hopefully!
b) cap 36 so probably all those fail dranor and lamoland rares farmed are now sentient food?
c) Arcane trickster please don't make it monklite like sacred fist or red dragon disciple!

If they eventualy do what was said in that when the cap goes up to a certain level you will no longer auto lvl to 34/36 when you hit 30 so I would advise not to eat any stuff in that level range

 

[Sarlona Raiding]

It's almost exactly what I thought it would be.

My only disappointment is that they don't fix the things they break and those broken things outweigh all the positives for me.

 

[Oliphant]

A buddy of mine who's really into lore and theory got a lot out of the book "Out of the Abyss". Those lag graphics match my experience of crazy game-breaking lag then almost no lag. Looking forward to free stuff.

 

[LurkingVeteran]

The Xoriat mount - pretty sure will be a rust monster, as there's rusty-riding enemies in an older quest.

Adding Duregar is nice - good chance that also means dwarves in general are going to get a pass on their racial enhancements, potential there for an iconic too, here's hoping it's weapon & shield-using battlerager as i think vanguard would be great fun on a barbarian, could also finally mean a new dwarven defender racial-based enhancement tree in the same vein as elven arcane archer.

Arcane trickster seems fun - presumably rogue, probably up to level 4 spells, ranged legerdemain to let them open locks & disarm traps from range & the ability to add sneak attack dice to spell damage. Might even get greater invisibility added, whether it's just for them or available to other arcane casters too, could be it's implemented by adding a modifier to regular invisibility as the tech to modify a cast spell already exists.

Up L4 spells? What the heck are you going to do with those, hybrids don't get enough DC to do recent content, and the nearly all L1 to 4 spells are useless by mid heroirs or so. If they could actually get the DC to land web, that could be an option, but they won't.

Sneak attack dice to spell damage already exists in Shadowdancer and it's terrible. Like awful bad, not only are they regular D6 dice, they have an internal cooldown.

Improved invis already exists in the game as a temporary buff. Used to be in Magister ED, now only in Shadar-Kai. I haven't tried it recently, but I suspect that t's pretty bad after the recent change where they gave mobs cheat mode in getting a precise position of "unseen" characters that they can hear. They would probably need to revert this for it to be useful. I would love for this to be useful but not holding my breath.

I like the idea but they would need to boost hybrids / invis / sneak-to-damage mechanics in general for Arcane Trickster to pan out.

 

[FaceDancer]

I'm not super excited about the arcane trickster, but we'll see how it is.

I would think that a drow visual change would have been better before "Out of the Abyss" was released but that's just me.

Anniversary Djinn is back.... yay!!!

A level bump to 36 is good. I hope they make sure the rest of their systems get a bump to it as well (crafting for example...)

Wish I was seeing some news to updates to some of the classes/trees. Always makes me warm n'fuzzy to see just a general sweep of bug fixes too. Some refreshing would be refreshing to see!

 

[Lazuli]

Not a word about the casters? My patience has run out.

Duergar, great, but they've made a ton of elves and they're all trash for casters. Why? Surely the duergar will be another op melee race. Not to vary.

What do I think of the letter? Pure garbage. It doesn't even detail the anniversary a few weeks before the event. 20 years and that sad.

Another hardcore event? And our alts, what? When will they receive a little love? Fed up of stupid hardcore and new mules.

 

[EinarMal]

Yea Arcane trickster could be cool, but unlikely given how hard it is to make any sort of hybrid work. Probably another "flyover" class that you run 3x if the past lives are useful.

 

[Lazuli]

Yea Arcane trickster could be cool, but unlikely given how hard it is to make any sort of hybrid work. Probably another "flyover" class that you run 3x if the past lives are useful.

A hybrid when the hybrids are unviable and not even the slightest effort has been made to save them and help the casters is a bad joke.