It's just Update 9 Patch 1

http://forums.ddo.com/showthread.php?t=317878

suppose to bring some crafting update along with fixes

heh, 1024 lessers for some shtuff.. ugh


Moving can now interrupt the /death command.


hahahaha

ammania Release Notes: Update 9 Patch 1

Welcome to the Lammania Release Notes for Dungeons & Dragons Online! These release notes were posted on Thursday, May 12th, 2011. Please note that these release notes are subject to change.
News & Notes

Of Special Note:

Crafting Beta

    * The crafting level cap has been increased to 75!
    * Deconstruction of items now grants players a small amount of crafting XP in the crafting school associated with the essences gained.
    * Deconstructing low tier effects on high-end loot will now return more reward essences.
    * The ingredient cost to create shards has been significantly lowered.
    * A maximum enchantment level of +5 now appears on all standard craftable item blanks. This level determines how much power a given item can hold when adding magical effects through crafting. The items can have their maximum enchantment level increased by crafting Shards of Potential.
          o Recipes exist in all three schools of crafting to create “Shards of Potential” of various strengths that can be applied to a crafting blank to increase its maximum enchantment level. Higher plus Shards of Potential are significantly more expensive to create than lower plus Shards of Potential. Click here for our guide to Maximum Enchantment Levels and Shards of Potential.
    * Bound crafting shards are now Bound to Account instead of Bound to Character.
    * It is now possible to deconstruct crafting Shards using the Deconstruction Eldritch Device.
    * Crafting recipes will now display how much the minimum character level to equip an item will increase when the recipe is applied.
    * The names of essences have been changed for better standardization.
    * The "Vengeful Rage" mutation is now a prefix instead of a suffix.
    * Numerous treasure mutations have had their enchantment values lowered.
    * The Everbright Shard has been consolidated, and can be applied to either weapons or shields.

General Changes

Combat

    * The Intimidate symbol will no longer randomly appear over monsters' heads.

DDO Store

    * The Lesser Anti-Beholder Crystal now blocks beholder telekinesis attacks.

Feats

    * Cleave and Great Cleave are now working correctly for half-orc characters.

Items

    * Mineral II greensteel items now have all of their expected effects.
    * Greensteel weapons that had both Icy Burst and Frost abilities, but lost their Frost ability, will now possess their Frost ability again.
    * Older arrow types that went mad with the release of Update 9 have now been made sane, and are back to their proper descriptions.
    * Crafted handwraps will now properly apply their to-hit and damage bonuses.
    * Bows, crossbows, and thrown weapons will now work properly with smiting, banishing, and disruption.
    * Several typos have been corrected in the description of disruption.

Localization

    * The Crafting tab is now available on the character sheet for players with localized German clients.

Monsters

    * Thaarak hounds are less prone to dancing and falling down, and have new abilities.
    * Orange-named mini bosses now get deathblock on epic difficulty.

NPCs

    * The Twelve favor patron now gives out a Small Ingredients Bag when first visited.
    * The Free Agents now subscribe to the Stormreach Chronicle instead of the Korranberg Chronicle.

Quests

Harbinger of Madness

Fear Factory

    * Fixed some DM text.

In The Flesh

    * Dead Pykzyl is now able to leave his room and pursue attackers.
    * Fixed an issue that sometimes caused Yaulthoon to become unresponsive.
    * Parties will now have their soul stones sent to the beginning of the dungeon after a party wipe in the final fight with Yaulthoon.
    * A new named item can now drop on hard and elite for beating Yaulthoon.

The Missing

    * The mini-boss Pale Fire has been upgraded slightly.
    * Auto-opening doors are now selectable.

Inspired Quarter

I Dream of Jeets

    * Corrected several focus orbs.

The Necropolis

Ghosts of Perdition

    * Ice floors no longer re-form upon dungeon re-entry.

The Twelve

The Tower of the Twelve

    * The door to the Eldritch Chamber in the Twelve can now be used normally.

Vale of Twilight

The Shroud

    * Fixed a stuck spot.

Races

    * Half-orc males no longer use the female icon in the Who panel.

Skills, Feats, and Enhancements

    * Some enchantment-based effects that inadvertently affected raid bosses no longer do so.

Spells

    * The visual appearance of barkskin will no longer remain on characters after the effect wears off.
    * Solid Fog's reflex penalty now works on bosses and raid bosses, and has been fixed to apply the correct -5 penalty to creatures within the spell's area of effect.
    * Acid Fog's tool tip now states that enemies within its area of effect suffer a -4 penalty to Armor Class.

UI

    * When receiving a quest from an NPC, the yellow guidance arrows in the mini map now point at the correct dungeon entrance. Quest Journals correctly default to the most recently-bestowed quest instead of the alphabetical first on the list.
    * The Escape key can now be used to close Barter UI and Crafting UI windows.
    * The focus orb has been fixed for the Gnollish War Bow.

Other Changes

    * Fixed a bug where shadows were not displaying properly with DX10 and DX11.
    * Moving can now interrupt the /death command.

Monsters

    * Thaarak hounds are less prone to dancing and falling down, and have new abilities.
    * Orange-named mini bosses now get deathblock on epic difficulty.

Wow -  casters might bring melees into epics for more than just conversation!

Eladiun wrote on May 12^th, 2011 at 3:26pm:


or a spell that EVERY caster should be carrying 

Asketes wrote on May 12^th, 2011 at 3:46pm:


Ok Ferrum 

Flint wrote on May 12^th, 2011 at 3:55pm:



well, I was kind of joking. I carry it on my casters for the carrying capacity.


is Ferrum still around?

JC wrote on May 12^th, 2011 at 6:42pm:


Ice Prison is my guess.

Eladiun wrote on May 12^th, 2011 at 2:55pm:


FUCK YA!

Now I can actually get my Crafting mule upped in lvl.

Quote:


It appears to give an amount equal to the level of effect deconstructed. lvl 1 gives 1 xp, ... lvl 5 gives 5 xp.

apep wrote on May 12^th, 2011 at 7:39pm:


Thats fine. I normally look for items that give lvl 5 crafting, like Deathblock, Greater Banes, Holy Burst, Greater X Resist, etc.

Also, there is a new feature in crafting that requires you to spend some lesser essences to pump up your base item before you craft if you're going to put an enhancement plus and a prefix and a suffix.

If you have the crafting levels on your primary melee character for it and you're planning on making one or two of these, make sure that you finish those +4 Holy Silver [whatever] of Lawful Outsider Bane weapons before this patch rolls out or you'll have to spend additional shards to prep the Silver [whatever] before you can add all of the extra junk.  I count 4 for the +4, 3 for the Holy (even though it should be 2) and 2 for the Lawful Outsider Bane which makes a total of 9 "plusses" worth of preparation that you'll need to do.

I'm sure that this has already been mentioned before, but the Blessed Silver weapons that you can buy in the DDO store appear to keep both their blessed and their silver attributes when you run them through the crafter.

I'm not sure that it will make a big difference, but you could craft a +5 Anarchic [blessed silver] whatever of Greater Lawful Outsider Bane while you could only craft a +4 Holy [silver or blessed silver] whatever of Greater Lawful Outsider Bane because Holy and Holy burst are one "plus" higher than they should be for minimum level adjustment.