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Hard to say.  I think they're trying to level the playing field a bit (on the equipment side) between newer players and people who have every concievable piece of gear that's ever been in the game.

Haunting is out.

http://forums.ddo.com/showpost.php?p=4515673&postcount=978

Hi everyone!

Thank you for the feedback on the haunted idea.

We've evaluated the Haunted mechanic to be too complex to introduce at this time. As mentioned by several posters in this thread, it's really Wail of the Banshee that is the source of the balance problems that we seek to address, and it's more logical to constrain changes to the spell.

We're planning on removing the death protection from non-boss creatures in Epic difficulty and changing Wail of the Banshee from being a spell that instantaneously kills up to 20 enemies for 10 sp more than Finger of Death, to a kill-over-time model similar to, but still better than, the Clr/FvS spell Implosion.

    Wail of the Banshee
    SP Cost: 50
    Cooldown: 60 seconds (50 for Sorcerers)
    You emit a terrible scream, creating a deadly area around yourself for 6 seconds. Every 2 seconds, two nearby enemies must make a fortitude save or die. On a successful fortitude save, the target takes 1 to 4 negative levels. You are free to perform other actions while Wail of the Banshee is active.
    D&D Dice: Slays multiple living enemies or deals 1d4 negative levels if they save.

We're planning on continuing to monitor the effectiveness of instant death effects (and necromancy in general) and will continue to make changes as necessary. (Especially when the enhancements revamp appears. It's possible that the "Haunted" concept, instead of being a debuff, will reappear as a positive effect for characters that invest in the Pale Master tree.)
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Eladiun wrote on Jun 11^th, 2012 at 2:23pm:



Turbine: We don't suck, we blow.

Right. So place your bets on how long till we see 20k trashmob bat swarms.

So very much less horrible than HtK and Haunting.

I really do think that they just stir up shit so that whatever final change appears will just be a relief (c.f. Chattering Ring/Greater Halfling Bane).

rest wrote on Jun 11^th, 2012 at 3:16pm:


In-just-a-moment-please-kill.

Or:

Waitforit-waitforit-kill.

Yeah but what if it's trying to target mobs that are immune to wail.

And don't be silly. Of course it starts at 2 seconds in, not immediately.

Implosion works on more things as well.  Not a huge amount of undead at endgame, but that could change with time. I havn't bothered with the beta really, but I've read that there's drow Necromancers that summon a fair amount of Undead?

PM's will still be awesome tho.

My favorite name I saw for it so far was Stutter of the Banshee.

Is it really that hard to just lower the hard cap from 20 to 10 or something? I still don't know why they're bothered, but if they are then a very simple solution is, you know, simple.

Sounds like it's time for the "which is more likely?" game!

1) Turbine has once again pulled off a flawless double secret conspiracy purely to mess with the small percentage of players who avidly read the forums, because it's impossible for people in a position of authority to make any mistakes ever.

2) Turbine can't find their ass with both hands and a map, so they resorted to their standard MO of throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks.

Haunting idea is gayer than Lionclaws aka spelljammer.  No need for it what so ever.  Maybe my servers just suck (khyber) (orien)  but on those severs not a ton of casters can insta kill things on epics without help of symbol of death, Circle of death , energy drain.  Even with those I've seen casters have trouble.

If someone wastes their life playing this game so much that they get dc's high enough fuck it let em who cares. let them think they are uber in a imaginary world. they probably have no friends or loved ones they need to feel special.

These Insta-kill changes are just fucking stupid period.

If the "talent" at Turbine could get there heads out of there asses and design CONTENT around the game mechanics instead of changing game mechanics to fit the CONTENT we'd find balance.

They the DEVS and us the PLAYERS can't find balance in the system with too many sobbing nancys wah wahing about shit in game with the inherent tunnel vision Turbine developers have with regards to content design.

Maybe Turbine Developers need a crash course in DUNGEONMASTERING 101 to get their shit straight.

Maybe go back and brush up on CORE GODDAMN D&D GAME MECHANICS and design CONTENT around that.

Fucking Fucker FUCKKKKKKK