http://forums.ddo.com/showthread.php?&postid=4738606#post4738606

What have they done? LOTRO ate my Lama installation and I'm almost at my monthly bandwidth cap due to multiple reinstalls so I can't have a look.

Help anyone?

(I want them to have kept Larafey, Natasha, and that Fighter bloke with DDoor )

[QUOTE=Feather_of_Sun;4738998]All hirelings now have a standardized package of defensive bonuses. This includes enhancement bonuses to every ability score, False Life, Protection, Resistance, Physical Resistance Rating, Natural Armor, Proof Against Poison/Disease, Blindness Immunity, Death Ward, and an Insight bonus to AC.

Of these, the bonuses that can scale do so as the hireling increases in level.

Melee hirelings use the defensive package equal to their level.
Rogues/bards use the package two levels lower.
Clerics/Favored Souls use the package three levels lower.
Sorcerers/Wizards use the package four levels lower.

As an example of how the stats scale:
Light Fortification from levels 1-5, Moderate from levels 6-10, and Heavy on 11+.
So a melee hireling gets Heavy Fortification at level 11, while a Sorcerer gains it at level 15. [/quote]

Casual gamers should be happy.

It looks like they've made a lot of great changes to hirelings.  I think Feather_of_PR_Disaster needs a few lessons in effective communication, though.

Schmoe wrote on Oct 24^th, 2012 at 12:41pm:


This feedback will be ignored

Schmoe wrote on Oct 24^th, 2012 at 12:41pm:


yeah, it's all "woot, a thread devs will read, let's give some useful feedback on henchies" and then he's like "no. Nonono. Feedback only on what we've done thanks."

It's certainly a step in the right direction but why the fuck wouldn't you want additional feedback on the things. Particularly since you have hosed endgame and a hell of a lot more people are going to be relying on them these days. You even have a couple of people going "take my bloody money for a perma gold seal one a la battlecat". It's bloody information gold.

Le sigh.

Terebinthia wrote on Oct 24^th, 2012 at 2:24pm:


I thought that the feedback on Caught in the Web established the answer to "why they don't want feedback".

They do not publish information to the player base with the intent to gather player opinions on improving it or changing it.

If they wanted feedback, the link to the exit survey would work.

If they wanted feedback on something like hireling configurations, they could have made it a contest - submit one build and gear setup for one hireling of your choice, and select a random contributor to each hireling's thread as a winner of something typically useful such as 30 minute guest pass to STK.

The contest threads give the appearance of interaction without actually requiring any.


If Feather_of_Sun would like to come here for feedback on what he has and has not done, I will be Delighted to oblige.

mystafyi wrote on Oct 24^th, 2012 at 6:51pm:


While i snarked at you on the main forums, seriously, the fucking thing worked for a couple of hours, post acceidental downtime. Then they turned it off. Yeah...

Maxwell Edison wrote on Oct 24^th, 2012 at 1:20pm:


True story!