I noticed in the Adventure Compendium a couple of changes with today's patch/update to U17.

DNT-Stormhorns Landscape, a level 25 Wilderness Area has been removed.
DNT-Wheloon Landscape, a level 16 Wilderness Area has been modified to read "Coming Soon", and it is still a level 16 Wilderness Area.

I suppose I was hoping, probably a bit too hard, that at least one of those would be included in U17 but it appears to not be the case.

There are a couple things about this I find interesting.

First these two areas were referred to as Landscapes as opposed to Adventure Areas. We can make conclusions galore, however the Purple Dragon Knight located at the end of the High Road Adventure Area states
Quote:
Hail Traveler! This path winds into the Stormhorn mountains, but I am afraid you cannot do any further. More than simple outlaws have been spotted nearby, and we cannot allow anyone to travel beyond this point.
if you couple this with statements made by Fernando prior to the release of MotU it appears the Stormhorn Mountain landscape will be an extension or an dynamic landscape. Where using Turbine Dynamic Layer technology and their patent for moving between instances we will get seamless movement in landscapes. Well at least one can hope.

However the landscape that intrigues me is the Wheloon landscape, located SE of Eveningstar along Way of the Manticore where it crosses the Wyvernflow River. This obviously is not a direct connection to Eveningstar between these two points on the map. In terms of Faerun geography you would need to travel east along the high road to Arabel (which would make a great central nexus) and then south along Calantar's Way to Immersea and past Hilp to the Way of the Manticore and turn east. This is a trek of about 200 miles give or take a few.

Anyways back to looking at U17.

and our favorite Plumage of Râ has also stated that the Toughness Augment everybody is griping about will be back in U18 somewhere near The Orchard as a watered down Toughness. ( that is just plain +20 HP, and not like the toughness feat/enhancement... Seems we have too many HP and need to be nerfed there. )

I'm too lazy to dig out the post... it's in one of the Lammania Item Fight Thread.

Got a more current link?

http://forums.ddo.com/showpost.php?p=4865695&postcount=116 would seem to indicate otherwise.

Kind of weird they're making more of the MM deeds character based...

Hopefully that won't prevent me from killing 7,000 beholders to get my mini beholder pet!

The toughness on an item =/= toughness feat.  It's always been a straight 20 hp afaik.  This could hint that they're planning a scaled toughness augment.  They are also hopefully planning a minos like augment, i.e. 20 hp toughness + heavy fort in the same slot.

We also know clerics are getting domains, when the enhancement update comes out.  There was some information actually released in one of the lama builds.

We also know clerics are getting domains, when the enhancement update comes out.  There was some information actually released in one of the lama builds.

That and the hat swap HP regen.