Default Producer's Letter - 5/21/15
Greetings!

It’s been extremely busy and fun for us here on the DDO team this year and we feel the time is right to provide an update on some of our plans over the next few months.

We’ve made some excellent strides to reduce lag and improve stability, and we are continuing to work towards these goals. One of the larger projects that we are working on is a transfer of our game servers and other hardware to a new data center. The new facility will provide both Dungeons and Dragons Online and our friends over at The Lord of the Rings Online with more stability, greater CPU power, and a better networking capability. This will complement our ongoing efforts to reduce lag. It’s a big project and as the year progresses we will be working toward a date where we will migrate to the new datacenter.

Update 26 is coming in June, and it will focus mainly on a new class; the Warlock! Warlocks make pacts with powerful otherworldly patrons and channel that eldritch power into powerful blasts and arcane spells. The Warlock can choose a pact with Fiends, Archfey, or even a Great Old One. The Warlock will also have three enhancement trees; the Tainted Scholar, the Souleater, and the Enlightened Spirit.

Update 27 will follow in July. It includes an all-new adventure pack that returns to Shavarath, showcasing the Archons’ side of its endless war. With your help the Gatekeepers have gathered enough Mysterious Remnants to continue their research. They’ve tracked the Remnants back to Shavarath, the Plane of Battle. You need to travel there to recruit the help of the Archons in unravelling this mystery. The Archons, however, will only aid those who are worthy, and you find yourself embroiled not only in their tests, but in their eternal struggle with the Devils and the Demons. This adventure pack will include three new dungeons and a new raid, and as usual will be free to VIPs.

We've also been hearing your feedback that you'd like an improved experience when using the DDO Store, and we're happy to say that we'll be introducing a new store in the near future! We expect the updated DDO Store to offer a streamlined experience when making purchases and many other improvements. We're planning to start rolling out the new DDO Store to players later this summer. You will still be able to purchase Turbine Points with a credit/debit card, PayPal, and a wide selection of alternate payment methods. We'll have more to say about the DDO Store as we get closer to its launch.

We'll have more updates this year as well, of course. Players will be able to increase their character level to 30. We’ll have more adventure packs for you. We’ll have an Epic and extended version of our popular Shroud raid and a new adventure pack that relates to the Vale of Twilight. Players will be able to use an updated and epic version of Greensteel to craft more powerful gear. We are excited to bring this content to you!

Thank you for being a part of the Dungeons & Dragons Online community, and we love hearing your feedback. It's been a pleasure to talk to everyone here, and we hope to see you in-game for a long time to come.

Robert “Severlin” Ciccolini


Man this sucks.  I honestly dont care about new classess (as enhancement revamps feel like a new class anyway) but rather new content as there is nothing to do at cap, what a let down.

I guess it all depends on your definition of "new".  More power to ya, have fun.

Viktor Vaughn wrote on May 21^st, 2015 at 7:08pm:



Yes, hardly a "heap". 


By your definition I just laid a "heap" of shit, should i post a pic? =)

I do really wish they'd just stop. They've got a maintenance team, not a content-creation team. Not a loot-redesign, class-balancing, or even a bug-fixing team.

Classes aren't the only thing they're homogenizing.

Viktor Vaughn wrote on May 21^st, 2015 at 7:08pm:


That is for Epic Amrath, right?

The increase to level 30 and the new adventure packs are also this year?

Though the wording for that part was a bit vague, so that if there are delays they can always claim they never said it was this year.

Of course, we are most likely going to see terrible gear and terrible XP in the new content and still stick with Spies, Von3 and Wiz King... and buying duped TF mats off the AH / AS.

HairyO wrote on May 21^st, 2015 at 8:02pm:


what i'm reading is that epic amarath will have 3 quests and 1 raid

so 4 quests and 1 raid so far this year if you include toee as a single quest

and level cap raised to 30 is still happening at the end of the year

not seeing a reason for it to happen if they arent putting out more content and keeping xp for the few endgame quests released low

Raising cap to 30 will be one of the worst idea of this game when we already have no content at 28.

Shuy wrote on May 22^nd, 2015 at 6:50am:


No end game at 28 or no end game at 30 + 1 more feat. I'll take the feat. GIVE ME MY FUCKING POWER CREEP!

Shuy wrote on May 22^nd, 2015 at 6:50am:

And already have too small a playerbase spread across too many levels with too much spread of player "gear score" within each level.

Meursault wrote on May 22^nd, 2015 at 11:30am:



This.

Bigdickrichguy wrote on May 22^nd, 2015 at 12:52pm:

Otto's Box.

wogoflove wrote on May 22^nd, 2015 at 6:25pm:

Hi Sev, why don't you ask this on mb?