Tangelina wrote on Nov 3^rd, 2015 at 3:23am:

Allow me to foretell what occurs.

1. Sev will raise the cap to 30 with a stupid 10m xp cap. Which uska will love because he doesn't ETR and would like more people to stay at cap longer to help him pike his way through content for loot.

2. Players will let Sev hear it. Sev will respond with : "we have adjusted the xp curve based on player feedback". It will now be 8.5 million xp to cap and etr.

3. Turbine cock smokers will rejoice and compliment Sev on his active communication with the player base while stating they were listened to.

4. The dailies will be nerfed in xp. Sev's quests will be slightly bumped. Slightly bumped will still result in wayyy less xp than what the dailies give out today.

5. Uska will again be happy.

Oh, and trudh. trudh will suck more turbine shlong than ever before after this.

What would be cool is if the new legendary difficulty is basically the same as the old epics; level 38 -41 versions of current level 30 - 32 quests with a similar style of grindable super-upgradeable loot. The difficulty would be basically impossible without extreme teamwork until you can grind out the legendary items (scroll, seal, shard type system (but not as shite)). That would give some sort of an end game again. If they then added in four or five more end game raids with, again, some sort of slow upgrade even once you have essentially completed the item (like +1 PRR/MRR +1 RP/MP), or cool levelling gear that would round out the picture.

Of course what we will get is what rubbinns describes above.

totally wrote on Nov 3^rd, 2015 at 4:27am:


I know it depends on how you play, but I'm not sure I would like to see that system in DDO anymore.
I believe the playerbase is already quite fractured, and in a holistic context, pretty intolerant of others. 
And the proposed system would drive a significant wedge between the top few % and the rest.
With declining numbers, a lot of raid groups are already private groups, so this would be exacerbated even further - especially in unforgiving content where "learning" is not accepted.

With this type of system, a non-hardcore player would have nearly zero chance of getting into those groups.

Conversely though, I acknowledge that the best players need something to do.  This is why I don't mind Reaper difficulty - same content, just insane challenge.
I do want to see a higher level of challenge for those players who want it, but I don't want it to be exclusive.  Some would argue that ordinary players shouldn't care, but I imagine a decent portion of the limited development going forward would need to be on this new legendary content because the hardcore players become bored quickly and demand more content.

DropBear wrote on Nov 4^th, 2015 at 1:58am:


Surely this just does the same thing in fracturing the player base? At least if thereis more content at cap, it would give a viable alternative to sitting on the TR tread mill, albeit a more difficult treadmill, that will, eventually, become the new norm, leading us into another inevitable depressing cycle. This is not to say that I disagree with you about fracturing the player base even further being bad, I don't have a solution for that.

Asheras wrote on Nov 4^th, 2015 at 6:23am:


Desegregated mega server. Might as well go all or nothing at this point. Link all of the current servers into one meta server. No more Jim Crow DDO.

5 Foot Step wrote on Nov 4^th, 2015 at 6:27am:


mix all of the duped goodies from all servers? oh man, we'll never see the end of the forum paladins!

totally wrote on Nov 4^th, 2015 at 6:06am:


The difference is subtle, but there is a difference.
By having legendary only content, the barrier will be insurmountable for some.  It makes all that legendary content only available to the elite players.

A new Reaper difficulty is not perfect as you allude to, but new content can be accessed by all and provide a challenge as desired.

If they get rid of BB on Reaper, it might forestall the problems you refer to?

I'm open to whether they allow special loot for Reaper.
Simplest would be to enable Mythic +2 to +4 items being more likely - no need to design new items or ratchet up the power creep.

kum-gulp wrote on Nov 4^th, 2015 at 9:36am:


The player dynamics of server merge would be interesting.  The e-peen issues, drama, and childishness will be a spectator sport in itself.  My kids school district has two middle schools that roll up into one high school.  The stories I've heard from my kids in 9th grade make me cringe.  The merging of two independent social structures is bound to cause friction.  There are some end game DDO players who are markedly less mature than your typical hormonal teenager. 

If they went so far as to try to merge all the servers into one?  That would be an interesting few weeks in game.

kum-gulp wrote on Nov 4^th, 2015 at 10:33am:


It would be nice if the number of LFMs were so great that the Find Group" button was useful.

If there are 500 people in the Who panel and 10 LFMs up, it's pretty clear the people pining for a group are a fairly small minority. Subjecting everyone to lag that's already bad on small server populations to possibly (not even certain for reasons Asheras and others have pointed out) make this minority somewhat happier isn't a good trade off. So it will probably happen soon after the level cap goes to 30 

And neither population nor quest difficulty will affect my grouping habits, but making it easier to identify and group with players who share my style (which may change based on mood) would motivate me to group more with little regard for population or quest difficulty. Make it easy to find people who are fun to group with, and let the loot I get move between characters, and I'll switch to whatever character it takes to fit the group and play it even if it takes twice as long and has twice the chance of failure.

Meanwhile, any toons that actually build up to consistently beat Reaper difficulty will find themselves nerfed; bet on it.

DropBear wrote on Nov 4^th, 2015 at 4:42pm:


Then why the FUCK would anyone run that shit, nigger?  You think motherfuckers sweat EE because that shit's fun?  This shit is not about fun!  Do you think this is a game?  Are you having fun over there?  Ya think...this is...a fucking GAME?!

DropBear wrote on Nov 4^th, 2015 at 4:42pm:



That's really the best outcome we could hope for, otherwise it  will further fragment the remaining population server to server.