If you ignore problems for a long time, cover it up with patches, say it's not a problem and make others feel bad for pointing them out, you're just preparing for an inevitable bigger and possibly insurmountable set of much larger issues. You can have an impact on the game, if you're willing to drink the Cordo-cock Kool-aid, try to be one of THOSE members of the PC, and not rock the boat while being a part of the naysayer relief team. Rarely have I seen anything beneficial come out of logical requests. But if you want to make something benefit certain members of the PC and the fanbois, it's pretty much a given. In the last year they've been getting concessions. No one can deny this.

I'm not an addict because once again this is personal but yes, I take great pride in the community I've become a part of. There are people sending me messages in the hopes I'll come back and that DDO will actually be playable again. I understand that DDO 2016 is nowhere near what it was when level cap was 20. But I wouldn't change the direction they've taken the game. It was going in an expansive direction and any game made must be progressive even when they fucked up in 2012 with the rollout of MOTU and the CITW debacle that drove away 75% of the existing playerbase. But DDO was strong enough to weather even through that.



Many people have said they wanted to have a nostalgia setting for DDO but this is as likely as DDO 2. Many aspects of DDO in the past 3 years has been sampled if not blatantly ripped off from other games. But what the real players care about is that this game is the closest to a real Dungeons and Dragons MMO. There is no other game that has come close to the complexity of the potential builds and once upon a time it celebrated this diversity. It didn't matter how many curve balls were thrown over the last 2 years, we rolled with them. We adapted and some of us were foolish enough to think we has a voice, that we were a part of a community. In the last year we have seen quite the contrary and it's been shown to us with a wall of silence and indifference.

I don't think I would go to a rollback of DDO 2012 if I could. DDO 2016 could be great. I wish we had a dev team that actually had the capacity of the creativity shown in quests like Haunted Halls, or ADQ 1. I can get over the bullshit balancing pass. I can only hope there would be improvements and an overhaul of LGS like they did during my 2 year hiatus with heroic greensteel. I can even overlook the horribly insulting and passive aggressive 10 year anniversary event but GODDAMMIT, give me a game that at least works.
 


I am a DDO fanboi/doomboi. I've been playing pen and paper since the mid 80's playing AD&D. But when I say fanboi, I'm not talking about someone that spends 8 hours polishing a chair with their ass immersed in DDO, because, yes that has been me. I'm talking about these fledgling suck ups hanging off the balls of self imposed figureheads that are directly responsible for the sabotaging and misconduct that had degraded a groundbreaking MMO that has united people from all over the world and want to be a part of the circle that are attempting to hijack something from people marring the face of DDO just to make it something they can call their own.

This is my perceived reality. What good are the facts when the moment you have a contentious view the Cordovan strawman army comes in and twists perceptions? What we are seeing this upcoming month is the DDO swan song. Anyone who cannot or refuse to see the game is not only going down but is being deliberately sabotaged is in a serious state of denial or is being bribed and has ulterior motives. There is no way a great game with so many amazing people & accomplishments like DDO could go out this way without people in a position of power deliberately making things happen to this effect while still trying to cash in. The reality is if something fundamental does not change, I highly doubt we will see a version of DDO extending beyond 2016.

out of socks atm ;p

There is a new addition to the kensei tree giving either destruction or improved destruction to your weapons at tier 4 or 3. Not logged on lama atm cant be sure.


Not sure where to put the increases either. Taking infi melee power feats is doable because the drawbacks arent that severe. Lose out on some utility in tactics dc and lowered prr/mrr. The sacrifice is even easier on trip heroic/epic comp toons running around. If placing the melee power in the tree then splashes get access to it much more easily. The pure fighters have abundant feats to slot and it isn't much of a problem for the builds to pick that up. Possibly could buff the lv18 core by giving out more melee power and making One Cut passive and putting in the core to allow some smaller splashes, mainly letting more iconic races join in on the new changes with 18 fighter levels and not feeling like theyre badly gimped in comparison.

There is a new addition to the kensei tree giving either destruction or improved destruction to your weapons at tier 4 or 3. Not logged on lama atm cant be sure.

Not up on lama yet.


Concluded the tests with pally just now. Tempest op, mang. I will get to tree, wolf, swash, and assassin tomorrow. Covers every melee then unless missing something.

aaaaaand tempest nerfs INCOMING 


Just like back in the day...

damn. That's significantly faster...

And KtA damage still doesnt work in wolf form.

How can it not?  It's a straight up insight bonus to damage, it has nothing to do with weapon or form.  Does it simply not go off in wolf form?  None of my wolves ever used it, so I have no personal experience to go by here.

So... at this point we are comfortable saying that fighters are still shit compared to Tempest and Wolf melee.

QFT.

From my tests (loooong time ago, yet still valid because Turbine), the moment it dropped, KtA did not work in animal form, or unarmed. Never did, and still doesn't.
http://www.ddovault.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1412115880/new

Can you test rogue?

https://www.ddo.com/forums/showthread.php/471806-Sneakzilla-Work-in-Progress