What's your wish list for races?

Asheras wrote on Jan 26^th, 2017 at 12:55am:



I could totally get on board with something like that, fucking great idea.


Where is Ashley? and what have you done with her?

I'd love for each race to have one spell or feat or always on unique bonus, as well as a serious drawback. I want SSG to have fun with the race redesign.

Gnomes get blur and cool SLAs and that repeater junk, they're cool. Humans get a little bit of everything + a feat, they're cool.

I want half orcs to be able to actually lock smash. Not knock, an actual lock smash. Something with its own animation, something hilarious. For example, if you successfully "lock smash" an entity like a door, it disappears instead of opening. Give them stupid bonuses to intimidate, too. On the flipside, they auto-fail bluff dialogue, get stupid, who cares.

I want warforged to have half of the AP costs on every single thing in that tree removed. I also want them to drastically - I mean seriously drastically - rework weapon attachment. Either remove the six and a half hour lead-up time to duct tape a crossbow to yourself, or keep the lead up time and make the bonuses worth it. I am happy with warforged otherwise, especially their dialogue options (double especially in Finding the Path).

I would love half-elves to be visually redesigned, and if SSG can do that I think half-elves are done. Dilettantes are cool, keep em, buff em, whatever you want.

Drow are cool and I like their racial tree, just needs a numbers pass IMO. I am secretly a big fan of auto-search, please don't take that from me.

Dwarves have TYWA, which I like a lot. I'd like to see alternate forms of it spread around other races. I'd also like dwarves to get the potion-chugging thing fighter has, because it's very flavorful. I'd also like Stand Like Stone to be a toggle with a cooldown and to maybe ease up on the movement penalty and bonuses if they do so.

Halflings have cool throwing abilities, I'd like to see more small size bonuses. I'd also like to see halflings being thrown as a real actual in-game thing. Target a friendly within 5 feet, activate it, and are thrown approx one Abundant Step away in the direction you are facing?

I like races getting access to trees, as long as they are level-gated like the elf AA one is.

Frank wrote on Jan 26^th, 2017 at 1:14am:


Devs had already stated they will be tweaking race trees in the future. That's why I posted the thread.

Is there such a plan for ddo by SSG? They wanna open up racial-based class trees?

Sailias wrote on Jan 26^th, 2017 at 1:17am:

They pretty much do:
Tier 1 Dwarf:
Iron Stomach: When you drink you gain a Remove Poison/+Remove Disease/+Heroism effect for 2 Minutes.

Tier 4 Kensai:
Liquid Courage: After drinking a potion, you receive +50 Healing and Repair Amplification for 30 seconds.

Asheras wrote on Jan 26^th, 2017 at 12:55am:


+1

Grand wrote on Jan 26^th, 2017 at 2:05am:

As opposed to your posts, which are invariably so dumb that they kill themselves rather than associate themselves with you.

Asheras wrote on Jan 26^th, 2017 at 12:55am:


I think some of those were actually even considered on dev behalf around 2010-ish, but then they just threw it out. At least stalwart for dorfs I think and tempest for drows do ring a bell for me.

5 Foot Step wrote on Jan 26^th, 2017 at 11:40am:


Nice find from the past.  Even this version would be welcome, but could definitely be improved upon.

5 Foot Step wrote on Jan 26^th, 2017 at 1:24pm:

What if they scrapped the Reaper trees, and just made extra AP available, for Reaper only?

Oh, wait. I bet that was their first idea, and then nobody could figure out how to do it.

A grand total of 8AP’s to purchase access to the racial PrE.  The 14AP cost for Elven Arcane Archer is fucking retarded.

Decent Dragonmarked Heir for all the dragonmarked races.

Drow: Access to Tempest, Ravager and <element> Savant

Dwarves: Access to Ravager and Vanguard.

Elves: Access to Swashbuckler (The only PrE that mimics Bladesinger), and Arcane Archer.

Humans: Access to any PrE that they have at least 1 class level in.  This would do a wonderful job of emulating how they are the multiclass kings in P&P.  (Either by allowing a capstone to a splash, or getting a main class capstone while splashing.)

Half-Elves: Access to any PrE associated with their class based bonus feat.

PDK, Warforged: Access to any Fighter PrE.

Bladeforged: Access to any Paladin PrE.

Half-Orcs: Access to Ravager and Season's Herald.

Gnomes: Swashbuckler, and Illusion Archmage.  Add Earth Savant for Deep Gnomes.

Halfling: Access to Ravager and Assassin.

Shadar Kai: Access to Ravager, Assassin and Thief Acrobat.

Way too many ways this could be broken.