Flav wrote on Jul 31^st, 2017 at 11:39am:

This.

They didn't even need to leave Xend'rik, never mind other locations in Ebberon.

And we're gonna get gay-ass Tieflings and Aasimar long before we get the Shifters and Kalashtar we should have had years ago.

Sigil would have been fucking sick... Or even a site with Spelljammer ships, but I think that's simply beyond the scope of DDO. Or at least this dev team.

Planescape should be an entirely separate game in it's own right.

Edited:

I use to do lots of Epic runs, when the cap was 20, mostly pugs on my pally when we all were farming epic sands and fens and it was lots of fun even if it was a grind.

Now for me things seemed to take a turn to shit when Axer came up with the effing idea that 20 plus quest should all be EPIC quests with fucking difficulty choices of n/h/e...that kind of  made lots of peeps stop playing after the initial, its fun being able to "crush it" on hard solo.

Dunno but the constant nerfs and fucking loot system changes made lots of us say fuck it.

It's too bad Neverwinter is such shit....

I won't complain about MOTU as I think it was ok. But the last thing they've done right in the past few years was Thunderholme even though its a lagfest sometimes. Its HUGE xp with the epic necro was enough to level up kinda faster.

Frank wrote on Aug 3^rd, 2017 at 5:33pm:


My concern is not just leaving D20/ D&D, although a case could be made for handling it differently and not alienating the D&D loving core that rebel against things that separate DDO from D&D.

My concern is actually inconsistency.

Spellpower is changed before anything else.  Then, later, MP, RP, AC, PRR, MRR.

But Spell DC's stay D20.  As do saves.  And spell pen.  And tactics.  All of which could move to percentile.  Caster stat changes have a dramatically higher value than melee.  Add 4 to my strength.  It goes from 90 to 94.   I get +2 damage and +2 to hit.  Big deal.  Completely negligible.  Add +2 to my spell DC's?  Hellz yeah!  That is a 10% increase in spell effectiveness.  No matter how high my casting stat is.  +2 to damage is not going to be 10% more effective for a melee or ranged.  Past level 1.  (if then) 

Spell crits are percentile, but melee/ranged crits are D20.  Even though the to-hit/AC system left D20 long ago.  That is inconsistent.

Spell crit multiplier is percentile.  Melee is x2, x3, etc.  Inconsistent.  You lose the ability to have smaller tweaks to the damage profile and to create build differentiation on melees and ranged without one build becoming FoTM OMG Awesome.  Because you can only expand crit ranges in 5% increments and crit damage in integer multiples.  And nothing can stack (or it is OP) and build diversity and homogenization becomes de rigueur. 

If you are leaving D20, Do so with planned implementation of a consistent system across the board.  Even if it takes a while to roll it out.  What we have is walking down the middle of the road. 

Frank wrote on Aug 3^rd, 2017 at 6:14pm:


I think I mentioned this in that post or another.  The loot progression is smooth and I like that, but the time for this loot progression to be defined was when the cap went from 16-20.  They should have identified the progression from 16-30 and planned all gear around that.  Long term planning is needed on loot.  They need to be looking 3-5 years out.  Otherwise, they get what we have.  Loot systems that change every few updates and no consistency.

Every problem you mentions comes form developing the 16-30 loot plan 7 years later.  After you have 7 years of loot floating around out there and being deployed.  For consistency, they should make a plan to roll through every named item and update them to the current progression.   Like they did with Sharn and Red Fens. 

EDIT:  the system the did at the time didn't even make sense for 16-20.  So stats get to +6 at level 13 by going up every other level.  Then nothing from 14-19 and +7 can happen at level 20?  That makes NO sense.

Looks like I am finished with the game.  Just thought I would share.

I just lost interest in the game after 10 years, which probably means the grind got to me.  I  check the weekly sales and that is it, I grabbed the RepairAll and logged out.

Strake wrote on Oct 3^rd, 2017 at 9:52am:


Nope. I don't pike, but I do randomly stop playing in the middle of quests if I get distracted by work or something shiny nearby.

Hordo doesn't just randomly wander off in the middle of the quests, but he's the best piker in the game.

(Hi, everybody!)