DDO Players News Episode 213 – Fiddling Tieflings

Patrick from DDO Cast joins us this week, as we talk about Masterminds Of Sharn and Tieflings

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Game News

Producers Letter.. Just Kidding…

Downtime Notice: Wednesday, March 6th from 2:00 AM to 12:00 AM Eastern (-5 GMT)

Celebrating DDO’s 13th Anniversary!

DDO 13th Anniversary – http://ddo.com/en/news/celebrating-ddos-13th-anniversary

- - full list of our events, coupons, sales, and other special things happening during our 13th Anniversary! This page will be updated over the coming days.
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  - Week One: VELAHSAYSHI
  - Live Stream Chats

13th Anniversary Livestream Interviews: Lynnabel – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIcBZ2Oc8QY&t=0s

- - - - Items along 2 themes: trash and gold
      - Looking to support medium and heavy armor builds more than Ravenloft, approx same size as Ravenloft
      - More filigrees and new sets
      - Another full set of weapons, probably not as free as Ravenloft
      - They removed a beige layer
      - Will be adding more light/heavy crossbows to support inquisitive
        
        This is one of those weapon types that isn’t well supported so there haven’t been many made.
        
        Heroics are already better supported by open end crafting systems, epic those don’t support sentients

13th Anniversary Livestream Interviews: Severlin – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOD-cd8e4mQ

- - - - 2nd raid will come after the release
      - Keep on the Borderlands – alternate to Korthos (with higher level version)
        
        Not a new starter area
      - Need to do a pale master pass
        
        Problem with it being a self healing class as a feature which is penalized in reaper
      - Sorcerer trees still need a pass
      - They want to tweak reaper mode, fine tune it, would like to add more reaper types
        
        Want different reactions to reapers, like kill it last
        
        Tanks are too dependant on intimidate, want to increase their threat range/mechanics
      - Ranged balance
        
        Str based throwing probably through a universal tree, its primarily an alternative for melee
        
        Vistani throwing always meant as a backup as opposed to primary
      - Revamping older content (epifying)
        
        Would like to make some areas more solo friendly
        
        Epifying is hard to do time efficiently, it’s almost as much time typically that it takes to create new stuff
      - Need to do a pass and fix companions before adding to ranger
      - Familiars through a universal caster only tree
      - Augments – probably not this year
        
        Not screwing up existing augments the harder problem
        
        Augment system currently is very laggy
      - Open guild airship slots
        
        Would like to give guilds another pass on things they can earn. Don’t know what that looks like yet
        
        Guild amenities is one of those things that is more work than you remember it being
        
        Dps kobold a thing tossed around.
      - “We have some options of alternate ways to play ddo”
      - Isle of Dread – after Keep on the Borderlands
        
        Need to solve several things to make it happen.
        
        It’s almost expansion level art
      - 4K
        
        DDO does not have a scaling UI, until that is true it’s not really feasible
      - 64 bit DDO
        
        Goal is to do that after LOTRO
        
        There are some different back end systems that make it neither easy nor short

13th Anniversary Livestream Interviews: Steelstar – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcGXDppZ2YY

- - - - Some in depth “how to become a game designer”
      - Fiddle will have a different sound
      - Wanted Tiefling to follow the mostly typical association with fire

13th Anniversary Livestream Interviews: Knockback – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vafylnLlwx8

- - - In depth “how a dungeon gets made”
    - Special guest voice actors in Sharn

Masterminds Of Sharn Splash Page/Teaser Video

U41.4 Preview On Lamannia (NOW ENDED)

The DDO Chronicle: Issue 323

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DDO Players News

DDO Players – First Look At Tiefling On Lamannia

From The Dungeon

Dungeons & Dragons 5E Ghosts of Saltmarsh Adventure Book Coming May 21st

Week in Gaming

Drac Week

Wayfinder

Rogue (Vistani Knife Fighter) Lvl 15

Anniversary Event

Meridia

To Curse the Sky

Dungeons & Dragons 5E

Waterdeep Dragon Heist Episode 7

Tabletop

Dragonfire
Bunny Kingdom

Pineleaf Week

Wood Elf Druid 7 (with Drac)

Temple of Elemental Evil

Completed Part One
That blob of jelly must have been buffed – it is really nasty now
- The cube was truly nasty
- Six salamanders in the fire temple!

Dragonborn Artificer 12

Ravenloft

Sealed in Amber
The Final Vintage
Wrath of the Earth (two runs – the first try at the boss was painful)
Ravens’ Bane

Minecraft

Railroad challenge
Mage Rage 4
March MHC

Patrick Week

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