Enhancements
- The artificer Arcanotechnician's Thaumaturgical Battery base effect no longer stacks large numbers of copies of itself on players, which was causing game performance issues.
Epic Destinies
- Fatesinger's Intoxicating Presence no longer stacks large numbers of copies of its effect on players, which was causing game performance issues.
Items
- Skills now say they are a Competence bonus instead of an Enhancement bonus.
- Concentration will no longer show a value of +0.
- Several spell critical effects now have their correct names.
- The text for Riposte and Parry effects have been corrected.
- Corrected the descriptions for Insightful and Quality Sheltering.
- End reward items should no longer sometimes appear "blank".
- The text on stat draining effects has been corrected.
- Legendary Greensteel negative level effects no longer affect allies.
- Legendary Greensteel Tier 1 Enhancement bonuses to ability scores have been increased to +15.
- Legendary Greensteel Tier 1 Enhancement bonuses to spell points have been changed to a Profane bonus, and reduced in overall amount.
- Legendary Greensteel Tier 1 Enhancement bonuses to hit points have been changed to a Profane bonus, and reduced in overall amount.
- Stacks of ingredients will no longer sometimes be unable to go into an ingredients bag.
- Insight bonus effects on items will not appear below level 10 loot.
- Extra effects on random loot will not appear below level 10 loot.
- Spellsight has now returned as a possible benefit on random loot.
- Master of Knowledge now works more consistently, and no longer procs if you have Warlock's Eldritch Aura active.
- The bonus effect given when all five Abishai Cookies are consumed has returned.
We're working on it. Probably within a week or so.
The main focus of this quarter will be one of DDO's biggest milestones - our 10th Anniversary! We'll be throwing a big party towards the end of February, with gifts, prizes, events, and surprises. We will debut a free multi-character-level dungeon (similar to the way our Night Revels dungeons work) that will be a tongue-in-cheek story featuring some of DDO's most popular and enduring characters and NPCs. It'll also give you the opportunity to defeat some "devs" in battle. Yes, I plan to try to kill you in-game.
Update 30 will also debut the long-anticipated Gnome race, along with the Deep Gnome Iconic! We will debut an updated Cannith Crafting system that ties in nicely with the new randomly-generated loot system that released in Update 29. We're also bringing out the bug zapper in the coming weeks to get rid of some of the things we've been hearing from you about. We'll be previewing much of Update 30 in the coming weeks on Lamannia. As always, we look forward to your feedback.