Update 42.4 Release Notes: https://www.ddo.com/en/update-424-release-notes
Nim Notes
8/14/2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbLtFL5DA2s&t=698s
U42.4 surprise patch!
(There is some things left out because they are minor and such but the link to this patch is above)
Reaper:;
- Creatures in Reaper now have less damage resistance all around, ramping up slowly as the skulls increase.
- Creatures in reaper now have +4 saves versus spells
- Creatures now have better spell pen in reaper (they have wizard past lives lol)
- Incorporeality is nerfed as much as blur and displacement in reaper mode.
- Charmed monsters lose their reaper damage bonus when charmed.
- Reaper's Defenses are increased
- New reapers: Some in all skulls, some more in r6+ (I've only seen two in heroics running the spectrum of skulls)
- Lost souls are now tied to the party size and the skulls of the dungeons. Less souls for smaller party in lower skulls of reaper difficulty, higher for bigger parties in higher skulls.
- Fear reapers damage now scales better in higher level of dungeon delving.
Experience:;
- Bravery Bonus is now permanent and split to hard and elite streak. You get 50% of the 100% bonus if you do hard but can get the other 100% by doing it (the quest that is) again on elite. Which means you do not need to do 5 quests to get your full bonus and now you do not need to pause your BB so the bravery marshals are gone to unemployment.
- the BB was previously 70% of base quest xp, but now is 100%
- Daily bonus is now at 25% rather than its previous 20% in heroic and epic is now 30%
- First time bonuses have decreased though due to the above changes as follows: Normal: 25% to 20%
Hard: 40% to 20%
Elite: 80% to 45%
Reaper: 120% to 95%
Meaning That xp for the heroic side will be relatively the same as it were if you do the maths, but in epics will be a slight increase in general.
- Optional Experience rewards are now ransackable and the only way to reset them is through a true, racial, iconic or epic reincarnation.
- In heroics you can not enter a dungeon if you are 4 levels above base challenge rating of a dungeon, and 6 levels in epic. The wording they used for this it seems base challenge rating is the level of the dungeon at normal difficulty. Still Epic leveled characters can not enter heroic leveled dungeons.
- Reaper experience now follows the rules of normal experience! Examples!
A level 14 character gets full experience running a level 12!
A level 15 running a level 12 quests gets full experience but not bravery bonus
A level 16 character running a level 12 quests gets no BB and a -10% over level penalty
A level 17 can not enter the level 12 quest as they are more than 4 levels above the quest level.
- The following quests had their xp slightly decreased: Grim and Barrett
Jungle of Khyber
Litany of the Dead
Shadow Crypt
Spies in the House
- The following quests have had their XP raised: Desire in the Dark
Records of the Past
Graveyard Shift
Third Time's a Charm
Strike Back
Temple of Elemental Evil Part 1
Temple of Elemental Evil Part 2
New Comers
Black and Blue
A Small Problem
Partycrashers
The Snitch
Under the Big Top
Fathom the Depths
The Claw of Vulkoor
The Last Stand
Into the Deep
White Plume Mountain
Slave Pits of the Undercity
Assault on the Aerie of the slavers
Fashion Madness
The Lord of Stone
Terminal Delirium
Palace of Stone
Detour
Rest Stop
A Stay at the Inn
The End of the Road
- The following epic Destinies have had revamps and retouches: Grandmaster of Flowers
Legendary Dreadnought
Shadowdancer
Fury of the Wild
Primal Avatar
Shiradi Champion
Unyielding Sentinel
Exalted Angel
Divine Crusader
Magister
Draconic Incarnation
Fatesinger
- New feat: Swords of Plowshares: Requires +4 Base Attack Bonus, and is also available as a Monk Bonus feat at levels 1, 2, and 6. The feat grants Quarterstaves, Kamas, and Sickles a +1 Morale bonus to their Critical Threat Range.
- Thief Acrobat's second core enhancement now grants Swords of Plowshares feat even if you don't have the requirement for the feat.
- Threat Generation from enhancement trees are now boosted!
- Reaper enhancements bonus hp is now capped by your level as follows:
levels 1-5: 50 hp
levels 6-10: 100 hp
levels 11-15: 200 hp
levels 16-20: 400 hp
levels 21-25: 800 hp
levels 26: no cap!
This hp is only applied in reaper mode, and this new hp cap also provides a way to not spending a bunch of access points in lower levels thus not having to reset to rearrange them later.
- New Epic Arcane Past Life! Stance: +3 MRR (up to 9 MRR)
Passive: 1% Absorbtion of Acid, Cold, Electric, and
Fire per stack (up to 3% and stacks with the
other arcane past lives passives.)
- New Divine Epic Past Life: Stance: +5% Positive, Negative and Rapair Healing
Amp (Stacks 3 times for a total of 15%)
Passive: +3 PRR per stack (up to +9 PRR and stacks
with other divine passives)
- New Martial Past Life: Stance: +2 Tactical DCs, +1 Assassin DCs per stack
(Up to +6 Tactical and +3 Assassinate)
Passive: +2 AC & +1 per 10 levels (up to +6 and +3 per
10 levels and stacks with other martial passives)
- New Primal Past Life: Stance: +2 attack, if two handed fighting style +2 damage
( up to a total of +6)
Passive: +3 HP & +4 per 10 levels (up to +9 and +12 per
10 levels and stacks with other primal passives)
- Pale Master has been passed!
- New level 9 spell for Sorcs and Wizzies!: Rend the Soul!
- Harm spell no longer needs you to face your target.
-Falconry's Killer Instinct shant be in the debuff section.
- Bardic Healing over Time song shall be quieter for now on.
- Sorc's fireball sla from fire savant should target like the spell of the same name.
- Several fixes on enhancements across many classes that stops you from moving.
- Dodge now caps at 95% total.
-Base damage multiplier for hitting helpless foes is decreased to 1.25
- Druid wolves now have a 10% attack speed
- Druid winter wolf now has a 20% attack speed
- Wolf and winter Wolf can get more attack speed in Natures Hunter ( 15% and 30% respectively)
- Dragonborn Black Dragon Breath is now conjuration.
- Dragonborn Dragon breath now scales with 100% of spell power
- Dragonborns True Power also adds conjuration DCs besides its evocation DCs
- Incite, Insightful Incite, and Quality Incite bonuses on items have been tripled
- Elemental Bloom and Bone Crusher are now gooder
- Epic Bone Crusher and Heroic Bone Crusher now both accept sentient gems!
- Night Revels candies and mats are junk now
- Epic Purifying Quiver shouldnt be a jerk about the blunt dr is provides.
- Shattered Device and Shards of Mechanus filigree sets work with ranged dps now.
- Reaper Bonus on Goggles now function proper like
- Epic Slave Lords crafting system requirements have been super reduced
Unbound mat costs are now 100 from 400.
Bound is now 50 from 100
Augment slot costs are now 100 from 200
- Grotto swim is now set to filthy casual difficulty.
- HoX and Legendary HoX is back at it again with the reaper mode!
- You can hide guild renown chat in the UI options now.
- Auto ship entree is now a thing instead of a text box asking you if you'd like to go to your guild air ship.
NO WEDNESDAY LIVESTREAM THIS WEEK