Updated Forum Post: https://www.ddo.com/forums/showthread.php/503702-DDO-Post-Downtime-Events-Sales-Bonuses-and-FAQ-3-9-19#post6188624
13th Anniversary page: https://www.ddo.com/en/news/celebrating-ddos-13th-anniversary
Sharn expansion page: http://ddo.com/en/20190225/
Rest of information is from the Wednesday Livestream
Nim Notes 3/20/2019!
Youtube Version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqRoFOewKsI&feature=youtu.be
- Weekend Bonus is Treasure Hunter bonus +10 to loot rolls for chests till March 24th!
- Cordovan Recommends keeping an eye out for DDOcasts interview with Severlin coming out soon, clue is a flying rock you can attack from...
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwcbNQ0Ym4FkrCAxQLkuiIQ DDOcast channel link, keep this in your realm of awareness for more sweet dev spoilers!
- Today is the final day of the Anniversary Event, it will end tomorrow morning (early 21st of March)
- First part of the apology package has been released with the coupon code REWARD2019 (The raiders box is btc so please redeem on a character you want the box on, BUT the exp elixirs are BTA and can be moved about) redeemable now till April 30th!
- The second part is the 250 DDO points is still in the process, they need to work with a third party to distribute and the third party just was informed of this accommodation last night.
- The other part is the ViP extension which is a total of 4 days: Some people have already received this and SSG is working hard to give these days to the rest of us who applied.
- No exact date for the Sharn expansion bundles sales yet, but they still say March and there is 11 days of March left! So keep an eye on the Sharn page linked in this Nim Note!
- Pax East change: the date is moved to Thursday from Friday. 7 pm to 9 pm Eastern at Wagamama. Looks like over 30 people are going to be there. Which is quite nice. Please let Cordovan know if you're coming so they can find a place that can fit the incoming crowd. SSG swag available! (Note back in Turbine days a guildy of mine when I was in EMPIRE went to an event and got us all codes to get Reward tickets in every toon we have; I still get them on new toons, that gives us a potion bundle of exp elixirs and such.) He mentioned DDO Hoodies and grab bags and such, (XL is all gone lolz) but still worth it if you can make it.
Pax East head count thread: https://www.ddo.com/forums/showthread.php/503826-PAX-East-Area-Meetup-Head-Count
- CLICKTHECENTER is in fact a reference to the Shroud gag, lil fun fact.
Cordovan quote of the week: "Any extra Party Favors I get I'll save for next year." So am I, Cordo... So will a lot of us. Here's hoping next years items will be worth it LOL.
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- A video was shown of a developement build of a quest shows a "sky sled" allowing us to basically fly about the towers of Sharn in certain dungeons.
- Also shown in this video is the animation of the Inquisitive (a path in 5th edition btw introduced with Xanathar's guide to everything) which hopefully means that they are super close to bring the universal tree and tieflings live (and also maybe the pre purchase bundles)
- Minor Artifacts are named items (I stated this in a prior Nim Notes) they can be rings or like cloaks and only one can be equipped at the same time (as stated in prior nim notes)
- Severlin mention Keep on the Borderlands will be a good alternative low level route that could get you to Sharn Syndicate level range. Which is a good pack of levels on the beginning end.
- Some of the things in the Producer's Note may roll into January next year, like the new class or Keep on the Borderland. Depends on SSG teams progress on the new classes feel. Keep on the Borderland may not be in December.
- Another look into the concept of variant races; Severlin mentions that they are mostly going to be generic versions of Eberron races that can fit in any campaign setting and not just Eberron specific.
- Severlin's class pass desires: Sorcs savants, pale master (big pass), knight of the chalice (small pass). Epic destinies will also be worked on through small passes. They want to start of doing class and epic destinies in small passes rather than making us wait for a certain class to get attention, they'd like to just do mass batches of small passes.
- Severlin is more confident when stating he wants to add new reapers in r6 and up and adding reapers that you may have to kill last. This may be getting more steam in the development side. He also mentions adding more sp from lost souls in end game. Probably heighten mobs saves in reaper so CC wont be so "easy" to do in reaper. He also mentioned some other tweaks, but also that he wants to pass these idea through the Player's Council. He mentions that it's a development glitch when r1 is easier than epic elite due to the amount of points a player has and that it is a hard situation to be fixed. He also shared a thought where he feels that some players "have to do reaper". Also other thoughts about how complicated it is to rebalance reaper to make epic elite still a good difficulty to run and is clearly different than low skull reapers. Sounds like Reaper is really in Severlins mind.
- as of the 17th of March Cordovan stated that they are half way ready to put out the pre bundles of Sharn
