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I guess it depends on when you celebrate Easter.In my country for instance, Dragan was the Easter event because it started around Easter.It was the Easter and Halloween event, and now it may only be the Halloween event if they intend to only bring Dragan once a year.Also regarding religion having no place in this game, allow me to disagree since there are quite a few religion related "things" in DSO.

 

Don't we have enough things to argue about without bringing in religion? Besides, the first appearance of the Dragan event was in June. It only takes doing the event once to get the Warlord set. Beyond that, it's become such a grind fest that I really don't see the major fascination with it.

Now one could argue that it is the best event, but that is only because the others are so lousy.

 

When will you fix your volume on Twitch session videos uploaded on YouTube ? I have to turn mine to the maximum every time I watch it, and sometimes forget to revert to normal and get a very loud surprise xD.

Also, on a more serious note, will you ever fix the damn achievements? Things like items not counting towards set achievements (my Roshan boots won't count for the respective achievement, for example). Also, some don't stay there... i.e. I have 3/5 of the Darkness set, but it sometimes goes back to 0 and have to re-equip to get the 3/5 again - not a pressing second example, but still a bug. Then there are so very many typos in the achievements... I once made some screens and wanted to post them into that thread about such problems, but Paint somehow messed them all up and had no spirit to redo it all over again. However, what I really mean with this is the recent achievements: I'm so sick and tired of only seeing the lv20, 45 & 50 ones + some ancient PvP achievements stuck there all the time - clearly not my most recent.

Another thing... regarding the Automated set since the changes in unique merchants. Is the amulet not on sale anymore? Think that's how I saw last time I visited Andrakasch. The question would be, how can that set be completed now? Yeah, it's not a good one, but it has an achievement tied to it, so it might be something some people would wanna do. Is the amulet now added into the Myrdosch drop like the ring and adornment, or what? Now, people had some trouble with this set when achievements were brought in and saw this set's one while they had melted their belt received from the questline... so I guess it's not very surprising that there are issues with it.

1. Probably not.
2. I've actually seen something about this... they said it's some bug and will be rectified, following some scripts to give the portals back to players who wasted theirs. So, the usual babble... remains to be seen if it will happen.

EDIT: seems like issue #2 will be corrected with R164, which is coming on Monday, May 9th - all those who used the bugged portals will get back what they lost.

 

Dear CM's

Mmm .. something smells nice in DSO kitchen ... Are you preparing Sargon event return?

 

Hello CM's

When you can confirm will the level cap raise or not with the forth coming expansion?

 

I have only 1 question.
Could you please make the game more expandable?

 

Do you have other resistance multiplication gear? Warlord cape, perhaps? Or any other +resistance gear?

As far as I know, the calculation is identical to that of armor.

 

There is the Warlord Cape in the screen shot. Since that gives 5%, and the calculation is R/(R+2370), there is nothing wrong with the stats here.

On another note, why is this CM thread worthy?

 

OK, so here is the math, start to finish:

in your first screenshot, you have 5% from the warlord cape. That means your "base" resistance is
2389/1.05=2275
Then, in the second screenshot, your resistance should be
2275*(1+0.1039+0.05)=2625
This is close enough to the displayed 2626 that it is likely just due to rounding errors.
Now, we take 2626 and calculate your % damage reduction:
2626/(2626+2370)=52.56% which is exactly what you see on your stats page.
The shoulders' do not offer 10.39% more damage reduction. They increase your resistance value by 10.39%

 

Shield adds 806+ ice resist to base and set adds 10% to mutiplier. Numbers look about right to me. Looks like where ice resist is concerned you are also using that 4%/4%/4% gem, yes?

That would mean your ice resist is base resist + ice resist x (1 + warlord's 0.05 + heredur set 0.1 + gem 0.4)

(2275 + 806) × (1 + .05 + 0.1 + .04) = 3666, well within any rounding error for 3668.

If you take the shield off, you lose the 806 and the .1. Then it becomes:

2275 × (1 + .05 + .04) = 2479.75 which rounds to 2480 as displayed.

If you're concerned about the final reduction percentage number, the formula is R / (R + 2370).

For R = 3668,, it becomes 3668 / (3668 + 2370) which is .6075 (or 60.75%)

For R = 2480, ii becomes 2480 / (2480 + 2370) which is .5113 (or 51.13%)

 

Dear Haruki

Would be good if owners of the staff can have the option to pay the diff for the upgraded version, at least just to reward the royal customer, no point having an item in store just for show, but rather being used rite

Anyhow, I would like to point out an apparent design flaw in turrets, please shed some light on the disparity of damages as stated in the below thread.

https://board-en.drakensang.com/threads/questions-about-turrets-resistance.71351/#post-648449

 

I watched the twitch and have a question about the delayed crafting 2.0

So from what I saw, I farm for 4 rings (2 really good ones and 2 that are just good) and run over to the crafting table and spend 100 plus gold to craft. Since I'm still subject to the random number generating gods, I end up with a ring that is between good and really good. It has the lines that want, but not as good as either the top two I put in.

So not only do I continue to lose my gold as I do now, but as an extra punishment I also lose 3 of my rings?

 

Have you thought about some changes concerning bombs that we can win from jesters? They seem useless and they are rarely used. I mean when it's one of the prizes (and not the most common ones) it should be more useful. Okay, they can be great when mid-level players use them but my guess is that bombs should be effecient on every level.

 

Or altogether replace them with something more useful. Like, add their chances to one of the other prizes or something.

 

Hi Haruki

i see nothing about the new set in atlantis map (like duria set and myrdosh) it's reported to another release ?

thankS

 

Hi,

It has been said that when buying a pw portal to a boss like Heredur, that in the future one portal will allow you to kill the boss two times. Is this going to happen and any time soon?

Hopefully gnob will have his special offers more often. Someone said that at least before, we had a scroll to gnobs cave so we had a bit more time to buy the special offers. Time will tell.

Thanks

 

Hey there community of awesomeness,

I hope the reception of these answers find you in good shape.
I got a special cup of extra strong coffee just for this - so feel the flow of monologue coming!

Special message to player Theusen, who pretty much burnt the keyboard writing this message. Fair points risen there that I'd like to comment but I feel today I won't have the time. So hold in there, warrior, I will come back to you next week!

Another special message to a post that I had to answer from last time:

So it seems that no change was made in this respect. Those Zorlobbs always drop one item (from uncommon to epic) and it has the chance of dropping up to 2 more items plus VC.

Hey there mister,

++ official and latest answer on the question of Realm Fragments - as we have been saying actively and passively, the CMs of this board and game spend a lot of time reminding the team on certain issues and this is particularly one of them. We know that this needs to be tackled and we know it has been postponed - and it sucks big time and needs to be addressed. Believe me I am in the same boat over here.

Latest confirmation we got from the team is that this is happening, yes. But they want to finish first with the global random monster enchantment tasks cross all lands of the game, which is currently ongoing and apparently, entails some work on top. The task does not entail only crazy and random enchantments for each encounter but is also connected to loot lists, which are also part of the game balance. The Realm Fragment aspect will come immediately after so I really hope this happens rather sooner than later.

We will keep on insisting and keep on updating. Sorry about the delay on this, really.

We did the one for 30 Realm Fragments and legend says it that we will have some other thingies coming in the future.
AKA, this next week.

Hello there,

++ official and latest answer on the question of Gnob and "where the heck are those offers" - the team has started a full cycle of offers for the next weeks with Gnob. Each offer will be communicated not only via the notification event window each time you get in but also in the Breaking News and social media, to ensure that even if you were not planning to play, you are in the loop and can log in to browse through these offers.

At the moment you can find the Armor of Darkness set and this will be in until 23:59 CEST (UTC +2).

We are sorry it took this long to bring those offers finally on the table.

Well, I can totally understand that feeling, when you put all these sentences together.
I am personally still invested in changing things - that's my duty and I also quite believe it.
And the team follows that idea as well.

Hey there,

that is of course a very neat idea and I guess it's already being under discussion within the team. Nothing decided so far that I can partake with, unfortunately. I do not think Crafting 2.0 is coming to the test server like, right now (say, on Monday) but once we know when it will be deployed there, we will surely come up here with a feedback thread plus some announcements on how to help us with the testing.

Hey there,

++ the upgradable stone are currently being sold with Gnob along with the Armor of Darkness (until today, 4th of May, at 23:59 CEST).
++ the HUD locking feature has fallen down the priority list a great deal after we run the community survey feature. Apparently, from all those 8K people surveyed, not so many people trusted this was urgent enough to be tackled in the next months. So we are focusing in delivering those things we do understand make sense to bring out first.

Cheers!

Hello there mister,

++ New class: still on the roadmap, this will take a lot of time to implement so I do not see anything happening in Q3 of this year, to be honest.
++ Transmogrification: as with the HUD locking feature, it was really underrated in our community survey. Again, meaning it has not disappeared from the roadmap. It still remains in the feature backlog (ok, I just made up that name) but it won't be released until we have tackled the things people wanted before.
++ News on the wolf mount: no news about this, sorry!

Hey there mister,

I am sorry for your disappointment over the absence of a clear and defined Easter event during this year.

On the other sort of comment I can only talk on my own experience as a community manager in the industry and of course this is my own opinion. In general terms, there is always a gap between what a CM can humanly do and the final call of that "gaugassian blurred zone" known as Production.

I am perfectly aware of the fact that people want Dragan (no, really, you do not say) and that people want other things - we know how that list goes and the features that belong there. I personally convey this vision to the team pretty much every single week - that's my role, my privilege, my duty. Again, there is a point where my power zone dwindles and then gets transferred to someone else. I am sure you understand that.

The suggestion of adding brand new rewards to Gnob that are not bought via Lucky Spheres is also one of those recurring proposals and the team is hearing them out. Now, implementing these things takes time and on that I absolutely have no control whatsoever.

On another and side note, I am positively sure the Stellar Gold event is going to put on hold for a while. Yes.

Hey there,

for your Gnob questions, please read a little bit above. I already answered them.
As for the Nightmare maps, they are coming back with rel164. A bug prevented them from being active when the people used their travel ratios - but this will be fixed, meaning that you can still get there. If you head to our patchnotes, you will have more info there.

Cheerios.

Hey there mister,

+ When to fix the volume on Twitch: ha, never!
Actually we wanna get better microphones one of these days. They are much needed and our audio designer already compiled a lovely list so now is about get that approved by Production et voilá. I really do not get what happens there, to be honest, some sessions works perfectly fine. Some other sessions, it's pretty crap. Good side of things: I do not freeze no more.
+ Fixing the damn achievements: a bug there will be fixed with rel164 and we have tickets for the other bugs that need fixing. Hopefully they will find the light during the next release. We keep track of the most recurring and uber-annoying ones but you can always contact our Support team and let them know.
+ Question about the set: I will ask around and let you know!

That's all lies. There is not such a thing as nice smells in any videogame company kitchen.

Hey there,

no, we cannot confirm that since we are not gearing towards that type of classic content expansion for this year (like Lor'tac, I mean). Eventually, when we decide to move into that direction, it's fairly fair to assume that the level cap will increase again, yep. But as I say, not happening this year.

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Oki doki people, I need to stop here.
If you are in Germany you will surely enjoy the bank holiday that starts tomorrow. If not, tough luck.

See you on Monday for more answers. Thanks for bearing up with me!

Regards,
Haruki

 

Who said there will be a new set in that area?
for now there are only new Unique Items from the merchants in Ellonidos and Ashraya (Antique Atlantis Items)
http://drakensangonline.wikia.com/wiki/Merchant_unique_items

 

It has now been 5 months since we were first told that this would be addressed and best case scenerio we'll have to wait at least another month probably longer.

Tell me again that DSO listens.

 

There is a really simple solution that would take mere minuets (so that it really is "sooner rather than later") to implement and is so simple (easier than fixing loot lists twice) that the producers could make it happen before R164 on Monday if they really cared about this problem. Decrease the price of the passes until such a time as your developers have an opportunity to fix the drop rates. Dropping them 30%-50% down to 5-7 frags per pass would make it much more reasonable given the insane amount of frags that are required right now. I've given you the answer to the test... lets see just how much the producers really care. Anyone taking bets?

EDIT:
I just read this:

I guess with a mid week holiday, the odds of this being addressed is 0... not like it was high to begin with.