Man shoutout Donnie fr. Stuck around way longer than most casuals did and helped give a great “noob” perspective to the pod. Hope he drops back in the future if he keeps playing casually

I've been really enjoying Spud's content. Really gives me some Aussies General Sam vibes a bit. Love it so much lol

Good luck out there, Donnie. Welcome Spuddy. Come sit by the fire.

Spuds gunuine concern for the game is so refreshing. Love his content and love his addition to the pod.. big W guys

I agree, a Passive Trait for each class would be awesome there are so many perks that just go unused because you end up shooting yourself in the foot.

Dude I want a solo self found mode so bad. I know we don't want more ques but I would be down for them to even just axe one of the current ques for that experience.

said this during the livestream. thank for the memories donny, you were great to have watched for this long! Enjoy your life buddy

At times like this I remember the episode Donny carried the whole podcast on his back during Soma’s absence. He will be missed!

Spud is an amazging guy and amazing addition to the podcast. He's also been killing it with the content, I think he fits in here perfectly.

spud is a great addition to the podcast bro his accent makes me pay attention to whatever mans is saying

Spuds new video gave me Stimpee vibes and I'm here for it🤣

Possibly one of the best TheSpudhunter videos ever released! Bravo! Wait you’re telling me this isn’t a Spuddy video???

when jay said "everyone times third partys perfectly" i felt in my soul. Cant count how many times ive won fights with my buddys just for more guys to immediately pop up right after. Even in solos everyone waits in high traffic areas behind a door and just wait for you, its truly the most unenjoyable experience

Donnie brought great energy and great takes to the podcast, he'll be missed. Super Stoked to see Spuddy stepping up to the plate!!

Damn :( Donny....but lets go spud is the goat

Spud would talk to a brick wall for hours

You guys brought up that all classes should have some form of escape move. An idea for wizard's escape spell is Misty Step. Quickly teleport to an unoccupied space you can see. To balance this they should have 1-2 charges

Something that bothers me is that the wizard in lore is the most versatile caster class, with a hundred spells, with countless utilities, zoning spells, control... etc., countless ways to get into or escape situations and in DaD it feels incredibly limited and lacking a large part of its capabilities. It would be interesting to have specializations in the training tree such as battlemage, necromancer, arcane/ice/fire/electric specializations, specialization in shield spells, potion enchantments and other items...

Shout out to Donnie you will be missed! Thank you for holding the line with us!! 💪 Warm welcome to Spud, he's hilarious!!

jay is already phasing out like donnie

Excited for seeing Spuddy weekly. Love all your guy's content and feel Spuddy will be a great fit, bringing some comedy and a unique upside down perspective to the show.

Spud was a great addition. Awesome episode fellas.

its really cool to me that druid is just allowed to have rogues double jump without any downside + travel further and rogue still is just not allowed to have a regular ass double jump without completely nerfing your movespeed to the point of being slower than a plate fighter

For an innate barbarian passive, a small amount of PASSIVE HEALTH REGEN would be huge, even if it's out of combat. It takes ages to heal up.. 200 hp with such low interaction speed

I had to replay this again today and I think a good system that could be pretty good is to have armor that protects against stab/slash/blunt weapons. And we already have magic resist. This way if a person wants to be protected against being one or two tapped by certain classes they can build for it.

big hype for the soda ep!

3:07 Spudhunter DEI hire confirmed

Donnie really was an OG. Will miss you

As much as I like seeing new classes. Man lol. They already have a power creep issue. Druid movement tech is bat shit crazy when you look at the previous best movement class, rogue, and the massive issue just double jump added to the game and how heavily they had to adjust that single perk and yet druid tech with the movement is intentional is just wild to me. Fighter, barb, rogue are all barely classes when you consider what they actually do vs what bard, warlock, and druid do. Even cleric is mid af compared to them since all they do is bonk and cast bandaids, they're just top class right now since the stats on what the class has/can build are overtuned after the recent changes to other classes/gear. Dreamwalk is literally as good or better than phantomize on 1/2 the cooldown lol. Wild we're defending it. If you're in human form on druid and get caught out you should be punished...but instead there's a completely no skill expressive way to avoid the mistake you made when someone gets damage on you in your support form. Very unrewarding to play into for every other class in the game imo. But is what it is Congrats to spudy on getting the call up to the podcast! And thanks to W Dony for his time hangin out with us all! Gotta edit again after watching the whole pod...Getting spudy on here permanently as the Dony replacement is actually a massive W. My boy has some very good takes and input on everything. Big ups to Spuds and big ups to Soma for pulling him on to milk him dry...lol

spud makes the best vids around, love to see him as a permanent addition.

There may be 40k in dungeon but I bet 90% of them are in normals under 25s

Im so happy to see Spuddy on this podcast. its going to go from awesome chill fun vibes to hilarious awesome chill fun vibes. I don't like the idea of removal of buying gear. the points you all brought up have truth to them but I think overall buying gear levels the playing field a lot more for people who don't play as much. maybe if they could make the crafting systems better, and add better poi's to get specific stuff for crafting then we'd have a good formula. leaving everything up to RNG doesn't sound like a great idea to me personally.

Dam, I'm really going to miss Donnie from this. I won't lie I feel like he best represented a large part of the player base.. no partnerships, no twitch primes, just a guy who enjoyed the fun bits. I love Spud's content but usually he has very solid opinions on classes like Ranger/Druid/Wizard... There's literally no one on any podcast that plays fighter/barb. The melee classes like fighter in Dark and Darker are sort of laughed at imo...barb brained..no skill... low skill ceiling...stat check classes etc etc. I don't completely disagree just wish their was more conversations around making those classes fun too and less conversations about how bad or brain dead melee is on (Rogue/Barb/Fighter). Solo melee is just build insane MS/High Dmg and face hug anyone the is slower than you. Every melee class has their crutch... Achilles/Faithfulness/Hide/Sprint and that's the meta on each class. Shield/blocking is junk.. longsword is for masochist..pdr is for suckers who want to die to rogue/wiz/warlock/Armor pen. I'm glad druid has been super fun for everyone, but some classes just have so many less options. It's ok to hate on rogues for ambush or fighter using sprint... but that's literally all they have going for them.

For Dreamwalk they just need to make it so once you go invulnerable your hitbox goes away. Also the cooldown could be longer, it happens too many times in 1 fight.

An example of possible pve gear would be bringing back the snow storm in ice map but having gear that has frost resistance to prevent the tick damage / slowness effect. Same for hell, heat resistance or your action speed is slowed (for example). Even the new upcoming underwater content, what if we had a breath timer but this could be extended with certain gear? Environmental things can also be a factor in pve gear, not just when fighting enemies. Hell, even the silly example of Spud with the succubus, what if the mini boss / boss had an attack that charmed the player making you lose control and can harm allies? This could be negated or duration reduced (if resistance not high enough) with certain accessories. There's so many ways this could be incorporated.

I like sitting down for recharging spells and having to reset however it does suck when you get third partied. A weird thing they have to figure out

I just want wizard to feel fun again, I will wait for a long time.

That innate perk idea is perfect and beautiful. Could make it spicier and make it so these innate perks require some level of baseline stat to unlock. Need this much strength for crush, this much resourscefulness for lockpicking, knowledge/will for meditate... etc. Would add some flavor imo

I can already see people HATING a roaming boss. Imagine the boss is pathing behind you and forces you into a really shitty confrontation with another trio that is basically unwinnable.

1:10:45 theres only 2 ways to get casual average players to play HR, you either force them or incentivize them. The previous method that worked was forcing, where you gear cap normals to white. We can’t do that anymore because of the f2p situation. A gear cap of blue probably wouldn’t work imo and gear cap green is running into the f2p issue, so the only way to force people into HR is for ironmace to commit to the free to play model, by opening HR to free players and finding different ways to monetize the game, I would suggest cosmetic only dlc such as what deep rock galactic does. The second method of getting players to play HR is to add more incentive, ad something that players can only get/experience by playing hr, wether it be the unique enemies random boss spawns certain unique gear and such. Right now the only thing he offers that norms doesn’t Is uniques, which you can mostly only get from doing the bosses, which most players can’t even do, so why would they even play he if the only thing they can get that’s unique to hr is gated behind content they aren’t good enough to do? A third option I just thought of; just tie HR to gearscore, we already have 3 gear score brackets just make the highest one (125+) spawn players into an hr dungeon instead of a normals. This way, players will only be able to get into hr by risking gear and therefore money, and it gets rid of the issue where no one ever clicks on the hr mode, this would also require technically opening HR to free to play players though.

Druid herb perk should give magic healing just to make it something

As a rogue player I agree that the landmine playstyle is unhealthy for the game. Nobody likes being killed without the chance to respond or outplay because that feels awful. The problem right now though is that the class was designed around that mechanic/playstyle. Like the rogue is inherently supposed to lose a straight up 1v1 because you can't really build armour or health on them, you have no access to shields to block or counter and most classes in the game will 2 shot or even 1 shot you if they're correctly geared. So it forces the rogue player to rely on landmine if they want to see any success, that and a lot of the perks that would open up different playstyles are just bad. Tumble, Caltrops, Smokepot... These skills aren't used because they're just awful or fully limited so you feel like if you don't use them properly you just waste them. Right now it feels like there are three levels of skills in this game. Unlimited use skills that have no charges. "Limited use" skills like fighter second wind where they're only getting one in a fight but they can get them back. Then truly limited use skills like smokepots or ranger biscuits where once they're gone you're down a part of your kit that you have no way to get back in a match.

Egyptian pyramid map, have to use a "sacrifice" as a soul heart to summon an anubis style boss.

I already hate that there is multiple maps for crypts. I like knowing where the action is etc, it allows you to choose how you want to play that map. Randomizing the map is awful, I LIKE spawning in and being like “I know the room I want/need for a quest is on the opposite side of the map and planning my route

Spuddy the GOAT

Donnie's back gave out, he was carrying too hard

Spud is a great addition, love to see it

for the wizard having to sit all game problem they could just let people use meditation and still play the game(move attack spells search) and add a 50% walk speed debuff for the duration of the meditation this way you could use it before looting chest or when you are shooting mobs from far

No lecture from my end this week. Love spuddy, gonna miss Donnie. Good podcast :)

rip to donnie as cohost! he was a great time and brought many great memories on here im glad to see spud on here tho! Luv ya donnie

Almost every class is in the game. Sorcerer and Monk is on their way and now the last one will be paladin. Take smite off cleric and give it to fighter boom you got a Paladin.

9:03 I am that player. I really don't care for the PvP all that much, i almost always try to talk to people if i see them. I like feeling the incremental progress of growing my stash--buying gold bags when I'm getting full on raw coins, investing in things like gold keys early wipe and watching the prices explode when the quests come out. If the market wasnt so tedious to price check things that aren't ore id probably enjoy PvP a lot more. The reason i played this over other extraction games was the minimal downtime and they just kept adding more downtime for some ungodly reason. I hate map rotations to the point i queue solo into duos and trios.

As far as grinding the AP, you can easily do it in solos ratting around. When I don't have friends online, I just rat around HR solos and avoid PvP anyways just to get the HR. When I am playing with friends they only want to play normals.

Give all casters Cantrip spells

now that i've watched the full vid spud is cooking, jay is eating and soma is contemplating

Is there a world where you take out HR, but just have dungeon queues with the gearscore brackets that're in place but that "scales" the difficulty of the dungeon based on the gearscore bracket you're in

Wizard, barb and rogue have all been over nerfed imo and lost some of their identity and utility in the process. We've got invisible spells that don't keep you invisible, we've got rogues who can make them self go invisible by pure will power alone but are unable to drink a potion to do the same. To be fair barb has kind of improved recently but it's literally only in a good place rn because the bardiche is OP and needs a nerf.

NOT DONNIE NOOOOOOOO

I like the idea of a 5th perk but giveing rogue locks and traps and other classes get some op shit is a bad idea locks and traps is the worst perk rogue has ... more like give us creep innately that would be in line with giving other classes strong abilities

get rid of market place🎉 solo self found and then make the solo duo trio ques just random map everytime. yall are awesome keep at it

Gonna miss Donnie, but I love spuddy so this is for sure bittersweet

Wow first the DevQ&A and now this! My morning got a whole lot better. Hope donnie does well in future endeavors. Glad to have spud on now tho.

i reckon they should do 3 tier dungeons, first tier is 'normal', second is 'elites', third is 'nightmare'

With sorcerer not needing weapons I was more so worried about how the scaling will work in diff gear score brackets. Since weapons have the highest GS value sorcerer essentially gets to stack gear till they hit the cap and could absolutely roll people, but obvi that wouldn’t matter in HR. IMO not using a weapon could be super busted, will they get reduced move speed when they have spells in hand or only when casting? How hard will they scale with stats? Just wondering where the break points will be to make them op like stacking to 35 agility on Druid panther. Good pod tho, love you spuddy welcome. Donnie you will be missed❤

Market puts everyone on a theoretical equal grounds because no matter how long it takes you wether it's one hour or two weeks, everyone can buy bis. WIthout it the same people would end up with all the bis because timmy could never live long enough to find that good gear.

Making all gear pve is a double edged sword. I think it does solve alot of the problems of spending less time in the dungeon throwing a build together so you dont feel like you're setting yourself up for failure, or the feels bad from getting gear diffed. But theres alot of people who dont give a crap about the pve, and so the pvp will have very little on the line for them. The stakes that they care about are gone. As someone whos not really interested in the pve myself, its a difficult thing to think about for me, not sure exactly where i fall.

Why not limit the rarity of gear in the Marketplace? It's nice being able to find a green that someone isn't going to use. Also, there's no other way to buy Surgical Kits right now, so the traders would need a rework if the marketplace were taken out. I think a rarity limit would be a reasonable middle ground to mitigate power trippers that rebuy 10K kits.

DONNIE NOOOOOOO I WILL MISS YOU SO MUCH 😭😭😭😭😭😤😤

Bye Donnie was great hearing your perspective ! Enjoy life

glad spud is on! but if they git rid of pvp gear i wont have anything to grind for, let me refence the spud 100 kill zeus beam challenge.

Multi-Class is the one thing that will bring me back into the game hardcore, I played from time to time but I don't enjoy dark and darker as much without Multi-Class. Sure there were people that did meta boring builds (for some) but I did many just troll/fun builds and I never liked the game more after the Multi-Class season, god that was fun af lol hard to understand what someone had for pvp but it was fun. Now its just standard 4 perks, 2 skills and just zzzz not as fun imo. I grinded SO HARD, EVERY class, to unlock ALL of the tokens so I can do ALL of the build ideas I had. I even had a friend quit after multi-class because it wasn't as fun without it but yeah if that comes back, I would be going so hard again lol

The whole marketplace debate is a little flawed. With the current state of the game its perfect. It compliments every style of play right now. New players can get cheap/decent gear without spending their whole piggy bank. Old players can experiment with new builds that they wouldn’t have been able to before. The Sweats can hyper build. I believe that taking it out now will ruin the new player experience. Sweats/RMT will still be able to get their insane kits, while leaving the newer/casual players in the dust. If we change the overall stats of gear slightly away from PVP then that fixes the marketplace problem. Either way, this is the best the “shopping” experience has felt in the past year. I can go buy the last few copper i need to make my “rusted” kit. Or if i don’t like the rolls i got i can sell that piece without having to waste 30 min in the post, buy the mats to craft it again and go on my adventure. Post was terrible for those of us that can only play a few hours a week. Great episode as always, RIP DONNY, but welcome Spuddy 🎉

Spud is on now? I'm watching every episode

You can get rid of and consolidate every gear queue by making it such that gear ONLY impacts your damage and resistances to PVE. Still desirable, lets you clear faster and everything else - but now its not a PVP dump. Some things like Movement Speed and Dex would affect PVP anyway, but it would be so much more in reigns and allow grey gears to play with purples and have a realistic chance of winning.

Spud rulez

There is only one change that I need in the game, render distance

i wanna see a super hard boss that roams around the map something that would make everyone have to play around it or keep a eye out for it kind of like yeti but more scary

All the best to duh Donnie. He can join us on HTL ep 69, which will ironically probably be right around DH ep 420. Gold Leader makes a nice addition to the pod though, I must say.

Nice pod as usual. Goodbye to Donnie, always enjoyed his commentary.

Yes spuddy on the show officially it's platinum now

Good luck and good tidings Donnie! You will be missed by your fans and haters ❤😂

Gear should be completely PvE based in my opinion, I think even for whatever nuance you lose the longevity of the game is immensely stronger that way because people can jump in and out more freely and don’t have the inability to differentiate between when they did or did not have any chance to begin with

Closed Captions really helped, thanks.

Will miss donny, good man

Make the lobbies actually start games every 2 minutes so you can catch more players in each cycle and have less empty lobbies

They also need to reign in the gathering hall, it is filled with spammers advertising rmt and hacks all the time. We need upgraded blocking and reporting methods so this does not sour the gathering hall.

Spuddy is so good

bring minecraft enchantments. bane of arthropods would actually be useful lmao.

When i used my code to switch from Blacksmith to Steam i lost all my previous Gold bags and etc from previous seasons or whatever its called. =/

Well always have the Scuffdest hour

Jay looks so stoned

Wand is gonna be the death of wizard cuz they said that every class can use ‚em if they meet a stat requirement. So why would u still need a wizard? That’s what I’m thinking

I haven’t played Elden Ring DLC yet because I started playing DnD’er… Real Statement.

Spud for president

W Donny, Long live Donny

STAY ON TARGET

Get CNG Blade (#1 wiz) on the podcast for a different perspective on the state of wizard ! He has proven enough times recently that wiz is still insane if played properly!

Pls , dont let taverns only for yourself.

lovely

I've got a lot to say about this one so buckle up. First off, why didn't you move the podcast to another day since the Dev Q&A was at the same time??? I enjoy these podcasts and try, for the most part, to participate live but if I have to choose, it's going to be the Dev Q&A. On the upside though, I can listen to it at work the following day. Secondly, good luck to Donnie in all his future endeavors. I liked what he brought to the podcast and he will be missed. Next, welcome Spuddy. Then we have all of the ideas thrown around, some of them good and some not so much (this is how brainstorming works and is 100% fine) Lastly Soma, big dog. You would have had everyone re-buy the game again???? This might be one of the worst business ideas of all time. I spent $150 on three founders editions since I also bought one for each of my kids. I make good money but in this economy with insane inflation and crazy interest rates, not a good idea. (It's fair to note that I would have bought three versions again but I wouldn't have liked it lol) Very good podcast as always and appreciate you guys taking time out of your day to talk about my favorite game of all time (sorry Eve-Online).