Hey Axel, Awesome video 😊! I think your on the money with your first impressions. Gear at cap seems to of the same power level as prior content which is great for those who wish to keep their current gear. I've spent a few hours on lamania trying to put a new tetris together for one of my gear sets and found it difficult to reach the same power level. Stuff like GoMF still seem relavent since itll be craftable to 34 now the level cap is increasing and sets like Raven's eye and Vulkoor's might are not bonuses found on MD loot, meaning its position in the tetris is still unchanged. In some cases its difficult to match the power of older sets since items like Perfected sora kell 3set provides 6 artifact bonuses on 3 items where the best that can be achived with MD loot is 4 artifact effects on 3items. Perhaps preview 2 of the gear will have some changes but id say the MD is even a little weak, maybe theyll add another stat or replace some of the useless fluff like resistance to an element or fortitude saves. I think the real win with the new loot is similar to how it is with vecna gear, easier to achive a top tier gear set but 0.1% worse if your trying to put in serious investment. I also love the fact you brought up level 13 loot and its potential synergies with existing loot. I think its the real highlight of the coming expansion and am excited to upgrade my heroic gear to complement my sharn sets (I wear mine to 30 like you mentioned so big plus 👍) Gear, loot and tetris all very exciting! I cant wait to see all the work the developers have been working on and hope all of the quests will be a fun and unqiue 😊 The raid too!

Agreed on more unique puzzles and more platforming. The beauty of DDO for me is the unique experiences in each quest.

So what they released is very much along the lines of what I wrote as a reply yo your loot poll! I'm glad they made this loot felxible without the typical Armor/Helmet/Cloak set requirements. Many of us use suboptimal gear to fill in the gear Tetris, and it sounds like this stuff gives players a way to complete their gearsets without everyone needing that ONE decent item for that slot. It's not customizeable like I had hoped, but at least its not yet another redundant set that overlaps the others.

Great. Where can I get the notes/tabs for this? I wanna try it out.

Appreciate in-depth video. Thank you for your time.

Another great reasonable, no-nonsense and common sense take on DDO - thank you! Could not agree more particularly with two of your points - more augments to alleviate gear Tetris and cut out the cheesy comedy. I am all for higher order nerd content and no more mindflayer dating (for example) - it appears forced and is really just irritating and not very funny. Keep up the great content with your own style - really appreciate it.

Thank you for making another video! Great information.

Still sucking. As we can see. On the teats of Cordovan who just dropped his video on the same subject. How very original.

I guess you use your favourite set still, and then fill in with the new items with the new augments.

would love to see a video showing us some of the enviroments and dungeons / My Paladin is gonna love that Tower Shield :)))))))

Two questions: Are they selling the power they took back since the lvl 30 nerf from 3 updates ago? or is there any new spell or new way to play DDO? (instead of killing the stealth playstyle or anyother?) they said that the nerf was to control the lag because the numbers were too high but at the time they even nerfed the silver longbow that was a lvl 6 or 8 item from 2007. Are they giving players more space to hoard so much more itens at endgame? for every item they launch they should give players more inventory and bank space so players could collect them.

$130 down the drain.

Tnx Axel

Legendary Pit

I wonder if the sun/moon agument system will only appear on the named item in myth drannor or all the gears after U69, so that we can define our equipment in combination with house C crafting

Just wanted to add that set augments can be used with these new moon and sun augments. Not that you can put a set augment in one of those slots but if you have 3 sun items you put 3 sun augments in and 3 set augments for a total of 4 bonuses across 3 items.

Gen 3 raid augments introduced with MD would be nice. 👍

Isn't vorpal also +0.5w? That is huge!

Honestly I'm a bit relieved this didn't usurp the meta too much. Throwing our what I've managed to get already would be exhausting. Instead, the flexibility to sneak in specific profane/artifact bonuses that I'm missing will make tetris easier, I think...

Will trash loot have a chance at having these new augments? Odds of having two slots? If #1 is "Yes", will those slots appear in NON-Myth-D content?

SSG really needs to standarize Sheltering as a single bonus and stop using the separate pieces as a crutch to fill in empty spaces

Damnit. I always seem to find out about Lammania right after it closes.

Keeping an open mind and thanks as always Axel 🤍

Another scramble for yet another different type of itemization which will cost you money/time/both to take apart and put back together again.

The moon and sun stuff bores me. I'd rather see that they were orange or green so you could use these with older equipment and then perhaps add additional augment slots to the new stuff to entice people to invest in that grind. And since there are few items with orange slots, older stuff would mostly just fit green where as the new loot could have also the orange slot. And I honestly don't care if this is a system they might use later on. The time we've invested in getting loot from the past 3 expansions including several indebt crafting systems will be wasted here.

Are the slots able to be crafted or does the loot need to be stripped and then crafted on?

The "Age" Weapons seem solid for lvl 13, 9d6 extra damage is pretty good if these are easily obtained.

Need to update this. The newest version has lits of problems

Need to update this. The newest version has lits of problems

I wish the raids were fun or well designed in this game. I dont even bother looking at raid loot because it would require dozens of hours of pure torture to ever earn.

I just posted in the forums, For me the loot is all the same in the game. For me Myth Drannor should have some really unique gear, maybe code some new $%$# lol Open a dungeon master guide and look through the loot, - Doom Orien

I wish it could transition into a Death Knight, it would be cool if we could get a Dark Paladin

Can't Wait To Get It So I Can Shoot Some Content Of It For Yall Great break down video Huge fan keep grindin hard everyone

There are two things Josh talked about I'd like to reiterate and agree with: The game is a mess. It's buggy. It's old. And there are things I couldn't figure out, no matter how much online reading I did. For example: How do I spin the camera around to look at my character from the front? I spent time designing my character to look the way I wanted. And sometimes I just want to pause, spin the camera, and look at them. Maybe there is a way? I couldn't find it. Secondly, after all the reading, and searching, and researching, and cross-referencing I did online (so much of it!!), one thing I read still remains in my memory: You will need and earn a doctorate in buildology to really play this thing. Sure, you can jump in. But how do you find traps? How do you not get burned by traps? What skills do you need to spend points on? So much reading! Finally, and a gigantic HOWEVER, this game is fun! Super fun!! I don't understand how it turns out that way, being the biggest pain game I've ever seen. Seriously: You'll want to cry sometimes, because of how much of a pain it is. Maybe that's why? You *earn* this game. It's not handed to you. You don't just play your character, and do the cookie-cutter, copy-paste best-in-slot. You have to figure out what all those numbers mean, which ones matter to you while soloing, and in group play. But if you want an old-school, fun, unique experience, and a break from the simplicity of wow, give it a shot! I just hope you enjoy reading guides.

Axel, original DM inspired quests, randomize teleportation quest where it's elemental based, but caveat you elemental resistances for each elemmental you land on is disabled? Or beef up new random encounters throughout the old quests and give better drops based on the level exiliers? Should be an easy fix with "new" randomize encounters. Just a thought.

I just found my account from like 2006 and I made a Cool Bio that I re read and thought sounded awesome and I realized I wrote it lol. Im having fun with it so far after not playing it for 18 years.

Variation, complexity, and mystery are my favorite elements of DDO. In conjunction with rewarding experience and knowledge in a fairly balanced way. If I want to turn my brain off and go full linear, DDO has my vote. If I want to turn my brain on, and challenge myself/explore/learn DDO has my vote.

Vecna is quick to get through, there's like one long quest. It is now my favourite Saga, very quick if you know what you are doing, also the loot is fantastic. Ya, more raids, but I am happy with the kind they have done now. Saltmarsh, Borderlands, and Isle of Dread are all great.

I have done Demon Queen at heroic elite 20 times to get my clickies, it is easy. I did that as a level 20 battle cleric.