Update 51’s Epic Destinies Revamp Now Live In Dungeons And Dragons Online Preview Server
Standing Stone Games will be shaking up the current Dungeons and Dragons Online meta with a major revamp of the Epic Destinies system coming in Update 51.
“When looking at our current spread of 12 ED trees, they’re all over the place in effectiveness and usability,” said Standing Stone. “We’ve had to contend with several strange and relatively inelegant designs that make balancing the destinies quite difficult. Therefore, when approaching the monumental task of remaking the system from scratch, we wanted to go back to the very beginning and explore the rough edges in the current system and how we’ve changed our designs to address those problems.”
Epic Destinies can be compared to advanced classes that players unlock once their character reaches level 20. With the upcoming changes, players will be allowed to have a maximum of 3 Epic Destinies at one time similar to Heroic Enhancement Trees. Here’s how it works:
“Think of it like the current Enhancement window, but without any ability to scroll horizontally along trees. You select up to three trees at a time, socketing them into place in your ED window, just as you select your Heroic Enhancement Trees. You can spend points freely between these three trees, and resetting your ED points out of a tree will allow you to choose a new one.
As you level up beyond level 20, you will earn Destiny Points that you can spend in these ED trees. Epic Levels now display their experience in Ranks, just like Heroic levels do. Each point is earned at each Rank of an Epic Level, which means that each Epic Level corresponds to 4 Destiny Points. The 5th rank of each Epic Level is the level itself, as it is in Heroics. This means that you'll earn Destiny Points at a steady rate rather than in large chunks every 5 ranks.”
The new system is now in testing on the Lamannia preview server for the third time with changes and improvements implemented based on feedback and data gathered from the first two testing rounds. The full patch notes can be found on the Dungeons and Dragons Online official forums if you want to get into the details.
