Dungeons & Dragons Online Producer’s Letter

In addition to reflecting back upon the content and player-focused enhancements they made to Dungeons & Dragons Online throughout 2015 in the latest producer’s letter, executive producer “Severlin” has also given us a quick teaser of what to expect from the MMORPG as we move into 2016. To summarize, we’ll be getting the Gnome race along with a new Deep Gnome Iconic class, an updated Cannith Crafting system, a new dungeon as part of the 10th anniversary festivities, and more:

Greetings! I’m Severlin, Executive Producer for Dungeons & Dragons Online, and I’m writing today to update you on our plans for the coming months.

One of the first things I wanted to mention was that I want to do these letters more frequently. You’ve been getting yearly Producer’s Letters, but I like to speak more often to the community, so instead of a year-long list, I’d like to give us room to respond to your wants through the year. That means this letter will focus on the quarter ahead, and I will be back this Spring with an update.

Looking back on 2015, we gave ourselves an ambitious schedule, and delivered a huge amount of raiding, questing, class work, and more. Here are just some of the things we accomplished:

– 4 Raids
– 3 Monster Manuals
– 11 new quests, including the Temple of Elemental Evil classic dungeon
– Rogue, Ranger class updates
– New class: Warlock (along with its associated enhancements, spells, etc.)
– New seasonal event: The Night Revels
– A greatly improved random loot system
– Legendary Greensteel
– A level cap of 30, along with Legendary and Epic Destiny Feats

We also made some quality of life improvements like being able to craft from your shared bank, consume tomes at any level, and shop in an improved DDO Store.

The main focus of this quarter will be one of DDO’s biggest milestones – our 10th Anniversary! We’ll be throwing a big party towards the end of February, with gifts, prizes, events, and surprises. We will debut a free multi-character-level dungeon (similar to the way our Night Revels dungeons work) that will be a tongue-in-cheek story featuring some of DDO’s most popular and enduring characters and NPCs. It’ll also give you the opportunity to defeat some “devs” in battle. Yes, I plan to try to kill you in-game.

Update 30 will also debut the long-anticipated Gnome race, along with the Deep Gnome Iconic! We will debut an updated Cannith Crafting system that ties in nicely with the new randomly-generated loot system that released in Update 29. We’re also bringing out the bug zapper in the coming weeks to get rid of some of the things we’ve been hearing from you about. We’ll be previewing much of Update 30 in the coming weeks on Lamannia. As always, we look forward to your feedback.

We know you will want to be a part of our 10th Anniversary party, and we’re looking forward to bringing it to you!