Update 72
Of Special Note:
Celebrating Our 19th Anniversary!
This year marks the 19th Anniversary for Dungeons & Dragons Online, and we are celebrating with special bonuses, the return of our Anniversary Event, free gifts, and more!
The Anniversary Event has returned! Find the portal to the Anniversary Event next to Gnoa Bn'for near the Phiarlan Chapterhouse. The Anniversary Event runs through March 18th, 2025.
Year of the Dragon: Free Dragon Disciple!
Make sure to claim your FREE Dragon Disciple monk archetype! Starting February 26th through March 25th, 2025, speak to Xatheral in the Eberron Hall of Heroes to add the class archetype to your account. Read more about the Dragon Disciple lower in the release notes.
Free Anniversary Gifts!
Now through March 18th, 2025, speak to the Djinni in House Phiarlan to claim your free 19th Anniversary Scarf, and keep coming back for a buff! The scarf can be acquired once per day per character, and you can pick up as many scarves as many times as you wish during the Anniversary Event's run. The Djinni can also be found in the Eberron Hall of Heroes across from the guild ship access point. You may also speak with the Djinni to receive a +10% Discovery boost for six hours, which provides a +10% chance to receive named loot that stacks with Elixirs of Discovery. You can speak to the Djinni again to re-acquire this buff for as long as the Anniversary Event is active (through March 18th!)
News and Notes:
Monk Changes:
- Overall Class Adjustments
- The Monk Combo System and its builders/finishers has been retired. Many of its effects have moved into the Monk Enhancement Trees.
- Monks still gain their Stances and your choice of Light vs. Dark Path. However, the Light vs. Dark Path choice no longer gives something specific on being taken, but opens up enhancement choices at Tier 3 in each Monk Enhancement Tree.
- Quivering Palm's DC now uses Strength if it is highest (highest of Strength, Dexterity, or Wisdom Modifier)
- Stunning Fist's DC now uses the highest of Strength, Dexterity, or Wisdom.
- The Unarmed Strike Feat now grants +5 Melee Power while Centered and using Handwraps for each copy of the feat you have.
- The Sun and Stars item effect now reads "When you activate Hand of Healing or Hand of Harm from the Shintao enhancement tree, you benefit from increased Melee Power and Positive Healing Amplification for a short time."
- Core 4 of Grandmaster of Flowers is now:
- Disciple of Philosophy: Multiselector:
- Disciple of Philosophy: Light: +3% Dodge Bypass, +10 Magical Resistance Rating Cap. You gain special versions of the Stunning Blow and Stunning Fist feats, which deal 1d10 Light damage on hit that scales with 200% Melee Power. (Note: these appear as separate feats in your feat list.) You may take Monk enhancements that require Fists of Light.
- Disciple of Philosophy: Dark: +3% Dodge Bypass, +10 Magical Resistance Rating Cap. You gain special versions of the Stunning Blow and Stunning Fist feats, which deal 1d10 Poison damage on hit that scales with 200% Melee Power. (Note: these appear as separate feats in your feat list.) You may take Monk enhancements that require Fists of Darkness.
- Disciple of Philosophy: Multiselector:
- Action Point costs across Ninja Spy, Shintao, and Henshin Mystic have been reduced, primarily in Tier 5 of each tree.
Dragon Disciple Monk:
- Dragon Disciples are Monks who have devoted themselves to the Way of the Mighty Dragon. While Centered, they can tap into Draconic magic.
Reincarnation:
- Changes have been made to the True Reincarnation system to defer when the increase to required XP begins in Heroic levels.
- Previously:
- Your 1st Life required 1,900,000 XP to reach Level 20.
- Your 2nd Life required 2,850,000 XP to reach Level 20.
- All subsequent lives required 3,800,000 XP to reach Level 20.
- This has changed to the following:
- Your 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Lives require 1,900,000 XP to reach Level 20.
- Your 5th, 6th, and 7th Lives require 2,850,000 XP to reach Level 20.
- All subsequent lives require 3,800,000 XP to reach Level 20.
- This new curve is standard for all brand-new characters. This new curve applies to existing characters the next time that they True Reincarnate, Racial Reincarnate, or Iconic Reincarnate.
Other changes:
- The quest "Partycrashers" has been adjusted for improved performance. Several of its rooms have had their layout or lighting further modified.
- The Vorpal Strikes feat now properly allows Handwraps to be treated as Vorpal.
- The Unarmed Strike feat now grants +5 Melee Power per copy of the feat while Centered and using Handwraps.
- Fixed an issue where VIP reward buffs could disappear upon death.
- Fixed an issue where the VIP reward for Discovery was instead appearing as Artisan's Advantage.
- Fixed an issue with +2 to +3 racial enhancement upgrade tomes.
- The Lanterns in the Mists enemy "The Head of the Beast" is now less of a beast and has had its attack damage significantly reduced, the speed of its attacks slightly reduced, and the rate at which it applies "Hungry Mist" lengthened.
- An issue has been corrected that could prevent quest objectives from properly updating after speaking with the Vistani fortune teller.
- The Armor of the Dragon Cult is no longer incorrectly titled "Chromatic Dragon Armor" in its in-game text.
- A stuck spot has been fixed in "The Chronoscope".
- A bug has been fixed with Battle Fist where it would not properly take speed enhancements and could be interrupted by basic attacks or other skills.
- A bug has been fixed with the puzzles in "Thousand Teeth's Lair" that let them be used before the quest was ready for them.
