DDO Players News Episode 373 – The One With The Most Spookiest Time of the Year

And it looks like that we have a little update to the game.

Update 81.4. What's going on?

Not sure if I would call it a little update, but sure, sure.

Yeah, this was released yesterday, Wednesday, October the 7th.

The big thing, well, actually, I shouldn't say the big thing.

One of the things is the return of the Night Rebels, which put a pin in that.

We'll get to that in a moment.

There is some changes to the game.

There's some more changes that will be coming.

But this did release some other changes.

So let's go over these.

In 81.4, you're going to now find cantrips.

Cantrips are free spell-like ability feats that will be granted at level 1 for certain classes.

This feature is particularly targeted to new players expecting a clasting cast to have a basic zap feature.

But these initial cantrips provide a free, if minor, DPS tool for certain builds as a way to regenerate spell points with the addition of a new feat called Spark of Magic.

So, we now have cantrips.

Yeah.

Which, if you're familiar with D&D, I always wondered why we never had cantrips before, but here we are now.

Yeah, when I read these cantrips and what they did, at first, based on what it literally says in the notes, in the release notes...

They look like it says, oh, what's this going to do? That's nothing.

But when I actually had it in play, because it says, for example, Finger of Fire does 1d6 fire damage.

No, it does 1d6 fire damage per caster level.

See? See?

And there's a big difference.

See? Yeah, cantrips will...