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Looks like Menace of the Underdark Closed Beta Invites will be arriving NEXT THURSDA on May 10, 2012.  Good luck on getting in everyone!  In the meantime, here are some images to wet your appetite.

Hi Everyone!

Looks like we ran out of time this week to get out Ep 253. Sig and I are out for next week on vacation, so I’ll hand you some DDO news before we’re out:

New 4-part DevTrailer for DDO: Beyond the Web: Forgotten Realms – Part 1

• Highlights Include
• Erik Boyer (Senior Dev) – Eberron is where we came from: Mage-punk, technoogy is magic.
• Fernando Paiz – Forgotten Realms is the most iconic settings of D&D. Getting to Ferun from Eberron is very big deal and getting it right is important.
• Dan Haard (Associate Lead Artist) – We have to be careful when dealing both Eberron and Forgotten Realms, because they are both beloved properties by fans. So turbine is working with Wizards of the Coast
• Rick Liu (Lead Content Designer) – Treat both worlds and the connection between the worlds with respect; its not a trivial thing to go between campaign settings
• Charles Miles (Senior Content Designer) – The whole linchpin between the settings is Lolth, who is powerful enough to create bridges through worlds.
• Images Seen
• Village of Evening Star both in game and art concepts
• Art Concepts, Framing, In-game of King’s Forest
• Polygonal modeling wire frames of environments, before 3D rendering has been applied.
• Part 2 coming on May 4th

http://www.youtube.com/dungeonsanddragons/

Build Your Guild!

• What is Build Your Guild? It’s a fun way to earn in-game bonuses and get an army together to take on the Drow!  Are you a new or returning player?*
• Get these benefits from joining a guild:
• Get +10% XP and +1 Loot just for grouping with fellow guild members!
• Earn two Large Bounties for reaching level 8!**
• Earn one Large Bounty for reaching levels 12 and 16!
• Earn two Large Bounties for reaching level 20!
• Your entire guild will get these bonuses as well:
• Non-new and non-returning players who are grouped with new or returning guild members earn +5% XP and +1 Loot!
• Non-new and non-returning player characters will earn a Small Bounty for their guild at levels 12, 16 and 20!
• Large Bounties will award 25,000 Guild Renown and five Astral Diamonds, and Small Bounties will award 2,500 Guild Renown. All Bounties are subject to guild size bonuses, and are affected by Guild Renown Elixirs.

http://www.ddo.com/buildyourguild

Crystal Cove is Back! Now Thru May 6th
http://compendium.ddo.com/wiki/Treasure_of_the_Crystal_Cove_Guide

Good News:  Bound To Account/Character Bag Bug  to be fixed in the Next Patch
http://forums.ddo.com/showthread.php?&postid=4424133#post4424133

New DDO Store Features

• New Bookmark Features:
• When you first enter the DDO Store, you can go straight to a list of the things you’ve bookmarked by clicking the bookmark icon, which looks like the above image. NOTE: If you put an account item into your bookmarks list, that item will be removed from your bookmarks once purchased.
• To bookmark an item, go to that item’s description, and you will see a “Bookmark This Item” button. Press it and it’s bookmarked!
• New Icons
• Featured Items: Items with this icon are the recent additions and are displayed prominently in the store.
• Hot Items: Items with this icon are current bestsellers in the store.
• Limited Time Items: Items with this icon are only available in the store for a limited time.
• New Items: Items with this icon have been newly added to the store.
• Sale Items: Items with this icon are currently on sale in the store.
• Seasonal Items: Items with this icon are seasonal items, and may be unavailable once the current season ends.

http://my.ddo.com/turbinecommunity/2012/04/26/new-to-the-ddo-store-bookmarks-and-more/

More Point Bundles

• 11,000 TP for $100
• 24,000 TP for $200

http://www.ddo.com/us/ddostorepoints

DDO Bonus Days

• Get +20% Guild Renown through April 29th!

DDO Store Sales

• NOW thru May 3rd: 30% off Guild XP, High-Level Adventure Packs, Astral Diamonds and SP Pots

http://www.ddo.com/ddostoresale

Massively’s Look at DDO Monsters with Pictures!
http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/04/17/turbine-shows-off-new-ddo-expansion-beasties/

MMO Reporter has a super nice video on MotU from their PAX East Tour
http://mmoreporter.com/2012/04/15/pax-east-2012-ddo-menace-of-the-underdark-preview/

Samius’ AC List
http://my.ddo.com/samiusbot/2012/04/26/my-much-anticipated-ac-list/

We’ll probably do a pre-recorded show for Episode 253. Also no live so for April 28th, that means our next live show will be Saturday, May 5th 2012.

In the mean time, enjoy the latest Dev Sneak Peek video from Turbine:

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

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DDOcast is a weekly DDO podcast created by fans for fans! We discuss nearly everything related to Dungeons and Dragons Online – Eberron Unlimited.

Episode 252 is ready! Here’s a LINK to the episode – just left-click to play, right-click and ‘save as’ to download as an mp3. You can find DDOcast on iTunes, the Zune Marketplace and Cyberears.com.

This week Sig & Anne are joined by Deadnettle as guest host! We’ve got lots of DDO news, round-table talks on the Enhancements Revamp, the latest community news, and more gaming related news. We’ve also got the latest Back to the Lab by Strype and an experimental segment called, Gear Crunch!

Today’s music is…D&D by Stephen Lynch off his album The Craig Machine. Available on Amazon and iTunes! Learn more about Stephen Lynch at http://www.stephenlynch.com/

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DDOcast Episode 252 (04-14-2012)

0:00:42 Intro
0:02:00 DDO News
0:14:10 Enhancement Revamp Chat With Deadnettle
0:43:23 Sponsor Break
0:44:00 DDOcast News
0:47:23 Whatcha been doing in game?
0:51:34 Back to The Lab
1:00:18 Community News
1:04:12 Lightning Post
1:08:28 Gear Crunch: Gearing Up a Level 20 Pale Master
1:14:20 Latest DDOcast news: Enhancement Revamp Update from MadFloyed
1:15:13 Gaming General News
1:16:42 Closing

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TOTAL TIME: 1:18:59

LINK for DDO Dev Trailer: Beyond the Web

LINK for Lolth 2012 – Weaving Our Future – Your First Choice. If You Had One

LINK for New: Adventure Packs Description Page

LINK for Let’s talk about Auto Grouping

LINK for Its a Lamannia Party!

LINK for BUG: Mouse Problems after Update 13? There’s a work around

LINK for New Quarterly Desktop WallPapers are Available

LINK for DDO Store Sales

LINK for DDOwiki’s Page on the Proposed Enhancements Change

LINK for DDO Forums Post on “Let’s Talk: Enhancements”

LINK for Latest News for “Let’s Talk: Enhancements from MadFloyd

LINK for DDOcast Shirts & Shinies, now for UK, FR, DE, and JP!

LINK for Stiener-D’s Interviews with Fernando are Available! In 2 Parts!

LINK for DDOcast Events & Calendar Page

LINK for “The Foam Box” – Portable acoustic voice booth

LINK for Eberron Chronicle

LINK for Legacy of Wolves on Kindle

LINK for Howling Tower: Steve Winter, Long time D&D Grognard, gives tips for DMs

Lamannia Party From Thursday April 12th, through April 28th

MajorMalphunktion Speaks!

Hey folks! For the next three weeks we are going to be running a community party on Lamannia! From Thursday April 12th, through April 28th we will be having events on Lamannia! You personally can win 250 Turbine Points once a day, just for showing up! That’s right! Every day, for just for coming to Lamannia you can win Turbine Points. If you win every day for a week that is 1750 Turbine Points! Not a bad deal eh?

Read more here >>

Here are details on how you can participate:

• Official DDO Character Copy from Live Servers to Lamannia Test Server
• How to Access Lamannia Test Server
• Latest Official Lamannia Test Server Release Notes

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Here’s Part 2 of the interview with DDO Exec Producer Fernando Piaz! Many thanks to Steiner-D, our PAX East Contact! This interview took place on Saturday, April 7, 2012. The recording is very rough and no edits were made. We’ll try and do transcripts soon.

You can download the full MP3 HERE just right-click and save as!