Wish me luck...
Errors: Actual error message shows up.
Link: community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/758...
Error: Time-Out when logging In
Possible Solution: Servers are overloaded. Try refreshing your screen later.
Link: community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/758...
Error: Infinite Recursion bug when creatinga Mage
Link: community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/758...
Link: community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/758...
Error: Cannot Import Character
Possible Solution: Do not use any spaces or special characters in the file name.
Possible Solution: Do not import a character with house rule elements, or a hybrid character.
Possible Solution: Open Character in latest version of CB Classic, resave it, and try again.
Link: community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/758...
Error: Unable to load the Character Builder.
Link: community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/758...
Error: Service Failure - Template Not Found
Link: community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/758...
Error: Session Timeout when loading Character Builder
Possible Solution: Log out and back in again.
Link: community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/758...
Bug: Cannot select level 8 Expert Mage
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Bug: Shadar-Kai missing +2 bonus to death saves
Missing Feature: Ability to select custom portraits for character.
Link: community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/758...
Bug: Retrained Feats are still listed on the character sheet.
Link: community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/758...
Link: community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/758...
Bug: HotFR is not implimented cleanly across the board. Essentials Doesn't have it. Custom does?
Link: community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/758...
Bug: Essentials Character Sheet has 'trained' next to all skills, regardless if trained or not.
Link: community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/758...
Bug: Extreme slowness. Waiting over 30 seconds to select Paragon Path
Possible Solution: Wait until fewer people are using it.
Link: community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/758...
Bug: Imported Character has No Power Cards
Possible Solution: Remove any house-ruled elements from your character, and re-import.
Link: community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/758...
Bug: Staff Expertise is applying its bonus to impliment powers, but not weapon powers.
Link: community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/758...
Bug: Cannot access CB. Gets message to subscribe, even though you are an active subscriber.
Possible Solution: Log out and back in.
Link: community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/758...
Bug: Psionic Dabble doesn't work properly.
Link: community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/758...
Bug: Opening Character Sheet or selecting a theme scrolls to the bottom
Link: community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/758...
Bug: Mindbite Scorn extra damage dice aren't shown on the power card.
Link: community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/758...
Bug: Thief Weapon Talent feat added to damage but not attack.
Link: community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/758...
Bug: Vecna always sends back the entire character sheet in a response to any user action.
Link: community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/758...
Bug: Two-Weapon ranger unable to equip a one-handed weapon in off-hand.
Link: community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/758...
Bug: Unable to select a Dark Sun Theme for an imported character
Link: community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/758...
Bug: Unable to select at-will powers from non-essentials sources
Link: community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/758...
Missing Feature: Ability to copy/paste a character summary.
Link: community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/758...
Missing Feature: Ability to select multiple backgrounds.
Link: community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/758...
Missing Feature: Mouse Wheel does not function
Link: community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/758...
Missing Feature: Cannot compare multiple weapons in the Marketplace.
Link: community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/758...
Missing Feature: No LFR Campaign Setting
Link: community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/758...
Link: community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/758...
Missing Feature: No LFR Campaign Setting
Link: community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/758...
Missing Feature: Missing various types of Chain armor.
Possible Solution: Masterwork bonuses may already be built in.
Link: community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/758...
Missing Feature: No option to select Divine Classes in Dark Sun
Possible Solution: Use Home Camapign option, but then you lose themes.
Link: community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/758...
Missing Feature: Ability to equip a versatile weapon 2-handed
Link: community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/758...
Missing Feature: Indicator for Set Items, and possibly their bonuses
Link: community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/758...
Missing Feature: Inherent Bonuses option
Link: community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/758...
Missing Feature: Ability to Customize Character Sheet
Link: community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/758...
Missing Feature: Dark Sun Non-Treasure Rewards not available.
Link: community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/758...
Missing Feature: Unable to use Point Buy with a base score other than 22.
Possible Solution: Use Roll Dice tab to customize ability scores.
Link: community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/758...
Missing Feature: No support for weapon impliments.
Link: community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/758...
Missing Feature: No Essentails Style Assassin
Possible Solution: Wait until the issue that the Essassin is in gets included.
Link: community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/758...
Missing Feature: No option for non-subscribers to Demo the new CB
Link: community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/758...
Missing Feature: No House Rule Support
Link: community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/758...
Missing Feature: No warforged available in Dark Sun.
Link: community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/758...
Missing Feature: No ability to delete equipment? And Sell is not intuitive to find.
Link: community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/758...
Missing Feature: Mage's cannot select at-will spells from books other than HotFL.
Link: community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/758...
Missing Feature: Several rituals are missing.
Possible Solution: Check the level restrictions and other filtering options.
Link: community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/758...
Missing Feature: Unable to select powers for hybrid characters in Dark Sun?
Possible Solution: Change Windows Region to USA.
Link: community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/758...
Missing Feature: Character with no power cards, or calculations visible.
Link: community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/758...
Missing Feature: Character Journal
Link: community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/758...
Missing Feature: Ability to Sort/Organize/Filter characters
Link: community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/758...
Missing Feature: Character Sheet Customization, rearrange fields and add/alter text.
11/16/2010
TOP KNOWN ISSUES
- Only two character sheets are available.
- Character sheets do not scale properly when shown on screen, but print correctly.
- In the Marketplace section, search is not executed across all categories; you must select a category before searching.
- Total weight does not reflect the weight of the currency carried.
- Importing custom characters from Character Builder Classic may cause crashes. To resolve this, remove all house ruled items and try to reimport again.
- Animal companions and familiars are not printed on the character sheets.
- When changing total XP to a negative value and trying to save, CBE will crash.
- Import of hybrid characters is not working as intended.
- The skill training feats are missing from the Essentials character creation.
CHARACTER SHEETS
- Character sheets are not user customizable.
- Power cards are not customizable.
- There are no multiple weapons power stats.
- Play data cards are not implemented.
- Character sheet is defaulting to Essentials even when the user chooses Character Builder.
- Psychic character power points are not working as intended; power points are not being listed.
- Creating a lower-level character after creating a higher-level character results in blank pages.
CLASSES
- Epic destiny choice cannot be postponed past level 21. If you meet the pre-requisites for the choice after level 21, you will be unable to select it.
- Any character can select a Vadalis Griffon as their beast companion instead of only Vadalis Griffonmasters.
- The Anointed Champion paragon path gives the Helm and Holy Symbol options starting at level 11 (they are not legal until 16).
- Arena weapons from the Arena Training fighter feature are sharing all bonuses instead of just feat attack and damage bonuses.
- Extended Arena Training does not let you pick two additional weapons as arena weapons.
- If you have more than one familiar, such as by Second Familiar, the constant benefits of all are applied instead of just one.
- Luck Blade feature of Luckbringer of Tymora does not enable using the selected weapon as an implement.
FEATS
- Trusted Spellcasting allows the selection of powers with no 'miss' line. Powers that have a 'miss' line but do not deal damage on a miss are not being allowed.
- Arcane Ritualist does not allow for the selection of a ritual, nor can the feat be taken more than once.
- A character that has a multiclass feat will correctly label additional multiclass feats as houseruled. However, if such a second feat is taken anyway, it will no longer show up as houseruled once taken.
- Mark of Scribing doesn't allow a language to be retrained.
- Remembered Knack allows any skill to be selected instead of the specified limits.
- Marked for Death ignores the prerequisite of being able to mark a foe.
ITEMS
- Rhythm Blade's bonuses apply even when wielded in the main hand.
- Spiked Shield is treated as a weapon and does not properly also function as a shield.
- Autobuilding characters will not select the bonus rituals some characters, such as wizards, are entitled to.
- Gem of Colloquy does not give an additional language.
- Armor of Resistance does not allow the type of resistance to be selected.
- Athasian Spellshard cannot be enchanted as a tome.
- Masterwork armor is not renamed for a Dark Sun character to the Dark Sun equivalent names.
- Properties and powers of a magic implement take effect incorrectly when the character is not proficient in the implement.
- Crest of Vigilance Eternal cannot be applied to a shield.
- The set bonus to initiative for Time Wizard's Tools is half the correct value.
- Daggers do not seem to be functioning for sorcerers as implements.
MISC
- Lost Kin background has all skills associated with it instead of only class skills.
- Editing the same character from two different locations can cause unexpected changes.
POWERS
- Characters with the same power from multiple sources, for example a wizard who takes magic missile and has a Master's Wand of Magic Missile, will have only one version of the power.
- The calculated stats for powers include only attack bonus and damage. The builder does not calculate critical hit information, secondary attacks such as for dual-wielding powers, healing, temporary hit points, summoned creatures, nor damage types.
- Synchronized strike and other ranger beast companion powers display hunter's quarry information which is not applicable to beast attacks.
UI
- Certain shared rules elements, such as Channel Divinity, display all possible child powers when viewing rather than just those for the appropriate class.
- Custom character portraits are not implemented.
- Exporting character to a local drive is not implemented.
- Secondary/additional backgrounds cannot be selected.
- Custom items creation/editing is not implemented.
- Campaign settings editor is not implemented.
- The name of the character gets too long when you save too many copies.
- Essentials characters may find some striking similarities in their default character portraits.
- Making multiple copies of the same character will cause the character's name to exceed the expected character name limit.
- Class summary header and text spacing: When I click on the class, the text needs a space after the header. Example: "Power Source:Arcane", instead of "Power Source: Arcane". Same is true of other screens like the description for a race.
- Darkspiral Aura lists an attack bonus, when there is no attack roll.
- When switching from Class to Details screen, the details window on the right did not update when I clicked on the already highlighted option. I had to click on a different option and then click again on the option that had been highlighted.
- As noted in the power cards thread, powers like Decree of Khirad do not list damage bonuses even though damage can be inflicted and applies various elements that need to be calculated (for this power, the damage is if you or the target miss). Powers like Plague of Frogs do not show calculations for secondary damage.
- When selecting on a power, the font is very small. Same for selecting feat options, etc.
- Searching for feats did not seem to work for me. When I type search text, I see no options even if there is a match.
- Retraining is under Manage Your Character, but it is no longer possible to see a list of all current feats in the main powers screen. The powers screen needs to show what has been retrained and provide a current list of powers in a way that the user can click on the retrained options and review them.
- In Inventory, the category "Magic" seems strange to me.
- When viewing the character sheet, the scroll bar behaves erratically. When I am viewing the first page the part of the scroll bar that indicates the current page position is about 5/6ths of the way down instead of being up at the top.
- When making a PC for the Living Forgotten Realms Organized Play campaign and selecting "Forgotten Realms" as a build filter, I can select options that are not supported by the campaign (or that are core to the setting) such as Dragonmark feats.
- The same is true for the Dark Sun campaign. I can choose Dragonmark feats and Forgotten Realms races and classes (Drow Swordmage), even those racial options are not supported by defalt in the sourcebook and the combination was not allowed in Dark Sun Encounters (and may not be supported in the upcoming Ashes of Athas Organized Play Campaign).
- If I select a class and a feat (Artificer and then the Mark of Healing feat) and then go and change my class, I get a crash after double-clicking the class.
Missing Feature: Unable to select powers for hybrid characters in Dark Sun?"
Solution : Change your windows' region to usa
Implements don't seem to apply their bonuses. Eg. Tome of Binding doesn't add the PC's CON mod to the damage for Summoning powers.
Importing a Human PC de-selects all Human options. Eg. Racial ability bonus, racial feat, racial power, racial skill.
There is no slot to equip a holy symbol, forcing it to take up a hand.
Hahahahahaha, he's right. How embarrassing.
- "experience to next level" listed on character builder sheetis wrong (2250 for level 1 character, 2750 for level 2 character)
- Warforged can't be picked if you select Dark Sun setting (considering I can pick Kalashtar in Dark Sun, and I can pick Mul and Thri-kreen in non DS-setting this is probably a bug)
- Sometimes CB forgets the name of the character. It's not lost from actual saved character sheet, but CB shows up blank in that field (complete with the step being not checked as done), and won't save anythign you put there. The only solution is to reload whole CB.
Signfiicant problems:
Scroll wheel non-functional
Constant error fails
No way to see a panel of all mundane weapons, proficient or not. This is valuable in picking feats. If you can;t see the weapons you're NOT proficient with, how do you know which feat to take?
TINY font size in marketplace inventory.
NO LFR CAMPAIGN SETTING. Or campaign setting options at all, for that matter - no ability to disable certain content for selection.
The MAJOR bug which occurred for me every time I tried to make a quick essentials mage, which led the builder to crash, and repeatedly crash when refreshed, offering either reloading a blank level 0 character (at which point it hangs with an error message), or discard it, at which point selecting any option past the main menu causes the same crash. Can be rectified by loading a saved character, or importing a character, but I guess new subscribers are SoL if it happens on their first time through.
General interface annoyances:
Slow loading after ANY click.
Having to bring up a popup for ANY selection
No option to buy multiple items at a time, particularly important for alchemical and ritual components, ammunition etc.
Cannot sort by cost in shop.
Doesn't include full class descriptions.
It's a popup. It should load in the page the link is on, or in a new tab. Popups are so 2007.
Ranger fighting styles ALL listed followed by the choice bolded on essentials sheet.
I know there are more. I'll put them in if I come across them - but there's a good thread for such errors in the CharOps board.
i.e. Knock Back is available but Resolute Stamina is not.
Missing Feature: Some functionality or option is not present.
Link: community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/758...
Missing Feature: No Essentails Style Assassin
It's not in there because they only included Dragon Magazines up to 390. The Executioner Assassin is from Dragon Magazine 391.
Can we remove this from the list of errors?
Missing most of the feats from the Dragon 391 article, Winning Races: Dwarves - Favored of the All-Father
i.e. Knock Back is available but Resolute Stamina is not.
They might be in the process of updating to Dragon Magazine 391, but it is not listed as completely included.
On the character sheet, it displays feats that you have re-trained out of as well as the new ones. So for example if you retrain "toughness" to be "superior will", your character sheet will show you as having both toughness and superior will.
After a couple of years using the old CB, I still close the window to get rid of the character sheet display!
1) Crescent Moon (level 7 Paladin power from Dragon 386) still is calculating to-hit using the wrong weapon. It's a slightly strange power in that it's ranged, but is meant to be usable with all weapon types (including melee).
2) When creating a PDF of the character sheet using the virtual printer installed by the CutePDF software, the spool file is enormous. 898MB (yes, just shy of a gigabyte) of enormous for a six page character sheet. This will lead to all sorts of issues related to slow processing and problems for those who are running low on disk space on their main Windows drive.
2) When creating a PDF of the character sheet using the virtual printer installed by the CutePDF software, the spool file is enormous. 898MB (yes, just shy of a gigabyte) of enormous for a six page character sheet. This will lead to all sorts of issues related to slow processing and problems for those who are running low on disk space on their main Windows drive.
This might just be you. I just tested with cutepdf and didn't have this problem. Albeit, cutepdf does have a history of overlarge file sizes but not typically that large (no 6 page pdf should need a gig size spool file).
I can second the experience point calculations being off. At level 19 with 122k xp, my character sheet says that my next level is at 175k xp.
This was actually noticed on one of the character sheet preview pictures and pointed out. Good to know that a simple fix like that couldn't even be implemented.
And yeah, the 'next XP for level' bug is just ludicours not to have been fixed.
Also, why are the pages in the character sheet 'different sizes' when previewing?
As a side note, I have in fact fired people for developing test plans that allowed these sorts of bugs to get through testing! There's zero evidence of beta testing, let alone decent quality control here. Some of these bugs are just amateur. Sure, the overall CB is reasonably stable (for me, I know thats not everyone's experience right now), and the recover character feature is good. But I've personally encountered dozens of bugs (many of which are already reported by others) without even really trying to break anything.
2) When creating a PDF of the character sheet using the virtual printer installed by the CutePDF software, the spool file is enormous. 898MB (yes, just shy of a gigabyte) of enormous for a six page character sheet. This will lead to all sorts of issues related to slow processing and problems for those who are running low on disk space on their main Windows drive.
This might just be you. I just tested with cutepdf and didn't have this problem. Albeit, cutepdf does have a history of overlarge file sizes but not typically that large (no 6 page pdf should need a gig size spool file).
What OS are you on? I've got Win 7 32 bit on this machine. It may be an entertaining intersect of Silverlight / WPF / Windows / Printer driver.
Edit: To make it clear, the resulting PDF was bout 6MB in size; it's the spool file that was processed that's enormous. Also, printing to a HP LaserJet led to a similarly large spool file. It's almost as if it's spooling an uncompressed bitmap of each page.
I'm going to make an attempt to compile the list of errors that people are reporting on the forums.
Link: community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/758...
Link: community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/758...
Error: Cannot Import Character
Possible Solution: Do not use any spaces or special characters in the file name.
Possible Solution: Do not import a character with house rule elements, or a hybrid character.
Possible Solution: Open Character in latest version of CB Classic, resave it, and try again.
Possible Solution: Remove any journal entries
AL,
I eliminated the Journal entries as an issue, it was PC has not been saved under the latest version of Classic CB.
Bryan Blumklotz
Missing most of the feats from the Dragon 391 article, Winning Races: Dwarves - Favored of the All-Father
i.e. Knock Back is available but Resolute Stamina is not.
Note that half of the feats in that article were shitcanned by the staff between the article's initial appearance and the final compilation, so I think that's more that half of those feats were either terrible or overpowered and were removed from existence - it's not a CB issue.
(This is not a filespace/memory issue, nor is it an available CPU problem.)
When attempting to print, froze up and required a force close of Firefox.
Noted that the memory footprint varied from 250Mb when just loaded to half a gig before I force closed. If this is actually the memory required to run the program...
When viewing anything with a side scroll bar, sometimes it would "stick" to where I couldn't get it to stop scrolling when I moved my mouse. When that was working correctly, scrolling sometimes lagged 2-5 seconds behind mouse movement.
Randomly would take long between button presses for a response, but I assume this is just (sometimes not very acceptable) server lag.
Some feats did not have summaries on the character sheet.
If needed, I'll happily supply more system details or testing information. I don't think this program is at a point where I'd pay for it yet, but I'd like to see it reach that point.
This is not a filespace/memory issue, nor is it available CPU.
What OS are you on? I've got Win 7 32 bit on this machine. It may be an entertaining intersect of Silverlight / WPF / Windows / Printer driver.
Edit: To make it clear, the resulting PDF was bout 6MB in size; it's the spool file that was processed that's enormous. Also, printing to a HP LaserJet led to a similarly large spool file. It's almost as if it's spooling an uncompressed bitmap of each page.
Win 7 64.
I have three different pdf writers, none were having this problem. Cute PDF used to have problems with spool size (what version are you using?) and for that plus its lack of customisation options I don't often use it myself, but my spooled file was nowhere near a gig.
Likewise printing went without a problem. An uncompressed bitmap of these page sizes still shouldn't be anywhere near a gig given I can get 6 uncompressed 300dpi A0 bitmaps for less than a gig.
Edit: The prog itself is, however, using 180mbs via firefox (albeit firefox sucks at memory handling) which is..excessive.
At this point, it appears that all of the posted bugs to the forums, except for the 1 super huge thread, have been compiled here.
Checkpoint
At this point, it appears that all of the posted bugs to the forums, except for the 1 super huge thread, have been compiled here.
As of the checkpoint, at least 2 bugs aren't in your big, compiled list: no ability to select languages for races that get a choice or with the linguist feat and no holy symbol slot.
Checkpoint
At this point, it appears that all of the posted bugs to the forums, except for the 1 super huge thread, have been compiled here.
As of the checkpoint, at least 2 bugs aren't in your big, compiled list: no ability to select languages for races that get a choice or with the linguist feat and no holy symbol slot.
Those already exist in this thread. See post #10 and 31. I've been generally avoiding duplicating the same bugs in the same thread.
Also, I think that you may have missed the mage bug where you can't select any at-will powers at all from non-essentials sources. This is most noticeable for Pyromancer school mages, who don't get ANY fire-based at-wills.
I just want to say: thanks AL - this is a great effort to see. But yeah, sadly, I think it may be doomed to continue for some time. The bugs haven't let up since the thing started, and we've only had it for... 5.5 hours.
Also, I think that you may have missed the mage bug where you can't select any at-will powers at all from non-essentials sources. This is most noticeable for Pyromancer school mages, who don't get ANY fire-based at-wills.
I was just adding that one. I thought I had it on the list but couldn't find it again when I went through it.
I just want to say: thanks AL - this is a great effort to see. But yeah, sadly, I think it may be doomed to continue for some time. The bugs haven't let up since the thing started, and we've only had it for... 5.5 hours.
Also, I think that you may have missed the mage bug where you can't select any at-will powers at all from non-essentials sources. This is most noticeable for Pyromancer school mages, who don't get ANY fire-based at-wills.
I was just adding that one. I thought I had it on the list but couldn't find it again when I went through it.
Odd, I thought I saw that you had added it a while ago... the forum is eating the list?
Checkpoint
At this point, it appears that all of the posted bugs to the forums, except for the 1 super huge thread, have been compiled here.
I created a thread for theme errors for Dark Sun in the character builder.
I should also check to see if there is a thread about the lack of themes in the D&D Compendium.
I haven't found a way to equip a versatile item two-handed other than importing it equipped from the old CB. Has anyone else?
And it's not on the known issues list... which means none of their testers ever tried to do it?
Not sure if this has been mentioned, but tome implements that grant you access to additional spells seem to crash the new character builder.
That must be why I couldn't load my summoner wizard at all. The CB would just hang there doing nothing.
Win 7 64.
I have three different pdf writers, none were having this problem. Cute PDF used to have problems with spool size (what version are you using?) and for that plus its lack of customisation options I don't often use it myself, but my spooled file was nowhere near a gig.
Likewise printing went without a problem. An uncompressed bitmap of these page sizes still shouldn't be anywhere near a gig given I can get 6 uncompressed 300dpi A0 bitmaps for less than a gig.
Edit: The prog itself is, however, using 180mbs via firefox (albeit firefox sucks at memory handling) which is..excessive.
2.8.0.5, just a hair behind the current version, 2.8.0.6. That I'm getting similarly large spool files when printing to a HP Laserjet (using a PCL driver, so it's not printer language dependant) makes me think it's an issue elsewhere in the software stack.
Edit: I don't have time right now, but I will be checking to see if this occurs on other machines of mine, with Vista 64 and XP.
NO LFR CAMPAIGN SETTING. Or campaign setting options at all, for that matter - no ability to disable certain content for selection.
I believe the LFR setting was removed due to the fact that wizards is no longer supporting the Living Forgotten Realms. Currently we'll have to use the Home Campaign character creation in order to make characters for LFR.
No such luck.
NO LFR CAMPAIGN SETTING. Or campaign setting options at all, for that matter - no ability to disable certain content for selection.
I believe the LFR setting was removed due to the fact that wizards is no longer supporting the Living Forgotten Realms. Currently we'll have to use the Home Campaign character creation in order to make characters for LFR.
!?
That seems a bit odd considering there are LFR events going on three times a month around here, plus the upcoming ones available at DDXP...
Where did you hear that?
Edit: As long as I'm here, there seems to be a problem with character portraits all of a sudden; they worked great earlier today but now clicking a good number of them just gives a "No Portrait Selected" box.
I tried to make my first character on the builder, a drow rogue and hit some catastrophic error message when trying to add the feat Risky Shift. Since I can not copy and paste the error message as silverlight must have that disabled, the error message reads Error: Template Not Found with some debugging code and inner exception stack trace lines. All I can do is close the browser...
NO LFR CAMPAIGN SETTING. Or campaign setting options at all, for that matter - no ability to disable certain content for selection.
I believe the LFR setting was removed due to the fact that wizards is no longer supporting the Living Forgotten Realms. Currently we'll have to use the Home Campaign character creation in order to make characters for LFR.
!?
That seems a bit odd considering there are LFR events going on three times a month around here, plus the upcoming ones available at DDXP...
Where did you hear that?
Edit: As long as I'm here, there seems to be a problem with character portraits all of a sudden; they worked great earlier today but now clicking a good number of them just gives a "No Portrait Selected" box.
It's been around for a while.
, ala Ryu from Street Fighter.
Too bad I can't rename powers, otherwize Phantom Bolt would be renamed to HADOKEN!
It's an amusing error, but a error nonetheless.
1) Slayers can pick up fighter multiclass feats and I saw a post on char op saying a warpriest could pick up cleric multiclass feats (have not tried that one yet).
2) Slayers can not choose a level 22 utility power. This might not be a bug and thus intended but that would be against the general reading of the rules by most people (since it is a correctly leveled utility power). It may not be a bug because while it is a leveled utility power the class table for slayers says slayers defiance not utility power.
The spacing on the main hand is out by alot for the item in the box, as well the off hand slot should be aligned with the other boxes. This is sloppy.
Parchment Armor(the leather version)
Only showing as cloth.
TY
While not an "OMG error" like the last one, I was trying to add some magic items for my drow rogue and found it horribly confusing to find items. The magic weapons and magic armor seem to be in a random order, can this be changed to be in alphabetical order?
I clicked on the Name heading, and it alphabetized the list.
Parchment Armor(the leather version)
Only showing as cloth.
TY
Edit: As Swordmage: Sword Burst Implement bonus not using my main wep as an Implement (it comes up as unarmed instead of using my Aegis Fullblade +1)
So I'm not getting the versatile expertise bonus nor the +1 magic implement(weapon) bonus.
Equiped a regular longsword and still not counting as an Implement.
I also could not find Sylvan Leather Armor +anything.
I found it. It's under cloth. That doesn't bode well.
I looked around at magic armor, and it appears that all magic armor might listed only under the first item type for the item. Sunleaf is listed under cloth only, Armor of Dark Deeds is listed under leather only, etc.
If an item is found under any armor type, it appears to be present under all of the armor types, otherwise, check by the lowest available armor type if you are looking for a specific armor.
This should be made into a bug report.
-edit-
To make things more confusing, I found Agile armor listed correctly under all of the armor types. It appears to be only affecting some armor types. We should make a list of which armors are listed incorrectly.
I also could not find Sylvan Leather Armor +anything.
I found it. It's under cloth. That doesn't bode well.
I looked around at magic armor, and it appears that all magic armor might listed only under the first item type for the item. Sunleaf is listed under cloth only, Armor of Dark Deeds is listed under leather only, etc.
If an item is found under any armor type, it appears to be present under all of the armor types, otherwise, check by the lowest available armor type if you are looking for a specific armor.
This should be made into a bug report.
-edit-
To make things more confusing, I found Agile armor listed correctly under all of the armor types. It appears to be only affecting some armor types. We should make a list of which armors are listed incorrectly.
I wonder if the same issue exists for magic weapons with more then one weapon type?
Swordmage Implement Powers dont recognise Bastard Swords as implements.
Arcane Admixture doesnt function at all.
This thing is catastrophically broken and its day 1, anybody else seeing "Not ready for primetime!"
I wonder if the same issue exists for magic weapons with more then one weapon type?
It's possible. It could also be an error in loading the character builder.
I just reopened the character builder after it crashed, and I was able to find Armor of Dark Deeds listed under Hide as well as Leather, where I wasn't able to find it before.
Still no Sylvan armor or sunleaf armor under leather, though.
Edit: After reading the post above mine I checked out cloth armour and found the Shadowdance there, but I cannot equip it as leather armour, even though it says it is for both.
Hybriding any class with a class that has Psionic Augmentation gives you an option for the 3rd level at-will swap and an encounter power. Seems a little suspect to me, and I recall seeing this problem in the offline builder as well.
Adding multiple items of anything is a chore.
Still, for a rush job on a program whose team has been under a massive amount of pressure from us consumers and corporate, I can't help but be impressed by the scope of the builder's capabilities, those implemented and implied. With some of the launch-day pressure taken off, I'm sure they'll be able to really clean up this release.
If we think of this not as a final release but instead as an open-beta, you might argue that the launch has indeed been successful, given the amount of testers who've heeded the call already.
[GRIPE ON]
Overall, I don't like the big buttons and tired old images painted all over everything. I'd much rather a smaller typed more fully functional application with no images at all than what's been delivered. I'm on manual renew right now and come time to resubscribe, a lot will have to change for me to drop down any further cash. Very dissappointing.
[GRIPE OFF]
I have not read through all so I'm sorry if I'm repeating here: There is no Dejada's available for Dark Sun character. It is a sling weapon but I cannot find it. And I cannot find Shadowdance armor. Strangly enough though, if I import, the character builder handles the armour just fine, I just cannot find it for building a character from scratch.
Edit: After reading the post above mine I checked out cloth armour and found the Shadowdance there, but I cannot equip it as leather armour, even though it says it is for both.
Shadowdance leather armor appears to be affected by the bug.
As for Dejada, check under Simple Ranged One-Handed for the category, and then Dejada under the item dropdown. This is what it looks like for my bugbear:
If you do a search, it will only select from the current category.
If we think of this not as a final release but instead as an open-beta, you might argue that the launch has indeed been successful, given the amount of tester's who've heeded the call already.
You know, if we weren't being charged for this open-beta, then I might agree. But we are. And I don't. Not successful.
On average it takes a good 3-5 seconds for what I assume is an autosave, for every click or change I try to make.
I had like 30 crashes and 30 time expired for one character.
Resume:
* Constant time outs with chrome and IE.
* Constant Crash.
* Slow like hell.
* Can't import anything.
* Can't find Unguent of Blindsight and oil of Flesh returned.
* Corellon Boon of arcane crash the program.
* When i click character sheet it shows it for a second then all the window white and crash. I think is the 100 or more rituals or a magic item, i saw the character before adding them.
* Items not sorting in categories when going to sell them. I mean weapons, armor, rituals...
* I am Mage multiclass Swordmage, the power cards doent consider me to have heavy blade implement, i have a staff on the off hand and only shows it.
Yes i am a lot of angry.
Cancelling sub indefinitely. I'm Not paying for nothing, no CB, no MB, no high level adventures....
PS: And why i can't import my character portrait????
898MB to the CutePDF virtual printer.
714MB for a LaserJet 4200 PS printer driver.
709MB for a HP Business Inkjet 2230 PCL3 driver.
My guess, based on looking at how PDFs generated from doPDF and CutePDF turn out, is that the spool file data includes high resolution uncompressed images of each page. PDF generation software will turn each image into a JPG, hence output PDFs are reasonable in size.
No wonder people are complaining of freezes and crashes when they try to print.
I have reported a bug about selected the Awakend Potential feat from Psionic Power. (Granted, the feat acted exactly the same way in the old CB so it might just be working as intended... but I can't see that as the case.)
If you are a non-Psionic class and you take the Awakened Potential [Multiclass] feat, you are allowed to pick a new at-will at level 3. You are also given the "Level 7 at-will" and "Level 13 at-will" selection buttons but they are greyed out. Also, instead of having 1 power point, the character sheet shows you having 10 power points.
Awakened Potential [Multiclass]
Prerequisite: INT 15, Trained in Arcana
Benefit: You gain the Psionic Augmentation class feature and 1 power point, which can be used to augment powers, items and feats. You cannot regain this power point except by taking an extended rest. You are considered to have the psionic augmentation class feature for things that list it as a prerequisite.
(The benefit line is slightly paraphrased. I don't have my book right here with me.)
I get an error (and Silverlight crashes) when trying to print to an HP Laserjet 5m. I can print the character sheet itself, but the power cards reliably fail to print. This leads me to believe that the issue is that the power cards bleed off the top and bottom of the page, a printing feat that my old workhorse HP printer can't manage.
The printer throws a single page that reads:
ERROR: ioerror
OFFENDING COMMAND: image
STACK:
false
In a related issue, the .pdf out put files are unacceptably large, as others have pointed out. Printing a single PC in the new vs. old CB, using the same .pdf printer (CutePDF), I get a 4.4 MB .pdf file with the new CB vs. a less than 400 kb file for the old one. Were I to guess I'd say that scaling down a single high resolution character portrait and duplicating it on nearly every page of the sheet is at least part of the problem, but I can't believe that's the entire issue.
When creating a Hybrid SwordMage;
SWORDMAGE AEGIS (HYBRID)
This class feature functions as the swordmage class feature, except that you can use the power that you choose only once per encounter. However, you regain the use of that power when its target drops to 0 hit points or when its mark is superseded by another mark.
There is no reference in the character builder or the Character Sheet to the fact that the power is regained under the circumstances above.
More printing:
I get an error (and Silverlight crashes) when trying to print to an HP Laserjet 5m. I can print the character sheet itself, but the power cards reliably fail to print. This leads me to believe that the issue is that the power cards bleed off the top and bottom of the page, a printing feat that my old workhorse HP printer can't manage.
The printer throws a single page that reads:
ERROR: ioerror
OFFENDING COMMAND: image
STACK:
false
In a related issue, the .pdf out put files are unacceptably large, as others have pointed out. Printing a single PC in the new vs. old CB, using the same .pdf printer (CutePDF), I get a 4.4 MB .pdf file with the new CB vs. a less than 400 kb file for the old one. Were I to guess I'd say that scaling down a single high resolution character portrait and duplicating it on nearly every page of the sheet is at least part of the problem, but I can't believe that's the entire issue.
The offending 'image' command is, by the way, the postscript part of the printer driver puking for some reason. I was seeing it when I was cancelling print jobs because of the ridiculously gigantic spool files. (And yes, this is all related --- the spool is huge because of gigantic images being sent to the printer. The quoted error means that the printer was in the middle of receiving an image when it was interrupted for some reason.) It's possible that your problem isn't the card dimensions, but that your old printer can't buffer that much image data for one page.
I've already sent a bug about this and instructed my friends to do the same. Another symptom of the problem is that text can't be selected out of the generated PDFs (which usually works, with a good PDF publisher) because all that's in the file is some images.
Edit---
Ah, sorry I guess that is what the additional check boxes are for... my bad.
None of the swordmage attacks are applying any hit/damage modifiers for sword implements. In fact I can't even seem to equip a sword implement at all.
Also, has anyone managed to add more than one of an item to their inventory? I've changed the quantity number, and it still only adds one.
Also how do you "equip" dragonshard augments on your weapons as right clicking does not work anymore (I guess throw on a question about silver weapons too).
My "Quick D&D Essentials Character" was a human thief, and the CB gave me Crossbow Expertise *and* Master at Arms as feats. That wouldn't be so bad, but the weapons it bought were short sword and short bow.
I could not figure out how to buy a weapon with which I was not proficient (e.g. if I'm a 1st-level rogue and plan on taking rapier proficiency at second level, and find a +1 rapier after my first adventure, I can't add it to my inventory). Edit: figured it out.
Also, Dragon feats that mention Essentials were explicitly stated as legal for Keep on the Borderlands, but they're not available if you choose that campaign.
Using the keyboard command to select all selects the plugin instance rather than the text in the text inputs, and cannot be deselected (hint: * { -webkit-user-select: none; -moz-user-select: none; user-select: none; }
If I buy 10 Survival Days (Dark Sun) it just says Survival Day without qty.
Uhm, is it that late that I can not find a delete or remove button for inventory? Or was it never there to begin with?
It's in the marketplace. Go to the "sell" tab and you'll get the option to remove or sell for 20/50/100%
Uhm, is it that late that I can not find a delete or remove button for inventory? Or was it never there to begin with?
It's in the marketplace. Go to the "sell" tab and you'll get the option to remove or sell for 20/50/100%
Ah thanks! Except now all the power cards have a page gap between them as they do not automatically realign after removing all my extra magic items. Thats silly.
Feats that have been retrained still show up on the character sheet, as well as their class features if they provide some like Student of the Sword.
Didnt spot your post. Ive had this confirmed.
Im trying to get my second one confirmed:
I load up a character of level 10, select retrain, then immediately hit home, load a new level 10 and retrain. On the level 2 tab i see powers etc of the previous character and have to scroll through the various level tabs to get the correct powers etc of the new character. (it seems random as to when it appears correct at the moment)
Uhm, is it that late that I can not find a delete or remove button for inventory? Or was it never there to begin with?
It's in the marketplace. Go to the "sell" tab and you'll get the option to remove or sell for 20/50/100%
Ah thanks! Except now all the power cards have a page gap between them as they do not automatically realign after removing all my extra magic items. Thats silly.
it does that when you level a pc down as well
Novice Power (the multiclass feat) does not work correctly. I can select which power I want to remove (although it gives me options for multiple levels, which is very confusing), but when I pick a power from my multiclass, the new power is not slotted in, and there's no power card for it on the character sheet. As it is, Novice Power does nothing.
Same thing for Adept power, and Acolyte power. None of them do the replacement step correctly.
Is this just me, but I can't choose power: no list, no choices in the combo box....
It's not only you, see the thread on:
community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/758...
Seems a lot of people in Europe can't access this particular feature, although the rest works just fine.
Are you also from the Old World ?
Other than that my experience has been bad, but no worse than I really expected on launch. A few crashes (I expect these will be ironed out soon enough) and occasional hangs (which I'm happy that F5 usually fixes everntually) but the worst thing is simply how slow it is. I guess I'd call it next to useless as present.
From someone who is a massive DDi fan I'm rating this as 2/10. But I'm hopeful it still has the potential to raise from this bad start to be a winner. If we're still here in a month's time though I'm asking for my money back and sticking with the offline CB I have.
Blakey
I reported this bug months ago with the old character builder. Glad to see they are on top of things.
I know there was another racial power doing the same thing, but I can't remember what it was in the old builder.
So far I have the following.
RPGA number
Player names
Character Information
Journal
On Sharmind Psion import
Did not pick up Shardmind Skill bonus, had to reselect.
Did not import chosen racial stat. Wisdom in this case again reselect needed.
has anyone else noticed no half level bonus for skills?
I'm not having that problem.
Whenever I try to create a new character or load an existing one, I keep getting "Your session has timed out. Do you want to log in again?" If I click yes it just reloads the CB and gives me the mesage again. I worked fine for me all day yesterday but today nothing.
I had the same issue, earlier. Try either waiting 5 minutes or so before you login again, or logging in using a different browser. I did both of these, and one of them fixed it - I'm not 100% sure, but my bet's on the "Close the tab/window, wait a few minutes, try again.".
Spellscar-requiring feats available to all characters.
The right-hand text description window opens in a random place on the page, not the top.
The Essentials sheet has only 6 characters worth of space in the basic attack damage field, so "1d10+10" spills over the edge. Similarly, a long race name like "razorclaw shifter" does not fit on the race line, and wraps down into the alignment area.
Implements as weapons are broken for some implement as weapon classes. (Swordmages and sorcerers, but not assassins?) This may be further confused by multiclass feats and implement proficiency.
Rather than leading to a help page, the help button leads to a "report a bug" page. The "report a bug" page includes detailed instructions on the fields to fill out, but the page it leads to does not have those fields.
I have not yet reported these, but I will.
Lots of Missing power choices for hybrid classes;
For example making a wizard/swordmage hybrid at level 1 there are many missing powers for at will (missing : arc lightning, beguiling strands, freezing burst, hypnotism, magic missile, phantasmal assault and phantom cage).
I can understand the essentials spells being screwed up, but Magic Missile?
Seems like All essentials spells are missing as choices from Hybrid Wizards. Including ones that were reprinted such as Magic Missile, Burning Hands, Sleep etc...
Shame on you WotC for such blatantly obvious lack of quality control.
As for Dejada, check under Simple Ranged One-Handed for the category, and then Dejada under the item dropdown. This is what it looks like for my bugbear:
If you do a search, it will only select from the current category.
Thanks, for some unknown reason I cannot select this from the list. The ONLY simple ranged one-handed that I can select is sling. What is further confusing me, I searched this out in the compendium and it does fall under the sling catagory.
Edit: I'm not certain what I was doing wrong, and what I'm doing right but I just managed to get to it. That problem is solved.
Lots of Missing power choices for hybrid classes;
For example making a wizard/swordmage hybrid at level 1 there are many missing powers for at will (missing : arc lightning, beguiling strands, freezing burst, hypnotism, magic missile, phantasmal assault and phantom cage).
I can understand the essentials spells being screwed up, but Magic Missile?
Seems like All essentials spells are missing as choices from Hybrid Wizards. Including ones that were reprinted such as Magic Missile, Burning Hands, Sleep etc...
Shame on you WotC for such blatantly obvious lack of quality control.
Check the "Show Additional Options" Checkbox. Et voila, problem fixed!
I wish they were all that easy.
Lots of Missing power choices for hybrid classes;
For example making a wizard/swordmage hybrid at level 1 there are many missing powers for at will (missing : arc lightning, beguiling strands, freezing burst, hypnotism, magic missile, phantasmal assault and phantom cage).
I can understand the essentials spells being screwed up, but Magic Missile?
Seems like All essentials spells are missing as choices from Hybrid Wizards. Including ones that were reprinted such as Magic Missile, Burning Hands, Sleep etc...
Shame on you WotC for such blatantly obvious lack of quality control.
Check the "Show Additional Options" Checkbox. Et voila, problem fixed!
I wish they were all that easy.
good stuff. Dare I ask .... Why have that little checkbox?
I select the feat, I choose the power to swap out...but when it comes down to choosing the new power...I select it but it doesn't take.
Anyone else get this to work?
(In my particular example, I took the Acolyte power at level 10. Character is a hybrid Warden|Cleric. He has at least 1 utility power of each class (after swapping). I'm trying to swap my level 2 utility power for a ranger utility power)
I cannot get MC power-swap feats to work.
I select the feat, I choose the power to swap out...but when it comes down to choosing the new power...I select it but it doesn't take.
Anyone else get this to work?
(In my particular example, I took the Acolyte power at level 10. Character is a hybrid Warden|Cleric. He has at least 1 utility power of each class (after swapping). I'm trying to swap my level 2 utility power for a ranger utility power)
Did you take a ranger multiclass feat?
I tried to replicate, but it crashed and i rage-quit for a few hours...
I cannot get MC power-swap feats to work.
I select the feat, I choose the power to swap out...but when it comes down to choosing the new power...I select it but it doesn't take.
Anyone else get this to work?
(In my particular example, I took the Acolyte power at level 10. Character is a hybrid Warden|Cleric. He has at least 1 utility power of each class (after swapping). I'm trying to swap my level 2 utility power for a ranger utility power)
Did you take a ranger multiclass feat?
I tried to replicate, but it crashed and i rage-quit for a few hours...
Yes of course. I took Warrior of the Wild at level 2. I took acolyte power at 10.
Given that it only keeps stats for the main hand weapon in the power cards, but will use dagger for ranged attacks if it is equipped, this is an issue.
[edit] it apparently makes whatever you select last the main hand weapon. chalk another one up to the unintuitive equipment interface.
Escaped Slave Traits
Secondary Role: Striker
Power Source: Martial
Granted Power: You gain training in the Bluff skill,
and you gain the hidden strike power.
found in dragon 390 page 18
Woah! You can not select a power of lower level? I am trying to build up a wizard and I can not select Dispel Magic (utility level 6 power) as my second utility level 10 power. There is just no option to select anything that isnt level 10 so if you really want two powers at one level you can not take one now and one later. That is mildly frustrating...
Edit---
Ah, sorry I guess that is what the additional check boxes are for... my bad.
Which additional check box? I'm trying to pick a level 2 utility power for my level 10 thief and even if I check the "Show Additional Options" box, I can only choose from a Rogue Utility 10 or a Skill Utility 10. Also, I can't later retrain said power to a lower level power if I wanted to (which I should be able to do).
I want to remind people that if they run into bugs, please please please report them using the "report a bug" link in the FAQ. It's just the best way to make sure your bug has been recorded.
Once things settle down (read, once we fix this server issue) I want to sit down and go through the bugs and feature requests, prioritize them, and get a road map of what we can expect to see in the coming weeks/months. That's the plan anyway. I think fixing this server issue will help eliminate many of the problems we're seeing, but I won't know until we get there. Anyway, I'll be back when I have more info. Keep checking the stickies for updates.
Thanks much for all this guys! Asmo and all of you have really done a great job of getting everything together - it's awesome to have this as a reference. Currently we're working on the server issue that cropped up yesterday, and once that gets finished we'll divert more energy to looking at these individual issues and feature needs.
I want to remind people that if they run into bugs, please please please report them using the "report a bug" link in the FAQ. It's just the best way to make sure your bug has been recorded.
Once things settle down (read, once we fix this server issue) I want to sit down and go through the bugs and feature requests, prioritize them, and get a road map of what we can expect to see in the coming weeks/months. That's the plan anyway. I think fixing this server issue will help eliminate many of the problems we're seeing, but I won't know until we get there. Anyway, I'll be back when I have more info. Keep checking the stickies for updates.
I just want to thank you feor keeping us informed. I would be a lot angrier/more frustrated if I was hearing nothing out of you guys. as it is, I'm frustrated, but I can see that you are trying to fix problesms, and to listen to us, which really does go a long way.
Lots of Missing power choices for hybrid classes;
For example making a wizard/swordmage hybrid at level 1 there are many missing powers for at will (missing : arc lightning, beguiling strands, freezing burst, hypnotism, magic missile, phantasmal assault and phantom cage).
I can understand the essentials spells being screwed up, but Magic Missile?
Seems like All essentials spells are missing as choices from Hybrid Wizards. Including ones that were reprinted such as Magic Missile, Burning Hands, Sleep etc...
Shame on you WotC for such blatantly obvious lack of quality control.
Check the "Show Additional Options" Checkbox. Et voila, problem fixed!
I wish they were all that easy.
good stuff. Dare I ask .... Why have that little checkbox?
i HATE that check box so much. you should start with ALL the options, then whittle DOWN, not the other way around. if it at least *stuck* forever so you didnt have to click it every time you switch....so irritating
Warmage uniform exist only as cloth armor (should also exist as leather)
Expanding this: magic armors in general seem to only exist as the lowest possibility.
Could not find Dislocation Khopesh.
Could not find Repulsion Armor (leather).
After creating an Artificer/Swordmage Hybrid, Khopesh was not listed as a Implement, and implement powers became "Unarmed".
Started to create my character today.
Could not find Dislocation Khopesh.
After creating an Artificer/Swordmage Hybrid, Khopesh was not listed as a Implement, and implement powers became "Unarmed".
I Think khopesh is being treated as axe only. Axes can't be dislocation weapons, nor implements for swordmage/artificer.
May be true for Khopesh. However, tried a scimitar and longsword, still not a implement.
I Think khopesh is being treated as axe only. Axes can't be dislocation weapons, nor implements for swordmage/artificer.
I don't think that weapon-implements are being regarded as such. Swordmages can't seem to use swords, sorcerers can't use daggers...
Retraining does seem to leave ghosts behind. Of course, these ghosts take the form of fully statted out feats to confuse and bamboozle.
I've had this error too...makes you wonder, really...
On which note: PLEASE can the item buying tables REMEMBER the order i put the items in. When I want to compare benefits of items of a number of different types, I want to switch between tabs a lot. When I switch tabs, it goes back to alphabetical order. Which is freaking annoying, as I want to see level order. More missing basic functionality w00t.
Hybrid Talent cannot be taken a second time
I could not take Pact Boon with Hybrid Talent (creating a hybrid warlock)
Swordmages cannot use weapons as implements
I just made a quick discovery regarding the Character Builder not allowing the Multiclass power swapping feats to work - if you have the old Character Builder, make the change to your character and then import it, the new powers from your Multiclass will appear correctly.
Obviously the issue needs to be resolved but at least there is a work around...for now.
XP to next Level are incorrect -
i.e. Slayer Lvl 3 on 2250 shows Next Level of 5500. Should be Next Level 3750.
Also - Any chance of the Sheets showing "Unarmed Basic Attacks" ?
I know it is on here a few times: but none of my characters that can use weapons as implements are showing them on their power cards.
Also it is something small but I do not like the character restrictions as they are for the personality traits/appearance mannerisms etc, should be at least a few times larger.
Issues with the new Character Builder
Hybrid Talent cannot be taken a second time
Correct. It never could be... If you wanted another hybrid talent option, you had to use your paragon path to get it... Unless you house-ruled something...
I find that some choices made in the CB do not stick.For instance, on one character, a Seeker, I have Razor Storm. This allows another choice: Razor Storm Option. No matter how I choose the Razor Storm Option, when I save the character, the choice goes away (becomes unchosen).
I had the same thing happen with entering a name for one character--the name kept disappearing.
Also, the CB sheet sometimes does not display the correct XP value for next level (displaying the amount for 2 levels ahead). This is a well known issue (known prior to release) and it would be surprising that you didn't fix it except for the fact that I have seen other work from this same team.
When creating a character sometimes "Roll Dice" removed the NEXT feature. You can't use some dice rolls? Why? Also, you can't just imput dice rolls?? I like having players ROLL their scores, just because it's house ruled doesn't mean we shouldn't be able to do it in the CB. I PAY for this service, and should be able to allow players to roll their own G*dD^#n scores.
Familiars just don't exist on the character sheet?? WTF?
If you can't put ALL the features of your current product onto the new format, DO NOT FORCE THE NEW FORMAT DOWN OUR THROATS!
This may have been erratta'd somewhere, but the compendium lists the prerequisites as "Heroic Tier
Prerequisite: Trained in Arcana or Religion"
[edit] this is a result of strict feat order. I was trying to change a level one feat to ritual casting, and had the feat that gave me arcana in level 2 feat slot. D'oh! Still, an example of unintuitive and unforgiving interface.
crossbow caster feat for artificiers is not showing up on the power cards.
Yeah. Weapliments are completely broken. You can get around it for daggers by selecting a superior implement version, but for most, there is no workaround.
Characters can equip Mount's Barding. Though this is very possible in a simulationist game, i don't need the CB to show me so. (All while removing my actual armor to equip my horse armor.
)"Blur" is allowed to be chosen in the dialog, but is not selected on the Builder or in the Character Sheet.
Battle Harness armor is apparently missing.
As was no doubt mentioned before, houseruled items and changes to existing stats or skills are not available.
Also - this constant back-and-forth between your servers and the client is just driving me batshit. Every ability point I change, there's a return trip. Every time I search for an item in the shop, there's a return trip. God forbid I check "show more options" on something. End it. This is just stupid. You can download data updates and encrypt them locally, put the key in your dippy silverlight app. But put an end to this crappy back-and-forth. It's really pathetic.
T
P.S. The whole interface to the shop is just horrible, btw. Aside from magic items, I've taken to just penciling in stuff from the books rather than seek out the items in the shop. I know your devs are new at all this, so allow me to enlighten you : it is not a good thing for your users to feel like your software is worse than the system it is supposed to replace. T
2: This is a known issue (at least to the forums) - thought to be caused by incorrect parsing of listed armour types (Cloth, Leather works where Cloth, leather does not).
3: Wholeheartedly agreed.
4: See 3.
Tested this on a Human Hybrid Warlord/Rogue that I built from scratch. Doesn't work on a Hybrid Fighter/Rogue, either. A non-Hybrid Rogue did not have the same problem.
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Another bug: the Hybrid cannot select Tumble from the list of level 2 Rogue utilities. The character has the prerequisite training in Acrobatics.
Tested this on a Human Hybrid Warlord/Rogue that I built from scratch. Doesn't work on a Hybrid Fighter/Rogue, either. A non-Hybrid Rogue did not have the same problem.
-A
Did they introduce a bug or fix one? The way I read the rules for powers for hybrid classes, you should not be able to pick a skill power until you have a utility power from both of your classes.
Battle Harness armor is apparently missing.
Not entirely. There are a number of armor enchantments that ought to exist for multiple armor types, but only show up for one. For example, you can find the cloth version of the Battle Harness, but not the leather or hide versions.
Did they introduce a bug or fix one? The way I read the rules for powers for hybrid classes, you should not be able to pick a skill power until you have a utility power from both of your classes.
Tumble isn't a skill power. It's a 2nd level Rogue utility power. You're likely thinking of Tumbling Dodge, a similar level 6 skill power.
Your post made me wonder if the reason it's not working is the coding to keep Hybrids from taking a skill power if they don't have a utility power from both classes, so I leveled my test Rogue up.
That doesn't seem to be quite it, though, because although my Rogue can't take it as his level 2 utility power, he can take it at level 6.
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As mentioned elsewhere: Expertise bonuses on weapons-used-as-implements have been broken since the old CB, the engine from which is apparently still being used. That, at least, is not a new issue, though it's by no means excused by that fact.
No The CBC used to take it into account IIRC. Versatile Expertise always worked, since it doesn't specify a type of attack as Weapon or Implement but simply the Weapon Group to attack with.
You don't remember the complaints about how Versatile Expertise was more advantageous for Weapliment Users because of this ?
1) Create a character in the old CB that is restricted only to content from PHB1 and PHB2. In other words, uncheck EVERYTHING else.
2) Try to import that character in to the new CB.
3) Crash.
Reason: Some of the tags in the "Restictions" section of the old CB's XML have invalid characters (plus sign, exclamation mark, etc...). Come now, guys, when you generate XML at least stick to the guidelines, eh?
Manually getting rid of those lines in Notepad fixes the problem.
I can provide a character as an example if need be.
Did they introduce a bug or fix one? The way I read the rules for powers for hybrid classes, you should not be able to pick a skill power until you have a utility power from both of your classes.
Tumble isn't a skill power. It's a 2nd level Rogue utility power. You're likely thinking of Tumbling Dodge, a similar level 6 skill power.
Your post made me wonder if the reason it's not working is the coding to keep Hybrids from taking a skill power if they don't have a utility power from both classes, so I leveled my test Rogue up.
That doesn't seem to be quite it, though, because although my Rogue can't take it as his level 2 utility power, he can take it at level 6.
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Maybe there is a data entry error that made that power higher than 2nd level? If they have it listed as a 3rd level utility power, for example, it wouldn't show up at 2nd level.
Or -- were you trained in Acrobatics at 2nd level?
Or -- there were some bugs in the hybrid power selection rules in the last offline Character Builder update. Maybe Tumble was incorrectly implemented as a skill power?
There is definitely a bug somewhere -- but there are so many possibilities as to exactly what the bug is.
I wonder how many of the reported problems are simply available choices not showing up until you click that box? And why some very reasonable options such as Tumble are not available by default?
I did some more poking around and found the problem -- for some bizarre reason, Tumble just isn't listed as a default power choice. Click on the "Show Additional Options" box and it does show up even at 2nd level.
I wonder how many of the reported problems are simply available choices not showing up until you click that box? And why some very reasonable options such as Tumble are not available by default?
My experience so far is that to "help" the player "build" a character, you only get to see options from "Essentials" source books unless you check that box when it will show you everything. I could be off on that, but the general idea is not to overwhelm the newbies. If you're not new I suggest you get used to checking that box every time.
I want my avernian knight to burn everything please!
One of my group has tried to equip a shield to his off hand, and CB makes it his weapon. Not allowing him to use his dagger at all.
I admit that it might be something we are doing wrong and will check back.
Thank you.
Not sure if it has been mentioned, or if others have the same problem.
One of my group has tried to equip a shield to his off hand, and CB makes it his weapon. Not allowing him to use his dagger at all.
I admit that it might be something we are doing wrong and will check back.
Thank you.
I'm not sure how it decides what is in your main hand and what is in your off hand. Try equipping them in opposite order...unequip both, then equip shield first, dagger second...or dagger first, shield second. There is a column that shows what is in the main hand and off hand. If you click on "8: Get Equipment" and go to the "Everything" tab, then scroll to the right it will show you where everything is equipped.
Adroit Explorer paragon path for my 12th level human psion doesn't allow me to select a level 7 "Ambitious Effort New Power." It's odd, though, because the CB tells me to select a paragon path (which I have) and it also tells me to select 1 new power, but that box is gray instead of green. When I click the new power box, nothing happens.
Ambitious Effort lets you select an encounter power of 7th level or lower from your class, which classes with the Psionic Augmentation feature naturally can't (because they have no encounter powers).
What does need fixing is the CB not recognising this like the old one did (by omitting the option entirely, or accepting "none" as a valid pick).
Adroit Explorer paragon path for my 12th level human psion doesn't allow me to select a level 7 "Ambitious Effort New Power." It's odd, though, because the CB tells me to select a paragon path (which I have) and it also tells me to select 1 new power, but that box is gray instead of green. When I click the new power box, nothing happens.
Ambitious Effort lets you select an encounter power of 7th level or lower from your class, which classes with the Psionic Augmentation feature naturally can't (because they have no encounter powers).What does need fixing is the CB not recognising this like the old one did (by omitting the option entirely, or accepting "none" as a valid pick).
Thank you. We did that but with no luck. Will just pencil it in for now
The Master Defiler paragon path is not in the Character Builder along with Defiling Action and Theft of Courage.
Did you select the Dark Sun campaign and then create a character with at least one daily arcane attack power? And did you check the "Show Additional Options" box?
Not for me - try unticking suggestions only. Or look under heavy shield. Or re-order so that the items are in level order.
On which note: PLEASE can the item buying tables REMEMBER the order i put the items in. When I want to compare benefits of items of a number of different types, I want to switch between tabs a lot. When I switch tabs, it goes back to alphabetical order. Which is freaking annoying, as I want to see level order. More missing basic functionality w00t.
I'll look again...thanks
Didn't read through all 19 pages, but can't seem to pick Corellon's Boon of Arcane Might. Hangs up on me every time.
I had that problem too, and then I read about a similar problem with tomes. The common thread seems to be that items for which you must select a power do not work.
However, if you make a Hybrid BM ranger, and take BM as your hybrid talent, you select your beast and are able to update its ability scores in the FEATS menu.
Adroit Explorer paragon path for my 12th level human psion doesn't allow me to select a level 7 "Ambitious Effort New Power." It's odd, though, because the CB tells me to select a paragon path (which I have) and it also tells me to select 1 new power, but that box is gray instead of green. When I click the new power box, nothing happens.
Ambitious Effort lets you select an encounter power of 7th level or lower from your class, which classes with the Psionic Augmentation feature naturally can't (because they have no encounter powers).What does need fixing is the CB not recognising this like the old one did (by omitting the option entirely, or accepting "none" as a valid pick).
Thank you. We did that but with no luck. Will just pencil it in for now
Interesting if I equiped the shield first then the dagger it switched the shield to off-hand and dagger to main. Same thing if dagger goes first it gets swapped to off-hand. I just built a generic level 1 fighter when testing it though.
Joe