Agonizing Blast

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I'm still happily using this site and app despite the odd, "why no worky?" I have faith that one day, maybe in a few years, all those little nitpicky things will be fixed.

 And........in a few years, we will be dealing with the 2034 PHB and the rule changes in it......will the discrepancies between the 2014 rules and the 2024 rules be resolved by then?  Who knows?

 For those paying attention to announcements, the system overhaul is meant to address everything at once. The current system is spaghetti-coded and uses hard-coded modifiers that are difficult to add to or modify, hence issues like Agonizing Blast being tied specifically to Eldritch Blast instead of being programmed then assigned to Eldritch Blast which would be able to be assigned elsewhere. The new system is supposed to be more flexible so they can add new content on the fly relatively easily.

It's planned for sometime this year; giving a more locked-down date wouldn't be great until they're sure.

I'm sure the counter to this will be "other fixes were promised, and they didn't happen fast enough/at all, so fix this now before I'm proven right that this is a lie/overpromising, WotC Satan"

Legit:What website/forum has instant fixes on-demand?

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I'm still happily using this site and app despite the odd, "why no worky?" I have faith that one day, maybe in a few years, all those little nitpicky things will be fixed.

 And........in a few years, we will be dealing with the 2034 PHB and the rule changes in it......will the discrepancies between the 2014 rules and the 2024 rules be resolved by then?  Who knows?

 For those paying attention to announcements, the system overhaul is meant to address everything at once. The current system is spaghetti-coded and uses hard-coded modifiers that are difficult to add to or modify, hence issues like Agonizing Blast being tied specifically to Eldritch Blast instead of being programmed then assigned to Eldritch Blast which would be able to be assigned elsewhere. The new system is supposed to be more flexible so they can add new content on the fly relatively easily.

It's planned for sometime this year; giving a more locked-down date wouldn't be great until they're sure.

I'm sure the counter to this will be "other fixes were promised, and they didn't happen fast enough/at all, so fix this now before I'm proven right that this is a lie/overpromising, WotC Satan"

Legit:What website/forum has instant fixes on-demand?

 Legit: It all should have been correct upon release. 

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I'm still happily using this site and app despite the odd, "why no worky?" I have faith that one day, maybe in a few years, all those little nitpicky things will be fixed.

 And........in a few years, we will be dealing with the 2034 PHB and the rule changes in it......will the discrepancies between the 2014 rules and the 2024 rules be resolved by then?  Who knows?

 For those paying attention to announcements, the system overhaul is meant to address everything at once. The current system is spaghetti-coded and uses hard-coded modifiers that are difficult to add to or modify, hence issues like Agonizing Blast being tied specifically to Eldritch Blast instead of being programmed then assigned to Eldritch Blast which would be able to be assigned elsewhere. The new system is supposed to be more flexible so they can add new content on the fly relatively easily.

It's planned for sometime this year; giving a more locked-down date wouldn't be great until they're sure.

I'm sure the counter to this will be "other fixes were promised, and they didn't happen fast enough/at all, so fix this now before I'm proven right that this is a lie/overpromising, WotC Satan"

Legit:What website/forum has instant fixes on-demand?

 Legit: It all should have been correct upon release. 

 Again: Without a complete overhaul, this was literally impossible. And the Beyond team has zero control over the book release team.

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I'm still happily using this site and app despite the odd, "why no worky?" I have faith that one day, maybe in a few years, all those little nitpicky things will be fixed.

 And........in a few years, we will be dealing with the 2034 PHB and the rule changes in it......will the discrepancies between the 2014 rules and the 2024 rules be resolved by then?  Who knows?

 For those paying attention to announcements, the system overhaul is meant to address everything at once. The current system is spaghetti-coded and uses hard-coded modifiers that are difficult to add to or modify, hence issues like Agonizing Blast being tied specifically to Eldritch Blast instead of being programmed then assigned to Eldritch Blast which would be able to be assigned elsewhere. The new system is supposed to be more flexible so they can add new content on the fly relatively easily.

It's planned for sometime this year; giving a more locked-down date wouldn't be great until they're sure.

I'm sure the counter to this will be "other fixes were promised, and they didn't happen fast enough/at all, so fix this now before I'm proven right that this is a lie/overpromising, WotC Satan"

Legit:What website/forum has instant fixes on-demand?

 Legit: It all should have been correct upon release. 

 Again: Without a complete overhaul, this was literally impossible. And the Beyond team has zero control over the book release team.

 Again: As a paying customer who spends a goddamn small fortune here, I don't care. Should have been done over a year and a half ago.

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I'm still happily using this site and app despite the odd, "why no worky?" I have faith that one day, maybe in a few years, all those little nitpicky things will be fixed.

 And........in a few years, we will be dealing with the 2034 PHB and the rule changes in it......will the discrepancies between the 2014 rules and the 2024 rules be resolved by then?  Who knows?

 For those paying attention to announcements, the system overhaul is meant to address everything at once. The current system is spaghetti-coded and uses hard-coded modifiers that are difficult to add to or modify, hence issues like Agonizing Blast being tied specifically to Eldritch Blast instead of being programmed then assigned to Eldritch Blast which would be able to be assigned elsewhere. The new system is supposed to be more flexible so they can add new content on the fly relatively easily.

It's planned for sometime this year; giving a more locked-down date wouldn't be great until they're sure.

I'm sure the counter to this will be "other fixes were promised, and they didn't happen fast enough/at all, so fix this now before I'm proven right that this is a lie/overpromising, WotC Satan"

Legit:What website/forum has instant fixes on-demand?

 Legit: It all should have been correct upon release. 

 Again: Without a complete overhaul, this was literally impossible. And the Beyond team has zero control over the book release team.

You're going to get the response "It should have been overhauled before release"

It's not like other issues were happening in the year before 2024, no siree bob.

I just got back into D&D after 15 years and I was pressured into getting DND Beyond. Only to find the problem I'm having with Agonizing Blast is a problem other's have had for nearly TWO YEARS!!!
The only solution appears to be is suck it up it'll never be fixed... What an absolute joke.

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I just got back into D&D after 15 years and I was pressured into getting DND Beyond. Only to find the problem I'm having with Agonizing Blast is a problem other's have had for nearly TWO YEARS!!!
The only solution appears to be is suck it up it'll never be fixed... What an absolute joke.

 I had once thought that the incessant debate about the "GO TO" statement in the pages of Communications of the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) were the height of amusement. I now stand corrected: this debate/thread is the NEW height of hilarity and amusement.

I am also a survivor of spaghetti code, hard code and other devilish delights.

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I just got back into D&D after 15 years and I was pressured into getting DND Beyond. Only to find the problem I'm having with Agonizing Blast is a problem other's have had for nearly TWO YEARS!!!
The only solution appears to be is suck it up it'll never be fixed... What an absolute joke.

 They are CURRENTLY rebuilding the game engine to allow these things to be supported, because the original one written ten years ago is the spaghetti code problem.

https://www.dndbeyond.com/en/roadmap -> Game Platform.

They've known for years though that the rebuild was needed, and have neglected to do anything about it until about 6 months ago, and we still don't know how long its going to take. For all we know it'll never get finished and be abandoned like Sigil.

It's entirely reasonable for people to complain about DDB putting out a broken product. The rebuild should have been done for the 2024 releases at the latest, not still months away (at least) nearly two years later.