Is the Online CB Working Well Now?
- Thread starter Retreater
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I haven't had *too* many issues with it. The biggest thing for me is that some equipment is missing or not working properly - the shaman Totemic spear for example is only applying to regular spears, not longspears of greatspears which is particularly frustrating for one player in my group.
Performance is still slow for me, but I haven't run into many stability issues lately, other than the rare time out. However there are still a lot of functionality issues, such as powers we can't pick, missing or incorrectly categorized items, items we can't equip, power swap issues, certain bonuses not applying etc. We're still waiting for an update on the functional issues.
The Little Raven
First Post
Is the character proficient with longspears and greatspears? It won't show me equipment with which my character is not proficient.
fanboy2000
Adventurer
Trouble is when you try to argue that csh works "just fine" for shell scripting.
Frequent crashing has stopped, but IIRC, that was actually a server issue. The online CB still lacks some basic functionally for non-dedicated like myself. No export function. Missing some essentials info from HotFK. It's also missing features from the old CB like the ability to edit character sheets. Also the character sheets are images, which is makes them unreasonably big. It's my understanding the online CB's first update ever is coming before Christmas. So, you'll probably see another round of complaining when that happens because frankly, I don't think Wizards is going to address most of their problems which require adding features to the program.
I'd wait. My standard answer to this question is typically wait two update cycles. So, I'd say after the January update we'll have a good idea on what kind of features Wizards plans on adding.
Of course, if the standard feature request list isn't that important to you, (e.g., editable character sheets, exporting, etc...) you may want to try it out after the December update. I predict it'll be tomorrow, but who knows?
Personally, I'm mostly fine with it as it is.
renau1g
First Post
I'd agree with fanboy on this. The offline one was really great and if they can get this working properly it really could be great also, but right now it's not so good. I would say it's better than making a PC by hand, but still not useful enough where I'd recommend paying for it.
Echohawk
Shirokinukatsukami fan
From my point of view, the Character Builder remains completely useless. I am unable to select any powers at all, due to a still unresolved US-regional settings bug. I'd wait at least another month before throwing any money at a trial month.
