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Originally Posted by heartbrand
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But hybrids are so good cuz they can melee and cast u no?
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During this era of everquest hybrids suffer from compounding penalties. Their versitility was the original rationale behind this but they went too far. So not only do they, generally, not do anything better than the "pure" classes, they get a 40% exp penalty that they bring with them to groups, making them even less desireable. Bards being the arguable exception....They have always been great if the player behind them was talented. And I still think, personally, that hybrid tanks are great because they can use spells for aggro, but still prefer grouping with warriors because they bring no exp penalty. The exp penalty isn't that bad in a good fast grinding group with A hybrid....You get 2 or more and you might as well just go do something else....The bar literally barely moves.
Bad idea jeans, from the get-go, and the devs eventually admitted that the extent to which hybrids were penalized was a major mistake. And they took steps to fix it. The hybrid penalty came out mid-velious, and as new content was released most hybrid classes got their own lines of spells and buffs that gave them a more desired role. Eventually, hybrid tanks, for example, became the premiere tanks for group content, while warriors remained top tanks for raid content. Rangers just as viable a dps class as rogues and monks, with some fantastic ATK buffs to go with them. You know, actual class balance instead of what we have during this era.
I love classic EQ. Loved it then, and love it here now. But hybrid classes being basicly broken with compounding penalties probably at the top of the list of things I don't like about this era, becuase it's just ridiculous. And it's worse here because it gets so blown out of proportion by the min-maxxers. Back in actual classic era live, people still just played what they wanted and it really wasn't that big a deal, especially before kunark. It was around halfway thru kunark that people en masse began to notice the problem with the group hybrid exp penalty and started avoiding them for groups.
Was looking for something new to do recently so I started a ranger. It's actually a really fun class, you just have to gear it and play it right. Have talked to higher level rangers and from what I can gather, the worst part of playing one isn't that they are gimped like popular opionion suggests, but that people think they are gimped and you can't get groups. "Hope you like to solo" I have been told repeatedly.