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Originally Posted by oqrelord
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The spellbook obscuring your view seems like an intentional design decision. Everquest borrowing heavily from dnd, it makes sense.
Spellcasters have to prepare their magic after each 'engagement' and this is classic eq's way of simulating that. Casters are left vulnerable inbetween battles.
Even more so, it somewhat balances casters and melee's. Melee are much weaker in classic, but they aren't hampered with preparation time.
The fact that casters graduate from this after 35, signals how conscious of a design choice this was.
I actually would welcome this to be implemented... it's an interesting mechanic, and you can level out of it, so its not even a big deal.
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Convincing aside, you are going to end up putting off players with this. I don't know that you would lose players for not book-blocking the screen though. And I agree that the disapproval is not coming from die-hard EQ players who want to play in the most restrictive form possible. We are more interested in returning and enjoying the fresh-start aspects.
The couple of hardcore guys who keep pushing for it on here may actually enjoy spending their play time with a blanked screen for cumulative hours/days. Or perhaps the extent of their playing is on a forum arguing. In any case, we are waiting for the official response regarding this question so that we can make some decisions amid the games that are doing a fresh-start server within the ~month.