[Branaddar]

It's a multi-step scale for the AAs. I think 250 then 500 then 1000 have varying degrees of speed.

Anyway, I tend to agree that the first few expansions of AAs were decent. But going back to EQLive recently and looking through the thousands upon thousands of AAs I "need" to be an efficient monk... no thanks.

It's part of the reason I just can't get into EQLive anymore. Knowing that even when I hit the next level cap, there's still 1000+ more AA I need to earn in order to be on par with the people that didn't quit playing.

I was glad to have CA/CS 8, now it goes up to 25 or something ridiculous.

I'm not sure I like the idea of having "specs" in EQ. A monk is a monk is a monk. I shouldn't have to "spec" to be a good raid puller at the cost of being shitty DPS.

It's going to cause issues if there's no ability to respend points. A lot of people are going to spend on whatever makes them get XP and loot faster primarily, and then they want to raid and either guilds will deny them for being the wrong spec, or they'll be crappy at raids because of their spec.

Obviously not an issue for healers or DPS classes necessarily, but any of the multi-function classes will suffer from a need to specialize in one function. Bards, monks and enchanters come heavily to mind as classes that would suffer from further specialization.

The more I think about it, the more I think AAs could really hurt this server. Yes, there is a need to "do something" when we're capped and there's no more raid content coming. But I don't think grinding 5000 AA is the answer.

I like EZServer's RoA/Prestige system, where after you cap you can reset to level 1 and each time you do, you get an upgrade to a ring. But I'm not sure that would work well here. Guilds will rely on their raid members, and having people leveling from scratch all the time would just kill the ability to perform at raids.

Perhaps XP gained after your cap goes towards... something. An evolving item of sorts, or some form of earned points to be spent on low- to mid-grade raid equipment for the people that don't want to raid here, or to avoid the need to farm Halls of Testing for a month just to get half your guild 2 pieces of gear each. I dunno, just throwing ideas around.

I'd like to see this server remain as classic as possible, but without growing stagnant at the same time.