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Originally Posted by Bantam 1 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Yeah it has multiclassing which IMO blows.... not because its different or new, but because unless its done perfectly or near perfect.... it actually reduces choice and uniqueness of group comp.


If you give me 100 classes, but only 5 or 6 combos of abilities are "viable" then you only really have 5 or 6 classes. The rest are noob traps.

I can agree with most of that. What your describing is Rift basically. It sounded awesome but in practice there were only so many viable builds for PVE. You could be creative with PVP builds though and still be viable.

But like you say, if its done right, it could be great. All we can do is speculate. For example though, from the info I have seen, its not like everyone is going to be max level of all classes, only really hardcore players are going to accomplish that. The example they used is pally and SK. In order to advance as a paladin you have to get in good with the good guys for them to teach you. That prevents you from getting in good with the bad guys who would teach you SK stuff. You would have to fully train as one or the other, then go back switch your faction, and start over fresh as the other.

Furthermore, its being designed as extremely gear dependent game. When they talked about the teleporting rogue for instance, they described a situation where you would teleport, but then not have enough energy/stamina/mana/whatever to backstab unless you had gear that was designed for that type of playstyle. To me, that gives me motivation to play outside of filling an xp bar. Same as it is here when you decide I'm going to go get jboots, gebs, random item x, etc etc. Of course you can't really do that on P99 since the economy is so fucked, but you get the idea.