How to fix rangers and warriors without losing the "classic" feel.

[Sethius]

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

All of these suggestions are great you guys! I can't wait for you to start, develop, pay for, and moderate your own server where they can be implemented, and rangers can be a viable class, and the mission statement of the server won't be the dusty old p99 "Relive the classic Everquest MMORPG Gaming Experience as it was in 1999 and onward." bullshit, but the cool new one you're starting "Experience the classic feel of Everquest as I think it should have been!" ..and the sun will rise in the west and set in the east, and unicorns will shoot rainbows out of their asses!!

OMG CAN'T WAIT

Oh man, this post is beautiful. Can we just automatically have this post added to every thread that comes up with more stupid non-classic ideas that they personally feel would make (whatever they don't like about EQ) better?

It's so tiring to see people come in here and continue to add their two cents on what needs to change about EQ to make it funner than it was originally on live while also supposedly adhering to the "feel" of classic, while also adding to the piles of other people who want to change some aspect of EQ because they didn't like it.

I have news for you, if this server feels like classic, but isn't classic, that same balance that made classic epic will not exist... some things that happened in classic will change, big or small, and the implications cannot be seen now, I assure you. Rebalancing classic to make warriors better at group threat, or rangers better at not sucking... how will that affect other things? I can tell you that when the dev's at Blizzard make small changes that seem mundane, WoW sometimes encounters far reaching changes to other aspects of the game that they didn't expect... and they have tens of millions of dollars to spend on R&D... what makes you think you can balance something personally in a game as big as EQ?

Besides that, making fun of rangers is a part of the classic feel for me... do not take that away.

If we listened to all the changes requested, this game would not be even close to classic EQ. It would be some abomination. Making things easier is not the classic feel, that's a modern MMO. Classic EQ was annoying and difficult, deal with it or leave.

If we listened to just a few, sure, some ranger could wank in the corner at how awesome his class is now despite that being the opposite of classic, but where do we draw the line?

I say we just draw the line where the dev's have already drawn it, follow classic as closely as they can (some things can't be helped), and continue playing on the EQ emu server that has hundreds of players every night. Start changing on the whim of what every self-proclaimed EQ expert feels is in the spirit of classic (but really is just an excuse to make classic funner for their chosen play style), and I'm pretty certain this place will die off.