Not a whine but can we please fix melee?

[Lord Traxor]

Hope people realize EQ was hard as heck in 1999 and soloing was not really viable for melee classes.

[Danth]

Solo capablity is still used as a benchmark. It's easier for us to judge our performance alone than when grouped with 5 other people. Despite not soloing so well as a necromancer, if we can't solo the same things on P99 as we could on live, historically (in much the same gear), then something's amiss.

I'm still waiting for some joker to try to tell me the yellow bar is working like it did on classic. Seems (as yet) nobody's THAT much of a fanboy.

Danth

[stormlord]

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

Hope people realize EQ was hard as heck in 1999 and soloing was not really viable for melee classes.

You're speaking in generalities. Sure, it was hard, but was it this hard? How do we know? The developers have to ask themselves that question all the time. We should too because we're essentially beta testers.

[messiah_b]

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

Hope people realize EQ was hard as heck in 1999 and soloing was not really viable for melee classes.

This is very true which is why I said that I really don't think things are that off. However I don't recall that it was all that difficult for any class to solo through six, and there are plenty of reports of AC not affecting damage well at higher levels.

This weekend I am going to try and get some numbers on this issue by recording some tanking data sets.

[Tenudil]

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

Hope people realize EQ was hard as heck in 1999 and soloing was not really viable for melee classes.

Getting pretty sick of comments like this. Solo wasn't viable because it took forever to heal up between kills. Not because we died to dark blue in 1999. Some of us did play melee characters back then. Mob hit rates of 90+ percent are NOT correct, and people saying thats not happening aren't really paying attention.

[Villert]

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

Hope people realize EQ was hard as heck in 1999 and soloing was not really viable for melee classes.

This comment almost always comes from someone who either, 1. Doesn't play melee now, or 2. Play melee now, but didn't in '99.

And soloing was extremely viable for monks at the very least, even before kunark/velious. Most melees could solo, it just wasn't efficient, monks made it efficient with mend/bandaging and FD.

It's really not close to the way it was, and if you think it is, you're kidding yourself...