Upcoming change to class epics

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

Can anyone give me a reason, other than leveling faster, why not having an epic at low levels is game breaking? Help me understand this. Really.

I can see the red ganking noobs. But what else is there that makes having an epic at low levels important?

Your making this a Dev vs Red thing. I spent a lot of time got a lot of help from friends and then spent a lot of plat getting my ranger his Swiftwind and Earthcaller along with a full set of Tolans just because it looked amazing. Several times I have had a GM run through and toss an illusion(High Elf or Troll to name 2 I remember off hand) on him in EC just to make him look cool as a race that cannot be ranger. It was all in fun I don't even play him that often anymore. He is level 30 and will probably stay that way. This was on blue99 btw. It was the chance to accomplish something so I guess with these changes I have no reason to ever log him in again. I didn't do it to grief anyone or to exploit or anything else it was something I never got on live until it was so trivial I was able to solo most of it.(ranger epics) It was for the fun and fashionquest.

This was what the game was about it wasn't a game changer or exploit it was because that was the fun of being able to customize your character and maybe do something different. We all play or played this game for our own reasons to have fun in our own way. Yes I agree some live to grief others or to exploit or to make money but most of us in our own ways play this game just to have fun. If we didn't need the social interaction or the customizable ability of our toons we could go play a console game. I am betting that is what attracted you guys to the idea of doing an emulated version of EQ if not you would have been doing WoW or some console game instead. It was the parts of the game you enjoyed that stuck with you.

I am not asking you not to implement this change. I am just asking that you not make it so some of us who did epics for innocent reasons to have fun without hurting others aren't hurt by the change. This isn't a classic change so it isn't necessary to take a sledge hammer to it to fix. I can understand making it not equippable until 46 if that is what you feel is best for the server and community but please do not unequip or make them automatically unequip when this change goes through. The griefers on Red or other places will die sooner or later and then they just cant reequip their epic until 46. Imo that's a win win for everyone.

There are so many other positive changes that can be made currently to help the server and community please you guys do good work keep it up.

Oh and it might be time to do a server restart. Not wipe but just restart them there are some pretty serious ghosting and latency issues starting to pop up. Seem to remember someone posting may have been years ago that if the server wasn't restarted at like day 44 or 74 or something it really started to act funny.


Last thing sorry if you addressed what I said earlier I only got to the page your comment was posted on before I felt I should quote it.

Thanks again for all you guys do for us.