Custom Content or Custom Class?

[Eldon]

ogre rog pls

[Tuljin]

New server pls

[LordRayken]

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

New server pls

No pls

[LGraves]

How about flying mounts and instanced zones?

[LordRayken]

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

How about flying mounts and instanced zones?

Oh god no.

How about something new that keeps the theme of classic and is built around current gameplay mechanics.
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[wormed]

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

New server pls

New server following classic timeline to PoP, pls.

[uygi]

I always wanted to see an enchanter/rogue hybrid. They both share strong deception/illusion elements. Balancing would take some work, but making it feel classic would be easy. I imagine dual wield without double attack, appropriately weakened rogue abilities (slower sneak [but they have invis...], weakened backstab, no evade). Some useful but limited mez ability, no powerful charm pets, except maybe as a discipline. Aggro reduction through spells only. I suppose they would be a leather class?

I thought this was the obvious choice for a new class in 1999, and I still think it would be awesome. Added benefit is that the coding would probably be pretty straightforward, as they're all mechanics that seem to be manipulated pretty effectively on P99 already, but they would fit together in a very different way.

[Jfertal]

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

Troll bard.

rip da oogly stick...

[LordRayken]

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

I always wanted to see an enchanter/rogue hybrid. They both share strong deception/illusion elements. Balancing would take some work, but making it feel classic would be easy. I imagine dual wield without double attack, appropriately weakened rogue abilities (slower sneak [but they have invis...], weakened backstab, no evade). Some useful but limited mez ability, no powerful charm pets, except maybe as a discipline. Aggro reduction through spells only. I suppose they would be a leather class?

I thought this was the obvious choice for a new class in 1999, and I still think it would be awesome. Added benefit is that the coding would probably be pretty straightforward, as they're all mechanics that seem to be manipulated pretty effectively on P99 already, but they would fit together in a very different way.

I think ideas that go too far into new mechanics can lose the feel of classic pretty quickly. There aren't many niches that are left to be filled, either. One of the primary reasons I felt like Archer was one of the last areas classic EQ was weak in. And just bows in general.

[am0n]

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

Anyways, on the class. Archery as it stands has a lot of the same mechanics as melee and dex affects it the same exact way strength affects melee. EverQuest was always missing a classic bow ranged character, like the Archer, and I feel that Nilbog and the rest of the developers here would be the ones to do it properly. No, the only ones to do it properly, and balance it so that it's "classic."

EQ got such a creature. It's called the Ranger: Luclin Edition.