What will be your primary class on Green, considering the Classic changes?

[slowpoke68]

These poll results actually look fairly classic as I recall classic population being on Brell Serilis server in 1999.

One difference would be a lot less enchanters and a lot more monks. I actually remember chanters being kind of rare, it was kind of a treat when you got one in your group.

On a side note, it will be interesting to see how many people stick with chanter when they don't have +55 hp rings from level 1 and tab cycle targeting. I remember chanters dropping really fast when they drew aggro.

[Tecmos Deception]

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

Clerics are about 65% of a wizard without undead spells if you are just looking at damage/mana ratio.

At 50 maybe. It's not that much of a difference at lower levels, as I indicated.

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

Is group bonus not classic?

I think there is a small exp bonus for grouping. Like, a couple percent per party member or something. But I don't believe it works in a way that has more than a truly minimal effect. For example, 110 exp for a kill divided 5 ways (assuming 0% exp penalties for everyone) vs. 112 exp for a kill divided 6 ways.

[ldgo86]

If this poll has any accuracy at all, tanks are going to be in high demand

[FatherSioux]

Originally Posted by ldgo86 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

If this poll has any accuracy at all, tanks are going to be in high demand

Roughly 20% of the population according to this poll will be tanking. Seems perfect to me.

[Tecmos Deception]

Originally Posted by ldgo86 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

If this poll has any accuracy at all, tanks are going to be in high demand

15% between the three real tanks. That's just about 1 in 6, which is of course the size of a full group.

Consider that other classes can get by as tanks too, with no melee you just use pets, and that mostly non-tanks will spend time soloing... and the proportion of tanks to groups will be fine.

[ldgo86]

Okay good points there. I wasn’t thinking classically enough haha.

[Gustoo]

1 in 6 exact amount for grouping.

Especially since druids and necros won't be grouping once they're through the nooblevels.

[Tecmos Deception]

I'm actually, surprisingly, having trouble picking my main.

I was all set to do cleric as a break from an enchanter main character (or ONLY character for the last like 4 years, really). I've played them before, they're great in groups and raids and even have legit solo in classic era, and you can squeeze more than a healbot out of them if you're not feeling lazy.

But then every time someone says something that is (to me) dumb about enchanters, it makes me want to play an enchanter to make the bad enchanters look bad.

But suddenly, randomly, I thought maybe I should try shaman, one of the few classes I never played in classic (on blue) or took to 60 after Kunark.



Hmmmmm.

Shaman has more exp/farm options cause I'd be evil, plus alchemy might entertain me. Cleric is more of a sure thing to be useful in raids or get into groups. Enchanter I'd feel absolutely no desire in trying to get a guise (shaman) or manastone (cleric) for, so that'd be a nice weight off my shoulders. Hmmmmmmmmmmm.

[Sizar]

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

I was all set to do cleric as a break from an enchanter main character (or ONLY character for the last like 4 years, really).

But suddenly, randomly, I thought maybe I should try shaman, one of the few classes I never played in classic (on blue) or took to 60 after Kunark.

Now is a great time to go Shaman. I would pay a LOT of plat on blue for the chance to have my ugly Ogre Shaman get a guise. Personally I am going to wait for the off chance that I get a manastone before I make a cleric. I want to do the solo cleric path w/ manastone.

[Tecmos Deception]

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

Now is a great time to go Shaman. I would pay a LOT of plat on blue for the chance to have my ugly Ogre Shaman get a guise. Personally I am going to wait for the off chance that I get a manastone before I make a cleric. I want to do the solo cleric path w/ manastone.

Lol. I did the solo cleric thing with manastone and unnerfed donals on blue. I couldn't imagine fiddling around with that crap using a casted CH. It wouldn't be worth the effort instead of just taking longer med breaks and spending more time fully immersed in hulu.

I'd definitely pursue the guise with a shaman, though more for being able to be a little shrunk while outdoors than for the fashionquest. I actually enjoy being an ugly-ass female troll or ogre.