Balance the Classes by Moving Existing Abilities

[Dural_Levant]

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

Total addiction to evercrack leads to evercrack philosophers and some of the Evercrackheads seen in this thread daydreaming at work, at meals, going to bed etc thinking about insane ways that would make their favorite drug "EVEN better!"

"We're not hopelessly addicted - its just a hobby we're REALLY passionate about."

I'm at work right now... I feel so called out by this.

[radbeard]

I don't think wizards should get the clarity like because they are not at all a buffing class, but I think they should get more efficient meditate. Let them start off right away with 1 mana/10med skill. At lvl 50 make it /9 and at level 60 /8.

That still makes their sustained DPS pretty poor but drastically lowers downtime

[Kich867]

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

I don't think wizards should get the clarity like because they are not at all a buffing class, but I think they should get more efficient meditate. Let them start off right away with 1 mana/10med skill. At lvl 50 make it /9 and at level 60 /8.

That still makes their sustained DPS pretty poor but drastically lowers downtime

I really liked someone's suggestion that Wizards have either a self-buff or a buff they can provide that reduces the mana cost of spells.

Maybe even a combo mana cost reduction / threat reduction buff, which would be really interesting. I don't think that impedes on the design space of enchanters, it doesn't improve your downtime, it just prolongs your uptime, which feels in tune with wizards to me?

[radbeard]

Originally Posted by Kich867 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I really liked someone's suggestion that Wizards have either a self-buff or a buff they can provide that reduces the mana cost of spells.

Maybe even a combo mana cost reduction / threat reduction buff, which would be really interesting. I don't think that impedes on the design space of enchanters, it doesn't improve your downtime, it just prolongs your uptime, which feels in tune with wizards to me?

Yeah this also seems fine. You could do a combo of this idea and make wizard specializations extra effective so that they lowered mana costs by 30% or something instead of the standard 10% (or whatever it is)

[Cen]

My idea for wizards would be to just give them two lines of DD. One that's absolutely free of mana cost, but good sustained damage, and one that burns your mana for insane burst until out of mana.

[Jibartik]

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

My idea for wizards would be to just give them two lines of DD. One that's absolutely free of mana cost, but good sustained damage, and one that burns your mana for insane burst until out of mana.

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[Zuranthium]

PvE-only Everquest has been boring for a long time, it's more interesting to talk about what the game could be, what it was supposed to be, and what it was actually like in 1999-2001. I would only play if friends who haven't played before wanted to get into the game, so I could help them to experience a bit of the magic for the first time, and so they could have a better understanding of some things that have been lost in MMORPG's.