Introduce AAs but with no Luclin?

[diplo]

lets get velious first before we even talk about this.

[Droog007]

Love the idea of adding class-refining "Expanded Abilities" like Slay Undead, Shroud of Stealth, Escape, Archery Mastery, etc. as a quest reward (as long as we're not talking poopsock bottlenecks).

Maybe fuel it with some kind of tribute system... get some plat out of the economy...

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Originally Posted by Droog007 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

get some plat out of the economy...

Speaking of this, would it be possible to implement a sort of vendor only unique items that cost a substantial amount of plat? I think live had something like that in the bazaar when I quit (around 2005).

There is so much plat on this server it's crazy. I think this is a way to help with the situation, by perhaps this is best saved for another thread [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Elmarnieh]

Want to get plat out of the economy just make gate potions 150pp.

Boom.

[myriverse]

I'd rather Luclin without AAs. Sexy Kitties!

Seriously though... how ya gonna be classic but not?

[Waedawen]

Include the answer, "A year after velious drops."

And release only the watered down AAs... Innate Runspeed, Innate Regen/FT, Metabolism, Innate Statistics.

If the Paladins want Slay, make them do a quest. If Rangers want Trueshot or EQ, Custom Content that shit with Maesyn Trueshot.

The hybrids already have their cool Rain Caller / Soulfire quests, so if their AA abilities make it into the classic server they should not be AA's.

[Kekephee]

AAs were cool in the sense that being a 60 with max exp and nothing to do but farm Seb loot or Kael arena got pretty boring pretty fast, and it's nice to have something to work on after you're maxed out... but AAs were tuned to Luclin raid/group mobs, which were significantly harder than Velious. I don't see any way for the introduction of AAs on a velious-level server to NOT make shit way easier than it's supposed to be.

Unless the AAs were limited, like you could only get the piddly things like innate metabolism, run speed, and maybe the first rank of melee crit advancement. Things like undead crippling blows for paladins would make trak a total joke, and that encounter's got enough problems with the raid scene as it is on this server.

[Brimacombe]

Two words:

Dire Charm

On the other hand, it would be good to have Velious content tuned, but I can only shudder at what a nightmare that would be to program.

[Kekephee]

The only thing I think p99 really needs that we've lost with the reduction of all the xpacs post velious is chat channels. Other than that, I could live with absolutely nothing post-velious happening ever again. But damn do I miss chat channels.

[Droog007]

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

... But damn do I miss chat channels.

And the guild window... And the raid window...

Classic EQ is a great game, but the UI is just painful at times.

Please add power steering to my vintage hotrod. kthx. (this is not sarcasm)