Casters in velious

[Malevz]

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

I've said time and time again. Getting backstabbed for 1800 DMG on a 1200AC lvl 60 warrior on a regular basis is not classic and the melee hit dmg/rates needs a nerf.

The miss/hit rates seem very similar to live for the skill itself, but it was rare to get much more than the minimum backstabs on warriors. Even SK's and paladins with their AC, a mediocre one could beat a rogue pretty easily.

Really more concerned about casters though. On live they weren't nearly so squishy, necros in decent gear could last a while simply drain tanking some melee. Plate classes at least make up for the lack of AC working with HP. Won't someone please think of the casters?

[Malevz]

Sounds classic. I remember paladins and SK's killing full groups of mid/upper 50s.

[Genedin]

first person pvping huh? is this how you still do it?

[awfal]

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

first person pvping huh? is this how you still do it?

nTOV gear, didnt care. quick mouse scroll to make looting quicker.

[Malevz]

Iksar warriors are handsome beasts as well.

[Zalaerian]

Casters will be viable. Play better.

[Rennol]

Any plate class would tear apart a rogue straight up given that the rogue wasn't ambushing them while they were weak, had optimal positioning, etc. etc.

[R Flair]

On live, most people didn't run around fully geared and fully buffed. Even if you weren't on rz, most people had run of the mill gear. Go spar with a melee here that is using non-BiS gear without buffs and watch how often they miss you and hit for minimum damage.

[Fame]

Casters will find themselves in the diamondcutter on the reg in iceland

[Bokke]

Back in corner + thorns + chloroblast was a viable strategy for druids vs. any melee.
This was at a reasonable gear level for the druid. Very well geared monks could be an issue with disc + lucky staff procs, but rogues had trouble landing backstabs and the rest of the melee damage was manageable.

Nukes also landed after ro, most of the time. (nukes continued to land on VT gear and PoP gear later on when people were sitting at 350 all resists.) the only exception to this was bards with max resists.

Druid AC/mana/hp will go up in velious no doubt, but I'd be surprised if they'll be able to go toe-toe with a melee like they could in classic velious, with r99 mechanics.