Non-classic wishlist

[ThePeoplesBard]

Every race should be able to play Bard because every known race/civilization has musicians and storytellers. At the least, given the fantasy literature that EQ (and all fantasy games) is based upon, it's crazy to me that Halflings and Dwarves can't play Bard.

[m00r5tuD]

throw something in similar to the Shadowhaven Casino in so there's a huge plat sink and I have a shot at a guise

[Bummey]

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

assling rangers

[Jauna]

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

Every race should be able to play Bard because every known race/civilization has musicians and storytellers. At the least, given the fantasy literature that EQ (and all fantasy games) is based upon, it's crazy to me that Halflings and Dwarves can't play Bard.

And thus, every end game player will be ogre or iksar bards followed up by names like Phat Lute, or Myusical Cloaca, and Das Beets. Probably more to think of but I am not very original when it comes to names and generally takes my days if not weeks to settle on something.

But that also can open up racial instruments, sure I can see a dwarf with a lute but cant imagine an ogre with a regular drum. Hell even a gnome with a flute is weird when they can probably tinker a one man band type of deal.

[FungusTrooper]

I did love my ogre bard in EQ2. And my ratonga paladin. Weird race/class combos ftw.

[Rygar]

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

Every race should be able to play Bard because every known race/civilization has musicians and storytellers. At the least, given the fantasy literature that EQ (and all fantasy games) is based upon, it's crazy to me that Halflings and Dwarves can't play Bard.

This exact question / suggestion was posed to Brad McQuaid, his answer was along the lines of you are correct but you could make that argument for a lot of classes and at some point they had to draw the line to keep some advantages / disadvantages to race/class choice.

I think he got it right, you see what happens when Halfling Rangers were allowed.

I always felt warriors should have been restricted to medium to larger races, never felt a gnome taking hits same as an ogre made sense from a roleplay perspective.

[Kich867]

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

This exact question / suggestion was posed to Brad McQuaid, his answer was along the lines of you are correct but you could make that argument for a lot of classes and at some point they had to draw the line to keep some advantages / disadvantages to race/class choice.

I think he got it right, you see what happens when Halfling Rangers were allowed.

I always felt warriors should have been restricted to medium to larger races, never felt a gnome taking hits same as an ogre made sense from a roleplay perspective.

I've seen people mention Halfling Rangers--why is this a benefit? Don't they have fairly low strength and agi/dex don't really matter much?

[branamil]

A mail service to move all the junk between my Alts . And an auction service cause sitting in EC is the most boring thing imaginable

[Baylan295]

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

A mail service to move all the junk between my Alts . And an auction service cause sitting in EC is the most boring thing imaginable

I don’t understand people who sit in EC all day. If an item is pretty cheap, 15-20 minutes at the beginning or end of a play session should be fine. If it’s high value, the EC forums are available to arrange a transaction. Or if you let people know you’re looking, you’ll often get additional eyes on it when something happens.

[xCry0x]

Originally Posted by Baylan295 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I don’t understand people who sit in EC all day. If an item is pretty cheap, 15-20 minutes at the beginning or end of a play session should be fine. If it’s high value, the EC forums are available to arrange a transaction. Or if you let people know you’re looking, you’ll often get additional eyes on it when something happens.

Game within a game. I have never gotten into money mongering in p99 -- not sure where to start.

But in vanilla I did and in WoW I did as well; can speak to WoW since it was more recent. There is a lot of fun in finding a solid way to produce repeatable income and then setting goals for yourself.

100k. 500k. 1 million. 5 million. etc.

And as you get more capital expanding into more markets. In WoW I figured out there was a huge opportunity to buy bind on equip 101 twink gear and resell it -- the supply of key items was always low and people generally got the gear as a random drop and had no idea of how inflated the value was. People would sell the gear for 20k and I could flip it for 40-50k -- even up to 100k+ if it had the right secondary stats. Making the next deal becomes addicting as everything else in the game.

I built up a ton of capital and then started resetting markets on raid consumables on server reset days. All the raiders would scramble to buy their potions etc Tuesday afternoon so I would buy out the entire market on Fri/Sat/Sunday and then reset the market on Tuesday at 2x the price. It is surprisingly fun to do.

As for sitting in EC -- you can set up GINA triggers for gear. When I want to buy or sell something I set up triggers to notify me if someone /auction spams for it. That way I can do other things on my computer and afk ec. There is a degree of fun in negotiating a deal -- but it is a lot more interesting when you are talking big ticket items. Trying to sell junk for 900p instead of 800p is a waste of time unless you are moving huge volume.