Could Velious launch this year?

[Alarti0001]

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

Best memories of Velious were actually in Tower of Frozen Shadow, great place to be. I didn't care much for the hundreds of "mash the keyboard for random names" dragons that were dotted around...though the race to get there first was always interesting.

Still though, EQ Live has all the expansions - so if you absolutely can't wait and are jumping up and down in your chair, channel your enthusiasm in that direction [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

TOFS is the best leveling dungeon EVER!!!!

[pharmakos]

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

As much as I love p99, and think it has superior quality, I find the endgame unplayable here. I want to do high end content, but I'm not willing to batphone/poopsock. I love the idea of raid tokens. This lets smaller guilds experience end game content, and it keeps the competitive aspect of racing as well.

I'd love to hear what people are thinking in terms of box combos. I'm thinking

mage/mage: Easy and powerful. The idea of two air pets, wielding stun whips makes me drool

monk/shaman: There's going to be a million of these combos, but it does sound fun.

mage/necro: Not quite as easymode as mage/mage, but fear kiting with a mage pet is very strong. Necro also allows for more creative pulls.

other ideas?

cleric/enchanter

[Sularus Oth Mithas]

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

cleric/enchanter

That one is tempting. I am thinking of that, or Sham/Necro or Sham/Monk. Possibly even Dru/ench because ports are going to be scarce for a while I would think.

[Woahnelly]

How about shaman/bard? Seems like that duo could do pretty much everything

[LizardNecro]

cleric/chanter seems like a ton of work. Huge payoff, but wouldn't it be fairly difficult to micromanage? Same with shaman/bard (because bard songs are so micro intensive)

[Swish]

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

cleric/chanter seems like a ton of work. Huge payoff, but wouldn't it be fairly difficult to micromanage? Same with shaman/bard (because bard songs are so micro intensive)

Not much to it... the only "problems" are if charm breaks while the cleric is healing the pet. At that point you're racing to get the cleric to heal teh enchanter and the enchanter to re-charm [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Never boxed in my life, I don't know if that's difficult to sort out or not.

[fugazi]

Ench/cleric is decisively better once you get access to CHA gear. The difference between under 150 and above is staggering. Mage/whatever will vastly outperform an ench/clr on a new server simply because of the enchanters reliance on gear.

Unless you manage to farm enough plat so that the chanter can make his own CHA gear [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Sadre Spinegnawer]

EQ 2000 > EQ Next

[Treefall]

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

EQ 2000 > EQ Next

Truth.

All my dreams of a proper sequel were shattered (not that I actually thought for one second SOE was capable of a rational thought) when they said they wanted to..."reinvent" everything we know and love about MMOs. I like how they also said it was a mistake to call EQ2 EverQuest at all because it was nothing like it. SO WHY ARE THEY NAMING EQ NEXT, EQ, WHEN THEY WANT TO MAKE IT COMPLETELY DIFFERENT AGAIN!

I hate SOE with a passion.

[Woahnelly]

Is there /melody on sleeper? If so then I really think shaman/bard would be the best without question. You would be able to do everything and would have little to no downtime