Could Velious launch this year?

[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.

[pharmakos]

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)

but not as much work as shaman/enchanter *shrugs*

[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.]

[Splorf22]

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

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.]

It depends on how they coded charm. The default eqemu code (which is based on PoP I guess) is not actually that charisma dependent. I know because based on reading this code I went full int on Loraen [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Shaman/Monk is actually quite weak at lower levels. I'd say its only at 35+ when the shaman can slow every mob that it really takes off. In fact all the melee will really suck until 50+ when they can start to farm Kael. Mage/Necro would get to 60 much, much faster.

[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

[Sularus Oth Mithas]

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

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

I believe as of now melody is in.