Suggested fix for re-enabling staring at spellbook sub-35

[HeallunRumblebelly]

As someone who PLs all chars to at least 40, this would be hilarious.

[Nephazz]

Oh, and get rid of Alt+Tab while we're at it.

[khanable]

Wasn't there considerable movement on the trilogy client?

Shit, get that working and just force everyone to move to that

I'd buy a CRT for that shit

[nilbog]

Bunch of haters in here.

[Juhstin]

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

Bunch of haters in here.

Bring down the hammer on da haters

[BahamutDF]

Originally Posted by fastboy21 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Getting it right doesn't necessarily have anything to do with balance. Classic EQ was probably one of the most unbalanced top tier MMOs ever made. The comparison of why melee can be twinked to caster spell books just doesn't even make sense to me...they are totally unrelated issues.

If you want to see the natural progression EQ takes when you pursue balance you need look no further than the current live game----which many people (despite what you hear on p99) actually still enjoy.

I'm sorry, my point was poorly articulated because I was typing from my phone. Maybe I can make some more sense of it:

Earlier in the thread, I was reading an argument FOR this change basing it on the fact that casters are "OP" on P99 and that forcing them to stare at a spellbook to med was, in fact, a crude form of balance against them. It followed that because this feature is missing, casters have more of an advantage than was intended by Verant.

My point was merely that it seems silly to argue for this feature in the name of balance and that, unless the majority wanted it, that the only "valid" reason for implementing it is that it would be classic. If not having to look at the spellbook contributes to casters being OP, what then, does Rogue's MQing their epic at level 1 (amongst other things for other classes) contribute to?

Might be a tenuous link, but the idea was simply that "for balance" IMO is a poor reason to implement this.

[Asap]

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

Bunch of haters in here.

[Rystar]

All this stupid change would do is hurt new players who are below 35. Why bother now that 90% of the population already went through their 1-35 without having to do it.

[fastboy21]

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

All this stupid change would do is hurt new players who are below 35. Why bother now that 90% of the population already went through their 1-35 without having to do it.

Imagine a land and time far far away...imagine a server to launch some day in the future not our own current one. imagine with me that on that day the new server will be classic from launch through the end with a classic timeline...

imagine...

[webrunner5]

I really can't imagine a new, and I mean new player to EQ, lasting one f'ing day starting a caster looking at a stupid spell book in this day and age. Ain't happening. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]