Randin
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Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!
Go here and give us your nominations!Who's been the biggest Asshat in the last year? Give us your worst ones!
Teekey
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They've likened the combat to League of Legends. It's sort of hard to wrap your head around that, considering it's Player vs Player. However, just trying to think how it works - There are certainly roles. But just because you're the Tank on your team doesn't mean the enemy HAS to focus you. The Tank wants to protect the AD CArry, but the AD Carry is primarily responsible for their own survivability through positioning, item use, abilities, etc.
I think you're right that everyone will do a little bit of everything, they want everyone to be involved in combat and not just sitting back launching fireballs while jerking themselves off. In League of Legends fore example, the Tank/Bruiser still does damage, even though their primary goal is to peel for the Carry, etc. From the sounds of it, most DPS classes will provide some utility as well.
They've said they want tactics to be more important than roles, but we'll have to see how it works in practice.
a lot of people here were not clamoring for something new and different, what a lot of people posting here were wanting was for the MMO industry to return to its roots; which was the original EQ. what we got instead is a UO, WoW, GW2 mishmash; ironically a game involving everything except the actual original EQ, which is the game that a lot of us loved and wanted to see in a, you know, EQ game....
It is going to be funny when the first raid boss in EQN is killed by luring it to a big hole it can't escape from and everyone killing it from range.
Been calm. What in that post makes you think i'm still raging? Its straight up logic.
Vaclav
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Officially excited then - hopefully pace ends up just a smidge past EQ1. Everything else has been part of my own "If I was making an EQ1 remake" list except for the minecraft elements, but the minecraft elements sound like they'll add some nice layers into the game (in more than one way, /snaredrum) - the "rallying cries", most of the class system and emergent AI were all on my personal list of inclusions to go for if I ever had a chance to join the team to make my pitch. (Not that it would ever happen, nor would I want to live in Cali... but you know, mindless daydream stuff that I wasted far too many braincells on)
There's a ton of potential to screw things up with each aspect obviously, but it has some amazing potential if all those things are done right.
Gravel
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He was talking about how the devs had shit FPS, and you say it's a tech demo...so, shouldn't they have given us something as smooth as possible to show it off? Why show off something that looks bad?
tad10
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Teekey
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I believe your base class determines which weapons you can use. Those weapons will give you your weapon skills.
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Anomander Rake
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Isn't that what old school EQers want? Gaming the system with unintended mechanics?
I lol. Good post, we are in agreement. But why be a tank if the mobs arn't going to be attacking you? Isn't that the point? Maybe the wizard will take all the damage and then he can heal himself and then jerkoff lolol.
Teekey
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Isn't it pretty common for games to undergo optimization a little later in the development process? They're still in pre-Alpha. It's basically a proof of concept.
Vaclav
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They've already clarified that it's not going to be that easy to make craters in the final product and that it will "heal" quicker when there's tons of players in an area. So it sounds like they're already making sure the system will prevent that unless it's absolutely intended as a tactic for a given boss.
+10 thats the first thing I thought of when they said you can basically shape the area you fight in there is going to be so many exploits the world has never seen before. I almost want to play just to get in on all the early sploits there is going to be.
Teekey
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They've said combat in the demonstration was basically to show off world destruction. Although they've said that it is going to be action and movement oriented, with loose targeting.
Convo
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They could of made EQ++ in a sandbox. They still could if they wanted too. It would be pretty awesome with what's in right now.. They just think what they are doing will be better. Lets step back and see if they are right. Maybe they are just being cautious to not upset too many but they do seem ready to listen to suggestions. I'm not as done with SoE as others are so ill half believe that.
Randin
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Yeah, but I wanted to check if, say, wielding a staff would give everyone the same four abilities, or if a wizard would have one set of staff abilities, and a necro would have an entirely separate set of staff skills.
Thanks for the clarification.
