Yeah that was funny when Bruman posted the no connection to the franchise bit. OTOH, I agree about the fat Ogres. There needs to be at least one cute but ugly races. Think Manatees, the Shrek franchise, Barfolomew from SpaceBalls. Etc.
Yea, have you not been around for the past Decade???
Off their options, I'm like 50-50 on whether to go with lore-based restrictions, or allowing people to choose whatever classes, but with penalties.
this is what scares me the most (and what i know will happen eventually). when everyone has been playing for a while (few months?), they will have several classes unlocked and tiered up. now, when you get together with your friends, instead of being identified as an awesome wizard, or warrior, or enchanter, or whatever it's just: player1: "hey, i played wizard last time, this time i want to be the warrior." player2: "nah, cause i played warrior last time and we did fine so i'll stay as the warrior and you can be the wizard again or the rogue or the cleric." player3: "he can't be the cleric, cause my friend that's coming with us wants to be the cleric, and i'm going to play the rogue tonight." player1: "fine, i'll play the wizard but if that sword drops i still get to roll on it because my warrior is still my main." player2: "no fucking way! i'm the warrior. you can't roll on tank loot." player3: "well, my friend that's coming also plays a warrior so he wants to roll on any tank loot too, and i've been working on my shadow knight so i need to be able to roll on that loot as well, as well as any rogue loot, or druid loot, since i have one of those too. oh, and any monk loot as well."
Hahaha, are you serious? Wow. Why did she sound so clueless then in the world building panel?
A lot of this is going to depend on how easy it is to change your class setup. If it is something that you can do on the fly then I'd agree it is a mistake. Being able to go from warrior to wizard to rogue in 10 seconds is stupid. There will be no buffs or abilities in the game that are of any value if someone can just SoW themselves real quick with their druid sub class, and then swap it out after they get to their destination. This is the part I want the most information on. If you can currently change class setup like you change gear then I hope it is something that changes before launch. Changing your class setup shouldn't be like changing your socks.
It'll be like fast traveling or waiting in skyrim, as long as you're not in active combat, you can instantly do it with a press of a button in your UI.
I'm serious. She announced a couple of times (not in that panel) that she did EQ1. With respect to looking for other art - nothing wrong with that. I just assumed she googled up castle pictures or wtf for inspiration. Nothing wrong with that.
Seeing "most EQ next players want cute and intelligent looking ogres and trolls" isn't helping.
I don't know about travel (by all accounts it is slow) but from the devs have said you can't change your base class mid-combat (good) but outside combat it is pretty quick (bad - for the reasons @Lost Ranger stated). They've also said there is some kind of loadout/inventory setup so presumably it's a very quick change from Warrior -> Druid -> Warrior.
No. Bard speed will probably be a weapon skill. So you'll have to stay as a bard. SoW on the other hand should be a character ability.
