You can also get a free heroic character on a brand new account so you could set up a couple of them if you wanted.
I can't actually see playing one though. You entire into the game and all your gear has clicks and you have a full hotbar of abilities with no tool tips and a mountain of AA and all your spells and it's confusing as fuck.
I made a SK. HT at 85 does 100,0000 and he crits for like 7000 with a one-hander.
Does anyone play on Live and have a current max level character? Does the math continue this insane progression or is it fairly linear afterwords? I can't really imagine 60 to 85 having the same scaling as 85 to 110 or whatever the current cap is.
At 105 without any assistance DPS from other characters good burn DPS over 3 minutes for a maxed out SK is about 200k. Good unbuffed HP is 190k. And fully buffed is around 250k or something.
https://eq.magelo.com/profile/1380537 Is one of the top SKs in the game and is an EQ e-celebrity (as much as you can be in a game with like, 1,000 serious players, lol).
Numbers are just numbers really, the basic mechanics in modern EQ are the same as the mechanics during the PoP era, for better or worse. There are some general changes, ex: crit chances and damage are pretty high, resists are totally maxed out such that there isn't resist gear.
One big mudflation issue is there's a max normal hit that's uh, around 754k. Berserkers (Who are head and shoulders above everyone else in DPS) regularly hit for that amount. Warriors can hit that with rampage (PBAE attack).
The biggest change is that just about everybody has to use a tremendous amount of abilities in order to hit the skill cap. SKs have to constantly cast spells, warriors have like 20 abilities we spam and 40 mitigation abilities. I don't want to pick a fight but I prefer that over playing an old school warrior where you just uhm, hit slam and can use defensive disc. I remember reading all the dragonlance novels in 2000 while playing a warrior. In modern EQ I three box a war, bard and mage. I don't know how anyone can stand to play a truebox warrior in Phinigel.
If you have any other questions it's probably more appropriate to ask in the other EQ thread instead of me plaguing this thread.
