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This is where I disagree with you: EQN actually has some interesting mechanics, slow travel, dungeons and raids (as well as rare loot). It doesn't have campable spawns or true dark above ground (thought it does below ground). There's some really good new ideas in EQN - or, if you prefer, not...

I actually think SB can pull off a smart combat AI but that raises more questions than it answers: 1. Can the hardcore playerbase actually handle responding to this smart AI? Probably 2. Can the casual playerbase handle this? Look at how many people die on Beg/Int bots in LOL. I'm guessing...

That's why the first six months will be fun. There will be advantage to single classing. You'll get your guy to tier 5 before the people trying to level multiple classes. But at some point you need to start branching.

Nope. Asked this specifically at SOELive. Response: Game Design is for people to multiclass. If you give advantage to single classers you blow up the whole design.

That's the hope right? SOE knows that EQ/EQ2 are old - there's only so much longer they can go on before they have to ship EQ3. But all that said, I am very sure I and anybody who gives it a shot - including etchazz and qwerty if they give it a shot - will have an enjoyable 3 to 6 months in...

Nah. It'll be popular for a while. But unfortunately, I'm one of the crew that will end up abandoning it in six months and hope there's a new TLP server or large group of rerolled that want to play on EQMac. Fundamentally, I agree with etchazz and Convo I can't see the same character...

I'll buy that skin if EQN is decent but I'd rather SOE let us kickstart EQ3.

FTFY That is the problem. Hopefully they determine that making EQ3 with EQN assets is cheap enough that they can make pretty good money from that 250.

EQN chick better.

So FFVII? From the EQHammer interview

All the POIs change as well with an earthquake, so yes you'd have to dig down and discover what new crap is down there. So I guess I'm not getting the issue.

Well tank classes are certainly going to be able to slot CC class abilities. So I'd go with already in the game. However, maybe the best CC abilities are tied to CC weapons so those would not be slotable.

If you don't have someone with heavy armor who can't take the big hits you won't be able to take on 1/2 the mobs. Ditto if you don't have someone able to heal, CC. DPS will only get you so far. But yes you're going to get a lot more Ping-Pong. I just think it was an unnecessary change -...

You know my preference, I'd prefer EQ/VG combat. Tank will have to CC to hold the mob.

There is no taunt. So this is true and also complete BS at the same time.

Not how that works.

Nope. it'll assess healing threat as well.

And clarification, I used the word "threat" specifically. As I understand the combat AI (which is not much) you no longer generate aggo, but instead the AI does constant threat assessment. So to hold the mob you need to generate "threat"

Read that. Oceans aren't in game yet. They haven't conquered the physics of giant voxelated liquids yet.

Beast was cool. The Prince he turned into was not.

It was retarded. You can be a healer but you need defensive skills (e.g. like the ice wall in the video) because you can't predict when tank is going to lose threat (see how I did that) and the mob will target you.

That's the whole point that I wish SOE would clarify. Trinity exists, but because of multiclassing ultimately everyone should be able to take on multiple roles. So you're not tied down if your regular tank doesn't show up. @Lyrical most sandboxy/eq1 part of the game. You need to talk to...

There's a lot of quests, dungeons and raids in game or planned. But no quest hubs. You have to talk to people and do things to get quests.

Got me. I read it both ways - Super Slice, 3 different ways (as you suggest) or a total set of 8 weapon abilities divided up between the three, so each has 2 unique and 2 common abilities.

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You see the opportunities for cosmetics immediately right?

They said this at SOELive. It just resets with an earthquake every so often. @Quaid. Tiering up does not give you abilities. Finiding abilities out "in the wild" is one of the things you need to do to tier up. @Lenas. I get the AA aspect - I'm accumulating AA I can spend it anyway I...

Side note for discussion since most abilities and gear have to be quested its not like we can switch from Aragorn to Gandalf from the get go. It may take a long long time to maximize classes. I am only planning on 6 months in eqn in that time I might have one tier 5 a few tiers 2-4 and a bunch...

Don't ask questions that you don't want to know the answers to.

Directed gameplay. They want you to have a set of quests to do in a set order instead of looking around for them. No going off the rails.

If I were a planetside 2 player, I'd be pissed I don't have a fully destructible world. Also, I hadn't even thought of the influence of crafting on combat in EQN. Build a duck blind on the mountains and snipe? Ranger ftw?

I just hate the changes to the start game. I liked the racial starting zones /mourn. I'll probably pick this or eqmac up again as something to do until EQN beta finally shows up.

The trinity will evolve naturally if the AI is any good (as Ukerric posted way, way back). My issue is the smaller things like the enchanter Grumpus mentions. We'll see, as I've said from the reveal, I'm going to invest a few months in EQN at release - there's a lot of moving parts and like...

Heh. I realized today that the lore was designed specifically so we'd help them build the continent ;-) Players: 0 Jeff Butler: 1.

I think buffs have to blow up if you switch classes. Too cheezy to have everyone switch to druid spec, sow themselves, then switch out to normal spec.

This is where the destructible environment makes it so not GW2. As for relying on each other: if you and I are duoing, one of us better have a tank spec and the other a heal spec. The main difference is there is no taunt, so tank specs are going to have make sure they have a high-damage move...

Sure.

You're pulling a qwerty in this thread buddy. Every comment is negative, even about stuff that's actually interesting (e.g. the Cube World video). The girl mage looks fine and will look better when she's in your face on your monitor. Way better than EQ2 or EQ1. I've got no problem with the...

Don't get retarded.