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Mage groups in EQ could be pretty fun. No such thing as all mage raids. People are going to have to take on semi-dedicated roles to be effective at the high end, if the high end is any good. Again, see Ukerric's post, I think he is spot on. The average MMO player hasn't a chance of being a...

Well, SOE is spreading the FUD for whatever reason as well. Again the comparison between newbie and professional LOL players. Newbie players will play wtf they want and have a tough fight against the beginner bots. Professional LOL will play a specific team setup (jungle, AD Carry, etc) and...

There are some shared skills. They said as much at the panel. Just not a lot.

That is Ukerric's and my point. Yes, everyone can do dps, but at the end of the day, an effective group is going to be trinitized if (and this was Ukerric's excellent point) the AI is good. If the AI is sucks, it's just people standing around and wacking on the target. Basically whether...

Correct. They hit this hard. They go so far as to give different classes different animations using the same weapon and different "ready" stances.

Only if there were a healing mechanic that was offensive. Maybe SK has an offensive Life Steal. So if your rogue got the SK class he could slot the LS as one of his 2 offensive abilities. Rouge never gets a defensive heal.

From the pcgamer article. Most I've seen on crafting. So presumably multi crafting "classes". 5 Tiers.

You can select any offensive, utility or movement skill you want for the rogue from among your class roster. But never a defensive skill. Go get a potion or find some item with a healing mechanic. Better yet, group with someone who can heal while dpsing. EDIT: However, some combinations...

They said Landmark is a full on MMO (minus classes) and a lot of stuff will be implemented in EQN/L first and then moved to EQN. The exception, obviously, is there is no class system in EQN/L but possibly a simplistic combat system (for critters - AFAIK no complex mobs in EQN/L but there are...

Rogue example. 4 weapon skills from your weapon (short sword) 4 class abilities (from a selection of 8-12 total). Class abilities are divided into four types -Offensive (Attacks) -Defensives (Healing, Spell Reflection) -Utility (Buffs, Invisibility, CC) -Movement (Movement skills)...

-Has full MMO social aspects (Guilds, chat, etc). -Can build for EQNext. You can build a house, and when you finally get a land grant in EQN you can import that template (if it meets art direction requirements). -Not using blocks. -Can build stuff and sell the template to other players...

But still limited by your base class set of class abilities. You can never slot a defensive ability on a rogue.

Trost is on EQ Next.

I'm pretty sure the StoryBrick guys disagree with Malakriss on this one, and having met one, I'm going to go with the SB guys. Also snippet that I didn't get at SOE http://www.pcgamer.com/2013/08/03/ev...ext-interview/ Also as noted, classes may require other classes to obtain:

Great post.

They didn't explain crafting. They did explain itemization and some loot. -Mostly bound (BOE or BOP) loot drops. Forget which panel this was. -Loot is mostly mechanics based. Think MTG. Ring of -5% movement ability cost, Dwarven Armor that adds an ability.

Yes we will see how SB plays out, I think SB will be critical to the long term retention of the game.

Yep, I agree with this for long term play. It's why I would have preferred EQNext with EQ/VG classes/combat

There is CC in the game and there are 40 classes. So I'll go with likely, but it was not expressly stated there would be mainly-CC classes at any of the panels. Question just never came up. I'd tweet it as Mughul suggested.

But remember the alternative. People focusing on a few classes will have an easier time itemzing for those classes and should "advance" faster.

There is a lot of questing it is just not "?" questing. There is a ton of authored content (this is also from people sitting at the Butler table) StoryBricks is not just about dynamic quests, but also about dynamic changes to authored content. This is the "get the relic from the bottom of the...

Yes, they said you could do the Anakin Skywalker thing, but you wouldn't be able to use their ability simultaneously or if it was more drastic and you would actually lose the other class (that's what they don't know - the mechanics). But you will not be running both SK/Paladin set of abilities...

Key thing people are missing - which you sorta point out is-> There are huge energy and game limitation on setting up your skills. You can't just slot any skill on any class. 1. We've got the you can only slot skill related to class abilities (Rogue base can only slot 1 U, 1M, 2O) 2...

That was from the people sitting at the Butler table at the Dev brunch, there were 4 fans at the table as well as 2 other EQN devs so I'm going with legit.

Right now you can switch as long as you are OOC and the switch will be "quick/easy" - expect multiple paperdools and the ability to switch between them with a click.

No. Multiple occasions they mentioned there would likely be a SK/Paladin exclusion. But they did make it clear there would be very few exclusions like that. They should have a Necro/Paladin and Necro/Cleric exclusion too (if Cleric is even in the game).

No AI in the combat, no AI shown during SOE Live. I did run into Brian Green of StoryBricks at the reveal and asked him a few questions which I've got to write up. Though he couldn't answer the one I was most interested in (about AI Combat) because of NDAs.

I believe with respect to some of the details, is that what they talked about will show up, what they didn't talk about may not be in at release. Example is halflings. No mention in the lore. Maybe a race that doesn't show up until later. With respect to release date: What I said...

I think the key is the term 'active tanking'. Example: your Paladin is going to be using Bash to stun the target, basically acting as a tank CC. And since he's got armor when a Bash (Sword & Shield weapon skill) fails and the mob knocks him back he only takes limited damage. The mob then runs...

I read it as this: You do not need a warrior, cleric and Chanter/DPS to kill X mob. You can make a group of 5 rangers (who for this hypothetical I will guess have 1 defensive slot filled with a self-heal). The rangers can collectively take out X mob in Y time, using their self-heals. You...

They say they are open to change. Reddit has a poll on this.

That's what I thought but I don't know. The final comment on grouping at the class panel was you want to group with people with skills who know how to play their character. And if you look at the AI examples, you've got tanky guys in front blocking the mob from getting the wiz behind them...

I have some additional info that changes some things this is mostly but not all from Dev Brunch (Friends telling me what was said, I wasn't there so possibly some phone game data corruption ;-) ): PVP -Latest is there is no PvP (or maybe just super limited PvP like an Arena) on Norrath (the...

There is static content in the world.

Since I happen to remember it, I'll add there is some weird XP/AA shit that was not explained that you get for (I guess) killing mobs or completing authored content (<-raw speculation about how you gain it, but the existence of the "XP/AA" wtf it is, is not speculation). You get to apply that...

I don't know about how the xp system works for combat, but since tiering up also requires a lot of non-xp things (items, etc), I don't see why both players aren't advancing.

Sorta there. Rogue slots a movement spell that is too expensive to use with his backstab. So he has to find items that give him additional energy or lower cost of movement spells. You can't just slot what you want, you have to slot things you can actually play given your current gear.

Actually, opposite of this, finding abilities in the wild is one of the things you need to unlock tiers. Abilities, Items/Gear, Achievements and ??? (I posted it here from the Talisker pool party session).

Yep. Remember -There will be a few mutually exclusive classes (SK/P) - but very few, devs didn't like the idea of exclusivity, so I can't imagine more than 4 exclusive classes or maybe just those two. -Raids are "smaller" than EQ. I'd speculate 18 to 24 (15-20), but that's just...

Probably. But if you're smart you'll group with a support guy. Again, etchazz, I prefer old-school combat mechanics, but I think the combat in EQN, if the AI works the way they say it will, will be fun. Just not something I personally want to do for 8 hours fun like EQ/VG combat, maybe 2...