Lenas
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There will be humans, and you'll be able to make them black and elongate the forehead with a slider.
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I think unlikely at launch, based on game-timeframe of pre-Qeynos. The Erudites were the Qeynosian scholars, they left Qeynos to establish Erudin on Odus.
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Randin
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My bet would be that both barbarians and erudites will be human cultures, rather than different races. Barbarians will be an old human culture that will peel off of Qeynos and head north to build Halas. As for the erudites, we may actually see the birth of the erudite movement occur in game, with Erud going around gathering mages, then sailing west to found Erudin. As a callback to the EQ1 erudites, Erud and his core disciples will probably be black.Do you guys think
1) Erudites will be in-game and
2) They will be sub-Saharan African w/ elongated forehead in appearance or EQ2 Alien in appearance?
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Kerran was their Tauren equivalent from when the game was going to be a WoW Clone, that's why 10feet tall and omgshoulderpads. Obviously they're reusing all art assets/animations from earlier iterations of the game cus they have like nothing else done.
"full PVP"
That's so vague. Item loot, FFA (or even RvR) PvP would certainly get me on the bandwagon though.
That's so vague. Item loot, FFA (or even RvR) PvP would certainly get me on the bandwagon though.
rally call/live lore based RvR would be nuts. Suddenly it's everyone versus the Dark Elves for 3 weeks, then it's FFA for a month. Now we all get along for 2 months, then oh shit it's everyone taking on the Ogres and burning their city to the ground. If we fail the Ogre slaughter, the Dark Elves betray the alliance and then its a civil war with the Dark Elves & Ogres on one side, and the rest of us on the other.
Georgeson's initial reveal & presentation deliberately focused on EQNs intent to step away from the D&D model, which they've seemingly done based on what we know.
Interestingly though, the idea of Rallying Calls... isn't that the most D&D-style (not in a bad way) game function that there is? They've created a way to allow for a creative "Dungeon Master" in an MMO.
Interestingly though, the idea of Rallying Calls... isn't that the most D&D-style (not in a bad way) game function that there is? They've created a way to allow for a creative "Dungeon Master" in an MMO.
It depends on whether the outcome of a Rally Call is durable. If victory conditions aren't persistent (or the "correct" condition is inevitable), then they're just large public quests in similar vein to what we've seen before.
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Rally Calls are supposed to be one time events that sorta move the story forward; so yeah, they're durable, unless a future Rally Call, say, results in a city we built previously being destroyed, but it's not like the Call reverts to a zero state after a timer counts down, or anything.
both of you are leaping to the conclusion that all rally calls are equal. There will clearly be non-durable rally calls, i mean that's obvious.
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The only reason casuals dont care about lore is because it does not affect their getting epic gears, when your deity and origin matter to how npcs treat you then lore matters. Right now zero new games have deity, racial and actual choices affecting their class design.
I'm assuming gamescon will have a ps4 announcement for the game and possibly launch day release of EQNL.