DAOC: Uthgard Revamp

[Scrooge]

Just to give you guys an idea of what kind of difference there is between capped XP gained from PvE and RvR at Level 48 (out of 50):

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XP gain was roughly 3-4% from a solo pvp kill, thats ALOT, because XP gained through PvP isn't capped.

[Scrooge]

We're going to need volunteers for the following group/guild slots, regardless of which realm we'll go to:

Primary Healing:
Secondary Healing:
Primary Crowd Control:
Secondary Crowd Control:
Primary Bomber:
Secondary Bomber:
Primary Shield Tank:
Secondary Shield Tank:
General Melee DPS:
General Caster DPS:

Main Healers: Druid/Hib, Cleric/Alb, Healer/Mid
+Druid Regrowth Spec
+Cleric Rejuvenation Spec
+Healer Mending Spec

Main Buffers: Druid/Hib, Cleric/Alb, Shaman/Mid
+Druid Regrowth Spec
+Cleric Enhancement Spec
+Shaman Augmentation Spec

Main CCers: Bard/Hib, Sorceror/Alb, Healer/Mid
+Bard Music Spec (are also Hibernia's primary speed class)
+Sorceror Mind Spec
+Healer Pacification Spec
+All 3 of these classes come with mana-regen spells/songs.

Main Bombers: Enchanter & Eldritch/Hib, Wizard/Alb, Spiritmaster/Mid
+Enchanter & Eldritch Mana Spec
+Wizard Path of Ice Spec
+Spiritmaster Suppression Spec

Main Shield Tanks: Hero/Hib, Armsman/Alb, Warrior/Mid
+Requires 42+ Shield Spec for Slam (9s anytime stun at L42)


Main Bombers = PBAOE damage casters = strongest and fastest damage output in the game. Provides not only for fun PvP but also very fast leveling, for those familiar with the EQ bomb groups, it's very similar but without the AE stun (except for Mids, Midgard Healers get AE stuns.)

[Weekapaug]

If you go Alb I'll play a Cleric or, possibly a Merc for melee DPS. If Hib, I'll play a Bard.

Probably take a pass if you go mid. And I'm traveling in May so that might be a problem if release is around then.

[Ugrask]

I can go anything, though my only experience with DAoC is mid ranger Reaver, Valewalker and Merc.

[Oogei]

When do they plan on launching this

[Pitborn]

Why don't you guys try Genesis Emu?

Way better Xp rate, Prime time pop of 800+ and they have really improved stability.

[Weekapaug]

Been screwing around with some specs for the various classes I would like to play, by level.

Question....Can anyone refresh me as to the names and levels of the old school battlegrounds? When I last played live (for years) it was after the major RvR revamp that added battlegrounds for every level of the game, so I'm at a bit of a loss from when there was just the original 2 or 3.

Thidranki 20-24 was the first one. I forget after that.

Thanks!

[Weekapaug]

Also, do we know if there will be autotraining in this revamp? No idea how it was on the original server but I do know that they eventually disabled it on live.

Which levels were the free single line respecs? I'm thinking it was 20 and 40, no?

[Scrooge]

As far as I know, autotraining works like it should. The battlegrounds however, were customized on Uthgard like so; Braemar 1-35 (its actually 20-35, but taking the keep gives 20% XP bonus to 1-35 lvl range,) Wilton 36-43, Thidranki 44-49. The revamp is supposed to re-adjust the BGs to be what they were during actual classic live times, like Caledonia etc.

Taking over a keep for your realm, grants a 20% XP bonus realm-wide, for the level range of the BG itself. The free single line respecs are at 5, 20 and 40, and from what I remember they do not carry over - so you either use them when you get them or lose them when you level up.

You can see their current progress at uthgard.net, there's currently no ETA available for when the server will be up. They're trying to make it as accurate as possible, to math the post-SI classic era.

As for the reason why I and others who played it already, don't play the Genesis server anymore, there's another thread with like 20 reasons - stability was one of them but not the only major issue.

[Lyrith]

This looks very interesting. Played a Ranger back on live. Never played past the first expansion. Loved the game, but Ranger's kept getting nerfed hard in the beginning which made it harder for me to want to play.

When this server was up how good was it? How much better will it be now? I love all these free MMORPG'S coming back out.