I'm baaaaackk

[DevGrousis]

Hey guys, with soccer season, and the new business is sprouted, my time was at a premium, so I had to take a little bit of a break from the game. Now that my schedule has ironed out a bit, I want to come back in and play, and just have a few questions.

How has the population changed since Kunarks release? Right now it's in the 400's, which seems high for the mid morning if i remember correctly. What is average peak time player pop?

I've been toying with the idea of starting a monk with and bringing him up through Kunark, but definitely dont want to add an already extremely over populated class, in such a small community. How is the monk population?

Are enchanters in any more desire now, than they were pre Kunark? (didnt seem to be too sought after like they were on live)

Thanks guys!

Dev

[tj218]

Welcome back.

Not another monk. Seriously with Kunark out the Monk population has exploded.

Server pop hovers around 900-1000 during U.S. prime time.

[Versus]

Way too many monks.

[baalzy]

Enchanters are going to be very wanted for grouping in Karnors/Seb. Your soloability has taken a hit with a few adjustments to make them more classic-like but you'll be wanted in groups plenty to make up for it.

[DevGrousis]

Enchanters are going to be very wanted for grouping in Karnors/Seb. Your soloability has taken a hit with a few adjustments to make them more classic-like but you'll be wanted in groups plenty to make up for it.

What changes were these? before i left for my little break, i was an absolute solo enc lol

[hablabba]

play what you want imo. Don't worry about overcrowding. it's kunark and of course we all know monks got great itemization but it's a phase. eventually the monk twinks will get bored or get to 60 and fade out leaving only the dedicated monk types who genuinely enjoy the class... and will fill out bug report upon bug report to get our class back to where it was in classic ;p

[falkun]

They nerfed whirl til you hurl so the stun is not ZOMGWTFBBQ long.
They nerfed charm pet duration so its not ZOMGWTFBBQ long and reliable.
They also nerfed summoned pets, but I don't know how/if ENCs are affected by this.

[baalzy]

Whirl breaks on melee (or has a high chance of breaking on melee anyways). So encs can't just chain cast it taking 0 damage while their pet beats the mob to death.

Charm relability has been decreased, still works good with tash+malo at high levels tho. But more random on duration and isn't likely to last full duration.

Pets no longer dual-wield without weapons being handed.

[Fourthmeal]

think outside the bun

[Messianic]

Hey bro!

Hit me up sometime i'm on and we'll duo - I've got a 39 necro and we could wtfpwn stuff.

Edit:

think outside the bun

Dude, go away.

[DevGrousis]

so.. nerf charm.. nerf pet.. nerf stun..

lol at least we still look pretty?

Oh shit, whatup Heat! I wont be on today, as i have gym then training, but tomorrow i'm a little more free. i'll hit you up frsure braa

[baalzy]

so.. nerf charm.. nerf pet.. nerf stun..

lol at least we still look pretty?

Oh shit, whatup Heat! I wont be on today, as i have gym then training, but tomorrow i'm a little more free. i'll hit you up frsure braa

At least you still have all the functionality that made you guys so desired in groups while still retaining some ability to solo?

Before the fixes (cause that what they were, fixes, not nerfs) enchanters could roll over everything.

If you originally picked an enchanter to solo ezmode from 1-60 then you picked an enchanter to abuse broken functionality.

If you wanted to solo ezmode from 1-60 you should have picked a necromancer :P

[Stumpes]

Welcome back.

Not another monk. Seriously with Kunark out the Monk population has exploded.

Server pop hovers around 900-1000 during U.S. prime time.

Down a bit from a month ago which was over 1100, but it still seems pretty stable. Although recently it hasn't reached 900 in prime time.

[Zakaton]

If you wanted to solo ezmode from 1-60 you should have picked a necromancer :P

Necromancers -- Now with 33% less ezmode!

[Fourthmeal]

Dude, go away.

You first

[Extunarian]

so.. nerf charm.. nerf pet.. nerf stun..

lol at least we still look pretty?

Oh shit, whatup Heat! I wont be on today, as i have gym then training, but tomorrow i'm a little more free. i'll hit you up frsure braa

I remember seeing you soloing the specters with your chanter pet, and not charming. The animation itself wasn't nerfed...it's just that it doesn't inherently dual wield anymore.

Just carry around 4-6 rusty daggers and hand 2 of them to your summoned pet and you won't notice a difference.

[Messianic]

I remember seeing you soloing the specters with your chanter pet, and not charming. The animation itself wasn't nerfed...it's just that it doesn't inherently dual wield anymore.

Just carry around 4-6 rusty daggers and hand 2 of them to your summoned pet and you won't notice a difference.

Yeah, and if you can't do this, it's really not a big deal to pay 2 plat per short sword or dagger from a weapon vendor. Especially for the kind of extra damage pets put out when they DW.

[baalzy]

Bout the only thing I had to do when the change to pets DW'ing was buy a good WR bag so I could carry 3-4 sets of pet weapons. That way I could stay in BW long enough to be full up on random loot/coins and need to go back to a town anyways.