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Old 04-10-2015, 10:07 PM
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Default Gnome Paladins!

So, around the time of velious...it became possible to be a couple other class / race combinations. I know the devs said they would never be added....BUT, I think this requires careful thought before such a hasty judgement!!

For something like halfling ranger, I can totally understand why that shouldn't be added. They had pretty amazing stats for a ranger! And they are halflings. So it seems pretty reasonable to ban them forever.

BUT, gnomish paladins are a totally different thing! Gnome paladins are good for the health of the server! They bring joy into peoples hearts! There stats aren't even good for paladins!

Just imagine, walking along...and seeing a gnome.....and then realizing "that gnome is a paladin!!". I'm sure you already feel an immense sense of joy.

According to recent polls, 97.3 percent of players approve of gnomish paladins and believe them to be essential to the server.

Basically, what I'm getting at is.....can we please have gnomish paladins? [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] It breaks nothing! And only like 3 people will play it. It won't "break classic"! You won't even notice them....they are small.
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Old 04-10-2015, 11:07 PM
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Gnome Paladins are an abomination. Dwarves have cornered the market on ugliness in Paladins and there are none more ill-equipped to walk the path of a Paladin than the Erudites.

There is no place for Gnomes in our Holy Order...



Unless they can worship Bertoxxulous, then that woukdnbe wicked cool. Goodnight.
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Old 04-10-2015, 11:53 PM
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NEVER EVER EVER EVER SHOULD GNOME PALADIN/SK, OR HALFLING PALADIN/RANGER BE ALLOWED ON THIS SERVER.

CAPS LOCK TO EMPHASIZE THE IMPORTANCE OF STAYING CLASSIC HERE.
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Old 04-11-2015, 12:03 AM
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To be honest I found Gnome Sks to be comical at best, totally against the "lore" at worst. Paladin would simply double down on the wrongness. That doesn't mean people did not play the sks or would not play a gnome paladin. They would be perfectly functional just taking a bit more gear and greater exploiting of things like wall-o-vision. But hey at some point EQ's developers thought sentient frog things had a special relationship with the main paladin diety so why not?

It's a classic server so gnome Paladins will not, cannot, and should not happen. But I've personally always wanted to see gnome monk, maybe just as an NPC somewhere being a badass. Gi-wearing gnomish flying kicks to the genitals of everything unfortunate enough to cross their path.

I've always thought Barbarians should be able to be Paladins even back at original launch. So many of the major places of Interest in good-aligned areas were guarded by barbarians in gleaming steel plate it just seemed a natural fit, the nerdiest part of me even vaguely recalls their race being born from some weird "not-incest" pairing of the Marr twins. Something else that will not happen. Barbarian Paladins, that other thing may have already sailed.
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Old 04-11-2015, 12:06 AM
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To be honest I found Gnome Sks to be comical at best, totally against the "lore" at worst. Paladin would simply double down on the wrongness. That doesn't mean people did not play the sks or would not play a gnome paladin. They would be perfectly functional just taking a bit more gear and greater exploiting of things like wall-o-vision. But hey at some point EQ's developers thought sentient frog things had a special relationship with the main paladin diety so why not? I've personally always wanted to see gnome monk, maybe just as an NPC somewhere being a badass. Gi-wearing gnomish flying kicks to the genitals of everything unfortunate enough to cross their path.

I've always thought Barbarians should be able to be Paladins even back at original launch. So many of the major places of Interest in good-aligned areas were guarded by barbarians in gleaming steel plate it just seemed a natural fit, the nerdiest part of me even vaguely recalls their race being born from some weird "not-incest" pairing of the Marr twins.
I think you are implying we should have gnomish monks!!!
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Old 04-11-2015, 12:06 AM
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NEVER EVER EVER EVER SHOULD GNOME (REDACTED)/SK, OR HALFLING PALADIN/RANGER BE ALLOWED ON THIS SERVER.
I agree!!

But gnome paladin is an entirely different matter!
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Old 04-11-2015, 01:13 AM
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NEVER EVER EVER EVER SHOULD GNOME PALADIN/SK, OR HALFLING PALADIN/RANGER BE ALLOWED ON THIS SERVER.

CAPS LOCK TO EMPHASIZE THE IMPORTANCE OF STAYING CLASSIC HERE.
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Old 04-11-2015, 01:17 AM
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Will reroll my ranger if halfling rangers are allowed
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Old 04-11-2015, 01:42 AM
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Given how painfully short on diversity classic EQ is, in every regard, the additional race/class combos is the single non-Velious era change I'd love to see. Not that I think it has any chance of happening.
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Old 04-11-2015, 02:59 AM
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Well firstly it wasn't near around the time of velious on live, it was after PoP even.

Is a gnome sk or paladin really any more "against the lore" than kung fu Iksar? Gnomes have necros, warriors, clerics and they are the most technologically advanced race. So in my opinion it doesn't seem like that much of a stretch at all. But kung fu masters in a dungeons and dragons/swords and sorcery game!! Is Iksar even a real word? Or something everquest just made up?
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