Multi-classing? EQ Legends - What to try?

[Cecily]

Originally Posted by Vexenu [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Remember, the question you need to ask yourself is not, "What is the most powerful class combo that will allow me to get the most/best loot?"

The question is rather, "What class combo will I have the most fun playing?"

Sir, this is an Everquest server.

[Kaia]

Yeah, Cecily's right. It's a pretty classic response to that kind of talk. People get so hung up on optimization sometimes.

[BradZax]

Kaia, this is a real human server.

[Ennewi]

This does allow players to better recreate DND builds. For example, Oath of the Ancients paladin made possible by adding druid/ranger. College of Dance bard, with monk and berserker. How many players actually do that though, we'll see. But any attempt to do the same in classic is mostly superficial.

[BradZax]

On live pre kunark I wokred really hard to get full black plate for my paladin, to be an evil paladin.

There were no black plate sleeves 8(

And I was WEAK AF with all the crappy gear, but it was worth it to me.

[Duik]

Originally Posted by BradZax [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

On live pre kunark I wokred really hard to get full black plate for my paladin, to be an evil paladin.

There were no black plate sleeves 8(

And I was WEAK AF with all the crappy gear, but it was worth it to me.

Got it.
You think, Black = evil.

Maybe it was a gothic Paladin?

[BradZax]

Maybe he was, Duik. Maybe he was.

[DeathsSilkyMist]

Originally Posted by Vexenu [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Remember, the question you need to ask yourself is not, "What is the most powerful class combo that will allow me to get the most/best loot?"

The question is rather, "What class combo will I have the most fun playing?"

Originally Posted by Kaia [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Yeah, Cecily's right. It's a pretty classic response to that kind of talk. People get so hung up on optimization sometimes.

Power and fun often go together.

I would say a lot of "which is better?" questions are not caused by the desire for sweaty min/maxing.

People just don't want to play a class/race combo that needs to do the boring grind of killing Grik the Exile to 60, while being unable to do other activities like camping an item solo (i.e. Rogues on P99).

A lot of gamers also don't have much time to play. So a more efficient setup will be more likely to get results in a shorter play session.

[Cecily]

Originally Posted by DeathsSilkyMist [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Power and fun often go together.

I would say a lot of "which is better?" questions are not caused by the desire for sweaty min/maxing.

People just don't want to play a class/race combo that needs to do the boring grind of killing Grik the Exile to 60, while being unable to do other activities like camping an item solo (i.e. Rogues on P99).

A lot of gamers also don't have much time to play. So a more efficient setup will be more likely to get results in a shorter play session.

Incorrect.

[Vexenu]

Originally Posted by DeathsSilkyMist [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Power and fun often go together.
A lot of gamers also don't have much time to play. So a more efficient setup will be more likely to get results in a shorter play session.

Addressing this issue is literally the driving purpose behind this game, and from everything we've seen so far with the beta they seem to have done a great job. Basically all of the content is soloable by any combination of classes. You don't have to powergame like you did in traditional EQ by playing an Enchanter or Shaman to have a hope of effectively soloing high-end content.

And interestingly, it seems that in EQL Enchanters and Shaman are actually two of the weaker classes. And this makes sense with the changes they've made. In EverQuest, these two classes were powerful primarily because of charm and slow. And both of these spells scale substantially and directly with the power of mobs. The stronger mobs are, the stronger charm is, and the more important slow is for negating damage. But in EQL, since mobs are so much weaker, charm is weaker, and slow is much less important. This makes other classes much stronger comparatively.