Introduce AAs but with no Luclin?

[Mad Genius]

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

AM3/EQ was an alternative option for rangers up to the point of elemental bows which then suddenly caused ranged damage to eclipse ranger melee.

It allowed for rangers on some mobs to position themselves outside of certain AOE attacks which allowed for a greater concentration of group healers in other more melee centric groups. That's pretty much all it did until PoP.

It also changed the stigma of "rangers suck" into "rangers aren't good until EQ/AM3".

[Elmarnieh]

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

It also changed the stigma of "rangers suck" into "rangers aren't good until EQ/AM3".

A bit of that but I do remember hearing for the first time in my life "nerf rangers". Made me smile.

[Waedawen]

Include the answer, "A year after velious drops."

And release only the watered down AAs... Innate Runspeed, Innate Regen/FT, Metabolism, Innate Statistics.

If the Paladins want Slay, make them do a quest. If Rangers want Trueshot or EQ, Custom Content that shit with Maesyn Trueshot.

The hybrids already have their cool Rain Caller / Soulfire quests, so if their AA abilities make it into the classic server they should not be AA's.

[Twain]

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

PoP aa's plzkthx, wru faded memories (ultimate trainer's tool :O)

A++ post

[Twain]

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

This isn't 2015, there's no hoverboards and there's no Velious... never mind Luclin.

Slow down! Enjoy what we have currently [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Epic were released on Red 2-3 weeks ago. We already have epics on all our alts. Red needs more to do.

[Kekephee]

AAs were cool in the sense that being a 60 with max exp and nothing to do but farm Seb loot or Kael arena got pretty boring pretty fast, and it's nice to have something to work on after you're maxed out... but AAs were tuned to Luclin raid/group mobs, which were significantly harder than Velious. I don't see any way for the introduction of AAs on a velious-level server to NOT make shit way easier than it's supposed to be.

Unless the AAs were limited, like you could only get the piddly things like innate metabolism, run speed, and maybe the first rank of melee crit advancement. Things like undead crippling blows for paladins would make trak a total joke, and that encounter's got enough problems with the raid scene as it is on this server.

[Brimacombe]

Two words:

Dire Charm

On the other hand, it would be good to have Velious content tuned, but I can only shudder at what a nightmare that would be to program.

[Kekephee]

The only thing I think p99 really needs that we've lost with the reduction of all the xpacs post velious is chat channels. Other than that, I could live with absolutely nothing post-velious happening ever again. But damn do I miss chat channels.

[Clark]

WE MUST HAVE LUCLIN

[Crazrum]

When I fill my exp bar at 60, I want to be DONE with exp.