The Epics are not Epic!

[Tunabros]

it has floating pixels

who wouldnt want it

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[magnetaress]

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

Snakes are strongly associated with deception all the way back to biblical story, and in the case of hooded snakes (cobras) particularly, with seemingly hypnotizing or mesmerizing their prey. It very much fits for the enchanter class.

Technochally allso protection

*sneks

And Royals/gubbernment/ power over land.

I feel the deception thing is a modern trend because of revolutionary/reset during biblical tines. So however is correct especially in the context of modern EQ.

Enchanters are the most evil class and should be deleted or heavily made classic agains, fixed. As reported in the bugs forums.

[mycoolrausch]

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

Game changing? Is just a dot. A slow 15 dps dot. It's not really that Amazing. Monk, Rogue. You still do damage without an epic. The Epic doesn't double the damage you do, but even that wouldn't be that good. I mean it depends on your previous weapon setup, but at most you're getting maybe 10 - 20% more dps depending on Mob level and AC. Not that great really. Warriors can still generate pretty decent aggro without the Epic. Lots of then do, because it's so hard to get. They do just fine without it though. Small increase in damage does not equal game changing to me.

Rogue epic takes 5 minutes to get and is like 5 items worth of stats in one item. A level 60 rogue putting in equal time to their character as the time it takes to get the epic, but not getting the epic, will be able to farm plat for.... an fbss and an exquisite spear. Too lazy to do the math but probably a raid with 5 epic rogues replaces a raid with 7 of those rogues...at least.... So in that scenario it's like 2 extra rogues for free....

[PlsNoBan]

Has OP played everquest before?

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Who has the energy to obsess over anything?
Do the easy ones. Justify why you don’t need the difficult ones until you gleefully get a bottleneck drop.

Also Shissar is welfare haste. OP is right, gross.

[Loke]

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

WTF you talking about?

Enc epic is a living snake staff - a clear reference to Moses channelling god-like power.

The real question, is why the snake staff - a symbol of medicine - isn't the epic for a healer class (like shaman or cleric).

The crazy thing about that Moses comparison is that the turning the staff into a serpent wasn't what got the Pharaoh all hot and bothered, because after Aaron (Moses' brother, who is actually who does it) does, Pharoah has his sorcerer's do it as well. Then Aaron's serpent eats the sorcerer's serpents, which I guess is the thing that displays god's favor for Aaron/Moses.

Moral of the story... turning staves into snakes is no biggie, but Egyptians apparently took snake fighting seriously.

Also, this post is dumb. Most epics are pretty huge utility items. Bard completely changes the class (literally only singing mod in the game, and 1.8 to all mods + weapon), rangers get a 50% main hand slow weapon, war blue blade is like 90 ATK, free pet haste on ench epic, rogue epic super easy to obtain 15 dmg piercer + haste + ATK... like, some are better than others, but they're all worth getting except maybe Paladin and arguably SK.

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

WTF you talking about?

Enc epic is a living snake staff - a clear reference to Moses channelling god-like power.

The real question, is why the snake staff - a symbol of medicine - isn't the epic for a healer class (like shaman or cleric).

The ankh is a much older symbol of life (the key of life) than the Caduseus, which ench staff does not resemble whatsoever.

What keeps some epics epic (well imagine for a minute you aren't using 100 people on a raid) -- snake sticks and cleric epics and bard mods at least continue to deliver in recovery (mid fight or post wipe). War epic if it's still proccing improperly (600 hate? rofl i wish it was 600 hate back in the day) is a top seller. Druids, necros, nerfed mage epic pets kinda feel short shafted, at least a wizard can use his epic and a manastone to fay gate and regen mana for free, nice free rune with regen. Paladin epic proc is insane aggro but yeah lack luster , SK looks great but that's about where it lies. Monk epic rules for eternity.

Really, primal existing where it does, dropping from what it does is the one real glaring imbalance. Ventani is the only Warder that is properly crafted for what was to be the ultimate end dungeon, sad.

Epics still look sick and made newbs jaws drop when they first saw em and that's really the most epic of all :^) the greatest carrot to the freshest meat.

I wish there were more daggers that look like that one from the Halas rogue guild leader in game, way cooler than tunare's dagger that she borrowed from Ikitiar the venomed.

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