Alternate Advancement: Good or Bad?

[oldhead]

i'd be happy for AA's for rangers only to make them viable... or even a non classic change to make them ranged DPS with bow.

[Oldfart]

AA points can suck it, stop trying to modify classic into something it was not, eq died with luclin , don't make it happen here to!

[yaeger]

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

AA points can suck it, stop trying to modify classic into something it was not, eq died with luclin , don't make it happen here to!

Classic EQ died with Luclin, but PoP was the best expansion ever released in EQ.

Tons of challenging raids, excellent class balance, and plenty of stuff to do for the hardcore and casual. AAs were only a part of it.

God knows that after long enough in Velious with nothing left to do, people will want more. Just like what happened in Live.

[oldhead]

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

Classic EQ died with Luclin, but PoP was the best expansion ever released in EQ.

Tons of challenging raids, excellent class balance, and plenty of stuff to do for the hardcore and casual. AAs were only a part of it.

God knows that after long enough in Velious with nothing left to do, people will want more. Just like what happened in Live.

then create custom content which could include AA's or wipe the server and start from day 1


Either way you are talking a looooooooooooooooong time from now.

[AexDestroy]

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

If no, why not? (other than 'It's not in Classic/Kunark/Vellious' ;P)

[lauremore]

All you whiners need to realize verant designed and finished most of Luclin before the sellout to SOE was formalized, and SOE took over. So stop saying SOL was not part of classic, because it was. If you don't like it, that is one thing, but saying it is not classic and /pooting all the time when it is mentioned is dumb, in whatever form you are doing it in.

[Divarin]

In my opinion World of Warcraft stole a lot of good ideas from Everquest. I think the spec system in wow was inspired by the AA system.
It's another dimension in which your character can grow and become unique. That way not every druid is like every other druid and not every necro is like every other necro. every person is unique in their own way.

However, I think it should be possible to start earning AA points from the beginning not at level 55. It made sense at the time because they were adding a new level cap with every expansion and they wanted to have another way for players to grow and use experience points without increasing the cap.
But I think it would be better if you could start putting experience into AA right away, or at least at a much lower level.

[KilyenaMage]

When Alternate Advancement FIRST came out (Luclin) they were definately a positive thing.

It wasn't until PoP and later expansions that they really started to get out of hand and make certain classes way too powerful.

I was playing on Tallon Zek (pvp-teams) server, and I STILL really enjoyed AAs....despite their giving the hardcore players a huge advantage.

God...SKs with max spell crit and max healing AAs were fu$#ing DEADLY -- Crit your Lifetap turning into a 2k Tap....then get SUPER lucky and crit the heal too and heal for 4k as a tank. lawls.

(Again though, that last example was during the GoD or OOW era -- well after AAs were first introduced -- and largely due to the fact that EQ was just getting out-of-hand in general at that point)

[KilyenaMage]

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

It's another dimension in which your character can grow and become unique. That way not every druid is like every other druid and not every necro is like every other necro. every person is unique in their own way.

Also this....it adds diversity to the game. Those saying that there are no drawbacks are a bit wrong.

It would be a LLLOOONNNGGGG time before ANYONE was maxing out AAs without even Luclin Zones to Xp in (let alone PoP elemental planes where people REALLY farmed up AAs)

So essentially it would just be adding some diversity to the game. I loved the fact that my lil Dorf Warrior was maxed out in Defensive AAs while the other warriors were building for damage ( cuz we were on a pvp server).

[Wizarous]

But then again, there are servers out there that has aa. you should try PEQ server or something