Shadow Knight - Velious Changes?

[Trexid]

Shadow Knights!

So I've been mulling over playing a Shadow Knight and have started picking up gear and created a Troll last night. I'm excited to start my first Melee class play through on EQ. To keep this to the point though. Does anyone have information on what class changes are going to take place with the release of Velious on P1999?

I seem to remember a fair bit of discussion back in my days of LIVE (1999-2004). And also found this archived thread.

It's definitely not my intention to fuel a complaints discussion about any impending nerfs by linking that archived Velious thread. I've been trying to track down a change list from back in the day.

Some examples might be...

• Class Penalty Removed
• Iksar's can wear plate.
• Etc...

Another question... As a Shadow Knight are you going to Ally with Kael or Thurgadin or Dragons?

Maybe we should just wait until the P99 goes live with Velious and perhaps posts a features and changes log?

Thanks guys

[Danth]

Almost nothing changes immediately upon Velious release. Some new spells, perhaps. Most of the heavily anticipated changes (removal of hybrid experience penalty, improving of skill caps, combat tables, etc) will come months later.

Danth

[Asap]

Shadowknights:
--- Removed artificially inflated mana cost for pre level 50 lifetap
spells. Please note that post-50 lifetap spells never had an inflated
mana cost.
--- Moved Spirit Tap to level 55
--- Moved Drain Spirit to level 57
--- Added Drain Soul at level 60
--- Grim Aura added at level 22 and enhanced
--- Moved Shieldskin to level 34
--- Pet buff added at 29
--- Added Diamondskin spell at 59
--- Defense skill cap made exactly same as warriors
--- Due to the recent improvements to "Harmtouch", it is doing much
more damage than it would before and unbalances PvP. As such it will
now do less damage in PvP (68% of PvE, down from 80%). In addition,
Shadowknights on the PvP servers were routinely killing themselves via
non-XP losing means and attacking other players with Harmtouch
immediately upon respawn. In order to address this situation, Harmtouch
is no longer automatically "recharged" by death on the PvP Servers.
--- The "Lifeleech" discipline now increases hit probability in
addition to its other effects.
- "Harmtouch" is now resisted as if it were a "Lifetap" spell, meaning
that it is all-or-nothing, and nearly unresistable with exception to
encounters that are immune to magic or out of the acceptable level
range. In addition, maximum damage for Harmtouch has been increased
starting at 40th level.
--Two-Handed Weapons have been given an increased damage bonus for
characters over level 50. Also, certain post-epic quality two-handers
have been improved.
--Paladins and Shadowknights, besides the benefits they gain from the
two-handed weapons change mentioned above, have also been moved to the
same combat tables as warriors. In the future we intend to examine the
existing one-handed weapons useable by knights for possible upgrades.
We are also increasing the Taunt skill cap for these two classes to
220.

[Trexid]

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

Almost nothing changes immediately upon Velious release. Some new spells, perhaps. Most of the heavily anticipated changes (removal of hybrid experience penalty, improving of skill caps, combat tables, etc) will come months later.

Danth

Okay, thanks Danth! I'll continue on my journey with the new SK for now. I found it so difficult picking a race for the SK class, I settled on Troll for the Plate and Regen factor. Have I erred in not choosing the master race (iksar) in preparation for velious?

Edit: Wow thanks asap!

[chu]

wtb 80% pve damage for pvp ht loooool nerf it when i get my disc thats cool

[Swish]

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

Have I erred in not choosing the master race (iksar) in preparation for velious?

Iksar will get access to a racial SK epic, which will be amazing...though it is late in Velious. See thread on "Greenmist".

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[Potus]

Iksar SK: The master race for the master class.

[Trexid]

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

Iksar will get access to a racial SK epic, which will be amazing...though it is late in Velious. See thread on "Greenmist".

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Haha thanks! I forget where I got that from.

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

Iksar SK: The master race for the master class.

Damn it! Don't make me second guess my Troll SK lol - Can't tell if you're serious or? [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Danth]

You ultimately won't notice much of a difference between Troll and Iksar. They both have the same primary characteristics (regen combined with 20% racial experience penalty). With Velious, Iksars will end up with somewhat higher AC and eventual access to a race-specific pseudo-epic weapon. Trolls can slam using ordinary 2H weapons, Iksars can't, and there are a lot of nice 2-handers in Velious. Either race gives good service.

Danth

[Swish]

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

Damn it! Don't make me second guess my Troll SK lol - Can't tell if you're serious or? [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Trolls arguably have better starting stats, and have decent armor that's good to go now... but I'd say an iksar SK is a better long term investment [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]