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Originally Posted by Zehn - Vhex  You mean hit mana song and go afk? Let's be honest here, there wasn't that much to being a bard. Don't let that nostalgic appeal interfere with fact. For the first 5 years of EQ most classes hit one, maybe 2 buttons max. If you want to talk about how fun it is to exploit, every game has had their fair share and I fully agree. The biggest appeal to me of EQ was exploiting. But that was pretty much the only appeal. EQ classes were -incredibly simplistic- and for a long time combat in EQ was about as stupidly simple as you could get. |
Sure you could raid like that or just press 11-22-33 for your whole existance, just like you can spam fireball, sinister strike etc.
But you could also do a lot of shit with a bard, like pulling a named from deep within a zone to the zone line, etc. that was fun. Exploiting faction in Chardok to pull nameds up, charming tons of trash and send them on the queen to solo her, pulling that ugly mob in the cave of plane of disease out in the open and kite him to death. I have a couple tons more examples.
EQ classes were simplistic for sure, melees even moreso, but in a way I remember *some* things of EQ that I really loved, like being able to try crazy shit without a group of assholes screaming that heroic content is made for groups and I shouldn't be able to solo or a developer saying that my buffs do not work in combat etc.
I had to swallow a lot of design decisions I didn't like from EQ1 and luckily I could also appreciate a lot that I liked, but removing the freedom to do funny stuff is my biggest gripe, although I'm not so dumb to not understand the reasons behind that.