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[Pyros]

Originally Posted by Duppin

Ha ha, frog of fail!

Is spellweaving as interesting as it sounds?

In beta it pretty much sucked(unless you bugged it and started moving around). You're stuck in place, you can't really build it up solo, and you can get some shitty debuffs nullifying the whole thing by running you oom or killing you. Hard to say currently since it's 50+(40? forgot) so there's very few people who could test. On my server the highest lvl is a 44assassin, so no spellweaving. How an assassin is outleveling everyone is a rather interesting question though, considering they're not that good for soloing.

[Kirby]

so does this game get harder or do all mobs auto attack?

[NativityInBlack]

Give him a call/e-mail his taking pre-orders and said he will start emailing 'em on tuesday.

[NativityInBlack]

Kirby mobs got combos as players do so yea they should get harder, I never passed 30 but I had a fair share of mob special attacks on my arse.

[Zindan]

Furious Inspiration, as far as I can tell, will only fire off IF the Conq is grouped with other melee classes. It has gone off while I've been grouped with Barbs, Assassins and Rangers. Nice buff too.

The Fire Weave proc / debuff is fairly decent too. I have it improved so that it does +65% dmg / debuff, while also placing a DoT on the mob (DoT can be stacked too, at 2x sof ar).

An odd thing happened to one of my attacks when it hit rank 3. At rank 2 the attack was a 2-hit combo (left / right), when it hit rank 3, the combo remained a 2-hit, but its now Forward / Right (I think). Seems odd to change to directions.

Edit: Conall's Valley is really nice, having lots of fun doing the quests there. Beware of the Ymir mobs...they hit a lot harder than their level would indicate.

[Zindan]

Damn, my character is stuck in the Field of the Dead. =/ The client locked up when I first zoned in, and continues to lock up when I try to login. Blah.

Finally found some non-leather type armor tonight as well. A chain helm and chest piece. Finally! No more running around looking like a burnt waffle.

Does the chat system on your servers seem broken? On Derketo, it is very rare to see any chat in /ooc at all. Not sure why.

[Aria]

How are barbarians faring now? Are they the most overplayed class still?

I kind of want to roll a melee dps, but unsure which I want to pick.

[Man0warr]

Originally Posted by Draegan

There are a couple of good items that are worth staying in Tortage for. Blue legs from the ruins quests, blue ring from a long chain that takes you from the ruins to underhall to the docks.

Don't be a completionist. Drop and take quests liberally. There is a good quest line in Khemi that gives you a good blue dagger too.

Draegan, what quest line is it for the blue pants? or who does it start from, thought I did everything for that zone.

[Gilgamel]

Originally Posted by Zindan

Damn, my character is stuck in the Field of the Dead. =/ The client locked up when I first zoned in, and continues to lock up when I try to login. Blah.

Finally found some non-leather type armor tonight as well. A chain helm and chest piece. Finally! No more running around looking like a burnt waffle.

Does the chat system on your servers seem broken? On Derketo, it is very rare to see any chat in /ooc at all. Not sure why.

I haven't seen 1 out of character all day today on Derketo. It's definitely a problem.

[Rhaze]

I'm kinda liking my tempest of set, I can see him being bad ass when his heals do more than 2 heals a tick.

Anyone have any comments on necro, or herald? My herald at level 8 was rather bad.

[Aria]

I felt gimp as HoX at low levels too, not sure if they turn around

[Kato Danzo]

Originally Posted by Rhaze

I'm kinda liking my tempest of set, I can see him being bad ass when his heals do more than 2 heals a tick.

Anyone have any comments on necro, or herald? My herald at level 8 was rather bad.

Heralds are laughable before level 10, when they get their first mitagation buff. After that, much much better. They are an extremely fun end game class as well. Their only big weakness (in PvP at least) is a limited cc. Runners can be a big PITA.

[Tolanin]

Furious inspiration is a buff that you get sometimes when people in your part get hit, so the only way to have it baring like one talent that gives your combos a chance to proc it, is to be grouped and then it starts stacking on you when they get hit. Its supposed to be part of the mechanisms to make conq a good offtank, and imo it works because the dmg is nice, the heal is horrible, the rez is godly... the rez is just a weapon proc you get when you have the stacks up. Theres not a hell of alot of parsing data on any of this yet, but ive never failed to rez someone in my group if they die and i have FI up. Its gonna take a few months before people actually manage to figure out how all this stuff works exactly and turn it into a numbers game.

I think its funny every time i see a conq post on the forums about how the class is bad. IMO its the best heavy buff support class in an mmo since bards.

@HoX yes the class turns around, its move are incredibly high damage starting around midlvls to the point that they will one shot most people if they get them off.

necros, they dont turn around so much and the class while doing good damage suffers way way to much from its low survivability, 2k hp doesnt cut it at 80.

[Kirby]

Originally Posted by Aria

I felt gimp as HoX at low levels too, not sure if they turn around

i am a level 22 HoX right now and they do alot of damage but the no hp/defense thing kinda sucks.

[Rhaze]

Curious why the necro class never seems to cut it for pvp and group pve in most mmos.