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Originally Posted by Kirgoth
This is funny
and while I myself think there are plenty of posts about this,people shoukld stop making the posts, and its never gonna happen ever
i think they should bring them back, if they revise the archetype system a bit, which is never gonna happen
but what i find funny is so may people say "no" , with no explanation for why they say no, i think the majority of people know they were overpowered, and as of right now a 25th class would screw everything up, its not feasable, but i think about 1/2 or more see everyone else saying no, and instead of posting the vote and walking off, or actually saying yes they just say no, to add the the huge sprawling lines of no's, to look cool i guess, i know he said say yes or no, but come on if you didint play eq1 or a beastlord dont just say hell no stop whining, give a reason or somthing or dont say anything
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Ok.
There are FOUR archetpes.
There are TWELVE classes.
There are TWENTY FOUR subclasses.
This whole game's balancing is built around the fact that: for each and every class, there are two subclasses that do the same role but differently.
Let's look at Beastlord. (EQ1 Terms) Part ranger, rogue, warrior, shaman. While they were theoretically simply shaman/warrior, they did much more, as anyone who knows the class would know.
So. In this game? that equates to eight subclasses.
Congratulations! You just destroyed three years worth of careful balancing.
There is also the other option: they add this
twenty-fifth class, completely throwing their symmetry out of order. To be properly balanced with the roles the other classes play, they would have to be severely less powerful than the beastlords you encountered in EQ1.
Congratulations! You just sparked another holy jihad of forum posts whining that Beastlord get returned to its original state.
BEST CASE SCENARIO, they completely retool and revamp the entire class/subclass system, getting rid of classes where they are not needed. There are few exceptions to where this would
actually be a bad idea, where the subclasses
actually differ from eachother.
But. This would never happen. I don't blame Sony for that, either.
You shouldn't either. This is EQ2. Not EQ1.
(Lore perspective: Umm. The Vah Shir got owned by Luclin exploding. The ancient, umm, arts of Beastlordery got left behind on the moon.)