drychnath

Mages:
I'd stay away from herald... you're looking at an eq2 shadowknight right there, no mistake. It looks pretty and useful, and heralds will want to be used as tanks in demon form, but they'll be ill suited to do the job because you can't be in demon form all the time. Waiting 30 sec between pulls for your tank to become useful isn't anyone's idea of a good raid. On top of that, you're a cloth wearer in melee range doing far less damage than an assasin, the other cloth wearer in melee range... that will make just about anyone sad-in-pants.

Demo looks sweet, you've got to control the pet, keep it from getting hurt, because it's pretty much a buff with a model. It's got more use alive and buffing the group than it does doing any real damage.

Necro looks like it has some good pet options, but I haven't played it as much as the other two. They get a very long pull range with their nukes compared to bow users.

Healers: Bear shaman starts out weak and stays that way for the first 30, and then opens up to be one of the most favored classes. I think that a lot of healers will go BS or ToS. I haven't talked with or even seen any PoM yet, and probably for good reason.

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stivan

Comments from a lvl 52 Herald of Xotli:

We are very powerful, and can dish out an extreme amount of AoE damage. This class is not to be underestimated. In a raid, we will be primary AOE damage, similar to warlocks. We are definately not like shadowknights.

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kythik

i killed cracatoa today in AoC...made my week!

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kythik

the new necro/demo changes look decent but not complete. cant wait til they actually finish the classes...

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Cracatoa

Then we destroyed Kythik and his entire group...was great!

Easier than hacking his Matron pull!

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Able to leap large raids in a single bound.

kythik

you didnt catch me...til i was solo. and before that my group destroyed you!! lol

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Illuminator

This is just a brief n00b commentary after the first 10 levels... Play control to me is everything and in AoC it feels stiff and combative. The character cast animations (from what I've seen so far) are insincere. But the general graphics, BGM, gear appearance and character customization options blow away EQ2. Like for instance: human hair styles that people would actually wear.

But again when all is said and done it'd be about play control. I have good reasons for continuing to play 2D Street Fighter 2 even after Tekken and all the other clunky 3-D bullshit. EQ2's graphics may be mildly dated but they are just fine for what we need (performance issues aside). And no RPG has play control that beats EQ2 imo.

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Wargore

a week or more ago i would have agreed.

Combat in AoC is about rhythm. Not sure about anyone else but after playing my conq to level 35 so far, one combo flows into the next and I have almost trained my brain/fingers on how to perform the next function i need. In other games you have a "global cooldown" and its a set time, in AoC I am finding the cool down between moves is different per move and really up to you. I can hack fast, or i can flow from combo to combo as needed. It takes time to get and its different from EQ2 (I loved the flow in Eq2 between my assassins abilities) and its really different from wow.

Each to their own though, i am sure it's different for everyone and maybe I see somethingpoetic and flowing where others see chaos and clunkyness.

it's certainly a breath of fresh air though.

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Lizardling

80 as of last night, I play a barbarian. If you play one right now, reroll.

Gage

People always say that about every class lol.

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