I need to browse the forums a bit more I think! I'm a little bit late, I don't really play my lock much anymore, but whatever, I've been around since launch playing Cali, I'll plug my 2cp in.
Personally, I'd love to see warlocks get a real focus effect on our epic, not just some lame piece of shit that increases all spells by 10 or 20..who the fuck comes up with these focuses anyway /boggle. Aggro reduction, spell haste are just 2 examples of things that come to mind.
I hope the epic has an incredibly insane graphic on it..the more sparklies, particles the better. Hopefully there is some clicky on it as well, more clickies are always great. Honestly, all in all, the damn thing better be worth something more than a trinket to stare at in my bags because my current primary is better. If warlocks of all tiers, are gonna bust their ass getting their epic weapons then I would hope that the reward is >/= the bullshit, timesink that is going to be required to obtain it.
Warlocks get shafted a whole lot simply because there is no real class to base them on. Hell, in EQ1 the Necromancers were basically warlocks, they even got a class title saying so. It would really be nice for the Devs to spread some love to the warlock class in a lot of areas, but if we get dicked on epics lots of people are going to be pissed. Epics are a pretty sensitive area for a lot of people, especially ones who played EQ1.
Depending on how they make them, they're also extremely hard to upgrade. I know my wizard's epic won't be replaced for a long time..they'll have to give me Epic 3.0 or something with another deaggro proc on it, to replace what I'm using now. We just world wide first, cleared the newest raid zone the other night, and even though we haven't seen everything off the different mobs loot tables yet, there are no other weapons, daggers, staves or otherwise that I would even consider upgrading to from my epic. EQ2 Developers will have to be careful with the focus effects/mods that go on these weapons or they will likely not be replaced for many expansions to come unless they are already planning on keeping up with the epic weapon progression indefinitely.
I know Wayoff posted a screenie already, but whoever that wizard was that took that screenshot was either using 1.5 or has a really shitty computer so here's a better pic for reference..
It would be kinda cool to see some kind of warlock worthy particle effect like this on the epic. Anyway, just my opinions hopefully they do this class justice.
Re: RoK, Epic Weapons, and Warlocks...
