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    Quote Originally Posted by Physic View Post
    I dont know, its really rare to see a mage class in any game with only 15 abilities total. Its also pretty rare to see amage class which uses all its abilities at once, usually they take a wide variety of skills, and use the ones that apply the most.
    Which is fine and good because you won't have only 15 abilities total. You'll have cross class abilities... such as nukes and CC from other classes whose effectiveness also scales with level. Does this mean you'll need to level more than one class to level effectively? Maybe.
    But it is already like that even now... though to a less extreme degree.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Charismatic View Post
    Which is fine and good because you won't have only 15 abilities total. You'll have cross class abilities... such as nukes and CC from other classes whose effectiveness also scales with level. Does this mean you'll need to level more than one class to level effectively? Maybe.
    But it is already like that even now... though to a less extreme degree.
    but you get them fairly late in the process. you only have access to like 3 cross class abilities at 15. Also, there is only 2 mage classes to pull those small amount of skills from. In the begining of the game, you will be using almost exclusively whatever skills they start you with.

    It actually means, DoW have 6 other classes skills to pull abilities from, where as DoM has about 1, class that can give them any spells, or spell boosting/altering abilities.

    Thing is if they make con for example have more curing/support skills, at the same time reducing their total skills, by about 1/3rd how will they solo? at the same time when cross class skills will be a very limited resource early.


    Quote Originally Posted by AmyRae View Post
    might be valuable, but these skills will have to be altered to be something you could use way more often. not simply use for 1 minute, this would be have to be something you could toggle on and off, or use before most spells.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Physic View Post
    Thing is if they make con for example have more curing/support skills, at the same time reducing their total skills, by about 1/3rd how will they solo? at the same time when cross class skills will be a very limited resource early.
    I don't know how much mage soloing you've done but... to solo at a decent clip you don't even need more than a couple of nukes and then support spells.
    Put on Scourge and Banish from THM (which will undoubtedly be gained at a low level) and the CON skills should be enough. THM soloing is what I'd be more concerned about depending on what levels they gain certain abilities.

    I honestly don't see how this will be a problem for any class in the game other than potentially THM, yet I doubt it'll be a problem for them either.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Physic View Post
    "Soughspeak"

    might be valuable, but these skills will have to be altered to be something you could use way more often. not simply use for 1 minute, this would be have to be something you could toggle on and off, or use before most spells.
    This = easy mode.

    I wouldn't mind a permanent mode you could select that reduced your magic potency in exchange for less enimity a la Defender.
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