Letter from the producer live XXIV

[Dalvy]

Why does scholar Esoteric gear have so few points in crit, compared to AST and WHM? This is probably a "duhh" thing, but I figure I'd ask. All that spell speed is peculiar, when the class typically benefits more from critical rating.

[Dante_V]

Why does scholar Esoteric gear have so few points in crit, compared to AST and WHM? This is probably a "duhh" thing, but I figure I'd ask. All that spell speed is peculiar, when the class typically benefits more from critical rating.

Typically they use this as an indirect method to balance the classes. Some of it can be subverted however by acquiring the raid set and mixing matching pieces to maximize secondaries.

[Sapphic]

Well hopefully they take questions from here:

Mine is:

There was mention of allowing players to open their personal houses to friends, will we also be able to do that with Alts also or will it just be people on the friends list?

[Nadirah]

You're still forced to explore on ground to gather the aether points, and do the quests required for it, otherwise I don't know what you're suggesting. The removal of flight, or maybe areas that don't allow it that aren't just city/town areas?

He wants them to pull a wow likely.

Where everything new doesn't allow flight.

Which pissed off a LOT of people.

[Aeyis]

He wants them to pull a wow likely.

Where everything new doesn't allow flight.

Which pissed off a LOT of people.

Speak for yourself. It pleased a LOT of people as well. Flying adds very little to the game (this one or wow) if you cant even combat while flying.

[Colorful]

Speak for yourself. It pleased a LOT of people as well. Flying adds very little to the game (this one or wow) if you cant even combat while flying.

It annoyed more than it pleased I'd bet.

It adds convenience, and to me convenience trumps everything else. Never understood the people who forced other people into playing how they want, it would be like if pro-flyers demanded ground mounts be removed.

[Starlord]

The big question is, What will be this patch called? hmm.

[Aeyis]

It annoyed more than it pleased I'd bet.

It adds convenience, and to me convenience trumps everything else. Never understood the people who forced other people into playing how they want, it would be like if pro-flyers demanded ground mounts be removed.

That's a difference of opinion. There were a number of vocal complainers, thats for sure. But many also appreciated the fact they could actually enjoy the overworld again.

Never understood the people who forced other people into playing how they want

That argument was used on the WoW forums as well...by people who would force others to play in a world where there was flight. Simply having flight affects the overworld. The way its designed for example.

I can only call such reasoning irony at its finest.

[Nektulos-Tuor]

Please change or remove the Aura on Darkside.
Please let us choose secondary stats on gear.
Please give Au Ra horn choices.
Please add strength to tank gear/vitality to all gear.

[Nadirah]

Speak for yourself. It pleased a LOT of people as well. Flying adds very little to the game (this one or wow) if you cant even combat while flying.

What point would aerial combat serve when there's nothing in the air to fight?

EQ2's had mounted combat for years, and it still forces you to dismount in combat on flying mounts.

And flying *does* add to the game, whether or not you choose to believe it. Adds an entirely new axis to game play(z), giving your ground to work with, so to speak, without boring things like elevators.

And I'm pretty sure the mass exodus wow had right about the time they'd announced there wasn't ever going to be flying, plus the reluctant reintroduction of it to enact damage control, had nothing to do with removing flight.

Riiight.

It annoyed more than it pleased I'd bet.

It adds convenience, and to me convenience trumps everything else. Never understood the people who forced other people into playing how they want, it would be like if pro-flyers demanded ground mounts be removed.

With me, it was the fact that ground mounts are slow as hell and their attitude in that they think they know what we find fun, but we don't, that was my final straw.

That's a difference of opinion. There were a number of vocal complainers, thats for sure. But many also appreciated the fact they could actually enjoy the overworld again.
That argument was used on the WoW forums as well...by people who would force others to play in a world where there was flight. Simply having flight affects the overworld. The way its designed for example.

I can only call such reasoning irony at its finest.

Then why did they backtrack and put it back in? If it was so helping the community and gameplay by having it removed.

Lol.