Posted: Sat May 21, 2005 2:20 am
Im going to bet theres a specific set of 'base' spells you can get from each BASIC trainer.
Ya know
the guardian trainer
the naturalist trainer
the forrester trainer
the magician trainer
it wont be going to the Enchanter training and saying 'oh 2 points in Mana spec please'
Itll be going to the basic trainers, the guardian one will go 'I can train you to wield this weapon type with XX skill', the naturalist trainer will go, I can teach you can self improving spells with XX value', the forrestor will go 'I can teach you to shield yourself to this value', the magician trainer will go 'I can teach you to damage your foes for XX' and so forth.
it`ll be interesting to see how they work things around those classes that have no mana pool,eg heros and Bms, how they can 'cast' spells. I suspect any buffs will be of a similar ilk to rangers self buffs, perhaps a similar sort of level as the vamp gets as they level. They wont be as good as spec buffs, but they would be good enough to be competitive. With the move for a no buffbot server etc, I suspect that mythic will be edging toward that kind of solution to 'balance' the realms. I may even be they hard cap dex for casting, then allow the 'champion' buffs to stack with the spec buffs, but run them inside cap, meaning that your average druids buffs would be enough in future and you wouldnt HAVE to have that buffbot.
They may not, since buffbots make up a large portion of mythics income, but if they play it right, they can bring a lot of the lost customers who were run off by TOA and buffbots back. Id say put that choice on the vampir trainer for 'self enhancements' , and make something else naturalists, like improved healing rates, maybe make magicians champ bonus increased mana regen.
This would allow spread or focus, want to have perma crack 5? want to be self buffed like you drank lots of pots/used charges? Want to recover your health really quick ? Specialise, want to be semi buffed with crack 2 and a mildly annoying dd, spread your points out.
THIS is how champion levels would best serve the players, I suspec Mythic may have another idea, but lets see how well my predictions come out, Ive already called a lot of things correctly (like its about DF, it`ll have horses, new epics etc etc).
Ya know
the guardian trainer
the naturalist trainer
the forrester trainer
the magician trainer
it wont be going to the Enchanter training and saying 'oh 2 points in Mana spec please'
Itll be going to the basic trainers, the guardian one will go 'I can train you to wield this weapon type with XX skill', the naturalist trainer will go, I can teach you can self improving spells with XX value', the forrestor will go 'I can teach you to shield yourself to this value', the magician trainer will go 'I can teach you to damage your foes for XX' and so forth.
it`ll be interesting to see how they work things around those classes that have no mana pool,eg heros and Bms, how they can 'cast' spells. I suspect any buffs will be of a similar ilk to rangers self buffs, perhaps a similar sort of level as the vamp gets as they level. They wont be as good as spec buffs, but they would be good enough to be competitive. With the move for a no buffbot server etc, I suspect that mythic will be edging toward that kind of solution to 'balance' the realms. I may even be they hard cap dex for casting, then allow the 'champion' buffs to stack with the spec buffs, but run them inside cap, meaning that your average druids buffs would be enough in future and you wouldnt HAVE to have that buffbot.
They may not, since buffbots make up a large portion of mythics income, but if they play it right, they can bring a lot of the lost customers who were run off by TOA and buffbots back. Id say put that choice on the vampir trainer for 'self enhancements' , and make something else naturalists, like improved healing rates, maybe make magicians champ bonus increased mana regen.
This would allow spread or focus, want to have perma crack 5? want to be self buffed like you drank lots of pots/used charges? Want to recover your health really quick ? Specialise, want to be semi buffed with crack 2 and a mildly annoying dd, spread your points out.
THIS is how champion levels would best serve the players, I suspec Mythic may have another idea, but lets see how well my predictions come out, Ive already called a lot of things correctly (like its about DF, it`ll have horses, new epics etc etc).