First off, I'd like to say that all of the awesome cosmetic ideas you have posted Clen have been amazing. While I will never be able to even pretend to obtain any of them, I think that people who give towards helping a game I enjoy playing should be rewarded just as we do IRL when businesses put up plaques.

Secondly, Thank you for persisting through all the jerks who can't seem to hold a straight conversation as this is the internet and people become rabid animals here for some reason. I wish more people like you would try to come up with creative and interesting ways to add content and future additions to help this game grow. Admittedly, some of the ideas presented are just wishful thinking, but the general act of TRYING is the important part.

One item I think would be fun to have is the addition of wings. Not ones that can be used, but nice cosmetic ones in black, white, glowing, butterfly, etc similar to Aion, but not nearly as large. Some could be put in game from a reputation vendor or something, while others could be cash shop only between $10 and 25$ just like mounts. I bet hundreds of little rabbit Elin girls will want to frolic around in white puffy cloud wings to match their fluffy tails :)

Lastly, I have been reading a LOT of cool things about Dubai in the news and technology and science magazines lately and I was wondering if you had time to msg me with information about your city-state?

Thanks for reading and good luck!

No offence to anyone in this thread, but it seems to me like none of you has actually played a warrior tank recently. My main is one, and not only does defensive stance give a warrior MORE dmg reduction than a lancer (at least until they lancer is very nicely geared due to the endurance scaling), but they also get block just like one, however instead of just that ONE skill they also get 2 dodges and a very nice dodge while staying in place move. Additionally they bring the same dmg debuff on the mob as a lancer, and their dps is muuuuuch higher. The threat generation is very easy as they do more dmg and overall since they gave warrior the ability to block. Plus lots of stuns, and 2 shadows that can also help tank if the warrior comes under heavy fire (one of which costs no hp, allows you to stun, AND teleport behind the mob). Warrior is what everyone in my guild begs for now, and I really hope they add some goodies to lancer since they feel quite subpar (I miss wearing sexy plate!).

tl:dr - There is nothing a warrior can't do better than a lancer. They have better defence (until the lancer has good gear), better dps, and way more general get out of jail free cards (block, 2 dodge, shadow, stuns.)

Sorc has enough tools and burst that taking away their circle in PVP would just make it to where no one would bother with anything but a sorc in PVP due to the inevitable win. I play a sorc and already even with the low lvl cast speed (aka pre-glyph skill for 70% additional cast speed) I can manage to get hellfires off by using my "Timegyre" and then "Mindblast" guarantees the player doesn't move and I can choose my angle of attack. If I run in to melee and do it then I can get off a Void Pulse as well before they can get out of range and BAM, dead person. However due to all the dodges being able to avoid the lock on and blocking stopping CC the way they have the sorcerer skills is the only way for people to honestly use skill to kill each other. If the skill is not visible then your opponent has no idea of a need for a dodge and that is the whole reason things are balanced.
It's suggestions like this that made all the other MMO's out there drive people crazy with the constant rebalancing. Rift has yet to stick with one thing for longer than a month because people complain "waa warrior can spam people at range to death" "waaa mage can cc people and one shot them" "waaa rogue can kill people from stealth with no warning and they die" Well if no one whined that their already highly gifted class was "soooo not fair" compared to another in the sense of ONE battle that went wrong, maybe more games would have found some balance like this one has. I hope EME doesn't change a thing about the classes because as it is, there is a way for every class to counter another and win. There is no "OP win all one button lolz" class. Sorc hits hard and is slippery but you can dodge and block their cc and nukes and if you hit them they die. Priests and mystics require that they barely whittle your health down while you only have to get in one or two hits over the whole long course of the fight, but they can heal helping them to survive so it becomes a cat and mouse of who can make a mistake first. Warriors are amazing caster killers due to their swings having the chance to interrupt, but they can do the same to plate and other leather due to their speed, yet every class has dodges and some form of basic CC enough to counter them. Lancer even as a tank class is incredibly difficult to kill but since they have low dmg, they kill slow as well. So despite your class, if you use the tools given to you in a skilled manner then there is no such thing as "OP" or "unbalanced" but rather "you failed to use the skills given to you" and therefore is the fault of you, the user, not the class itself.

Quote: DarkFayth on 03/14/2012, 10:31 AM - view

Because warriors give one of the best buffs that MAKE all those other DPS classes so amazing. I would bring a warrior as DPS over any other class (except sorc, because I am one ^.^).

BTW if I could just throw my two cents in here on the whole tank or DPS debate: In KR Tera, when using the LFG dungeon tool, if you are a warrior you can NOT que as a tank. You are limited to the single role of DPS. Now, I am very aware of the warriors amazing taunts and aggro increasing abilities and stances for increasing armor etc. for tanking. However, in the KR version, warriors MUST DPS if they are trying to pug using the LFG tool. My wonderful husband has played a warrior right along side my sorceress and when we duo BAM's he does an astounding job of keeping aggro (unless of course I get a hellfire off and it crits... then I am tank haha).
Additionally, one of my friends from the wonderful world of Steparu was seen mentioning that after the 60 patch they had reason to believe that Warrior was #3 in terms of highest DPS class. (Unfortunately I heard it in game and therefore cannot quote this moment, and if one of my friends from there was spouting nonsense I apologize, but ordinarily I tend to trust their general feedback <3>.
TO clarify: warrior CAN tank and CAN DPS, but in terms of the role the game itself gives them, they are a support DPS with off tanking qualities.

tl;dr warrior is a group support DPS/off tank

Please NOTE: The part about not being able to use the LFG tool in KR to que as a tank while playing the warrior class is not opinion, but instead is just a part of the game that has been this way since the day they came out with the LFG tool. Whether NA will have warriors unable to que as tank is unknown, but in the KR version the only button option available is DPS.

I am pretty certain the NA beta is running on a very old version of the KR one because in KR the drop rates are WAY better. You can easily see 3 golds and 2 blues drop off the last boss just about every run. However, that was after a patch where they said specifically they had buffed the drop rate. Also I have gone back on a high level to help friends in KR and yes the drop rate went down to 2 gold or 1 gold and 2 blues but the drops still happened. A lvl 31 is still eligible in KR to go to the instance and therefore should have no effect on the drop rate. However, as I stated earlier, I believe this is an old version and therefore the loot tables are evil and do in fact suck.

I play KR as female castanic sorc and my hubby thinks her theme song is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPAmr_Po8PI&feature=related
(Be warned, semi-explicit lyrics)


I however plan to be male castanic sorc in NA and think this song fits him better:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgGmREAPZ5Y&feature=related

Oh and this one from my pegasus of the springs

If I may: Elves in the lore were kinda like the Argons to the rest of the entire world for a pretty long time. It was only semi-recently they turned to trying to fit in and help the other races... So maybe they have less "specials" because lore-wise they are trying to be accepted by the other races :) Which may mean in the future when they have proven themselves they will probably show off a few other olde time abilities as the game story progresses.

(Also, popori/elin racials are way worse: swim a little faster and make some mobs not hate you quite as much... as if they could catch you)

Just my two cents <3

This is the outside entrance from one side, I really love this part because to get to this little desert-like place I had to go through a super short tunnel... whose other side ends in a complete frozen over tundra haha.


This is just as you enter the bridge to go inside the main gates of the city.


(Ignore me and my pony haha) Through the main gate you see tons of these statues and there is water all over the city. Additionally a LOT of the structures here have blue mist pouring out in straight lines and little glowing technology streaks. It looks really high tech, ancient, and elegant all at the same time.


Some nice statues, similar to those found in Vellika... but less revealing and more elegant and did I mention tall?


And lastly we have the top most spire in the middle of the city. (The city is shaped like a big plus sign almost)