there's also the twink factor... the paladin can pay for a full set of gear
for the necro. so the necro has to struggle alot less as he'll have more
mana/better gear to do his thing
My bard has about 40 days played i guess, maybe more and is still not 50,
but my necro was level 50 in 17 days /played...
Minkin
-----Original Message-----
From: Jeffrey Sue [mailto:
jsue@...]
Sent: February 22, 2001 12:55 PM
To:
eqbards@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [eqbards] RE: Patch Message (OOT Class Balance)
there are a few reasons this is and a few more why it would have been
exacerbated.
1. experience penalty. paladin has 40%, necro has (i believe) 10%.
2. necro can solo much more easily than a paladin. how much of those 128
days were
spent looking for a group?
3. did he work on any trade skills like blacksmithing for his class armor?
these types of
things are very time consuming.
4. the paladin would likely have spent most of his hunting times in groups,
which, unless it
is a very good group in an uncrowded area, will not equate to the
speed of soloing. if you
are in a group camping frenzy when there are 80 other people in lower
guk, you will not be
nonstop killing. if you are fear kiting stuff in dreadlands solo you
will be non stop killing (due
to number of available mobs)
there's probably other reasons like the time it takes to run back to the
paladin's corpse, while the
necro can just bind where he is fighting. or perhaps now that the paladin
knows where a lot of the
good places to hunt are, he knows exactly where to take the necro for the
best experience.
At 08:45 AM 2/22/01 -0500, you wrote:
>Here's what a friend of ours said about the two classes he's played:
>
>[The paladin] is lvl 54 now with 128 days played and well over 18
>months of hard core gaming. Sure he died quite a few times and many of them
>before anyone even heard of a lvl 49 res, but I spent days with very little
>exp movement after 45 or so. [The necromancer] on other hand has officially
>passed [the paladin]up exp wise. Get this in 29 days played, 4 of those
>camping Pyzin. I think I may have 1 or 2 days in group time, which cutts
exp
>in half at least. That adds up to less than 25 days to go from 1 to 54 for
a
>necro and 128 hard core cant leave your pc days for the pally. How can this
>be right?
>*********************
>It's not just bards that have issues. I will really hate the loss of
mezzing
>and CCing things and see it as a major impact on my ability to contribute
to
>group survival/success.
>
>Brilinnia Ban'Sidhe
>Excalibur, Xegony
>
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