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Caster Balance by
Rich Waters It's been clear for awhile now that priests and casters haven't been as well balanced as we'd all like them to be. Balance is a delicate issue and any major changes to overall class power are always researched, debated, and taken slowly. There are some really big improvements in the works now for helping out with that balance, and we expect those to be on the Test server in the near future. These changes won't all come in one huge patch, but will show up a bit at a time until casting classes are right where they should be in relative power. We are taking the needs and issues of casters seriously, and we think you'll be very happy with the results you see after we finish our caster balance effort. We hope you'll be patient just a bit longer, while we take the time to get everything implemented, balanced, and tested. Ancient Spells One specific area we are addressing for casting classes revolves around how much improvement they get from raiding and acquiring high-level items. When a melee class begins to acquire items from the hardest monsters, they experience a tremendous growth in power. A melee character sporting Vulak weapons and Temple of Veeshan loot is incredibly more powerful than player who only owns average quality items. Casting classes don't achieve nearly the same amount of increased power from raid items, and rapidly fall behind melees in relative power when they start raiding. It doesn't make sense for a wizard who has helped in slaying hundreds of dragons to be using the same spells as someone who has yet to take part in raid encounters. To address this problem, we've introduced the new "Ancient" category of spells recently. Ancient spells are rare, high-quality spells that can only be obtained from the most powerful monsters. These spells are improved versions of spells already available to each casting class. They won't give casters any brand-new, or out-of-class abilities, but are intended to make the casters better at what they already do. Much like a warrior improves himself by getting a better sword from a dragon, a wizard can now acquire more efficient spells in the same way. As you might expect, Ancient spells are going to be rare and take a certain amount of effort to obtain. We don't expect many casters to ever get all the Ancient spells for their class. This is a change from the traditional approach we've had to spells, which has allowed every caster to feel entitled to get every one of their spells. We'll continue to make core spells available to casting classes off of vendors, or as relatively frequent drops off of monsters, but we want to be clear that Ancient spells are rare and powerful items of treasure, and we intend them to be very hard to get. Only the first set of Ancient spells have been added to the game. In the coming weeks, we'll continue to add more Ancient spells to the game and expand the selection for casters and priests. It takes some time to get the spells balanced, tested, and placed on monsters - so expect to see them coming in a few sets at a time. One last thing to note about Ancient spells- the power of these spells will vary depending on what monster drops them. You can expect Vulak A'err to have more powerful Ancient spells than you might find on Trakanon, for instance.
3/15/02 Registered With Stormhammer the Legends server made a Vah Shir Beatslord - Name is Kyper,will be moving my Main and another Character over from Fennin Ro. This is Awsome theres nobody to compete with for newbie items for the quests at least on luclin theres not most likely everywhere else too since it still the lowest volume server. Well aside from the fact i think its more fun is that the Website where everthing you do you can keep track of all charaters and guild are listed alphabetically. Theres GM held events all the time there posted on the websitesite also. Also i hear and from reading theres new Beasteriy as like in case last night never seen mention on quest list on alakazams site theres a little orange scorpion thats over conned named Tailfang never saw him till last night while on Legends in the Crater asked what quest he was for and reply was when you do kill him you take his stinger too crater pit boss NPC and he gives you a better piercing weapon not sure how much better yet as he still conned yellow at lvl 2. Also haved done some reading on a legends Forum that some zones have been revamped and are tougher like Cazic Thule was mention. So far as i have progressed even the newbie beast seem tougher than on the RP server.I got my arse handed to me by a evenly conned Worm that was easy on the RP server i could kill 4 of these on the RP server by the time i can kill one now.Won't know more till i get a better weapon an armor. A GM Event at Ry'gorrs Fort Finally got my main transfered over lvl 43 Warrior just in time too here about what was happening he was camped in EW at the rygor fort, i was in the middle of it the whole time was in a few groups but either some in them had connection probs or were suffering from the lag and we disbanded so i just soloed didn't get no exp.but was alowed too loot a velious sword off a dad giant. GM event lasted
about 3 1/2 hors there was about 5 waves of 12 to 25 giants each time.There
was PC forces holding off the waves of giants coming in from EW too
and there was 10 groups trying to stop the influx of Giants coming in
from EW too.First wave consisted the weakest Kromicks,next wave was
there kindered more tougher then the Spearman wave ,then the Priest
and Swordsmen Wave finally when his second in command was defeated as
in a coulpe of those shots show him Rallos Zek became Mortal so we was
able to dispatch him.The Golden look of Zek was when he was invulnerable
a bunch of as you see were attacking then just for fun and he cast a
throw spell of sorts and we go flying through the air hundereds of yards
away the second time i got tossed i took over 400 Damage LOL.
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