Any news on expansion ?

[Tenka]

<p>anyone see anything official about zerks or warriors in general ?  all i've heard about the new expansion is that it's called velious something, and they are introducing flying mounts.</p>

[Brook]

<p>People in beta are not supposed to talk about it yet but I can asure you they will still have zerks and warriors.</p>

[Tenka]

..............really ?.....

[Bremer]

<p>A certain dev, let's call him "Xelgad", lowered the reuse and power cost of Adrenaline with SF. Now a certain dev, let's call him "Xelgad", thinks, that the spell is too powerful for the low power cost and recast and so he decided to turn the only good defensive ability Berserkers have in a stupid reactive heal (and the taunt proc on Adrenaline can't crit anymore).</p><p>I'm not allowed to quote his exact justification, but it was: "Guardian suck in heroic content and we fix that by making Berserkers suck in raid content." Conveniently he forgot, that there are classes with spells that work well against raid and heroic content, but as the guy responsible for class design, how is he supposed to know that?</p><p>And then Xelgad made another post, that he thinks, that when the only good defensive ability Berserkers have for raid tanking won't properly work anymore on raids and won't work very good in heroic zones, it has the least impact on the class, because it still works good for solo players.</p><p>Not one single spell (Open Wounds, etc) changed. The raid armor has now the foci build in so that people can no longer use the superior 2 crit bonus adornments, but instead we get temporary 5 block as bonus while there is a permanent 7 block adornment, temporary 17 melee skills while there is a permanent treasued adornment for the same amount, etc. The incompetence of the responsible persons is truly epic.</p>

[Aull]

<p>It would have been better if they would have just made aa's that focused on the aa's at each of the sub-classes outdated abilities and of course other abilities as well. Like having an aa that would enchanced abilities like open wounds to hit more than just four targets. Making stunning roar have a faster execution and reuse. Adding a crit bonus to when we are berserk or something.</p><p>This stuff looks like they didn't want to take time and dig a little deeper into each sub-class to polish them and just basically did a throw together generalization.</p><p>It would have been nice for them to give each sub-class a bit more depth in area's that made each sub-class special.</p>

[Obadiah]

<p>From a Berserker perspective, this will be the worst expansion to date. That won't fully emerge for a little while, but it will get pretty vocal eventually if anyone is left playing the class that cares. The expansion itself looks like it has potential though, so I guess I'll flush the 6 years I've put in this toon down the toilet and play a different main and we'll see whether Rift turns out to be worth keeping instead. The underpowered/overpowered roller-coaster for Fighters here is ridonkulous.</p><p>After all the pages of feedback on the red adornments in SF, to make them "as-is" a part of the armor is a slap in the face.</p><p>The change to Adrenaline Rush is a slap in the face.</p><p>The change to Adrenaline honestly isn't the end of the world, IMO. It probably had to be done given the amount of % damage reduction now available elsewhere. It's not great, and the reasons stated by Mr. X are BS, but oh well.</p><p>Welcome to 6th of 6.</p>

[schizolic]

<p>best thing to do with the money you would spend on this expansion is put it instead into buying rift.   i guess the devs didn't thing the game was dead enough so are trying to finish it off now.</p>

[Immohtep]

<p>I agree with others here.</p><p>I am going to betray. Not just to a guardian, but to another game. Been in Rift Beta and it will be my new home. I'm done with Sony. Their nerfs to my class, I'm done with thier buisness model with this F2P "let me buy everything cool off the freakin market place" mentality. I'm done with trying to get my higher end gaming system to work reliably with their crappy coding.</p><p>Now, alot of ppl say that Rift is alot like WoW. I never played WoW. I never will. But i know that in beta...(let me exclaim this more)<em><strong><span style="font-size: medium;"> BETA</span></strong></em>!!!! Rift has run better on my system than EQ2 EVER has. Don't get mad, don't waste your time. You want results? Go..no RUN to Rift. Sony will not get my money anymore. I'm done. /walks away screaming at himself..."flying mounts? Are you F''ing kidding me?...Oh, lets nerf the zerkers too, how about making all our GEAR useless as well?..."</p>

[Bremer]

<p><cite>Immohtep wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Oh, lets nerf the zerkers too, how about making all our GEAR useless as well?..."</p></blockquote><p>You'll love the foci on the raid gear <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p>

[stinkytoez]

<p>LOL to the rift comment - that game is going to have so many class balance issues and will be just like every other MMO - the system req's for a comp are even more insane then whats out there now.</p><p>Granted its in BETA still, but unless they do some major overhauling , caster dps, will be worthless ....</p>

[Obadiah]

<p><cite>stinkytoez wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>LOL to the rift comment - that game is going to have so many class balance issues and will be just like every other MMO - the system req's for a comp are even more insane then whats out there now.</p><p>Granted its in BETA still, but unless they do some major overhauling , caster dps, will be worthless ....</p></blockquote><p>No, it's out of beta and already was when you posted that. Not sure when EQ2 comes out of it's beta though. </p><p>Runs better than EQ2 on every machine I have no matter how much I jack up the settings. The newest is probably close to two years old.</p><p>I'm sure there will be balance issues, but the OP-UP rollercoaster has gone on long enough here.</p>