Interview for EQ2 Daily Podcast

[Rotacidare]

<DIV> <DIV>Hello Bruiser's! We are starting a weekly feature on the various classes for our podcast at <A href="http://www.eq2-daily.com/" target=_blank><FONT color=#c8c1b5>www.eq2-daily.com</FONT></A> . I am looking for some input from you all about your class to use in our discussion, in the form of this forum "interview." I'll post some questions for you all to answer, and then we'll talk about your thoughts. Please try to be somewhat brief in your answers, and please try to be objective. Thank you all.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> <DIV>1. What do you like about your class?</DIV> <DIV>     a.</DIV> <DIV>     b.</DIV> <DIV>     c.</DIV> <DIV>2. What do you not like?</DIV> <DIV>     a.</DIV> <DIV>     b.</DIV> <DIV>     c.</DIV> <DIV>3. What kind of play style is best suited to your class?<BR>4. In general is it easy to find a group?</DIV> <DIV>5. How would you compare your class to your good/evil counterparts (Monk's)?</DIV> <DIV>6. How do you feel your class does soloing? What is the highest lvl mob you can solo (i.e. yellow ^ or blue v)?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV></DIV></DIV>

[MakhailSamma]

<DIV>Hello Bruiser's! We are starting a weekly feature on the various classes for our podcast at <A href="http://www.eq2-daily.com/" target=_blank><FONT color=#c8c1b5>www.eq2-daily.com</FONT></A> . I am looking for some input from you all about your class to use in our discussion, in the form of this forum "interview." I'll post some questions for you all to answer, and then we'll talk about your thoughts. Please try to be somewhat brief in your answers, and please try to be objective. Thank you all.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> <DIV>1. What do you like about your class?</DIV> <DIV>     a. Versatility- Ablity to tank some encounters, do decent DPS, and solo. Jack of all trades master of none.</DIV> <DIV>     b. Use of multiple weapons - not the same boring fighting animations over and over again (bo staffs are best fighting animation in the game imho)</DIV> <DIV>     c. Attitude -  Your a bruiser.. an evil monk.. your soul purpose in life is to provide bruises (hence the name)... what class has more attitude then that??</DIV> <DIV>2. What do you not like?</DIV> <DIV>     a. The misconception that we are strictly a DPS class and cannot tank</DIV> <DIV>     b. The class is very power dependent and has the lowest power pool in the fighter tree (spend a lot of time out of power</DIV> <DIV>     c. </DIV> <DIV>3. What kind of play style is best suited to your class? We are flexable and can fill many roles<BR>4. In general is it easy to find a group? Yes, we are not limited to groups needing a tank or DPs.. we can do either</DIV> <DIV>5. How would you compare your class to your good/evil counterparts (Monk's)? Pretty balanced imo. We both have skills that the other class would love to have.</DIV> <DIV>6. How do you feel your class does soloing? What is the highest lvl mob you can solo (i.e. yellow ^ or blue v)? One of the best solo classes out there other then summoners imo. Due to our fear and Mez lines I can generally solo triple up heroic mobs that con up to white (though there are occasional deaths.. but that what makes it challenging and fun) Keep in mind I am very well equiped in all t6 rares and fabled.. so I may be more the exception then the rule.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Hope that helps.</DIV></DIV>

[Rotacidare]

<DIV>Thanks Makhail. Anyone else like to chime in here? Hoping to get around 10 people's thoughts to get a good consensus.  </DIV>

[Colossaltitan]

<DIV>1.<BR>a.  Versatility, Being able to tank and/or DPS when needed.<BR>b.  The solo-ability.  Its amazing, not only are we so wanted in groups but the ability to go off (if your not in a group) and do almost whatever you want.<BR>c.  Our animations, the cool way we can dodge things, or how cool skills look like Crushing Fury.<BR>2.<BR>a.  I don't like Guardians who crap on our glory days because for the first time ever, Brawlers can actually tank <img src="/smilies/69934afc394145350659cd7add244ca9.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />.<BR>b.  I don't like the way we are considered equal tanks however we still get one shotted on raid mobs.<BR>c.  I don't like how our offensive stance procs for more damage when we don't have weapons on, if SOE wants to promote Bruisers usings bare fists than increase the raw dps on them, making it 2 hands instead of one, make them hit named.<BR>3.  Gamers that like to push things to the limits, be willing to try anything, once, twice, 3 times, 4 times even to get it right.<BR>4.  Yes, I can advertise as tank, off-tank, or DPS in groups and easily find one.<BR>5.  I think we are about on par, however I feel we should be able to do a tad more stunned, seeing as how are best defensive skill is a skill that stuns us in place.  I also feel that close mind should be made a bit more useful and we should be able to cast Stone Deaf while stunned, it would make things a bit more helpful and comparable as far as us being able to do things as well as monks.<BR>6.  I feel our class can do anything yellow con heroic.  Maybe not easily, maybe their might be alittle luck involved, but I myself have taken heroic mobs up to 4 levels above me, ^^^, or ^^ ^^ ^^, Or even ^ ^ ^ ^^ ^^^.  I think everything 4 levels above is do-able. It may not be too efficient, and its definetly not something you would do to EXP, but it is do-able when necessary.<BR></DIV>

[pillb]

<div></div>I like the fact our DPS is good and we tank decent. I don't like the fact we are getting nurfed in LU16 and our DPS is getting cut which puts us back to Square 1. Soon we'll be the worst tank of the fighters, only have slightly higher dps, and bruisers will have no part in Raids. What exactly are Bruisers supposed to do once our dps gets whacked <div></div><p>Message Edited by pillbub on <span class=date_text>11-01-2005</span> <span class=time_text>07:26 AM</span>

[MakhailSamma]

<DIV>where is this information showing our DPS getting "whacked"?</DIV>

[Yirabeth]

<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> pillbub wrote:<BR> <BR>I don't like the fact we are getting nurfed in LU16 and our DPS is getting cut which puts us back to Square 1.<BR><BR>Soon we'll be the worst tank of the fighters, only have slightly higher dps, and bruisers will have no part in Raids.<BR><BR><BR>What exactly are Bruisers supposed to do once our dps gets whacked <P>Message Edited by pillbub on <SPAN class=date_text>11-01-2005</SPAN> <SPAN class=time_text>07:26 AM</SPAN><BR> <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE><BR> <DIV>I can't find any reference to actual dps nerfing...Here is what I can find:</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>(copy/pasted from test update #16a)</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><!--StartFragment --> <FONT color=#ffcc00><B>*** Spells and Combat Arts ***</B></FONT><BR><BR>- It is now harder to riposte when the attacker is landing many attacks quickly and easier to riposte when the attacker is swinging less frequently<BR>- Dual wield weapons will now do slightly more damage. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>--snipped</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><!--StartFragment --> <B>Bruiser changes:</B><BR>- Stone Deaf should now absorb damage correctly. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>-------------------</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>The only thing I see with these changes is making dual wield as viable as using a huge (non-bruiser/monk flavored) 2 hander.  Not sure on the stone deaf thing, since Ppip is still a baby...but it seems to not be a damage spell, rather something that makes us take less damage...</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Where are you getting that our damage will be nerfed?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>~Yira</DIV>

[Gora]

<DIV> <DIV>1. What do you like about your class?</DIV> <DIV> <DIV>     a.  Flexibility/Versatility.  Can fill many roles in grp.</DIV> <DIV>     b.  Survivability.  Between self-heal and feign death, i generally only die when i'm being stubborn or foolish.</DIV> <DIV>     c.  Image.  Bruisers have an 'I am a bad [expletive haxx0red by Raijinn]' attitude from description.</DIV> <DIV>2. What do you not like?</DIV> <DIV>     a.  The point of view that we can't tank.</DIV> <DIV>     b.  Most of our attacks are crushing damage, so on crush immune mobs our dps and consequently ability to hold aggro drop immensely.</DIV> <DIV>3. What kind of play style is best suited to your class?  Tank-DPS<BR>4. In general is it easy to find a group?  When i want a group, it's not hard, when i don't want a group, i can solo efficiently.</DIV> <DIV>5. How would you compare your class to your good/evil counterparts (Monk's)?  Different, but equal, they have some toys I'd love, i suspect we have some abilities, they'd like</DIV> <DIV>6. How do you feel your class does soloing? What is the highest lvl mob you can solo (i.e. yellow ^ or blue v)?  Amazing soloing ability due to mez/fear.  Yellow ^^^, as long as it's a melee mob and not a caster.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Argest</DIV> <DIV>58 Bruiser</DIV> <DIV>Najena</DIV> <DIV> </DIV></DIV></DIV>

[Jow]

<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> c.  I don't like how our offensive stance procs for more damage when we don't have weapons on, if SOE wants to promote Bruisers usings bare fists than increase the raw dps on them, making it 2 hands instead of one, make them hit named.<BR> <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE>Thats it right there. I dont know what they were thinking making bare fists 1H but it needs to be addressed and fixed. A bruiser or monk should be able to hit named with their fists and they should be concidered magical. A Monk/bruiser spent their whole life honing their bodies as weapons, having them not be able to do this and do it with 2 hands leads me to believe they have some more honing to do...<BR>

[MakhailSamma]

<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> Jowaa wrote:<BR><BR> <BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> c.  I don't like how our offensive stance procs for more damage when we don't have weapons on, if SOE wants to promote Bruisers usings bare fists than increase the raw dps on them, making it 2 hands instead of one, make them hit named.<BR> <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE>Thats it right there. I dont know what they were thinking making bare fists 1H but it needs to be addressed and fixed. A bruiser or monk should be able to hit named with their fists and they should be concidered magical. A Monk/bruiser spent their whole life honing their bodies as weapons, having them not be able to do this and do it with 2 hands leads me to believe they have some more honing to do...<BR> <BR> <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE><BR>yeah yeah yeah.. answer the questions! <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

[Teche]

<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE>Rotacidare wrote:<BR> <DIV> <DIV>Hello Bruiser's! We are starting a weekly feature on the various classes for our podcast at <A href="http://www.eq2-daily.com/" target=_blank><FONT color=#c8c1b5>www.eq2-daily.com</FONT></A> . I am looking for some input from you all about your class to use in our discussion, in the form of this forum "interview." I'll post some questions for you all to answer, and then we'll talk about your thoughts. Please try to be somewhat brief in your answers, and please try to be objective. Thank you all.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> <DIV>1. What do you like about your class?</DIV> <DIV>     a. Versaitility as said above .. Making a great group tank or dps member</DIV> <DIV>     b. Survivability, self heal, FD, able to block some spell / ae damage (when they fix it)</DIV> <DIV>     c. Before we became the perceived FOTM class we were highly underestimated now everyone knows we rock like most of us already knew.</DIV> <DIV>2. What do you not like?</DIV> <DIV>     a. Looking like a lvl 20 druid</DIV> <DIV>     b. Forced into a RAID tank roll because we are in the fighter archetype, then having Guardians cry cuz they have to share their pie.  We have always been great group tanks with high dps and we still are, but now we can tank some RAID encounters its not right and will probably get fixed there by making us feel nerfed.  Guardians can keep there stinking pie.</DIV> <DIV>     c. Looking like a lvl 20 druid</DIV> <DIV>3. What kind of play style is best suited to your class?  Independent, fearless</DIV> <DIV>4. In general is it easy to find a group? Yes, but there are still people out there that dont think of us as viable group tanks which we have been since release.</DIV> <DIV>5. How would you compare your class to your good/evil counterparts (Monk's)?  I want a 12 second simi invulnerability skill !  <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></DIV> <DIV>6. How do you feel your class does soloing? What is the highest lvl mob you can solo (i.e. yellow ^ or blue v)? Great.  White ^^^ and Blue ^^^ NP</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>