EQ2 Forum Archive @ EQ2Wire - View Single Post

Wendingo · 11-15-2006, 08:58 AM

Tirgoviste wrote:

To be terribly frank, if you want a horse befitting a shadowknight, act like a shadowknight. Win epic battles in Lucan's name, master a craft, or generally pillage the land for the resources to acquire one. Freeport provides you with a lame mount for being a lame example of their dark crusader. Becoming the pinnacle of your class over a long journey of developing the character is when you earn the right to ride an impressive looking horse.

A plain black horse with red eyes is good enough for a mediocre shadowknight, if they want a fire spewing abyssal mount... well that just takes more work than pressing the SK icon at char creation and soloing owlbears.

Hey, thanks for the totally unwarranted nasty attack post. In reply, this is a game which I play for fun in the small amount of time that I consider worth devoting to it apart from real life. I already have a job. If the game becomes too much like work to be enjoyable then I will go do something else with what free time I have. Alas, I cannot quest to kill the imaginary beasties for the glory of a fictional warlord for as many hours a week as you think are appropriate to be other than a "lame example" of a shadow knight. Perhaps we should have a 20 hour quest to learn how to use each new weapon in combat? I mean, why should you just be able to pick up a mace for the first time and understand inately how to use it. Simple fact is, while we all hope that there is no need to get as close to the lowest common denominator as WoW does, there is rather ample evidence that is a poor business plan to hew too close to the hardcore crowd.

So, to my original point, it would be more fun if crusaders had a proper crusader mount and it would not unbalance the game considering the number of classes that already get a reasonable travel spell. If you want to make it an AA fine. They did that in EQ1 and the world did not end.

(and if that is not good enough for you, Paladins who worship Mithaniel Marr will get a horse that is a 55% speed boost at a fairly low level - Glorious Steed - and I will wager it does not look like an old nag)

Message Edited by Wendingo on 11-14-2006 11:06 PM

11-15-2006, 08:58 AM	#18
Wendingo Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 80	Tirgoviste wrote: To be terribly frank, if you want a horse befitting a shadowknight, act like a shadowknight. Win epic battles in Lucan's name, master a craft, or generally pillage the land for the resources to acquire one. Freeport provides you with a lame mount for being a lame example of their dark crusader. Becoming the pinnacle of your class over a long journey of developing the character is when you earn the right to ride an impressive looking horse. A plain black horse with red eyes is good enough for a mediocre shadowknight, if they want a fire spewing abyssal mount... well that just takes more work than pressing the SK icon at char creation and soloing owlbears. Hey, thanks for the totally unwarranted nasty attack post. In reply, this is a game which I play for fun in the small amount of time that I consider worth devoting to it apart from real life. I already have a job. If the game becomes too much like work to be enjoyable then I will go do something else with what free time I have. Alas, I cannot quest to kill the imaginary beasties for the glory of a fictional warlord for as many hours a week as you think are appropriate to be other than a "lame example" of a shadow knight. Perhaps we should have a 20 hour quest to learn how to use each new weapon in combat? I mean, why should you just be able to pick up a mace for the first time and understand inately how to use it. Simple fact is, while we all hope that there is no need to get as close to the lowest common denominator as WoW does, there is rather ample evidence that is a poor business plan to hew too close to the hardcore crowd. So, to my original point, it would be more fun if crusaders had a proper crusader mount and it would not unbalance the game considering the number of classes that already get a reasonable travel spell. If you want to make it an AA fine. They did that in EQ1 and the world did not end. (and if that is not good enough for you, Paladins who worship Mithaniel Marr will get a horse that is a 55% speed boost at a fairly low level - Glorious Steed - and I will wager it does not look like an old nag) Message Edited by Wendingo on 11-14-2006 11:06 PM