Interview with Chuck Kallenbach, Game Designer on Legends of Norrath

by Matt Warner on Jun 25th 2008 9:30AM

Fantasy, EverQuest, EverQuest II, Free-to-play, Trading card games

What's this gab we're hearing about Legends of Norrath, it isn't all about the loot cards? Heresy! We're still buying up those virtual packs in hopes to score a rare loot card. Nevertheless, over on IGN's EQ2 Vault we came across this interview with Chuck Kallenbach, Game Designer on Legends of Norrath. Much is discussed gameplay wise about the insight behind the new Monk class, one that doesn't use weapons. One other topic covered includes the conundrum on scaling the game's complexity with new gameplay mechanics with the importance to not veer away from the game's intuitiveness and accessibility.

The Oathbreaker set is the latest expansion introduced last week from Sony Online Entertainment. It brings 250 new cards, fresh gameplay mechanics, a new challenging raid scenario, and the following classes: Monk, Coercer, Templar and Beastlord. Many classes from EverQuest and EverQuest II are now represented in the game. If you are interested learning how to play Legends of Norrath but don't want to dump a bunch of cash you can download the client and play through the tutorials and it won't cost a you a dime.

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Reader Comments (2)

the article speaks about "raids" - it just one new raid.

and the article says that now every class from eq and eq2 are within lon. that's not true. the warlock for example cannot really be build with the cards. warlocks use massive damage, poison and disease, also a lot of debuffs or buffs that increase the damage - that is NOT in the game! and several other classes are not really placed within a game. only because you have some cards that could be referred as "berserk" style you don't really have the chance to build a berserk, same with swashbucklers, guardians, mystics...

Thanks, Bob! I read in a dev post that every class from EQ and EQ2 was in LoN, and I was a bit skeptical about including it, but did so to link back to both the EQ sites. Thanks again for the clarifications, I really appreciate it.

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