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Posted: Nov 11th 2011 11:02AM Mistdal said

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pay 40$ and make your own instances

Posted: Nov 11th 2011 11:51AM bobfish said

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Unusually tempted by this, all because of the Beastlord pet :D

Posted: Nov 11th 2011 12:49PM Seffrid said

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I wish they weren't describing as the "original" beastlord class as it isn't, it's a totally different class being a scout as opposed to the original which was a monk/shaman.

Posted: Nov 11th 2011 1:16PM pcgneurotic said

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@Seffrid

It is Beastlord, just re-tooled to work in, and take advantage of, the EQII setting and mechanics. I don't see it as such a sin calling it "original" - it's a bit like Coke saying 'Original and Best!', or KFC saying 'Original recipe chicken', when clearly both products have evolved over time into something very different in executuion, but fundamentally the same in concept.
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Posted: Nov 12th 2011 4:14AM bobfish said

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@Seffrid

It is a monk/shaman cross in as much a sense as EQ1. The only differences are the ability to wear chain armor and the unique combat mechanics between player & warder that weren't possible in EQ1.

Otherwise it is still built on the premise of taking a bit from Monk and taking a bit from Shaman.
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Posted: Nov 11th 2011 12:49PM Seffrid said

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EDIT: Describing IT...

Posted: Nov 11th 2011 2:51PM (Unverified) said

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I am having a hard time finding info on if I can pre-order with my station cash.

Can somebody point me in the direction of an official statement on this?

I would like to pick up the expansion but I am not going to pay SOE again after I have already invested the money as SC, for this reason, long ago.

Posted: Nov 12th 2011 8:15AM Seffrid said

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Thanks both for the clarification, but I am still unclear why it should be a scout, and much will depend on the archetype talent lines. There are certainly some interesting aspects to it, and the more SOE have said about it the better it sounds - and the less it sounds like a scout!
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Posted: Nov 12th 2011 3:47PM bobfish said

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It doesn't really fit any of the archetypes. Whilst in EQ1 the BST was a Monk/Shaman hybrid, its main focus was DPS, so in EQ2 the best archetype, whilst not perfect, is probably the Scout.
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Posted: Nov 30th 2011 11:28PM SonyHatesYou said

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This steaming pile of refuse is the latest garbage SOE is going to sucker people into buying. THERE ARE NO NEW ZONES. THERE IS NO NEW CONTENT. In addition, these "design your own dungeon" gimicks CANNOT BE PLAYED WITH YOUR OWN CHARACTER. They are like the old EQ1 monster missions--you have to run them with a premade template avatar, not your character.

Add to this that the +20AA has NO NEW AA -- only an increase in the cap to buy the worst stuff you passed over before. Oh, and in addition to this big pile of TOTALLY WORTHLESS that you will be paying $40 to swallow, you get to be abused, maltreated, and generally treated like garbage by the worst GM and developer staff in the industry.

Oh, and if that was not good enough reason to RUN SCREAMING from EQ2, the developers have recently decided that they like to COMPLETELY DELETE stats from quested gear, void out the total utility of COMPLETE GEAR SETS, and leave some people's characters with NO FUNCTIONAL GEAR and do so with NO exchanges, no refunds, and no recourse for that gear. So, yeah, go play this if your local masochism parlor is closed and you really need someone to treat you like total garbage and charge you for the privilege.

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