Seeing new stats like Luck, or systems like Overseer and now FTE added as a mechanic to this antique of a game means all player requests are free game (classes, races, etc). Anyone that claims, it’s too much work for the devs should be suspended.
That is a very strange jump of logic as we have no clue on the amount of work required to add in those new systems. What we do know is that they used bit masking to determine class and race combinations and that is something that is built into the system at a very low level and would take a large lift to change. Not to mention with the class balance issues that they currently have adding new class to the mix won't help that at all. Adding a new race won't have the same balance issues but it will still need a lot of work on itemization throughout the game and we already have limited dev time for content.
I rolled my iksar shaman on my main account (because i had like 3 40slot bags and some xp pots i could pass it to make it faster), leveled it to 60, then split it off onto my second account. You know, an account to account transfer. In late 2017.
Roll all 'half-elf' and 'barbarian' characters into 'human', and use the slots for new races, while splitting humans into Freeport/Qeynos/Half-elf/Barbarian drakkin-style heritages merge the remaining elves into one race with heritages (give them a heritage-specific lesser power as well) more race slots. expand dwarves into Kaladim, Thurgadin and a lava themed heritages. clockwork gnome heritage!
Yeah, because the current players of half-elves, barbarians, and elves don't matter . These are different races with different sizes. Barbarians are larger than humans, half-elves are smaller than humans. Both have different 'naked' clothing. The three elves are not only different in size (tree elves and dark elves are smaller than high elves), they also have different colouring and different 'naked' clothing. Why not suggest merging Vah Shir, Iksar, Froglok and Drakkin since they're 'monster' races?
Dark Elf, Guktan, Dwarf, Gnome, Iksar, Human, Troll, and Ogre should stay. Everything else is bad and replaceable.
They might have issues from their lower intelligence, but why not? One of the things I like about EQ2 is any race can be any class though some might not be an ideal combo.
It's a joke, Mister McMarrin. That's the whole point of this "hot takes" thread. To say outrageous, off-the-wall things. Thought you'd have figured that out by now...
Level requirements for old proc weapons (pre PoP era) should be removed for old servers, especially FV!
periodically have a war - between races - loser race is changed to winner race until next war. Once every 14 days. Players can help or hinder the war as they wish
EQ Hot Take: Everquest is a dying niche game due to its inability to create and balance meaningful PVP. All newer games, from 2004 up until now, that have had high amounts of success or hype, had a great PVE story with PVP being some sort of component to the game. What you get is the 15-20k nerds who all hate the idea, screaming EQ is not a pvp game, meanwhile other games boasting hundreds of thousands of players with pvp as a part or main part of the game.
New freeport is functionally better than old freeport, but absolutely hideous with terrible art/zone design.