Hey anyone else feel that some classes are seriously being left out in the AA count? When we're talking 10,000 aa's (guess, but close?) between something like a max rogue and sk / ranger / BL we're talking about that much potential for a class to shine. Can't I at least crit my rogues healing potion when I drink it or extend it? Jeez!
AA count means nothing. There's so much junk AA that do absolutely nothing. Yes, some classes have far more AA they can earn. In some cases, some is useful for classes with more utility or a greater multitude of skill sets. For others, more AA just means more junk (look at 100 AA per Wizard focus for never used spells). The only thing that could possibly come out of this is making ranks of useful stuff more expensive for the classes that have fewer areas that AA could be given. Which would in turn mean it will take those classes longer than those with more varied AA to reach their core strength each expansion.
AA counts really do mean nothing. Rangers have a higher count than say Warriors, Monks or Rogues because we have AA's lines for spells, melee, bow, healing and the various utility stuff we have that Warriors, Monks and Rogues don't.
The higher AA count is due to the devs spending more time developing some classes more than others. In some cases it may be due to them actually playing the classes, in others it may be that they gave the squeakiest wheel the grease. Today with AA costing 100s or more I hardly think it matters
If anything, classes with higher aa count should be able to do more due to having to put in a lot more effort to get all their aa's. (Of course this will never happen due to all the cries for nerfs when a class appears to have an advantage over another). In fact, I suspect that in the original eq, the idea behind hybrids was that they would be somewhat stronger due to having to get so many more aa's than pure classes.
OK, in the sense that hybrids in the beginning had a experience penalty which for a long after aa's came out (which they also required many more of) were still affected.
Classes with lower counts are luckier. They get all the AA improvements but dont need to grind as many AA.
My AA count brings all the girls to the yard And they're like, it's bigger than yours Damn right it's bigger than yours
I don't think it has anything to do with a conscious effort by the devs. Classes that cover more archetypes have more AAs. Hybrids like SK have a ton because they have AAs for DoTs, nukes, heals, melee, tanking, and pets. A class like, wizard, for example, has no need for DoT, pet, tanking, or melee AAs, so it ends up with less. Hybrids always tend to have the most because of this. If wizards for some reason had pets and needed to get the hundreds of ranks of the companion lines, their AA counts would jump as well.
Shaman ........ 38940 Shadowknight 38807 Beastlord ...... 37476 Necromancer 37465 Ranger .......... 35968 Magician ....... 34968 Paladin ......... 34489 Bard .............. 33370 Druid ............. 33187 Wizard .......... 33046 Enchanter ..... 32990 Monk ............. 32049 Rogue ........... 31318 Cleric ............. 30996 Berzerker ...... 30869 Warrior .......... 27949 Continue with your speculations now.
The only thing I find a bit interesting about that is how low warrior is relative to the other melees.
I have just at 20k which is 14k less than shennron said is max for a paladin. And my toon is fully functional. I’m still grinding to 110 and then I’ll switch back to aa and that number will climb as I purchase the ros upgrades. But I could not buy another aa and still be more powerful than content.
If you want to spend another 10k AA to get possibly a 0.000000000000000000000000001% increase in 'power' I'm sure a dev will be happy to cut and past you another few levels of pointless AAs.
AA come in general types healing, nuking, dotting, pets, tanking, melee damage and maybe one are two more. If your class draws from limited number of those categories like warrior then you will have total AA amount that is low. If your class draws from many of types of AA like shadow knight then they will have a large amount of AA. Certain class gain more from same AA as others say mage versus enchanter. Both take many exact same pet AA, but the mage gets allot more out them than does enchanter.
