where have all the classes gone?

[Drfirewater79]

can we get some conformation that any new classes are being worked on .... i dont need specific dates but knowing that launch for some new classes and races or an expansion with such things in it this year 2008 is at this point information that without i dont think many will stic around.


hope that you tae this seriously cause i think they way you answer might even bring back old players .....

the time for secets has long passed the time for answers is upon us

[slumbering_dragon]

monk in the near future and druids are in the works as well, that is all the devs has told us

[EinarMal]

Sadly development of this game has slowed greatly in the past year. At this point it seems very unlikely we will ever see any new classes beyond Monk (which who knows when this will actually happen).

There just aren't a lot of programmers working on this game anymore. It would be awesome to get 4-5 new base classes, and 8-10 real prestige classes. No doubt this would be a huge shot in the arm to the game. At this point they don't seem willing to risk the development cost for something like this.

The best you could get for a question like this that I have seen is the famous "we are looking into this" or "at some point we might think about adding these"....

[Scarecrow]

Sadly development of this game has slowed greatly in the past year. At this point it seems very unlikely we will ever see any new classes beyond Monk (which who knows when this will actually happen).

There just aren't a lot of programmers working on this game anymore. It would be awesome to get 4-5 new base classes, and 8-10 real prestige classes. No doubt this would be a huge shot in the arm to the game. At this point they don't seem willing to risk the development cost for something like this.

The best you could get for a question like this that I have seen is the famous "we are looking into this" or "at some point we might think about adding these"....

Well said, Einar. Druids and Monks seem to be a major difficulty in getting out. My hope was that they could get us some base classes that would be easier to implement, classes that use mechanics that are already in the game, such as the Favored Soul, the Warmage, Ninja, Hexblade, Swashbuckler, etc. Getting new classes would really reinvigorate this game, even if they aren't the druid or monk. But the lack of communication combined with the slowed development seems to say that we won't be getting any new classes anytime soon.

[Drfirewater79]

personally i am shocked that they put any money into development of DDO since LOTR

i think prestige classes are a must at this point really they where a must when they added them for bards and then half a year goes by and there is still nothing for casters or fighters or clerics where is my true necromancer or ultimate magus damd you developers do something with your time.

classes are needed even more and i have on many different posts listed the easier to implament classes with short details as to why they are easier to implament but i refuse to waste the 3 hours of reseach and typing it took to do it again lol

the thing that really grinds my gears is that i can do this research in 3 hours with only 30 books at my disposal they have WOTC sponsoring there mmo (hence the dungeons and dragons name) they have Atari (known for there great work in class and race options at launch NWNI and II) and they cant figure out these things on there own ? monks and druids should have been the first problems they looked at for classes before launch ... now its to late develop monks and druids while launching other easier to implament classes then maybe come out with a new fighting system like you came out with the new casting system that will be perfect time to introduce monks (this way you can implament grapple a fighters only way to hold monster) and coup de graz ... i am sorry but if the guy is held still and i am not in any kind of threat taking 20 to coup de graz should be an issue

i will tell you how to do it make it even easier

make it a click thing like cleave like stun make it a 10 second animation that is interuptable that way people arent using it in battle only once everything is held or stoned.

[MysticTheurge]

Jeez, the man asks for a pointer to some Dev Comments and gets a wagonload of BS Doom and Gloom.

The forums sure are fun these days.

[QuantumFX]

Jeez, the man asks for a pointer to some Dev Comments and gets a wagonload of BS Doom and Gloom.

The forums sure are fun these days.

Word!

Firewater: Bad Firewater! Bad Firewater! You haven't watched the video on GameSpy yet?!?! They were showing off the pseudo kung-fu ninja spin kick animation! Since Turbine has a limited art budget you'd think they would save the animation stuff until near the end of the design process.

A more important issue is: are monks going to have PrE's from day one? You know people are dying to play a drunken master!

[EinarMal]

Jeez, the man asks for a pointer to some Dev Comments and gets a wagonload of BS Doom and Gloom.

The forums sure are fun these days.

After waiting for so long, and seeing the pace of Mods slow, and from the looks of things contain no more or maybe even less than previous updates it is far from BS to say that the game development has slowed.

You can hide your head in the sand all you want, but when monks do finally come it will be about a year later than they originally planned for. Last time I checked kung fu animations shouldn't take that long lol... I had a game called mortal kombat in like 1995 that managed to pull it off....

Either they have 3-4 developers at most working on this game or they need to find better programmers.