Bazgrim, the only thing about that is after the kickstarter they kind of went back to the drawing board. Thats not to say to completely disregard that info, but in a lot of cases its no longer accurate. For instance there were races and classes and features I believe that are no longer part of the plan.
And just in case what I said earlier was confusing. I dont mean that DLs are Necros. If it sounded that way I didnt mean it that way. They will have a full on Necro and Bard out eventually. What I am saying is more like Tanks that were very similar to SKs with a bit of a necro theme. But I dont really have any further info beyond that. Hopefully we can get info on that soonish.
Tank. I have a feeling that the Dire Lord will be heavily influenced by Vanguard's Dread Knight for a couple of reasons.
1) Obvious name similarity.
2) I gathered that the dread knight brought in a pretty unique tanking experience from the videos and write ups I watched/read. I suspect they want to make the hybrid classes more unique rather than using the standard EQ hybrid formula, e.g. warrior + necro = shadow knight
3) Fills the 3/3/3/3 class division which seems to be established, e.g. 3 casters (enchanter, wizard, summoner), 3 melee dpsers (rogue, ranger, monk), 3 healers/support (shaman, cleric, druid) and 3 tanks (warrior, crusader, and Dire Lord)
4) The atmosphere mechanism would seem to fit nicely with the fear/dread auras which are emitted by Dread Knight
5) They already have plans for a Necro.
Vanguard never experienced the glory it deserved due to the known issues. I expect the resurgence of the Dread Knight won't be the only vanguard feature we see.
Zikkar said:More then likly end up being the Shadowknight from EQ and have the same kind of abilities. If you watched the streams it is all heavy heavy EQ based stuff.
Most likely has become confirmed. Check out this compilation thread I wrote going over quotes, sources, and other validations. :)
http://www.pantheonmmo.com/content/forums/topic/4880/dire-lord-lineage-expectations-and-speculation
Zikkar said:More then likly end up being the Shadowknight from EQ and have the same kind of abilities. If you watched the streams it is all heavy heavy EQ based stuff.
Honestly, I think this is a very good thing. EQ to date is the most fun, balanced MMO I have ever played. The classes were amazing, we found really odd combo's that wouldn't work in other games and we played on. Hours of grouping and very very hard CR's made being social and helping each other something people just did. Made lots of friends too!
I hope this game is what EQ2 should have been.
Little off topic... im sorry