Mid gets another 'Thane' class

[Frealaf]

From Catacombs website:

The Order of the Valkyries was started by two stunningly beautiful orphaned twin sisters named Sigrun and Brynhild, who since childhood claimed to be able to hear the voices of the honored dead speaking to them from Valhalla. The voices warned the sisters from an early age that a time of great crisis would soon face the denizens of Midgard, and commanded them to build the Order of Valkyries to lead the defense of the realm against Albion and Hibernia.

Norse, Frostalf, and Dwarven women who choose to be Valkyries are trained to fight using both melee and magic to damage their enemies. They can use swords, shields, and spears, and they have special styles in each line available only to the Order of the Valkyries. Their magic line, Odin's Will, primarily uses Cone Area Effect (CAE) spells, a new spell type that affects every enemy in front of the Valkyrie who is in range of the spell.

http://catacombs.darkageofcamelot.com/features/classes.php

Looks like no pet spammer or stealth support to Mid

 

[Jeeves]

Sounds like pole-s/s armsman hybrid with semi-ae dd's... and considering mid buffbots have end regen, sounds interesting tbh. oO

 

[Jakus Morgan]

What a disappointment both Mid classes seems set to be.

The Warlock.
Twice as long to cast spells?
He'll never get interrupted then will he?

The Valkyrie.
Female Thane. Just what Mid needs.

 

[Boomeruk]

what a joke

was really hoping for the new mid classes to try and balance out the incredibly obvious stealther imbalences as mythic clearly refuse to do anything about them, instead they give us a "hi, im casting a spell, would you like to interupt me?" caster, and now a bloody thane wannabee.

ahh well, hope i got into wow beta, and that it hurries up and gets released so i can leave this pos game ;o

 

[Carrera]

How can you tell how the class will perform from that description.. only way to find out is to just wait and see

 

[Fana]

Give valkyries stealth, and give warlocks petspam

 

[haarewin]

valkyrie and warlock both sound decent. valkyrie sounds like a champion, but worth playing though :d. hib is gonna get banshee and vampiir if what it says on US game.dll is true, which both sound ok just from names.

 

[Thegreatest]

Well it is some sort of animist, he can spam dd's on the ground which affect every target within range of the dd (if I understand it right from the text, at least I think that's the definition of CAE spells).

 

[Fana]

No it will affect anyone in a cone shaped area in front of the caster (think classic dragonbreath etc). Example of a cone: <

 

[Alithiel]

he can spam dd's on the ground which affect every target within range of the dd (if I understand it right from the text, at least I think that's the definition of CAE spells).

Not quite... it sounds more like it's a DD that will hit everyone within range who is in the caster's forward arc (or hopefully a somewhat narrower 'cone')

 

[Thegreatest]

Ah k then..quite nice to use it on zergs that consist of 80 people all sticked to each other...Mezz them all and fire those dd's

Altho I guess they will have an area dropoff just like aoe/pbaoe spells.

 

[Wij]

Thane ? They wouldn't make a new class crap. Too much revenue loss

Sounds quite fun to me. Can't wait to roll one

 

[judas]

its a pve expanision anyway. exept pve classes not rvr ones.

 

[Moo]

looks like a reaver to me tbh

except cone ae instead of pbae

imo the cone ae spells better do BIG dmg because of the fact they're a) point blank b) do nothing behind

so yeh, better do BIG dmg as far as hybrids go, i'd expect a delve of around pbae delve (330) ish but a timer like 20-30 sec, mabye u get 2 of em etc.

 

[Tharion]

Cone AE what a City of Heroes rip-off

 

[Loxleyhood]

Told you there would be no new stealthers.

 

[Lumikki]

Wooo, thanes <3

But seriously, if they make the cone AE's powerfull enough, it could be an interesting class. But if it's anything like 155 delve crap... well, everyone knows what people think about thanes.

<growls>

 

[Behmoth]

see the forgotten realm has its classes done last
alb 1st well thought out and alot of imagination used

mid 2nd not so well thought out but great damage dealers so who the hell cares

hib argghhh fuck it what shite did we reject on the other 2 realms throw together and give nice names so they don't QQ till they level them


give hib 1st characters next time :touch:

 

[Archeon]

Typical, they make a big fuss about giving Midgard more classes to improve desirability of the realm, and then they make them crap-tacular... Well I guess it is only a general description, so i'll try to hold off the ravaging of Mythic's women and children until they've aleast released it state side. Still, can't say it looks promising (and where the fuck are the 'men only' classes? Yet more sexual discrimination! )

 

[Morchaoron]

uh oh... no new stealthers, now the whine will never stop /o\

 

[Dreami]

How can you tell how the class will perform from that description.. only way to find out is to just wait and see

No they sux m8, everything about that class is written in that text.

 

[nOmoreCOAL]

Cone AE what a City of Heroes rip-off

Over 20 years in business DnD PH Wizard spell Cone of Cold
Very nice 2 take a few things of the father of all RPGs
Spells
Web= almost as root spells
Sleep= mez etc

I wait 2 c dispell spell n identify item spell/ability n many much more in the game

But the game as it is mids need a cloth caster w aoe dot an over 1850 range spells n pet spam class could be a solution. They also need a stealth support class 4 a change. A mid version of reaver is of no use cause mids tanks can do the job just fine though drain is cool as rr5 ra is 2.

Imo hibs need a tank type class more badly than mids n a stealther class 2 balance the gap.

 

[Indio]

Frostalf Valkyrie, a mixture of magic and melee?? My frostalf couldn't melee the skin off a rice pudding

Looking on the bright side though, at least zerkers will no longer be the least popular char in game

 

[Runimatrix]

Really stupid imo those 2 classes sound like bs, i kno when they r here in mid and we playin them ppl will b happy but to not give mid another stealther type is just out of order imo, ye they give alb 1 class but mid and hib still get owned if there is a stelther group as we have no class like a minstrel. I would like to see the new hib classes and like to compare em to out 2nd Thane and Warlock. i mean a warlock with like 6 sec casting speed i mean wtf lol, its hard enuf to not get interupted with 2-3 sec spells so with 6 i estimate u get like 1-2 spells in max. Well we just have to wait and c im at work now and will have a chekup later. Real let down imo

 

[Thanatlos]

It's always funny to see people judge classes by a 2 line description of roughly what they do..
Warlock 2x castspeed : continuously interrupted caster according to some people. Well, you have no idea what kind of spells they have. Maybe they can combine a damage spell with a interrupt-reduce buff.
No petspammer : who knows, because it's not in the description it may not be their main feature but it can still be an integral part of the class.

You have no idea what the cone aoe spell on the valkery does, no idea what kind of styles it has, no idea if the specific classes have spells that concern pets or stealth.

Wait and see until you know a little more before you whine about it

 

[Lyrra]

Give valkyries stealth, and give warlocks petspam

Sure.

Give sorcs insta mezz and theurgists insta stun while we're at it.

 

[Cami]

Sure, give them 1500 range aswell.

And why would theurgs get stun?

 

[Alithiel]

alb 1st well thought out and alot of imagination used

We're getting what is essentially a Valewalker with heals and Flex styles, and you think this is well thought out and imaginative?

Ignoring the fact that Albion really doesn't need another melee Hybrid, Midgard is getting the new spell systems to play around with while Albion is given a re-hash of the same old things that have been around for ages.

Why can't they give us something completely different, like a studded wearing caster/healer hybrid?

 

[Deacan]

A tank that does pierce damage.

 

[Awarkle]

all that the warlock is probbly a necromancer but without the pet, Ie cast main spell hit insta which does somthing else.

I wouldnt worry about much mythic cant suddenly create anything new and albion is getting what they been asking for a third healer class. You can whine and complain but you find that the support healers (warden, friar, shammy) you got given a tanking healer class (aka the friar) and all you do with it is tank maybe now you got a zealot you may actually heal.