Comments on: Dev Diary #16 – Classes

By: Jeremy Tamez

Jeremy Tamez — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 00:12:31 +0000

Another interesting race would be a fairy, pixie, sprite type of race. I’ve never seen in any game where you can play as one of those winged creatures, but I’m assuming playing as one of those winged creatures would bring a different type of element to the game.

By: Nick

Nick — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 05:41:36 +0000

Very cool. Can’t wait for the beta

By: Pikadude No. 1

Pikadude No. 1 — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 05:56:54 +0000

My ongoing disregard for how a person of my gender should behave is showing, but I really hope there'll be some provision for playing a "pretty" character at some point. With a little cleverness, you should be able to incorporate this without disrupting the feel you're going for; Battle for Wesnoth has a fairly similar feel and their Elvish Shydes and Elvish Sylphs fit in just fine.

By: Pugs

Pugs — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 22:48:11 +0000

Ahh, answered in the forums. Yes we can have multiple copies of items, so we can have characters that are identical to each other in the same party.

By: Pugs

Pugs — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 22:37:19 +0000

Yay! We CAN have multiples of class/race in a single party. But can we get multiples of items so that our identical human warriors are identically decked out?

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 21:33:00 +0000

@Asmor: good question! We have thought about it and we don’t have a final answer yet. Although creating interesting cross-classes sounds like it has potential, we do have to be careful with our equivalent of “color bleed”, that is, blurring the lines between the classes by creating hybrids.

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 21:31:48 +0000

@erf_beta: you can choose your figure when you get a character and we’re trying to make sure we have male and female variants of every class and race combination.

By: Asmor

Asmor — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 14:39:44 +0000

Have you given any thought into how many classes you ultimately want?

How much of a concern is class balance? In World of Warcraft, for example, there are 10 classes, and they’re adding an 11th with the next expansion. The first time they added a class after launch, it turned out to be a nightmare with respect to balancing things.

I imagine that keeping classes balanced against each other isn’t quite as much as a concern in this game, since it sounds like the focus is on building a party, not a single character.

By: erf_beto

erf_beto — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 11:33:42 +0000

Very good, I’m liking the game more and more with each dev-diary!

So can choose race and class… but what about gender? Does every Elf Wizard have te same “miniature”? Do we get to choose figure for the heroes on character creation?

I liked the part where you talked about the Rogue… specially when you mentioned “launch”. When is that again? 😉