Warlock curiosity question

[Gevaudan]

Just out of my own curiosity I noticed on various places in the forum there was mention of the staff wanting to change the warlock to more of the PnP version so it could be and unlocked class.

I'm just curious as to what the difference would be? I highly doubt it would make the warlock weaker because to be honest there are about 18 different wasy to build a warlock and 17 of them suck :P I played a warlock in the single player campaign and had to reload old saves all the time to reselect powers because there is really onl 1 combination that gives you power even close to enough to survive.

However common sense tells me you wouldn't lock a class for being "too weak" so you fella must disagree with me so I'm just curious I guess why it was locked and what the propose changes are?

Disclaimer: This is not a complaint, or anything of the sort it's merely a "I'm new so I wasn't around for the initial discussion" question . Trying to get caught up is all heh.

[Phantom Lamb]

I think warlocks were locked because they should be scarce and hated by the general populace, whether or not the character himself is evil. The problem you have with unlocking these kinds of classes and races is, as players, we tend to gravitate towards tolerance. Thus, we'd wind up with a bunch of warlocks running around and very few players who are comfortable with chastising them.

PS--please don't respond with reasons why your specific character is tolerant. This is not a critique of anyone's character. Play however you want to. This is just a summary of a trend.

[Gevaudan]

Ah well that makes sense. I guess I was only curious because of a post I saw from a Dev that said their agenda was to "change the warlock to more PnP - Hopefully make it an unlocked class"

Just made me think was all heh

[Elusa]

I think what he meant was to take Warlock off the "unavailable for play" list. It'll be a locked class, but people will be able to apply for it after getting RPotM.

[Aratil Lafaer]

Actually, Elusa, I think you only have to have RPotM for races. From my understanding, anyone can apply for classes.

[Gevaudan]

The Warlock is actually currently a locked class .... in fact from the wiki information it is the only locked class. So in a way Elusa is right but she is also wrong heh ... funny how that works huh? :P

There is at least 2 warlocks I have seen in game already ... most of them are older players. One is a player who just returned after a long hiatus. So knowing that it is currently lockable and not "unplayable" and that the DEV post said he hoped to make it unlockable is what made me curious.

Serves me right for reading the forums lol :P I gotta stop doing that *snicker*

[Saulus]

Warlock = RPoTM only.

You might see some people who were previously approved for something pop back in, in general we let them keep it because we already approved them previously.

[wangxiuming]

Some of those RPotM's need to apply for warlocks! Alyrian is LONELY.

*cough* uh ... heh.

[Gevaudan]

@wang: there was a warlock on last night who was a returning player so there is one for you.

@Saulus: Ya thats what I thought, so was the post from the DEV about wanting to change the class to PnP and hopefully unlocking it the actual plan?

[Saulus]

No. There is no plans to change Warlock.

[undeadsteak]

Some of those RPotM's need to apply for warlocks! Alyrian is LONELY.

*cough* uh ... heh.

Never! They're too weak. Class needs some buffing, I don't enjoy dying to bog zombies. =P

[Anks]

Powergamer alert!! , to weak bleh!

[undeadsteak]

=).


I played. A friggin 7 fighter 5 dc 1 bard. That. Was horrible.
Then, I played a warlock, that got owned by everything because I didn't take chilling tentacles.
That was horrible.

I'm not asking for a super build. I just don't want to play something that gets its ass kicked by everything. =P.

Now, I played a favored soul on another server... God, they're overpowered.