Cliu Beothach wrote:Half classes always have been difficult to play, and I feel they were meant for a reason not to use their abilities at the same time, but to exploit the fact that they have 2 abilities. Now, they may not have the same potential but they have much versatillity. They aren't to be used as a formidable stand alone character, but a strong point in a group.
They have a buffer between each ability, but still they have both abilities. It is this which is to be used as the advantage, not to use at the same time. The deal with battle mages, is "mage" magic is offensive, and often times more active, while the other magics are geared toward more passive effects. Battle mages would seem pretty useless, alone (and sometimes in a group), but this is because you are merging two offensive skills. Its a bit redundant, but not useless.
this your idea of a special class...of course nothing you said here, makes them special at all, just pathetic....
Athian wrote:
lets say with your style of play your deugoning in the crypts with some friends as a battlemage, in order to be useful you must 'switch' between classes. this requires you, if you are wearing any armor or weapons. to take all these items off, and switch to all your magic based items. meaning you have to stop whatever your doing mid battle and change. now mind you you can't just change gear, as items in your bag will still effect you, you must now hand off your bag to a hopefully trustworthy person. and on the off chance that a sudden situation arises where they need melee back up you must reverse the whole process.
now at any given time between these two skills, you must deal with the fact that if you fail to be useful with melee combat you must stop and switch back to a mage configuration or vise versa. while you may have two skills both skills are much much weakers then those of the full blooded classes. which means even when you do which between either of them your character will only be fighting at half strenght of that ability, which may not be enough, but perhaps if you could use them in conjunction then you might be formidable enough for people to actually want to be around you in that situation.
this is me explaining exactly why and how the current way Illarion works doesn't support your idea.
this is you later.
Redundant,Redundant,Redundant,Redundant,Redundant,Redundant,Redundant,Redundant,Redundant
and claiming these classes should be special but never explaining how your method would be of any benefit to the classes. nor giving any idea's as to how exactly to make these classes special, so yea, you posting here is a bit...well...Redundant
oh and i said i hope you don't live that way, not 'you live that way', you put the statement in the completely wrong context. but oh well...back to topic.
