Class Ranks!

Although I don't find it particularly exciting I do appreciate these small steps they're taking to bring more depth to the combat system. Since they changed gear stats to be so linear I've been longing for something that requires at least the slightest bit of brain power.

 

sadly i did not feel the rush of joy yknow mainly because i was waiting for a better improvment but still anything new is considered good so i am stuck in the middle :s

 

Cross-skills are fine, but having to rank up isn't fine. It's the same thing players from AQWorlds have complained about for years (especially when you have to earn the classes by farming for faction reputation in that game). In AQ3D, you already have to do daily quests each day to earn tokens to unlock a class, and it's already enough having to wait each day to unlock the same daily quests for some tokens. On top of that, we're expected to now farm for class ranks, and I just don't see the appeal of that; at the very least, the max rank should just be rank 8 instead of rank 10 like how it is in AQWorlds.

I would at least wish for AE to make classes earnable through other means (e.g. just from completing a saga, through doing various quests instead of the same daily quests, "pick-a-daily"-styled quests where we have more options to choose from but for the same rewards, etc.). It's the kind of diversity that the game is lacking that would help the game mitigate the game's linearity.

 

I do feel that these changes which AE is going forward with are great but not flawless when talking about this system they are pushing to "live" servers. It does feel tedious to go with class rank grind and I know because I maxed all playable classes on PTR and it did certainly took some time to get done. I did it for sake of testing and it pretty much felt like doing that level 15 grind before level curve change to be honest. 18 hours of mob grinding later I had achieved max total class rank of 90 (I did max out pirate using tokens and leveled dragonslayer a bit with them too). Do I see things changing with this system? Absolutely. When? Probably not anytime soon.
If you don't want to do rank up to 10 and unlock cross skills just rank up to rank 5 and leave it at that. What about those skill upgrades? Most of them are just value changes, some minor and some bigger. The class ultimates do get the most love when it comes to getting upgrades, very noticable damage differences and some of them get utility added to them. Are cross skills worth getting? I would say only a few of them matter (more like a half of them) and here are my current favorites: Warrior, Mage, Dragonslayer, Paladin and Ninja.
When this system get added released outside of PTR, please go and play with it and give AE feedback about it.

 

Well the good news is that people who have Alpha Pirate class are automatically rank 10 for that class, but you still have to rank up the other 8 classes. I feel like if you rank up to 5 on every class and do gameplay normally instead of trying to grind for ranks, it wouldn't be that bad.

 

Ranks from 6 to 9 are just filler to obtain a cross skill with small upgrades to skills you ranked up to unlock. They are either; attack power changes, debuff effect increases, cooldown reductions or utility upgrades which are usually added to your ultimate. You definitely don't need to go for rank 10 intentionally but you will get it at some point regardless.

 

Well I kinda like the new update cross skill is Soo awesome I could use warrior skill to rank my other class

 

I was quite stoked until they kept procrastinating and then finally had quite a buggy release.They could have done a way better job however what's done is done, hopefully much better improvements come our way esp. with future cross skills.

 

Already have Rank 10 with pirate, mage, rogue, guardian, necro and paladin. Rank 9 with dragon slayer. Just need to finish dragon slayer then work on warrior. Use to be these two party sneevils right outside of Yulgar's Inn that would give a ton of class exp. It helped out a lot; but it was patched.

 

Epic Yettun dungeon is become empty as people are completing the ranks, and those who are struggling with ranks are now fighting the monsters in the Braken area in Lolosia which offers better XP than Epic Yettun dungeon, but not as much gold.

 

Why? There are better methods out there to find compared that one.

 

I ranked up all my classes in the first 4-5 hrs after the Blue Ogre Mini Event at one of the underworld dungeons. If u have a decent squad, it's one of the fastest ways to rank up classes. I also gained about 200k gold from that session.

 

he___he i actually ranked all my classes except pirate( still didnt get it) guardian ( i dont plan to buy it even...)

also what about the cross skill for rogue it seems pointless right now for any other class except the rogue because he is the only one who use poison (._.) why the devs didnt think about that???

 

I went and tested Rogue cross skill with other players poison and it does seem that I really doesn't work with poison of other rogues. AE should make it so it also works with poison of other rogues to make it more usable outside of rogue.

 

For a years of playing aqed all new updates that they released im always exiting because i really like to see more new coool stuff in game like class items ect. That will make aq3d more better to play

 

And since we earn our stripes anyways, it's quite good that new players don't directly get everything max'd and will have to put in the time to catch up to us.