Power Players?

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March 26, 2018 at 2:10 pm #1188
santaclaus
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Is power player still a thing? or is it only classes?
March 26, 2018 at 3:26 pm #1189
lonewolf
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Anyone who doesn’t fulfill the requirement for any of the classes is considered a power player. If that makes it “a thing” I’m not sure, you might need to elaborate your question.
March 26, 2018 at 7:13 pm #1190
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Ah. Well back in the day of ZH3 when classes were first introduced there were a lot of us like Neo, myself, Dr.Evil, Cinnamon etc who had put a LOT of time into macroing many different skills. It was deemed a bit unfair that the specialist classes that were about to be implemented were so much stronger with so much little effort so Zulu implemented the Power Player class. Which got a boost on everything if you got a certain amount of total skill points which came down to aproximately:
all skills >100 = PP lvl 1 (i think it was about 10% increase on all skills as bonus)
all skills >120 = PP lvl 2 (20% bonus)
all skills 130 = maxed out character = PP lvl 3 (40% bonus or something)
March 27, 2018 at 2:17 pm #1191
lonewolf
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I think this idea has been mentioned by the devs, or someone at least, but never been implemented here. I agree that PP sounds like a lot of work for a weaker end result. But at least without a classe bonus you can pick and choose a bunch of skills you want to train and skip everything else.

It might even have taken a turn for the worse when the latest pvm buff to melee was warrior-exclusive and not a buff to plate or shield armor.
March 27, 2018 at 5:43 pm #1192
santaclaus
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Ah ok Thanks for the answer buddy. i will just assume that PP wont ever be a thing and once it DOES become a thing I will definetly make one =D
March 29, 2018 at 2:10 pm #1207
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Same here.
Really enjoyed playing a PP.
July 2, 2018 at 2:38 pm #1335
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If I remember right, we had a lot of issues with the PP class and balancing it with the main class system which was the problem.. Difficult to get it right with skill bonus % vs the specialized classes with those same skills.

For the same reasons as Santaclaus, Ravnok was converted into a PP when that came out
July 4, 2018 at 12:34 am #1344
reireirei
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I still think we should revamp the pp into a real class. There’s a thread for my ideas to introduce talents (like in dota, if anyone plays dota me know!), but also having penalties to pp’s.

This is a macro intensive shard, and I think lot of folks want an extended end game to their macroing. Sprucing up a pp could be that new horizon.

How can we propose an implementation for it without breaking the game?
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