The World of Avlis

A little birdy told me not long ago that there was going to be a rather large overhaul to the holy warrior PrCs. Did this happen when the servers upgraded? If so could we get some information on the changes?

touche!, my obliviousness triumphs over my attentiveness again.

Sadly, the Holy Warrior updates have been delayed until the next CoPaP hak updates.

- Aloro

Exactly what update can we expect to see? The Holy Warriors are pretty decent now, but I'd like to know what we have to look forward to.

Chas'nor wrote:Exactly what update can we expect to see? The Holy Warriors are pretty decent now, but I'd like to know what we have to look forward to.

If you like them now, you'll be very pleasantly surprised. If you don't like them now, well, you'll still be very pleasantly surprised.

If I told you what's going to happen, it wouldn't be a surprise, would it?

I'll post all the details when the updates are going in. Until then, they'll just get people worked up into a frothing frenzy at what they want but cannot yet have.

- Aloro

sorry to bug again and i'm sure you are sick of these types of question...is there an ETA for this? sure it will be a bit since we just got an update but...

does this mean we have time to further debate the pros and cons of justicars?! hooray, *goes looking for that thread*

YES!! I love my blackguard but the PRC doesn't give him a whole lot. except use poison.. Okay.. Great.. Me wants More *froths at the mouth* MUWHAHAHAHAAAA

till then I will wait patentintly and wait..


Are we there yet?.....NO?...........Are we there yet?.......NO?...........

Oh hey TWO thumbs WAY up for all the incredible work that has been done todate.

Avlis, I'm loven it!

Sorry to break it to you, but only the custom PrCs are being overhauled, not Blackguard.

oh well, I'll just go kill something then.....Thanks for the heads up...*shuffles his feet with his head hanging down*

NWDuneAuron wrote:Sorry to break it to you, but only the custom PrCs are being overhauled, not Blackguard.

Yeah, just the 7 Avlissian Holy Warriors are being reworked, and not Paladins or Blackguards. The other 7 are being brought more into line with the two BW classes, actually (which is to say they're being improved to the powerlevel of BGs/Paladins). Blackguards have it SO much better than Avlissian Holy Warriors (until the update) that you really shouldn't complain about them too loudly, lest you get mugged by a horde of angry Dominators, Equalizers, Avengers, Champions, Justicars, Confounders, and Annihilators.

- Aloro

Well, to justify that...

Icly, Bring em on! I've knocked the snot out of em' before, I'll do it again..

OOCly, Okay.. Well my char is only a level 1 BG so I am sure that things will get better and better for him down the road. Till then.. I'll just keep smiting,, I mean smiling...



Thanks for the clarification!

Not begging for the juicy details...but is it ok to ask if the requirements for the PrCs are going to change? If so, drasticly? (i.e. completely different skills,feats, maybe even required classes) I hope not cause I have a couple prospective HWs.

Nzifklm wrote:Not begging for the juicy details...but is it ok to ask if the requirements for the PrCs are going to change? If so, drasticly? (i.e. completely different skills,feats, maybe even required classes) I hope not cause I have a couple prospective HWs.

Only one Holy Warrior PrC is getting new prerequisites: the Avenger. The others seemed pretty balanced, and no PCs complained about them to me. The Avenger prereqs have prevented probably 10-15 people in the last 2 years from taking the class, who would have loved to do so but had no possible way - those prereqs were by far the most difficult to meet, requiring one to have at least 4 levels of Fighter and a level of Druid or Ranger. Since characters in NWN can only have 3 classes, this prevented almost every PC from becoming an Avenger.

- Aloro

Thanks for the info. Looking forward to seeing the changes. *attempts to wait patiently*

Aloro wrote:The Avenger prereqs have prevented probably 10-15 people in the last 2 years from taking the class, who would have loved to do so but had no possible way - those prereqs were by far the most difficult to meet, requiring one to have at least 4 levels of Fighter and a level of Druid or Ranger. Since characters in NWN can only have 3 classes, this prevented almost every PC from becoming an Avenger.

Wrong... *points down* The prereqs were just as difficult to meet as any other PrC Holy Warrior, but this might not always have been the case..? Seven Ranger levels (for the BAB) and you are ready for the Avenger PrC. Regardless, it'll be good to finally see some PCs with funny hats...

World Info wrote:Avenger

BAB: +7

Feats:
Point Blank Shot
Weapon Focus: Longbow

Skills:
Heal - 5 Ranks
Animal Empathy - 2 Ranks

Hello, combat casting for a fighter... Yeah, problem there. Good thing we learned to work around it.

I think Rangers might even select the right skills using the default package

I remember Drak being sad when the stats were released that Jillinae couldn't take it though. *giggles as he thinks how far from Avenger Jill went*

DanishPastry wrote:

Aloro wrote:The Avenger prereqs have prevented probably 10-15 people in the last 2 years from taking the class, who would have loved to do so but had no possible way - those prereqs were by far the most difficult to meet, requiring one to have at least 4 levels of Fighter and a level of Druid or Ranger. Since characters in NWN can only have 3 classes, this prevented almost every PC from becoming an Avenger.

Wrong... *points down* The prereqs were just as difficult to meet as any other PrC Holy Warrior, but this might not always have been the case..? Seven Ranger levels (for the BAB) and you are ready for the Avenger PrC. Regardless, it'll be good to finally see some PCs with funny hats...

World Info wrote:Avenger

BAB: +7

Feats:
Point Blank Shot
Weapon Focus: Longbow

Skills:
Heal - 5 Ranks
Animal Empathy - 2 Ranks

It was originally Weapon SPECIALIZATION, not Weapon Focus. You'll find that there have been some inconsistencies between the actual .2das and what was published about them.

- Aloro

OOOOH OOH another question (seriously stop me if I am annoying you).

Are there any changes to the HW gear? Are any planned?

Aloro... as my first real toolset excercise I levelled Syrin (A Ranger/Rogue) into an Avenger using the haks when he was still low level... close to or longer than a year ago I think... and he needed focus... so that must have been a real long while back that the 2das said specialisation. Oo