First Impressions

[Bolty]

Baylan, thanks for the aggro explanation. Players will indeed have taunting abilities, but as Jarulf says it's more a higher-level thing.

I learned about aggro pretty quickly, and that wasn't so much the problem. Even when partied with tanks, mages will run into difficulties. The difficulty with mages right now can be summed up in 3 points:

1) When a mage is attacked, its spell casting is interrupted/slowed down. Thus, the more hits you take, the less you dish out. With two attackers, you can often reach a point where you cannot strike at all. This doesn't happen to melee'rs.
2) A mage must stand still to perform a spell attack. This does not apply to melee'ers, who can attack while running.
3) Even if a mage misses with its spell, it is still charged with the mana cost of the spell. This doesn't happen to melee'rs, from what I've heard (warriors using rage).

I can attack one monster around my level and win. Anything more than that and I'm in trouble. I take quests that are "green" (meaning easy for my level) and will struggle through them sometimes. I am now level 14 and still plugging away.

-Bolty