New AA List for GoD Expansion....Follow

Here's a list by class as posted on the Shaman's message boards. A few seem to be incorrect glancing at them (Packrat for DS seems iffy) but I'm sure we'll learn more in the next little while.

GENERAL (all classes)
Improved Innate Run Speed
This ability will slightly modify your base run speed. This modification does NOT stack with movement rate spell effects.
Improved Innate Regen
This ability raises your regeneration ability by 1 point per ability level.
Improved Lung Capacity
This ability increases the amount of air you have by 25 and 50 percent.
Packrat
This ability intensifies the overall effect of damage shields that are cast on you. Additional ranks increase the effectiveness further.

BARD
*Staccato of Convalescence ???
Aria of Companionship or Pet Affinity
This ability allows your group songs to also affect the pets of group members.
Improved Instrument Mastery
This ability allows for improved use of all instrument types.
Improved Singing Mastery
This ability allows for specialization and improved use of your voice.
Internal Metronome
Some bards possess an innate sense that allows them to keep the beat with mechanical precision. Ranks in this abililty decrease your chance to miss a note.
Tune of Pursuance
Each rank in this ability increases your tracking skill cap by 10.
Exultant Bellowing
Ranks in this ability increase the damage of your Boa****lBellow.


BEAST LORD
Bestial Alignment
Brings out the inherent beast in the beastlord greatly increasing their destructive power.
Feral Swipe Hotkeyable
This ability allows the beastlord to make a vicious kick attack against their foe.
Icy Grasp
Using this ability imbues your warder with an attack that can freeze an opponent to the ground.
Heightened Endurance
This ability raises your natural endurance regeneration by 1 point per ability level.
Mastery of the Past
This ability makes it impossible for you to fizzle a spell or miss a note. (up to level 58)
Persistent Casting
Through strict concentration, you gain the ability to channel your spells through stuns. Increased levels of this ability increase the chance to cast through a stun.
Pet Affinity
This ability allows your group spells to also affect the pets of group members.
Warder's Alacrity
This ability imbues your warder with the ability to flurry attacks.
Warder's Fury
This ability imbues your warder with the ability to land critical hits.

CLERIC
*Divine Avatar???
Exquisite Benediction Hotkeyable
Use of this ability creates a stationary ward that continually heals everyone around it. Increased ranks improve the healing capabilities of the ward.
Holy Blessing Hotkeyable
This ability allows the cleric to call upon the favor of their diety and receive an instant infusion of mana. Additional ranks increase the amount of mana that is granted.
Persistent Casting
Through strict concentration, you gain the ability to channel your spells through stuns. Increased levels of this ability increase the chance to cast through a stun.
Pet Affinity
This ability allows your group spells to also affect the pets of group members.
Quickened Curing
Secondary Forte
This ability allows you to advance a second magical specialization past the specialization limit (50). After purchasing this ability, the next specialization to go over 50 becomes your secondary forte.
Touch of the Divine Hotkeyable
Sometimes when the most devout of worshippers passes on, they are returned to Norrath to continue their holy work. This ability provides you with a chance to be brought back to life when you die. Increased ranks improve that chance.

DRUID
Advance Tracking
Each rank in this ability increases your tracking skill cap by 10.
Critical Affliction
This ability grants your damage over time spells the chance to have a critical effect each tick they are active.
Fury of Magic Mastery
This ability further increases your chance to score a critical hit with your direct damage spells.
Nature's Boon
Use of this ability creates a stationary ward that continually heals everyone around it. Increased ranks improve the healing capabilities of the ward.
Persistent Casting
Through strict concentration, you gain the ability to channel your spells through stuns. Increased levels of this ability increase the chance to cast through a stun.
Pet Affinity
This ability allows your group spells to also affect the pets of group members.
Quickened Curing
This ability decreases the reuse time of Radiant Cure by 10% per rank.
Quick Teleportation
This ability reduces the casting time of your teleportation spells by 10, 25, and 50%. This does not affect evacuation and succor spells.
Secondary Forte
This ability allows you to advance a second magical specialization past the specialization limit (50). After purchasing this ability, the next specialization to go over 50 becomes your secondary forte.

ENCHANTER
Critical Affliction
This ability grants your damage over time spells the chance to have a critical effect each tick they are active.
Doppelganger Hotkeyable
Through mastery of illusions, the enchanter is able to create a duplicate of himself to draw the attacks of enemies. Increases ranks improve the hit points of the doppelganger.
Enhanced Forgetfulness
This ability increases the chance for your memory blurs to besuccessful.
Mesmerization Mastery
This ability gives you a chance for your mesmerization spells to last extra time. Increased ranks increase both the chance for this to occur and how long the spell lasts.
Quick Mass Group Buff
This ability decreases the reuse time on Mass Group Buff by 10% per rank.
Persistent Casting
Through strict concentration, you gain the ability to channel your spells through stuns. Increased levels of this ability increase the chance to cast through a stun.
Pet Affinity
This ability allows your group spells to also affect the pets of group members.
Secondary Forte
This ability allows you to advance a second magical specialization past the specialization limit (50). After purchasing this ability, the next specialization to go over 50 becomes your secondary forte.


MAGICIAN
Elemental Alacrity
This ability imbues your elementals with the ability to flurry attacks.
Elemental fury
This ability imbues your elementals with the ability to land critical hits.
Fury of Magic Mastery
This ability further increases your chance to score a critical hit with your direct damage spells.
Greater Elemental Form: Air/Earth/Fire/Water MAG Hotkeyable
This ability will allow you to turn into XX elemental,gaining many of the innate benefits of the form, as well as some of the penalties.
Persistent Casting
Through strict concentration, you gain the ability to channel your spells through stuns. Increased levels of this ability increase the chance to cast through a stun.
Pet Affinity
This ability allows your group spells to also affect the pets of group members.
Secondary Forte
This ability allows you to advance a second magical specialization past the specialization limit (50). After purchasing this ability, the next specialization to go over 50 becomes your secondary forte.
Shared Health
When activated, this ability causes half of the damage you take to be transferred to your summoned pet. Additional ranks increase the maximum amount of damage that can be transferred per hit.


MONK
*Drunken Master???
Destructive Force
When activated, your attacks will strike every enemy around you. Additional ranks increase the duration of the effect.
Heightened Awareness
This ability gives you the chance to block attacks that originate behind you. Additional ranks increase the effectiveness.
Heightened Endurance
This ability raises your natural endurance regeneration by 1 point per ability level.
Kick Mastery
Rapid Strikes
This ability gives you the chance to perform up to two additional attacks with your primary hand upon a successful double attack. Additional ranks increase the chance of this happening.
Stonewall
Each rank in this ability gives you an increasing chance for spells to not break your feign death.
Strikethrough
This ability gives a chance to bypass your opponents special defenses such as dodge, block, parry, and riposte.
Weapon Affinity
Through years of practice, you develop a close bond with your weapons. This affinity allows you to gain enhanced performance from your weapons in the form of an increased rate at which it triggers effects.


NECROMANCER
*Quickening of Death???
*Recovery???
Deaths fury
This ability imbues your pet with the ability to land critical hits.
Critical Affliction
This ability grants your damage over time spells the chance to have a critical effect each tick they are active.
Fury of Magic Mastery
This ability further increases your chance to score a critical hit with your direct damage spells.
Persistent Casting
Through strict concentration, you gain the ability to channel your spells through stuns. Increased levels of this ability increase the chance to cast through a stun.
Secondary Forte
This ability allows you to advance a second magical specialization past the specialization limit (50). After purchasing this ability, the next specialization to go over 50 becomes your secondary forte.
Swarm of Decay Hotkeyable
This ability summons forth a swarm of skeleton archers to harry your foes.
Theft of Life
This ability grants a chance that the healing effect on your lifetaps will provide an exceptional amount of healing.

PALADIN
Heightened Endurance
This ability raises your natural endurance regeneration by 1 point per ability level.
Persistent Casting
Through strict concentration, you gain the ability to channel your spells through stuns. Increased levels of this ability increase the chance to cast through a stun.
Mastery of the Past
This ability makes it impossible for you to fizzle a spell or miss a note. (up to level 58)
Hastened Piety
This ability decreases the reuse time for Hand of Piety by 4 minutes per level.
Blinding Reverence (increased chance to stun on bashes)
Increased Bash Damage
This ability increases the damage you do with your bashes.
Radiant Cure
Purification
A paladin is pure not just in mind, but in body as well. This ability allows the paladin to remove all harmful maladies from himself.


RANGER
*Coat of Thistles ???
Heightened Endurance
This ability raises your natural endurance regeneration by 1 point per ability level.
Mastery of the Past
This ability makes it impossible for you to fizzle a spell or miss a note. (up to level 58)
Persistent Casting
Through strict concentration, you gain the ability to channel your spells through stuns. Increased levels of this ability increase the chance to cast through a stun.
Advance Tracking
Each rank in this ability increases your tracking skill cap by 10.
Explosive Arrows
While activated, this ability consumes your mana to imbue your arrows with an explosive force. This ability does not work with the Trueshot discipline. You can deactivate this ability at any time.
Frost Arrows
While active, this ability channels your mana to imbue your arrows with a frosty impact that freezes the target for a short period. This ability does not work with the Trueshot discipline. You can deactivate this ability at any time.
Lightning Arrows
While activated, this ability consumes your mana to imbue your arrows with the power of lightning, intensifying the damage done by the arrow. This ability does not work with the Trueshot discipline. You can deactivate this ability at any time.

ROGUE
Hasty Exit
This ability decreases the amount of time required between uses of Escape by ten percent per rank. You may train in this ability once each level, upon reaching level 63.
Heightened Endurance
This ability raises your natural endurance regeneration by 1 point per ability level.
Mug Hotkeyable
This ability provides you with an additional attack that also attempts to pick the pockets of the enemy at the same time.
Seized Opportunity
Through experience, the skilled rogue can take advantage of openings in his opponent’s defense to land deadly strikes even from the front. Each rank in this ability increases the damage you do when landing a Chaotic Stab.
Sticky Fingers
This ability increases the maximum level of enemies you can pickpocket up to your current level.
Trap Circumvention
Each rank of this ability decreases the chance that you will set off a trap when opening a chest or other similar container.
Virulent Venom
Each rank in this ability increases the duration of your poison buffs.
Weapon Affinity
Through years of practice, you develop a close bond with your weapons. This affinity allows you to gain enhanced performance from your weapons in the form of an increased rate at which it triggers effects.


SHADOW KNIGHT
*Death's Fury???
*Recovery???
Consumption of the Soul
The most advanced Shadow Knights can further enhance their Leech Curse ability. This ability adds 200 additional damage and healing to Leech Curse, per rank. You gain the ability to train an additional rank at levels 61, 63, and 65.
Critical Affliction
This ability grants your damage over time spells the chance to have a critical effect each tick they are active.
Heightened Endurance
This ability raises your natural endurance regeneration by 1 point per ability level.
Intense Hatred
This ability intensifies the overall effect of damage shields that are cast on you. Additional ranks increase the effectiveness further.
Mastery of the Past
This ability makes it impossible for you to fizzle a spell or miss a note. (up to level 58)
Persistent Casting
Through strict concentration, you gain the ability to channel your spells through stuns. Increased levels of this ability increase the chance to cast through a stun.
Suspend Minion

SHAMAN
Ancient fury
This ability imbues your pet with the ability to land critical hits.
Call of the Ancients
Use of this ability creates a stationary ward that increases therate at which everyone around it gains endurance. Increased ranks improve the rate at which endurance is regenerated.
Critical Affliction
This ability grants your damage over time spells the chance to have a critical effect each tick they are active.
Persistent Casting
Through strict concentration, you gain the ability to channel your spells through stuns. Increased levels of this ability increase the chance to cast through a stun.
Pet Affinity
This ability allows your group spells to also affect the pets of group members.
Rabid Companion
Use of this ability imbues your pet with a rabid bite. Additional ranks increase the damage caused by this attack.
Secondary Forte
This ability allows you to advance a second magical specialization past the specialization limit (50). After purchasing this ability, the next specialization to go over 50 becomes your secondary forte.
Wolf Pack Hotkeyable
This ability calls a number of spirit companions into existencedirected at a target. The companions attack the target without question until they are called back to their home plane 60 seconds later. The initial rank of this ability calls three companions. Additional ranks add one companion each. You may train the ranks of this ability at or after levels 61, 63, and 65.


WARRIOR
Extended Shielding
Each rank in this ability increases the range of your shielding ability.
Heightened Endurance
This ability raises your natural endurance regeneration by 1 point per ability level.
Shield Specialization
Ranks in this ability increase your chance to block with your shield.
Staggering Shot (increase stun level cap on kicks)
Strong Kick (increased kick damage)
Sturdiness
Each rank of this ability increases your maximum hit points by 100.
Warlord's Tenacity
This ability allows you to temporarily boost your hit points to get through tough situations. The exertion takes it toll, though. These hit points dissipate over the course of the next minute andleave you having less than you started with.
Weapon Affinity
Through years of practice, you develop a close bond with your weapons. This affinity allows you to gain enhanced performance from your weapons in the form of an increased rate at which it triggers effects.

WIZARD
Druzzil's Mystical Familiar
This ability provides you with a familiar that strengthens the effects of your magic-based spells.
E'ci's Icy Familiar
This ability provides you with a familiar that strengthens the effects of your ice-based spells.
Ro's Flaming Familiar
This ability provides you with a familiar that strengthens the effects of your fire-based spells.
Frenzied Devastation
When activated, every direct damage spell you cast will have an increased chance to have a critical effect but will cost more mana. Additional levels increase both the chance for the spell to be critical and the duration of the effect.
Hastened Strong Root
Each rank in this ability decreases the reuse time of Strong Root by 10%.
Quick Teleportation
This ability reduces the casting time of your teleportation spells by 10, 25, and 50%. This does not affect evacuation and succor spells.
Ward of Destruction
Use of this ability creates a stationary ward that damages every enemy within its range. Increased ranks improve the damage of the ward.
Secondary Forte
This ability allows you to advance a second magical specialization past the specialization limit (50). After purchasing this ability, the next specialization to go over 50 becomes your secondary forte.
Advanced Fury of Magic Mastery
This ability further increases your chance to score a critical hit with your direct damage spells.
Persistent Casting
Through strict concentration, you gain the ability to channel your spells through stuns. Increased levels of this ability increase the chance to cast through a stun.

Oh whoop more AA abilities that are useless for the Mage way to join all the other so usefull ones way to go Sony.

YAWN

IMHO, necros should also get Pet Affinity AA, applied to HP tap to group (Zevfeer's), STR/STA tap to group (Degeneration) and AC tap to group (Crippling Claud). If have often wished that group buffs applied to pets, as a necro.

I am underwhelmed. If you want to know why, then read on. It appears that SOE wants people to buy the expansion and spend time getting the new aa's without actually increasing the effectiveness of any of the affected classes. I can only speak from the standpoint of an enchanter, but I am COMPLETELY dissapointed in this list.

Critical Mez. As an enchanter, do I really want critical mezzes? Cripes, my problem is NEVER how long a mez lasts, and always the resist rate on some mobs. Wow... sometimes... SOMETIMES... our mezzes will last longer. How about an unresistable mez every 5 minutes or something like that. Or decrease resist rate. Or decrease mana. Or consistently increase duration. Or consistently decrease mana. I think that anything else they could have done for mezzes would have been more useful than this trash AA skill. Useless.

Ooooh... I can crit on my dots now... which may be useful if I had used a dot in the past 3 months. All of our dots are slow damaging, and thus not effective for an xp group. Our dots aren't strong enough to make a difference in a raid situation, either. Useless.

Pet Affinity. We always group buff before we enter the zones or before pets are created. Also, the only buff I ever cast on a pet is to SoV my animations, and this usually happens as a single cast because group buffs came earlier. I certainly hope that charmed pets won't get the MR enhancement when I cast GoD. Useless.

Enhanced memblur. If we get a message to tell us when the mob is blurred, then it will be useful. Otherwise, I'll end up casting it 6 times just to be sure anyways. You can never take chances when you are trying to memblur the mob. Useless, unless accompanied by success/failure messages.

Doppleganger. I hope this is useful, but it will depend on how it is implemented. Questionable.

Quick MGB. Unless you are sitting in PoK buffing every hour as it pops, this would rarely if ever see any use from me. I MGB at the beginning of a raid and after wipes. If by some chance the raid wiped in the window that the hastened MGB popped and no other enchanters had their MGB up, this could be useful. I don't think we've every had to wait on a raid for someone's MGB to pop, though. Useless.

Persistent Casting. Hmm... may be useful. Nice to see an ability that might actually come in handy. Not exciting, but handy.

Secondary Forte. Handy for reducing mana. Not exciting, but handy.

Innate run speed improvement... if this goes faster than sow, I may purchase the expansion. We'll see. This may be the only compelling thing I can think of to purchace the expansion. This is only because I need to get back to the group after dying as quickly as possible during LDoN adventures.

Sinaerre
65 Chanter
The Rathe

Priests, casters and bards already get Mastery AA's that do the same thing, they just cap lower. Maybe hybrids get 'em too, I never checked. Anyway, it's nothing new.

Rogues can't pickpocket magical items regardless of the target's level. So no breastplates off Trakanon and no lightstones off wisps.

I have yet to pickpocket a collection item. Coin, gems, research bits and Mistmoore grave dust, but never Darkened Blood Vial or Red Grave Dust or Vampire ******** Clipping or whatever in the hell they make you collect in those damn MMC adventures I get forced into. But I digress.

I agree that MGB is a sweet aa, but hastened MGB seems a bit worthless. MGB is very situational, and if people have it, it gets used, but I've never seen a situation where we had to wait for someone's MGB to pop.

As for casting through stuns, I would love for that to happen. I have all the aa's to decrease interrupts, but I pull almost exclusively in ldon, and it sucks for three mobs to get there and stun you the millisecond before you get one mezzed. I can't tank 3 mobs for very long =P.

I TOTALLY agree on the improved run speed thing. It seems pretty pathetic that on the entire list, that improved run speed is the thing I'm most excited about.

How about another spell gem, or an aa that lets you meditate while standing. If you can meditate while sittin perched on a giant lizard, I don't think standing should be too difficult.

How about an aa that gives a visual indication when a mob is 10 seconds from waking.

How about an aa that mitigates rez effects. There are a thousand great ideas here.

An aa mana drain spell would be sweet.

An aa memblur?

Oooh... here's a good one... How about an aa that makes target nearest NPC actually work correctly.

And... DRUM ROLL PLEASE... here's my point --- With all of the next generation MMORPGs right on the horizon, Sony should be trying a little harder get the world excited about yet another expansion. There is nothing compelling, so far, about what I've seen in the list. They could get the community excited so easily by just fixing stuff people have been asking for and labeling it as a feature.

I am a huge fan of EQ, and LDON/POP were great for the game, IMHO. If either expansion sucked, I would not be playing EQ right now. LDON and POP were GREAT, and so I continue to play. There were NO new aa's in LDON, so there is hope for GOD to be a sweet expansion dispite the anemic aa's. For me, if this expansion rocks, I'll keep playing EQ, but if it doesn't, it will be a good reason to quit.

I appologize for this post in advance. I know that this in no way advances the discussion, and that it is probably a complete waste of time for anybody reading this post. I will most likely get rated down to 0 as a result, but I have to say it:


!!!Exploding Arrows!!!


Again, sorry about that, but I couldn't contain my excitement. Never again will I have mana while bow kiting =P

Some quick comments.

Drunken Master:
Wow, this is going to be fun. I hope it has an interesting animation before launching into an unbeatable 20 hit combo launching the mob into yesterday. Would be so worth the ton of AA's to get it.

Wizard Damage:
More dd power, with what, like three new aa's affecting crits in this expansion wizards can now crit up to 8000 and do it on 30 percent of casts, so nice.

Monks:
Although mine is retired, I was a little bit panged to see them not getting anything affecting affecting FD besides Stonewall which should be innate and 100% anyway.


On a lighter note, I was also a bit dissappointed that Shadowknights were not given Improved Spell Casting Subtlety. =P

Edited, Tue Jan 13 16:24:16 2004 by PsyoofXev

How about what warriors have been asking for?


AA's to up the stamina caps like the int/wis casters have for int/wis

AA's to up the taunt cap

AA's to add to WARRIOR ONLY OMG bonus dmg on weps

An apology for taking our disciplines away with no warning!


And for clerics....a FIZZLEGODDARNPROOF AA....I've had the one they have forever, and still fizzle all the time