5 Foot Step wrote on Aug 5
th, 2018 at 1:53pm:
Sharn is a neat setting.
It has its own book. It is
the city of Eberron. Stormreach is just some upstart backwater. Most published Eberron modules begin there.
This.
Khorvaire is actually the default setting for most of Eberron, and Sharn is the default starting point of most campaigns.
Xen-drik is "carte blanche" because the lore says it's "unexplored" (meaning that the people of Khorviare didn't know much about it) so that's why it was a good place to start DDO. You can't screw up what's not written down (or if you're Turbine, you bash on and find a way).
Quote:Tiefling iconic is going to be awkward. +2 dex, +2 int, -2 cha lends itself best to either rogue or wizard. But we already have those as iconics. The only f2p classes left to iconic are bard, barbarian, and sorcerer. None of those are very "iconic'. I guess they could do a variant that drops the cha penalty for sorcerer, a la bladeforged. Sorcerer feels like it should be reserved to be the iconic for Dragonborn though. (And barbarian should probably be reserved for Dwarf, because battleragerz.)
It's more likely they go with a 4e/5e Tiefling, which is +INT and +CHA. The -CHA Tielfing hasn't been a "thing" for some time now.
Besides, what's more likely to sell?
Tieflings a la "Malicia" or Tielfings a la "Ugly Shadar-Kai"?
I am just curious how they plan to implement Horns and Tails, since some people are screaming for them, and others against them (I am fully Team Horns-and-Tails, because why even bother otherwise?)
I believe they said the Iconic would be Sorc or Bard, and I'd be fine with either. However, they also have a tendency to do "sub-optimal" (but not necessarily gimped) Stat-to-Class Iconic matches, so I wouldn't rule anything out at this point.
Maybe they roll it out with a flat +2 INT, a great racial tree, and call it a day, similar to Aasimar?
Quote:The best fit for an iconic Tiefling, IMO would be a fiend-pact Warlock. But then there's the problem of not having a precedent for an iconic version of a p2p class.
There was a lot of chatter about this topic on the official forums.
I doubt we will see anything but "core" classes for Iconics until they simply run out of options for f2p Race/ Class combinations.
Meaning that one or both of the race or class is f2p. P2P + P2P is a non-starter.
So Dwarf Battlerager (f2p Dwarf + f2p Barb) is good. Teilfling Sorc or Bard also OK (p2p Race + f2p Class). Tiefling Warlock is
NO GO (P2P Race + P2P Class) etc etc...
I am holding out for the Dwarf Battlerager. I will not do another Barb life on my Main Alt until that iconic happens (which is unlikely before the servers go dark).