Can Wood elf beastlord & Froglok monk select starting city?Follow

As a gold subscriber can you choose Gfay (WE bst) and Rathe (Froggy) or are you stuck with Crescent Reach?

When they implemented the two new combos you were stuck with CR. I'm not a gold sub at the moment, but am curious if this was fixed (seeing as it has been months).

Non-gold subs are stuck with Crescent Reach for starting city of all new characters last time I tried (for those not aware of that restriction).

When these first came out, I chose Wood Elf Beastlord (with tree pet) as my heroic character. There was limited time for this free heroic character; I hurried. But this was my only choice. I expected to be in Greater Fey. But NO.

I tried the /set start city change (or whatever it is) and was unable to change.

I /petitioned. This is the reply:


Note that there is not even a HINT that there is an omission or error or thought of change. However, the staff who reply to /petition is not necessarily connected to the staff who program. There is also a rather long thread on Sony forums about this. This thread started as an into to the class, passed through objection to the tree pet and ended with complaint of home city of Crescent Reach only. There are other threads on the topic also.
https://forums.station.sony.com/eq/index.php?threads/lf-wood-elf-beastlords.208909/

Whats odd is they added a BST trainer in Gfay for the Woodelf beastlords although as far as I know there are no spell merchants. You can even talk to her and hear a backstory on how she became a BST. She is out from orc ramp I think.

Start demanding newbie quest armor as well!

Sounds good to me. Iksars were not plate users originally. An Iksar Cleric would fit into the Warrior line of armour perfectly. Newbie armor, then adding Clerics to the Trooper Scale line of armour.

I would love to see Iksar Clerics! My Warrior still has a full set of Trooper Scale in his bank ready to be loaned out to a new Cleric! Hope reigns eternal!

BTW, Gratz on 2K posts snailish!!!

Edited, Aug 16th 2014 8:45am by KC13

On one hand It's more of a roleplay/immersiveness thing for me I suppose.

My biggest gameplay issue with Crescent Reach as a default starting city is that it is not the most convenient thing for non-gaters. You origin (or homecity) spawn on the left side of the zone. So then you run through the city to get to the far right zoneline to get to the PoK book in Blightfire (which at least they had the decency to move from the dangerous middle of the zone). So it gets annoying on low-level slow moving characters.

Compare this to Rathe (froglok homecity except for monks) which has banks, merchants and PoK book in a very tight area. If it was possible... I would choose to ally many of my characters with the frogs and set Rathe as my home default city. GFay is also a great starting area if your not evil.... Again, as a gater just set bind and no big deal.

I really don't think it's that much work to add the class vendors. As far as newbie quests... it took them 2+ years to get the froglok SK one working. So I suppose it depends on whether they intend to do future progression servers, and whether wood elf beastlords are going to be available at Luclin or not... as that is the people who would really want the newbie armor. They could always make the Druid wood elf newbie armor bst usuable... that's not a lot of coding work. So I think there is workarounds.

If the new combos aren't going to be open until a much later expac (doesn't match how they added other combos in the past such as halfling + gnome extra classes but whatever) then the lack of oldschool newbie quests in the "correct" starting cities wouldn't matter.

^True enough.

By SoW pots and/or gate potions... and so on. As far as the actual gameplay it's not a tough thing to deal with. I'd still prefer the option to set home city though.

I think ultimately it's the lore of my characters story that makes me care about it and I just like the convenience arguments to build my case. Before Crescent Reach you started (within the narrowly defined and not always fully inclusive of logic) at the race/deity/city location that made the most storyline sense, at least to the original dev vision. Half-elves for example have some interesting options if you start messing around with deity on some of the class choices.

I don't despise Crescent Reach or even the idea of it. I would have put the PoK book much closer to the origin spawn point (between it and the city gate maybe) rather than in Blightfire for the Crescent Reach PoK stone. I also would have put a PoK stone just inside the Goru'Kar Mesa zoneline to Blightfire (or just outside of the centaur camp in the middle of Blightfire), providing much better low-level fast access to the core content of that lowbie expac.