Time to break up the forumFollow

/agree

also server-, class- and race specific boards would help.

totally agree.. spilt it up more. i like the way the ffxi forums are spilt. just a thought ^^

agreed :)

and when is the time? I feel it is almost impossible to keep up with the posts here, not even mentioning other boards.

but, I can live without them just fine. doesn't kill me or makes me

I don't think we need as many forums as FFXI has, but this board certainly needs to be broken up a bit. At least a quest section, and maybe tradeskills? Like the rest of you, I can't keep up here, lol

I could definitely go for RPZip's suggestions. Split up by archetype, and one for quests (and possibly tradeskills) would be great.

Of course then that begs the question of what to discuss on the main board.

Why not? Class differentiation and subclass differentiation isn't extreme enough to warrant their own boards, which would be quite unused. Keeping the different Archetype forums together means they'll get a steady stream of traffic, and because many of the advice will be the same within the archtype there's no reason to split them up.

A mage is a mage is a mage. It doesn't matter how they achieve their goals (Pets, Mezzes, whatever); the basic strategy is similar. If you split it up into the 4 archetypes, the 12 classes and then the 24 sub-classes you're going to have a crapload of boards that will never, ever be used. I would, however, add a tradeskilling forum, making the total;

General Forum
Quest Forum
Tradeskill Forum
Fighter
Scout
Mage
Priest

I agree with you RP:

General Forum
Quest Forum
Tradeskill Forum
Fighter
Scout
Mage
Priest

Except, I don't know if a tradeskill forum would be needed when the forums at EQ2 Trader's Corner are always top notch. And as for quests, I don't know, if I have a question on a quest, I usually look under that quest and then read/post there. As for the archetypes, certainly no more than that. If you split it up more you just wind up losing good info into subclass posts that is relevant to all members of that archetype.

Oh, I could probably use my own forum too.

Yep its more than time to get this organized. We just need to get their attention. Kinda of like when your at a store and can't get anyone to help you, you just gotta start knocking things over. Works everytime, they come running. Just keep knocking this thread to the top.

Time will tell, but what about Predator versus Bard. I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that they won't have that much in common. I could be wrong, as I know absolutely nothing about bards in this game as opposed to other games. Because everyone seems to have so many group abilities they may play similarly to predators and rogues for all I know.

In the end, it may be prudent to separate territary classes from the archetypes, but even if that is true at some point it definately isn't true now. Also, keeping them on the same board may eliviate some of the rivalries that could arise as the game progresses. We may find, however, that the things people talk about have nothing to do with the other classes at all. Time will tell.

join other boards. I go to another forum for all my priest stuff. I got to eqtraders 2 for all trade skill stuff.

Yea lets make it more like the FFXI job boards where every other post is OMFG my job is gimped after patch or why can't I get invites

I'd rather not have to jump around to a lot of different boards. I've always liked Alla's site, so the more stuff I can find here, the better.