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If you want to create additional classes, the Elements idea is going to have to be adjusted. I would love to see a summoner class and a melee/dodge class. A heavy cannon-user would be cool. Just some ideas.I think the Spellblade should have some sword skills, and some weapon enchantments, like we spoke about before. Perhaps staff+sword/wand or sword/shield+wand/sword. Stormborn needs an immobilize, perhaps instead of the stun he has. I think the Hexhunter and Nightshade are fine, aside from some balance concerns and what I noted above.What does each class's Charge do exactly? I think Charge and the speed of fights should be considered and dealt with as one.Interrupt/silence would be great. Perhaps these can also be class-specific, ala the "Unique Defensive Skills" I wrote about above?

Are we going to be able to see equipped armor?

Wow, sounds great, Epoch. Are you going to create the tilesets for the different regions yourself?

Okay, so that was incredibly fun and sort of productive, but let's get down to bidness. Gear+ Remove all restrictions on class weapons+ Create gear with no variation in stats for each class [e.g 200 armor for every Hexhunter chest piece instead of a range from 190 to 210; every axe does 210 dps]+ Add specialized affects to support builds [e.g +50 Strength +10% Chance to Dual-strike]+ Potion dispensers will be used instead of the General Goods Merchant for Delixirs and health/mana potions.+ Introduce gems to the General Goods Merchant that greatly affect statsSkillsHexhunter+ Add an immobilize to Bleed N' Burn and increase its cost/rechargeNightshade+ Remove Stun from AmbushSpellblade+ Increase recharges and mana costs for most skills, or decrease damage+ Increase damage of CycloneStormborn+ Decrease damage of Shieldbash+ Give greater incentive to invest skill points/greater jumps in between tiers+ Increase AoE of ThundercallMaps+ Continue progress on Dusty+ Create a map from the Clockwork boss room (perhaps other boss rooms as well?)Okay, now for some personal thoughts. After we've created a relatively balanced version, complete with the gear and the whole shabang, we should start working on the more crazy side of things. Stuff like crazy procs that shoot fireballs, cause absurd knockback, etc. That way we have a base to start from.Second, the general idea of armor ratings and damage:Stormborn 500 Armor between all piecesNightshade / Hexhunter400 Armor between all piecesSpellblade340 Armor between all piecesWeaponryMeleeSingle-handed: 200 dpsTwo-handed: 300dpsRangedSingle-handed: 160dpsTwo-handed: 210dpsSkill damage and balance:NOTE+ HP pools are about 1100+ Mana pools vary slightly, ~70 @ 5 focus and ~120 @ 85Big Costly SkillsThings like Bleed N' Burn on the Hexhunter and Stormswipe on the Stormborn should cost a lot and do a lot.A rough metric might be 1 mana = 10 damage @ melee and 1 mana = 6 damage @ range.Stuns & ImmobilizationNOTE+ Stun disables skills but allows movement+ Immobilize disables movement but allows skills1 second of stun = 2 seconds cooldown.So a 3 second stun takes 6 seconds to recharge, which I feel is pretty fair, considering the massive damage that can be done in 3 seconds.1 second of immobilize = 3 seconds cooldown + a high mana cost.Immobilization is extremely strong when taking into account combos, so imo it should be more costly than a Stun.Unique Defensive SkillsAn active block for the Stormborn. A teleport for the Nightshade. A hex swap [swap places with the target] for the Hexhunter. A huge mana knockback for the Spellblade.These should be granted at the start and have no greater tiers. Perhaps placed in a separate tree. No damage dealt by these skills. The cooldown should be 5 seconds for each.That about covers it for now. Let me know what you think.

I plan to remake my how-to on building a dungeon from scratch, as well as create a tutorial on using alpha zones. Here's the second tutorial I made (leveled merchants & dialogue) that I feel is fairly solid, feel free to reupload/favorite them on the torchmodders channel -- all I ask is credit in the description.

I suppose a decent sample of the TL2 online community (who use mods) could be found with the mod I released last year. Corpselight has had a total of 1,197 subs over 368 days (apd 3.25) and 5,797 unique visitors (apd 15.75). However, since March I have only been getting 2-5 visitors per day, and even fewer subs.I think we should promote TLA a great deal, and try to get people who wouldn't otherwise be interested in multiplayer mods to try it.

This forum setup is a lot more aesthetically pleasing and user friendly, in my opinion. I like the emotes more, as well. I wouldn't worry about the switching back and forth, this site is in its formative stages and that is pretty normal. You've done an excellent job so far. It all flows together nicely.

I was wondering where the shoutbox was. I think random is a fairer option, and it'd also require a lot less effort to code.

Great ideas. One more, how about a Featured Mod thread? Each day a thread in the mod showcase is randomly selected and featured -- perhaps a line underneath the logo panel up top.

Quote from: "Phanjam"Ooh just saw the theme change on these forums - nice! I like it a lotAgree with keeping things on the dark side (MUCH easier on the eyes ). Did you still want me to work on some more Steampunk-themed logo studies and splash images? Here's the first guide-image I did...Spoiler (hover to show)(hmm spoiler tags dont seem to work yet...)I think that looks awesome. Perhaps you can make a sig out of it, if it doesn't get used.