These disciplines came out around the same time as the Berzerker class. I
think it was inr esponse to a lot of people complaining that the class
advancement was not very fair between casters to melee. In a caster class
you get spells about every 5 levels even if you don't gain any new
abilities. But for melee classes, by the time you reach level 30 you've
gained all the skills you're going to receive until level 51. So unless
you've got the money and can continue to buy better weapons every 5 levels,
you could potentially be using the same stuff from level 30 to level 51.
That's not very far across the board if you ask me. So I believe the
discipline tomes were introduced to give melee classes somethign to work on
during those 20 levels.

Wulfric

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Talbot" <chris@...>
To: <EverQuest@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2004 12:09 PM
Subject: RE: [EverQuest] Disciplines?

>
> Yeah. They're bought for 2 cp each in the PoK Library. Full melee classes
> get them around 30th level, while hybrids have to wait until 51st (my
main,
> a ranger, is just about nearing the point where I can get his first
> Discipline -- the Resistant Discipline, I believe, which is the one
warriors
> get at 30th or 31st).
>
> Disciplines have been in the game for some time now. Someone who has been
in
> the game for a few years could probably shed more light on exactly how old
> they are. I've only played since January 2003, and I think they might've
> been around at that time.
>
> Once you have the Discipline book, you open it and learn the Discipline.
> Each Discipline has certain benefits (Resistant bumps up all your
> resistances, for instances). They last for a certain amount of time, but
you
> can only use them once every X number of hours of play. There's a window
> that you can pull up (can't remember the command to open it up) that lets
> you activate the Disciplines.
>
> Chris
>