Classlead submissions are once again open! HELP CLASSLEADS describes the process, if you aren't familiar with the specifics.

This year, we are going to run classleads slightly differently. Instead of infrequent big rounds, we will have three smaller rounds in January, April, and July, and then a big round in September. This schedule is tentative - it may change depending on what other projects or events we're doing.

The first of the smaller rounds is now starting - each player with 1740+ invested lessons can submit up to *2* (TWO) classlead reports (this includes alternate characters).

No big reports are going to be approved in this round - to be able to keep these classlead rounds frequent enough, and also do other projects, we have to limit the scope of these rounds to smaller requests. Most notably, anything that would require beta testing will have to wait for September. We may make an exception if something is urgent enough, but I'd rather avoid that.

Report gathering will end in seven days - that is on Monday, 25th January. The commenting stage will follow afterwards. Remember that you can also post comments while the submissions are still open, if you prefer.


Finally, the usual tips to increase the chance of approval for your report:

- When describing the problem that you are trying to address, avoid using terms such as 'underpowered' or 'overpowered', and don't compare individual profession abilities against those of another profession or circle - each profession is meant to stand on its own merits, and any such comparisons more often than not produce misleading results.

- Try to come up with original ideas where possible - requests to copy abilities from one profession to another are unlikely to be approved, unless a convincing reason is provided.

- Avoid asking that abilities are deleted - if you feel that an ability is "broken beyond repair", so to speak, proposing a different functionality for the ability is much more likely to be approved.

- Avoid asking for too much - solutions that require significant additions or alterations to multiple abilities, or even whole skillsets, are less likely to be approved due to time constraints.

- If you are proposing a new ability as a solution to a problem, I'd recommend to include an alternative solution that resolves the problem by tweaking an existing ability instead - adding new abilities is usually more time consuming that adjusting existing ones. Obviously, this will not always be possible - use your best judgement.

- Classleads are primarily meant for combat changes. While small utility-oriented reports are perfectly fine, bigger requests will probably be deferred to ideas.


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