The Vah Shir

race logoThis race of cat people populates Luclin, Norrath's moon.
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What we already know about them
# Aug 21 2001 at 2:30 AM Rating: Decent
By looking at the stats on some items I have found that:

They will be able to be bards, In FoB:
A scorpian pincer
(wind instrument)
Class: BRD
Race: --- --- --- VAH

They are a large race, In freeport:
Large Patchwork Arms:
Class:.....
Race:OGR BAR TRL VAH

Hope this info helps
safe fall for cats?
# Aug 21 2001 at 1:34 AM Rating: Good
ok jw anyone ever think that the cats might get a skill like hmm mabe safe fall cause everyone knows cats land on there feet.
RE: safe fall for cats?
# Aug 21 2001 at 2:14 AM Rating: Decent
It'd be nice if Verant incorporated something that obvious for once. However, if they did that, it'd ruin the 'only monks and rogues get safefall, DUHHHH' thing. So it'd be piling on a free extra skill. However, if it WAS an extra skill, maybe it'd be a race specific bonus, like trolls with regen, wood elves with foraging skills and gnomes with tinkering. So it's a possibility, I'd like it to happen, but we'll just wait and see.


Here's hoping to have a caster that can leap off cliffs and run around Kelethin drunk!
RE: safe fall for cats?
# Aug 21 2001 at 10:41 AM Rating: Decent
Ummm DUH bards get safe fall too (Duh)

PS

DUH

hehe just kidding, alot of people are confused about bards and all the abilities they get, like pick lock and sense/disarm trap, forage and the like
RE: safe fall for cats?
# Aug 21 2001 at 5:29 PM Rating: Decent
True, but many of those skills cap really low for bards, making them practically unusable... not that this has anything to do w/ the VAH SHIR (not val shira) other than bards were mentioned as a class that they may be able to be.
On the SoW thing...
# Aug 21 2001 at 1:24 AM Rating: Default
I hope to GOD that Verant is smart enough not to give them Snare or Root line spells if they have BUILT IN SOW. If they do. I will find out where the head of Verant lives, go to his home and/or place of business, and pie him in the face.

/pie

<<<<Splat>>>>

Suck on that, Mr.(or Mrs. I suppose) Verant.
SOW: Keep Dreamin
# Aug 21 2001 at 12:39 AM Rating: Decent
Does anyone of sound mind believe this widespread delusion that the Vah Shir will have "built-in sow?" Ever hear of a severe game imbalance? Verant will never do that...Well, maybe out of a chromosomal defect, but not intentionally.

Pontus
OK, this is just annoying....
# Aug 21 2001 at 12:09 AM Rating: Default
VAH SHIR!!!!! NOT "VAH SHIRA"!!!! VAH SHIR!!! VAH SHIR VAH SHIR VAH SHIR VAH SHIR!!!!!!
#REDACTED, Posted: Aug 21 2001 at 1:19 AM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) What about Val Shira?
#Anonymous, Posted: Aug 20 2001 at 11:50 PM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) The name is VAH SHIR! Not Val Shira...
stats
# Aug 20 2001 at 11:36 PM Rating: Good
does anyone know what the one stat that the kitties will ahve over everyone else? i havent heard much on them all i can think other than the nightvision and sow would be a very high agility almost like ogres stamina bonus. just wandering
RE: stats
# Aug 20 2001 at 11:38 PM Rating: Default
one more thing u think they will not be able to swim well? kitties hate da water =)
RE: stats
# Aug 21 2001 at 5:45 AM Rating: Default
Truth is cats can swim pretty damn good, they just don't like it that much.
RE: stats
# Aug 21 2001 at 10:02 AM Rating: Default
several breeds of large cats also take well to the water
#REDACTED, Posted: Aug 26 2001 at 8:50 PM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) My GOD! How pathetic are you people? Get LIVES! Honestly. I thought I was pathetic. That's just sad. peel youself off the couch or the chair and get outside sometime, really. Man...
Deudred
# Aug 21 2001 at 6:59 AM Rating: Default
Actually...there is one spieces of dommestic felines, whos name unfortunately eludes me right now, who contrary to all common knowledge actually LIKE water. They are of german origin i believe and spend alot of time in lakes and rivers hunting water-fowl and fish.
I knew the Discovery Channel would come in handy at some point.
RE: Deudred
# Aug 25 2001 at 11:58 AM Rating: Good
The name of the cat is the Turkish Van, they are almost all white in color with a little bit of usually orange, black or sometimes greyish blue on their ears and tails. These cats are absolutly facsinated with water and love to take baths.
RE: Deudred
# Aug 21 2001 at 9:10 AM Rating: Default
The domestic breed of cat that likes water, that I know of, is the Bengal Cat. Which in fact is a hybrid of a domestic cat and an Asian Leopard Cat, which loves the water.
RE: Deudred
# Aug 21 2001 at 12:45 PM Rating: Default

Another trivial fact :

Some friends of my parents have a cat, which likes to join people who are having a shower.

Wet kitty!
oops
# Aug 20 2001 at 10:50 PM Rating: Decent
that's Erudites... not Erundites.. typo... my bad =)
Not "Light" or "Dark" race
# Aug 20 2001 at 10:50 PM Rating: Good
They were banished TO the moon by the Erundites... so they are not liked (obviously) by them... but Barbs like em... all I know =)
Re: Trolls
# Aug 20 2001 at 10:42 PM Rating: Default
I've tried trolls.

<wait for it...>

Taste like chicken

<ba dum bum>
RE: Re: Trolls
# Aug 21 2001 at 3:31 PM Rating: Decent
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Hehehe.

Ok, I guess I had that coming...
I'm waiting for the first cat person to name himself Heathcliff, Socks, or Bill (*ack!*). Gosh, I hate them already.

--Pusbag Infection, King of the Trolls
Trolls!
# Aug 20 2001 at 10:25 PM Rating: Decent
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Ok, I have to be the first to bash this particular race. Admittedly I know nothing about them, but just on principle alone I detest them simply because they are not of the trollen race.

Truth is cat tastes alot like chicken.

I believe it is important to be consistent here, so I want to reiterate that I am not a cat person, but that is not the "raison d'etre" for this post. It is simply because there are going to be some of you who will try a pussycat simply because it is something new when in actuality the race you should give serious thought to are the trolls. I won't go into the numerous and obvious beneficial attributes of the trollen race, but suffice it to say that trolls would make these cats would look like Sylvester after the kangaroo finished with them.

--Pusbag Infection, King of the Trolls
RE: Trolls!
# Dec 19 2001 at 1:23 AM Rating: Excellent
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/cackle
It seems that Pusbag has gotten himself riled up again. Still We thought he had more refined taste buds. Vah Shir taste nothing like chicken... more like stringy barbarian..
/shrug
RE: Trolls!
# Jan 19 2002 at 6:16 PM Rating: Good
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Bah!
A twinked Vah Shir is a cat with a platinum-lined litter box. Put a gnoll and a Vah Shir in a room and I'll lay odds the gnoll is the one who walks out...

--Pusbag Infection
Val Bards
# Aug 20 2001 at 10:14 PM Rating: Default
Oh great... just what we need all over Norath.
A bunch kitties meowing at the moon.

Hmmm, would be nice to have a built in sow for a bard though. That way you can start kiting with your first damage dealing song and not have to stack. Should ad an extra song interupt for random hairballs though.

RE: Val Bards
# Aug 26 2001 at 8:43 PM Rating: Default
... Right. You know. I'm only going to dignify one part of your post with an answer. I'm pretty sure cats don't meow at the moon, having one myself. They get pretty pissed off when another cat they don't know comes near them, but never heard them meowing at the moon. Built in SoW for a bard... That wouldn't make much sense, since bards rule all in speed. But hey, it's not like I'd turn it down or anything.

Fleflah Hardy
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#Anonymous, Posted: Aug 20 2001 at 9:58 PM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) GO KITTY! GO KITTY! KITTIES RULE! ITS THEIR BIRTHDAY! MEOW, MEOW, MEOW MEOW MEOW, MEOW, MEOW MEOW MEOW. When this comes out im either gonna be a rogue or a bard. MAYBE Beastlord it all depends!
Way Off
# Aug 20 2001 at 9:49 PM Rating: Decent
Geez when I heard about this new race The Val Shira, I thought that the Val Shira Cat people were gonna be literally BeastLords, say getting a new animal as a pet everytime you get new spells, but then I thought about "well then they would have to make a whole completely new set off spells for them". Anyways I know lots of people think that this expansion is a complete waste of time, but I think Ever Quest should expand the game as much as possible, you never know, what if you've played everything and are just bored. I know that adults, like the one guy who wrote about the Val Shira classes page, on the web site, hates newb kids, I mean kids, who ***** up the game by acting all big and bad, but this is my first RPG game I think I've everwasted all my time into and I love the game, love whats become of it, and looking forward to have a Val Shira race in my 8 character slots.
#Anonymous, Posted: Aug 20 2001 at 9:32 PM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) the kities will probaly have a kitty language
#Anonymous, Posted: Aug 21 2001 at 5:48 AM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) Catatonic?
Cat movements
# Aug 20 2001 at 9:27 PM Rating: Default
It would be soo cool if the cat race stroked their whiskers like trolls and ogres stick their hands up their butts. And I wonder what they'll do when they play instruments. Wonder what they look like in plate. Also how they jump. The jump will be cool. And if they have this innate ability to go on all fours and have sow built in. or soc for 40 seconds =). That would be wicked. KEEP SENDING THE INFO. WE NEED IT!!
Doragon
Dark Knight of Bertoxxulous.
P.S. If you're hunting in Icewell Keep, send me a tell, Im trying to get some Royal Velium Gear =).
MEOW
#Anonymous, Posted: Aug 20 2001 at 8:46 PM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) um this has gotta be the worse expansion coming out yet (yes even worse then Velicious) in a kinda medevil, fantasy world who the hell would think of going to the moon??? And on top of that being able to live on the moon??? And the rediculous idea of this val shira race... just a bunch of stupid kitty cats. Geez Verant get some REAL ideas for he next expansion not just this lame brain excuse for one
RE: DUMB KITTY
# Aug 26 2001 at 8:31 PM Rating: Decent
Ok. Aside from the spelling errors. First, Verant will make whatever they damn well want to, because it's their game, and there isn't a damn thing you'll do about it. Second, in a medieval, fantasy world who the hell would think about casting a spell to teleport yourself to the moon? Certainly not me. There is already a Feline race, called the Kerrans, how is it ridiculous? Verant is trying to vary the game a little, they already have Trolls, Ogres, Lizardmen, why not Felines? If you thing this is dumb, then what about the Iksar? Walking, talking Lizards? And please, explain to me why Velious is so horrible. Because you'll never make it there? Really, relax and have fun with the game, that's what it is, and that's the point. Don't take it so damn seriously, you're missing the whole point. Go take your pills and go back on EQ, you're probably just cranky suffering from the pangs of withdrawal.

Fleflah Hardy
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Sow?
# Aug 20 2001 at 8:39 PM Rating: Default
I wonder if these will have permanent sow like was first intended. Also, why can they be bards? The same reason iskar can be monks I guess. Because Varent wanted it that way.
RE: Sow?
# Aug 21 2001 at 1:46 PM Rating: Decent
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Why not bards. Personally I think all races should be allowed to be bards. You mean dark elves, ogres, trolls, barbarians, etc don't know how to sing and dance? That's just my opinion though. Also trust me, Cats love to sing. My F@&%ing neigbor who lets her cats roam constantly are always "singing" in the middle of the night. Anyone want a free cat, next time they **** outside my backdoor, I'm getting a live trap and they are going to shelters.

VAH SHIRA
# Aug 20 2001 at 8:30 PM Rating: Default
They are going to be alrge, and so far I have read FAQs etc that they will be able to be any class. I also remember reading that they will be indiff to all, except the Erudites, which will be dubious, and that if you are KoS to kerran right now you won't be KoS to Vah Shira. However, after the portals to Luclin open, killing Kerrans will lower a seconds faction, that of the Vah Shira.
RE: VAH SHIRA
# Aug 21 2001 at 7:34 AM Rating: Decent
The Vah Shir are a proud race with a love for poetry and art, that's why bards and rogues are allowed to them (see the rogue as a noble who dislikes heavy weapons and preferes épées), they may not choose monks, as monks live in poverty, alway pushing their bodies to the limits and this way of living is just too "dirty" and uncomfortable for the Vah Shir.
#Anonymous, Posted: Aug 20 2001 at 8:28 PM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post)
giant
# Aug 20 2001 at 7:55 PM Rating: Default
Val must be a giant race because the weapons dropped by the giants are equipable by Val, in addition to the others.
YES!
# Aug 20 2001 at 7:46 PM Rating: Default
I just can't wait to be one!!!

Enfiniti
Ranger of the 18th Season.
hrmm?
# Aug 20 2001 at 7:33 PM Rating: Default
would they be a dark race, i cant really picture them as any of the light races.
RE: hrmm?
# Aug 25 2001 at 11:11 AM Rating: Decent
Verant has already said they would be good aligned.

But who knows, this could change at any time, just like verything else.
Beastlords
# Aug 20 2001 at 7:26 PM Rating: Default
also the fungal covered great staffs (rare drop in seb off guy that drops fungi tunic) which used to be dru shm only can be used by beastlords too. I might make a twink just because of it
I thought they were called Vah Shir
# Aug 20 2001 at 5:44 PM Rating: Default
Is this another name for them?
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