Exactly. It's the strategic placing of skills that makes us yearn for the
next level. If it weren't for this, the game would seem too easy. I think
this kind of game balance is great for the most part. However, I question
certain classes, which is why I choose to play the ones that I think have
the best balance.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Perhaps a Princess... [SMTP:sarah@...]
> Sent: Friday, July 23, 1999 11:36 AM
> To: EQ-Clerics@onelist.com
> Subject: Re: [EQ-Clerics] Meditation change?
>
> From: "Perhaps a Princess..." <sarah@...>
>
> Pure spellcasters get meditate sooner than Priest classes.
> Just like pure spellcasters get their spells sooners than priest classes.
>
> This is a tradeoff you make since you get more melee skills than spell
> casters
> I see clerics that can actually afford to be hit a few times at higher
> levels. Whereas, with pure spellcasters, even at 35+ in level, they
> are being nearly killed (and killed) by MOBs MUCH lower in level
> than them. if you get a MOB on THEM during a dungeon crawl, you
> HAVE to get the MOB off right away.
>
> Be patient. Level 8 will come. My druid is having some of the same
> impatience
> problems being level 13 with level 14 dangling in front of her eyes :)
>
> EVERY level of spells, by the time it becomes close to time to your
> next level, starts to look weak against the monsters. Similarly with
> meditate. I don't think anything needs to change. This just shows that
> they chose a good place to put the skill in, whenyou absolutely
> can not stand to wait any longer :)
>
> Sarah Heacock
>
> On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, Walt Zimbeck wrote:
>
> > From: "Walt Zimbeck" <wzimbeck@...>
> >
> > I was wondering what the proper procedure was to petition for a change.
> I
> > do not know about the rest of you but I feel that clerics should get
> > meditate at six and not have to wait until eight for it. My seventh
> level
> > cleric spends a lot of time just sitting waiting for mana for restore.
> It
> > is really glaring when you are grouped with spell casters and after the
> > battle you heal them up and then have to sit for five or ten minutes to
> get
> > your mana back when they are ready to go again in just two or three
> minutes.
> >
> > Let me know your feelings on this and I will try to get it started if
> there
> > is enough support and if not then I will just live with it the way it
> is.
> >
> > On a side note a very strange thing happened to me this morning. I was
> > hunting in Butcherblock and ran out of food. Rather than making the
> long
> > run back to Felwithe for more food I decided to gate. I got a message
> > about that zone being down and that they would put me in a safe place
> within
> > my zone. The safe place ended up just outside the dwarf city and I was
> > near the GF zone point, but that is not the problem. Everything except
> > keyboard locked up tight. I could not use my mouse to do anything at
> all.
> > No casting, no sitting, no selling or buying and worst of all no camping
> to
> > escape that mess and of course no GM's or Guides around. I could not
> even
> > do a soft boot to escape and ended up doing a hard re-boot. I
> suppose
> > that maybe I could have tried to get back to the GF zone point and try
> to
> > zone out to see if that cleared it up but my defensive spells were about
> to
> > wear off and I could not refresh them.
> >
> > Thanks all for listening to my rantings,
> >
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