Actually, I held my own pretty well against a ranger
who was 2 levels above me. I pretty much ran around
him bellowing and hitting him in the back. We were
about even and 2 bubbles down when I accidentally
erased bellow from my memory! (I right mouse click
and turn mouse to rotate faster--and accidentally
right mouse clicked on the bellow song). At that
point I was pretty much screwed. Anyway, my point is
that it is possible to beat a ranger at that level. I
was 21 i think and he was 23 or 24. If I was his
level I think I would have kicked his butt all over
the planet. At a higher level I'm sure this would be
much more difficult--maybe impossible. I have heard
of bards slaughtering rangers doing instrument attack
with DDD/COD/HOR.

Thex Luteslinger (Tunare)

> Message: 11
> Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 12:00:07 -0700
> From: "Kimes, Dean W."
> <Dean_Kimes@...>
> Subject: RE: Re: Bards vs. casters, melee, etc.
>
> Yes but all those examples were with each class
> using all its abilities. I
> was trying to point out that separating them out was
> meaningless which those
> examples would bear out. How the 25th bard beat the
> ranger I can't fathom.
> I dueled a 15th level ranger when I was 15th and
> despite having 40 points of
> ac over him he smoked me and stayed above 2 bubbles.
> If I ran around and
> tried to heal he shot me with his bow, and in melee
> it was a near even trade
> of blows. It should be even worse at 24th with
> rangers getting Parry at
> 18th and double attack at 20th, ick! When I hit
> 20th I will try again on a
> 20th ranger, but seriously doubt I will win a real
> duel with him. What I'd
> like to try is a group of three bards vs three of
> any other class at the
> same levels. I think we would nearly win all those
> duels, but unless on the
> PvP servers will never find out unless I can get
> some friends into the
> Arena.
>
> Kitasi of E'ci
>

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