>From: "Kimes, Dean W." <Dean_Kimes@...>
>Reply-To: eqbards@onelist.com
>To: "'eqbards@onelist.com'" <eqbards@onelist.com>
>Subject: RE: [eqbards] Great post on item balancing (Long)
>Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 14:03:47 -0700
>
>At the risk of sounding like an old coot, you youngins today do not know
>how
>
>easy you have it :) In my day..... hah
>And the game is always changing, hopefully more mid level items will by
>added. I still crinch when I remember that the day AFTER I spent 220 plat
>on a Well balanced Rapier, the Ornate Dagger was changed into the Dragoon
>Dirk. Then I found that the WB Rapier would only sell back for 45 plat,
>aarrrrgggghhhhh. I did manage to trade it for a runed bone fork though :)
>
>Rokenn Swiftsong - Karana server
>
>Hee hee, trouble is I'm almost as mature as my server! I started in late
>April after all my friends forgot which server to start on and left me
>alone
>on Sol Ro. I was saving up for a WB rapier on the premise it like a
>combine
>would be a rental fee. Fortunately John (tm) saved me from my folly by
>letting me know in advance it would sell back for so little. I've had
>enough money in my day to buy a better 1HS, but spent it in halves or so on
>armor that was so much better than what I had compared to moving up from a
>dirk to an obsidian scimmy. Maybe I should sell a couple of 150pp+ armor
>pieces and replace them with bronze to buy an obsidian scimitar. I'd
>rather
>earn it directly as that's how I got the two weapons I have now, but that
>isn't possible at my level. There are no good weapons dropped that a group
>of my level could get that a bard can use that are better than my dirk.
>Hmmm, maybe the dirk is the unbalanced part!
>
I good upgrade to the dirk is the Obsidian Shard. With a high dex the 30 pt
DD is a nice plus. I was still using mine till I got my Runed Falchion this
weekend. A mid 20 group should be able to get one.
Rokenn