> From: "Kimes, Dean W." <Dean_Kimes@...>
> Subject: RE: Great post on item balancing (Long)
>
> My biggest laugh was at Brian's mention of Bard only items. That's a good
> one. Excepting the quest armor, there are what, two bard only items that
> you can get without taking on a dragon or going to the planes? A Shawl of
> the Wind Spirit and Mistmoore Battle Drums, that's it as far as I know. A
> piece of armor equal to cloth and a drum on a 35+ mob. To even mention bard
> only items was in my opinion a slap in the face. Considering one is useless
> after 3rd level and the other sells for 500pp+ that's a joke. What other
> class has so little equipment dedicated to it? There must be one but I
> don't know what it would be.

Clerics.

Clerics get impossible Quest armor plus level 46+ Plane armor. I don't think there is anything else out there that is Cleric only
(I could be wrong).

> My next point regards weapons. If they are trying to balance the items, why
> is it I am still using the same weapons at 21st level I used at 12th level?
> There really isn't anything much better than my dragoon dirk and screaming
> mace available for bards at my level.

Thats the price you have to pay for playing on an aged server. Dirks are everywhere due to a flooded market when Dvinn used to drop
it everytime. If you were on a new server, you wouldn't be seeing a Dirk or Screamer until the mid to high teens. Many of the
people that played at the start used those weapons well into their 30's.

Wayne