This particular bug makes me think, though, that jhenders is correct.
Verant obviously modified their code to correct a "problem" that they saw
with Levitation. It took a whopping eighteen seconds for some Bard
playing Aria for him to realize that it was completely busted. They
could not possibly have tested this. I would be lined up against a wall
and shot if I did this on my job. This is not some subtle and intricate
consequence of some complicated piece of code buried in some hidden
module somewhere. They "fixed" levitation, they failed to test
levitation. For Bards, of course.

The initial Selo's/SOW "fix" is another example. I'm quite sure they
tested this for everyone who might be grouped with a Bard, but they did
not test it for the Bard himself. And why did it take six months for
them to fix the level 22 song? I can live with the thought that Bards
may not have an affirmative advocate inside Verant, but this suggests
that nobody at Verant even bothers to consider Bards when making changes,
which bothers me.

Kenross Cantoforjado, 34 songs, Innoruuk

Dave Gaines wrote:

>
> From: Dave Gaines <dave@...>
>
> The bard at Verant probably plays mana song all the time, even
> in combat :)
>
> Sorry about the complaint in the previous message, but it is
> getting annoying to me how many people from every class in this game
> think that verant hates them their class more than the rest of the
> classes. As the one post said, by what I read about
> EQ, Verant hates every class more than all the rest of the
> classes.
>
> David
> >
> > From: jhenders@...
> >
> > specific incident. It really looks like either they don't have someone
> > at Verant who "owns" bards, both from a programming and testing
> > standpoint, or if they do, it's someone who is incompetent or doesn't
> > care.
> >
> > --