So whats the solution to all this common nonsense? Make it so when you
recast levitate, you don't raise in height. There, not too hard...now, if
only verant cared...
----- Original Message -----
From: Dave Gaines <dave@...>
To: <eqbards@onelist.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 02, 1999 1:22 PM
Subject: Re: [eqbards] Broken Song
> From: Dave Gaines <dave@...>
>
> Playing my wizard, soloing spectres, sand giants in oasis waiting for
> my friends to log on. I use levitate to help move across the terrain.
> Floating above the water, killing spectres my levitate begins to fade.
> I recast, and get the "You are already floating" message. Now I have
> a couple options, run up to the spectre island to recast, which has
> the chance of drawing more spectres to me, or run back across the
> water to recast. Standing over a lava pit when levitate starts to fade?
> Running across the ocean of tears and levitate fades? Swim to an
> island. The problem with the bard will be fixed, other
> classes have been nerfed.
>
> My levitate lasts just over 15 minutes, so when my leader is pulling
> cyclops for us, I like to keep levitate up on him so he can pull
> better. Now levitate has to be out before I can recast, or I have
> to tell him to drop it, then wait for him to respond, then recast.
>
> They have definitely found a very rude way to fix a very small problem.
>
> I have heard that the same problem exists with enduring breath also,
> which I haven't been able to verify. Can you imagine having this
> go out in Kedge? You would have to recast aftr it fades while you are
> running out of breath, how fun.
>
> > From: Ryan Honeyman <honeyman@...>
> >
> > > Yes it is broken for all classes, but... The other classes still have
a
> > > usuable spell, while our song is completely worthless till they fix
it.
> >
> > I don't understand why you all think it's broken for casters?
> > They cannot cast levitate on themselves while they are already
> > levitating - so what? They never did that before, that I can
> > tell. You lose lev, remem lev, and recast lev. The only person
> > I saw jamming on levitate like 50 times was a GM to make him rise
> > high above anyone. And it's my belief why they attempted to
> > correct levitate due to the people who would levitate themselves
> > over and over to heights where they could easily overcome obstacles.
> > (The ledge in Permafrost to Lady Vox comes to mind)
> >
> > Harmonic.
> >
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