On Mon, 13 Dec 1999 firehawk@... wrote:

>
> decided it was too useful. The Guise on the other hand
> was an abused item. For as long as I have known about the
> mask it was Bard/Rogue only. Without getting into the
> right or wrong of that the guise's power was abused by a
> oversight by verant that did not require the item equiped
> to be used. Had that been implimented from the begining
> it would not have been a problem.

There is a precedent for this. The original warrior armor
from PoF was mislabeled so that a variety of classes
(including bards) could use it. Being warrior armor, the
stats were way better than anything available to those
classes. They fixed it so only warriors could equip it, there
was a huge outcry, they changed it back, and created some new
warrior armor.

Personally, if an item is no-drop (so trades are a non-issue)
and it's obvious the benefit is due to a bug (guise, warrior
PoF armor), then I say fix it and who cares about the
complaints from those who would exploit obvious bugs.
Apparently Verant felt differently. People say making a
previously useful item useless is bad, which it is. But now
we have a situation where everyone who got the item early has
a permanent and unmatchable advantage over everyone else. I
have to wonder if Verant inadvertantly chose the greater of
two evils here.

--
John H. Kim
kim@...