> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ryan Honeyman [mailto:honeyman@...]
> Sent: Friday, January 07, 2000 9:51 AM
> To: eqbards@onelist.com
> Subject: Re: [eqbards] GZ Answers.
>
>
>
> I think this statement pretty much sums up everything that I've
> come up with:
>
> While the bard class itself is nicely balanced, it has and
> is lacking
> attention during times when Verant continually adjusts
> other classes'
> abilities. This will inevitably impact bards as their songs are
> derived from the essence of other classes' traits.
>
> I don't feel underpowered, (yeah I've got a broken song or two,
> not to mention the handful of missing songs) but I am severely
> overlooked in the grand scheme of things as a bard.

Gee, with everything I've read leately you'd think we all have a complex
about our class. I was in Mistmoore the other night when a Rogue asked to
join a group of people who were 8 levels below him. When they replied, "Gee,
don't you think you're a little high for this group?" he replied, "I'm a
Rogue, subtract 4 levels."

I think out of all the classes that really are screwed up, Rogues would get
my vote. I haven't had one in a group I've been in for a real long time now.
They do get backstab and recently got poison, but most of their skills are
not useful. They'd be more fun from a roleplaying perspective, but this
isn't really much of a roleplaying type of game. For better roleplaying,
you'd only be able to do quests once, and probably have to do them in a
certain sequence to play out the "story".

I'm pretty happy with the bard. Doesn't sound as much fun at the higher end
of the spectrum on the Dragon/Planes raids playing just the buffing songs as
at my level a bard really can fill in where ever he's needed. I guess I
should be in no hurry to leave the mid 20's to 30's, eh?

---Windleaf