You ARE level 33, despite all these problems. Brad and them
have basically laid down the law on binding -- they aren't changing it.
If you want bind so bad, you have done the exact right thing
by creating a character that can do it.
It is strange, not having bind. But it is part of the class, and
I can live with it.
>-----Original Message-----
>From: John_Senior@... [mailto:John_Senior@...]
>Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2000 3:53 AM
>To: eqbards@onelist.com
>Subject: Re: [eqbards] Brad On Binding (OT)
>
>
>From: John_Senior@...
>
>I myself find it hard to play in a regular group, my playing times vary
>from week to week, usually depending on when my girlfriend is at work =)
>I work 9-5 and unless she is working when I am at home I cannot play (she
>hates EQ). Therefore I am joining pickup groups and dieing more than I
>probably would if I had a regular group.
>
>I find it annoying that we don't get bind affinity, mainly because we are
>the weakest of all melee classes, however we are one of the bes classes at
>agro'ing mobs onto us, I think Verant should consider either giving bards
>bind affinity OR, give us a song that allows us to Feing Death, monks are
>very similar to bards, being weak (lack of AC & hp's), and they deal a hell
>of a lotta dmg, so they tend to take alot of dmg, however they can just
>feign death and they are fine, I rarely see a monk has been killed.
>
>Verant say that having melee'ers bound outside a dungeon is unfair because
>they can just get killed and zone back in and join in on the fight again,
>this is not the case with bards, we have to mem songs (as we all know this
>takes a good 5 minutes). And how are we gonna be any good unless we pick up
>ALL of our equipment.
>
>I find it an insult that when fighting in Cazic, Guk or the Sol's I have to
>run all the way from Freeport or Arena just to get back to my corpse,
>aswell as mem my songs and loose an hours worth of hard earned exp. To be
>honest it is starting to **** me off and as I die about 5 times (at least)
>every level this is wasting my valuable playing time, hence the reason I
>have now started up a cleric, it's great, I get bind, gate etc and if I do
>die, I'll only have to spend 20 seconds memming my spells. + at later
>levels I'll be able to res myself =)
>
>I enjoy playing my bard and have got to level 33 through alot of hard work,
>I have great equipment for my level and am VERY keen to get to level 40+
>but I jus can't see it happening, I don't know how you level 40+ bards on
>this list do it. I spoke to a level 50 bard on my server (Tegamen, I
>think), he was wearing some imbrued and had some great equipment. So I
>asked him if he had any tips on how to level fast, he replied "Don't die" I
>said that I find it very hard not to die, he replied "Trust me, Bards got
>the bad deal"
>
>Guess thats sums it all up then, I am still determined to reach level 50,
>it'll just take me a few years =)
>
>Madagan Songweaver, Bard of 33 Songs <Lords of Chaos>
>Meklon, Level 7 Cleric of Innurok <Lords of chaos>
>Veeshan Server
>
>>>"Reece, Tom - 25IDL G4" <g4mntofcr@...>
>>>
>>>I agree. I usually find myself joining pickup groups. What I have found
>is
>>>that in pickup groups, players tend to look out for themselves before
>>>considering the welfare of the party. To add salt to the wound, the
>problem is
>>>magnified because of the time I usually log on. I live in Hawaii so when
>I play
>>>its usually after midnight on the mainland on weeknights. When a pull
>turns bad
>>>and someone dies, especially if it is a melee class bound in a zone far
>away,
>>>the party usually either breaks up because its so late at night or the
>casters
>>>leave the group because it will take the melee class too long to get back
>to the
>>>zone they died in.
>>>
>>>I think its safe to say that Verant doesn't take situations like this
>into
>>>consideration when they have the mythical class balance tuning sessions.
>I
>>>think they just assume everyone has a regular group/guild that they play
>with
>>>all the time and as a result they are focused on group welfare vs
>personal
>>>welfare.
>>>
>>>Galtin of E'ci
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