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Message ID: 13188
Date: Tue Jan 18 10:31:47 GMT 2000
Author: silky@toybox.webtoys.net
Subject: Re: Are we Hybrids?


Hmmm, my character on the new server is a wizard - never had a wizard
before. And *I* haven't died in 2 weeks.

The poor bard in our group on the other hand suffers pretty much as I did
on Veeshan.




>Regardless of whether bards are or are not hybrids, I think Verant's
>publicly expressed logic for why some classes get bind is easy to apply to
>bards. They claim that "casters" get bind because they die more often. I
>contend that bards die as often as any single casting class. Regardless of
>arguments about travel time (e.g. bards don't need binding because they run
>so fast - which would also eliminate druids from needing bind, as they can
>SoW, SoC, and port about), the reason why some classes have bind is claimed
>to be due solely to the frequency of deaths of said class.