Time is money. Time is experience. If I am bound 5 seconds away from my
current position, I can fight a lot more riskier and gain a lot more xp than
if I am bound 10 minutes away.
Our songs do not FORCE us to attract attention. Bellow all the way. Save
the healing song for downtime reduction. It can be done if your current
group is not adequate to protect you from harm.
When a warrior dies, he has no sow, he has no invisibility, he has no summon
corpse spell.
The bard has selo to speed up the travel, and has inivisibility that is
BETTER than any casters (for live stuff at least) for protecting yourself.
Bards aren't that bad off, at all. Bards are the best non-binder at getting
to the corpse and returning to a safe point.
> From: Mike.Langlois@...
>
>
>
> I don't think about adding Bind as a way to increase the Bard's power. It
isn't
> like adding better weapons or instruments, which allow better survival and
> easier soloing. It isn't like Gate which allows for convienient travel
and easy
> escapes.
>
> Bind does nothing for you, except help decrease the downtime you
experience
> returning to your body. Since our song structure forces us to taunt every
mob
> in combat radius, we get more than our share of damage. Since we have the
same
> defense as a Caster, we die much more than our Hybrid and Melee
counterparts. I
> believe this to be a balance issue to even things out a bit. We still die
more,
> and level slower due to exp loss, but our play time can get a little
closer to
> everyone elses.
>
> Don't add power to the class. Just let us play almost as much as everyone
else
> on the server, and spend a smaller percentage of our time running back to
our
> corpses. Everyone in Norrath pays the same amount of money to play,
shouldn't
> we get the same, or almost the same, amount of productive playing time as
> everyone else?
>
> Golias, Sol Ro
>
> >Stop suffering from class envy! We are bards, be proud of who
> >we are. If you feel that the bard is in some way weaker than
> >the other classes, lets come up with the unique, "only a bard.."
> >solution.
>
> >We don't bind. We don't gate. We don't disarm. We play songs.
>
> >How about instruments that double as weapons, etc. Drums that
> >when played look like different instruments. The bard is the class
> >that could most have a unique solution.
>
> >Play a bard because its different, not because it is just another
> >clone of every other class.
>
>
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