On Thu, Feb 03/00, Ryan Honeyman <honeyman@...> wrote:

> From: Ryan Honeyman <honeyman@...>
>

> I loved using all my songs when I was little, they were extremely
> definitive of a bard. The only songs I play now are Clarity and
> Victory. Sure Psalm songs can give dmg shields, a whopping 9 dmg.
> It just doesn't stack up like it did in the L30s. What happened
> to Lament, what happened to Lullaby, hell what happened to Hymm.
> I outgrew all these songs. And I never use them anymore. If
> I try to Lament something and fail these days, it's like instant
> death. If I fire up Lullaby in the PoF, I cannot even count to
> 3 before I'm dead. Hymm is cool, but at L50 when you are healing
> tanks with 2k hp, it really sucks. Hymm didn't grow as fast as
> I did. It's much easier to Clarity a healer, than to even think
> about mixing Hymm. It's simply not worth the effort. I love my
> Charm song, I never get to use it however as I don't fight many
> things that are L37 or lower. Yet another song I outgrew.

Great rant, and I have to say it echos most of my feelings over the last
few months as well. Especially for the Bard, high levels just doesn't
have the pay off you'd expect. Most other classes become pretty well
god-like at high levels, even the generalist classes like the cleric and
druid get respectable damage spells at the end of thier career. Even
melee classes seem to come into their own. But the bard seems to just
become a narrow specialist, good for providing huge resists for dragon
hunts, and a few other limited things, but the payoff for all that work
and dying seems pretty weak.

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