The change was made for a very specific reason, and in some ways I support
it.
Primarily it was this:
Caster A who is low on mana would bind himself.
Caster A, not wanting to wait the 5 min to med to full (or whatever it is)
would duel Friend B.
Caster A would lose, loot corpse, mem spells and Voila, full mana.
It was an exploit to reduce down time, since dying in PvP incurrs no exp
loss.
Draelon
-----Original Message-----
From: Sylly Songsynger [mailto:
jgs@...]
Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2000 5:12 PM
To:
eqbards@onelist.com
Subject: Re: [eqbards] Today's patch
From: "Sylly Songsynger" <
jgs@...>
Uhm, this is actually affects more that just duels. But then I guess they
must view "dueling down" for naked run ins or making storage corpses or
whatever as something they dont want happening. O rthey just dont know how
people play the game. And again, they are either fixing stuff that's not
really broken when there is so much broken stuff un-fixed or they are
addressing some PvP server issue by slamming their "fix" on everyone. If a
significant number of people played PvP, it would be more justifiable but
with so few in PvP - why do they wreck things for everyone else? And this
pretty much truly wrecks "fun" dueling in the main arena zone. Not just for
bards but for all mana classes. WTF - through on full res affects too. Sap
all your str/agi/dex too - you deserve it for dieing!
Every week, their "vision" of how Norrath "should be" and the way that the
vast majority of their paying customers have enjoyed playing it for the past
nearly 12 monthes - grows further and further apart. They are losing people
in dribs and drabs now - just wait until the "bulk" of the population has
gotten all the good loots and peaked out at 50. And alot is gonna happen in
the next 60 days - before we see any expansion packs. A few new zones with
more lizards somehow does not seem like its gonna be a solid answer to some
very real problems.
Sylly
----- Original Message -----
From: Talies the Wanderer <snicker@...>
To: <eqbards@onelist.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2000 3:52 PM
Subject: [eqbards] Today's patch
> From: Talies the Wanderer <snicker@...>
>
> Was apparently mostly server side, and didn't affect anything
> player-related except for PvP (and duel)-related deaths. Now players
> respawn with 0 mana if they were killed by another player.
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