Ya know, I get real tired of everyone dissing our songs. 90% of them are
very well thought out (some are still broken though - chant - no percussion
addition from drums) and I have yet to get a song that I haven't had a use
for... I've been playing bards since Beta 2, I love being a bard and I love
our songs. Sure they get a litle "out there" at the higher levels but they
all have uses. The only songs I think were poorly thought out were the
"Psalm" series. I'd gladly give up their MR/DR/PRetc portions for stronger
dmg shields but even so they are _still_ useful.
I LIKE that Chains does both the slowdown and the snare.
If you DONT want to use chains then use binding. But for solo'ing (Yes,
some of us actually do) it's awesome to have a snare song that ALSO slows
down their attack speed. 1 song less to mem and 1 fewer songs I have to
keep in my medley.
I get so tired of everyone wanting songs that only do one thing. Chains is
very useful and powerful when used properly. I have never had a problem
getting it to stick on blue, yellow and lower red mobs. You will _never_
get it to stick on something 4 or more levels higher than you (ok you might,
but it's rare). But ya know what? SNARE won't stick on mobs 4 or more
levels above you either.
Lyrnia
"Why is the grass greener over there daddy?"
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kimes, Dean W." <dean_kimes@...>
To: <eqbards@onelist.com>
Sent: Monday, March 20, 2000 5:33 PM
Subject: RE: [eqbards] Chains Reliability
> From: "Kimes, Dean W." <dean_kimes@...>
>
> I'd have been happy if it just snared, I already have Largo's to reduce
> attack speed if I need to.
>
> Kit
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jhenders@... [mailto:jhenders@...]
> Sent: Monday, March 20, 2000 3:26 PM
> To: eqbards@onelist.com
> Subject: Re: [eqbards] Chains Reliability
>
>
> From: jhenders@...
>
> On Mon, Mar 20/00, "Kimes, Dean W." <dean_kimes@...> wrote:
> > From: "Kimes, Dean W." <dean_kimes@...>
> >
> > So basically Chains is like bards in general? An afterthought that's
nice
> > to have when the real spells fail.
>
> I get a strong idea that GZ's well ran dry on song ideas somewhere just
> after L20. Chains could have been a great song if it was _only_ a
> targetted mob combat speed reducer. That way it wouldn't conflict with
> snare and cause these headaches. Then he could have added another snare
> song as a seperate song, for those occasions when you don't have a druid
> or ranger. But no, GZ seems real big on these multiple action songs that
> get resisted more and also conflict more with other class's spells.
>
> Same with the magic resist debuffs. A straight debuff would have been
> fine, but he had to add the dot which uses the same resist, so the songs
> become effectively useless. Having magic, fire, and cold debuff songs
> that tested on poison like tashan wouldn't have been that unbalancing or
> intruding on the classes that get debuffs, considering how little they
> debuff and the level the bard gets them at, but instead we got 3 songs
> that no one ever uses.
>
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