Check out Mistmoore, Najena, SoldungB for medium bronze. Sadly, though,
other than Drelzna in Najena (who drops bronze VERY rarely), you can afford
real plate or quest for rubicite by the time you can expect to get medium
bronze in Mistmoore or Nagafen's.
And, the advantage bronze has over banded is minimal, especially when you
consider the weight difference between medium banded and medium bronze.
There's only a few pieces of med. bronze I'd consider wearing over banded,
boots and gloves, and one of them, the gloves, you can't get in banded.
And Unrest is such a FUBAR zone, it promotes small race twinking, as the
amount of small bronze you can pull out of there in an evening, especially
if you're a low STR finger waggler and can't use it anyway, means you're
quickly weighed down, and end up just giving the stuff away, or selling dirt
cheap.
Not to mention the fact that Bertox had such an imbalanced group of Unrest
hunters..two druids and a cleric early on, with no tanks in the party that
could use the bronze, that led to a lot of it being dumped on the market to
much lower level players.
Then by the time THOSE players could farm for bronze, they already had it,
and the trickle down continued.
One other factor..every race/class combo that can wear small bronze pays a
higher exp penalty than humans or half elves..this tends to balance it out
somewhat, even if it isn't itentional.
----- Original Message -----
From: Mott, Mike J. <MIKE.J.MOTT@...>
To: <eqbards@onelist.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 1999 10:38 AM
Subject: [eqbards] Imbalance between Bards that can only wear medium sizes
and bards that can wear small and medium sizes
>From: "Mott, Mike J." <MIKE.J.MOTT@...>
>
>First off let me say I am sorry about the post yesterday when I forgot to
>remove all of the rest of the digest in my reply - I wont let that happen
>again!
>
>I am a lvl 22 bard on Bertox and I have begun to notice a severe imbalance
>between myself and my wood-elf brethren. Medium sized bronze armor is
>almost impossible to come by (i myself have NEVER seen any for sale) and
>small bronze plate armor is relatively easy to get. Other bards who are
>able to wear the small bronze plate are much more viable at my level than
I,
>simply because they have the ability to absorb more damage than I do with
my
>banded mail.
>
>Does anyone have a suggestion for this dilemma? I am currently searching
>for spots where I can maximize my money making potential so i can pick up
>some select peices of plate mail, or other lighter magical armors that
might
>be for sale.
>
>Dont get me wrong - I am not whining! I just would like to find something
>to up my armor class which has not changed much since 14th level, when you
>take out the Defense skill increases that you get with each level.
>
>Lago Bardoon, the relatively easy to hit 22nd Rank Bard of Bertox
>
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