>From: "John Robertson" <johnr@...>
>Reply-To: eqbards@onelist.com
>To: eqbards@onelist.com
>Subject: Re: [eqbards] Petition and general opinions
>Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 12:56:02 -0400
>
>From: "John Robertson" <johnr@...>
>
> >
>
>I know I'm just one of the "battle bards" getting all wound up here, but I
>really don't understand why people think we shouldn't have plate just
>because
>Alan A-Dale in Robin hood didn't :) There's a specific set of advantages
>and
>disadvantages we have, and clearly plate is meant to be one of the
>advantages.
>Bards don't get double attack, kick or archery, but we get dual wield and
>plate. Rangers don't get plate, but they get double attack, archery and
>kick. And so on and so on.
>
>Bards wearing plate is, I think, a good thing. I'm not sure if the mob AI
>is working as intended, or not. I know in P4, if I so much as hummed a
>ditty under my breath in Greater Faydark, I would have, what seemed like,
>every orc in the zone on my tail. It seems this as been toned down some.
>Or maybe, since they are all green to me now, they steer clear of me when I
>do make the occassional visit home.
From a different perspective, there was a discussion on the druid board not
long ago about druids wearing plate. At higher levels, if a druid heals a
party member, this results in the druid pulling at least one mob off the
tank (sometimes all, this has happened to my druid). Druids cannot wear
plate, their AC is a joke. They aren't tanks, but druids are supposed to be
able to melee some. Yet, their spells will draw the monsters onto them in
split second. Clerics wear plate just for this reason.
It very well may be this is why Verant decided to allow bards to wear plate.
Because they knew a bard's songs would instantly put him at the top of the
hate list. If the monster AI, is in fact, working as Verant intended it to,
fillet of bard is a then considered a mob delicacy, and we should have the
plate.
Of course, the great thing about EQ, is that we are all free to decide how
we want to roleplay our characters, and there is no rule that says anyone
has to wear plate if they don't want to.
-Treehugger and Songmaker
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