Well how many bards who play the game actually subscribe to this list or
read the Concert Hall board? Maybe 10% if even that? To this day I
continue to meet bards higher level than me who have no clue of all the
things they can do to improve their group. Hell I met a 45 bard the other
day in LGuk who didn't know pixie strike interrupted casters or debuffed MR.
He thought all it did was stun the mob for a few seconds. Its easy to play
a battle bard and sing mana song after combat. Unfortunately IMO thats how
most bards play their character so thats how a lot of other classes view us
in regards to our usefulness. The bards who know how to handle crowd
control, lament pull, and manage the mob's hate list are few and far
between. The people on the thread who put bards on their dream group list
have likely grouped with those type of bards before and know how valuable we
can be.
Galtin of E'ci
-----Original Message-----
From: Kimes, Dean W. [mailto:
dean_kimes@...]
Sent: Monday, June 26, 2000 12:07 PM
To: '
eqbards@egroups.com'
Subject: [eqbards] grouping thread on the Everquest boards
Has anyone else been sent this thread or looked at it?
http://boards.station.sony.com/everquest/Forum4/HTML/056356.html
I read the thread and was appalled to see that bards, supposedly the best
group class according to "The Vision" were seldom listed as being desirable.
This quote left me especially tanked off.
"A *good* Bard, i.e. one that puts away the stupid weapons and uses their
DoTs with instruments, managing mob agro properly, can add the the group.
But most Bards are clueless schmucks, so it isn't worth trying to educate
them as they flail away with their Yaks and no Double Attack."
Maybe tanked wasn't the right word to use there ;-)
I have been emailed this thread by 6 people now! A couple of them even
suggested it made sense and that since an enchanter was so much more vital
to a good group and basically rendered the bard obsolete, I should retire my
bard and work on getting one of my more viable classes leveled up. It was
suggested, though never directly stated, that an enchanter made having a
bard more or less a waste of time unless you really needed manasong.
Someone save me before I start screamin' again.
Kitasi Faegehearper
The Forcibly Retired Bard of E'ci ???
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