At 01:47 PM 9/21/00 -0600, you wrote:

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>I think the problem is that most of us have already re-evaluated our
>playlists and determined that in 95% off all balanced groups, the most
>effective thing you can do is be a mana/hp battery. The Cantana/Nivs/Mana
>song combo is so powerful, it's almost always the "best" thing you can do.
>Unfortunetly we are all too used to being effective in a variety of ways,
>not just one way. Even if you melee while singing the "battery" songs, you
>aren't scratching the mobs. Test it, fight a certain number of fights
>meleeing and not meleeing. You'll percieve absolutely no difference in
>outcomes. So You might as well just turn on your gamepad macro and go watch
>a movie.

well, the outcome in 99.9% of the fights is the same, i (and my group) win. for
a while last night our monk was linkdead. we continued fighting. the outcome was
the same every time (we won). does that mean that monk melee is meaningless?
and what about the 90% of the population who don't get to 55 and don't get cantana?

>Sure, we still shine in broken, unbalanced groups, but those very same
>groups can't really "get anything done" in kunark. At least not when you
>compare them to groups that are balanced.

totally untrue. i was in karnors last night and pulling skeletal berserkers and
curates and sentries of sathir and the ever present dogs. group was wiz, me,
warrior, warrior, warrior, monk. we did non stop pulls. got singles or doubles
every time (i was doing the pulling since it's more considerate to lament the
mobs on the way back than feigning them onto the other group fighting while
feign splitting).

>So, yeah. It's their world. They make the rules. This doesn't mean that
>people don't have the right to tell them that the rules they have made for
>the bard class squeeze the fun out of it at higher levels.

ok so tell THEM about it. posting it on this list does not get it to THEM.