At 03:57 PM 10/11/00 -0700, you wrote:

>On Wed, Oct 11/00, John Tatsukawa <john@...> wrote:
> >
> > Have you noticed whether other 50+ people in your guild(s) also drop off?
> > Hearing whether it was out of Verant's responses that they decided to
> > switch classes would help back up your argument, as it seems to me that at
> > higher levels EQ is different from your standard gameplay.
>
>We've lost other 50+ players, as 50+ is mindnumbingly tedious at times,
>but in their case, they've quit, not taken over other characters and
>continued playing. Where do you think the characters the 3 bards I
>mentioned play now came from? :)

Ugh, maybe it's my cold, or maybe just really tired at work, but "Where do
you think the 3 bards you mentioned play now came from?" isn't registering.
You're saying the 3 other bards took over and played the abandoned 50+
level players. Ah. Ok, that made sense.

Of course, aren't these types of players typically worse than the one that
brought them up from level 1? I mean you get the "ebay" twinks that have no
idea what they're doing and get everyone killed. Then again, at least in a
a guild they'd have more support from a group overall.

>In effect, 3 of the bards I mentioned haven't said they're tired of the
>game, they've said they're tired of playing bards. I can't think of any
>50+ member of my guild that's left to play another character. Oops, just
>remembered one paladin that left to start a cleric on another Torv. If
>he'd stuck around he probably could have taken over a cleric account
>from one of those that left.

Could it be that level 50+ bards are no fun to play given the environment
that they are in? If so, maybe the level 49 song could be an improved
version of AOE mez. I know, a pipe dream. :-)