On Wed, Oct 11/00, John Tatsukawa <john@...> wrote:

> 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.
>

[Thought this question might lead to some good discussion]

I think there's a heck of a lot of difference between an e-bay twink and
a character who's played to 50+ switching to another character. And
especially a bard, who's probably in the best position to watch how
other's play their characters. Assuming some intelligence in the
person involved, I'd say the 2 harders characters to pick up would be
the cleric and the enchanter myself. I've run across L50+ enchanters I
know played those entire 50+ levels themselves who still aren't very
good. At the same time, I've played in guild groups with one of our
enchanter characters played by a cleric who was excellent.

To introduce another possible discussion point, the most noticable thing
I've noticed about enchanters I don't consider very good is that they
seem to stun less. The enchanters in my guild always seem to stun first,
sometimes twice, before going to mez. This seems to allow them to keep
way more mobs mezzed than other enchanters I've played with. Anyone else
notice this? I have a rl friend on another server who has a 50+
enchanter who said she doesn't use stun much because she's paranoid of
the through walls and ceiling problems with AoE spells in dungeons. The
only time I've seen this be a problem for our guild enchanters was on
the first isle of Sky where the AoE stun brought the quest mobs up from
inside the island (twice, we still don't let him forget that one). It
sure served to show how ingrained the stun first, mez later habit was
with him though.

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