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Message ID: 23005
Date: Thu Jan 11 21:02:52 GMT 2001
Author: Christopher Sanders
Subject: RE: [eqbards] Proposal to change how bard haste songs stack with enchanter/sham an haste spells
>I would agree if it were not for one thing. Difficulty of actual play.how difficult is it to program a gamepad with a 4 song twist and set it to
>There is no other class which even remotely approaches the actual physical
>difficulty of play which the bard class presents. I don't think bards are
>adequately recompensed for that aspect of the playability factor; in fact I
>don't think it even enters into the equation in Verant's mind because
>despite their claims to the contrary it is quite evident that no one there
>plays a bard regularly.
>I think that if all the classes were properly balanced we would see a moreacross
>balanced representation of the classes in the overall population. That is
>not the case. Certain classes so far outnumber others that it is readily
>apparent there must be a reason for it. Certain other classes, including
>bards, are so vastly underrepresented that there also must be a reason for
>that. Personal preference would obviously create some variation, but
>a population as large as this one that variation would not be at the levelsyou should probably try at peak times with the flag ''count'', i.e. /who all
>we see now. Below is just a sample from E'ci that I took in the off-peak
>hours when I could get some actual numbers. Note that 'Anonymous' will
>lower the numbers shown for some classes, but typically should be fairly
>equal for all classes except those with high "request" factors like druids,
>shamans, enchanters, and clerics.
>Note these numbers are the averages over 4 nites at around 3am mst.Please send submissions for the eqbards newsletter to lol@...
>
> Warriors 32+ too many to list
> Rogues 9.5
> Monks 5.5
> Rangers 30
> Paladins 27
> Shadowknights 17.5
> Bards 5
> Wizards 19.25
> Magicians 29.75
> Necromancers 32+ too many to list
> Enchanters 25+ One night there were too many to
>list
> Clerics 31+ Two nights there were too many to list
> Druids 32+ too many to list
> Shamans 23.75
>
> With over 600 people on the server this means that either half the
>server was Anonymous or Roleplaying (Highly unlikely) or those classes
>which were too many to list were actually much, much higher than 32 in
>number.
>
>
> Kitasi