i play my warrior and wizard at the same time. it's not that hard.
warrior makes a pull, wizard hits assist key, nuke, sit down, nuke
sit down, etc. i wouldn't want to do this with a secondary character
who was doing anything but assisting tho.
At 10:31 AM 2/14/01 -0500, you wrote:
>I was thinking the same thing, but I suppose situations exist where having
>a player with two characters can be advantageous. For instance, if you
>really, really want a particular class for a specific function (e.g. manna
>battery, evacer, puller) & the only character available is on a player's
>other PC, it might just be worth it to the group to have a bard who only
>sings the manna song, or a wizard who sits around waiting for things to get
>dicey, or a monk who pulls, feigns, and doesn't get up again until it's
>time to make another pull. </shrug> Any class played that way is a waste
>of the class, but still, maybe the group really, really, wants that
>specific need filled.
>
>Peace
>Evulia of Tunare
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> Christopher Sanders
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> erian.com> <eqbards@yahoogroups.com>
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> 02/14/01 09:49 AM Subject: RE: [eqbards] Answers to
> Please respond to Questions on Loot Rights
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>Hehe...the loot fairy is welcome to visit me while I'm away. :)
>
>My only question is, how can a person play more than one character at a
>time
>effectively? Yesterday in Dalnir, I was doing CC (heh...it's weird being
>high enough level to say this) for my group, and it was more than enough to
>keep me busy. There is no way I could have played, say, a warrior at the
>same time, at least not effectively, much less a class that takes more
>situational awareness, like a chanter or cleric (or a bard. :) ).
>
>I would be hesitant to be in a group where the same person was trying to be
>2 classes in the same group/raid. Especially in high risk, multiple mob
>dungeons, where not even Selos has a chance to save my hide.
>
>Sounds like things have worked out, though. That's always a good thing.
>:)
>
>Atonal
>Nearly 30 after a few days in Dalnir! Woo!
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Rebecca Small [mailto:rsmall@...]
>Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 9:07 AM
>To: 'eqbards@yahoogroups.com'
>Subject: [eqbards] Answers to Questions on Loot Rights
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>To answer some questions:
><snip>I'm a little confused by a couple things. Were all people in both
>groups in your guild? [Yes everyone in both groups is technically in our
>guild] And 2 of the people (including the tag-along
>Enchanter) were being played by your guild leader? [ The guild leader is
>the
>Queen and her husband the king were both playing 2 characters each. She was
>playing the second L44 enchanter and her shaman and the king was playing
>his
>warrior and a cleric] "Walk on the
>guild" means leaving the guild? [Yes I mean leave the guild. Our guild is
>based on the chivalric values and while this was hopefully only a momentary
>lapse of clear reasoning, I wanted them to see just how seriously we
>considered this issue.]
>
>As to rules, we have loot rules to this effect that the king wrote that
>primaries get first cut. We discussed this at the time with several
>guildmates and some were kinda divided over the rightness of it. I guess
>the
>mudding factor was the chanter was actually there. We're a fairly small
>guild nowadays and this is the first disagreement over loot we've had. I
>really think it wasn't greed as much as it was them having been too
>insular.
>The king has an odd work schedule (doctor) and so they have never been
>involved in Planes raids or high level dungeon raids with anyone else. We
>tend to hang with other guilds like Venator Sapentia as we have several
>dual
>guilded or ex'excal friends in VS and so we get out more you might say.
>
>As to multiples, we currently own 4 accounts: we've had friends quit with
>decent level characters and so we took over the account in one case and
>added the third just prior to that for bankspace mostly. We have a 3rd pc
>in
>our office in easy reach of either of us so we do play up to 3 lower level
>characters at once usually wizard, necro, and a healer. We play with our
>friends alternates who are similiar level and there's never any issue over
>loot. We have a third generation of characters started and nearing their
>20's now as well. It proves we're addicted of course but it's given us a
>chance to try out alot more character types; we've probably got one of
>everything at this point. I do think there are classes and places where
>playing 3 characters is not a good option. A couple of our friends have
>gotten second accounts from friends or family members as well so now we
>have
>an address book of account names and passwords so we can move people and
>items at will. Imagine the surprise of our 40s ranger friend when he logs
>back on Saturday to find he's wielding Yaks.
>
>Thanks for your comments everyone, I wanted a reality check from some 3rd
>parties and I appreciate the input.
>
>Halana: we've had the flu, and a 24 hr stomach bug both recently. Got to
>love the daycare syndrome, we get every bug known to man. Fortunately my
>daughter rarely gets sick herself.
>
>Happy Valentine's Day!
>
>Brilinnia Ban'Sidhe (creeping up oh so slowly on 55)
>Excalibur, Xegony
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