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Message ID: 23900
Date: Wed Feb 21 19:01:01 GMT 2001
Author: Cranfill, Wendy
Subject: RE: [eqbards] Patch Message
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeffrey Sue [mailto:jsue@...]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 12:03 PM
> To: eqbards@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: RE: [eqbards] Patch Message
>
>
> At 01:30 PM 2/21/01 -0500, you wrote:
> >I think that bards are probably over powered in the pre 50
> game and under
> >powered in the post 50 game.
> >
> >I see absolutely nothing in this patch that addresses EITHER of those
> >beliefs. Furthermore, assuming that my personal belief is
> incorrect, I see
> >nothing that does the opposite. Based on what I see in this
> patch, I have to
> >conclude that bards are perfect and all the other classes
> are being balanced
> >to match them, only I'm not seeing any reduction of power in
> the other
> >classes post 50, in fact, I'm seeing modest improvements for them.
>
> bards are not really underpowered in the post 50 game imo. they are
> only underpowered on large multigroup raids. why is this? because
> bards are best at being flexible and filling in the gaps of
> abilities not
> represented in the group. generally in most well organized
> large multigroup
> raids, all abilities ARE represented, leaving little for the
> bard to do.
> i would say that bards are overpowered in most single group scenarios
> (even post 50) and underpowered in most multi group raids which seems
> as a whole compared to other classes to be overpowered. paladins/sks/
> necros/druids/mages/rangers all are underpowered in the large
> raid type encounters.
> but they also aren't any more powerful in single group
> scenarios or unbalanced
> group scenarios either. necros and druids are slightly
> compensated in that they
> can solo well for most of their careers if they choose to.
> but the other hybrids
> seem to need some sort of enhancement.
>
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