At 02:04 PM 2/21/01 -0500, you wrote:

>You should read Thott's article on power curves. (www.afterlifeguild.org) It
>demonstrates that post 50, all classes increase in power exponentially
>except for bards. The reason that all other classes scale that way is
>because of the way the mobs increase in power post 50. Bards however
>progress in power linearly. An argument can be made that we give some power
>for our wealth of abilities, but if you look at the very highest levels, we
>lose all of those additional abilities. Fear caps at 51, Charm caps at 53
>and Mez caps at 55. That means that a level 60 bard fighting level 55+ mobs
>is a liability to the party instead of an asset. We can no longer crowd
>control, our haste and slow is vastly inferior to enchanters and shamen, our
>melee is pathetic (to say the least). Our only role at that point is mana
>battery.

the problem that people don't realize is that the bard pretty much increases the
effectivity of other people in his/her party. if our increases also went exponentially
and they affected the other class's exponential curves exponentially, you don't see
this as being a problem?

>Bards used to be useful in large raids for their ability to provide resists,
>but given the influx of uber gear it is not difficult to obtain unbuffed
>resists in the 150s in multiple areas. Add to that the soft cap on resists
>and the fact that even with maxed resists many, many spells land anyway and
>bards have little to no use in a raid. We can't provide our primary ability
>(resists) and we don't do damage, so why bring us along?

which is why i was advocating making resists scale to 255 instead of 175. any other
change would severely overbalance us in all other aspects of the game.

>Draelon Stormsong