>When someone says Bards are overpowered, they're making a comparison
>of a well played Bard vs. a well played <whatever class>. That
>comparison _ignores_ that Bards are inherently more difficult to play
>well.
>When you're saying it's ludicrous, you're adding difficulty in
>playing the class into the equation of a Class' power. It's 2
>different comparisons, really.
That's definitely an elitist point of view. You might as well say that a
good bard player is inherently a better player than a good druid player can
ever be because a bard is so much harder to play. By your definition a gun
isn't more powerful than a sword, because a sword is harder to use
effectively. If it is easier to accomplish the same thing with two
different tools, but is easier with tool A than with tool B, then tool A is
by definition more powerful than Tool B.
>They're saying, "That's a big grape." and you're responding
>with, "That's silly, anyone can see that it's one of the smaller
>fruits."
>Darkfox
No, they're saying "that's a big grape." and I'm saying, "Yeah, too bad each
plant only produces 1." For an equal amount of effort, not skill
necessarily, bards get far less return than other classes.
Kitasi