-----Original Message-----
From: Garramone, Michael (CCI-Las Vegas)
[mailto:garramone@...]
Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 1:42 PM
To: eqbards@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [eqbards] Be very afraid....

>If you are the only bard on a (guessing) 30+ person raid, how is it so
>vital when there are 4+ groups with no bard and thus no bard resists?
>Is your group the last one standing and victorius?

Yes - that's happened before (with AOE's). But that's pretty moot anyway -
hopefully with proper aggro management - the group I'm in (with main tank)
is the only one taking damage.

> Yes I am talking
>end-game raids here.

I guess you need to make it very clear that is your point; I was under the
impression you were including the 51-59 level range (or perhaps more
specifically 51-56 or so)

If you are at the end-game and doing 30-60 person

>raids and are level 60 or close to it, yes amassing that resist
>equipment (and/or plat to buy it) is part of the deal. Are you spending
>all this time to camp seb or to go on raids?

about 75-80 percent of my time the past month has been 3-5 group raids. But
again I'm not talking about people at the end-game...

> All the time you refer to
>involves getting those new items and plat and of course experience to go
>on raids. And I hope you have a jeweler friend in guild (I hope so with
>110 people) or out that can help make the jewelery.

Only one or two high enough to craft the high end unfortunately

>I just talked to a
>jeweler friend I haven't seen in 4 months and he was more than happy and
>willing to make me jewelery again.

I think we all agree - that trying to "balance" a game across the needs of a
250K playerbase is difficult.

There's an inherent difficulty in balancing the needs of the hard-core
players at level 60 etc who play an ENORMOUS amount; vs the more "casual"
players like myself.

You can argue that there is plenty of content already for the more casual
players - and the limited number of things at the "end-game" requires more
content; but again - the casual players seem to always (on Xegony at least)
be competing with the "power" gamers farming items in the zones we are
trying to get "content" out of...

Slyde

-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Sniderman [mailto:fuzzbone@...]
Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 11:29 AM
To: eqbards@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [eqbards] Be very afraid....

Amassing 2500p excess is no incognizant task time wise. Then; finding a
Jeweler who can craft the gear, and getting all those items you refer to
take a significant amount of time.

Getting to 60 takes a significant amount of time. My guild has about
110
people (probably quite a few of those have quit the game not sure
exactly)
Exactly three of those people are level 60.

Again - you are arguing about game balance only from your perspective.
Maybe you are strictly speaking of specific types of raids (Waking the
sleeper?) - but I'm talking about Planes, Siren's Grotto; Western
Wastes,
Dragon Necropolis - and hopefully ToV soon. My guild does those
regularly
and we wish we had more than one bard (me) above 50...

The bardic resist is VITAL to these raids for guilds like mine own.

Slyde

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