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Message ID: 25450
Date: Thu Sep 13 14:54:33 BST 2001
Author: Cranfill, Wendy
Subject: RE: [eqbards] Drums of the Beast - walking?


Hehehe you sound a little bitter there! NOt that I blame you :)
On the positive side, the shaman epic now has a 1200 point HEAL!
Man oh man, I almost wish I still needed exp!

Halana/Tani
Solusek Ro

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Essam Khairullah [mailto:olgwinn@...]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 4:43 PM
> To: eqbards@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [eqbards] Drums of the Beast - walking?
>
>
> OK, I just tried out Selo's on the Drums of the Beast. While
> weilding these
> drums and playing either version of Selo's doesn't work.
> Even walking
> doesn't help. You run standard run speed and walk standard
> walk speed, as
> though you weren't playing Selo's at all. In fact, weilding
> a sword and
> singing Selo's gives you SOME improvement in speed, but as
> far as I can
> tell, Drums of the Beast and Selo's are 100% incompatible. I
> even made
> mention of that fact in an email to the Developers Corner on
> the official EQ
> message board earlier this week, but of course it could have
> been routed to
> /dev/null for all the difference it made. It hasn't even
> been posted, much
> less responded to. And it was quite a professional non-rant... hehe
>
> So I am led to one conclusion. I read an email somewhere, I
> don't even
> remember where, may even have been here, that the new
> high-level weapons,
> armor, misc. drops lately have all been items that are really
> incredibly
> good, except for one stat that ruins it. So each item has a
> drawback that
> makes you really have to think whether you will use it or
> not. In effect,
> allowing them to create lots of new items for us to drool
> over without
> actually making them overpowering. I'm sure it's a bug with
> the runspeed
> rolling over, but I'm sure that Verant will consider the
> incompatability of
> these drums and Selo's to be a "feature" as part of the
> "Vision(tm)". I'm
> sure it won't bother them one bit that this particular "feature" only
> affects a handful of players and they'll save money by not
> having to fix,
> err, "enhance" it.
>
> So that's my 2cp worth. It would be nice if it worked, but
> it's such an
> awesome drum otherwise, I'm not really going to complain.
>
> Olgwinn Pendragun
> Crimson Legacy
> Bard of 54, E'ci
>
>
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