Actually call me crazy but juggling songs is one of the main reasons I enjoy
playing a bard.
Every other class I've played, I get exceptionally bored during a fight. As
you're either waiting to cast, or waiting for kick/etc to recycle just to
hit it again.
Whereas with a bard, I'm constantly doing something, not to mention making
fast decisions like switch out weapons to instruments, or should I cycle in
a different song because of some change in the combat. Even after combat,
I'm still juggling hymn & clarity to minimize down time. I'd much rather be
doing that than staring at a spell book.
-----Original Message-----
From: Ilkka Salmenkaita <
isalmen@...>
To:
eqbards@onelist.com <
eqbards@onelist.com>
Date: Monday, August 02, 1999 3:49 PM
Subject: [eqbards] Button Quest or "Death to Twisting" or How to make Bards
more Fun or Please improve the interface!
>From: "Ilkka Salmenkaita" <isalmen@...>
>
>> I know the interface will not support this right now. The interface
treats
>> bards like casters, but that does not mean they can't alter the interface
to
>> accomodate this request. Add a Harmony Ability (See Definitions below,
esp
>> #4a, courtesy of Meriam Webster's Online Dictionary). This "Harmony"
>> Ability could take the form of a button on the Abilities menu. The Bard
>> pushes the "Harmony" button and then depresses multiple songs in the
order
>> the Bard wants to play them. The Server then starts each song and
>> immediately shifts to the next song until the list is completed and then
>> returns to the top of the queue. To stop the auto-playing of songs, hit
the
>> "Harmony" button and resume manual control. Simple enough? The idea is
not
>> without precedent. [The auto-attack feature of the game is a similar
form
>> of redundancy elimination (which could also be enhanced, similarly to
what
>> is suggested here, to include special attacks like kick or bash or the
>> myriad Monk abilities).] There will be some resistance, perhaps even
>> philosophical rejection, to any form of scripting, but keep in mind that
>> this change would be completely voluntary for the user.
>
> Actually, though probably not something easily coded into the game,
>this is a great idea to reduce the twitch-a-mania bards face. Heck,
>nowadays when I am away from computer, I can see in my MIND the
>damn hotbuttons (2 and 3, I always keep selo and hymn there) and
>whenever I see people moving around or myself am walking, I am
>mentally pressing the 2-key. I can see it depress, and soon flashy
>balls around and thinking of moving faster =P I would not say I am
>addicted, I would say the damn keypressing has burned into my head!
>Though my gf probably has other notions about me not being addicted...
>Now to think of it.. just yesterday left her place at 11pm to go home and
>play instead of staying over (to you-know-what), so OK I am addicted.
>A bit.. not much.. just a bit =P
>
> - Ilkka Salmenkaita, isalmen@...
>
>
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