How bout just giving us an instrument slot. Not one where you could USE a
weapon and instrument at the same time, just some so that we didn't have to
physically equip and unequip constantly - just trade off in some type of
button arrangement - like archers do between their bow and other weapons.
At 11:31 AM 8/4/99 -0600, you wrote:
>From: "Kimes, Dean W." <Dean_Kimes@...>
>
>easy to fix, make it so you can't equip a bow and an instrument, logical
>anyhow
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Keith G. Spencer [mailto:kgs@...]
>Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 1999 11:23 AM
>To: eqbards@onelist.com
>Subject: Re: [eqbards] Bard Petition
>
>
>
>4. My biggest dissapointment at becoming a bard in the beginning, went to
>buy a bow only to find we cannot use them. I could care less that they are
>somewhat inefficient, I just wanted to be able to use one. It fits into
>almost every concept of a bard in fantasy literature and games, but not in
>EQ? Can't figure out why since it clearly is not unbalancing.
>
>Actually it can be very unbalancing. You could stand outside of combat,
>play songs with an instrument and still be able to fire arrows into combat.
>Last I heard people were capable of doing 20+ dmg per arrow. The trade off
>we make for having more effective songs when played is that we're out of
>combat and generally not doing direct damage (except of course
>bellow/discord/etc). If we could use bows then there'd be no decision to
>make as to sing or play songs.
>
>Funny thing is 7 is all I canthink of right offhand. I still think bards
>are a great class, most of my gripes are little things. I still hold to my
>feeling that I will never play another non-binding class however.
>
>I'd have to concur, which is why I tend to laugh a bit when I see a bard
>petition being proposed. There are much larger issues in the game, but
>still it's nice to have a concise list of what we see as problem areas.
>
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