I agree on the points you brought up Mike, but the graphics won't get
chenged until they do an art patch, probably in the expansion. Barbarian
shield graphics have the same problem and fixing it would require patching a
huge file and making everyone patch in for about 45 minutes on a 56K line,
longer if slower. I believe the graphics will get fixed, just don't think
it can happen before the expansion.
Of much greater concern is the SoW change. Last nite on E'ci druids, angry
at losing their ridiculous ability to kite creatures that would slaughter
someone 10 levels above them of any other class, were SoW'ing every bard
coming out of Freeport. I got hit and then 30 minutes later got hit again
by another druid in W commons. He even went so far as to laugh and say
'Outrun me now nerf-boy!' Talk about childish.
Another thing, although not specifically bard related except in that bards
probably do more quests than anyone else simply because they can, is the
constant changing of items to no drop 'willy nilly'. I went to the bank
last nite and literally could not remove 7 of my 8 containers from the bank
because if I did I would not be able to put them back. I would have to
carry around over 1 backpack of stuff if I did. Why does Verant think the
solution to everything is to make an item no drop. Bizzarely the Bozemite
Pestle, which to my knowledge no one has figured out the use for is now No
Drop. Honey Jum on the other hand, while it now requires considerable
faction and 30gp instead of 5gp to obtain, is not. Go figure. Why should I
have to carry this stupid emerald shard halfway across Norrath to get the
other piece, when it would be so much more sensible to put it in the bank
while searching for the other piece. Sigh, thank goodness it doesn't weigh
10 lbs.
Kitasi the questly nerfed
-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Roach [mailto:
mroach@...]
Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 1999 12:06 PM
To: '
eqbards@onelist.com'
Subject: RE: [eqbards] alt.games.everquest
From: Mike Roach <
mroach@...>
I have just posted the following Usenet message on the alt.games.everquest
board that Brad says he browses, please agree or disagree, back me up, and
hopefully I was not out of line in speaking for all of us:
Myself and others who have regular discussions on the ONELIST bard's forum
are concerned about the recent changes to SoW that is affecting our Selo's
Accelerando. It seems that once SoW is cast on us we are stuck with it and
it overrides our Selo's, you can see how this can be a bad thing. Please
try to work something out with this, my suggestion is that you allow the
ability for a player to cancel SoW if they choose just like you have done
with the Levitate spell.
We are also perplexed at the minotaur horn graphic turning into a burlap
sack on our character's Avatar, is this intentional? We have come to accept
that our drum looks like a flute and we blow on our brass horns backwards
and hope that this will one day be addressed, but maybe insted of a burlap
sack, you could change the graphic for the mino horn to look like the
graphic for the brass horn.
I realize that the bards in EQ comprise a very small percentage of the
overall population but it is that fact along with the fact that we are not
inclined toward overt rants and flames against Verant or any particular
person at Verant that causes us to often feel as though we are being
overlooked. I believe I understant that the Bard class was the last class
to be developed before final release and as a result there were a lot of
issues (such as the ones regarding how our instruments look and behave on
our Avatars) that were left unfinished. Granted, issues like this do not
affect gameplay, they do make us feel like the stepchild class.
I implore you to try to dedicate some of what I realize is already burdened
development resources to addressing a number of these issues and providing
us with at least a small amount of information on if and when you intend to
address the ones leftover from beta (like my flute drum and hari-kari brass
horn).
Thanks,
Faras Tar'Linedhel
Half-Elf Bard of the 26th song
Crimson Legacy
E'ci Server
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