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Message ID: 6689
Date: Fri Sep 17 17:52:10 BST 1999
Author: CYR, Thierry
Subject: RE: Bard only equipment, a rant


As example of how great accel is compared to sow, last night i was
47 pounds over and i was still running faster then my druid friend that was
in wolf form. They need to make sow removable by clicking on it

Minkin
Sol Ro

> What other class has had their spell deliberatly placed as lesser value?
> Our cancelling SOW was a fluke.. SoW overpowering Accel was not an
> accident. And WHY would you prefer SOW to Accel? Obviously outdoors you
> would not since Accel is far faster especially as the bard playing grows.
> In our desire to not fall into the morrass of me too and I wanna be
> superman flame wars with Verant many of us (bards) have adopted the well
> we're fine we're balanced banner. It's simply no longer true in my
> opinion. To discuss being worried about being a superclass is rather
> silly and after the point so few players over all choose or understand the
> bard that the other classes already point at us and complain.
>
>
> To close I'm not interested in having our powers majorly overhauled.. or
> special super powered bard only weapons. I would like to see the quest
> system fixed.. I'd like to see some more special items for bards. I'd
> like to see some more useful songs. And I'ld like to see them stop nerfing
> us without reguard to the results. I won't even get into balance, as right
> now I feel we are underbalanced now and others seem to think we are just
> fine. Anyway those are my two cents.
>
> Adon Draigcanwyr 20 Povar
>
> On Fri, 17 Sep 1999 10:11:00 -0500 eqbards@onelist.com wrote:
> > From: "Elijah Meeker" <elijah@...>
> >
> > I think a lot of classes think they are "most ingnored". I think however
> if
> > we don't get a lot of "attention" it is because we are one of the most
> > balanced classes in the game, that really need not a lot of effort to
> > balance us out. I could see more magic instruments, but I could also see
> > that making us too powerful in unintended ways, leading to nerfing,
> leading
> > to screw-ups, etc. No, I don't think we need a bunch of new equiptment,
> as
> > it complicates what is to my mind a a fairly balanced equasion. I hope
> they
> > are careful with the changes that are coming to the test center (class
> > specific quest-only weapons) because in the long run balance is WAY more
> > important than goodies.
> >
> > Tszaaz E'Taurguin, 24, Povar
> >
> >
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