My only addition for the first shot would be to add all the rogue skills we
get to the list of capped way to low. Since most of the locks/traps in the
game will be in the high level expansion areas you can bet we will be nearly
useless at them due to their level of difficulty.
-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Gillan [mailto:
GGillan@...]
Sent: Friday, September 24, 1999 8:58 AM
To: '
eqbards@onelist.com'
Subject: [eqbards] Letter to GZ - Draft 2 (long)
From: Greg Gillan <
GGillan@...>
Okay, here's what I've got so far. Once again a reminder, I'm not looking
to send in an email asking for new features added, just for fixes to current
problems, or at least estimates on when we can expect things to be fixed. I
want answers, not changes.
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1) Several of our songs (levels 39, 45, 47, 49) don't seem to be in the
game. We would like to know when we can expect these to be implemented. If
they are indeed in the game already (perhaps discovered via quests) please
at least let us know that they exist. We don't need to know how/where to
get them, or even what they are, but we don't want to waste our time
questing for something that isn't there.
2) Several of our skills (Hiding, Sneak, Forage) cap at such
low levels, that they aren't worth using. We don't need to be master of
these, but if the caps were raised such that at least they worked more than
1 out of 20 times, we might consider putting them back into our hot keys.
3) The level 22 song Alenias Disenchanting Melody currently seems to have no
effect whatsoever. This has been tested repeatedly by many, many bards. It
does not dispel effects on group members (as we thought it should) nor does
it protect in any way from harmful effects. Can you please confirm whether
this song is broken or not? When can we expect a fix?
4) You've mentioned in the past that the messed up drum graphic (it now
looks like we strum a small twig) will be corrected in an upcoming graphics
patch. We realize a graphics patch is large, and hence cannot be done
regularily, but could we please get an estimate on roughly when we can
expect this glitch to be fixed? In addition, a recent patch made an
equipped mino horn look like we have a small burlap sack embedded in our
wrists.
5) There seems to be an absense of any high level bard quests. Is there any
implementation planned for these? When might we expect them?
6) Recent patches have had a serious impact on the song Selo's Accelerando
with the following negative side effects: This song no longer breaks root.
We were under the impression that this was an intended benefit, is this a
bug, or has this functionality been intentionally removed? Also SoW now
overrides our song, in effect cancelling it out. Many bards have already
complained about having SoW intentionally cast on them as a form of
harassment. Are there any plans to A) make SoW removable by clicking on it
as was recently done for levetate, or B) make it so that Selo's overrides
SoW, but when Selo's wears off, or goes out of range, SoW will continue to
work. When could we expect such a change to occur?
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Please feel free to make any contibutions/suggestion/changes that you feel
are appropriate. I want this letter to be a consensus of what we feel are
our major problems. Again, I'm not looking for new things that it would be
nice to have added to our class, just the most important current problems
that should be addressed.
John Kim had a lot of really good suggestions, but if I include them all,
this letter would be waaay too long. I'm trying to concentrate on some of
the larger issues. If it gets too long, I have a fear that GZ wouldn't even
bother to read it. I've flagged John's email for Letter Number 2 <grin>
P.S. Maybe not everyone considers the missing drum graphic a serious
problem, but this is a big peeve of mine. I can't believe they haven't
fixed this at some point in the last 5 months.
Elwyn Heartstring
Level 41 Bard
Erollisi Marr