If you're too "young" to recall. In beta, all speed enhancing effects were
disabled in "underground" zones in order to combat massive train problems.
And to a large extent they did...if you think the trians you see now are
large now (Mistmore, and other "aggro through walls" zones being the
exception). Of course, a lot of this is worked around by simply casing SoW
before entering the zone. Which I think is a cheat and a bug, and should
be removed, or everyone (read bards) should be able to cast speed
enhancements underground. But again, this is an example of where bards
have been screwed. :)
Laluni Songhammer, 27th level bard of E'Ci.
At 03:54 PM 9/29/99 -0500, you wrote:
>From: "Lange, Stephen" <SLANGE@...>
>
>I would like to see Selo Changed from Being outdoor only. I can think of
>ZERO reason why I cant sing Selo in an "inside" zone. Every reason I have
>heard "your voice echoes" etc. is just plain foolish. For cry eye we can
>play a flute underwater! Of all the classes that get a speed increasing
>song, We Bards are the only ones who should get an indoor zone speed song.
>We sing from memory, devoid of a "GOD's" speed blessing. I just dont
>understand it.
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Greg Gillan [mailto:GGillan@...]
>Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 1999 3:00 PM
>To: 'eqbards@onelist.com'
>Subject: [eqbards] Letter to GZ - Draft 3
>
>
>From: Greg Gillan <GGillan@...>
>
>Okay, I haven't been at the office for a few days (which is where I do all
>of my emailing), but I'm back now and have a revised version of the letter
>than I'll be sending to GZ. The point on Selo's and SoW cancelling it has
>been removed, as a fix for this has been put in with the last patch.
>I almost took out the point about our skills capping too low, as a few
>people felt that 40 foraging is adequate, but more people seemed to agree
>that this skill caps too low to be useful, so I'm leaving it. I've added a
>point regarding the lack of instrument information when right clicking on a
>song in our spellbooks (as suggested by John).
>I'm starting to lose my steam on this now, so if there are no further
>comments/corrections/suggestions/ additions, this will be the version that I
>send in.
>
>
>Elwyn Heartstring
>Level 43 Bard
>Erollisi Marr
>
>--------------------------------------------------
>
>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) 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?
>
>3) 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.
>
>4) There seems to be an absense of any high level bard quests. Is there any
>implementation planned for these? When might we expect them?
>
>5) Spellcasters, when they right click on a spell can see what skill the
>spell uses, along with its casting time. Why doesn't the bard spell book
>show what instrument skill is required when you right click on a song?
>
>6) Some of our skills (Hiding, 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.
>
>
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>
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Steven S. Klug
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