>So you think paladins, rangers and shadowknights should also be able to
bind?
>(Just trying to understand your position.)
While I see where you are going, these are all more of a melee class than
bards (as a side not, there is a shadowknight quest where they can get a
rechargable Bind Ring similar to the Squad Ring).
The whole point of why I brought this bind issue was because I thought the
bind proposal was an interesting one, and one that could stimulate player
economy.
To recap:
1) Bind would costs a lot of mana.
2) Group bind wouldnt be available until later levels.
3) Bind would require a zone specific foraged food item.
-Item would have to be player made into another item (make it high
level)
similar to the rat pie for the paw of oppula.
-Dont make all the items one specific trade, ex:
-E. Commonland - Foraged item: Sundergrass, made into: Sundergrass
Soup or
something..
-Oasis - Dune Berries - Brewed into: Dune Ale
4) Bind/Group Bind required one reagent per group member, if not all
reagents are
present, bind fails (Group bind would need 6 for all six), or make it a
random
bind, 4 reagent = random 4 people get bound, similar to succor spells.
5) Bind/Group Bind Costs the equivalent of Dying once at your current level.
This
affects all personnel getting bound.
6) Bind/Group Bind can only be sung once every 1-X days (TBD) similar to Lay
of Hands
We are in the middle of the hybrid magic tree in my opinion:
Top:
Druid
Shaman
Bard
Ranger
Paladin
Shadow Knight
Thinking about this really makes me wonder, if were not as Hybrid enough of
a hybrid to get bind like the Druid and Shaman, why do our songs fall under
True Casting/Arcane arts rules? Selo for one under this thinking should work
fine inside. Its like saying, a solar powered radio (druid/Shaman in this
analogy) will stop working when taken into a dark dungeon (hence, no light,
no power = hence, no force of nature - no power). But take a Bard, singing
(equivalent to a battery powered radio), take him inside, and the analogy
falls apart. The bard is relying on his own power (batteries/singing), not
dictated by loss of influence from a god, yet we cant work. We know that if
you take away the light for the druid (nature), it wont work indoors, but
for the bard he takes his power with him.
Im rambling, apparantly noone wants to hear this tripe anyway so Ill just
shut up.