Why are Shamans, Druids, and Cleric's hybrids? No where have you stated any
reason for them being hybrids.
Naeeldar
-----Original Message-----
From: Lange, Stephen <
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To: '
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Date: Thursday, September 30, 1999 5:05 PM
Subject: RE: [eqbards] Hey this sounded interesting..
>From: "Lange, Stephen" <SLANGE@...>
>
>
>>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.
>
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