Yes, I should have listed Bards as Rogue/and everything else. I wrote this
up late last night just before bedtime, so I was a bit sleepy.
Rokenn
>From: "Kimes, Dean W." <Dean_Kimes@...>
>Reply-To: eqbards@onelist.com
>To: "'eqbards@onelist.com'" <eqbards@onelist.com>
>Subject: RE: RPG Archetypes (Was::Re: [eqbards] Hybrids made simple)
>Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1999 09:41:59 -0600
>
>From: "Kimes, Dean W." <Dean_Kimes@...>
>
>I might have bought that if bards were listed as Rogues/little bit of
>everything. We are so far behind rangers/paladins/shadowknights in actual
>melee capability that relating us to them is something I find extremely
>difficult to swallow. My 17th levl bard could never keep up melee damage
>wise with our ranger, much less the paladin. rangers get dodge and dual
>wield and double attack and parry? Paladins get bash and double attack and
>parry. We get dodge, capped lower than them, and dual wield. Hardly seems
>equivalent to me.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Rokenn Swiftsong [mailto:rokenn@...]
>Sent: Friday, October 01, 1999 12:17 AM
>To: eqbards@onelist.com
>Subject: RPG Archetypes (Was::Re: [eqbards] Hybrids made simple)
>
>
>From: "Rokenn Swiftsong" <rokenn@...>
>
> >From: "Bard" <dabard@...>
> >To put it in the simplest terms, you have 2 (yes, only 2) "pure" classes
> >that everything else comes from: Casters and Melee'rs. Everything else
>is
> >a hybrid of the two.
> >(At least the way I see it)
> >So therefore, any class that doesn't just melle or doesn't just cast is a
> >hybrid.
> >:o)
>
>No there are three:
>Melee classes: These are the professions that us no magic, they rely on
>muscle to do the job.
>Priest Classes: There power is drawn from there diety.
>Magic User Classes: There power is derived from arcane knowledge.
>
>Hybrids are a combo of any two of these three archetypes.
>In EQ the break out this way-
>Melee:
>Warrior
>Monk
>Rogue
>
>Priest:
>Cleric
>Druid
>Shamen
>
>Magic User:
>Wizard
>Enchanter
>Magician
>Necromancer (personally I feel the necro class is more of an evil priest
>but
>
>that is besides the point).
>
>Hybrids:
>Ranger (Warrior/Druid)
>Paladin (Warrior/Cleric)
>Shadow Knight (Warrior/Necromancer)
>Bard (Warrior/and a little of everything else)
>
>Rokenn Swiftsong - Karana server
>Master Craftsmen of Societus Argenti
>
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