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Date Posted: 20:23:07 06/30/02 Sun
Author: Vlad the Impaler
Subject: Bards after publish 16 - my take on it

Well I've done some bard testing on the test servers. IMHO I don't think they were beaten down that much by the mighty nerf stick. I played around in Destard which is where I usually take my bard when I wanna pick up some quick gold. It was a bit harder to provoke the dragons then pre-patch, but not amazingly so. The drakes and wyverns I didn't notice a big change on at all really. I had my provoke and music set at 100 each during this testing. My current point of reference is my bard on Atlantic who has GM music and 90.5 provoke. I didn't attempt to play with the Shadow Wyrms or White Wyrms .. 'cause I usually don't mess with them in normal game play anyway. I hear it will be nearly impossible to provoke a white wyrm on a white wyrm, but who does that anyway?

As far as discordance. My take on it is that if you didn't need it before publish 16 then ya won't need it after publish 16. All it seems to do is allow one creature type to kill another one easier.

The fire horns have cool graphics (multiple fire strikes), but to give you an idea of damage the one I used took a giant snake down perhaps 1/3 of it's hit points. There is also a decent lengthy delay between uses on them. Oh and the one I did find lasted for 4 uses only. Hopefully they'll increase that.

I read somewhere that someone on the Pacific shard said basicially the same thing I'm saying here, that they weren't nerfed all that bad.

By playing smart, you should still be able to sucessfully collect decent gold and fame with a bard post publish 16.

I remember someone asking me about bards earlier .. hope this helps ya out.

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Replies:

My Input.. -- Sol, 10:24:58 07/01/02 Mon
- Thanks sweeties maybe I won't kill my Bard :) -- Lily, 10:33:39 07/01/02 Mon
- Dragons and barding -- Vlad the Impaler, 14:35:18 07/01/02 Mon
  - My Fisher/Bard gave up barding and went back to fishing -- Mithrandir, 20:00:06 07/01/02 Mon
  - From what I understand -- Sol, 10:31:56 07/02/02 Tue
    - Really? That's cool .. I didn't try that .. will test it tonight thx :) (NT) -- Vlad the Impaler, 14:29:15 07/02/02 Tue