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Originally Posted by zanderklocke
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Should no bards be allowed to kite or only those be allowed that take a reasonable amount of mobs and are courteous to other players? I mean the whole thing is sort of silly and difficult to police.
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Well, I rather enjoyed AoE kiting with my bard live...always did it in empty zones out of anyone's way....'till it got nerfed for everyone when a handful of bards were monopolizing PoF during primetime constantly. That was a very popular exp zone at the time and they were making the "front page news" so to speak with it enough that it got nerfed for all of us.
It could be policed by doing what was done on live....Nerfing the dots. Not saying they should but, yeah, there's live precident for it. Not classic, but neither is entire zones constantly being disrupted and monopolized by a few bards. No one AoE kited until much later and if they did, very few people even knew about it. I played A TON of EQ up till around GoD or so...The first I ever heard of bard AoE kiting was when Stromm went live and the first handful of players to get to top level were bards who AoE'd...This would have been around LDoN or LoY, or maybe even early GoD...I seem to remember 70 being top level at the time, but I could be wrong about that...I do remember it was spring/summer of '03 for sure tho. WAY past Velious. I don't even think swarming was really happening until PoP or later. People were charm kiting, for sure, but not the mass swarms that came later and there were, still, very few people doing it, and because it was conditional on the degree of social aggro of the mobs you were swarming, it wasn't a major problem in every zone. I came back around OoW or early DoN and the AoE nerf had just happened...That's when swarming kind of took over. Point being, these are techniques that came after the scope of this server. The nerf might have come later, but so did this type of kiting to begin with...and come it did.
Bards who enjoy AoE kiting would do well to remember that the squeeky wheel tends to get the grease. For the sake of their class and their enjoyment of it they might be a bit more concientious of what they are doing. If they keep training people and disrupting normal play, that undoubtably creates a heavier /petition load for the staff to deal with it. There ARE a lot of unclassic things on this server that exist for the intent of preserving a classic experience...no boxing even though boxing existed, for example. People boxed during classic, for sure, but it was nowhere near as popular and didn't have the impact on grouping that it did later. So the fix here was to outright ban boxing altogether from the start. An un-classic fix to keep the server classic.
The entire problem goes away with one simple nerf.