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Originally Posted by Bockscar
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You can absolutely run around chanting people to death while they have no way to touch you.
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Once again, those bard chants did not land worth a crap during Kunark and Velious. All these people giving their "bard tales" are reliving their glory days of attacking people with 50FR/50CR. I pvp'd with over 100MR/100FR/100CR and was never at any time in danger of dying to a bard no matter what they did. They would never be able to get 2 dots going at the same time and would only be able to get 1 going intermittently so racial regen + fungi tunic pretty much nullified the entire thing. That's how real EQ was.
Some people might think that isn't balanced but if you change resists so bards can easily land dots + perma snare people, then warrior/monk/rogue and a few others will probably be free, 0 skill kills to any bard while standing in an outside zone. So the choices are between making one utility class slightly weak (bard), or making several melee classes suffer huge imbalances and basically be unplayable solo due to that class. The EQ devs chose to balance by whatever resulted in the best outcome for the most classes instead of helping one class and causing several others to be unplayable.