Nerf bard kiting...

[Gundanium]

Originally Posted by beyondinfin [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I wanna know how you nuts can do it without getting massive carpel tunnel.

When I first played in highshool, I had a callus on my wrist that my friends thought was disgusting. I remedied this by wearing one of those wrist sweatbands that trending then.
And had to rebind the keys to my left hand, which was before I'd really used ASDW in any game. Was more of a tendonitus situation.

I can use my ASDW and number pad, or use my directional keys, AND can use my Naga mouse to twist songs. That'll stave off tendonitus for at LEAST a month of solid kiting

[Bones]

cap bards at 56kbps dialup connection

problem solved

[Gundanium]

Originally Posted by Bones [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

cap bards at 56kbps dialup connection

problem solved

This would be pretty damn nostalgic

[fishingme]

Well bard aoe wouldn't have happened on live servers like it does here. For one, the game masters would of banned or suspended you if you were screwing with other paying subscribers like that. Pretty pure and simple, ban a few bards for monopolizing zones that were full of people, you lose very little cash flow, but to have the people quit because bards are taking entire zones would be a lot of cash flow lost. Normal zone population in live was a lot more than it is here.

If you dont want to believe the hardware excuse then let's look at software. The classic user interfaces which 95% of the server doesn't use has its limitations. The velious user interface for example is such an fps hog that you will start feeling the lag with today's hardware if you have more than 25 mobs. There also was no in game changing or lowering of settings by the extent that we now have in p1999.

[Gundanium]

Originally Posted by fishingme [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Well bard aoe wouldn't have happened on live servers like it does here. For one, the game masters would of banned or suspended you if you were screwing with other paying subscribers like that.

That's utter BS- Have you even tried the Lockjaw or Ragefire servers?

GM's banning anyone on live servers? Absolute BS, there are plat sellers, bots, P2W up the ***. They will sell you the opportunity to name change, to retrieve accidental destruction of items, and other GM required abilities. They just sell the automated features of a GM.
You have to pay a subscription AND there is still a P2W option with those Kronos.
But hey, you might be able to flat out purchase someone else getting banned over there.

I *MIGHT* consider barding over there for Luclin, except they made the class completely useless. They also have a redundancy of mages and even a top teir guild of pure mages because they can tank pet everything.
You can try to balance out bard stuff, but it will affect other classes tremendously, eventually ending up with an OP mage dynamic.

[fishingme]

Originally Posted by Gundanium [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

That's utter BS- Have you even tried the Lockjaw or Ragefire servers?

GM's banning anyone on live servers? Absolute BS, there are plat sellers, bots, P2W up the ***. They will sell you the opportunity to name change, to retrieve accidental destruction of items, and other GM required abilities. They just sell the automated features of a GM.
You have to pay a subscription AND there is still a P2W option with those Kronos.
But hey, you might be able to flat out purchase someone else getting banned over there.

I *MIGHT* consider barding over there for Luclin, except they made the class completely useless. They also have a redundancy of mages and even a top teir guild of pure mages because they can tank pet everything.
You can try to balance out bard stuff, but it will affect other classes tremendously, eventually ending up with an OP mage dynamic.

I'm talking in classic. the era of 99-01. Soe/verant were harsh with their penalties. Shit, I was banned for accidentally training crushbone on my monk back in 01. They had a three strikes rule and you were banned. GMs here on p1999 are a bunch of (for lack of better words) girls with their punishments. If they weren't, a bunch of high end raiding guilds wouldn't be training expers in karnors on VS respawn day.

[indiscriminate_hater]

Originally Posted by fishingme [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I'm talking in classic. the era of 99-01. Soe/verant were harsh with their penalties. Shit, I was banned for accidentally training crushbone on my monk back in 01. They had a three strikes rule and you were banned.

no you weren't

filthy liar

[stavio]

I'm almost to the point I want to give up on my bard. I offer a lowbie some heals/mana chant while he's medding, he's not interested. I log in my druid and offer him buffs, he begs for them. I get told its against the rules to port bards lol, I port everyone the same.. I can just be running through a zone and I'm the one getting blamed for whatever trouble another bard is causing.

It's just frustrating, I love playing the bard. They offer so much to a group but yet I have not been able to actually join a group yet. So I'm stuck with swarming/fear kiting/face tanking solo.

There is so much hate for bards on this server it is unreal. /Rant off

[zanderklocke]

Originally Posted by stavio [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I'm almost to the point I want to give up on my bard. I offer a lowbie some heals/mana chant while he's medding, he's not interested. I log in my druid and offer him buffs, he begs for them. I get told its against the rules to port bards lol, I port everyone the same.. I can just be running through a zone and I'm the one getting blamed for whatever trouble another bard is causing.

It's just frustrating, I love playing the bard. They offer so much to a group but yet I have not been able to actually join a group yet. So I'm stuck with swarming/fear kiting/face tanking solo.

There is so much hate for bards on this server it is unreal. /Rant off

Anyone who generalizes a playstyle across all players of that class doesn't have the brain processing power to play the game well. I wouldn't worry about him.

[Ranndom]

Originally Posted by Revelation [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

its retarded and cheesy and should have been nerfed long ago. I rolled a bard alt and went from lvl 2 to 36 in 3 days. I ended up deleting the toon because its so cheesy to be able to level this way... not to mention the hate I got for pulling the whole zone.. this should have never been allowed.

While its an a hole move....i can imagine the cash flow from trash alone is nice...lol