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Originally Posted by Kaeln
I'm glad Thott mentioned the FT issue. Personally, I've been thinking since Luclin that we should get the effect of FT, but for a different reason than what he listed:
As it stands now, all casters have 3 sources of increased mana regen: Clarity Spells, FT/other mana regen items, and AA skills. (Technically, if they would add +Meditate% items available at lower levels, then they would have 4.) Bards, on the other hand, get one and only one source: AA skills, which can only be acquired by getting exp. Every other caster can get better mana regen as a result of grouping with other classes or as a result of raiding - bards are stuck with killing stuff ad nauseum, period.
Now, I can see why not allowing bards clarity spells is the current state of affairs - letting bards get the clarity effect from our songs alone would be the equivalent of instantly increasing our mana regen by 20,000%. However, given the limited number of FT items actually usable by bards, I feel that bards should be allowed to get the benefit from FT.
Actually, considering the number of items that should be useable by bards but aren't, seemingly because they have FT on them (like Narandi's Crown), I'm not sure if VI's developers even know that FT doesn't affect bards.
Speaking of bard equippability, why no comment on our eternal bugaboo of the chain/plate distinction and VI getting around to fixing the AC of items/making items bard equippable? Is it simply because making them go through their database would be too much work for them to consider it, or is it more that your complaints are centered around endgame concerns and VI's current all chain+ classes/ all plate classes equipment creation negates the problem in most cases?
And Thott, I have to say that this post is written with a rather fatalistic air (well, perhaps exasperation might be more accurate.) I take it the Bard Balancing Dev is no longer working for them and VI won't give you the time of day?
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06-13-2013, 01:40 PM
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