unlocking good changes to the game.

[Vlarius]

/melody = most horrid thing to ever be done w/ the bard class. The class is so over powered it's rediculous. Having them as "special gems" should be just that. Why taint something so special w/ auto play. /melody is 1 step shy of not even playing the class.

[Taluvill]

Booo on Melody.

Mythoxxus does his deal just fine. Bards arent that bugged if you can level them up, because once they stop failing songs and "fizzling" they become much easier to play, so i've heard.

[Trimm]

I stopped playing on live shortly after LDoN... what is /melody? It sounds like an auto-cast for bard songs, but what specifically does it do?

[Morfnblorsh]

Yes, it's basically an auto-cast for bards.

You have something similar to spell slots in which you place songs in the order you want them played. It then goes through this "playlist" in an endless loop automatically.

[Trimm]

So every bard because the best bard on the server by default. I say boo.

[guineapig]

You know what, I can twist 3 songs easily and can do a 4th under optimal circumstances (ie: not being hit by a mob, not missing a note, etc) but that being said when I'm in a group I don't get to communicate AT ALL outside of using hotkeys. For being a bard I really don't get to say much, much less try to entertain my group.

On the other hand I do agree that it would seem like easy mode to use /melody and it would make my bard skills more of a novelty than a requirement.


As far as soulbinders go, I'm indifferent as I have been lucky enough to get binds when I need them (only play during peak hours). That being said, I feel for the Barbarian Warrior who spent an hour traveling from Halas to Crushbone only to get killed by a train at zone and not having a chance to bind near the 4 cities he passed by en route.

[guineapig]

As far as I know the raid window is in the game. We used it once then stopped because people were claiming that it was buggy. Personally I didn't see anything wrong with it. Also, I don't know if it's frowned upon by the admins since it isn't classic. I can live without it.

Guild window on the other hand I SORELY MISS. I have absolutely no clue as to what our guild looks like right now. I don't know who's a main, who's an alt, what classes we are short on, I can never tell who's online since doing /who all guild always comes up short. I fail to see what the harm would be in adding the guild window, unless it's an Emu issue???

[xahtiZtoN]

/melody is not a gamebreaking command. It's also not classic. I don't even know if it can be implemented on emu... nevertheless, melody does not make the bard. the bard makes the melody. Just because ANY ole player can make a bard and make a hotkey that twists songs, doesn't make them good. A good bard always will be able to CC/charm/etc when the situation calls for it, and be able to twist beneficial songs between.

Bottom line, the melody command allows bards to be a little more relaxed and enjoy the game like other players who just nuke or heal ->afk etc. It will still be incredibly easy to tell the "bad" bards from the "good" ones. See: EQLIVE

[Blither]

/agree with guineapig.
Raid window is nice, but not a gamebreaker if it never gets implemeted. The guild window, on the other hand, is sorely needed. I'm a guild leader and I really need a good guild window to know what our current state of affairs is - right now if someone leaves the guild I have no good way of knowing it.
On our website there's a guild roster, which every member is supposed to keep updated himself. Do they all do it? Of course not. For some it's even a sore point, causing friction because we require them to do something that they'd rather not bother to do.