Who cares?

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I rather think a necro bard warrior is a cool idea. I think of a Lord Soth, singing with some banshees all night, cursed to relive those moments of his downfall. He also has some death knight followers (see the painting "lord soth's charge"). I can see him singing 'gods of war' to motivate his knights. Even further, some of the newer D20 rules let you use bard abilities with other perform skills like dance, poetry, etc. A death knight giving a rousing speech to motivate an army of undead (rather like braveheart)...well, it just rocks.

So, my plan for an undead Warrior/Bard/Necro/Cleric doesn't really fit the general ideas for Bards...I can accept that. I've also played a Cl/Th here and a Th/Cl, which doesn't fit most people's ideas of clerics (or thieves). To me, that's one more Advantage of Sloth, with a capital A. I guess those Cl/Th characters are one reason I dislike our alignment system so much.

I guess my personal vision of a Bard prime is rather like "Taliesin" from the Stephen Lawhead books. He's a strong character, in a great set of books. A lot of the Arthurian knights could be considered Warrior/Bard mixes, but I prefer the more celtic view of the Bard. That's another reason I love the classic Minstrel classo so much (though I haven't made a copy yet)...Bard, Druid, and Necro all fit so well into a celtic story.

[tincts]

[quote="Medios":42m58rpm]Anyways now that bards are nerfed maybe you guys can come up with a unique class to play instead of trying to emulate everyone else.[/quote:42m58rpm]

Yeah. I'm sick of people copying my Wa Cl. That was MY idea.

[Roadrunr]

[quote="tincts":1vqhwice][quote="Medios":1vqhwice]Anyways now that bards are nerfed maybe you guys can come up with a unique class to play instead of trying to emulate everyone else.[/quote:1vqhwice]

Yeah. I'm sick of people copying my Wa Cl. That was MY idea. [/quote:1vqhwice]

pretty sure it wasnt...then again, it wasnt mine either.

[Autolycos]

[b:2aaw78cj]Avatar wrote:[/b:2aaw78cj][quote:2aaw78cj]
A lot of the Arthurian knights could be considered Warrior/Bard mixes[/quote:2aaw78cj]
[b:2aaw78cj]I could imagine Charles's group and him tanking...

I'm sure it would resemble Sir Robin![/b:2aaw78cj]

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[Yasik]

How can anyone be called 'Sir' while have a cock painted on his shield?

[Alberich]

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[Leaf]

[quote="Medios":6qxnp82s]Does this mean you scrubs will stop making Minstrel clones. Anyways now that bards are nerfed maybe you guys can come up with a unique class to play instead of trying to emulate everyone else.[/quote:6qxnp82s]

Just want to be like Mike!

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Yeah lets all re-invent the wheel, Minstrel has an awesome classo and When I feel like playing a bard it will be the one I made like his. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Look how many wa/mo/cl/ne there are.....

I'm proud to be a scrub.


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[Medios]

[quote="alias":2ovmq6go]Yeah lets all re-invent the wheel, Minstrel has an awesome classo and When I feel like playing a bard it will be the one I made like his. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Look how many wa/mo/cl/ne there are.....

I'm proud to be a scrub.


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Rep to you.

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PostPosted: Aug 07, 2007 - 03:12 PM Post subject: RE: Who cares?
Now that the dust seems to be settling, perhaps we could have some influx of some new spells/skills/songs to add ingame. Not to beef up the loss/difference but hopefully give a new avenue of exploring/use of classo's.

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Bard Skill

Distract

This allows a bard to draw attention to himself perhaps even taking a hit or two in the process . Only 1 bard in a group could actually distract which itself last thru battle. Any other bards attempting to distract would fail miserably. Of course, when said bard happens to wind up dead, a new "victim" could try to distract in order to provide contiuning assistance to the tank and/or buy time for a recall, etc etc

[Weasel]

aka rescue? Kinda sounds like a 'skill' to give a bard all the glory and none of the risk hehe.

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More like secondary point position. The bard could in fact be at bottom of group and still take a few hits aka 2.tanking. More or less, would just displace some hits from 1.tank and instead of always connecting with 2/3.tank, the bard could offer to take some of the damage.

prob a bad idea in retrospect

[Tetsulunathaya]

[quote="Medios":3s0w6wi0]
Does this mean you scrubs will stop making Minstrel clones. You have already determined that bards suck. The funniest thing about the new ac change is that Minstrel ran with -10 and shofar up until the recent ac changes. I then tried out -11 gear and really didn't care for it much compared to holding my instrument. Anyways now that bards are nerfed maybe you guys can come up with a unique class to play instead of trying to emulate everyone else.
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Hey! Your the one that talked me into playing the classo when i was playing tetsulunathaya, years ago

But I know how you feel, seeing so many of the same classo about (and everyone passing me, damn I level slow )

Though with hindsight I'd much rather have been a Ba/Dr/Cl/Ma then Minstrel's classo. Nothing wrong with it, but that'd be more to my preferences.

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several variations could be pretty powerful imo

[Medios]

[quote="13":3i1rab12]several variations could be pretty powerful imo[/quote:3i1rab12]

There can be only one notorious Bard on sloth.