JB, if the group is large enough, we can afford you to move to back row and switch to max charisma.
If the group is small and you need to go to front row and blast/heal, then no one will object to you wearing less charisma.
It's the same with druids/clerics atm, who can move to front row to soak some damage, but when the group gets enough melee fighters, they move to the back row.
As for players not singing rina, I thought you complained about the opposite: that players didn't wait for you to sing rina.
If one day you get to sing a more powerful rina, why not swap songs? You are the bard, after all, so take a break from singing gods and cast something else, just like healers raise after the fight.
This charisma disbalance can be shown that people can choose to get the following eq sets:
- -saves
- + heal
- ac
- +damage
- +weapon damage
- -sys shock
but not charisma.
That's because charisma is not useful to non-bards.
Yang, I've already suggested a skill (resonant focus)/instrument (an accoustic lense)/held low item that allows a bard to concentrate their blast on a single mob in the room:
/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=4659#p37148I don't see how making charisma more useful will affect the skill above, because:
- the skill is used for soloing
- the charisma suggestions above are used for groups
- ideas to make bard more viable by making charisma useful and by adding the single-target skill aren't mutually exclusive.