OK, so going over the numbers, I noticed that it's pretty hard to hit the caps. I'm making the following modifications:
1. The actual amounts now scale along with the caps. This means that if you get a high quality success you'll hit the cap. Effectively your song qualities will be better (do more, give more hit/dam, heal more, etc).
2. The special affects from songs like offensive harmony, defensive harmony, etc now scale as well. This means that you might have to achieve a slightly higher hit/dam from offensive harmony to get the haste. However, it's still 2/3 of the cap (which is what it's always been).
3. The slow affect from offensive disruption became silly easy when I raised the cap (and particularly now that I scaled actual results), so I've raised the threshold on that. It's not something you're going to hit as an individual bard all that often, unless you sing the song for awhile. If you have accompaniment, it will be very frequent now.
4. Accompany will be quite a bit easier to notch.
Basically, accompany will increase the overall performance of songs quite a bit more, and be consistent about it.
One thing to note, I may discover that the caps are a bit too high, now that the songs scale to them. I may have to ease off on the caps a bit, either in general or on particular songs, so be aware that there may be a downgrade that will happen to these in the future.
Bard Quality, Round 2...
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Okay, I'm glad that things are happening for bards once again and I thank Iyachtu for taking the time to make changes.
But changing offensive disruption--one of a bard's three key (read: most played in-battle)--songs so a zone leader has to group two of us in order to get the slow proc with any sort of regularity is just silly. In effect, you've handicapped a bard off the bat and forced zone leaders to consider whether having a single bard is even worth having in a group and whether the slow proc is worth the price of losing two spots in a group of 15.
And why in all hell are you focusing on the accompany part of the bard class??? We are a handicapped class, forcing us to pair up in order to be truly useful only handicaps the class more. Why does it seem that the Imms are so god damned worried that bards might become useful? Am I going to twink shit if my songs are a little more powerful without having some other guy attached to my hip and singing back-up? Or if I should god forbid have more than three truly useful battle songs? God forbid song of miscast magic should be fixed. No, let's make it so a bard's got to fuckin' be paired off with another one in order to almost be as good as one of any other class. I can't fathom what the hell is going on here.
I'm rambling a bit and if I sound angry it's because I am and that fact will not change for some time to come. Completely and utterly disappointed and confounded.
But changing offensive disruption--one of a bard's three key (read: most played in-battle)--songs so a zone leader has to group two of us in order to get the slow proc with any sort of regularity is just silly. In effect, you've handicapped a bard off the bat and forced zone leaders to consider whether having a single bard is even worth having in a group and whether the slow proc is worth the price of losing two spots in a group of 15.
And why in all hell are you focusing on the accompany part of the bard class??? We are a handicapped class, forcing us to pair up in order to be truly useful only handicaps the class more. Why does it seem that the Imms are so god damned worried that bards might become useful? Am I going to twink shit if my songs are a little more powerful without having some other guy attached to my hip and singing back-up? Or if I should god forbid have more than three truly useful battle songs? God forbid song of miscast magic should be fixed. No, let's make it so a bard's got to fuckin' be paired off with another one in order to almost be as good as one of any other class. I can't fathom what the hell is going on here.
I'm rambling a bit and if I sound angry it's because I am and that fact will not change for some time to come. Completely and utterly disappointed and confounded.
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1. The change to offensive disruption isn't drastic. You can still get the slow affect. I just don't like changing something and not mentioning it.
2. I'm not focusing on accompany all that much. The changes over the last few days have a significant impact on the general quality of songs that a single bard is using.
Accompany was affected by this last change simply because I tied the quality of songs to the actual cap they have, which means that accompany is doing quite a bit more than before. I'm not trying to make every bard on the mud find a partner, but I *am* trying to make it so that if they do, it does something useful.
Miscast Magic is on my list of things to tweak. Its chance of affecting the mob has gone up, just like every other song over the last few days.
2. I'm not focusing on accompany all that much. The changes over the last few days have a significant impact on the general quality of songs that a single bard is using.
Accompany was affected by this last change simply because I tied the quality of songs to the actual cap they have, which means that accompany is doing quite a bit more than before. I'm not trying to make every bard on the mud find a partner, but I *am* trying to make it so that if they do, it does something useful.
Miscast Magic is on my list of things to tweak. Its chance of affecting the mob has gone up, just like every other song over the last few days.
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