Post by lala on Jul 28, 2007 17:58:39 GMT
As most with Bards will notice, they are asked many times in short period of time could they use their bardsong.
Last night on a deep run with mostly Demi chars this became even more noticable, specifically as AC is critical.
The results are that a bard player can end up singing one-two times every minute, and at times not able to cover the players or even running out of songs before the expected time.
Now the more I think about it, the behaviour of bardsong seems to be problematic and raises the question, is it working efficiently and is there a need or even possibility for it to be tweaked?
The way I see it at moment there are many causes for someone to lose song and this is where the problem occurs.
Ways include:
1. Death
2. Resting and needing new song
3. Out of range of bard when had to re-sing for themself
4. Out of range of other players when bard sings to boost them.
The result of this is that very quickly over half of the group become out of synch with their song duration.
This is then compounded that re-singing does not refresh other characters who are still under the previous Lasting Inspiration.
As can be seen this means the bard is singing left, right, back, forwards when in reality everyone is listening to the latest song but frustratingly cannot benefit from it.
Just wondering of a more slick mechanism could be applied to Bardsong to bring it back to being efficient like the Druid Shunt (or if thats not applicable some other system).
While in general it is not an issue, it becomes so for those who are deep in Hells, especially if the party is Demi based and can be a factor on whether a team is successful or fails.
Cheers
Lala
Last night on a deep run with mostly Demi chars this became even more noticable, specifically as AC is critical.
The results are that a bard player can end up singing one-two times every minute, and at times not able to cover the players or even running out of songs before the expected time.
Now the more I think about it, the behaviour of bardsong seems to be problematic and raises the question, is it working efficiently and is there a need or even possibility for it to be tweaked?
The way I see it at moment there are many causes for someone to lose song and this is where the problem occurs.
Ways include:
1. Death
2. Resting and needing new song
3. Out of range of bard when had to re-sing for themself
4. Out of range of other players when bard sings to boost them.
The result of this is that very quickly over half of the group become out of synch with their song duration.
This is then compounded that re-singing does not refresh other characters who are still under the previous Lasting Inspiration.
As can be seen this means the bard is singing left, right, back, forwards when in reality everyone is listening to the latest song but frustratingly cannot benefit from it.
Just wondering of a more slick mechanism could be applied to Bardsong to bring it back to being efficient like the Druid Shunt (or if thats not applicable some other system).
While in general it is not an issue, it becomes so for those who are deep in Hells, especially if the party is Demi based and can be a factor on whether a team is successful or fails.
Cheers
Lala
