Bard Melody

[iaeolan]

I petitioned this finally today, and was told its better for a suggestion thread. Seems the post in general discussion me and foma did was hijacked and turned into a whine post.

This is my formal request for either;
a) a complete removal of the bard melody until it can be implemented in such a way that it was initially intended.
b) a fix to bard melody so that it gives back some functionality to bards.

It will soon be a week now that these changes have been in effect. I have not progressed at all on my main character, a bard, in that time save for some raid xp. A camp I was doing was interrupted and can not continue in light of my inability to solo anything whatsoever.

Please address this in some way.

If you respond to this post in any way as a complaint or a whine/bitch/moan... you will have my eternal ill-favor.

 

[Allielyn]

With two defensive and two offensive, it becomes more useful, it is true. It still makes bards less versatile, but it approaches where we were before, and Wiz can re-balance some of the songs if he really wants to stick with this.

Oh, and someone mentioned that with the new Bard changes, our "group" songs are now "AOE" . . is this true?

(Shameless Plug)

Surprisingly, given all the discussion about Melody, I didn't get much response or feedback, positive or negative, on my thread, An Alternative to Melody: http://www.shardsofdalaya.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5088

Perhaps it just isn't the direction that Wiz wants to go, but I would appreciate any feedback.

 

[GuiardoTuneweaver]

I just wanted to add some more specific bugs I encountered while playing last night. Occasionally, when starting a defensive song (which should replace one of the 2 existing songs in the melody), both songs in the melody were replaced with the newly sung song.

Also, being bashed or stunned is still stopping all song effects on bard and party (and presumably mobs, although I didn't specifically notice this), making it nearly impossible for songs to have any effect when the bard has aggro, and impossible to use selo's to get away from danger.

On the positive side, bards are much more useful as bots now.

Edit:

Oh and Allielyn, I personally wouldn't like the way your proposal woul work, as it encourages bards to play less songs, making them even more bot-oriented. If playing one song for the max effect during combat, there's not much else for a bard to do (no kick, bash, backstab, etc..). I guess we could work on Beg.

Gui

 

[Yally]

The changes are helpful in botting a bard. Heck, if I liked botting in the SLIGHTEST I would bot a bard now...but I dont

 

[Jame]

/agree Iaeleon, especially the complete removal part.

We really do need an unlocked bard thread for discussing this change. Too many issues have popped up and we need better lines of communication between the devs and the bards for this kind of a major change.

 

[Puella]

An explanation from the devs concerning the changes may also be usefull, made another post in sod discussion concerning explanation if devs dont want to post it here as it really has nothing to do with a sugestion.

 

[Wiz]

Let's have ONE topic about this, not five, thank you.