Since you don't have any runics let me help you out with those. The runic 2 is simply hands down the best spell for an xp party or a raid. It is not what is listed on the wiki or what you think that it was. It is in fact a string dot, with an ac reduction component and -poison resistance. Once you have it you do not leave home without it.
The hp regen portion was made into another spell when og came out but has since been nerfed into extinction to the point where 500 mana for the minimal hp it gives is useless.
As far as runic 1, that spell is kind of meh sure, but it has its uses and can be very powerful if/when given the opportunity.
We have the best tomes out of any class though, as regasin made this post about there are some tweaks that would be awesome but like others have pointed out, we are a pretty amazing class. Not to beat a dead horse, all of our relics are better than any other class from the start, and over time, even out with other classes. Where they may not be fun for you, everyone that you group with will love you for having them. I cant say any other class gets that luxury.
I think people are only calling you out because you are speaking out of lack of experience.
I didn't know about the runic 2 change, that is exactly what I wanted it to be, I thought it was weird that bards are forced to use a lvl 63 spell while being giving a silly runic but that sounds amazing.
I stand by calling the tomes boring and uncreative and don't care about their power, its just my opinion, no need to get so upset over it. If you are going to make them weak you can at least add a cool effect to it and make it at least interesting or exciting. To someone with 50 tomes maybe the prospect of mana regen is very exciting or a almost not pathetic melee dps 3% of your play time but for someone 3/5 done with CoP grinding all that exp so I can get mana slightly quicker is not cool. I have no interest in doing it, I don't know why that upsets you but I'm telling you why its stupid.
Plenty of classes don't have tomes yet... they have been out over 2 years? If bards or OP why dont other classes have tomes yet? Are you to stupid to think of some dev mirza? I think tomes are lame in general but if you really think using 3+ years of you life grinding is worth some mana regen AKA sitting for ~15-30 sec less every once in a while(While other classes will probably need to sit longer anyway so you just stand there waiting for the monk to spilt something for a few min, good thing ive been at full mana for 4min now!)
I think almost any after CoP are boring, how do you people really not see why your server is dying? You have invented 2 absolutely insane grinds(charms and exp), one is something never used in a raid and the other is regen...The one class that is not supposed to be mana reliant has a CLASS TOME to regen it faster seems dumb and you are literally insane if you think a not insane person is willing to invest themselves into doing so much for so little in a old old game(I guess I have never seen mirza content because none of the raiding I have done has been amazing and I have raided everything T9 and under. I guess he made the T11+ content? Way to go, 20 people have seen it, you must be proud of all that work. (LOL delete thaz now that I farmed the shit out of it). This game is mind numbing slow and getting slower, farming 1mil to get a charm...I could probably make 1mil real dollars with that kind of dedication, time and commitment... Make the bard turn into a wisp when hes reneging at least give it flavor.
You make years worth of farming content but maybe ~5 exp zones that are decent exp/money for any decent group, killing in kea or fr or bq for 2 years so I can maybe someday join a guild if I own a charm that proves I've sat around as long as you but actually they have nerfed EVERY SINGLE EXP AND CASH ZONE so it is not easier as time passes but harder and much much longer to now attain said charm and tomes. Any guild need a bard? (Guess what none do because there are a ton of them) Ok so I solo farm myself 15tomes, I get the joy of playing with people so nice as Mirza? what a treat! I read all over the forums how "You dont need CoP till T10" I have ~3 done and I can't even join a t8 guild even though I have T9 loot why? Because there are a ton of bards and no one uses 3 in a raid,(Our convo went like this "What classes are you recruiting? a dps and a cleric. I have a bard and a cleric. Main the cleric? ...." My cleric has 200aa and they would rather have it than a 3CoP bard because they are not a dps class(I feel so OP).
3 in a raid? much less 2, typical setup is 1 when it is or was one of the most played class. Fuck grinding millions of EXP for mana regen, that should be a mage or cleric tome and if bard is so OP that mana balances it maybe think of something new and clever for bards so we are more than a musicbot that is THE LOWEST of the dps, keep telling yourself they are super OP but solo/duo grinding with one is slower than any other dps infact (Dont dare say "but bards dont have to stop for mana" Then why do we have a mana regen asshole?) I really don't know how the top players are ok with all the horribly boring tomes that exist and haven't demanding something interesting and worth investing insane amounts of time in, so people with tomes get way stronger? Make content way stronger! Whoa. Each tome is like grinding all of my AA again but it makes little difference.
anyway I don't care about what ~20 delusional assholes think about me, I'm going back to LoL peace (Although I quoted you none of this was directed at you emerica <3)
Edit: Why there are not more Nadox esq exp/cash zones and more zones like Cmal? its unreal. Progression should be about skill not years invested, make it so an intelligent group can get crazy exp without gear and every few tiers unlock a new one for a boost in exp/difficulty, this would let people progress exp wise based on skill and gear and scale into the retarded grind that tomes now are by the time they reached end game they would be good players instead of fat/bored players.
