Swarmming in Velious

[zanderklocke]

Here is my email to Thott I just sent:

Hello Thott,

I am a player of classic EverQuest, via the emulated server Project1999 which can be found at www.project1999.org.

In order to create the most classic experience possible (Classic being through Velious), players often taken on the burden of finding evidence online about how mechanics in the game existed up through 2001 in Velious.

Your old writings from http://web.archive.org/web/200208061...ott/retune.php have actually been used as evidence for coding mechanics a certain way in the past.

The reason I am writing you is to get some clarification on Flowing Thought. On Flowing Thought you wrote:

"Since Luclin shipped, FT has increased from 1, possibly 2, to 15. FT 0->15 is an enormous leap in power for casters and hybrids...yet FT doesn't work on bards. FT is a straight up, across the board, large jump in power for all casting classes...except bards.

Has mob power increased along with FT? Nope. Many times bards/enc have joined groups, adding mana needed for the group to kill without downtime. Now that mana is available to all. Bard/enc mana is no longer necessary to avoid downtime."

The statement I have a question about is "yet FTE doesn't work on bards." In writing this statement, did you mean that Flowing Thought items have no effect at all on bards, essentially they do not increase their mana regeneration, or alternatively, did you mean that compared to other classes, Flowing Thought does not increase the bard's power relative to other casters?

Your answer to this question would be most appreciated! Thanks for doing excellent write ups over a decade ago.


Regards,

(real life name)

Level 60 Bard on the Project 1999 Blue Server