Bard in Dreadlands

[Sadre Spinegnawer]

The main issue was routers centered around Kansas City. Most of the East Coast US trafficwent through KC. Those routers sucked ass, and so you learned pretty quickly to play it safe. For West Coast people, this was less if an issue but you still had the routers for San Diego.

Keep in mind, most of the code for this network was written in Fortran, and eq seriously stressed any Fortran-based intranet. I worked the backbone in KC. I know what I'm talking about.

[Rummol]

Originally Posted by DMN [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Which is why people played it safe, and no bards mass kited, while only the ballsiest druids quad kited and generally only light blues.

Pure nonsense...I quad kited on a wizard pre-kunark and many others did too

[DMN]

Originally Posted by Rummol [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Pure nonsense...I quad kited on a wizard pre-kunark and many others did too

maybe you had cleric friend to make up the deaths you would've been routinely subject to. Wizards have less HP, wear toilet paper, usually have crap defense skill since they avoid getting hit at all costs, and will generally be working with Jboots back then. That makes the window of survival that much smaller for any lag spike. You can probably tell your fairytales to your fiends, but not to someone that was actually playing then. We will throw that right in the BS bin.

[Maschenny]

I played prior to Kunark as well and quad kited all the time without any problems.

[Malik_Gynax]

Originally Posted by DMN [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

maybe you had cleric friend to make up the deaths you would've been routinely subject to. Wizards have less HP, wear toilet paper, usually have crap defense skill since they avoid getting hit at all costs, and will generally be working with Jboots back then. That makes the window of survival that much smaller for any lag spike. You can probably tell your fairytales to your fiends, but not to someone that was actually playing then. We will throw that right in the BS bin.

I guess you know everything about how every player played classic.

[DMN]

Originally Posted by Malik_Gynax [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I guess you know everything about how every player played classic.

I know enough., bard delusions notwithstanding.

[SamwiseRed]

Originally Posted by Tewaz [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

This is a neat idea for PVP. Swarm everything in DL with a TL box up, wait for people to zone out of KC and click.

this happened alot with KC battles actually without the TL boxes. empire would use an OOR alt to gather up DL and suicide all the mobs at the ZL so when we were zoning out of KC from their trains inside, we would die to their trains outside in DL. since it was done by a drugged out out of range unguilded toon, nothing happened. legit strat.

[Silencia]

Originally Posted by DMN [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

maybe you had cleric friend to make up the deaths you would've been routinely subject to. Wizards have less HP, wear toilet paper, usually have crap defense skill since they avoid getting hit at all costs, and will generally be working with Jboots back then. That makes the window of survival that much smaller for any lag spike. You can probably tell your fairytales to your fiends, but not to someone that was actually playing then. We will throw that right in the BS bin.

You talk about dying a LOT to various situations. Have you considered that maybe you were/are just terrible?

Seriously, wouldn't you find it odd that quad kiting / pbae spells existed if people were unable to do such a thing? I can't tell if you're trolling.

Submited by: Galuvian On: 1/17/2001 3:06:16 AM

At level 9 I could Kite THREE YELLOW wisps with this song as the only thing doing damage. Great song once you learn to use it effectively and twist with Selo's and Heal.

Galuvian
13th Verse
Drinal

Weird, this guy had no issue either as a level 9 bard back in 2001. He must be delusional too, right?

[Neno]

Swarm kiting wasn't really a thing on this server until several months in. My bard was created day 1 and was one of the first lvl 50 bards on the server. Most of us knew the strat from our time on live but I can't think of 1 bard that didn't level up through grouping during that time. We all knew charm kiting was a bust and for whatever reason aoe kiting just wasn't a thing here. I think it was Jete who made the post on how to do it on p99 after playing around with it for awhile but he was already lvl 50. It just didn't exist here at the start for some reason that I can no longer remember.

[renordw]

Originally Posted by Neno [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Swarm kiting wasn't really a thing on this server until several months in. My bard was created day 1 and was one of the first lvl 50 bards on the server. Most of us knew the strat from our time on live but I can't think of 1 bard that didn't level up through grouping during that time. We all knew charm kiting was a bust and for whatever reason aoe kiting just wasn't a thing here. I think it was Jete who made the post on how to do it on p99 after playing around with it for awhile but he was already lvl 50. It just didn't exist here at the start for some reason that I can no longer remember.

Yes, same here. My first toon was a bard, and I got him to 46 or so, then quit. In the earlier period of the game, people were generally more considerate to one another (with exceptions obviously). Even if monopolizing zones were a strategy, I would never have done it. I remember back in the day (2010) a bard friend and I wondered if quadding dwarfs in BB would be too rude because of how long it takes for a bard's songs to wear down a mob's HP, you monopolize spawns for a considerable amount of time.