Posted by Salipek on April 3, 2000 at 16:17:38:
In Reply to: Not really. (text) posted by Proud Blade on April 3, 2000 at 15:55:45:
You're focussing your judgements on the wrong areas. To me bards are easy because anybody is more than willing to group with you. You can powerrank a bard up to 51 like nobody's business, the only class that may be easier is a conjurer but they don't become useful until 20th rank.
Further, easy to me means NOT being killable and a smart bard generally isn't. Bards have no trouble with air majors, warriors, and the other pk'ers at high ranks. Lich can be a problem as maledictive songs are pretty close to worthless. Anything that can be distorted is easy to kill. At least that was always my motto, mainly because frightful fiend is such bullshit, especially after getting them distorted. I was starting to feel bad about how easy it was to kill people, but then that's because I don't generally run around pk'ing like a crack fiend.
I think warriors and thieves are harder classes really, BECAUSE of their limited options, but you seem to see that as an advantage.
In short, it's hard to kill a bard(10 on 1 gankings excluded), it's super easy to rank a bard, and it's super easy to kill with a bard. Who needs to kill at 15th rank when you can rank to hero with any and everybody in less than 30 hours and then kill till your hearts content.
The only "hard" thing is getting the motivation to waste your real life practicing sing, but then I was always partial to humans.