Re: peacemaking

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Polychromic wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 12:19:34 -0500, "plaguebeast"
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
>>
>>"Rexx Magnus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>> On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 16:49:21 GMT,  scrawled:
>>>
>>> > I'm 115 peace and 115 musicianship. I can see making it harder but the
>>> > peacing bard is practically useless now. I had to peace an arctic ogre
>>> > lord 8 times last night before I finally killed it with a fire
>>> > elemental. This is up from only peacing it once or twice before p21 -
>>> > gimme a break! There's a difference between making something more
>>> > challenging and ruining the character alltogether.
>>> >
>>>
>>> But you still did it, no?  It does make it sound terribly overpowered if
>>> you only need to use a skill once in order to kill it with such a lowly
>>> creature.
>>>
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>>farming is farming, making it more tedious is not a good way to make it more
>>fun.
> 
> Farming should be fun?  I'd like to see a more dynamic spawn engine
> that would dump more and more foes on a farmer until their bloodied
> corpse is dragged around the countryside by hungry rats.
> 

I just started a peace/provo/discord bard/mage about a week ago, and I
must say I love peace, broken though it may be.  Having no frame of
reference to the pre-Pub21 times helps, I'm sure.

I use peace all the time.  Area peace has saved my hide many times
already in Cyclops Valley, and directed peace seems to work
sufficiently well to allow my elementals and EV to kill titans/etc, or
to get a monster off my tail while I look for another to provoke onto it.

I haven't the skill to take on dragons or balrons yet, and my template
is MAGE/bard and not tamer/bard or paladin/bard, but I see nothing
wrong with the way it is.  I have seen how peace used to work:  Bards
in the Ogre Lord room keeping an OL peaced the ENTIRE time they fought
it, likewise dragons in Destard, and I can only think this change is
for the better.

Just my 2 cents worth.

Brian K