Weren't the difficulty based changes to provocation made while OSI was gearing up to add champion spawns and trammel? seems a bit odd to me... It seems like common sense thinking back that they would've made provocation so much more difficult because it's all the trammies did when they were PvM'ing? Thoughts? Comments?
I have always had a bard and never played during these difficult days on OSI... i hated this at first but now i dont seem to mind. On another shard I gm provo in under 3 days and had a house in under a week with 50 magery. I love the challenge this provides, gotta get a bonus instrument to help you out, balance was needed for provo.
Yes, difficulty based provocation came after the Renaissance era. Staff knows; it's intentional. Afaik they're currently reviewing more information about the publish that brought that change. I personally agree with you (and have said it before) that the change was in large part brought about due to the existence of Trammel, a PK-free environment. I don't believe that, taken as a whole, it makes nearly as much sense without Trammel. But it's far preferable to being killed in my own keep, so I peacefully protest and proposition staff here. If you want to join the Bard Defense Committee, you're welcome to. Not many have voiced a concern about it - all the smart players use tamers.
i just think to myself, "great a shard that's trying to capture the golden age of UO right before they catered to whiny 12 year olds who wanted to hunt monsters all day and banksit." but then they go and make the game exactly the way OSI catered to trammies. can we just get a little friggin common sense?
The staff is working on a lot of projects right now so just be patient as this may change...who knows!
So because provo isnt a cake walk and you can gm off a cat and run around making 20 ophidians kill each other non-stop, makes it too trammelish. This is how I did it on UOSA, it is much more difficult here. So, how is it too trammel? Who is doing the whining exactly?
Please don't attack the Provocation skill situation via yaadood's vague incendiary comments. If you must argue, you should attack the best logic and the most intelligent comments.
