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I'm curious, does the item bonding change have an impact on sentient instruments? I know we were waiting on some things with creation/bonding to change before instrument bonding and sentience were to be turned back on/re-released.
Or are we still waiting until the lore rewrite is one before instrument bonding is turned back on.
- Terra
Hopefully someone with a better memory will chime in because I might be wrong.
I think there is a reason you never quite understood the intent and that is the play and find out issue bundled up with the incompleteness of the system. You can make all the assumptions you want about what bonding and sentience might have meant for us, personally I always felt that instruments would be able to play enchantes for us and just be generally "helpful", but as to what it really was, I don't believe that was ever common knowledge.
~Jycanth
I think there is a reason you never quite understood the intent and that is the play and find out issue bundled up with the incompleteness of the system. You can make all the assumptions you want about what bonding and sentience might have meant for us, personally I always felt that instruments would be able to play enchantes for us and just be generally "helpful", but as to what it really was, I don't believe that was ever common knowledge.
~Jycanth
I believe if you had fully bonded to an instrument before they were rewritten, you are still bonded to that instrument.
It doesn't do anything mechanically, and never did, except for some special messaging. I might be fuzzy on this, it's been a LONG time.
Sentience was suppose to be a very special bond with an instrument that would provide useful mechanical benefits to the Bard, like item bonding, bonuses, etc. It hasn't been discussed in earnest since it was taken away.
GENT
It doesn't do anything mechanically, and never did, except for some special messaging. I might be fuzzy on this, it's been a LONG time.
Sentience was suppose to be a very special bond with an instrument that would provide useful mechanical benefits to the Bard, like item bonding, bonuses, etc. It hasn't been discussed in earnest since it was taken away.
GENT
>>...since it was taken away.
I may be misremembering, but as I recall it the only change was that they turned bonding messaging off, since it wasn't going to be useful in the foreseeable future. The way that read to me, you can still bond to your instrument - you'd just never know unless you died while holding it. Although with Dart's change to instrument cleanliness a while back, the path to bonding is essentially stopped in its tracks.
Here's hoping that, whenever it does come back, it's an important, useful, and voluntary process.
Killing you softly with his song,
- Stormsinger Shavay
Faerie tales do not tell children that dragons exist. Children already know dragons exist. Faerie tales tell children that dragons can be killed.
- G.K. Chesterton
I may be misremembering, but as I recall it the only change was that they turned bonding messaging off, since it wasn't going to be useful in the foreseeable future. The way that read to me, you can still bond to your instrument - you'd just never know unless you died while holding it. Although with Dart's change to instrument cleanliness a while back, the path to bonding is essentially stopped in its tracks.
Here's hoping that, whenever it does come back, it's an important, useful, and voluntary process.
Killing you softly with his song,
- Stormsinger Shavay
Faerie tales do not tell children that dragons exist. Children already know dragons exist. Faerie tales tell children that dragons can be killed.
- G.K. Chesterton
Wow, just read that and... I'm actually pretty surprised. I wasn't expecting them to have much backstory. Though I've never really known what a sentient instrument would be able to do or what benefit it can offer, it's interesting to see that somewhere along the line they were getting consideration. I really thought the whole notion had died out long before Muspari ever came about.
-=Issus=-
-=Issus=-
Yeah, the enchante journals are really cool. I wish all guilds had books like that. I was hoping to see something, anything with some of the more interesting tidbits surrounding our guild. I think Bard's have a lot of potentional for big storylines and interesting drama.
I'd love to see more regarding:
- Karovaas
- The Naga
- Sentinels
- Sentient Instruments
- Order of Kalodi
- Songsworn
- those bardic swords which may or may not be player created. I forget what they're called, Truesong and Darksong maybe? Very cool
- Terra
I'd love to see more regarding:
- Karovaas
- The Naga
- Sentinels
- Sentient Instruments
- Order of Kalodi
- Songsworn
- those bardic swords which may or may not be player created. I forget what they're called, Truesong and Darksong maybe? Very cool
- Terra
>> Terra's list
I swear we are kindred spirits-in-lore.
The only addition I'd love to see to more of:
- Information on the role(s) of Court Bard. I have a feeling that there is all sorts of lovely crossover into the political/spying/etc... there, as well as fun ties into trader type activities via everyone's favorite thing: lawyers.
People hate screams, we ought to create IC lawsuits (class action!) and really make people loathe Lore-fu :)
The Moose
"My advice? Run to a safe room, then re-roll. It's guaranteed awesome."
I swear we are kindred spirits-in-lore.
The only addition I'd love to see to more of:
- Information on the role(s) of Court Bard. I have a feeling that there is all sorts of lovely crossover into the political/spying/etc... there, as well as fun ties into trader type activities via everyone's favorite thing: lawyers.
People hate screams, we ought to create IC lawsuits (class action!) and really make people loathe Lore-fu :)
The Moose
"My advice? Run to a safe room, then re-roll. It's guaranteed awesome."
And I know some have waited longer than me for them to open! Let's see I'm up to 6 years waiting, I think it is. Brings back memories of camping out at the Sentinels, waiting on Karovaas to come back out of them just to be killed. Oh and tarts being delivered by shoot, what was his name, Yadrel, something like that then getting teased with a tart cart driving by. Let's see, I think I was circle 30 then.
I can't wait!
~Eoworfinia~
Marge, it takes two to lie. One to lie and one to listen. Homer Simpson
Get the facts first and then you can distort them as much as you please. Mark Twain
I can't wait!
~Eoworfinia~
Marge, it takes two to lie. One to lie and one to listen. Homer Simpson
Get the facts first and then you can distort them as much as you please. Mark Twain
