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are the cases that are sold in the shops instended to prevent, or minimize damage to instruments?
or do they just require repair frequently from use and being thrown around in the backpacks and such we have them in?
Basically if you toss an instrument in a bag with a ton of other stuff, you will injure it.
Tossing it in a bag with only other instruments will prevent this.
You can also wear and tear instruments by using them as weapons, using them in watery situations (rain snow underwater etc) and I think you can still injure them be dropping them instead of putting them.
Let's save us all some time: I'm a troll who rarely has anything helpful. There.
Tossing it in a bag with only other instruments will prevent this.
You can also wear and tear instruments by using them as weapons, using them in watery situations (rain snow underwater etc) and I think you can still injure them be dropping them instead of putting them.
Let's save us all some time: I'm a troll who rarely has anything helpful. There.
>>Basically if you toss an instrument in a bag with a ton of other stuff, you will injure it.
I have never had an instrument damaged in this manner, even with 5+ years of constant use/storage in my backpack. I'm not sure if there are specific conditions under which damage takes place, but I've never seen it.
GENT
I have never had an instrument damaged in this manner, even with 5+ years of constant use/storage in my backpack. I'm not sure if there are specific conditions under which damage takes place, but I've never seen it.
GENT
>>so basically just get a case for each instrument
Well according to GENT's post you don't have to. You can choose to get a case for each, or one large case for all of them, for RP reasons. Or you can store them in your backpack or wherever.
You DO have to worry about them getting damaged in rain/snow/sandstorm.
-- Player of Eyuve
Well according to GENT's post you don't have to. You can choose to get a case for each, or one large case for all of them, for RP reasons. Or you can store them in your backpack or wherever.
You DO have to worry about them getting damaged in rain/snow/sandstorm.
-- Player of Eyuve
I think the difference is instrument cases stop the dirtiness-timer, or something like that? Can't remember the specifics, or of course find the post at the moment. I know I haven't had to clean any of my instruments at all in the past few years, and I use instrument cases.
Killing you softly with his song,
- Stormsinger Shavay
"We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams"
- Arthur O'Shaughnessy
Killing you softly with his song,
- Stormsinger Shavay
"We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams"
- Arthur O'Shaughnessy
Ditto on cleaning. I'm not sure what causes dirt as I almost never had to clean my instruments with 24/7 playing over many years.
It isn't intuitive, because the GLs and all the Bard shops make it seem like instrument cases are the only way to properly store your instruments. The mechanics just don't back it up.
I am all in favor of having to diligently perform upkeep on instruments. I think that instruments should actually mean something to a Bard. Right now they are really no different from a sword/shield/piece of armor/pyramid/cambrinth item: they are just used to train skills. I think they should require time and energy to maintain.
GENT
p.s. Never meant to be snarky if I came across that way! :)
It isn't intuitive, because the GLs and all the Bard shops make it seem like instrument cases are the only way to properly store your instruments. The mechanics just don't back it up.
I am all in favor of having to diligently perform upkeep on instruments. I think that instruments should actually mean something to a Bard. Right now they are really no different from a sword/shield/piece of armor/pyramid/cambrinth item: they are just used to train skills. I think they should require time and energy to maintain.
GENT
p.s. Never meant to be snarky if I came across that way! :)
>>I'm not sure what causes dirt as I almost never had to clean my instruments with 24/7 playing over many years.
Huh. I actually do have to clean my instruments with my low level bard -- maybe once a day or every other day. Makes me wonder if there isn't some skill involved. Clean the instrument with enough Mech or Instrument skill and it gets protected from dust for a longer time, until eventually it's near-permanent?
-- Player of Eyuve
Huh. I actually do have to clean my instruments with my low level bard -- maybe once a day or every other day. Makes me wonder if there isn't some skill involved. Clean the instrument with enough Mech or Instrument skill and it gets protected from dust for a longer time, until eventually it's near-permanent?
-- Player of Eyuve
Maybe Barbs have some bonus to instrument upkeep, or instrument quality comes into play somehow?
My Trader (145 winds) and Barbarian (402 winds) both have to clean their instruments constantly. For reference, I stow them in my backpack. They seem to need cleaning after X amount of use, and putting them in the backpack sometimes does seem to make them require cleaning again even if I just cleaned them prior to stowing.
My Trader (145 winds) and Barbarian (402 winds) both have to clean their instruments constantly. For reference, I stow them in my backpack. They seem to need cleaning after X amount of use, and putting them in the backpack sometimes does seem to make them require cleaning again even if I just cleaned them prior to stowing.
I used to carry three instruments in my pack with a bunch of other stuff and never had one damaged. Switched to carrying one instrument when I found out the skills were being combined. Haven't had to clean any of them since they turned off dirt accumulation while in containers more than once maybe, and that change went in years ago. And I've spent a ton of time playing instruments as a non-Bard. I'd guess that weather is what's causing the rapid dirtying since I almost never play in the rain.
~Minstrel Ascot, Bladesinger of M'riss
~Minstrel Ascot, Bladesinger of M'riss
It has been ages since I used any instrument cases, I just found that most weren't big enough so ditched that way back when for an ease on weight. I threw all of my instruments into one pack for ages until I finally found a case that fits a ton:
You rummage through a medium leather case embellished with a cambrinth medallion and see a pair of blackened zills engraved with a flying heron, a deep green silk cloth woven cross-grain with a magnificent sleeping dragon, a slender silver txistu tipped with a white onyx dragon-shaped mouthpiece, an ebonwood bow, a magnificently crafted black ironwood lyra viol with intricately carved ivory tuning pegs, a shaped obsidian pick, a platinum-tipped drum stick, a yellowed ivory tipper set with a carved ruby-eyed skull, a set of instrument strings and a finely woven cloth of claret-hued silk delicately embroidered with miniature silver lutes.
Those festival Cambrinth cases are awesome.
Then again my spoons have been in my reticule forever and never have gotten damaged.
You rummage through a medium leather case embellished with a cambrinth medallion and see a pair of blackened zills engraved with a flying heron, a deep green silk cloth woven cross-grain with a magnificent sleeping dragon, a slender silver txistu tipped with a white onyx dragon-shaped mouthpiece, an ebonwood bow, a magnificently crafted black ironwood lyra viol with intricately carved ivory tuning pegs, a shaped obsidian pick, a platinum-tipped drum stick, a yellowed ivory tipper set with a carved ruby-eyed skull, a set of instrument strings and a finely woven cloth of claret-hued silk delicately embroidered with miniature silver lutes.
Those festival Cambrinth cases are awesome.
Then again my spoons have been in my reticule forever and never have gotten damaged.
