Quite a few of you are making some good points about LRC. Since we are proposing to lower the ash cost to 4, perhaps LRC would be too overpowering. I'll continue to read all of your feedback over the weekend and see what the consensus appears to be for this.

Thanks again for all of your feedback! It's been extremely helpful.

- Leurocian,
Designer, Ultima Online Live

1. I definitely would like to see the damage forumula, and hope that it does include a boost for bards with all 4 bardic skills. The old forumla was 1/7 Musicianship, 4/7 Provocation. 1/7 Peacemaking, 1/7 Discordance, and the bard's level of Musicianship was matched against the target's Magic Resistance. While the 1/4/1/1 would still put a premium on Provocation for the most damage it would be nice to see how it would stack up against someone that has 70 fire resist.

Oaks and I were messing around with a different damage formula that took into account all four bards skills (including musicianship). We're also considering giving more emphasis to damage if any of the bard skills are over 90. The new proposed weight for each skill would then be Music:1/Prov:3/Peace:1/Discord:3. Since musicianship and peacemaking are relatively easy to raise when compared to provocation and discordance, we feel this may be a better way to balance the damage of the firehorn. The goal of course is to make the firehorn damage more viable in PvM and PvP, but we want it to be the most effective for pure bards. In any scenerio, we certainly do not want the firehorn to be a one hit killer vs. players.

After I've had a chance to internally test the proposed firehorn damage, I'll post another (and hopefully final) revision for the proposal.

Thanks again for the feedback!

- Leurocian,
Designer, Ultima Online Live

But I agree with alot of your other points, though. Particularly the high number of creatures that are immune to barding.

That will change soon also. Oaks and I both agree that stuff such as juka lords, orc brutes, etc. should be bardable. Otherwise, why allow shadow wyrms to be bardable but not them? Doesn't make sense. Expect this to change either in Pub 26 or Pub 27. I have Ilshenar Champ Spawns and other important issues to tackle as well, so we'll try to squeeze in what we can in a timely manner.

Lastly, I haven't forgotten the request to allow provoking onto players/animals again. No promises on this one, but I'll see what we can do about this as well.

- Leurocian,
Designer, Ultima Online Live

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