Rebalance: Bardic Words | Heavy Investment | Little Payoff | Both Sides

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Gorth
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Rebalance: Bardic Words | Heavy Investment | Little Payoff | Both Sides

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Bards are cool. They have a rather unique roll, and can fill all kinds of roles with their large skill caps list. Unfortunately, to be at peak Bardic Word affectiveness, they require nearly half of their points spent on skills that do very little, at least at the moment.

However, if they do invest, they are monsterously hard to overcome, at least target to target, not to mention that they get Tumble, debatably the best defensive in the game; though that does require more investment. Regardless, Willpower is one of the obvious choices for the Bard, as it largely affects most of the words, and because of Bards' abilities to get higher raw offensive rolls, that attribute affects the offensive leagues more than the defensive. The following are my suggestions:

Allow the Bard to use something more reasonable like sixty to eighty percent of Linguistics, Music, Storytelling or any other applicable skills. The game chooses whichever is highest. Perhaps rerolls for actually investing heavily, though that would be difficult to code.

Allow:
A: People to get higher Meditation overall. as it is, fifteen percent of 200 (the maximum for most players), is 30. Plus a hundred for the base roll means the player, without Willpower, but with maximized Meditation, is rolling a grand total of 130. The Primalist is the ONLY class that gets above 400, and it is only 500.
B: The defensive roll to use at the least, fifty percent of Meditation. Even this would still make Bardic Words hard to overcome for most people, but it would make Willpower feel much more important.
C: Add Intuition/Awareness with lesser defensive boons than Willpower. Give the mental attributes more general spread and usage.
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