Epic Perform Gloves
Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2018 8:52 pm
So without spoiling too much, there's a certain shop that sells about half a dozen Epic skill-boosting gloves. All of them are of epic quality, except for the Perform ones ... which are labelled as 'elite' and only +6.
There's a paucity of Perform gear for high level bards as far as I can tell, and little incentive to go beyond say 25-26 bard levels, because its just physically impossible to get the necessary perform skill to make use of 30 bard. Introducing the Epic Gloves would easily address this problem.
As an example: Normally high-level Bards get ~ 30 Charisma buffed [+10 mod, so subtract 11 from the bottom equation] , but even on a hypothetical 52 charisma buffed Bard30/RDD10 [which is totally atypical], you're looking at 43 + 15 from feats + 21 from charisma = 79 perform, requiring +21 more from non-existent gear to get to +100 and make full use of the song.
I also can't see why these particular gloves were downgraded to begin with. Bards need Bard levels to make use of Perform skill properly, so there's not much advantage giving them to a low level Bard with low perform skill; its not like they're gonna suddenly become a diva without the levels to back it up. There's also lots of other items and abilities around to boost characters' effectiveness in epic levels that I'd consider waaaay more overpowered.
So, suggestion: Unless there is another source of Epic Minstrel Gloves or significant Perform gear that I'm not aware of, perhaps it would be nice for the Epic Gloves to be for sale in the aforementioned shop , instead of the current elite ones?
There's a paucity of Perform gear for high level bards as far as I can tell, and little incentive to go beyond say 25-26 bard levels, because its just physically impossible to get the necessary perform skill to make use of 30 bard. Introducing the Epic Gloves would easily address this problem.
As an example: Normally high-level Bards get ~ 30 Charisma buffed [+10 mod, so subtract 11 from the bottom equation] , but even on a hypothetical 52 charisma buffed Bard30/RDD10 [which is totally atypical], you're looking at 43 + 15 from feats + 21 from charisma = 79 perform, requiring +21 more from non-existent gear to get to +100 and make full use of the song.
I also can't see why these particular gloves were downgraded to begin with. Bards need Bard levels to make use of Perform skill properly, so there's not much advantage giving them to a low level Bard with low perform skill; its not like they're gonna suddenly become a diva without the levels to back it up. There's also lots of other items and abilities around to boost characters' effectiveness in epic levels that I'd consider waaaay more overpowered.
So, suggestion: Unless there is another source of Epic Minstrel Gloves or significant Perform gear that I'm not aware of, perhaps it would be nice for the Epic Gloves to be for sale in the aforementioned shop , instead of the current elite ones?