While it may come as a shock to some of you, I feel I must agree

with Pahn on the topic of staves and the LM skills in general.

Realistically now, why should any one profession be so powerful

with so little effort? Their obvious advantages in soft-eq

portalling, capabilities to lift runes of all types, drain items, bash

with fist runes and summon one via compassion splashing are

ridiculous when looked at objectively. But where Pahn I feel has

made a mistake is that he has not taken this argument far enough.

Take Sorcerers for instance. All of those blasted demons take no

effort or skill to control, leaving the Sorcerer free to repetitively

punch Death, order an eq chant and then follow up with a

blackhand, which we all know deals an incredible amount of

damage with little effort. And thieves, with their super-stealth,

sewers, crossbows, traps and true yank, not to mention liberal

poison use, are just as culpable. Bards, oh don't get me started

with their incredibly powerful Voice and menagerie of foresty

animals, or the untalented hacks most Mages are, merely needing

to brew dag while relaxing in rits and mists. And he also

completely overlooked the Knight profession - duality allows a

double poison bash on every balance and atop this they have all

sorts of skills designed to destroy the few meager defenses to

their onslaught the rest of us must rely on! Let's be honest, what

fool can't set up a JJ macro?

So I too call upon the divine and ask for a correction in these

offending skill sets to bring them in line with the only skills that

seem truly balanced to me. Those would be the Seer skills, and

of course, the skills of the Rangers.

Written by my hand on the 23rd of Midsummer, in the year 1130.