>>Alphonsis: As I understand it, for a non-Bard vocals will not be used to determine the Performance skill. So where do the vocal ranks go? lore bonus pool?
For everyone except Bards, Vocals ranks are being dissolved into the Lore bonus pool.
Rationale: Most characters currently have "excessive" ranks in vocals due to continuous humming, which can be done during most activities with no roundtime. If players are allowed to keep these ranks, performing-based activities will have to have higher skill requirements to compensate.
"The reasoning behind bards getting vocals included in performance in this way is that some bards have trained Vocals using methods outside of HUM. Virtually zero other characters have trained vocals by singing rather than humming. Additionally, the reason for NOT including vocals is so that Performing isn't a horribly bloated skill for everybody that trained using HUM. If we included it for everybody, Performing would be the top lore for nearly everybody, and it would be at an insane number of ranks per circle compared to any other skill in that skillset. Bards are an exception to this because their performing must be high (since it's a circle requirement) and they have to train so many instruments." -- GM Socharis
Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall rank!
