I have 3 bards while I swap masteries frequently I find the mastery quests "annoying" but far from tedious.
Other than provo mastery peace and disco masteries quests takes me exactly 2 minutes to finish. And why complain about the mastery book? How hard is it for you to throw away an item in UO? I mean damn... (what I really wanted to say is "wtf u fkn nublet l2p").
I do not understand the point of the Quests.
I mean, if they are supposed to be a deterrant for bards to swap masteries then they failed because, as you say, in 2 minutes one can do the related Quest and change Mastery.
But then, if they were made easy to be changed, I do not see the point of having it as necessary to redo the Quests each and every time one changes the Mastery.
I mean, from whichever angle I look at the issue, having the Quests makes no sense.
They wanted Masteries to be a "specialty" for Bards ?
They why not have downtimers ?
That is, a Mastery needs to stick for 24 hours or even 48 at least before one can change it. No need to redo Quests but it would be necessary to wait the timer to expire before another Mastery can be picked.
This, of course, if the wish was to have Bards "stick" with a given Mastery.
The Quests that can be done in 2 minutes are no guarantee of Bards sticking to Masteries and so, play no role to reach this goal.
Also since Popps denied Logrus's "confirmation" saying inspire works with pets. I would like to see Popps do some test, and record 100 melee damage numbers on the blackrock golem and the time it takes to kill one, then record another 100 melee damage numbers with inspire running. Repeat this test for 5 to 10 different golems to get a more accurate readings.
Then I would like to see some testing done and recorded by popps proving sdi bonus does not work for pets (because apperently according to my tests as well as Logrus it does)...
It was my understanding that Logrus, at least from what I read in the post, limited the testing to spells.
I saw no reference either to Hit Chance increase or to Melee Damage difference when having the Mastery on.
So, at this point, I cannot say that those 2 boosts were tested by him. Perhaps they were, but since I could find no mention in the post I just cannot know.
I assume not, otherwise I would imagine they would be mentioned......
I know there's no way someone THAT popps would do it. So I dont expect popps doing anything even in the slightest usefulness to anyone. He's just so "popps" that hes as useful as a untrained mongbat to a tamer.
It is a matter of having the time and patience to do it. I did quite some testing in fishing and posted my results for others to read so, I do not see why, if I get the time to also do this, I do not see why I would not post the results just as well.
And IMO Barding mastery is not meant to be the I WIN BOTTOM in PvM, and I find them useful.
If a Mastery "claims" to be working for
any and all pets and
any and all summoned creatures and to provide a boost for +16% Spell Damage, +16 Hit Chance Increase and +40 Melee Damage Increase well, then I am expecting that it does what it says.
That is, that it provides those exact bonuses for
any and all pets and
any and all summoned creatures, Greater Dragons and Rising Colossus included.