> OK, someone clear thnigs up for me. There is endless discussion about
>"stacking" songs, which I understand to be, conceptually, playing two songs
>at once. Now since this is, by design, impossible, it requires some sort of
>special trick. I gather from what I read that the process involves starting
>one song, waiting for the effect to take place, stopping the song and
>quickly starting another, waiting for its effect to take place, and then
>stopping that one to renew the first, and so on.
>
> My only question: You can't be serious, can you?
>
> Do people really do this? I mean, the chances of actually seeing the
>effect of both songs at once seems so small, and the amount of button
>pressing seems so hectic in mele battle. I have tried it, and have failed
>entirely to get it to even begin to work . . . I mean, sure, I have the
>icon for both anthem and the healing song on my screen, but I hardly ever
>actually get a heal out of it, and rarely is my strength actually higher
>when I actually swing. This "stacking" basically eliminates any effect of
>either song!
Until you get the rhythm down firmly, it is just like that. When I first
saw a bard stacking songs (the bard Maachi, while fighting caimans in
Oasis), I couldn't believe it. I asked how she could do that, and after she
wiped the caiman blood off her sword, explained how it worked.
At first, I could not get it right. I did it just like Maachi told me, but
it just didn't work. But I knew that it had to, cause I'd seen it work.
Finally, I got the timing down pat.
> I'm just wondering if stacking is something that a few over zealous but
>very talkative Bards write about a lot here, or something that a lot of you
>take seriously.
Oh, I take it very seriously. I still stack songs, even at level 34, and
I've seen bards more advanced in ability than I still stacking songs.
Linako Lindenlyre
Mithaniel Marr