Err, with all due respect, I've killed at least 3 dozen hill giants with charm at level 30 so far. It
works just fine. That's not to say I haven't died a lot (and I mean a LOT) getting good at it. But I'm
halfway through level 30 on giant exp alone, and have made around 1500pp from doing it. Just don't tell
anyone! Lest nerftdom come!
Actually, I think the ability is too powerful, and could see how any other class would be extremely
jealous. Not that I'm complaining, since I'm not looking forward to the higher level days when I'm not
much good for anything but a mana machine.
Laluni Songhammer, Level 30 bard on E'Ci whose only complaint is that there aren't enough hill giants to
go around in rathe mountains.
Ryan Honeyman wrote:
> From: Ryan Honeyman <honeyman@...>
>
> > Still, I leave those groups as soon as I can. The fact is that they
> > are dead wrong to think that the mana song is the only useful thing
> > that I can play, and I don't like being in a group that is both stupid
> > and insistent that I go along with their stupidity. Those are the
> > groups that get me killed.
>
> Amen brother, if I am getting beat down constantly, I will leave.
> But if the group is working good enough, and the exp is rolling
> in decently, with little downtime. I'll save my bardic speech
> for another time. I'll be the first to jet, if things suck.
>
> In the immortal words of Beavis, "Change it Butthead."
>
> > Mes, it's still darned useful. In Lower Guk (savant, exe, scribe
> > rooms), at level 34, I was getting about 50% resists. This shuts
> > down half of the goblins
>
> frogloks ;p I'll have to return to Guk to re-evalute the song.
> In the lord room, I got my ass seriously kicked when I tried to
> sleep frogs.
>
> No disrespect meant song brother. Just trying to cut the illusion
> we often give of ourselves as being slightly more powerful than
> we are in reality. After all, we are storytellers, and we have
> to make ourselves look good in the public eye. If you didnt solo
> like 5 hill giants at once with half your hp, and two rusty
> daggers, what good are you?
>
> Just like that one bard claiming to solo hill giants using charm
> at level 30. I think that was a pretty tall tale. Ask Sylly how
> her charming experience went when she was doing it at level 34.
> But, hell, it sure sounded good! Impress your friends ;-)
>
> Harmonic.
>
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