On Sat, 4 Dec 1999, Benjamin Jerrad Segal wrote:

> On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, Rokenn Swiftsong wrote:
>
> > It does not refute it at all. Clarity pulse once every six seconds, our
> > songs have a 3 second casting time (time from when you start the song till
> > the first effect is felt). So weaving clarity with 1 song = little to no
> > loss of mana regen, as the clarity song will pulse every 6 to 7 seconds
> > depending on your manual dexterity, computer's framerate, and missed notes.
> > You can even weave it with to songs and still get nearly the same effect
> > like this: Song1 -> Clarity -> Song2 -> Clarity -> Song1 -> Clarity, etc...
>
> So start-stopping clarity to force it to pulse every 3 seconds doubles
> it's effectiveness?

No, the shortest duration a song can last seems to be 6
seconds. When GZ says you get a "dose" of the song, it means
you get the song effect, and cannot get another dose of that
effect (from the same bard) for another 6 seconds. If the
stop/start trick worked, it should in theory double the
effectiveness of Clarity. I found it had no effect. The only
other person I know who tested it found it helped by about
30%(?), but he had bad lag and PL (in which case stop/starting
it *would* help since it would reduce the chance of you
exceeding a 6 second window due to lag).

I do wish someone else (without lag or PL :) would test this
though. I'm confident in the results I got, but it'd be nice
to get someone else to verify the results.

--
John H. Kim
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