On Tue, 7 Dec 1999, Talies the Wanderer wrote:
>
> Crission's Pixie Strike:
> A lot of you have noticed that you get resist after resist with Pixie
> Strike, until it "takes" - then it suddenly works over and over (ditto with
> Charm?) Weeeeeelll - apparently, an "undocumented feature" of those two
> songs is a slight magic resistance debuff.
I noticed no change to my MR when I used Pixie Strike on
myself. Will have to test it again.
> Guardian Rhythms only purpose is in twisting multiple songs in the Rhythms
> lines, and ONLY if you are already twisting the other two. It gives the
> same AC and MR bonus as Purifying and Elemental, but without anything else.
Heh heh. Can I gloat? Told you so? :-)
> Psalm of Vitality appears to have a slight disease-removal effect. Purity
> seems to remove poison, and
Not surprising considering cancel magic has no effect on
disease and poison. Now if Verant would only fix it so
poison/disease DOTs were really poison or disease based,
instead of magic based...
> Denon's Dissension is a mana-debuff, but since NPC's don't USE mana, it's
> utterly useless.
They do use mana, but unless the fight drags on for about 2-3
minutes (i.e. death against a blue+ caster), they essentially
have unlimited mana.
> Tuyen's Chant of Flame/Frost supplements it's weak damage by adding a
> Fire/Cold resistance debuff (So theoretically, they'll take more damage if
> they resist less? Stick with Denon's.)
If you're in a caster-heavy group and they're concentrating on
one type of spell (fire or cold), then it can be useful.
> Chord's of Cessation adds a damage effect to it's slow-down, however, it's
> slow-down is no more powerful than the Chains. If anything, it's worse
> than chains, because while they both slow down attacks, only chains slows
> movement.
Not if it doesn't cancel snare.
> All information comes from the spdat.eff and/or spells.eff files,
> reliability subject to Verant's programming abilities.
Bear in mind these are client-side spell effects. Verant can
tweak these server-side without changing the client-side
listings. It'll cause a few seconds of unsynchronization, but
the server will win.
--
John H. Kim
kim@...