While I agree perfectly with this post, you are contradicting yourself
quite well.
1. No one tell me what songs to sing.
2. Shamans should cast these spells in this order, and
Clerics should never nuke or melee.
Even if you are correct in what is optimal for the group, it sounds
bad when you say both these things in the same breath.
Ludvaraman
> From: Ryan Honeyman <honeyman@...>
>
>
> So, the other day in SolB - the usual bat/bug group formed.
>
> Made 48th as I predicted, but I found that I was controlling
> the group more so than I have ever before. And well, some
> L50 people decided to be 'back seat bards' - which I promptly
> disbanded them. Had to tell the shamans to stop piercing the
> bats for 5 and 6 dmg, and sit their pretty arses on the floor
> to med. Had to get the cleric on the floor a few times too.
> Had to plan spell attacks, since the shaman was trying to
> malaise the bat and poison it, before drowsying it. Just
> little things like that tend to make me wonder how these
> people made L45+. I mean if you wanted to swing a sword
> or pierce with a spear, you shoulda decided that 40+ levels
> ago. If medding is boring, or you wanna raise your X skill
> then I politely ask that those people either cease or leave.
> Sounds strict, but when you have people's lives in danger,
> and monsters that can hit in the 100s, I'd like the cleric
> to be medding for heals rather than bashing something with
> a hammer and doing < 10 dmg, mostly wiffing. Then you've
> got these clerics that must nuke no matter what, <rolls eyes>.
> Wasn't a good night, like the one before, to say the least.
>
> Some idiot wanted me to twist manasong in battle, when we only
> had one caster and no snarer. heh. Chains alone basically is
> a job in itself on these LDCs and lava beetles. The same idiot
> got fussy cause I wasn't playing the 'healsong' for him during
> multiple mob pulls. (Without an enchanter, I become a shotgun
> pixie striker - and that is in fact a full time job) Making
> two lava beetles disappear from battle with pixie strike is
> a huge challenge. But this dude kept ranting about how I should
> be healing him at 6 or 7 hp per tick, heh. So he takes a hit
> for 102 and I heal back 7 of that - whooptiedoo! <g>
>
> The next pull, I agree to show him what happens when I just
> 'speed him up and heal him' as he put it. 2 sonic bats, and
> 1 lava beetle show up. I start berserk, no problems. They
> stick on the tanks. I twist healsong, and instantly I am
> swarmed... down two bubbles in less than 3 seconds. Already
> proven my point, then begin to attempt to recover this f'up
> with pixie, the guy is asking where the speed and heal are.
> After all the things were killed, I located the hotkey bank
> with my Disband button and clicked it for him.
>
> o Manasong seems to have very low taunt if any at all.
> o Berserk may or may not get the attention of creatures,
> it seems to depend on how close I am to the unconfronted
> mobs.
> o Hymm is absolute instant aggression.
> o I would imagine Binding, and other AE songs like Lullaby
> would create a fair amount of aggression too.
>
> Harmonic.
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