I'd LOVE to see that analysis also. In fact, I tend to party with a BUNCH
of shamans (this weekend I organized and pulled for 2 full parties with a
total of 5 shamans split between them). We've been using a combinition of
Regen on everybody, Hymn and their canibilizm (with regen and heal AND
clarity) to keep downtime to a minimum. The shamans are doing most of the
healing so that our only druid can save his mana for Evac and snares. Since
our nukers, tanks and healers were evenly split between both parties, I did
a lot of switching teams to help out the low mana/low health group. The
funny thing was that the team I was part of always seemed to get the bulk of
the XP for any given pull :-). For while there, we were camping the
torturer, kings with an occasional trip to the bar room all at once and
before that we had the EXG, predator, foreman, Singe and Kindle :-).
CONSTANT pulling. I had to buy an timer that I could set for 20 minutes so
that I knew when the spawn cycle was about to start over or if we needed to
skip a location because of a painful pull. We got Charred Guardian Shields
for just about every shaman and druid in the clan plus extras. I couldn't
believe the loot that we walked out of there with (foreman tunics, kobold
hide boots, imp skin gloves, bone hoops, drake hide sleeves and pants,
turquoise eye patches, ring of the goblin king, charred guardian shields,
etc). With one more bard, I believe we would have been able to grab the
captain and the efreet also! In fact, I think that I was the only party
member that didn't get a nice new piece of equipment (not that I need one! I
already have 3 shards, 2 tunics, 1 pants, 1 belt, 2 hoops in the bank), but
I did get my lambent BP finally! (Thanks Orchestro!)
No downtime is the key. My motto has always been that if anyone has more
then 50% mana, then the pulling isn't fast enough!
O yeah, Lullaby is great for pulling that frenzied Sol Gob off the Nuker who
nuked to early also :-).
Taneran
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ryan Honeyman [mailto:honeyman@...]
> Sent: Monday, December 20, 1999 11:15 AM
> To: eqbards@onelist.com
> Subject: RE: [eqbards] Need more bards
>
>
> From: Ryan Honeyman <honeyman@...>
>
> > Lament for pulling, Levitate for emergencies (someone ALWAYS
> falls into the
> > Lava... especially fighting CWG's and EXG's), and Screech for
> when we need
>
> LOL...
>
> > Taneran, also opinionated but willing to try new things ;)
>
> Nah ;-P "You got game." hehe.
>
> I just thought you were healing in battle ;)
>
> We need an analysis of Heal/Mana mix versus straight Mana with
> healers doing the Healing. At higher levels it's not efficient
> enough to play Hymm on tanks who have up to 2000 hp. With the
> pack regen spells, and word of health spells, it's definitely
> more efficient to go straight mana. I'm not sure about L35
> or less though. I am the master of low downtime, but I'm curious
> if around L35 it's better to twist both or play one. I guess
> the all encompassing 'it depends' rule applies here. =)
>
> Harmonic.
>
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