Dex factors into missing notes when starting songs. I believe mana is
determined by Wisdom, but could care less since you'll never get more than 1
shot out of dirge at a time.

-Sartori D'Elsiraad
50th Bard of Quellious
-Stace Stormraven
34th Druid of Tunare
Veeshan server

>From: "M Sanford (Maev)" <pr0teus@...>
>Reply-To: eqbards@onelist.com
>To: eqbards@onelist.com
>Subject: [eqbards] Dex useless?
>Date: Sun, 26 Dec 1999 15:02:54 +0000
>
>This was on EQVault. At one time I had 116 STR and 151 DEX and I still
>missed alot. Dex didn't seem to improve my hitting ability at all. So
>eventually I scrapped DEX altogether since I felt it was useless to a
>bard, despite being a "primary" stat. I feel cheated to have given my
>bard a starting dex of 90 but oh well.
>
>Now DEX does add mana for a bard though right? I suppose this is true,
>but I hardly get a chance to use dirge in the first place, seeing as how
>whenever I get res'd, all my mana zips to 0 and before I can regain 4
>bars of it, I'm dead/getting res'd again. And yea, hunting in the planes
>at 50, I die too often. Also, another thing about bard mana... I got
>super drunk which dropped my int to 15, then sobered back up to where my
>int was back to normal and I was missing a full bubble of mana. So int
>definitely plays a part in our mana amount, but I have yet to confirm
>dex or cha for doing so. I'll have to test that out.
>So I'd suggest you sacrifice dex for STR, unless you have a Proc'ing
>weapon in which it'd be good to have some dex without totally killing
>strength.
>
>Maev Lorekeeper
>Tarew Marr