Off the top of my head the ONE place I can think of that you will RARELY see
anything except purely magic-based attacks (no cold/fire/poison/disease) is
in Cazic Thule, where the majority of casting mobs are clerics lizards. You
will get smitten, and wrathed aplenty, and occasionally HTed by Crusaders.
While in PoH or PoF I tend to stack either elemental rhythms with guardian
rhythms or switch out elemental with purifying depending on the mob. If it's
a pure melee mob I'll just use battle songs. If lag permits I'll melee with
the rest of the group, but if we have a LOT of ppl in the zone (which is too
typical of a planes raid) I'd rather just turn my back on the group and play
resists/battle songs with a drum - and I never get complaints for it.
-Sartori D'Elsiraad
50th Bard of Quellious (barely hanging onto 50)
-Stace Stormraven
35th Druid of Tunare
Veeshan (bleh)
>From: "Reece, Tom - 25IDL G4" <g4mntofcr@...>
>Reply-To: eqbards@onelist.com
>To: eqbards@onelist.com
>Subject: [eqbards] Data
>Date: Mon, 27 Dec 1999 08:43:08 -1000
>
>At 29th level, I have all the rhythm based songs as well as the Psalm of
>Warmth and Vitality. Up until this point, when I want to buff resist rates
>because my group is fighting a caster, I have always chosen to sing a
>Rhythm
>based song with drums instead of the Psalms. From my experience, caster
>mobs seem to have a restricted spell book, casting no more than 3 or 4
>different spells in any combat. Of the 3-4 spells they will cast, it seems
>that only two different spell realms will be used, i.e. either magic based
>or one of the other areas (i.e. fire/cold/disease/poison). IMO, it seems
>safer to hedge your bets and boost resist rates in three realms with the
>rhythm series versus only one with the Psalm series. Will that 6 point
>difference (Psalm @ 51- Rhythm w/drum @ 45) really make that much of a
>difference? It would if the mob only casted spells from one realm but how
>often does that happen? This scenario assumes you don't have to tank the
>mobs and can equip a drum.
>
>If you are a tank by default and have to equip your weapons, IMO you still
>come out better singing a rhythm song instead of a Psalm. You will
>increase
>resist rates by a total of 75 (25 in each realm). Since mob casters tend
>to
>only use two realms of magic, you only get to use 50 of the extra resist
>points but that is still on par with what the Psalm will give you (51).
>
>The only time I use a Psalm is to get the damage shield when we are
>fighting
>a melee mob.
>
>Is my rationale on song selection on track or am I missing out on
>something?
>
>Thanks
>Galtin of E'ci
>29 bard
>