Conversely, this weekend on a PoH trip, I had the unique chance
to use pixie strike a little with another bard.

I was getting solid resists, 0% success vs. a loathing lich.
That is until I put my new flute on, which gave 100% success
against the lich. Which was long enough for everyone to camp
out (we had just been rez'd in and werent ready to fight) and
then I pulled out my yk's and proceeded to lay the smack down
until it triple 135'd me, heh good sacrific tho. Me and the
other bard were the only ones to die for the cause.

This was the test I had been missing, which I stated before.
A comparable level mob vs a bard, the flute makes a difference
assuming it doesn't have ridiculously high magic resist. If
we could charm things over L37, I would assume the flute would
make a difference, but as it is the flute doesn't do anything
for me because I rarely get resisted by a L37 or lower mob.

So I eat my words about pixie/charm and the flute vs. comparable
level mobs. If you are 12+ levels over a mob, your flute does
absolutely nothing however as you become just too buff for any
mob to resist more than the standard 5%.

We need to L30s people to test out pixie and charm in the future,
since the L50s aren't gonna find a L50 creature that isn't buffed
out the yang for MR. (except maybe the dino in oot, even then we
cannot charm him). ;)

Harm.