On Mon, Jan 24/00, kim@... wrote:

>
> A lot of times I wonder what it's like to play without a bard
> in the group. :)

Not much fun, though with clarity it's bearably. In fact, I try to avoid
playing without an enchanter now. High level Bards are real rare on our
server at high levels and there's only a couple of good ones. <Hi Downs>

>
> Does the song replenish mana at the same rate when you're not
> meditating?

You mean while standing? I don't think so but I haven't tried any
quantative tests. It is definately faster even standing though. Standing
with clarity and the bard song playing my mana bar definately goes up a
lot faster than without either. I can run the entire distance across W
Karana (with SoW) with neither and not notice any movement in my mana
bar, yet one time standing up in the Froglok King room summoning food I
gained a half a bubble of mana in the time it took me to summon 5 food.

Also, dispite what GZ said about pixie strike not being broken, it looks
like they may have changed it recently. Our guild bard wanted to duel my
druid while we were standing around last week after the patch and he
basically locked me up with pixie strike. I wasn't able to move once if
I got the message and icon. This is considerably different from my tests
with the song months ago.

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