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Message ID: 1425
Date: Thu Jun 3 09:45:59 BST 1999
Author: jay schultze
Subject: Re: Using the Lament song + a minor rant
>From: "Reece, Tom CPT - 30th Signal Bn" <ReeceT@...>Well, now that the song works in commercial I love it. Lament is THE song
>Reply-To: eqbards@onelist.com
>To: EQBards <eqbards@onelist.com>
>Subject: [eqbards] Using the Lament song + a minor rant
>Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 14:40:11 -1000
>After the initials battles, my party thanked me for using the Lament
>tactic.
>They all stated they had grouped with bards before and had never seen the
>song used in the manner I had used it. I thought that was odd because I
>heard about the trick from this forum so assumed a lot of other people used
>it frequently.
>
>So what's the point of this post? Well, the bard community needs to
>educate
>the other classes on everything that we can do for a party. A lot of other
>players seem to think that our main purpose in a group is to play Selo,
>Hymn, Anthem, and at higher levels, Mana regen. I'm only 13th level but
>I've learned there is a lot more to it than that.
>
>If anyone else knows of similar tactics that only a bard can perform I
>would
>like to hear about them also.
>
>Now for the rantThis is clearly situation that the group leader should have taken control
>
>After we cleared out the initial cutthroats, we were pretty much able to
>take them on one by one from that point on until we ran into a stumbling
>block. Here is what happened. The paladin, the ranger and myself, aided
>by
>the Anthem could easily handle one cutthroat at a time. However, our
>wizard
>insisted on expending his mana with direct damage spells even though the
>tanks were whittling down the cutthroat without taking that much damage.
>The damage we were taking could quickly be healed via the Hymn after the
>combat was over. What eventually happened was that the fully healed tanks
>ended up standing around while the wizard meditated. In the meantime, the
>camp fully respawned. This time, however, there were 3 mages plus a couple
>of thugs. I tried the Lament trick again but a mage resisted and everyone
>got waxed except the wizard, who gated.
>
>I don't like telling other people how to play their character but how do
>you
>handle a magic user who insists on wasting his mana? The group leader kept
>telling him to save mana but it didn't do any good. I can see using one
>direct damage spell to help the combat but he would continue spellcasting
>once the cutthroat started to flee. At this point, no one was in any
>danger
>because the cutthroat was fighting back. He created a lot of needless
>downtime by his actions. Any other recommendation other than finding a
>different group to adventure with?
>
>Galtin
>E'ci