What's nice, and I know this comes late, is when you get Berzerker. It
provides a speed increase a tad better than Anthem at that level, STR
bonus, and a very nice AC bonus (9 points when you first get it). All in
one song. If you're willing to give up your weapons, and use a horn while
singing it, it increases speed, strength, and AC quite a bit more.
Also, you'll find use for Chant of Battle again. It stacks with Celerity.
Celerity is similar to Anthem, it boosts attack speed, but instead of STR
bonus, it's AGI bonus. You can cycle that with Chant of Battle, you get
attack speed increase, STR, DEX, AGI, and AC bonus, for the whole party.
----- Original Message -----
From: John Kim <kim@...>
To: <eqbards@onelist.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 1999 5:58 PM
Subject: [eqbards] Anthem and warsong (was: Macro setup for bards)
>From: John Kim <kim@...>
>
>On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, Rogers Pessin wrote:
>>
>> I just experimented with this last night, after twisting them
>> together for the past couple of weeks. I used a combine long sword
>> (28 delay) and swung 20 times (after the very first swing which
>> counted as 0) and ran each test twice.
>>
>> - With no songs going, 20 swings took 56 seconds, which confirms what
>> someone said earlier about the delay representing tenths of seconds
>> of delay.
>>
>> - With Anthem as my only song, 20 swings took 51 seconds, or
>> aproximately a 10% decrease in delay.
>>
>> - With just Whistling Warsong going, 20 swings took 48 seconds, or
>> aproximately a 15% decrease in delay.
>>
>> - With both Anthem and Warsong going, 20 swings still took 48
>> seconds, indicating they do not stack in terms of cutting down on
>> your delay any further. You do still get a STR boost from each song.
>
>This matches my findings. I also used a combine longsword.
>The fellow who used punches (slower) got slightly different
>results (bigger speedup). I'm going to test it again with my
>combine rapier (faster).
>
>> Based on this, I'm now no longer going to bother stacking both songs,
>> and when solo I'll likely twist Warsong with Bellow and Healing. In
>> groups I'll do Anthem instead of Warsong. I am going to test this
>> one more time on a weapon with a greater delay just to be 100% sure.
>
>Warsong also gives you a pretty good bonus to AC, which can be
>useful even in a group (since most mobs end up attacking the
>bard).
>
>--
>John H. Kim
>kim@...
>
>
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