>>
>> Thats funny. My friends and I have been planning to test that very
>> assertion. We wanted to make a group of Bard, Warrior, Ranger, and 3
>> Paladins (pallies get better heals plus Lay Hands). We felt with 6 melee
>> types, we could really do some serious damage. We would have had a great
>> time thru the lower levels, but I could see possible problems at higher
>> levels. By selectively taunting and backing out of combat, we could have
>> spread the damage around quite well.
>
>I used to be in groups like this back in the early days in Cazic before
>rubicite fever swept the servers. Usually we'd have a group of whoever
>showed up, and it was commonly all melee/hybrid types as the casters
>were all still in Unrest. It can be quite effective and quite fun. You
>get to use songs you wouldn't normally use.

I do the same right now.. Hunting in CZ and often in straight Melee/Hybrid
groups, and I must say its much more fun than being grouped with a bunch of
casters that is used to soloing and thus burns all their mana in the start of
the fights which only results in two things:
1. Lots of downtime because of them medding
2. They get bashed pretty good by the mobs until we (tanks and semi tanks) can
get em of them.

Offcourse there is nothing that beats a well balanced group where people know
how to work together, but a straight melee/hybrid group is much easier to get to
work together and with little downtime.
There is vitually no downtime and when people knows when to taunt and when to
back off - Hymn with a mandoline heals a massive amount of health each round..
Further more our speedup songs really get to show their worth (Currently using
Anthem the Arms). One group I have been with in CZ resently constisted of:
ranger, SK, SK, warrior and me (Bard) we all ranged from 30 to 35. We pulled to
CY from pool and had virtually no downtime.. It got even better when a Cleric
joined us :o)

Musiker Silverdrum bard of the 30th song, Bertox

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