On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, Sylly Songsynger wrote:
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> Help me out here...
>
> When you put your int stuff on, your mana bar goes from 5 full bubs to 3 and
> a half bubs and you can get it to fill back in if you wait long enough?
Yup, unless you started off at full mana, in which case you
automatically get the extra mana (at least, no white appeared
when I played Elegy at FM, whereas the white increased when
I played Elegy at less than FM).
> And for other casters: Could there be any benefit of using the Elegy song to
> raise int/wis for "buffers" ?? Does playing the song (increases int & wis)
> increase the base mana? Which would then help them in those marathon buff
> sessions pre-dragons, etc. And can it be stacked with Clarity song? Does
This is a popular misconception.
Your max mana has absolutely N O T H I N G to do with the
rate at which people can cast spells. Buffing a group will
take just as long whether you have 500 mana or 2000 mana. A
L45 cleric with 500 mana can cast as many superior heals per
hour as a L45 cleric with 2000 mana.
Only your mana regeneration rate (Clarity, manastones, etc)
can change the time it takes to cast a spell N times. All the
extra mana does is give you more flexibility to "save up" mana
for a rainy day when things turn bad and you have to do a mana
dump. The cost of this of course is that you spend extra time
medding to gain back that extra mana.
> it stack with 2 bards playing it in the same group? If you stop playing it,
> does their mana volume decrease? Ie: could it be used to "mana buff"
> casters prior to a big battle where they are gonna chain cast till OOM
> anyhow?
Yes, you can use it to slightly enlarge their mana reservoir
for a big fight. Once they've cast their first spell and used
up that bit of extra mana they've saved up, there's no point
to playing Elegy anymore. (Well, supposedly int decreases
your resist rate and wis decreases your fizzle rate, so maybe
there is a reason. But there is no mana-based reason to
continue playing it after the first couple spells have been
cast.)
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John H. Kim
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