On Thu, 18 Feb 1999, Andy Simpson wrote:
>
> Ok here's what I've seen of this song so far...
>
> 1) Gives 10 STR
> 2) Gives 8 HP Regen per tick
> 3) Gives small rune against casters (haven't determined exact value yet,
> must do more testing)
I take it that's at 50. At 47 I got 7 hp/tick without a lute
(6 hp/tick after subtracting natural regen rate), and 13
hp/tick with a lute (12 hp/tick after subtracting natural
regen rate).
The spell shield is there, albeit minor. Bellow yourself and
see how much damage you take (unfortunately, you don't seem to
get the "hit by X points non-melee damage" message when you
Bellow yourself). It reduced the damage I took by about 15
with a lute equipped; tough to tell since it was mixed with
the client updates.
> It does not stack with any of our damage shield songs, but it does stack
> with VoV and CoB so now you can give 55 STR 30 AGI 15 DEX 8 HP Regen Attack
> Speedup and a small rune when twisting during battle at level 50, not bad at
> all!
The test I did with the Allizesaur (involving over an hour of
weapon swings, about 30 minutes for each case) found no
difference between 87 str and 161 str. I don't think I'll
ever play Chant again except when people are encumbered, or
I'm grouped with 3 bards.
> Better still, between battles if you really must be the healer at that
> level, it stacks with Hymn of Restoration as well.
This is where I really see this song shining. Before, I was a
bit disappointed that druids were about as good a healer over
time as we were, and they could do it with just a single cast.
Now we can easily outperform their healing over time. Also,
it was getting annoying having to sing Hymn for almost two
minutes to fill up a single bubble on a buffed tank.
The healing aspect of this song makes it a winner not just for
us, but for all the other players as it'll help cut down on
downtime some more. If there is some method to Verant's
madness, it seems to be towards nerfing our enchanter-like
abilities, and making downtime reduction our specialty.
Unfortunately, that would seem to be a rather boring job...
--
John H. Kim
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