I had a similar experience in Sol A last night as well. I played my bard
for the first time in about 2 months (extended vacation from EQ) and I was
totally used to using chains to taunt a MOB off of a healer or a wizzie...
Last night I couldn't taunt a single mob into attacking me short of being
the first one to hit it. I thought it was strange but I haven't been
keeping up on the patches and reduced bard hate would definately explain it.
Taneran Dreamweaver
<Clan Jax>
Bard of the 40th song
Prexs
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Reece, Tom - 25IDL G4 [mailto:g4mntofcr@...]
> Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2000 1:28 PM
> To: eqbards@onelist.com
> Subject: [eqbards] Bard Hate
>
>
> From: "Reece, Tom - 25IDL G4" <g4mntofcr@...>
>
> Last night was the first time I got to play my bard for an extended period
> of time since the latest patch. My group consisted of me (35 bard), 33
> ranger, two 35 druids, and a 37 enchanter. We camped in the
> bartender room
> in Sol A trying to get a armor component for the ranger. Everything we
> fought conned either blue or green to me. During combats, I
> weaved Chant of
> Battle, Largos, and Psalm of Cooling. I switched to Elemental and Pixie
> Strike if we faced a wizzie or shaman. Over the course of 4 hours in that
> room, I never lost more than a bub of health. It was very
> difficult for me
> to even get something to attack me. Standard taunt factors from the other
> players that came into play were 1) ranger did more melee damage
> than me, 2)
> one druid did more damage with lightning spells, 3) one druid was
> full time
> healer, 4) enchanter was doing crowd control. In the past, even with the
> taunt factors of the other players considered, weaving the three
> songs I was
> using was usually enough to get all the mobs focused on killing me. For
> last night, most likely explanation would be either 1) bard hate was
> actually reduced or 2) enchanter crowd control overrode bard hate. I'm
> inclined to believe it was the enchanter that caused the mobs to
> ignore me.
> Could have been a completely different story if no enchanter is
> around and I
> have crowd control duties.
>
> Galtin of E'ci
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: kim@... [SMTP:kim@...]
> > Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2000 7:55 AM
> > To: eqbards@onelist.com
> > Subject: Re: [eqbards] Bard Hate (was Permafrost King Room)
> >
> > From: <kim@...>
> >
> > More evidence for reduced bard hate. I joined Rokenn's guild
> > for a Vox attempt last night (4 failures). The last one,
> > somehow I lived. I played resists the entire battle. When
> > all three melee people and the cleric in my group died, I was
> > at a bubble and a half so I meleed Vox a bit, healed the
> > (still alive) enchanter, meleed the priest of Nagafen and some
> > ice giants a bit. I was expecting to get summoned at any
> > moment, but I ran around doing all this for about 3 minutes
> > with nothing happening. I didn't know what to do because it'd
> > never occurred to me that I might live. Eventually I zoned.
> > I think I was the only melee person to survive.
> >
> > OTOH, the first try, I played my resist song for a couple
> > rounds, Vox summoned me, and clawed me to death right off the
> > bat. :)
> >
> > --
> > John H. Kim
> > kim@...
> >
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