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Message ID: 1545
Date: Sat Jun 5 00:30:43 BST 1999
Author: Roop Dirump
Subject: Drunk and mad and dumb
>From: "Kyle" <ksibbald@...>stop
>
> In most cases where the group leader and the rest of the party asks to
>doing something because it is dumb/dangerous/etc. and the group member
>continues to behave in the dumb/dangerous/etc. way then there are two words
>that are often uttered to that group member...
>
> Buh Bye!
>
> It sounded like you were able to take on each dervish with the three
>fighter types alone. Although the wizard is very nice to have in times of
>need, it often doesn't warrant putting up with something that can get you
>killed.
>
> Good Journey,
>
> Sineras Silverlyre (Cazic-Thule)
>
>
>8)-----Original Message-----
>8)From: Reece, Tom CPT - 30th Signal Bn
>8)[mailto:ReeceT@...]
>8)Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 1999 7:40 PM
>8)To: EQBards
>8)Subject: [eqbards] Using the Lament song + a minor rant
>8)
>8)
>8)From: "Reece, Tom CPT - 30th Signal Bn" <ReeceT@...>
>8)
>8)Last night while in the West Commonlands my party was camping
>8)the Dervish
>8)Cutthroat site. I live in Hawaii so at that time of the night
>8)there were
>8)less than 20 people in the zone and we were the only group at
>8)the dervish
>8)camp. We only had four people in the party, a paladin, a
>8)ranger, a wizard,
>8)and myself (all around 13th level). Because we were the only
>8)party at the
>8)site, when we arrived the entire camp was full of cutthroats,
>8)around 6 or 7
>8)total (fortunately no mages). Knowing that we couldn't take
>8)them all on at
>8)once, I told the party to stay back and let me do some bard
>8)magic. After
>8)equipping my mandolin, I proceeded to Lament (sadden) three
>8)cutthroats and
>8)attacked another one. I ran back out to where my party was
>8)and we easily
>8)dispatched the cutthroats that followed. Once we were ready,
>8)we dispatched
>8)the ones that I had initially Lamented. After that, we were
>8)able to take on
>8)the cutthroats one by one as they respawned.
>8)
>8)After the initials battles, my party thanked me for using the
>8)Lament tactic.
>8)They all stated they had grouped with bards before and had
>8)never seen the
>8)song used in the manner I had used it. I thought that was
>8)odd because I
>8)heard about the trick from this forum so assumed a lot of
>8)other people used
>8)it frequently.
>8)
>8)So what's the point of this post? Well, the bard community
>8)needs to educate
>8)the other classes on everything that we can do for a party.
>8)A lot of other
>8)players seem to think that our main purpose in a group is to
>8)play Selo,
>8)Hymn, Anthem, and at higher levels, Mana regen. I'm only
>8)13th level but
>8)I've learned there is a lot more to it than that.
>8)
>8)If anyone else knows of similar tactics that only a bard can
>8)perform I would
>8)like to hear about them also.
>8)
>8)Now for the rant
>8)
>8)After we cleared out the initial cutthroats, we were pretty
>8)much able to
>8)take them on one by one from that point on until we ran into
>8)a stumbling
>8)block. Here is what happened. The paladin, the ranger and
>8)myself, aided by
>8)the Anthem could easily handle one cutthroat at a time.
>8)However, our wizard
>8)insisted on expending his mana with direct damage spells even
>8)though the
>8)tanks were whittling down the cutthroat without taking that
>8)much damage.
>8)The damage we were taking could quickly be healed via the
>8)Hymn after the
>8)combat was over. What eventually happened was that the fully
>8)healed tanks
>8)ended up standing around while the wizard meditated. In the
>8)meantime, the
>8)camp fully respawned. This time, however, there were 3 mages
>8)plus a couple
>8)of thugs. I tried the Lament trick again but a mage resisted
>8)and everyone
>8)got waxed except the wizard, who gated.
>8)
>8)I don't like telling other people how to play their character
>8)but how do you
>8)handle a magic user who insists on wasting his mana? The
>8)group leader kept
>8)telling him to save mana but it didn't do any good. I can
>8)see using one
>8)direct damage spell to help the combat but he would continue
>8)spellcasting
>8)once the cutthroat started to flee. At this point, no one
>8)was in any danger
>8)because the cutthroat was fighting back. He created a lot of needless
>8)downtime by his actions. Any other recommendation other than
>8)finding a
>8)different group to adventure with?
>8)
>8)Galtin
>8)E'ci
>8)
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