On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Cranfill, Wendy wrote:

>
> Last night, we tried to pull "a few" of the frogs from below the Scryer room
> in Upper Guk, and ended up with about 8 - 10. We decided to stay and fight
> to see how far we could get and towards the end when we were all down to two
> bubs of health, I switched to healing with the lute and Anthem... I was
> TOTALLY impressed. Not only did i keep everyone alive but we finished with
> about half health! It was great! I love my bard!!!!!

Congratulations! You have discovered that sometimes, if you
play the right songs, your group can actually *gain* hp in a
fight instead of lose them. Play around with this enough and
you'll get a feel for when you should and shouldn't do it.
Normally I help with my weapons for the first 60%-80% of a
fight, then switch to a lute and go with Hymn, Clarity, Niv's,
Clarity to get everyone immediately ready for another pull.

The decision to go all-instruments has actually gotten easier
since I won the lotto for a war horn from a Vox raid.
Originally I thought this would be a pretty useless item.
But Beserker's + Niv's with their respective instruments end
up being like a 55 point str buff and 19 point AC buff.

--
John H. Kim
kim@...