Just nobody let verant know our secret ;)
I've LONG said that pure instrument attack (where we can pull it off) is far
more effective than weapons ;)
If they find out I dread the nerfing that will occur. I still remember the
godawful nerfing that went on in beta when they found out we could stack our
Warsong with the Chant of Battle type songs... (Can you say 40% speedup?)
Lyrnia Jongleur
Bard of Norrath
----- Original Message -----
From: <kim@...>
To: <eqbards@onelist.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2000 4:11 PM
Subject: RE: [eqbards] Breaking from conventional tactics
> From: <kim@...>
>
> On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, Reeves, Patrick W wrote:
> >
> > At 48th it gets even better with Selo's Chords of Cessation:
> > Chords of Dissonance: 32 + 1 (Gypsy Lute)
> > Denon's Disruptive Discord: 33 + 4 (McVaxius' Horn of War) + -AC to mobs
> > Selo's Chords of Cessation: 50 + 2 (Gypsy Lute) + -atk speed to mobs
> >
> > Effect: 122 dam/target/round
>
> Chords of Cessation with a lute does more damage than I do
> with my weapons. I tested it against some L8 mobs, took them
> to half, then fought with weapons and added up the damage.
> The 50 figure above is about right. To compare, that's about
> 9 damage/sec. My weapons test against the Allizewsaur yielded
> only about 7-8 damage/sec (admittedly against a L50 mob).
>
> CoC + CoD do so much damage, that using them with a lute does
> more damage than using them with weapons. It took 10 attack
> rounds (36 seconds) of these two with a lute for me to take a
> wan down to half. It took 14 attack rounds (45 sec) for me to
> beat it the rest of the way with my weapons and singing these
> two songs.
>
> The 122 dam/target/round Rokenn lists above works out to 1220
> damage/minute. This is *on par* with two of the top necro
> DoTs stacked. You can do a helluva lot of damage with these
> songs.
>
> Hymn + Niv's at 47 heal 29 points/tick. At 48, it is 33
> points/tick (tick = 6 seconds). Over a 2 minute solo fight,
> that's 660 points I'm healing, and thus 660 "extra" hp I get.
> In comparison, Resolution is only about 200 points, Symbol of
> Piznarn is about 300 points.
>
> Using Hymn, Niv's, CoC, and CoD with a lute, I've been soloing
> greater kobolds and wan knights losing about 0.5-1.5 bubbles.
> I've been soloing Solusek kobolds and zols losing about 2-3
> bubbles. Yes, that's right, you can solo once you hit 48
> without having to resort to charming or Pixie Striking. The
> only fights that gave me problems were a high level SK armed
> with a FS 2h sword, a high level zol also armed with a 2h
> sword (both too high level for me to charm), and a fight with
> a zol where an urd jumped in (had to throw charm into the
> above 4-song medley - finished at a half bubble, thought the
> next hit from the zol was going to kill me and instead it just
> fell over and died). It is sick just how much more effective
> I am using these songs instead of my weapons. I don't care
> about planes weapons anymore - I want a 7-stringed lute.
>
> If the DoTs turn out to be 3 ticks like I think they are, then
> I plan to see if I can arrange a Hymn, Niv's, CoC, CoD, DDD
> combo.
>
> --
> John H. Kim
> kim@...
>
>
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