only benefit of bellow over denon's and chords is that it is a single target
song instead of area effect, which in many cases outweighs the extra damage.
area effects are very dangerous in dungeons.
Shada Silverleaf, Level 41 Bard, Mithaniel Marr
-----Original Message-----
From: John Robertson [mailto:
johnr@...]
Sent: Monday, June 07, 1999 7:13 AM
To:
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Subject: [eqbards] Denons Discord and More
From: "John Robertson" <
johnr@...>
Last night I duelled a friend and did some research on this.
Background:
Jyzan - level 24 bard
Str 104
Dex 107
Cha 76 (I'm wearing a grotesque mask)
Singing: 125
Brass: 76
String: 125
When singing Denon's Disruptive Discord, it was doing 9 damage per tick.
Chords
of Dissonance was doing 7. Denon's also decreased the target's AC by 9,
which
is very good.
When playing their respective instruments, Denon's was going 19 damage per
tick,
while Chords was doing something like 15. Denon's was also decreasing AC by
19,
which is a LOT. This is MORE than taking off a steel breastplate and going
barechested.
Keep in mind that these songs are "damage over time" songs, so that once you
make them "wince" once, it will damage them 2 more times, so if I were to
juggle
these two songs and Brusco's Boastful Bellow, here are the effects I would
have:
Tick 1: Denon's makes them wince for 9, and reduces their AC by 9
Tick 2: Chords for 7, Denon for 9, AC still reduced
Tick 3: Bellow for 13, Chords for 7, Denon for 9, AC still reduced.
The net result of all this: 54 damage, AC reduced by 9.
Compare this to most people's tactics, which is Bellowing all three rounds,
for
a net damage of 39 and no AC reduction. Over a long fight, this is a
significant difference.
One other thing that we tested... Largo's Melodic Binding, in addition to
reducing attack speeds, lowered AC by 6.
Jyzan
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