On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Sylly Songsynger wrote:

>
> Heh, ya really does depend on what you are fighting. I have been fighting
> stuff that is 50-53 (ok, me and 23 of my fiends have). Last night my cleric
> asked me to play mana song only when in melee and asked a warrior to stop
> taunting (me 48 and war 47; mob 52+). He said it was just too hard keeping
> us alive. That seemed to reduce the 'attention' I got from the mobs while
> contributing my slashes for 10 and 12. I switched my Yk to off-hand to
> *reduce* the amount of procs. Yes, even though it getst resisted, it still

Hmm, my way of solving this problem when it happens is to
simply stop attacking and either stop weaving (if I've just
taken several hits) or stop singing entirely (if I'm in danger
of dying). It worked great when I got knocked to a bubble
while wielding a yak and waki and weaving 3 songs. Has worked
fine every time I get into trouble in Hate/Fear.

> p.s. we speculate that the hate list is pretty short. so we move everyone
> into melee range in hopes that peeps are moved on to and off of the hate
> list as much as possible. talk about bard hate?

I'm pretty sure it is. That's the only way I can explain how
Vox wiped out 30+ people, including nearly my entire group I'd
been buffing and healing during the fight, not to mention the
bit of melee damage I did against her, and when everyone was
dead she didn't care about me.

> fast one time and all she did was cast rune 3 or 4 on herself - no melee, no
> nuking - just buffing and whammo! Down she went. In fact, she died lots
> more than i did (i may have gone the whole night with either 0 or only 1
> death.)

Wait'll Cazic or Innoruk start to death touch people. Once
they hit someone in your party, you're almost sure to be
next. Better yet, try being the bard in the group with the
puller. :)

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John H. Kim
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