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Message ID: 16306
Date: Fri Mar 17 16:15:26 GMT 2000
Author: Ryan Honeyman
Subject: Re: [eqbards] The only good dragon...


> got fear bugged with 90% mana along with 3 or 4 others and a few went LD.
> We had 3 functioning healers that entire battle. Well, we still got Lady
> Vox down to a sliver before our damage output dropped to nothing.

And sure enough, (I have the eqlog.txt to prove it) I had 230 CR,
my all time record high but still got waxxed. It's _very_ hard to
beat 230 cold. In fact it's near impossible to go above 250.

2390 hp.

Vox breath attack one: 0.5 bubbles.
Vox breath attack two: 1.5 bubbles.
Vox breath attack three: 0.25 bubbles.
Vox breath attack four: 1.5 bubbles.
Vox breath attack five: dead. (thats right: 2+ bubbles)

I'll post my eqlog.txt when I get home.... it clearly shows this:

You feel an aura of elemental protection.
Your aura fades.
You are blasted by freezing winds.

wtf? There is a bug with Bard Song Shields and I now have the log
to prove it. And you all dismissed it as lunacy ;)


> A little CR, pause for a snack.

We terrorized gfay in the downtime. We had punching duels. (I lost
mine, don't ever duel a ranger in a punching contest even with their
low H2H skill, he was double/dualing 5-9 dmg consistant enough that
my weak dual couldn't keep up. Plus he kicked me a lot, damn cheater.
heh. That's ok, I was playing VoV ;-) Got him to a sliver and died)

There were trolls molesting ogres who in turn were molesting wood elves.
It was actually some of the best times I've had after dying in a while.

> Harmonic came along as a guest this trip, so he got to see both
> the guild at its worst and best :).

Had more fun than I have had in a long time. Losing was fun, and
so was winning. I have screenshots, but I didn't know whether you
all wanted them posted or not, so I just put them in my eq resume
folder ;-)

Killed Maestro the other night too, finally got my evensong after
the first one was ninja looted from me months ago. He was dual
wielding, 24 people killed him with 3-4 deaths. Learned a lot
about how to fight him after the first attempt with 32 people
failed miserably. 32 people with his AE lifetap actually made
his hp go up, not down in battle. Scary. Cleared 5-6 static
houses (20-30 mobs) and one thing dropped, EM gloves. That is
another great example of Verant under-rewarding players who've
invested time into _their_ world.

Psalm of Vitality does not cure disease. If anyone wants my eqlog
of that I pulsed it for 1 hour, and Strong Disease was still up
when I returned to the computer. This applies to Psalm of Purity
as well. It does not cure poison (although poison is much shorter
duration).

I tested a few other things as well, but I failed to test charm
again. It could have been a fluke in permafrost, but I could
not clear the dmg list of any of the 3 goblins I tried it on.
I'll try it again this weekend, on the mobs I use to powerlevel
people (centaurs).

But there is absolutely something wrong with our magical song shields,
and I encourage others to test this against NPC spell casters. If
I can later today at work during lunch, I'll log something to post
this bug.

Harm.