I have been rethinking song tactics on uber-mobs as well. Over the weekend
we took on Maestro. The first time we went my standard MR boosting songs
(Guardian+Mystic). After we collected our bodies I decided to try John's
idea (Purifying+Niv's+Hymn). We took him down and there were no loses in
our group. A question here on the AE lifetap, is it a save vs magic or
something else?

Also over the weekend we did Noble Dojorn and I wove Niv's+Hymn. It seemed
to work fairly well, and the cleric appreciated the healing help.

The main problem I find on dragon runs is there is always some caster in the
group with low MR/FR, so I need to break out the drum and do max resists.
Also it just seems the dragons die alot faster then the planes ubermobs.

Rokenn

-----Original Message-----
From: Garramone, Michael (CCI-Las Vegas)
[mailto:garramone@...]
Sent: Saturday, March 18, 2000 11:33 AM
To: 'eqbards@onelist.com'
Subject: RE: [eqbards] Resist question

From: "Garramone, Michael (CCI-Las Vegas)" <garramone@...>

i can't keep up more than 2 songs during a dragon, so i have been singing
elemental/niv's with selo's drum. elemental with selo's is more FR/CR than
either psalm. everyone already has augmentation+haste item+shaman buffs so
i don't need to play VoV. so i give a little regen, a little str, a little
magic dmg shield (i know, all little but still) and a lot of FR/CR,
everyone's MR is high enough to resist fear without guardian. if i am
lagging bad enough to sing one sing, it's definitely elemental.

when i first started dragons, i also thought i should play a psalm and twist
with whatever else, and go in melee. i wonder if that is viable now, i
wonder if i will just end up dead instead, or if the extra few FR/CR i give
with elemental with selo's drum is worth it over a psalm singing. that is
the only reasoning i can remember for not playing a psalm, that and not to
be taunting by meleeing. if we have a mage he/she fire shields tanks anyway
for dmg shield, but our psalms have that to (which stack, if not both). oh
well food for thought.

Shada Powa, L50 Wood Elf Bard
Tyria Sarkin, L48 High Elf Wizard
<Afterlife> Mithaniel Marr Server

>
> You need to ask your group members what their resists are and
> decide accordingly. If they're all high level and have decent
> magic resist, you can probably get away with a Psalm and
> guardian. Personally, if this was ever the case, I'd probably
> use Psalm + Hymn + Niv's.

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