On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Reeves, Patrick W wrote:

>
> 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?

I'll just confirm what Harmonic said - it's based on poison.
I've never resisted it, but the one time we took on the
Maestro before I was prepared (17 poison resist, no poison
resist songs), I lost over a bubble to each lifetap and died
pretty quickly. With poison resist at 115+, I take anywhere
from a negligible amount of damage (hp bar doesn't move) to
full damage. Mostly about 0-1/4 bubble though.

If we can get everyone's MR over 100 without songs and had two
healers, I'd probably try Psalm of Purity and use my weapons.

> 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.

Corwyn said last night, "I think it's sick that your healing
does more than [an LDC's] blood boil." :) I use Niv's+Hymn
with a lute when we only have one healer and expect to take a
lot of distributed damage in a fight (and when people are
getting DoTed). It's a very powerful combination. Those two
will basically cancel out the damage a low blue mob does to
you solo. You can imagine what it does if you're grouped.

--
John H. Kim
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