Yes, if you have CoC and some of us don't. I plan on replacing binding with
CoC when I get it. On the other hand, stacks does appear to be the right
word when an enchanter is involved. I don't have hard numbers, but there
was a definate percieved difference between binding vs. enchanter slow vs
both. This one appears to stack.
As for chains, until the efreeti raid I would have agreed with you. We had
a total of 4 druids involved all going for their boots ranging from 41 to 49
and not one got snare to stick... The bard had to save the day. I'll always
keep this song up now for those situations where a runner means evac or
death.
Remember, very few of the bards on this list have CoC, but practically every
single one of them has Binding...
> -----Original Message-----
> From: kim@... [mailto:kim@...]
> Sent: Monday, March 20, 2000 4:51 PM
> To: eqbards@onelist.com
> Subject: Re: [eqbards] Chains Reliability
>
>
> From: <kim@...>
>
> On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Jeff Illian wrote:
> >
> > For example, this weekend we did the Efreeti raid... We almost
> screwed it
> > all up because one damn imp resisted all of the snare attempts
> and started
> > running. What saved the day? Luckily the other bard in the group had
> > chains loaded and stopped the runner cold in its tracks. Me
> being a DOLT
> > didn't have it up (last time I do that!).
>
> If there is only one snarer in the group, I keep it handy.
> Two and I usually replace it with something else.
>
> > What about the slow down effect? Well your level 20 song is as good as
> > chains, has an area effect, doesn't break root and stacks with the
> > enchanters slow downs. IMHO this is a much better song for
> during combat
> > and chains should be loaded for the emergency situations when everything
> > else fails.
>
> As far as I can tell, Chain does not cancel other slowdowns
> ("stacks" isn't the correct word since that implies the
> slowdowns add to each other).
>
> I have enough difficulty deciding which songs to keep
> memorized. If I'm going to have Chain loaded for emergencies,
> I'd rather not have to keep Binding loaded. Also, the
> slowdown for CoC is not as great as for Chain/Binding from my
> tests.
>
> --
> John H. Kim
> kim@...
>
>
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