There are lots of drawbacks to the way you suggest though. First, if it
was like devine aura, you'd have to wait that 15-30 min after loading
the song before playing it. However, if they had made it grey out the
slot but have a fast load time, you could have unmemorized the song and
rememorized it to reset it. Basically they way they did it was the best
way for what they wanted, other than making a hidden mana like counter
that worked the same. However, IMO, it was still a waste of time because
as others have pointed out, the song is way underpowered for the hassle
it involves. They may as well have made the song make the bard blow up,
killing everything around him, for all the good it usually does.

On Sat, Mar 25/00, "Garramone, Michael (CCI-Las Vegas)" <garramone@...> wrote:
> From: "Garramone, Michael (CCI-Las Vegas)" <garramone@...>
>
> And short but sweet, I agree with Kevin. I don't want all our songs
> mana-based. It doesn't fit how bards work. I'm not saying I don't like the
> song ideas and think our new songs will be as good as they should be, I just
> don't want to rely on mana to be able to do sing them. I think Dirge should
> have had a timer reset like LH, HT, or DA instead of using our mana. When
> they implemented the song, GZ said he only used mana to limit how often we
> used it. It was not really a mana-based song, they just used mana as a
> timer instead of doing it the right way (couldn't they keep the song slot
> grayed out like divine aura until they wanted us to use it again?). And if
> they did that right, we wouldn't even be talking about songs using mana
> right now cause it never would have happened and we never would have thought
> of it. Dammit that wasn't short or sweet =)

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