On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Perhaps a Princess... wrote:

>
> Swift Like the Wind costs a LOT of mana, and doesn't last as long as
> the lower level speed up buff. Add onto this that there is a speed

The enchanters keep accidently giving me Swift during dragon
raids. :) It seems to last about 10+ minutes (as opposed to
5 minutes for Quickness at level 16). It does take a lot of
mana (250).

> Quicken is very definitely a combat buff. And fairly high mana. Grouped,
> I'd put it on my main tank and let a bard handle the speedup for the
> rest, preferring to use mana for crowd control, or other circumstances
> rather than keeping everyone Quickened.

Quickness is only 80 mana. For a L50 enchanter grouped with
all-tanks, giving the entire group Quickness represents only
400 mana, or about a bubble. They can med that back in a
little over a minute. Dunno how long it lasts at L50.

The reason I find it nauseating is because a group with a L49
bard can improve their performance by getting a L16 enchanter
to buff them.

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John H. Kim
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