I believe that John and Rokenn were talking about having 2 bards so that
they could do the complete DOT set.

#1 bard twist the 3 chants with drum
#2 bard do CoD+CoC+Hymn+Niv's with lute.

That covers all of our DOTs and healing, which no single bard can do. It
also makes it so the bard doesn't have to switch instruments to get maximum
effect.

Bien

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Danny Craigg [SMTP:danny@...]
> Sent: Friday, April 07, 2000 1:54 PM
> To: eqbards@egroups.com
> Subject: Re: [eqbards] Cahnt Series Fixed was: Instrument vs. melee
> attacks
>
> I used the Chants in Hate the other night as well, and had pretty much the
> same results that you did. On golems and clerics, I switched to buffing
> mode, and on everything else I twisted the Chants. I noticed that on mobs
> that I was able to stick the Chants on consistently, we always got the
> experience (2 tanks, cleric, druid, bard, and non-nuking enchanter) -- I
> stopped taking counts after we got the first 4 of 5. Also, that's the
> first
> time I've ever been summoned by /anything/ in my entire bardic life, and
> it
> felt GOOD! (I was getting jealous of seeing everyone else's name spam by.
> I got summoned 3 times total, actually.)
>
> As long as there is a warrior or ranger in the group, I tend to have
> little
> problem drawing attention twisting these three songs. If not, I do draw
> some heat.
>
> Just one note, though: since these are DoT's, the only benefit of having
> two
> bards play them is to overcome resist rates (which is definitely a benefit
> that shouldn't be taken lightly). Since the songs don't stack (okay, I'm
> assuming here, since it's a DoT effect), two bards who are each able to
> consistently stick the songs won't buy you a lot. Of course, in the
> Planes,
> it does seem warranted.
>
> I tested just before going to the Hate and verified that the Resist debuff
> components do stick with the shammie line (combined dropped me 89 points
> with an MM drum).
>
> Raiel
>
> .