John_Senior@... wrote:

> Has anyone noticed that the new bard song uses more mana since the last
> patch, last night in Sol B King room our group was holding all 3 rooms
> (whole zone was empty). So we had non stop action and at times there were
> 3/4 kobolds coming at us that agro from other rooms, I was using charm and
> after a 4 kobold fight my mana was down 2 bubs. I sat and med but it didn't
> regen fast enough, looks as though this song now uses 20 mana per cast
> instead of the original 5 mana. Ok ok, you must be wondering why I am using
> the level 39 charm song on kobolds? Well, some Solusek Kobolds are too
> high, so I just use the level 39 song to avoid this....we was also pulling
> bats/bugs so it's handy to have for that too. It looks as though this song
> is gonna have to be used in rations....
>
> Madagan Songweaver, Bard of 45 Songs <Guardians of Light>
> Veeshan Server

Yes, I have. I tried to solo some seafuries last night for awhile. Before it took me about minimum of 5
or 6 furies before I would be down a bubble of mana. Last night I was done a bubble and a half after the
first one.

Also, I noticed certain mobs with higher resist rates. Doing the IGs pre-Vox before the patch, I was
sticking about 80% of my charms. Last night I could only stick about 20% of my charms on the IGs. Once
I finally did stick a charm it did seem that it was extremely easy to stick it again though... it was the
initial charm that was sooooo tough. Because of all the resists, my mana was half gone before the first
wave of IGs was done.

I still think the song will be great for limited crowd control and I see the mana thingy as a way to keep
us from going out there and trying to solo.

Taneran