just guessing here...
Bellow's may have been breaking root...I've noticed this at lower levels
(i'm at 23 now)
Bellow's has a component that 'shoves' the target backwards from where they
are standing (i've seen accounts of people 'shoving' D'vinn(?) out of the
Tower Window in Crushbone, using bellow.
Anyways, when working with an enchanter using their 'root' spells, we
noticed that bellows would 'push' the mob out of root quite often. Whether
this is intentional or a side effect of the 'shoving' that bellows gives, i
don't know.
(note: I don't have any hard data on this...shouldn't be too hard to test,
though)
MacGrough Mich'Rathe
23rd Song Bard
Solusek Ro Wanderers
----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel P. Sniderman" <fuzzbone@...>
To: "EQ Bards" <eqbards@egroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2000 11:12 AM
Subject: [eqbards] Break Root
> Last night I joined up with an Enchanter (lvl 40) and Druid (38) from
my
> guild (I'm 40) in Frontier Mountains. We were pulling stuff near a zone
> boundary (Burning Wood I believe),
>
> Anyway - the strategy we were using was - the Enchanter would cast
> Immobilize - sick the pets on them And Dot and DD away. I joined up with
> them and equipped my MM Battle Drum and Chanted and Bellowed away.
>
> They noticed that after I came - the Mobs Root Broke much more often.
> We experimented with "Just Singing Mana" and then very selectively singing
> the songs - and had trouble coming to conclusion as to what caused it to
> break root. (I'm using the term root generically - again we were actually
> using the Enchanter Immobilize spell).
>
> The only theory that we came up with that seemed to make sense was
that
> any time a spell hit there was a chance it would break. Since the bard
DOTs
> duration are so much shorter than the Druid's and Enchanter's - I would
have
> to guess that is why it broke much more often after I arrived.
>
> Anyone have any insight on this? If this is true it adds an
interesting
> wrinkle to the balance issue (i.e. Verant considering Bards more
"powerful"
> in many regards due to we don't need mana. A side-effect of "casting"
makes
> the short duration of our songs much less "powerful"...
>
> Also - using this strategy - I wasn't sure what the best third song
was
> to the two chants - settled on the 21 hp's I get from Bellows - any
opinions
> on this as well?
>
> Thanks
>
> Slyde Katzenjammer
> 40th Level - Xegony Server
>
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