IMO, to successfully use this technique on a consistent basis you need to be
going against blues. Yellows and reds may resist too much. Could still
work but you make take a lot of damage. Against blues I don't lose much at
all with this technique. Start off with chain, then fear and then start
whacking them from behind. I've been using Furfils as the 3d song to debuff
their resist rate. Bellow might be a good option for you. Biggest thing to
be concerned with is that you don't aggro a second mob while chasing the
first one.
On a similar note:
Grouped with another 35 bard last night on E'ci in Frontier Mtns. Lots of
blues in their for us to fight. Told her I intended to use the chain/fear
technique. She had never heard of the technique before. She told me not to
pull any casters. I told her to continuously pixie strike the caster to
interrupt their casts. With both of us doing it we shouldn't have any
problems. She said 1) I weave 4 songs ALL the time, never just one and 2) I
never fight casters if I can avoid it. I then asked her if she read this
list or Concert Hall board. Said she didn't have time for message boards
and hated mailing list spam. I tried my best to tell her about some of the
tricks bards could use to defeat mobs. She said BAH I'm a tank. I laughed
to myself. Pulled a mob and was killing it easily when another mob joined
in. She just kept swinging away on first mob so I backed out, charmed the
second one and had it finish off the first mob. Then noticed she had quit
the group. Was already low in HPs so decided to zone instead of fighting
the second mob. Saw her on the other side and tore into her. She said she
dropped the group because I backed out of the fight and she was taking all
the damage. I asked her if she was aware of how our charm song was used.
She said BAH our charm song was a wasted song and that she never used it.
On a whim I asked her what her max charisma was. She came back with 89.
She then started to criticize me for trying to use "bard tricks" to defeat
mobs instead of pure melee. At that point I decided she was a lost cause
and I wasn't gonna try to educate her anymore on how to play a bard. It
just strikes me as odd that at this stage of the game you still find players
who have no freaking idea how to play their class.
Galtin
-----Original Message-----
From: Kimes, Dean W. [mailto:
dean_kimes@...]
Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2000 6:28 AM
To: '
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Subject: [eqbards] Our two main weapons...
Our two main weapons are Selo's, Chains, and Screech... Our three main
weapons...
But seriously, I expect to get Screech tonite and was hoping to get some
better understanding of how I might put Screech and Chains to work in the
wide open expanses of Lake of Ill Omen and The Overthere. Perhaps some of
the more experienced bards can shed some light on this?
Kitasi
Nearly 26th and still no last name...
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