On Sun, Jun 13/99, Kyle <ksibbald@...> wrote:

> Now I play Anthem, Chain, and another song.

The problem with this (and I was doing it too) is that Chain just slows
the mob's movement speed from what I can tell, not it's attack speed
like Binding does. And it doesn't seem to slow the mob's movement speed
that much until the mob is low on hp. It can help keep a very fast mob
from rushing back and forth to your casters and healers but other than
that it really doesn't seem that useful in the early phase of combat.
Later and for nailing down runners it's very effective though so I
always have it memorized. It can combine well with Screech to chase off
some mobs while keeping one slowly running away while you attack it but
this is only useful in limited situations (do not ever play fear in
lower guk for instance <g>) Now that it's working, I've been using chant
of flame a bit to see how effective it is. As most of the powerful
L39-40 wizard spells are ice based it's not as useful as chant of cold
will be, but if you have a druid in the party it is nice. From what I
can tell from testing on myself it seems to do DoT of about 30 as well
as lowering fire resist significantly. I'm hoping they fixed the L30
song soon so I can see how well that works.

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