My experiences have led me to the conclusion that Chain fear is only really
good if you have a partner. 1 bard alone cannot do enough dmg to kill large
mobs before they slaughter him/her. And that's just from the occasional
string of resists. I've had mobs resist fear 3 times and then tripple swat
me for 100dmg each. Just not fun. The only time I chain/fear nowadays is
if I have a partner who can either heal or deal tremendous dmg or another
bard (RARE!)
You truely are in a rather unique situation. Most guilds don't have 4
bards, let alone 6, over 40 ;) At least on my server that seems to be the
case. My guild has almost 100 members and I'm one of 3 bards over 40 (and I
just hit 41 this week) The others are all low level secondaries (that will
most likely never see high levels).
My routine when soloing is to either kite with FCC and TCF and Selos or to
charm kite.
Never had very much luck with fear/chain solo
Lyrnia
----- Original Message -----
From: "Reece, Tom CPT- 25IDL G4" <g4mntofcr@...>
To: <eqbards@egroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2000 4:58 PM
Subject: RE: [eqbards] Re: Where in Kunark for 27 to 29? (was Charming)
> My guild has four bards over 40, myself still plugging along at 36, and a
> couple in their 20s. Not certain if that is classified as an "enormous"
> quantity but we do have more bards in the guild than any other class. One
> of the good things about having a lot of bards in your guild is that there
> is a good chance there will always be at least two bards in your group.
> Good example of what you can do with two bards occured last night in The
> Overthere. Me and another bard guildmate were partnered up and ripping
thru
> everything in the zone. He would sing chains and fear non stop and I
would
> weave celerity, chant of battle and FCC. If a mob got more than two or
> three attacks on us the entire combat they got lucky. Later on a rogue
saw
> us and asked what we were doing. We explained the chains/fear trick to
him.
> He asked to join and all me and the other bard could see were visions of
> massive backstabs in the immediate future. After the rogue joined we were
> shredding thru mobs like a cuisinart. The only time we ever lost a
visible
> portion on our health bar was if a 2d or 3d mob aggroed on us. At no time
> did we ever get into serious trouble. All in all it was non-stop killing
> with almost zero downtime.
>
> Funny thing is after he had been with us for a while, the rogue mentioned
> that he had never seen any bard fighting in the style we had. The rogue
had
> a 50+ primary character so he had been playing EQ for a while. I had
though
> the chains/fear trick was a bard standard, especially in Kunark with the
> small aggro radius of most mobs. Does everyone else use this trick
whenever
> the situation supports it (i.e. outdoors) or is it a largely non-used
trick?
>
> Galtin of E'ci
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kimes, Dean W. [mailto:dean_kimes@...]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2000 10:38 AM
> To: 'eqbards@egroups.com'
> Subject: RE: [eqbards] Re: Where in Kunark for 27 to 29? (was Charming)
>
>
> I'm in Armigers of Mirth. There is usually a group of Armigers hanging
out
> at the windmill, the Hounted Tower, or the Sarnak castle most nights.
I've
> been in Frontier Mountains lately hacking away at big giants. ;-)
>
> On the other hand, Galtin's guild Disciples of Honor has an enormous
number
> of bards in it. I think we have only three, me at 29 still, Rylos at 25,
> and a very young bard
> whose name escapes me right now. We are working on organizing an alliance
> with DoH to do those tougher things later on like Dragons etc.
>
> Kit
>
> I'm on E'ci playing around in the Lake of Ill Omen also, which guild are
you
> with?
>
> Gilgurth
> Bard of 24 Winces
> E'ci
>
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