Here's his followup response further down the page:

posted 06-06-2000 07:42 PM
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>>>I can understnd fixing 54. But why nerf Chains as well?! The movement

debuff on chains is a shadow of its former self.
From what they tell me, the max-slowdown was placed just below that of the
best darkness spell, so as only to affect those using the level 54 bard
spell. If it's affecting anything else, I'll sit down with the programmer.

-Gordon

Here's the link to Rokenn's thread. As you could imagine, there's quite the
hornet's nest on the gameplay forum today.

http://boards.station.sony.com/everquest/Forum4/HTML/049101.html

Galtin

-----Original Message-----
From: Reece, Tom CPT- 25IDL G4
Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2000 3:52 PM
To: EQBards
Subject: [eqbards] Abashi's reply concerning the Chains nerf

Ack, yes, I meant to announce this.
Basically, NPCs now have a maximum amount that they can be slowed down
without being damaged.
There was a particular exploit where two bards could get together, play this
song (the level 54 one), and the Fear song, and any NPCs in the effect range
would stop dead in their tracks and not fight back when being killed.
I'll announce it in the addendum that I'll post shortly.
-Gordon