Well I considered that argument and promptly rejected it after we ran a
simple test. The enchanter can cast Breeze on themself and keep a group of
4 mobs that are even cons, mezzed forever. The resist rate isn't high
enough to give them much trouble since it's below 10% and the mez lasts
longer than it takes to med back the mana.

I then tried the same tactic with lullaby. 6 greater heals later I gave up.
Lullaby met with about 40% success on the even cons. That means it reduced
damage by 40%. Largo's reduces damage by 30%, is seldom resisted, and
doesn't stop reducing damage when someone smacks the target.

I don't want 90% success. If it worked 75%of the time on even cons at high
charisma Lullaby would be viable. Not as good as an enchanter by any means
since it lasts 6 seconds, it's all you can do if you keep them mezzed other
than swing waking up the one you are hitting. It doesn't even begin to make
enchanters obsolete.

Its duration of one tick should be more than enough to balance it out. Add
a higher resist rate than enchanters and it would still be ok. I certainly
don't recall anyone ever claiming it was ridiculously powerful back when it
did work 85% of the time. Nobody claimed that enchanters were made obsolete
by this. This song used to be very useful and got me into quite a few
groups from level 15-18. Since it has been broken I have used it combat
exactly 3 times. I put it away in disgust all three times.

Kitasi

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Merck [mailto:mmerck@...]
Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2000 12:01 PM
To: eqbards@egroups.com
Subject: Re: [eqbards] Another Lullaby question

I think the reason lullaby will never work to the degree we all want it too
is simple - it would devalue the enchanter class to such a huge degree there
would hardly be a need for them. It would be so hugely unbalancing that VI
will never make it work the way it seems it should.

An AoE mez that doesn't require mana, doesn't require targeting, allows you
to melee as well and crowd control with no effort, risk or thought other
than hitting a single hotkey is just too powerful.

It's the same reason they nerfed 54 chains.

Maybe what people should do is offer suggestions about how to balance the
song in a different way other than having it not work 90% of the time. Like,
make it cost mana for each pulse or make it effect the bard as well as the
mobs, or make it a single pulse song instead of a constant one.

> After looking over the Lullaby data again while posting a huge

sledgehammer

> of a question hit me over the head.
>
> Why does Lullaby have a secondary resist???
>

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