> My big plan for 12 while soloing is still hymn & warsong.
> I'm guessing
> Bellow beats CoD (especially with weapons) so I'll through
> that in as a
> third song. Or should I focus more on offense and sing
> warsong & bellow and
> occasionally hymn?
It depends on the mob. Mobs that knock me out of songs a lot (like skeletons
and monks) force me to constantly change the order of my song playing. At
all cost I keep warsong going, and as stunning allows I am doing some combo
of Hymn/Bellow. Against blue skellies here is what I ended up doing:
(about to pull)
Hymn
Warsong
Bellow (to pull skellie)
Bellow (if I could fit it in)
(Skellie has arrived)
Warsong
Bellow
Bellow
Warsong
Hymn
Bellow
repeat...
but it all depends on the race between my health bar and the skeletons.
Sometimes I risk a bit of defense (hymn) to get a lead by singing only
warsong/bellow.
> Hymn - during battle if no healer, between battles irregardless
> CoB - if caster heavy group and I'm not tanking
> warsong - if caster heavy group and I am tanking
> anthem - melee heavy group
> CoD - in battle & with hymn if additional mobs show up and
> start picking on
> a caster, or when pulling to get a mobs attention faster, or
> in battle if
> I've switched to my lute to heal someone
> Jig - between battles when you get a caster that swears it's
> affecting mana
> and you're too tired to argue. Usually I've got Lament in
> that spot anyway.
> I rarely use either.
> E Rhythms - in place of CoB in caster heavy groups where I'm
> not tanking, in
> place of hymn otherwise. CoB/Hymn would still be that third
> song I'd try to
> fit in if possible.
>
> So now where should Bellow be used? And do you see anything
> drastically
> wrong with what I've been doing?
Nope, expect there is no such word as "irregardless" (it's "regardless" or
"irrespective" sorry, personal pet peeve :o). I would take the time to beat
down the casters on the jig thing though, that is one urban legend that has
to die.
In a group I am only using Bellow once I have fulfilled my obligation to the
group's well being with Anthem/Hymn. I sing hymn in battle always, but I
have been grouping with warriors/monks who can both taunt the mob off me, I
am not sure what will happen in a caster group. But with as few hp as
casters have, I bet I have to sing it there as well. I have not had to sing
Jig yet at all (except while practicing swimming :o) I keep asking the
warriors and monks how they are doing on stamina, but no one reports
problems. If I get a PGT I will have to start using it, but I am thinking it
would be better to save up for an obsidian shard.
Tsengu
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