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Message ID: 20632
Date: Mon Jul 24 15:26:44 BST 2000
Author: Elijah Meeker
Subject: RE: [eqbards] Re: reality check


> No, Just like any other spell/song you cannot place two
> instances of the
> same song on a creature. Same as for healing you cannot
> 'stack' healing
> with itself.
>
> Basically any song/affect with a "duration" cannot be stacked.

This makes sense of course, but I am still left explaining what appened in a
2 bard 1 cleric group (all 34) at the giant fort in the Frontier mountains.
With only 3 it very much seemed like you could easily see the effect of
different strategies when fighting tumps.The cleric was only healing, the
other bard was a fellow I know and who said the effects didn't stack, I said
I thought they did, so as an experiment he switched from Melee to all
instrument.
We were taking about the same damage and the cleric was finishing with the
same mana. The cleric reported that the health was indeed dropping faster on
the tump, both us bards being a little too busy to really judge. We fought
for about an hour this way, and if one of us was doing no more than punching
damage (and allowing fewer knocks out of songs) that means that one of us
was superfluous, but I am certain a group of one bard and a cleric would not
do nearly as well.
I understand this is not a very scientific study, at all, but it seemed
pretty convincing at the time. Has anyone actually methodically checked it?
I am happy to be wrong, but I would be happier being wrong with a good
explanation for what happened :o)

Tsengu/Tszaaz


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