yep
it's been tested numerous times. Especially on Rallos (where I happen to
have a bard).
The dot does not stack with itself. What you may have been seeing with 2
bards is 3 things:
1) fewer interrupts thus the effects were staying up more steadily, thus
doing more dmg
2) Two bards singing over-lapping songs, thus effects are staying up, thus
doing more dmg
3) Punching dmg IS significant espeically once you hit your 20's and 30's
(up to 10dmg/punch)
So, yes, you were dropping the npc's faster, spreading the npc's dmg out
among 3 instead of 2, and your dmg was steadier thus, overall, you did
slightly more dmg with 2 than one bard. You took (effectively) less dmg
because you had 3 people sharing it while playing healing with a lute, thus
mitigating what dmg there was more effectively.
But, no, bard dot's do not stack with themselves. Different bard dots stack
but not two bards sining the same DoT.
Lyrnia Jongleur
Bard of Norrath
----- Original Message -----
From: "Elijah Meeker" <emeeker@...>
To: <eqbards@egroups.com>
Sent: Monday, July 24, 2000 10:26 AM
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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