I would suspect that you were outdamaging him - tho the high taunt factor on
our songs is also a factor.
Once when a ranger in my guild had just lost a level - he ungrouped with me
(we were the only two in the "low" group on that trip) so he would get exp
faster. He was generally a heel. ;) I was going full instrumental attack
mode - on the next two mobs I got the kill - not him. He was 4 levels above
me and was TOTALLY flabergasted. I was even a bit surprised. I was
swapping lute/horn .. and hadn't had a weapon to hand in hours. He even had
heals from our high end Cleric in the "high" group - while I had to slip in
a 4th in the weave in a dungeon to get a few shots of hymm for myself. The
pull spot was safe for AoE ;) .. I just told him to stop whining and group
with the Bard :) However, he was not well set up on weapons - would have
been harder with a Ranger who made more intelligent weapon choices
for me to so consistently out damage him IMHO.
- the ex-Menuette of Luclin - now deceased - any with that name now are NOT
me
- now a 'chanter on Rodcet - their spells work - and a baby Bard there (just
in case)
----- Original Message -----
From: Big Daddy Legba <legba@...>
To: <eqbards@egroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2000 9:40 AM
Subject: [eqbards] DOTs at 39
> I had an eye opening grouping experience yesterday, I'd just like to share
> it and get the more experienced bards comments.
>
> The group:
> Elfson Allegro Lvl 39 half Bard (and a damn handsome man)
> 41 Ranger
> 35 Enchanter
> 38? Druid
>
> For some reason they wanted to group in the dreadlands (3 of these were
> guildies and the 4th was a friend). I said we're probably over matched
> there and won't do very well. But they wanted to try it, so I agreed.
>
> I decide to go full DOT mode since I figured our only shot was to kill
these
> suckers fast. (and I wanted to see if my damage calculations were close to
> correct).
>
> What came as a total shock to me was that the ranger (augmented/buffed,
> wielding a yak and some weird spear/staff which he says is better off hand
> weapon than yak) was unable to keep the monsters from agroing on me. I
sung
> 2 chants and Denon's using Nostrolo Tamborine and a normal horn.
>
> Was it possible that I was outdamaging him?
>
> If I was then I am pretty excited about this song combo. Granted I can't
> use Denon's in a dungeon (AOE damage bad!), but that could be replaced
with
> an number of songs (I often use Melodic Binding in a multi pull dungeon
> situation, the enchanters are quite grateful when the mobs that break mez
> come running for me rather than them).
>
> In any case with those 4 (low level for dreadlands) people we were able to
> pull pretty much non stop, with the Ranger pulling anything but Ravishing
> Drolvogs (Those football players hit HARD). Needless to say the xp was
> amazing (for an outdoor pull), I got like 1.5 of 39 in about 2 hours... I
> havent seen xp like that since I was doing the lvl 18-2? solo DOT attack.
>
> Of course at the end ("last pull for me guys!") the new dragon was trained
> to Karnor's and I got killed in his breath weapon (while getting a screen
> shot!)
>
>
>
>
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