I've heard that they have reduced the effect of this song, but can not say
for sure.
Basically it is designed to allow you to walk into a group of mobs and make
some of them ignore you for at least one round, unless they resist. It's
also supposed to make them forget that they are mad at you, and you should
be able to go on your merry way.
However what I have found is that if you are fighting with a group of mages,
as soon as the mage does more damage than anyone else in the party, the mob
tends to immediately attack the mage. With this song going, the mob forgets
the amount of damage that the player has done to it. This does seem to
work, as I have saved our Enchanters butt on many occasions, he'll fire off
a chaotic feedback and suddenly the mob is on him. I sing the song, walk up
and smack it with my dwarven axes and it's back on me. But it also seems to
work as kind of a taunt skill. If the mob resists the song, it enrages the
mob and it will usually turn on you and start attacking you.
If you are soloing and you get jumped by a creature that is way over your
head, I usually kick on run song, get going, then switch to this song, if
the creature doesn't resist, then it will stop and seem to sleep for about 1
round, this usually gives you enough distance to get away. If the mob is a
spell caster, sometimes, if your lucky, you can get far enough ahead of the
mob that it won't be able to cast on you.
This strategy doesn't always work, but the times it didn't, there was no
other option except to die. So either way I was going to die, it just might
save your butt.
Supposedly if you are at the entrance to a dungeon and someone trains a mob
of monsters on you, sometimes you can play this long enough to get away from
the train. Again, not always.....
From what I had heard, it used to have an indefinate number of mobs that it
would affect, now supposedly it only affects 4. So far the most mobs on me
at once has only been 4, so I can't confirm or deny this rumor.
The most important rule is tho, do not play it around NPC's, i.e. Vendors,
Guards, etc. As it will affect them, it's an area effect spell, so if they
wander into it, or if you get to close to them, they will kill you.
So be careful, and have fun.
Wenaddar of Cazic Thule
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Russ Fuja [SMTP:rsfuja@...]
> Sent: Friday, June 18, 1999 5:24 PM
> To: eqbards@onelist.com
> Subject: [eqbards] Proper way to use Lucid Lullaby
>
> Hi fellow mistrels and other friends,
> ´┐¢
> I guess I have never really figured out how to use the lullably song
> correctly.´┐¢ I wonder if someone could detail a play by play on how it
> might be best used against 3 or 4 creatures my group and myself might
> encounter.´┐¢ I honestly haven't seen much effect when I have tried to use
> it....ok things nod but that doesn't seem to have any other effect.´┐¢ Also
> it is an area effect right, so do I target a creature,´┐¢myself, what?
> ´┐¢
> Thanks for any help y'all can give!!!
> ´┐¢
> Ryleth Stormsong