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Message ID: 21381
Date: Wed Sep 13 01:27:44 BST 2000
Author: Ken Bachman
Subject: Re: [eqbards] Bard Crowd Control


Mana song is what makes us "balanced", unfortunately. Here's how much my
guild likes the Mana Song:

We're in Plane of Sky. We need Crowd Control, and only have one
Enchanter, so our level 57 Bard logs onto her friends account to play his
Enchanter. So I play her Bard. So my RL friend (a Cleric), logs
Kenross (52) onto his second computer, turns on Mana Song, and sets him
to /follow the Cleric. Kenross was in the pulling group, too, so he
actually got exp from it. With nobody running him. And not one person
raised even the smallest objection; this seemed perfectly acceptable.
We'll never get fixed if Mana Song is THAT in demand.

Meanwhile, I got to spend the entire day (16 hours) twisting 32 and 55,
to keep our only 96% rez Cleric, our two Enchanters, and our highest
Shaman pumped with Mana. Except during CR, when I got to sing the
same two songs for five Clerics. What fun. The only excitement came
when I got yelled at for not turning off 55 when the Enchanters wanted to
cast C2 on the party.

If I had a macro, I could have walked away and had a nap.

And what's with the Plane of Sky boss MOBs not dropping any loot?

Kenross Cantoforjado, 52 songs


Kimes, Dean W. wrote:
>
> You're right Adon. The things my friend saw when he told his guild were
> even worse. Many casters begged him to stay while the melee and hybrids all
> told him they understood his frustration. It nearly killed the guild once
> it was realized the only reason the casters really wanted him to stay was
> manasong. There was talk for a while of breaking up the whole guild
> basically since all the non-casters threatened to quit. They already felt
> like they were treated as second class citizens anyhow since they were
> outnumbered.
>
> Kit