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Heh! You're all just lucky bastages ;pp I made the miistake of whipping out my Tamborine and juggling the two chants whikle my two druid buddies rooted and used their DoTs. After that one fight, I was forbidden from playing manasong while a battle rages :o)~ One of the tree-lickers pulls (with a nice nuke) the other roots when the MOB gets to us, then they each drop DoTs while I juggle chants.
Root breaks? No biggie, they keep me buffed with SoW (shhh!) so I can run and DOT while they re-root.
When I posted my intent to Strike. they weren't to pleased but understood. (Note: these are two guild-bros. that I have known since we were newbs in NWN together, so it was really tough :o/ )
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NOR Bard ("Barrd") Talespinner
41.75 Seasons of Bardic Song
Currently On Strike
The Rathe
>i have to agree with you, a bard's life does change at 32, it becomes easier
>to get a group because of mana song, and to like you said, most groups
>couldnt care less about any other songs. you become the mana battery... When
>i turned 32, all my other instrument skills went down the toilet... to a
>point that i had to just go to a safe spot and start a song and go watch a 3
>hour movie or something. Even now, in dreadlands i get ridge groups, i often
>go AFK for 10 minutes or something when we have a strong group and just play
>mana song, the group doesnt really mind since im feeding mana. They
>especially loved this when we have a chanter and 2 bards in the group. I
>could probably login, get a group, start mana song and leave for an hour and
>just get free xp for mana song, i dont do it but im sure i could...
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>Minkin -39 bard
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>Slyde, yes I'm 52 now but I have charmed something all the way up and
>everywhere we went and not had noticeable resists. I also thought your
>comment was you were having trouble charming blues. We rarely have an
>enchanter so if the pull is too many, I use charm to deal with spares. I'm
>not disputing you, I just found it odd that I didn't have the smae
>impression with my bard.
> Lullaby I never mem, unless we are bailing out someone in an area so green
>the resists don't matter,i.e. "Frogluk hits you for 1 point of damage."
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>Gediprime (who finally got to 32), and I were talking about Mana song this
>week. It does change a bard's life. You can just sing mana for most groups
>and they could care less about anything else. I am frequently afk and no one
>notices, unless the monk overpulls, hehe. If we have a druid, I don't chain
>unless he's oom, so that leaves me with little to do besides battle song
>during fights when the casters have mana and charm if we have more than we
>want at once. Charm makes a decent taunt for me, even on a resist. These
>days, I'm usually doing laundry or cooking while playing; my partner yells
>for me if the group gets into a bad fix and he can't drive both the bard and
>the cleric effectively. I felt a bit better when he told me it was easier to
>play my wizard with his characters than my bard.
>I wonder if Verant is afraid to tinker with Lullaby, or has some mental
>scars about that song. Way back when, Lullaby let you kill things without
>getting a blow in return. That got nerfed, and rightly so. Of course they
>also nerfed our speed about that same time. Maybe they have a mental block
>about what we see as the problems with lullaby. I'd consider loaning my bard
>to a bonafide Verant Tester, if I thought it would show them what we all
>see. You'd think they would have the ability (and the smarts) to test any
>level range character though.
>I haven't quit playing but I play much less these days and my bigger focus
>is getting my wiz to 34 so she can tp.
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>Brilinnia Ban'Sidhe
>Excalibur, Xegony
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