Hmm...
Well, the general impression from several group members that I have had, is
that Jig dramatically increases the speed of mana regen. An informal timing
(without stopwatch) went like this:
empty mana bar
two bubbles filled, no song
start jig
three bubbles filled, in about the same length of time as the first two
three or four different meditators have reported this effect to me. So, I
have taken to running restoration until heals are nearly to, or all the way
to full, then switching to jig, to get the spellcasters mana up quickly. My
impression is that there is a fair amount of speed increase. (I have also
been using the forage timer for some of this - i.e. click on forage, start
song, wait for forage to stop, compare with not having song running)
I'll try to get some guys in my guild to do some more extensive testing,
with stopwatches, this week, and report the results. Oh, yeah, if this
works the way I think it does, by shorting out the timer on meding, then
level/skill should not matter at all.
MacGrough
14th Song Wanderer of Solusek Ro
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Kim [mailto:kim@...]
> Sent: Sunday, June 20, 1999 8:19 AM
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> From: John Kim <kim@...>
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> On Sat, 19 Jun 1999, Roop Dirump wrote:
> >
> > Er, back to my original question about Jig and Mana, sorry.
> Has anyone done
> > any definitive tests on this? With all my bard songs I have
> been able to
>
> The only close-to-definitive test I've done was with a cleric
> friend who said she'd already timed how meditation worked.
> She said she normally got a meditation pulse every ~8 eseconds.
> With the jig, she said she got it every ~6 seconds. This is
> one of the more difficult things to test since you need a
> partner who is as sharp as you are at this type of thing (and
> I'm not sure the cleric was, although she said she was using a
> stopwatch, so...).
>
> My guess as to why people are saying bard songs slow mana
> regen down is because Restoration tends to fill up the health
> bar so quickly, and they're used to comparing their mana regen
> with their health regen. Suddenly the health is shooting up
> there while the mana appears to lag behind.
>
> --
> John H. Kim
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