I can't disagree on this at all. As a matter of fact, I was going to put
the very words in my post "why have them at all?"

The only thing I ever use pixie strike right now is to interrupt spell
casters. It's pretty effective in that regard. It'd be very powerful it it
would stun the mob, but maybe it'd be too powerful.

Lullaby would be an extremely powerful song if it worked even close to the
enchanter's AOE spell. At it's present state it really only is an AOE
taunt. :-P Verant is looking at the play balance issues and I respect
that. But if they believe that the only way to keep play balance is to make
the resists so high and the duration so iffy, then I agree, why have this
song in the first place? They say that this song is working as they see
fit. I can see why they wouldn't want bards running rampant in a dungeon
keeping everything mez'd. But I can't see why any bard would ever use this
song then.

Perhaps Verant should think of adding their "mana" component to this song
and increasing our chances of mezing with Lullaby? That may take care of
their worries about bards running nilly willy mezing everything in sight?

---Windleaf

At 01:34 PM 10/11/00 -0600, you wrote:

>No, but since our mez spells are effectively useless a mere 5 levels after
>we get them, why give them to us at all? Even before the change we were in
>no way as effective as an enchanter in mezzing. Not even close. We went
>from being an acceptable secondary choice to being no longer available as an
>option where mezzing was required.