Another thing I should mention is that another friend and I tried to
duplicate this in release when we got lullaby and it had already been
toned down considerably by then. At the time I figured someone at Verant
had seen the shot on EQVault and made some changes between the end of
beta and release. As we were L15 about 2 weeks after release that would
be the only explanation I could think of for why it already didn't work
as it had in beta.

Another interesting thing I'd forgotten was that until the second last
day of beta 4, only the first 20 bard songs were on vendors in the game.
So I don't think any song over L20 got tested very much before release.

On Wed, Oct 11/00, jhenders@... wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 11/00, John Tatsukawa <john@...> wrote:
> >
> > I do remember reading stories of bards in Blackburrow mezzing 30+ mobs at a
> > time, which probably prompted the nerf. However, now I believe you can only
> > affect at most 4 mobs, so that kind of solves that worry.
>
> It was actually 2 bards that did that. With lutes. The resists when one
> bard tried it were too much. Also, remember that this was at the top of
> blackburrow, and 90% of the crowd of gnolls mezzed at the time were
> green to the 2 bards, and they still woke up occasionally and took a
> poke at the bards.
>
> Wish I could find my old screenshot of it, it was 2 friends of mine I
> played with on Fennin Ro back in Beta 4, and it made screenshot of the
> day just after beta closed.
>

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