I played for about 20 hours this weekend, with 3 different parties, each
party consisted of at least 1 spell caster, (druid, magician, enchanter, and
wizard mixed thruout each of my parties.) Everyone I partied up with I
asked them to watch their mana regen. everyone of them noticed an
improvement, but without definative numbers, there is no way to determine
what % increase.
From what I hear is that when your stamina drops, your mana regen also
drops. So since this jig song seems to try to increase it, what might be
happening is that it raises your stamina about your max, even tho it doesn't
show it on the screen, this would then throw off verants math for keeping
mana regen speed down. Which maybe is what causes the mana regen to be
faster.
My question is tho, will this increase the bards mana regen at 42nd level.
Any high level bard wanna give this a try and report back.
Wenaddar (Still 16th level Bard)
(I camped in Crushbone all weekend, got me my Shiny Brass Shield, Dvinn's
Dragoons Dirk, and Crushes Tunic.
Only Crush and Dvinn gave me exp. I died once, so I came out with the same
amount of exp I went it with......
(But at least I finally got some halfway decent magical items.)
P.S. The Dirk is a very awesome weapon. I don't know of anything better
for our level, unless you buy someone elses weapon, or twink.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roop Dirump [SMTP:roop@...]
> Sent: Saturday, June 19, 1999 10:15 PM
> To: eqbards@onelist.com
> Subject: [eqbards] Jig and Mana Regeneration
>
> From: "Roop Dirump" <roop@...>
>
> Mana and the Jig O Vigor, true or rumor?
>
> Tonight with a group, one member complained about me negating his SoW, but
> I
> had no accel going (sheesh was in the group three minutes and hadn't sung
> a
> note, besides why would I? They were campers). So I memorized Jig and
> played it, mentioning how I thought it was supposed to increase
> regeneration
> %15. The cleric informed me Jig was making his mana regenerate slower, he
> "should have been done by now." Far from it for me to play a song not
> wanted, forgot the Jig. After an easy battle and burnt mana, he told me,
> indeed, mana regenerates faster without any bard Jig. Then things became
> nasty, one fellow brought a train and I saved them all with a lullaby, and
> no accelerando might I add, and quite a haul to the zone. But they
> thought
> they were just good or lucky for all surviving that time and I didn't want
> to try explaining to them what I did, so I just camped! Got me a little
> irritated, just the remark that Jig was making them regenerate slower!?
> OO,
> that's what got me.
>
> All I know--these folks were hostile towards bards, and the fellow who was
> the leader had to flee so I only met him briefly, perhaps he understood
> our
> usefulness better. When I hit a bad group I don't stick around, so I was
> with them maybe ten minutes tops, but perhaps I can't fault them from
> experiences I've had with fellow bard's I've grouped with--some bards just
> don't know what they're doing, this class takes some skill to wield with
> finesse. I was with a bard once who consistently played hymn when all
> health was full, and only used bellow in battle. That, now that, got me
> irritated.
>
> 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
> "play around" with them enough, to my satisfaction, to understand O how
> they
> work. This is the way I like things, dead reckonings hands-on kind of
> "feel" for how they work rather than really writing up numbers myself.
> Thing is, I studied way too much experimental methodology in school to
> really enjoy doing it when I'm playing, heheh. (Memories of torturing lab
> rats!)
>
> But I have no way to get an instinctive feel for this! DOES mana
> regenerate
> faster with Jig or not? Anyone really use a stopwatch with a buddy? My
> friends keep telling me they don't have stopwatches and have no time for
> testing. I know it doesn't make regeneration slower, that cleric tonight
> was just an arse, but I saved him anyway, fool didn't even realize it.
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> Roop
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