Just to chime in, I only swap instruments when fighting. I suppose if we could use 2-handed weapons, then it'd be a little easier to swap. It'd be very hard to swap your primary and secondary weaps for your instruments during combat repeatedly.
Sure I'd swap during combat, maybe once, if I saw that my particular medley of songs (I mean how strange is it to hear 3 songs at the same time?) wasn't as effective with instruments vs weapons.
At 35 it would depend greatly on the situtation. That's what makes us so much fun to play. :-)
If we had at least a couple of melee guys, then I'd throw in Anthem de Arms (rarely was with an enchanter, so this was pretty standard).
If we didn't have a snarer, then I'd sing Chains. Once a couple of people in the group started taking a lot of damage, I'd start singing Hymnn of Restoration. Caster heavy groups, I'd weave in one Clarity song. Also, this seems to have a nice taunt so it was useful in that regards too.
With an enchanter, Largo's Melodic Binding is nice so you don't break their mez.
Psalm of Warmth was tossed in there at times as well if I didn't know what else to sing.
And of course, if we were fighting a particularly nasty set of casters, then just drums (or tambourine) with the Rhythm songs were very nice (weaving with Hymnn and mandolin).
Windleaf
On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 10:02:23AM -0700, Cranfill, Wendy wrote:
> This is a good idea .. thanks :)
> Honestly, its so nice you guys are really supportive! I was feeling really
> inadequate at barding because I couldn't do this but it seems its really not
> necessary! If I play with casters, its easy to keep them happy - just play
> mana ALL THE TIME! Haha!
>
> Also, if anyone is bored and wants to share.. what songs were your standards
> at 35ish? I usually play iwht a monk or a monk/cleric if that helps...
>
> Tani/Halana
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Stephen E. McCloskey [mailto:s.mccloskey@...]
> > Sent: Monday, November 13, 2000 9:57 AM
> > To: eqbards@egroups.com
> > Subject: Re: [eqbards] Twisting Questions
> >
> >
> > I have done this albeit rare, I generally prefer to watch the
> > battle over
> > staring at the hot boxes. It was usually only where high
> > resistances were
> > needed, like Kithicor. I was around level 29 or 30 at the
> > time so I wasn't
> > a battery. It was set up like this:
> > Slot 1: Anthem
> > Slot 2: Elemental Rythms
> > Slot 3: Primary hand
> > Slot 4: Secondary hand
> > Slot 5: Inventory slot
> > Slot 6: Inventory slot
> >
> > Depending on how fast you get you can do it like this: While
> > moving the
> > primary weapon out of the primary slot start up your
> > instrument song, drop
> > the primary weapon on the drum in the inventory then drop the
> > drum on the
> > secondary weapon. Keep the secondary weapon in your cursor,
> > don't put it
> > in the inventory. Once it pulses start another song and swap
> > the secondary
> > weapon and the instrument, drop the instrument on the primary
> > weapon and
> > equip it. Once you get good at this you can try taking out one of the
> > inventory slots in the hot bank and replace it with a third song.
> >
> > -Steve
> >
> > At 08:23 AM 11/13/00 -0700, you wrote:
> > >Ok, so I hit 35 (yeah!) and am fighting with a monk alt
> > whose main is a bard
> > >(an awesome one at that) and he's giving me hints here and
> > there... "less
> > >talking more twisting!"
> > >
> > >Anyway, he tells me that I should be not only running three
> > to four songs
> > >but also switching out weapons and instruments while doing this.
> > >
> > >Do you all actually do this? I tried this and its HELLA hard! So my
> > >question is.. do you all actually do this and if so HOW.
> > >
> > >I have #1 bank set up with 2 melee slots and 4 inventory
> > slots, and #2 bank
> > >set up with 6 songs... I just can't seem to hit a song,
> > switch to #1, switch
> > >out weapons for instrument in time to hit #2 and do a new
> > song without
> > >missing a beat. Am I doing something wrong or is this one
> > of those things
> > >that just takes practice? And yes, I'm using shift+1 to
> > switch hotkey
> > >banks...
> > >
> > >
> > >Tani, 35th Bard
> > >Halana, 57th Shaman
> > >Paradigm
> > >Solusek Ro
> >
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