Decided to give this song a whirl last night. Went to the yeti caves in
Dreadlands and Lament pulled a single yeti (blue con) outside. Weaved
Jonthan's, Chains and Fear. For the first time in a long time, I solo
tanked a mob to death. The haste with Jonthan's is tremendous. I would
estimate it is close to enchanter's SLW. The only time I ever got hit was
when fear broke early. Most fights I would only lose one bub of health, two
if I was really unlucky. Tried the same tactic with a stonegazer cockatrice
with similar results.

So the new version of Jonthan's Provocation looks like it will help us solo
blue mobs tremendously. If it still included the rune shield, soloing would
be even easier coz there would be less downtime for healing.

One drawback that I did notice was it didn't stack with Berserker (and I
assume our other combat enhancing songs) for other party members. Since
Jonthan's Provocation is self only, other songs like Berserker should still
affect everyone in the group beside the bard. This is not the case. I
tested it by starting Jonthan's, then starting Berserker. I asked the
others in my party if they were getting the message "You go berserk" as well
as an icon on the screen. As long as I had Jonthan's in effect on myself,
no one else in the party got the benefit of Berserker. This sounds like a
bug to me.

Galtin of E'ci
45 bard

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