Bought it last night in Erudin for a whopping 7pp (woot! The level 48 or
whatever song he was selling was going for 20pp, hehe)
It seems like a really nice song, but I'm sure it will be nerfed in the next
patch... =8^P
Anyway, yes, it's a party-wide damage absorber (of the "a_mob_01 tries to
hit you but your magical skin absorbs the blow" variety). It is playable
without a lute, but I'm sure using a lute gives you more points of damage.
I got it kind of late and wasn't doing anything so I attacked a newbie mob
with it on just to see what would happen... hehe
There are a couple of cool things about it... It seems to me that they took
a cleric spell and made it into a song. When you sing it, you get a LOT of
different colored particles (just like a high-level cleric casting an HP
buff on you). Also, you know that sound that happens at the very end of
that same clerical HP buff? You know, the little angel choir that goes
"Ahhhh!" at the end of casting? Well, that's the sound you will now hear,
EVERY TIME THE SONG PULSES!
OK, it's kind of annoying after a while, but it is kind of cool. But wait,
there's more...
See, when a cleric casts this, it's an angel choir that's heard (trust me on
this one). When a solo bard sings the song, it's only one angel voice
saying "Ahhh!" when it pulses. And every time it pulses isn't the same note
sung (ie. it changes pitch slightly). But when the bard GROUPS, there's an
angel voice for each group member... Weird, huh?
Anyway, get it, play with it, and see for yourself. It seems to be a very
useful song. So what if it only absorbs 45 dmg or so? It's cheap,
group-wide, refreshes when it pulses, has cool particle effects, makes you
sound like a choir of angels (ok, so maybe that's a drawback), and it
requires NO reagents that I have noticed. Plus it's a song where we never
had one before... hehe
Enjoy!
Olgwinn Pendragun
Bard of 49 Missed Notes
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