The following happened recently on E'ci.

A group of folks were in the Hole to help someone with their epic quest.
Don't know the details of the quest, but you have to talk/give something to
one of the NPCs there. So a cleric by mistake aggroed the quest NPC. If
the groups killed the mob, they wouldn't be able to complete that portion of
the quest. So no one else attacked the NPC while it was beating up on the
cleric. Since no one else was on the NPC's hate list, once the cleric died
the NPC would not be aggro anymore and they could finish the quest. The
cleric (59th level with an AC over 1100) thought he might have a chance of
surviving if he went LD. So he turned on autoattack and then typed in /quit
to go LD.

Now here is where the funny part starts. The cleric had Complete Heal
loaded in the first spell gem. Apparently when you go linkdead, the game
automatically switches you over to NPC AI. If you can cast spells,
apparently the only one the AI will cast is whichever one is loaded in the
first spell gem. So as everyone else watched the NPC beat on the cleric,
every once in a while (when he wasn't stunned) the cleric was able to get a
CH spell off. He was able to cast CH enough that he didn't die before his
character disappeared from the server. To say the least he was quite
pleased when he discovered he didn't die after going LD.

So what I was wondering is could bards use this knowledge to somehow help us
survive a fight after we go linkdead. Fear sounds like a good option but
then again it could potentially screw over the rest of the group by causing
a train. The new Shield of Songs is a possibility as well. Third option
would be whatever song that you think would best help your party kill the
mob(s) you were attacking before you went LD. That would be situationally
dependent on where you were fighting.

Anyone got other suggestions?

Galtin of E'ci

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