Hey all...
Haven't had time to get a mage to stopwatch this, but will try soon...
My understanding of the way this works is:
Meditate works on an 8 or 9 second 'pulse', and regens mana accordingly.
Jig works on a 6 second (maybe 5 at higher levels, again I haven't
stopwatched this)
When playing Jig, each pulse 'shorts out' the counter on the meditate pulse.
This causes meditate to operate at 6 second intervals instead of 8 or 9,
thus increasing the amount of mana regeneration. Also, playing Hymn of
Restoration (which I think is 6 or 7 seconds) should do the same thing, but
at a slower rate, since I think it's a bit slower on the pulses (could be
wrong).
I'll try to get one of the mages in my guild to help me try this before this
weekend, and see what the real effects are.
Incidentally, if this is truly what is happening, it is probably a.) a bug,
and b.) will not work for bard mana regen if we don't have meditate skill.
It also means that a level 3 bard, with jig could group with a level 50 mana
user, and cause the same, or almost the same, effect that any higher level
bard could provide.
It would probably be best if multiple people did independent tests, so that
we don't skew the results. So, any volunteers out there can test this.
This is the method that I'll use...
Have the mage expend *ALL* of his/her mana. Time each pulse of medi, as
well as length of time to regen. Again have the mage expend all mana.
Playing jig, time pulse of medi, time pulse of jig, and length of time to
full regen. Playing HoR, time pulse of medi, HOR, and total. This should
give definite results on timing, percentage gained, if any, etc. and so on.
Please post results here, if you try this.
MacGrough - 14th Song Bard
of the Solusek Ro Wanderers
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Garramone, Michael (CCI-Las Vegas)
> [mailto:Michael.Garramone@...]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 1999 6:51 PM
> To: 'eqbards@onelist.com'
> Subject:
>
>
> From: "Garramone, Michael (CCI-Las Vegas)" <Michael.Garramone@...>
>
> that is true, but i think that was directed at clarity spell of enchanters
> and mana song of bards, whereas jig may be an indirect way of mana regen
> that was not addressed by the patch, so it may be worth testing.
>
> Shada Silverleaf, Level 46 Bard, Mithaniel Marr
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Codo the Mysterious [mailto:codo@...]
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 1999 4:22 PM
> > To: eqbards@onelist.com
> > Subject: Re: [eqbards] Jig and Mana Regeneration
> >
> >
> > From: "Codo the Mysterious" <codo@...>
> >
> > I am fairly positive that a recent patch message said that
> > bards were immune
> > to any sort of enhanced mana regeneration...
> >
> > Lulen
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Garramone, Michael (CCI-Las Vegas) <Michael.Garramone@...>
> > To: <eqbards@onelist.com>
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 1999 11:36
> > Subject: Re: [eqbards] Jig and Mana Regeneration
> >
> >
> > > From: "Garramone, Michael (CCI-Las Vegas)"
> > <Michael.Garramone@...>
> > >
> > >
> > > > 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.
> > > >
> > >
> > > I can't test it yet because they have not put our level 43
> > song up for
> > sale
> > > yet, so I can't use mana. But good idea to try.
> > >
> > > Shada Silverleaf, Level 46 Bard, Mithaniel Marr
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