Interesting theory, post anything you find. One bard I spoke to claimed to
have tested Jig and that it would help mana regeneration with a drum but had
no effect without! Either sung or played Jig would short-out the
meditation, in such a case, but perhaps she was just lying.

If your theory is true, two bards playing Jig timed just right could wreak
some havok. And what if a mage tried to meditate with four bards playing
jigs. Could he ever even concentrate? Hehhe.

Roop

-----Original Message-----
From: Donny Dane <ddane@...>
To: eqbards@onelist.com <eqbards@onelist.com>
Date: Wednesday, June 23, 1999 11:34 PM
Subject: Re: [eqbards] Jig and Mana Regeneration - long hypothesis

>From: "Donny Dane" <ddane@...>
>
>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
>