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Message ID: 24022
Date: Mon Feb 26 23:22:52 GMT 2001
Author: Jeffrey Sue
Subject: RE: [eqbards] Re: Bard% was (Patch message)


where do you get the 40 minutes thing? is that how long it takes to med
back a full 5 bubbles of mana? for me dirge only takes 3 bars of mana, so
that would be only 24 minutes if i medded back to full, sooner if i just medded
back a bubble (altho then i would require the full 40 minutes).

At 03:42 PM 2/26/01 -0700, you wrote:
>True. The timer is longer than that on Harmtouch which is practically
>irresistible and does far more damage, even if only to a single target.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Kenneth E. Bachman [mailto:kbachman@...]
>Sent: Monday, February 26, 2001 3:47 PM
>To: eqbards@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: Re: [eqbards] Re: Bard% was (Patch message)
>
>
>My problem with this song is the concept. If this is indeed a "Desperate
>Dirge", that can only be used
>once every 40 minutes (the longest timer of any effect in the game, if I'm
>not mistaken), it should, in at
>least some small number of expected circumstances, have a significant
>effect. It doesn't. By the time
>you get it, the amount of damage it does is inconsequential to the eventual
>outcome of any fight, and is
>actually much more likely to be detrimental due to the AE component (which
>wakes up anything mezzed)
>coupled with the ludicrous resists (which wakes up anything mezzed,
>frequently without damaging them in
>the slightest). And the level increases that Verant gave to this song are
>laughably small compared to the
>increased HP total of higher-level MOBs. They really have no clue.
>
>Kenross Cantoforjado, 57 songs, Innoruuk
>
>
>"Kimes, Dean W." wrote:
>
> > I am inconvenienced only in that we were theoretically limited to one song
> > per level and I don't get one at that level due to 7% of the people. If
> > they add in another song at the level that is useful, problem solved. My
> > whole point is DDD is pathetic. Pillar of Frost can be chain cast 7 times
> > by a 51st level wizard for far more effect.
>
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