At 01:58 PM 3/5/01 -0700, you wrote:
> >>Okay - but the issue remains: How many people OTHER than Whee DON'T think
> >>that DDD is useless?
>
> >or this question: How many people have actually thought about the song and
>possible
> >ways that it is useful?
> >30 seconds of ''cost'' time to get 400+ damage every 30 minutes or so seems
>fairly
> >useful to me.
>
>Well I thought about it. At best that 30 seconds will not gain you 400+
>damage. If you were using your chants during that 30 seconds, and counting
>the best scenario where you lose 2 pulses of Frost, 3 pulses of Flame, and 4
>pulses of Fulfill's you lose 350 damage from chants to gain 400 pts from
>DDD. Since you really lose the full 5 pulses of each Chant, some on the
>back side while you restart them, you actually lose 600+ pts of damage in 30
>seconds. These numbers are just with a store bought drum. If you have even
>a Nostrolo's tambourine you lose even more potential damage.
the 30 seconds is during downtime, not during combat. it also takes into account
the time it takes to mem the song, the time it takes to cast it (3 seconds), and the
time it takes to mem whatever song it replaced at the next downtime period.
>Taking that into account DDD is worse than useless if you have to mem it
>every time you want to use it.
it would be far more useless if it had a ''gray out'' timeout period like a cleric's
DA spell or a druid's spirit of cheetah.