My friends and I played around abit with Disenchantment (L22)
and couldn't figure out exactly what it does. I thought it
was a straight cancel magic song, identical to the
spellcasters' cancel magic spells. But it only works on party
members (i.e. you can't use it to take down a mob's buffs),
and it doesn't take down your party's buffs like cancel magic
does.
Am I right in thinking this song is what all the spellcasters
have been asking cancel magic be changed to do - remove just
the bad spell effects from your party members? So if you're
fighting a mob which charms or tosses lots of nasty DoT spells
on your party, you can play this song and wipe out those bad
effects? Does this break root underground? Btw, this song
requires that you equip a stringed instrument.
And speaking of charm, I've been investigating uses for the
L27 song (Sirens - basically charm). With the other classes,
the charm duration is influenced by the caster's charisma. Is
that the case for bards as well, or is the charm limited to 3
"ticks" like most of our other songs?
Creative uses I've learned so far:
Thwarting kill stealers (or more usually, named mob nukers at
camps). Charm the mob. The nukers will usually waste all
their mana trying to kill your pet, which isn't allowed on the
non-PvP servers. They lose the mana, but your pet takes no
damage. When your charm wears off, kill the named one. With
a bit of creative zoning/hiding/invising, you can use this to
get the mob to attack the kill stealer after they've dumped
all their mana.
Killing pets. Several mobs have summoned pets that you have
to fight after you've killed their master. Charm the pet (so
that it becomes your pet), then hide or invis yourself. The
pet will kill itself because it can no longer see its master.
Dueling. Charm your opponent. Send him off to waste his
mana/hp fighting monsters nearby while you kick back and sip a
soda. You can order him to attack a guard, but I've heard
some of the humanoid NPCs are smart enough to recognize a pet
and will attack the master before the pet.
Just hit L24 today. Only two more levels until I get into
what on paper appear to me to be the most "fun" songs in our
repertoire for mob manipulation - Screech (L26), Sirens (L27),
and Pixie Chase (L28).
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John H. Kim
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