This was with my regular guild group - so none of these were a factor. We
simply judged it by how quickly the mobs were dying. This was in the "pit"
in the Hole - so the mobs were pretty consistent and we waited a good dozen
mobs before saying "seems that weapons were better". Consider also the
effect on a tank heavy group (SK, Warrior, Ranger, Bard, Chanter, Cleric)
with me twisting VoV and Wee helping damage output on the other three tanks.
Since we didn't have a nuker, the added Resist Debuf from the chants wasn't
a factor.
It really does show my own personal belief that there is no true answer to
"what's better weaps or insts". It all depends on the group you're in...
Slyde
-----Original Message-----
From: James Schuldes [mailto:
jgs@...]
Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 10:41 AM
To: '
eqbards@yahoogroups.com'
Subject: RE: [eqbards] all I can say is hmmmm
In a group, they like to "see" damage, especially if they have other's hits
turned on. If they don't see numbers on the screen, they don't think you
are doing anything. Also, seeing you with your drum (stick) and no weapons
(no exaggereatedly huge sionaches or breathe of harmony), they think you are
not contributing. So then you can tell them that your 3 chants do about
1800 dmg per minute. And ya, 60 levels later, 210 days and still explaining
to the groups: "... my bard mana song *is* the same as Clarity-2, the 'you
feel smaller' *adds* 35 AC to all of you, etc, etc."
Sylly