> -----Original Message-----
> From: Katye and Brandon >
>
> OK,
>
> Sitting around with some RL friends who play everquest, and
> suddenly one of
> them says "by the way, your bard sucks now." "Eh?" I say. "Yeah, we
> played with a bard the other night, 58, who kept 4 songs
> going most of the
> fight and said when things get tough he twists in a fifth."
>
> Is this BS? Or do i really suck. When I have a good
> connection and low
> lag I keep four going with few drops...

I personally stuck with 3 and only added the fourth when really really
needed..

5? Pretty much impossible IMO

>
> I have one song per hotkey, and I hit 1122334411223344...
>

I started playing a bard in beta, and one thing that was added later which
could helped me - If I could have gotten used to it *grin* was to make
macros with something like this:
song1
/stopsong, pause xx? (Its been awhile since I fooled around with it so dont
remember the timing..)
/cast 1

song2
/stopsong, pause xx
cast 2

That way twisting can be done a bit simpler since each hotkey stops the
prior song before starting the next:
hit: song1, song2, song3, song1, song2, song3

If you fizzle you have the small recast delay that is needed after stopsong,
but nothing like if you mapped several songs to one macro.

Regards
Musiker Silverdrum, Parked Minstrel on bertox
Musiker Danesang, 20th level skald on Lancelot