Quite frankly, I find it hard to believe that a person is actually
"twisting" 5 songs. Factor in cast times, and song duration after it ends,
and when twisting 4 songs, almost always, the first effect will drop before
you get back to it. You can add amplification to a 4 song twist, and call
it 5, but when it comes time to refresh amplification, you'll probably lose
an effect just as you're trying to twist it back in, resulting in a catch up
effect where a song wears off a pulse or two before it can be refreshed, all
the way through the twist, so you've only got 3 songs active anyway, not
counting amplification.

I'm not sure if anyone ever actually defined "twisting". To me, it is the
ability to keep the effects of multiple songs **active** on my group, or on
the mob, at ALL times. A 3 song twist is common among high level bards (am
I a high level bard now? :P ). Why? Because we've been playing the class
long enough to realize that, under most circumstances, it is the best twist.
Some song lineups, and situations make a 4 song twist desired, and while
possible, it's a lot harder, and is only practical when the occassional
dropped effect isn't that big a deal. Like manasong, which is a shot of
mana when pulsed, and not a regen effect.

But when you're talking a song effect dropping for a duration of time, which
is what would happen in a 5 song twist...well, it's not really a twist.

If you insist it is, then I'd like to be the first to introduce myself as
the best bard in EQ, because I can twist 8.

/bow

Atonal

-----Original Message-----
From: KAZ [mailto:kazvorpal@...]
Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 8:17 AM
To: eqbards@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [eqbards] twisting 5, added note

--- Michael Roach <MikeRoach@...> wrote:

> A great bard does not need to twist 5 songs. A bard who twists 3 or more
> songs knows what he is doing and is playing his character well. Playing
> your character well has nothing to do with how much expensive computer
> equipment you can afford or how good your equipment is.

As utopian and egalitarian as this sounds, it doesn't make any sense.

One who twists three may be ROLE playing well, but logically one who twists
five is, obviously, contributing /more/ to the group. Period. One plus one
equals two, no matter how embarassing it may be to those with only one.