See my message that precedes this one. I believe he is correct on this, I
can go to any dungeon, or any zone, doesn't matter where, I have yet to be a
monster magnet unless I play a AoE damage song, or Lullaby, other tha n that
I can pound on monsters and have a song playing and they will still attack
the ranger, or what ever other tank we have in the party, I usually do more
melee damage than anyone else in our party, with my dual wield and DragDirk,
and DwarvAxe I can usually slaughter just about any monster faster except
for the mages, they tend to out do me, but then they often regret that too,
monsters will jump on them long before they jump on me.
We were fighting Dvinn, I stayed behind him the whole time until our tank
and a mage were killed, then he finally came on me, I didn't stand a chance,
so it was a shout and run match back to the zone..... Someone killed him
for me before I zoned, and I ended up with my Drag Dirk, and 17th level. A
most excellent weapon for a bard, and even for a higher level mage, I tried
giving it to my low level wizard and he couldn't hit hardly anything with
it, so it definately takes a high piercing skill, so I took it back and gave
him a cracked staff to play with.
Wenaddar
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Abraham Hardjana [SMTP:ahardjan@...]
> Sent: Monday, July 12, 1999 3:17 PM
> To: eqbards@onelist.com
> Subject: Re: [eqbards] Max damage?
>
> From: Abraham Hardjana <ahardjan@...>
>
>
>
> On Mon, 12 Jul 1999 RON_TALBOT@... wrote:
> >
> > OUCH! If this is true then Weaving songs may not be the best of
> > ideas. More chances for a full damage hit. Anyone else notice
> this?
> > I will watch closely from now on but my general impression is that
> he
> > might be right... Makes being a support bard make much more sense.
> > If this is true (shudder) then this could change the whole
> methodology
> > behind running a bard character.
>
> I really hope that I am incorrect, but that would also explain why we are
> attacked when starting up a song. It makes us appear to be vulnerable
> instead of being a threat. I think I will try to check this out provided
> my ISP doesn't lag me out tonight. Hmm.. I think I will start a newbie
> character tonight and do some trial runs attack very basic creatures like
> bats to confirm this. Though Chant is not a good thing to use since it
> makes us harder to hit =).
>
> Treilanin Loreweaver 20th Chorus Bard of Kelethin
> Aariel 5th Circle Mage of Felwithe
> Honour Guard
>
>
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