Now that sort of effect I would like. It would make it somewhat of a coup
de grace(?) thing as well as making the bard weigh the odds of the damage vs
the delay. Bards have other songs that can do small amounts of damage
consistently but I've seen nor heard of nothing that is powerful with a
large delay. Mages have their powerful damage spells but using them drains
your mana quickly requiring a delay to build it back up.

Good Journey,

Sineras (Cazic-Thule)

-----Original Message-----
From: John Robertson [mailto:johnr@...]
Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 1999 10:40 AM
To: eqbards@onelist.com
Subject: [eqbards] Bellow's intended effect (speculative)

From: "John Robertson" <johnr@...>

>
> 1. Bellow first came out doing 35 or so points a shout, 50's at level

20.

> You can almost drop a red creature without having to even run from it. It
> was an exploit because the song was too powerful. I hear some, however,
> thought it perfectly natural... They soon toned it down to where it
> currently is.

An interesting tidbit.

Apparently the way Bellow was supposed to work was that it was to do the
huge amount
of damage that it originally did (something like four times what it does
now), but
singing it was supposed to render you unable to sing any other song for the
entire
delay time of the Bellow (to see how long this is, bellow at something once
and see
how long it takes for the button to enable itself again without you clicking
on it).

I guess the idea was that the song was bad for your voice. :)

If Bellow actually worked this way, would it be an improvement? Would
people prefer
that it worked this way?

Jyzan

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