Why are you spinning? Use the 3rd person view, works like a charm for me
when weaving Denons and chrods.
Rokenn
>From: RON_TALBOT@...
>Reply-To: eqbards@onelist.com
>To: eqbards@onelist.com
>Subject: Re: [eqbards] Level 30,35,40,45, and a "power level" comme
>Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 15:28:16 -0700
>
>From: RON_TALBOT@...
>
> I'm not arguing it's effectiveness. That I concede willingly. It's
> the "careful' part I take exception to. I'm in the middle of a wide
> open area, run up to a mob, attack, spin in place looking for npc's,
> (take damage), see none, start weaving said songs, three rounds
>latter
> WHAM, a NPC materializes from nowhere and kills me in three mighty
> whacks. I have no intention of spinning in place every round looking
> for npcs while fighting, I have enough trouble weaving and shifting
> without that... I think once your high enough that NPC's don't
> insta-kill you this might be viable but at my level its not worth the
> run time and exp loss.
>
> Bujold
>
>
>_
>From: John Kim <kim@...>
>
>On Thu, 15 Jul 1999 RON_TALBOT@... wrote:
> >
> > Bujold 17 level soon to be 16th....
> > (had a bad night, I actually took someone's advice on this list and
> > tried weaving Discord into my combat stack and proceed to get
>pounded.
> > I don't mean to be rude but those AOE damage spells are only good
>for
> > harvesting IMHO)
>
>If you are level 17, you were using Dissonance, not Discord
>(L18). Dissonance, I feel, doesn't do enough damage to be
>used on its own.
>
>Weaving Discord, Dissonance, and Hymn while switching
>instruments *does* work. I'd say it's roughly on par with my
>melee ability, which makes it much more effective than melee
>if I'm fighting multiple mobs (especially if there are a lot
>of annoying greens mixed in). It's probably not something you
>want to be using in a dungeon though.
>
>--
>John H. Kim
>kim@...
>
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