On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Corey Flath wrote:

>
> If I am fighting hags, I like to keep psalm of warmth up
> because she likes cold based area spells while in combat.

Psalm of Warmth is a very very very useful song if you're
soloing. When soloing, nearly anything that gives you
experience is going to hit you lots and lots of times. With
the Psalm of Warmth's fire shield, your opponent takes damage
every time he hits you. At L27 it was "only" 4 points per
hit, but considering you're probably going to be hit 20-40
times in a solo fight, that's 80-160 points of free damage.

I was having trouble soloing defenders in Cazic until I
thought of this. I started weaving the Psalm and suddenly the
fights I'd been losing handily before, I started winning.
Weave it with Hymn and you can make the battle last even
longer causing your opponent to take even more damage. If you
can manage four songs, I'd do Anthem, Psalm, Chain, Hymn. If
you can only do three, I'd drop Chain - you will be taking
more hits, but your opponent will be taking damage for each of
those hits, so it's not as great a loss as you'd first think.
Swap Chain for Psalm when your opponent starts to flee.

--
John H. Kim
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