Here is what I know about using the Mystic Clouding song:
It works verses all creatures including undead (AND your fellow group
mates), HOWEVER, there are some creatures that can innately see
invisible...which ones those are, I do not know, but there are apparently
some that can. (As a matter of fact, does anyone know which creatures in
the game can innately see invisible?)
The strange behavior with the invis song is that if any member of the party
does ANYTHING to drop their invis like cast a spell, or are in Auto Attack
mode (whether actually attacking or not) and another mob targets them, then
that mob will see everyone else in the party regardless of whether they
appear to be invisible or not. One member of your group on a monster's shit
list adds everyone in your group to that monster's shit list.
Every tick of the invis song causes a skill check to be made and every now
and then a character will fail, and turn visible for a single tick, until
the next tick of the song and then they pop invisible again. While this is
uncommon, it does happen, and during that tick of visibility, if you are
near enough to a mob to be noticed and targeted, invis is shot for the whole
group.
This seems to fall under the group hate thing...where a bard singing Hymn is
"helping" the members of his party (like the puller for example) so the mob
targets the bard - just like when a cleric heals another group member it
often attracts the monster's attention.
But all alone with the mino horn and a skill of 105 in wind I sang Clouding
and wandered all over the first 3 floors of the Unrest mansion invisible,
checking it all out...at one point the 2 hags from the basement walked RIGHT
past me through the hall and just about made my heart jump out my throat,
but did not see me at all. This is a fun song to play with.
Faras Tar'Linedhel
E'ci
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Reece, Tom - 25IDL G4 [mailto:g4mntofcr@...]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 1999 2:40 PM
> To: 'eqbards@onelist.com'
> Subject: [eqbards] Bards in Unrest
>
>
> From: "Reece, Tom - 25IDL G4" <g4mntofcr@...>
>
> A similar thing happened to me twice when I was camping
> behind the back
> porch. One time, my group was resting after a fight. I had
> been using
> Denon's Discord during the previous fight. While everyone is
> resting, the
> back door opens up and a festering hag makes a beeline
> towards me. Next
> thing I know she zaps me for 300+ hit points and I'm dead.
> If there is a
> bug with the axis whatever is it something that Verant is
> aware of and is
> working on fixing?
>
> <snipped from earlier post by Faras>
>
> Last night in Unrest I camped off the side porch
> because there was a
> discussion that singing songs off the back porch might
> be affecting
> mobs in
> the basement due to an unlimited Z axis affect bug. I
> also did not
> stand
> around and sing songs while our puller was in the
> house...I waited
> until our
> kill was brought to the fence and whacked once or twice and then
> kicked in
> my playlist. This worked awesome and I did not die once.
>
> I didn't think the bards invis song worked against undead. I
> know for a
> fact I have been attacked by zombies before while singing the
> song. Can
> someone clarify this please.
>
> I think the people I group with generally recognize
> that I do a lot
> as a
> bard, shuffling instruments and weapons, jumping in and out of
> physical
> melee, playing a variety of different songs, some
> "simultaneously"
> - and
> they also recognize the benefit of our songs because I tell them
> things like
> "check out your magic resist" and get the "wholly
> crap!" or invis
> people
> while they are medding and they are amazed that it works against
> undead too.
> Our party was sitting against the fence medding and watching a
> Festering Hag
> run around the yard wasting people, finally being
> killed by a group
> only 15
> feet away from us - we watched the whole thing as the
> group leader
> nervously
> commented "don't stop singing that song Faras..."
>
>
> Galtin of E'ci
>
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