On Sat, 24 Jul 1999, Douglass Family wrote:

>
> I was playing an alternate character (Erudite Wizard) 12th level. Me and my
> shaman buddy were bumpin around on Wisp Island and I ran into a bard of 13th
> level who we grouped with, after about 5 min the "light" went on, The Jig!
> So I grabbed my handy (never once used) stopwatch. 3 bubbles of mana regen
> with:
>
> No Song: 170 sec standard
> Jig singing: 149 sec 12.35%
> Jig with drum 138 sec 18.82%
>
> I did this test twice just for some repitition.

Did you get the same results?

Offhand, I would say that at 12th level, your meditation skill
is only 60 (65?), so it will be "failing" at a pretty
substantial rate (whatever it is that failure does). So I
would expect some variability in your mana regeneration times
regardless of whether or not the jig was playing.

There's also the possibility the jig may be interacting
unintentionally with meditation failures, causing an increase
in regeneration rate. e.g. if "succeeding" at meditation
means you gain, say, 5 points of mana, and the jig reduces the
time for a meditation pulse from 8 sec to 6 sec (though I
still think this is a client refresh illusion), then it would
increase the regeneration rate because the success/fail check
would be made more frequently. That would decrease
regeneration times at early levels, but show no difference at
later levels.

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John H. Kim
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