I am currently 20th level and have found my stats have no significant affect
on song perfomance at all. I have also spoken with other bards who have more
Dex or more Chr, and their results are the same as mine. Whether or not "you
miss a note" is dependent upon your Skill Level with that instrument. The
higher your skill becomes, the less you miss notes. When i reached level 16
and got Tarews Aquatic Ayre, i began to finally train my Wind. I noticed
that i would miss the notes 6 or 7 out of 10 tries initially. As my skill
rose, my missed notes dropped off noticably. At 20th, I have reached Master
in all Instruments and hardly miss notes at all.
The moral is, forget about starting character stats as Skill stats are more
imortant. My advice to any new Bard is, put ALL your bonus points into
Strength. The stronger you are the more damage you do, and you can carry
greater weight(i.e. Platemail AND Loot) without being encumbered....both
tangible assets. Just my 2 cents!
Garet Wynn
Bard...Tarew Mar
-----Original Message-----
From: NeXuS <
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To:
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Date: Tuesday, May 04, 1999 12:24 AM
Subject: [eqbards] Re: Twisting question
>From: "NeXuS" <nexus@...>
>
>The Higher the Charisma the less youll stutter a song. I put Cha to 100 and
>dex to 100 (Half-Elf) and put the remaining to Str. I hardly ever miss a
>note.
>
>Koden
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Roop Dirump <roop@...>
>To: <eqbards@onelist.com>
>Sent: Monday, May 03, 1999 7:14 PM
>Subject: [eqbards] Re: Twisting question
>
>
>> From: "Roop Dirump" <roop@...>
>>
>> Wow, you say you only succeed beginning a song less than one third of the
>> time? Something definitely sounds amiss! And irritating, at that!
>>
>> What are all your stats? I always thought charisma would have a bearing
>on
>> it, but you stated you increased that with dex and strength at character
>> creation. It is quite likely dexterity as no bearing on musical skills,
>> yours being so high. Do you have any exceptionally low stat???
>>
>> (I have no idea the formula used to determine when a song can be
>> successfully started, but I do know that the singing skill or instrument
>> skill will effect the strength of a song, ie. Hymn of Restoration heals
>more
>> and more the higher one's string skill.)
>>
>> Roop
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Reece, Tom CPT - 30th Signal Bn <ReeceT@...>
>> To: eqbards@onelist.com <eqbards@onelist.com>
>> Date: Monday, May 03, 1999 8:31 PM
>> Subject: [eqbards] Re: Twisting question
>>
>>
>> >From: "Reece, Tom CPT - 30th Signal Bn" <ReeceT@...>
>> >
>> >My success rate for twisting songs with a 95 DEX and 45
>singing/instrument
>> >skill is probably less than 33%. I'll start keeping track and see if I
>can
>> >come up with an actual % rate instead of an estimate.
>> >
>> >When I get the message "You missed a note", I do keep pushing the song
>> >button but usually I just keep getting the same message. Only when the
>> >first song runs out do I get to start another one.
>> >
>> >Galtin
>> >
>>
>>
>>
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