John,
My first reply to this was My God this man must not live, his head must be
jacked into the motherboard, then I thought, well its nice to get the truth,
it will be worth testing more to find out.
Thanks,
Jaezebel
-----Original Message-----
From: John Kim <
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To:
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Date: Sunday, July 25, 1999 2:55 PM
Subject: Re: [eqbards] Jaxan's Jig
>From: John Kim <kim@...>
>
>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.
>
>--
>John H. Kim
>kim@...
>
>
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