This is an easy test, just apply a little scientific method. I tried
it with my enchanter friend. She cast a one big sell (200 mana or
such, enchant metal)and instantly sat, meditated and stood when she at
full mana. this way you are measuring the same exact amount of mana
vrs time and can disregard refresh rate, etc. There is a touch of
variance based on the consistency of her reaction rate but this is
probably small and she is very methodical. Anyway Jig didn't do a
thing with or without a drum. Same time on my stopwatch to within 5
100ths of a second. Boy was I disappointed....
Bujold
18th Xegony
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Subject: Re: [eqbards] Jaxan's Jig
Author: Non-HP-frd (
frd@...) at HP-ColSprings,mimegw5
Date: 7/26/99 10:10 AM
From: "Douglass Family" <
frd@...>
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
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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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