On Sat, 7 Aug 1999, Kyle wrote:

>
> Now I didn't say that Charisma had absolutely no effect. One of the main
> attributes for a bard is charisma and it is rumored, or solidified by now,
> that charisma provides our mana for the Dirge. It is also said to be
> important in our chances to successfully sing a song and maybe the duration
> of effects. What Brad said was that your charisma does not factor in at all
> in the chance that the MOB will resist some or all of the effect. All I know
> is that I got a lot more missed notes after donning the ribcage, yet my
> bellows were still doing max damage almost all of the time.

At 120 charisma I consider the number of missed notes I get to
be intolerable. I'd estimate I'm missing notes about 10%-20%
of the time on low-level songs (will have to test it some time
this week). If it's worse with lower charisma, I don't know
how any of you are able to stand it. I worked on my enchanter
this entire weekend because I actually get to play the game,
instead of assidiously watching the chat window for "missed
a note" messages. I played my bard again a couple hours
tonight, and half the time I didn't even know what was going
on or what song effects I had up because I was so busy trying
to watch for and recover from missed notes. It is very
frustrating.

> And you are not believing that Brad knows what he is saying or that I
> actually talked with him Thursday night? =)

Well, Brad may be the lead designer, but I'd trust the folks
who do the coding to know better how it works. GZ (the guy
handles most of the spell effects coding) has stated that
charisma does affect the effectiveness of charm, mesmerize,
and memory blur. For things like mesmerize and memory blur,
either it works or it doesn't - there's nothing for charisma
to modify *except* resist rate.

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John H. Kim
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