On Wed, Sep 01/99, Jukeboxie the Bard <jukeboxie@...> wrote:

>
> I noticed something very disturbing the other night along similar lines; SoW
> doesn't only seem to override Consonant Chain, but also Accelerando now
> (Accelerando used to override SoW, didn't it?). A friendly shaman was
> buffing me and cast SoW (he didn't mean to, poor guy) while I was singing
> Accelerando with a drum. For the rest of the duration of SoW, Accelerando
> didn't work. I'm only level 16, but even at so low a level, a bard with a
> drum can outrun SoW slightly (I've been stuck at 16 long enough to notice
> the difference). I zoned several times and even logged out a couple of times
> while the SoW was still in "affect" (If you try to cancel SoW yourself by
> left-clicking the icon, you get the "You cannot remove this affect"
> message). No matter what, Selo's didn't work. I still ran at SoW speed.
>
> Oh, I still kept strumming my drum. And the song icon bubble was greyed out.
> And I made little song sparklies. But there was no "Your feet move faster"
> message, and I was stuck running at SoW speed until the darn thing wore off.
>
> If it's been like this for a while, sorry. It's just that I seem to remember
> that Accelerando used to override SoW, not the other way around (you would
> still have the SoW icon, but you'd run at Accelerando speed and get the
> "Your feet move faster" message).

Sigh. This sounds like they took another shot at the SoW/Selo's
interaction bug and really screwed it up royally. Perhaps causing Selo's
wearing off to not cancel SoW was too hard for them, so they took the
easy way out of making Selo's not effect someone that has SoW on them at
all. And, because of some weird inheritance scheme in the C++ classes
they are using, they also nerfed chaining and other songs on SoW'd PC
and NPC characters.

I will have to log in and test this.

If this is the case, Bards may have to join the screaming multitutes to
assure our class isn't constantly nerfed by them every time we turn
around. It seems in EQ, it's the squeeky wheel that get's the grease,
unless it's the class the producer plays.

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