On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, JasonF wrote:
>
> > I thought Anthem no longer stacked with Guardian Rhythms? Or
> > maybe it was Chant of Battle that didn't stack with GR...
>
> I am quite sure... I was weaving Anthem, Guardian and Elemental Rythms. I
> definitely verified that Guardian and Elemental stacked because I tested MR
> with and without my drum playing one, the other and both. I did not check
I tested it last night. Anthem stacks just fine with GR.
Chant of Battle (percussion) does not stack with GR (also
percussion).
> stats will all three stacked together, perhaps the icon displayed without
> yielding any results (which I would find kinda disturbing). Purifying and
> Guardian Rythms do not stack as I recall.
Purifying and Guardian do stack. AFAIK, Guardian stacks with
anything except Chant of Battle - Elemental and Purifying
Rhythms, and all the Psalm series stack with Guardian. ER,
PR, and the Psalm series do not stack with each other though.
> Don't know about Chant of Battle as
> I haven't played that in a while (probably should dust it off and try it at
> 20th though).
At 33 and a mistmoore battle drum, it was +26 (+25?) to str
and dex, and +8 (+7?) to AC. In contrast, Anthem is only +21
to str and a ~10% speedup (which is overridden by all the
enchanter's speedup spells I've tested - everything but
Celerity). The tanks in my groups love it, and usually start
comparing each others' str and dex when I'm playing it. The
enchanter usually keeps augmentation on everyone (~15%
speedup), so Anthem ends up only being a str buff.
> > Bleh - a non-twinked L20 bard has better weapons than I do.
> > I need to get better weapons. Doesn't help that my friends
> > and I aren't into camping...
>
> I despise camping. It's the main reason that I don't have a steady group. I
> get very restless very fast. That's yet another reason I started a bard -
> like a lot of the others on this list I like to travel around.
I finally picked up a silvery war axe last night - my first
weapon upgrade since L19 (I'm 33 now). I know what you mean
about camping - after the first couple rounds in the area, I
wanted to move on (even though it was my first time there).
The other folks wanted backup gear and trade items though,
since we rarely camp anything and thus have very little to
trade. Then the kill stealers moved in and we left (when will
Verant realize how incredibly stupid it is for 1 player to be
able to kill steal from and ruin the enjoyment of the game for
10 players?).
--
John H. Kim
kim@...