On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Elijah Meeker wrote:

>
> I am level 24, armed with a dragoon dirk and a Polished Granite tomahawk.
> Recently a level 29 bard stopped by our group in SolA with a train *laughs*
> and ended up getting the kill with his horn on several goblins. I was
> flabergasted (given that we have a level 28 warrior and level 26 cleric and
> wizard).

That's because DDD is area effect - while you were busy
killing one goblin, he was building up "kill credit" with the
others.

> So I have been playing the the horn and Dennons Dischord then
> swapping to the lute for chains or lull, then back to the horn. It's really
> really hard to say, but I MAY be doing more damage now...do we have hard
> figures on DDD? I am very very curious.

I don't have any figures (though I may get some now that they
fixed the disarm thing and my friends *want* to go to the
arena). But I did play with it extensively around L24-26
against tidal lords. DDD, CoD, and Hymn played with just a
horn was slightly worse than with my weapons (dirk and barbed
whip). Played with a horn and lute it was slightly better
than my weapons. This was against a single opponent of
course. If there were multiple opponents, DDD and CoD were
far far better as long as Hymn could keep me alive long enough
to kill them all.

--
John H. Kim
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