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Message ID: 6130
Date: Tue Sep 7 17:24:28 BST 1999
Author: JasonF
Subject: Re: Instruments vs. Melee quandry
----- Original Message -----
From: <kim@...>
To: <eqbards@onelist.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 1999 10:46 AM
Subject: Re: [eqbards] Instruments vs. Melee quandry
> From: <kim@...>
>
> 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
> kim@...
>
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