On Wed, 8 Sep 1999, James Schuldes wrote:

>
> If I am as good or better at melee than those I am grouped with - then I
> have to be the Battle Bard. And then creative chicken-ology comes into the
> equation. That's knowing when and how to let the other take their share of
> the total damage that will be dished out. You will need to start and stop
> songs - stop your melee attack - stand and take a couple rounds while the
> others taunt and build hate - step back and scrape the mobs onto your
> partners - equip lute and heal in combat (esp heal your self back up) then
> dive back in and taunt the mob with songs to pull it off the others, etc
> etc. rinse, repeat.

FWIW, when my friends and I (L29-36) were tackling ice giants
(L36-42 by our estimate), I found that if I attacked with
weapons and played more than one song, it would attack me. If
I left just one song playing I was safe. I let myself get
beat down to two bubbles once to see if the others could taunt
it off me but it didn't seem they could. So I ended up
playing just my instruments and punching (and it *still*
attacked me from time to time).
--
John H. Kim
kim@...