Here's something that you higher level guys already know, and I forgot
about, kind of funny:
I am hanging out in HighKeep these days and after getting my level 28 pixie
chase song last week, using it for a few days, and realizing it had little
usefulness against the gobs for practical purposes I decided I should
re-evaluate my playlist to suit my environmental variables (as we all do
when we move from zone to zone).
Going through my spell book and trying to decide which would be the best 4
songs to twist during combat and realizing that I have been throwing in a
pixie strike each round which stuns the gobs but nothing else, I decide what
the heck, I'll dust off the old bellow and do some damage while I stun them,
see how that goes for a while.
A Goblin Warrior winces!
A Goblin Warrior is hit for 15 damage non-melee
HA! That is comparable damage to what I am doing with me melee weapons on
each attack, so its like slipping in a 3rd magic attack - and the last time
I used bellow it was hitting for a maximum of 8 damage.
Now that I am done the story is not as interesting as I thought it would be,
but since we were talking about Bellow, it brings up the issue that for the
duration of our Bards, we can continue to make use of even our older, dusty
songs if the situation seems to fit. Its actually kind of fun bellowing
again :-)
Faras "harp-music playing in the background" Tar'Linedhel
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Miriana [mailto:miriana@...]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 1999 5:40 PM
> To: eqbards@onelist.com
> Subject: Early bard grouping (was RE: [eqbards] Twinking)
>
>
> From: Miriana <miriana@...>
>
> On Tue, 5 Oct 1999 kim@... wrote:
>
> > From: <kim@...>
> > experience loss hurts. For the folks grouped with him though,
> > this can be another matter, as they end up grouped with a
> > player who either does not know how to play the class to best
> > advantage (e.g. bards doing nothing but bellowing during a
> > fight, then healing after), or gets them into situations
> > likely to get them killed because hey if one of them is a
> > close match for me, three of them should be no problem for my
> > group of six.
>
> Well, luckily I have a rl level 35 bard friend who I talk all
> the tima and
> ask him for advice. In groups though, I still wonder about my song
> selections some time. Soloing I use warsong, bellow, bellow,
> because I'm
> fighting white or yellow con'sing monsters and I need the extra damage
> from bellow to win the damage race. In a group of two, I
> actually sing
> anthem, warsong, bellow, since I am probably better equipped then my
> groupmate and it would be better for me to tank, so I try and
> pull it on
> myself. In larger groups I sing anthem, healing, bellow, and I think
> that's pretty much the standard right? Obviously I drop the
> last song if
> the lag gets too high, which is almost always bellow.
>
> Miriana Winderyder
> Lvl 50 Cleric
> Lvl 15 Bard
>
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