Ok, I am just learning these songs and their highest and best use. (And
re-writing tips I have gotten from others - credit where credit is due -
John Kim and Harmoinc and others.

1. The rumor is they are linked to your charisma. Boost it when you
plan to use these. Both are Target songs - you need to mouse click or
otherwise (F8) designate a target. Many times, you see multi mobs so close
they are hard to distinguish from each other. If your tanks are good and
assisting, you can look for the un-damaged mob and work on him. But at
times, it's mouse click hell. Once you get one, and you need to switch to
another, move back a bit so the first one will come towards you and separate
from the melee. He will be lots easier to find for the 2nd round of control
(mezzing prolly.)

2. Charm will make a _very_ short term pet (compared to other classes
charmed pets). You can give it the standard pet commands: /pet attack, /pet
back off, /pet guard me, /pet guard here, /pet sit down, and more. Make
some hot keys because you will be hard pressed to type the commands before
the charm wears off. Charm is a useful solo tool if you have 2 mobs of
roughly equal strength (and not too resistant to your charm) - you can make
them fight each other. Party members can't damage charmed mobs (but they
can waste all of their mana trying - so coordinate.) When the charm wears
off, the mob attacks you. You can only have 1 pet at a time.

3. Pixie will mezmerize the target. Also, fairly short term (compared
to the enchanter spell.) Pixie is good for party crowd control. If your
tanks are well behaved and smart enough to assist each other (attack the
same mob), you can keep the 1, 2, or maybe 3 "extra" mobs who are trying to
join the melee busy (mezzed) while the tanks fight only one active mob. If
your tanks are mavericks and switch from mob to mob and attack a mezzed mob
- it will wake up and fight. When the mez wears off, the mob attacks you.
You can mez as many as you can target and sing to - although 2 is pretty
standard, 3 is very good and do-able, I am sure John Kim and Harmonic can do
more but that's uber-bard class clicking and twisting. <g>

In the past week or so, John Kim posted a detailed analysis - check
the archives.

I might as well mention the 3rd crowd control tool:

4. Lullaby - this is the Area Effect crowd control song. It makes mobs
who do not resist nod their heads and as long as they are not attacked and
don't resist, they are effectively out of the fight. It seem to interrupt
casters quite well. Drawbacks are: AE can spill over and agro mobs that
were not in your melee to begin with. Mobs can resist and do snap in and
out taking a nip or two now and then. A train runs thru your AE and you get
a free ride - to zone if you can make it! Lullaby is good for a large crowd
of low resisters - the target control songs are better choices for bigger
mobs in more dangerous places.

Sylly Songsynger
Bard of the 30th song (less than half a bub to go!)
<Spirit of the Moon>
somewhere on Innoruuk

-----Original Message-----
From: Bard [mailto:dabard@...]
Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 1999 6:47 AM
To: eqbards@onelist.com
Subject: [eqbards] Mesmerize vs. Charm

From: "Bard" <dabard@...>

Okay, I give up... what's the difference between Song of
the Sirens and
Pixie Chase?

-=B=-
Feelin' stoopit

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