At 12:11 PM 10/6/1999 -0400, you wrote:

>From: <kim@...>
>
>On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, Bard wrote:
>>
>> Okay, I give up... what's the difference between Song of the Sirens and
>> Pixie Chase?
>
>Charm turns a monster into your pet for a short time. Pixie
>Strike simply mesmerizes it (a stun that can be broken if the
>mob is attacked) for a short time.
>
>One difference the others have not mentioned is that you
>cannot re-charm a mob that is already charmed. You have to
>wait for it to uncharm (and thus give it a chance to hit you),
>then re-charm it. You *can* re-strike a mob that's already
>under the effect of Pixie Strike. You can "pause" a mob
>pretty much indefinitely by Striking it over and over,
>although high blues and higher seem to resist enough to make
>this a dicey strategy.
>
>--

Actually Pixie Strike has made a lvl 50 bard almost a requirement in the
new PoF. Last week our server finally broke into the PoF again after many,
many abortive attempts. We kept having to evac out when more than 2 mobs
came cause the enchanter couldnt mez the creatures without dying at some
point (they do wake up often, and a lvl 50 enchanter just cant tank :).
Then i decided to take out pixie strike and me and another bard would take
a mob each and lock them down. If the mob was blue to me, i could lock it
down almost 100%, Yellow 75%, and red about 50%. These are rough numbers,
but pretty close to the truth, if it was red both bards would gang up on it
and chain cast pixie strike. Using this tactic we took on 4 mobs at once
with 22 people, which was a huge rush for everybody. We couldnt even do
that prepatch with weaker mobs. It felt GREAT to have an immediate an
obvious use for my bard, most of our other effects are very subtle and
easily over looked.

Gendal Concorden, lvl 50 Bard of Tunare
Enoch Lyciferous, lvl 40 Necromancer