Uhhh love - your problem is your Mino Horn - it's wind, not brass.
My favorite area to do this is right inside the zone to crushbone with
Dennon's.
So far - at lvl 21 - my personal best train to stop - all on my wittle
loansome is (all from the castle) 5 Legs, an emmissary an oracle and Lord
Darish.
Course - throw Dvinn into that mess - all bets are off - he's the only
thing in there that can still hit me reliably - and it still hurts.
At 10:36 AM 10/13/99 -0500, you wrote:
>From: "JasonF" <JasonF@...>
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>I'm Crier Sharpsong, a 26th half-elf Bard on Fennin Ro.
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>I've been having a recurring problem getting my Brass skill up and would
>like to ask people here about it. I've read time and again that I should
>venture to Arena or a PvP area, start Denon's Disruptive Discord and leave
>it running indefinitely to increase my skill. However, I have not been
>successful in getting that to work. Initially I went to Arena in Rathe Mts.
>and tried this. I had read that you only needed to be in the area, not
>actually in the PvP area itself, so I equipped my Minotaur Horn, fired up,
>fired up, fired up, fired up, fired up, fired up, fired up, fired up, DDD
>and went to a restaurant for dinner. Before I left I noticed that the
>"plays horn" graphic wasn't running, but didn't think much about it. Got
>back from dinner to find zero skill increase. Hmm.. Ok, perhaps I *do*
>have to be in the PvP area, so I tried that. Same results. Ok, maybe it's
>the Minotaur Horn - maybe it's the problem. So the next time I was in the
>bank and thought about it, I traded out my Minotaur Horn (tired of the bag
>in my wrist anyhow) for a standard store-bought horn. Last night I tried
>practicing this song in the PvP area of Freeport and it again wouldn't
>actually play. Well now I have gone to Kelethin and bought Screech and am
>completely unable to start the song due to my brass skill. I tried to start
>Screech (literally) about 300 times last night with and without the horn
>equipped and had *one* success - not too useful.
>
>When there is not a mob within range of my song, what I get is DDD starts, I
>briefly get some orange flares from my hands and then it's just me standing
>there. No playing horn graphic, no orange flares, nothing.
>
>Can anyone comment on this and/or offer a solution? I *need* this song, but
>if Verant has changed it so that the only way for me to increase my Brass
>skill is to fight experience-giving mobs with it, I'm screwed. I *WILL* die
>trying to get DDD and/or Screech fired up against a blue mob.
>
>Crier Sharpsong - 26th on Fennin Ro
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