On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, Reece, Tom - 25IDL G4 wrote:

>
> I think I want to try soloing some now. Anyone have suggestions of places I
> can solo successfully at 25th level? At 23d level, I couldn't solo rooks in
> SK. I think I might be able to do it now. This assumption is based on
> better combat skills/hit points plus I now have the Psalm of Warmth. Is it
> safe to assume that weaving Psalm of Warmth with two other songs will do
> more damage than a Bellow? How much do mobs get burned for per hit?

5 pts/hit. You guys are lucky, it used to be 4 when I first
got it but got upgraded a couple months ago.

If a mob hits for D points on average, and you have H hp, and
the damage shield does S damage per hit, then the damage
shield will do S*(H/D) points damage over the fight. If the
mobs average N hits per song round (3-4 sec for most bards),
and Bellow does B damage on average (including resists),
Bellow will do (B/3N)*(H/D) points damage. Divide to remove
the common factor and you end up with:

If B > 3S*N then it makes more sense to use Bellow. You can
figure out B and N with all the nifty new log parsers, S you
can tell from the messages when you're fighting. This will
work for multiple mob encounters too, just add up all the mob
hits when determining N. :-)

e.g. if your Bellow does 12 points on average, the mobs
average 1 hit per round, and the damage shield does 5 points
per hit, then:

12 > 3*5*1

which is false, so in this case, it'd be better to use Psalm.

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John H. Kim
kim@...