John,

Thanks for the info. Based on your formula, in group situations where you
will be fighting multiple mobs, then psalm of warmth will ALWAYS do more
damage than bellow by a large margin. I remember someone posted on this
list a long time ago that at a certain point in a bards career the Bellow
song gets retired as a mainstay on their playlist. Guess I finally reached
that stage:-)

Galtin of E'ci

> 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.
>
>