"Does this guy know how to party or what?!?"

sorry John, awesome info and analysis, but that just reminded me of Alice
Cooper explaining the origin of Milwaukee in Wayne's World =P

Shada, often the only one laughing at a joke

>
> From: <kim@...>

> 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. :-)