On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, John Robertson wrote:

> >
> > It *is* broken.
>
> Well, I don't know in what way you mean that it is broken,
> but I used it EXTENSIVELY since the patch to interrupt
> spellcasters in Solusek A, and it worked perfectly. I was
> not using it to mezmerize something for a long period of
> time, its common other usage, so it may in fact be broken
> in that way.

The knockback is not broken, and so you can still use the song
to interrupt casters (provided they fail their channeling
check). The mesmerize/stun effect is what is broken. Also,
the frequency at which the mesmerize/stun doesn't work seems
to depend on level. It works almost all the time against
greens and low blues, but against high blues or higher, it is
pretty much useless - charm works better, which is why I've
been using Siren's recently.

> It is definately stunning long enough to disrupt caster
> mobs though, an essential use if you're camping Solusek
> Mages for their booties.

The stun and knockback both interrupt casters. We're mostly
missing the stun component right now, so the song is less
effective at interrupting than before.

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John H. Kim
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