So does that mean he doesn't charm anymore? That used to be a very buggy
area where unsuspecting people could get charmed through the walls (without
ever even seeing Meldrath at all). Then of course, he'd march you straight
into his lair with the mino guards. Heh. Died 6 times trying to recover
Laluni's corpse from there very shortly after release at about level 10.

At 01:32 PM 10/20/99 -0400, you wrote:

>From: <kim@...>
>
>On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Talies the Wanderer wrote:
>>
>> even attacked him, while Meldrath was a "risky" blue (and kicked his butt
>> most mightily, I might add.). I kept telling him "You need a Bard. A

Bard

>> could help with that. You know... if you had a Bard....." He hates me

now ;)

>
>Meldrath was the first time I intentionally dropped Elemental
>Rhythms in favor of Purifying Rhythms. The fear spell was bad
>enough, but my party was being reamed by the DoTs (L38 bard
>and ranger, L31 cleric). Individually the mobs there are not
>difficult, but the spawn time is 7 minutes, and just as you
>finish up the last mob, the first one spawns again. By the
>time we finally got a small break, everyone was down to almost
>one bubble and OOM. Don't walk in there expecting it to be a
>pushover because everything is green or blue.
>
>At the high 30s, you resist his fear spell a lot, but he casts
>it so often that eventually one gets through (even with me
>playing Purifying Rhythms with a MM drum). That leaves your
>party one man down, which in a party of 2 or 3 is a tremendous
>handicap.
>
>--
>John H. Kim
>kim@...
>
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>

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