kim@... wrote:

> From: kim@...
>
> On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, Webber, Jessica wrote:
> >
> > So if lament is really that great, why are you higher level folks always
> > arguing about whether crowd control is best done with Lullaby, Chain, or
> > Charm? Is it just that they hit multiple mobs at once? Or are they better
> > than Lament even for single mobs?
>
> At higher levels, the bard usually sticks with the main party
> playing the mana song, and someone else does the pulling. So
> you never get a chance to Lament.

Not only that, but at higher levels, Lament fails - a lot.

I was fighting shadowed men all last night, and I would guess my success rate with Lament was in
the neighbourhood of 40%. Actually, that's probably pretty high.

And these are failures defined: "I sing Lament, get the "A shadowed man looks sad" message and
then pull the one near it within 5 seconds, and the lulled one still comes."

It still works enough to go through the motions, but I am NOT surprised at all when I pull the
ones I Lamented.

Jyzan