Is there an echo in here?
I wrote this PRECISE same message at your level - complete with saying I'd
all but given up on teaching people to work with this song correctly. Now
at level 28 I find that almost every competent group that I join (maybe 7
out of 10 of them) works this way without being instructed to, and better
yet, most are now familiar with spells like Lullaby or the Enchanter's AE
Mesmerization. Yes, there are still groups that don't understand Lullaby at
my level, but they're typically much more open to listening to and following
my suggestions. My frustration at your level was the same - I'd instruct a
group and they'd either ask me who made me God or ignore me altogether.
Bards are second only to Enchanters for crowd control. Even your beefy
Troll and Ogre buddies are going to watch their life drain away with a bunch
of blue and green mobs smacking on them. A few startlingly fast deaths in
Permafrost, Runnyeye or Guk and your friends will be all ears when you say
you can do crowd control.
Don't give up. Keep explaining it to your groups so that they'll know how
things work 10 levels from now. It will pay off in a few levels when the
tanks realize that their massive HPs only go so far, and the casters realize
how frighteningly fragile they are when the blue bar is heading South.
Crier Sharpsong - 28th song bard on Fennin Ro
> From: "Operaman" <slider@...>
>
> I've almost given up on trying to perfect this (Lullaby) with
> pickup groups
> at my level (16-19). Either nobody understands /assist, they
> don't trust my
> lullaby to work, or they just plain don't listen. After one
> nightmarish pull
> ("A Orc Warrior"s and Priests along the west side of Oasis) in
> which I died
> because nobody would let my mobs sleep, I pulled out the virtual
> chalkboard
> and went though it step-by-step:
>
> 1) I type MEZ
> 2) Everyone /assist the puller
> 3) Stay on one target until it is dead.
> 4) Healer watch my health as all the other baddies pound on me
> between naps
>
> Everyone said OK. The very next nasty pull I typed MEZ and watched as
> everybody chose their favorite Orc and nobody assisted the puller. It was
> late so I said my goodbyes and shuffled home. I think it will take a
> situation where this song noticeably saves lives before people will be
> convinced. Next time I try it I'm going to make sure to Selo out
> of there if
> I don't see a lot of /assisting going on. It only hurts the bard to stay
> cause the mobs aren't going to leave him alone when they're awake.
>
> The evening was fun and the xp was good, but I'm looking forward to
> graduating to more mature groups where satisfaction comes from watching a
> good plan come together, rather than marvelling that we didn't die when we
> deserved to.
>
> Operaman
> Meandering Maestro of the 17th Song
> Innoruuk
>
> p.s. Who decided that non-SoW'd trolls make good pullers? The ten minutes
> ours was away selling I pulled and we killed twice as many mobs
> with little
> downtime.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: James Schuldes <jgs@...>
> To: <eqbards@onelist.com>
> Sent: Thursday, October 28, 1999 1:25 PM
> Subject: RE: [eqbards] Newbie questions
>
>
> > From: James Schuldes <jgs@...>
> >
> > This simple tactic seems to be the hardest think for hybrid tanks to
> learn.
> > I have seen even mid 30's (typically in HK where it is after all "safe"
> and
> > you don't have to be really skilled to survive) not follow this really
> > simple yet effective proceedure.
> >
> > It works! It really, really works!
> >
> > Sylly
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Bobby [mailto:merlin26@...]
> > Sent: Thursday, October 28, 1999 12:05 PM
> > To: eqbards@onelist.com
> > Subject: Re: [eqbards] Newbie questions
> >
> > From: "Bobby" <merlin26@...>
> >
> > he area mez
> >
> > we all /assist on the main tank
> >
> > and take one at a time..
> >
> >
> >
> > > Please send submissions for the eqbards newsletter to
> toren@...
> with the subject lol.
> >
>
> > Please send submissions for the eqbards newsletter to
> toren@... with the subject lol.
>